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Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.

Sri Aurobindo

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
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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Acceptance Appearance Knowledge Man Reason
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.
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Identity Play True Universe
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
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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Difficult Willing
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Face Knowledge Wisdom
Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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Goal Intuition Light Order Transformation
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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Heart Man Mindset Ordinary
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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Heart Knowledge Sleep
There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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Eyes God Small Yourself
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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God Love Object Religious
The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
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Awakening Conscious Existence Poverty Society
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.
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Fall God Path Spiritual
India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
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Age Creativity Herself Human People

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