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Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.

Sri Aurobindo

Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
SRI AUROBINDO

Choice Death Imitation Success
True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
SRI AUROBINDO

Knowledge Thinking True Yourself
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
SRI AUROBINDO

Delight God Learning Secret
All existence is a manifestation of God.
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Existence God Manifestation
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
SRI AUROBINDO

Consciousness Evolution Existence Motive
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Exceptional Privilege Remember Unique World
Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you … political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
SRI AUROBINDO

Human Politics Recover Source Strength World
The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
SRI AUROBINDO

Force Greatness Stand Strong
All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
SRI AUROBINDO

Attachment Away Desire Thinking
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
SRI AUROBINDO

End Freedom Spirit
The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
SRI AUROBINDO

Cleaning Divine Empty
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
But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
SRI AUROBINDO

Light Path Purity Soul Sun Walk
The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.
SRI AUROBINDO

Beginning Devil Divine Kingdom Man State True
The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself – for this is your true self.
SRI AUROBINDO

Identity Play True Universe
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Body Determination Live Nature

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