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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.

Sri Aurobindo

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
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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God Love Object Religious
Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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Goal Intuition Light Order Transformation
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 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
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
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
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 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
The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
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Divine God Human Man
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
Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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Beginning Consciousness Life State Yoga
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
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
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
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

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