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The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.

Sri Aurobindo

The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself – for this is your true self.
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Identity Play True Universe
If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
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Energy Force Nature Ocean Survive Water Young
Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
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Better Character Endurance Example Health Perfection Teaching Value
When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Chance Mindset Purity Silence
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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Consciousness Evolution Existence Motive
Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
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Cry Emotion Enemy Force Hypocrisy Sentiment Weakness
The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.
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Aesthetic Art Divine Door Finding Spirit
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
Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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Dreams God Life Man World
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
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
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
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
But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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Light Path Purity Soul Sun Walk
My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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God Love Myself Suffering
The fly that touches honey cannot use it’s wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation.
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Fly Freedom Honey Sweet Touch Wings

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