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

Sri Aurobindo

But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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Light Path Purity Soul Sun Walk
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
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
Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite’s thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
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Forever Hands Life Thinking Time
We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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God Himself Son
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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Divine Honey Law Live
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
While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
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Active Capacity Mindset Silence Time
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 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
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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Consciousness Evolution Existence Motive
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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Action Change Course Direction Lonely Oneself
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
There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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Eyes God Small Yourself

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