Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
SRI AUROBINDOFor all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed.
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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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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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The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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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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The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
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True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
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You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
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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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There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
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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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The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.
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If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.
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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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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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Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
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The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
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