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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.

Sri Aurobindo

Hidden nature is secret God.
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God Hide Nature One Liner Secret
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
We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
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Afford Institution Machine Ourselves Raise Simplicity Slave
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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Greatness Race Spiritual
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
Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.
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Act Consciousness Idea Material Play Preparation Thinking
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Calm Live Peace Shake
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Embrace Forever Religion
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
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
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
This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Power Solidarity World
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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Face Ourselves Practice
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Principle Teaching True
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Perfection World Yourself
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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