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

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
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
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
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Order Photograph Stop Yourself
True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
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Knowledge Thinking True Yourself
No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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Calm Dangerous Myself Spirit
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Embrace Forever Religion
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Perfection World Yourself
The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
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Aspiration Calm Quiet State Wait
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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Action Command Expression Intution Talk Way
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
An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.
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Active Force Mindset Oneself Stop Try
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
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Creature Freedom Love Nature World
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
Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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Goal Intuition Light Order Transformation

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