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The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

Sri Aurobindo

Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
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Art Himself Nature Transcendence
He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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Choice Deep Wisdom
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Enemy Force Ourselves
Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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Manifestation Material World
There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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Eyes God Small Yourself
The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
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Force Greatness Stand Strong
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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Consciousness Evolution Existence Motive
The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.
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Action Command Expression Intution Talk Way
Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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Change Death Forever Gate
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
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.
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Exceptional Privilege Remember Unique World
You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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Complete Responsibility Yourself
Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
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Knowledge Listening Power Surface True
No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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Calm Dangerous Myself Spirit
Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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Beginning Consciousness Life State Yoga
All existence is a manifestation of God.
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Existence God Manifestation
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.
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Human Politics Recover Source Strength World
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Embrace Forever Religion
To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
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Development Divine Help Intellectual
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
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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Heart Knowledge Sleep
Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
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Better Character Endurance Example Health Perfection Teaching Value
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Human Knowledge Truth
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.
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Body Determination Live Nature
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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Divine Honey Law Live
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
SRI AUROBINDO

Creature Freedom Love Nature World

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