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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.

Sri Aurobindo

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 Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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Person Sea Time
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Condition Peace Stability
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Perfection World Yourself
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Order Photograph Stop 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
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
Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
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Divine Expression Nature Power Trust
There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Better Chance Mindset Silence Truth
You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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Complete Responsibility Yourself
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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Consciousness Evolution Existence Motive
Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.
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Act Consciousness Idea Material Play Preparation Thinking
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
The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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Body Human Love Soul State
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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God Love Object Religious
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself

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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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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