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All Fanaticism Is False, Because It Is A Contradiction Of The Very Nature Of God And Of Truth. Truth Cannot Be Shut Up In A Single Book, Bible Or Veda Or Koran, Or In A Single Religion. The Divine Being Is Eternal And Universal And Infinite And Cannot Be The Sole Property Of The Mussulmans Or Of The Semitic Religions Only, - Those That Happened To Be In A Line From The Bible And To Have Jewish Or Arabian Prophets For Their Founders.

-Sri Aurobindo

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All Fanaticism Is False,

Sri Aurobindo

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All Fanaticism Is False, Because It Is A Contradiction Of The Very Nature Of God And Of Truth. Truth Cannot Be Shut Up In A Single Book, Bible Or Veda Or Koran, Or In A Single Religion. The Divine Being Is Eternal And Universal And Infinite And Cannot Be The Sole Property Of The Mussulmans Or Of The Semitic Religions Only, - Those That Happened To Be In A Line From The Bible And To Have Jewish Or Arabian Prophets For Their Founders.

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Solid Foundation

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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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But What After All, Behind Appearances, Is This Seeming Mystery? We Can See That It Is The Consciousness Which Had Lost Itself Returning Again To Itself, Emerging Out Of Its Giant Self-forgetfulness, Slowly, Painfully, As A Life That Is Would Be Sentient, Half-sentient, Dimly Sentient, Wholly Sentient And Finally Struggles To Be More Than Sentient, To Be Again Divinely Selfconscious, Free, Infinite, Immortal.

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There Are Two Powers That Alone Can Effect In Their Conjunction The Great And Dificult Thing Which Is The Aim Of Our Endeavour, A Fixed And Unfailing Aspiration That Calls From Below And A Supreme Grace From Above That Answers.

To Attempt Social Reform, Educational Reform, Industrial Expansion, The Moral Improvement Of The Race Without Aiming, First And Foremost, At Political Freedom Is The Very Height Of Ignorance And Futility.

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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But Difficulties Were Made To Be Overcome And If The Supreme Will Is There, They Will Be Overcome.

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A Great Thing Would Be Done If All These God-visions Could Embrace And Cast Themselves Into Each Other; But Intellectual Dogma And Cult Egoism Stand In The Way.

The Practice Of Yoga Brings Us Face To Face With The Extraordinary Complexity Of Our Own Being.

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Rather Hang Thyself Than Belong To The Horde Of Successful Imitators.

The Aggressive And Quite Illogical Idea Of A Single Religion For All Mankind, A Religion Universal By The Very Force Of Its Narrowness, One Set Of Dogmas, One Cult, One System Of Ceremonies, One Ecclesiastical Ordinance, One Array Of Prohibitions And Injunctions Which All Minds Must Accept On Peril Of Persecution By Men And Spiritual Rejection Or Eternal Punishment By God, That Grotesque Creation Of Human Unreason Which Has Been The Parent Of So Much Intolerance, Cruelty And Obscurantism And Aggressive Fanaticism, Has Never Been Able To Take Firm Hold Of The Indian Mentality.

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Propaganda Is Necessary Only For The Sake Of Money!

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The Progressive Growth Of The Finite Consciousness Of Man Towards This Self, Towards The Universal , The Eternal, The Infinite, In A Word His Growth Into Spiritual Consciousness By The Development Of His Ordinary Ignorant Natural Being Into An Illumined Divine Nature, This Is For Indian Thinking The Significance Of Life And The Aim Of Human Existance.

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The Language Of The Veda Itself Is Sruti, A Rhythm Not Composed By The Intellect But Heard, A Divine Word That Same Vibrating Out Of The Infinite To The Inner Audience Of The Man Who Had Previously Made Himself Fit Fot The Impersonal Knowledge.

Inspiration Is A Slender River Of Brightness Leaping From A Vast And Eternal Knowledge, It Exceeds Reason More Perfectly Than Reason Exceeds The Knowledge Of The Senses.

The Human Mind Moves Always Forward, Alters Its Viewpoint And Enlarges Its Thought Substance, And The Effect Of These Changes Is To Render Past Systems Of Thinking Obsolete Or, When They Are Preserved, To Extend, To Modify And Subtly Or Visibly To Alter Their Value.

A Hidden Bliss Is At The Root Of Things. A Mute Delight Regards Time's Countless Works: To House God's Joy In Things Space Gave Wide Room, To House God's Joy In Self Our Souls Were Born.

Yes, This Purusha Consciousness Must Be Maintained; Otherwise The Calm Will Not Last. The Knocks And Blows That Come From Outside Cannot Disturb One, If This Purusha Consciousness Remains At The Back.

There Is The Physical Mind Which Is Mechanical But The Awareness Which Is The Essential Character (dharma) Of The Mind Is Also To Some Extent Present There.

All Existence Is A Manifestation Of God.

