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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.

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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Identity Play True Universe
The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.
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Culture Economics Future Humanity Issue Knowledge Progress Spiritual
The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
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Force Greatness Stand Strong
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Principle Teaching True
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Enemy Force Ourselves
The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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Heart Man Mindset Ordinary
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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Heart Knowledge Sleep
Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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Manifestation Material World
The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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Fate Greatness Man Soul
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
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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God Humor Smile Universe
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
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
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
Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite’s thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
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Forever Hands Life Thinking Time
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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