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The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.

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
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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Average Discover Genius Talent
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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Atheist God Himself
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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Consciousness Evolution Existence Motive
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Condition Peace Stability
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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God Imagination Laughter Listening People
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
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Atheist God Himself Play Shadow
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
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 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
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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End Freedom Spirit
The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.
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Action Command Expression Intution Talk Way
All existence is a manifestation of God.
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Existence God Manifestation
The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
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Awakening Conscious Existence Poverty Society
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
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
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Courage Development Doubt Experience See
My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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God Love Myself Suffering
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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Greatness Race Spiritual
Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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Goal Intuition Light Order Transformation
The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
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Essence Experience Mindset Remember Right Soul Touch
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 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
Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
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Advantage Difference Life Man
Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
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Care Failure Prosper Success Time
The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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Body Human Love Soul State
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Calm Live Peace Shake

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