The One Aim Of [my] Yoga Is An Inner Self-development By Which Each One Who Follows It Can In Time Discover The One Self In All And Evolve A Higher Consciousness Than The Mental, A Spiritual And Supramental Consciousness Which Will Transform And Divinize Human Nature.

For The Powers Of Our Mind, Life, And Body Are Bound To Their Own Limitations, And However High They May Rise Or However Widely Expand, They Cannot Rise Beyond Them. But Still, Mental Man Can Open To What Is Beyond Him And Call Down A Supramental Light, Truth, And Power To Work In Him And Do What The Mind Cannot Do. If Mind Cannot By Effort Become What Is Beyond Mind, Supermind Can Descend And Transform Mind Into Its Own Substance.

Perfect Health, Sincerity, Honesty, Straightforwardness, Courage, Disinterestedness, Unselfishness, Patience, Endurance, Perseverance, Peace, Calm, Self Control Are All Things That Are Taught Infinitely Better By Example Than By Beautiful Speeches.

Thus To Act Under The Guidance Coming From Above, This Is One Side Of The Sadhana, The Dynamic Side. The Other One Is The Discrimination Between The Purusha And The Prakriti. The Purusha Will Calmly Observe, Give Sanction, Choose, But Will Realise That All This Does Not Belong To Him - All These Are Outside Him. This Is The Static Side Of The Sadhana. These Two Aspects Constitute The Basis Of Yoga.

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.

Can Everybody Contact The Higher Forces? No, Not Indeed; But They Submit Themselves To A Discipline And This Brings Them Success.

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.

In The Middle Of An Ocean On Board A Ship, One Can Get A Sense Of Vastness.

Life Was A Sorrowful Throb Of This Matter Teaching It Anguish, Teaching It Hope And Desire Trod Out Too Soon In The Mire, Life The Frail Joy That Regrets Its Briefness, Life The Long Sorrow.

What The Soul Sees And Has Experienced, That It Knows; The Rest Is Appearance, Prejudice And Opinion.

Words Of Wisdom

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.

The Deeper We Look, The More We Shall Be Convinced That The One Thing Wanting, Which We Must Strive To Acquire Before All Others, Is Strength Strength Physical, Strength Mental, Strength Moral, But Above All Strength Spiritual Which Is The One Inexhaustible And Imperishable Source Of All The Others. If We Have Strength Everything Else Will Be Added To Us Easily And Naturally.

What Do You Want To Do Sadhana For? The Aim Should Not Be The Satisfaction Of Egoism: "i Want To Be A Great Yogi; I Shall Have So Much Power And With That Power I Shall Establish Myself In The World." All Such Thoughts Must Be Thrown Far Away.

All Religions Have Some Truth In Them, But None Has The Whole Truth; All Are Created In Time And Finally Decline And Perish. Mahomed Himself Never Pretended That The Koran Was The Last Message Of God And There Would Be No Other. God And Truth Outlast These Religions And Manifest Themselves Anew In Whatever Way Or Form The Divine Wisdom Chooses.

You Carry In Yourself All The Obstacles Necessary To Make Your Realization Perfect. If You Discover A Very Black Hole, A Thick Shadow, Be Sure There Is Somewhere In You A Great Light. It Is Up To You To Know How To Use The One To Realize The Other.

In Order To Satisfy The Vital Being, It Must Be Offered Some Activity, And At The Same Time The Mind Should Be Slowly Made To Take Interest In Yoga.

Our Actual Enemy Is Not Any Force Exterior To Ourselves, But Our Own Crying Weaknesses, Our Cowardice, Our Selfishness, Our Hypocrisy, Our Purblind Sentimentalism.

After Having Stopped The Lower Activities Of The Mind, It Must Be Made Receptive; And, Instead Of Weaving All Kinds Of Empty And Idle Thoughts, The Mind Should Receive Intuitions From Above.

Turkey, Japan Do Great Work Because They Can Keep Under Control Their Little Personal Selfishness, Egoism, Jealousy, Etc. When They Get Down To Work.

Those Who Have Advanced Rise To The Mind Which Is In The Head, - They Have The Play Of Their Mental Movements In The Head Itself. But All These Are Inside The Body; Man Is, As It Were, Shut Up In A Box, His Entire Consciousness Is Confined Within The Organism. This Imprisonment Has To Be Undone.

There Is No Greater Pride And Glory Than To Be A Perfect Instrument Of The Master.

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.

That Which We Call The Hindu Religion Is Really The Eternal Religion Because It Embraces All Others.

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.

When Mind Is Still, Then Truth Gets Her Chance To Be Heard In The Purity Of The Silence.

The Seers Of Ancient India Had, In Their Experiments And Efforts At Spiritual Training And The Conquest Of The Body, Perfected A Discovery Which In Its Importance To The Future Of Human Knowledge Dwarfs The Divinations Of Newton And Galileo , Even The Discovery Of The Inductive And Experimental Method In Science Was Not More Momentous.

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