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

Sri Aurobindo

The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
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Divine God Human Man
Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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Beginning Consciousness Life State Yoga
Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite’s thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
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Forever Hands Life Thinking Time
The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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Fate Greatness Man Soul
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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God Imagination Laughter Listening People
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed.
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Cleaning Experience Past People Rejection Willing
If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
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Energy Force Nature Ocean Survive Water Young
The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
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Existence Human Ourselves Power Principle
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
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Creature Freedom Love Nature World
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
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Perfection World Yourself
Hidden nature is secret God.
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God Hide Nature One Liner Secret
Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
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Delight Force Hard Time Inspirational Key Master Open Pain Strength Suffering
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
But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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Light Path Purity Soul Sun Walk
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Choice Death Imitation Success
To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
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Development Divine Help Intellectual
Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.
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Exceptional Privilege Remember Unique World
The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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Heart Man Mindset Ordinary
The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (ādhāra). A part of it remains behind the veil and prepares itself.
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Action Awareness Preparation Yoga
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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Average Discover Genius Talent
Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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Dreams God Life Man World
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Delight God Learning Secret
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Enemy Force Ourselves
Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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Manifestation Material World

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