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The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.

Sri Aurobindo

Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
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Body Determination Live Nature
An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.
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Active Force Mindset Oneself Stop Try
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Calm Live Peace Shake
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
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Courage Development Doubt Experience See
Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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Change Death Forever Gate
The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
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Force Greatness Stand Strong
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Condition Peace Stability
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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Cleaning Divine Empty
Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
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Advantage Difference Life Man
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Face Knowledge Wisdom
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Delight God Learning Secret
To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
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Change Hope Nature True
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
SRI AUROBINDO

Difficult Willing

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