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To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.

Sri Aurobindo

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
You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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Complete Responsibility Yourself
Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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Gain Inspirational Strength Victory Win
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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Atheist God Himself
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
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
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Calm Live Peace Shake
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
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Atheist God Himself Play Shadow
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Embrace Forever Religion
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
Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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Dreams God Life Man World
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
A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
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Point Satisfaction Success Thinking Truth
My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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God Love Myself Suffering
While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
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Active Capacity Mindset Silence Time
What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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Atheist Children Forever Game God Perspective
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
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
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Audience Joy Love Music Performance
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
All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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Attachment Away Desire Thinking
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
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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God Humor Smile Universe
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
This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Power Solidarity World
The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.
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Beginning Devil Divine Kingdom Man State True

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