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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.

Sri Aurobindo

True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
SRI AUROBINDO

Knowledge Thinking True Yourself
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
SRI AUROBINDO

Greatness Race Spiritual
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
SRI AUROBINDO

End Freedom Spirit
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
SRI AUROBINDO

Face Ourselves Practice
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
SRI AUROBINDO

Heart Knowledge Sleep
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Identity Play True Universe
The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
SRI AUROBINDO

Divine Greatness Idea Philosophy Religion Truth
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
SRI AUROBINDO

Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
SRI AUROBINDO

Afford Institution Machine Ourselves Raise Simplicity Slave
Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
SRI AUROBINDO

Art Himself Nature Transcendence
She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
SRI AUROBINDO

Beyond God Life Spirit
There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
SRI AUROBINDO

Better Chance Mindset Silence Truth
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
SRI AUROBINDO

Embrace Forever Religion
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Forever Limitation Purpose Religion Time Universe
Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
SRI AUROBINDO

Change Death Forever Gate
Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
SRI AUROBINDO

Care Failure Prosper Success Time

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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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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