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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 meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
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Divine God Human Man
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Choice Death Imitation Success
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
The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
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Existence Human Ourselves Power Principle
The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
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Essence Experience Mindset Remember Right Soul Touch
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
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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God Humor Smile 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
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
If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
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Energy Force Nature Ocean Survive Water Young
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
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
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
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.
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Afford Institution Machine Ourselves Raise Simplicity Slave
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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God Love Object Religious
Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
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Advantage Difference Life Man

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