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The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.

Sri Aurobindo

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
He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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Choice Deep Wisdom
The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.
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Consciousness Greatness Knowledge Power Thinking
If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.
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Forever Limitation Purpose Religion Time Universe
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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Face Ourselves Practice
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Choice Death Imitation Success
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
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Atheist God Himself Play Shadow
Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.
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Act Consciousness Idea Material Play Preparation Thinking
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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Freedom Nature Soul Stand
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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God Humor Smile Universe
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
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
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Greatness Impossible Journey Possible
India saw from the beginning, – and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, – that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
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Age Beginning External Ignorance Life Power Reason
The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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Fate Greatness Man Soul
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
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
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Audience Joy Love Music Performance

The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.

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