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If India Is To Survive, She Must Be Made Young Again. Rushing And Billowing Streams Of Energy Must Be Poured Into Her; Her Soul Must Become, As It Was In The Old Times, Like The Surges, Vast, Puissant, Calm Or Turbulent At Will, An Ocean Of Action Or Of Force.

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If India Is To

Sri Aurobindo

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If India Is To Survive, She Must Be Made Young Again. Rushing And Billowing Streams Of Energy Must Be Poured Into Her; Her Soul Must Become, As It Was In The Old Times, Like The Surges, Vast, Puissant, Calm Or Turbulent At Will, An Ocean Of Action Or Of Force.

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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.

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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.

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In The Normal Play Of Our Mind There Are All Sorts Of Perversions; Hence The Need To Stop All These Things And Inculcate Right Thinking, Right Willing - In Other Words, Truth Must Be Established.

The Gita Is The Greatest Gospel Of Spiritual Works Ever Yet Given To The Race.

There Is A Veil Between The Supermind Above And The Lower Prakriti Below - The Veil Of Ingrained Formations. This Veil May Completely Withdraw Or Be Partially Withdrawn. Thus Even If There Is Some Little Opening, With The Contact Of Light From Above The Lower Nature Will Get Slowly Changed.

Is It True That Existence Consists Only In The Action Of Energy? Or Is It Not Rather That Energy Is An Output Of Existence?

Only The Soul That Is Naked And Unashamed, Can Be Pure And Innocent , Even As Adam Was In The Primal Garden Of Humanity .

The Cup Has To Be Left Clean And Empty For The Divine Liquor To Be Poured Into It.

She Saw Too That Man Has The Power Of Exceeding Himself, Of Becoming Himself More Entirely And Profoundly Than He Is, - Truths Which Have Only Recently Begun To Be Seen In Europe And Seem Even Now Too Great For Its Common Intelligence.

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.

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.

To Listen To Some Devout People, One Would Imagine That God Never Laughs.

Vain Indeed Is All Overweening Pride In The Conquest Even Of The Entire Universe If One Has Not Conquered One's Own Passions.

To Be Free From All Egoistic Motive, Careful Of Truth In Speech And Action, Void Of Self-will And Self-assertion, Watchful In All Things, Is The Condition For Being A Flawless Servant.

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.

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.

To Doubt The Experience Is To Discourage It. Let It Be Developed, See What Is In It.

In Order To See, You Have To Stop Being In The Middle Of The Picture

Each Victory Gained Over Oneself Means New Strength To Gain More Victories.

I Swore That I Would Not Suffer From The World's Grief And The World's Stupidity And Cruelty And Injustice And I Made My Heart As Hard In Endurance As The Nether Millstone And My Mind As A Polished Surface Of Steel. I No Longer Suffered, But Enjoyment Had Passed Away From Me.

When I Approached God At That Time, I Hardly Had A Living Faith In Him. The Agnostic Was In Me, The Atheist Was In Me, The Sceptic Was In Me And I Was Not Absolutely Sure That There Was A God At All. I Did Not Feel His Presence. Yet Something Drew Me To The Truth Of The Vedas, The Truth Of The Gita, The Truth Of The Hindu Religion.

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.

Care Not For Time And Success. Act Out Thy Part, Whether It Be To Fail Or To Prosper.

Sin And Virtue Are A Game Of Resistance We Play With God In His Efforts To Draw Us Towards Perfection.

The Higher Truth Is All The Time Working In Us But Through The Lower Power - Aparashakti. It Is When We Become Conscious Of The Play Of This Higher Power Then Only Yoga Begins.

For All Problems Of Existence Are Essentially Problems Of Harmony.

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.

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

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.

Yes, It Is Difficult For Man To Cross Beyond The Idea Of Duty.

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All Existence Is A Manifestation Of God.

Each Religion Has Helped Mankind. Paganism Increased In Man The Light Of Beauty, The Largeness And Height Of His Life, His Aim At A Many-sided Perfection; Christianity Gave Him Some Vision Of Divine Love And Charity; Buddhism Has Shown Him A Noble Way To Be Wiser, Gentler, Purer, Judaism And Islam How To Be Religiously Faithful In Action And Zealously Devoted To God; Hinduism Has Opened To Him The Largest And Profoundest Spiritual Possibilities.

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There Should Of Course Be Left A Field Of Work For The Sake Of Experiment But At All Times One Must Remember That There Will Always Remain Open A Possibility Of Err.

Do Not Allow Things To Intrude From Outside.

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.

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

Trust The Divine Power, And She Will Free The Godlike Elements In You And Shape All Into An Expression Of Divine Nature.

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

Words Of Wisdom

The Business Of Both Parent And Teacher Is To Enable And To Help The Child To Educate Himself, To Develop His Own Intellectual, Moral, Aesthetic And Practical Capacities And To Grow Freely As An Organic Being, Not To Be Kneaded And Pressured Into Form Like An Inert Plastic Material

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.

