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The soul in man is greater than his fate.

Sri Aurobindo

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
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Age Creativity Herself Human People
The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
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Divine Greatness Idea Philosophy Religion Truth
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
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Delight God Learning Secret
She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
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Beyond God Life Spirit
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
What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
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Appearance Experience Opinion Prejudice Soul
The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.
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Culture Economics Future Humanity Issue Knowledge Progress Spiritual
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 mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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Level Mindset Physical Spiritual
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Choice Death Imitation Success
True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
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Knowledge Thinking True Yourself
A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.
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Carry Mindset Movement Observation Quiet Separate True
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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Freedom Nature Soul Stand
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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Atheist God Himself
What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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Atheist Children Forever Game God Perspective

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