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

Sri Aurobindo

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
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 Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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Atheist God Himself
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
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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God Imagination Laughter Listening People
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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Consciousness Evolution Existence Motive
There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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Eyes God Small Yourself
He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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Choice Deep Wisdom
The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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Level Mindset Physical Spiritual
Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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Beginning Master One Liner
The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
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Existence Human Ourselves Power Principle
Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.
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Consciousness Mindset Play Truth
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
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
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
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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End Freedom Spirit

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