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Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.

Sri Aurobindo

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
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
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
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Face Knowledge Wisdom
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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Divine Honey Law Live
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
What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
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Appearance Experience Opinion Prejudice Soul
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
Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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Beginning Master One Liner
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
Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
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Care Failure Prosper Success Time
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
Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
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Delight Force Hard Time Inspirational Key Master Open Pain Strength Suffering
The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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Person Sea Time
One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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Action Change Course Direction Lonely Oneself
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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End Freedom Spirit
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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Consciousness Discipline Greatness Limitation Name Ordinary
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
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Human Knowledge Truth
Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
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Advantage Difference Life Man
Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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Dreams God Life Man 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
We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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God Himself Son
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
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem

Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.

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