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The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.

Sri Aurobindo

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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Gain Inspirational Strength Victory Win
You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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Complete Responsibility Yourself
To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
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Change Hope Nature True
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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God Love Object Religious
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Condition Peace Stability
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
Faith is the soul’s witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.
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Achievement Faith Manifestation Realize Soul Worth
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
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Principle Teaching True
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Embrace Forever Religion
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
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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God Imagination Laughter Listening People
India saw from the beginning, – and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, – that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
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Age Beginning External Ignorance Life Power Reason
Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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Effort Game God Perfection Resistance Sin Virtue
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
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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Freedom Nature Soul Stand

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