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Outside And Above The Mind There Is The Play Of A Consciousness Which Is Lighted By The Higher Truth, But Man Is Not Conscious Of It And Of That He Has To Be Conscious.

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Outside And Above The Mind There Is The Play Of A Consciousness Which Is Lighted By The Higher Truth, But Man Is Not Conscious Of It And Of That He Has To Be Conscious.

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If It Be True That Spirit Is Involved In Matter And Apparent Nature Is Secret God, Then The Manifestation In The Divine In Himself And The Realization Of God Within And Without Are The Highest And Most Legitimate Aim Possible To Man On Earth.

I Say, Of The Congress, Then, This - That Its Aims Are Mistaken, That The Spirit In Which It Proceeds Towards Their Accomplishment Is Not A Spirit Of Sincerity And Whole-heartedness, And That The Methods It Has Chosen Are Not The Right Methods, And The Leaders In Whom It Trusts, Not The Right Sort Of Men To Be Leaders; - In Brief, That We Are At Present The Blind Led, If Not By The Blind, At Any Rate By The One-eyed.

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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.

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When Reason Died, Then Wisdom Was Born.

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.

The Bhagavad-gita Is A True Scripture Of The Human Race A Living Creation Rather Than A Book, With A New Message For Every Age And A New Meaning For Every Civilization.

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.

Spirituality Is Much Wider Than Any Particular Religion, And In The Larger Ideas Of It That Are Now Coming On Us Even The Greatest Religion Becomes No More Than A Broad Sect Or Branch Of The One Universal Religion, By Which We Shall Understand In The Future Man's Seeking For The Eternal, The Divine, The Greater Self, The Source Of Unity And His Attempt To Arrive At Some Equation, Some Increasing Approximation Of The Values Of Human Life With The Eternal And The Divine Values.

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.

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.

When Thou Findest Thyself Scorning Another, Look Then At Thy Own Heart And Laugh At Thy Folly.

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

Everyone Has In Him Something Divine, Something His Own, A Chance Of Perfection And Strength In However Small A Sphere Which God Offers Him To Take Or Refuse. The Task Is To Find It, Develop It & Use It. The Chief Aim Of Education Should Be To Help The Growing Soul To Draw Out That In Itself Which Is Best And Make It Perfect For A Noble Use.

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.

India Of The Ages Is Not Dead Nor Has She Spoken Her Last Creative Word; She Lives And Has Still Something To Do For Herself And The Human Peoples.

There Is A Knowledge In The Heart Of Sleep.

There Are Four Great Events In History, The Siege Of Troy, The Life And Crucifixion Of Christ, The Exile Of Krishna In Brindaban And The Colloquy On The Field Of Kurukshetra. The Siege Of Troy Created Hellas, The Exile In Brindaban Created Devotional Religion, (for Before There Was Only Meditation And Worship), Christ From His Cross Humanized Europe, The Colloquy At Kurukshetra Will Yet Liberate Humanity.

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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.

Do Not Allow Things To Intrude From Outside.

Fear Not To Be Nothing That Thou Mayst Be All.

Delight Is The Secret. Learn Of Pure Delight And Thou Shalt Learn Of God. What Then Was The Commencement Of The Whole Matter? Existence That Multiplied Itself For Sheer Delight Of Being And Plunged Into Numberless Trillions Of Forms So That It Might Find Itself Innumerably.

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

Threefold Are Those Supreme Births Of This Divine Force That Is In The World, They Are True, They Are Desirable; He Moves There Wide-overt Within The Infinite And Shines Pure, Luminous And Fulfilling.... Of That Which Is In Mortal In Mortals, And Possessed Of The Truth, Is A God And Established Inwardly As An Energy Working Out In Our Divine Powers.... Become High Uplifted, O Strength, Pierce All Veils, Manifest In As The Things Of The Godhead.

All Kinds Of Indications Will Come From Above And Whatever You Do Must Be Referred To The Above.

True Knowledge Is Not Attained By Thinking. It Is What You Are; It Is What You Become.

Evolution Of Consciousness Is The Central Motive Of Terrestrial Existence.

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The Existence Of Poverty Is The Proof Of An Unjust And Ill-organised Society, And Our Public Charities Are But The First Tardy Awakening In The Conscience Of A Robber.

The Only Work That Spiritually Purifies Us Is That Which Is Done Without Personal Motives.

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

The Supreme End Is The Freedom Of The Spirit.

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 Is Required Is Faith. Man Has Body, Life And Mind But That Is Not All That Constitutes Man. He Has Risen To The Mind As A Result Of Evolution. Now A Higher Consciousness Will Be Evolved - This I Call Supermind. It Is The Instrument Of The Divine Consciousness, The Truth-consciousness.

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.

Death Fosters Life That Life May Suckle Death.

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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.

