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

Sri Aurobindo

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
This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Power Solidarity World
To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
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Development Divine Help Intellectual
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
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Atheist God Himself Play Shadow
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Perfection World Yourself
You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.
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Carry Discover Greatness Light Necessary Obstacle Oneself Realize
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Delight God Learning Secret
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
No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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Calm Dangerous Myself Spirit
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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End Freedom Spirit
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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Attachment Away Desire Thinking
Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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Beginning Consciousness Life State Yoga
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
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Choice Death Imitation Success
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 Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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Atheist God Himself
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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Freedom Nature Soul Stand
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
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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Consciousness Discipline Greatness Limitation Name Ordinary
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
There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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Eyes God Small Yourself
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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God Love Object Religious
One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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Action Change Course Direction Lonely Oneself
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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Cleaning Experience Past People Rejection Willing
We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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God Himself Son
The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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Body Human Love Soul State

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