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Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one’s ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.

Sri Aurobindo

My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
SRI AUROBINDO

God Love Myself Suffering
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Beginning Consciousness Life State Yoga
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
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
SRI AUROBINDO

Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
SRI AUROBINDO

Beyond God Life Spirit
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
SRI AUROBINDO

Divine Honey Law Live
The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
SRI AUROBINDO

Fall God Path Spiritual
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
SRI AUROBINDO

Enemy Force Ourselves
To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
SRI AUROBINDO

Change Hope Nature True
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
SRI AUROBINDO

Average Discover Genius Talent
The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
SRI AUROBINDO

Force Greatness Stand Strong
Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
SRI AUROBINDO

Beginning Master One Liner
Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
SRI AUROBINDO

Dreams God Life Man World
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
Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
SRI AUROBINDO

Change Death Forever Gate
A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.
SRI AUROBINDO

Carry Mindset Movement Observation Quiet Separate True

Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one’s ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.

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