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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.

Sri Aurobindo

One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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Greatness Race Spiritual
Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you … political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
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Human Politics Recover Source Strength World
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Face Knowledge Wisdom
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Delight God Learning Secret
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Enemy Force Ourselves
Hidden nature is secret God.
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God Hide Nature One Liner Secret
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
There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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Eyes God Small Yourself
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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Difficult Willing
This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Power Solidarity World
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
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
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
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
The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (ādhāra). A part of it remains behind the veil and prepares itself.
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Action Awareness Preparation Yoga
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 whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
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Creature Freedom Love Nature World
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 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
Faith is the soul’s witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.
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Achievement Faith Manifestation Realize Soul Worth
Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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Gain Inspirational Strength Victory Win
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
Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.
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Exceptional Privilege Remember Unique World
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.
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Beginning Devil Divine Kingdom Man State True
The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
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Fall God Path Spiritual
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Calm Live Peace Shake

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