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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.

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
If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
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Energy Force Nature Ocean Survive Water Young
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
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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Consciousness Evolution Existence Motive
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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Fate Greatness Man Soul
Hidden nature is secret God.
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God Hide Nature One Liner Secret
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Choice Death Imitation Success
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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God Imagination Laughter Listening People
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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Difficult Willing
Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
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Commitment Fierce Offense Right
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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Freedom Nature Soul Stand
India saw from the beginning, – and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, – that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
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Age Beginning External Ignorance Life Power Reason
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
Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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Goal Intuition Light Order Transformation
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
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 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
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
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Greatness Impossible Journey Possible
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Order Photograph Stop Yourself
The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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Heart Man Mindset Ordinary
We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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God Himself Son
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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Atheist God Himself
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Principle Teaching True
If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.
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Forever Limitation Purpose Religion Time Universe
She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
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Beyond God Life Spirit
Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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Dreams God Life Man World

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