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Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.

Sri Aurobindo

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
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
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
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 principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
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Existence Human Ourselves Power Principle
A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.
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Ego God Greatness Stand Vision Way
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 Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
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Divine Greatness Idea Philosophy Religion Truth
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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God Imagination Laughter Listening People
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
Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
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Delight Force Hard Time Inspirational Key Master Open Pain Strength Suffering
No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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Calm Dangerous Myself Spirit
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
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
That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
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Mindset Progress Seek
Hidden nature is secret God.
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God Hide Nature One Liner Secret
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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Heart Knowledge Sleep
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
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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God Humor Smile Universe
A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.
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Carry Mindset Movement Observation Quiet Separate True
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
Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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Change Death Forever Gate
Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
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Knowledge Listening Power Surface True
Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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Gain Inspirational Strength Victory Win
Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
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Divine Expression Nature Power Trust
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

Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.

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Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.

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