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The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.

Sri Aurobindo

Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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Beginning Master One Liner
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
This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Power Solidarity World
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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End Freedom Spirit
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
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
What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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Acceptance Appearance Knowledge Man Reason
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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Body Determination Live Nature
A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
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Point Satisfaction Success Thinking Truth
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
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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Freedom Nature Soul Stand
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
Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
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Better Character Endurance Example Health Perfection Teaching Value
The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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Heart Man Mindset Ordinary
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Choice Death Imitation Success
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
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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Divine Honey Law Live
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
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
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
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
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
Hidden nature is secret God.
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God Hide Nature One Liner Secret
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
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Embrace Forever Religion

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