Faith Is The Soul's Witness To Something Not Yet Manifested, Achieved Or Realised, But Which Yet The Knower Within Us, Even In The Absence Of All Indications, Feels To Be True Or Supremely Worth Following Or Achieving.

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

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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.

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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.

To Feed Death With Her Works Is Here Life's Doom.

Nothing In The Many Processes Of Nature, Whether She Deals With Men Or With Things, Comes By Chance Or Accident Or Is Really At The Mercy Of External Causes.

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

All Desires And Egoism Will Have To Be Banished From The Being.

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

The Heart's Words Fall Back Unheard From Wisdom's Throne.

One Who Loves God Finds The Object Of His Love Everywhere.

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

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

Man's Freedom Is Relative And It Cannot Be Held Solely Responsible For The Imperfection Of His Nature.

A God Who Cannot Smile, Could Not Have Created This Humorous Universe.

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

The Hindu Religion Appears ... As A Cathedral Temple, Half In Ruins, Noble In The Mass, Often Fantastic In Detail But Always Fantastic With A Significance Crumbling Or Badly Outworn In Places, But A Cathedral Temple In Which Service Is Still Done To The Unseen And Its Real Presence Can Be Felt By Those Who Enter With The Right Spirit.

Watch The Too Indignantly Righteous. Before Long You Will Find Them Committing Or Condoning The Very Offence Which They Have So Fiercely Censured.

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

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

The First Principle Of True Teaching Is That Nothing Can Be Taught.

Death Is But Changing Of Our Robes To Wait In Wedding Garments At The Eternal's Gate.

Late, I Learned That When Reason Died, Then Wisdom Was Born; Before That Liberation, I Had Only Knowledge.

Detachment Is The Beginning Of Mastery.

God Does Work Through Both Pure And Impure Vessels But That Does Not Mean That One Should Keep Nature Impure For Ever. When The Vessel Will Become Pure The Urge For Action Coming From Within Will Be A Flawless, Definitive Action. As Long As That Does Not Happen One Has To Minimize One's Activities.

This World Is A Vast Unbroken Totality, A Deep Solidarity Joins Its Contrary Powers.

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.

For All Problems Of Existence Are Essentially Problems Of Harmony.

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.

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

Hinduism... Gave Itself No Name, Because It Set Itself No Sectarian Limits; It Claimed No Universal Adhesion, Asserted No Sole Infallible Dogma, Set Up No Single Narrow Path Or Gate Of Salvation; It Was Less A Creed Or Cult Than A Continuously Enlarging Tradition Of The Godward Endeavour Of The Human Spirit. An Immense Many-sided Many-staged Provision For A Spiritual Self-building And Self-finding, It Had Some Right To Speak Of Itself By The Only Name It Knew, The Eternal Religion, Sanatana Dharma.

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 Purusha Should Assume At All Times The Attitude Of A Giver Of Sanction While Rejecting The Lower Movements And Accepting Only Truth-movements.

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.

The Navel Region Is The Centre Of The Vital. It Is From Here That The Movements Of The Vital Rise Upward. Above The Navel And Behind The Chest Is The Centre Of The Play Of Emotions And Below This Takes Place The Play Of The Physical. Mulādhāra Is The Base Of The Physical. In Between The Mulādhāra And The Navel, There Is Another Centre Of The Vital.

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

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.

No Danger Can Perturb My Spirit's Calm.

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

The Supramental Transformation, The Supramental Evolution Must Carry With It A Lifting Of Mind, Life And Body Out Of Themselves Into A Greater Way Of Being In Which Yet Their Own Ways And Powers Would Be, Not Suppressed Or Abolished, But Perfected And Fulfilled By The Self-exceeding.

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.

What I Cannot Do Now Is The Sign Of What I Shall Do Hereafter. The Sense Of Impossibility Is The Beginning Of All Possibilities. Because This Temporal Universe Was A Paradox And An Impossibility, Therefore The Eternal Created It Out Of His Being.

A Woman Has The Greatest Opportunity To Provide The Best Outcome For A Baby And Its Potentialities. Not Only By Having A Conscious And Definite Will To Form The Child Accordingly To The Highest Ideal She Can Conceive, But First And Foremost Having The Aspiration To Work On Herself.

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.

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

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.

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

Do Not Belong To The Past Dawns,but To The Noons Of Future

Not In The State Of Unconsciousness, But In Full Awareness When The Higher Power Will Descend Into And Direct Us, Then Only The Yogic Life Will Begin.

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.

Spirituality Is Indeed The Master-key Of The Indian Mind; The Sense Of The Infinitive Is Native To It.

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.

Love Is The Keynote, Joy Is The Music, Knowledge Is The Performer, The Infinite All Is The Composer And Audience.

Do Not Be Eager For Things Above.

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

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

When We Have Passed Beyond Knowings, Then We Shall Have Knowledge.