On The Top Of The Head Is A Chakra - Sahasradala Or The Thousand-petalled Lotus. There Is A Chakra In The Middle Of The Forehead Between The Eyebrows And One In The Heart-centre. The Region Between The Navel And Head Constitutes The Mental Field. From Navel Downward Extending Till The Terminus Of The Spinal Chord, Mūlādhāra, Is The Seat Of The Vital.

One Has To Do Sadhana For The Total Manifestation Of The Divine In Oneself.

The Expression "from Above" Is For Us Only A Way Of Speaking. Many Receive From Above The Command For Action - We Call It Intuition.

Physical Education For The Body To Be Effective Must Be Rigorous And Detailed, Far Sighted And Methodological. This Will Be Translated Into Habits. These Habits Should Be Controlled And Disciplined, While Remaining Flexible Enough To Adapt Themselves To Circumstances And To The Needs Of Growth And Development Of The Being.

The Desire Of Your Vital Being Is Towards Work. And The Vital Being Won't Find Any Interest In Yoga So Long As You Do Not Have Any Experience Of The Higher And Fuller Life That Is In Yoga. As Long As This Experience Is Not There, The Vital Being Will Not Find Any Interest.

One Must Have First Of All A Solid Foundation.

Solid Foundation

Turn All Things To Honey; This Is The Law Of Divine Living.

Witness And Stand Back From Nature, That Is The First Step To The Soul's Freedom.

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.

The Divine Truth Is Greater Than Any Religion Or Creed Or Scripture Or Idea Or Philosophy.

Even In Rags I Am A God,fallen I Am Divine,high I Triumph When Down-trod,long I Live When Slain!

Arise, Transcend Thyself, Thou Art Man And The Whole Nature Of Man Is To Become More Than Himself.

We Have To Create Strength Where It Did Not Exist Before; We Have To Change Our Natures, And Become New Men With New Hearts, To Be Born Again. We Need A Nucleus Of Men In Whom The Shakti Is Developed To Its Uttermost Extent, In Whom It Fills Every Corner Of The Personality And Overflows To Fertilise The Earth. These, Having The Fire Of Bhawani In Their Hearts And Brains, Will Go Forth And Carry The Flame To Every Nook And Cranny Of Our Land.

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.

You Have A Strong Active Nature. And This In You Is A Point Of Strength. If You Can Mould It Rightly This Will Become A Very Great Strength. On The Other Hand, This Too Is Your Weak Point - A Hindrance In Sadhana.

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.

Delight Is The Secret. Learn Of Pure Delight And Thou Shalt Learn Of God.

It Is True That The Subliminal In Man Is The Largest Part Of His Nature And Has In It The Secret Of The Unseeen Dynamisms Which Explain His Surface Activities. But The Lower Vital Subconscious Which Is All That This Psycho-analysis Of Freud Seems To Know, - And Of That It Knows Only A Few Ill-lit Corners, - Is No More Than A Restricted And Very Inferior Portion Of The Subliminal Whole... To Begin By Opening Up The Lower Subconscious, Risking To Raise Up All That Is Foul Or Obscure In It, Is To Go Out Of One's Way To Invite Trouble.

But Few Are Those Who Tread The Sunlit Path; Only The Pure In Soul Can Walk In Light.

If India Is To Survive, She Must Be Made Young Again. Rushing And Billowing Streams Of Energy Must Be Poured Into Her; Her Soul Must Become, As It Was In The Old Times, Like The Surges, Vast, Puissant, Calm Or Turbulent At Will, An Ocean Of Action Or Of Force.

With Which Part Do You Watch? Surely With The Mind? That Won't Do. It Is The Silent Purusha Within Who Must Watch All.

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.

Man Is A Transitional Being, He Is Not Final; For In Him And High Beyond Him Ascend The Radiant Degrees Which Climb To A Divine Supermanhood. The Step From Man Towards Superman Is The Next Approaching Achievement In The Earth's Evolution. There Lies Our Destiny And The Liberating Key To Our Aspiring, But Troubled And Limited Human Existence — Inevitable Because It Is At Once The Intention Of The Inner Spirit And The Logic Of Nature's Process.

If Hell Were Possible, It Would Be The Shortest Cut To The Highest Heaven. For Verily God Loveth.

Our Human Knowledge Is A Candle Burnt On A Dim Altar To A Sun-vast Truth.

The Force Which Has To Be Called Down From Above Must Be Pure And Quiet Because There Are All Kinds Of Forces - It Will Not Do To Call Them All. And One Must Have Sincerity.

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.

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.

Impossibility Is Only A Sum Of Greater Unrealised Possibles. It Veils An Advanced Stage And A Yet Unaccomplished Journey.

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

The Fly That Touches Honey Cannot Use It's Wings; So Too The Soul That Clings To Spiritual Sweetness Ruins It's Freedom And Hinders Contemplation.

That Within Us Which Seeks To Know And To Progress Is Not The Mind But Something Behind It Which Makes Use Of It.

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