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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

Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
SRI AUROBINDO

Calm Live Peace Shake
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

Active Force Mindset Oneself Stop Try
What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
SRI AUROBINDO

Atheist Children Forever Game God Perspective
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
SRI AUROBINDO

God Imagination Laughter Listening People
The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.
SRI AUROBINDO

Consciousness Greatness Knowledge Power Thinking
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
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
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Consciousness Discipline Greatness Limitation Name Ordinary
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Essence Experience Mindset Remember Right Soul Touch
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Cleaning Experience Past People Rejection Willing
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
SRI AUROBINDO

Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
SRI AUROBINDO

Acceptance Appearance Knowledge Man Reason
Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
SRI AUROBINDO

Goal Intuition Light Order Transformation
Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
SRI AUROBINDO

Delight Force Hard Time Inspirational Key Master Open Pain Strength Suffering
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
SRI AUROBINDO

Face Knowledge Wisdom
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Forever Hands Life Thinking 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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