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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.

Sri Aurobindo

The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
SRI AUROBINDO

Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
SRI AUROBINDO

Enemy Force Ourselves
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
SRI AUROBINDO

Average Discover Genius Talent
Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
SRI AUROBINDO

Commitment Fierce Offense Right
We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
SRI AUROBINDO

Afford Institution Machine Ourselves Raise Simplicity Slave
There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
SRI AUROBINDO

Better Chance Mindset Silence Truth
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
SRI AUROBINDO

Order Photograph Stop Yourself
To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
SRI AUROBINDO

Courage Development Doubt Experience See
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
SRI AUROBINDO

Heart Knowledge Sleep
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
SRI AUROBINDO

Human Knowledge Truth
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
SRI AUROBINDO

End Freedom Spirit
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
SRI AUROBINDO

Condition Peace Stability
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
SRI AUROBINDO

Audience Joy Love Music Performance
He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
SRI AUROBINDO

Choice Deep Wisdom
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
SRI AUROBINDO

Consciousness Evolution Existence Motive
The soul in man is greater than his fate.
SRI AUROBINDO

Fate Greatness Man Soul

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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