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

Sri Aurobindo

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

Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
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
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Forever Limitation Purpose Religion Time Universe
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 fly that touches honey cannot use it’s wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation.
SRI AUROBINDO

Fly Freedom Honey Sweet Touch Wings
What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
SRI AUROBINDO

Atheist Children Forever Game God Perspective
Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
SRI AUROBINDO

Change Death Forever Gate
You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.
SRI AUROBINDO

Carry Discover Greatness Light Necessary Obstacle Oneself Realize
All existence is a manifestation of God.
SRI AUROBINDO

Existence God Manifestation
Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
SRI AUROBINDO

Divine Power Stand Work Yourself
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
SRI AUROBINDO

End Freedom Spirit
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
SRI AUROBINDO

Freedom Nature Soul Stand
The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
SRI AUROBINDO

Existence Human Ourselves Power Principle
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
SRI AUROBINDO

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

Choice Death Imitation Success
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
SRI AUROBINDO

Death One Liner Reason Wisdom

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