What Sort Of Politics You People Do? Such Is The Way Of All Parliaments: One Can Sense Even Beforehand The Trend Of Voting, In Which Direction It Will Turn.

Your Mind Has Some Clearness And Capacity For Right Thinking; It Opens Towards The Heights, But For Its Own Sake, - To Receive Light From Above For Its Own Activity.

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

Our Lives Are God's Messengers Beneath The Stars.

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.

The Mind Has These Four Levels: Physical, Vital, Buddhi, Higher Mind. The Supermind Is Far Above These.

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.

The Atheist Is God Playing At Hide And Seek With Himself; But Is The Theist Any Other? Well, Perhaps; For He Has Seen The Shadow Of God And Clutched At It.

While Doing Sadhana You Must Quieten Your Mind And Keep Awake The Purusha Consciousness Behind All Your Activities.

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.

You Have However Within You An Inclination Towards Completeness.

Forgiveness Is Praised By The Christian And The Vaishnava, But For Me, I Ask, "what Have I To Forgive And Whom?"

A Quiet Mind Does Not Mean That There Will Be No Thoughts Or Mental Movements At All, But That These Will Be On The Surface, And You Will Feel Your True Being Within, Separate From Them, Observing But Not Carried Away

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.

Terrorism Thrives On Administrative Violence And Injustice; That Is The Only Atmosphere In Which It Can Thrive And Grow. It Sometimes Follows The Example Of Indiscriminate Violence From Above; It Sometimes, Though Very Rarely, Sets It From Below. But The Power Above Which Follows The Example From Below Is On The Way To Committing Suicide.

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.

Even If The Being Is Not Entirely Purified, Varieties Of Inspirations And Powers May Come Down From Above But This May Lead To Serious Errors. Inspirations From Above Mixing With The Impurities From Below Get All Muddled Up And The Sadhak Takes This For An Absolute Command. Many A Sadhak Has Thus Fallen Into Danger. Therefore, One Must Particularly Lay Stress On The Purification Of The Being.

The First And The Most Important Thing Is To Know That Life Is One And Immortal. Only The Forms, Countless In Number, Are Transient And Brittle. The Life Everlasting Is Independent Of Any Form But Manifests Itself In All Forms. Life Then Does Not Die... But The Forms Are Dissolved.

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.

As In All Infant Sciences, The Universal Habit Of The Human Mind - To Take A Partial Or Local Truth, Generalise It Unduly And Try To Explain A Whole Field Of Nature In Its Narrow Terms - Runs Riot Here (in Psychoanalysis). Moreover, The Exaggeration Of The Importance Of Suppressed Sexual Complexes Is A Dangerous Falsehood.

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.

All Existence Is A Manifestation Of God.

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

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.

The Soul In Man Is Greater Than His Fate.

Not Complete Inaction, Which Is An Error, A Confusion, A Self-delusion, An Impossibility, But Action Full And Free Done Without Subjection To Sense And Passion, Desireless And Unattached Works, Are The First Secret Of Perfection.

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.

One Mighty Deed Can Change The Course Of Things; A Lonely Thought Becomes Omnipotent.

The Inside Must Be Made Entirely Calm And Quiet And There Should Reign An Upward Aspiration - A State Of Awaiting.

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

The Great Are Strongest When They Stand Alone, A God-given Might Of Being Is Their Force.

Sit In Meditation ! But Do Not Think ! Look Only At Your Mind ! You Will See Thoughts Coming Into It ! Before They Can Enter, Throw These Away From Your Mind Till Your Mind Is Capable Of Entire Silence.

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.

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.

Indian Religion Has Always Felt That Since The Minds, The Temperaments And The Intellectual Affinities Of Men Are Unlimited In Their Variety, A Perfect Liberty Of Thought And Of Worship Must Be Allowed To The Individual In His Approach To The Infinite.

India Is The Meeting-place Of The Religions And Among These Hinduism Alone Is By Itself A Vast And Complex Thing, Not So Much A Religion As A Great Diversified And Yet Subtly Unified Mass Of Spiritual Thought, Realization And Aspiration.

India Of The Ages Is Not Dead Nor Has She Spoken Her Last Creative Word; She Lives And Has Still Something To Do For Herself And The Human Peoples. And That Which Must Seek Now To Awake Is Not An Anglicised Oriental People, Docile Pupil Of The West And Doomed To Repeat The Cycle Of The Occident's Success And Failure, But Still The Ancient Immemorable Shakti Recovering Her Deepest Self, Lifting Her Head Higher Towards The Supreme Source Of Light And Strength And Turning To Discover The Complete Meaning And A Vaster Form Of Her Dharma.

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.

Peace Is The First Condition, Without Which Nothing Else Can Be Stable.

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

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.

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.

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

To Play With Baubles Is Our Ambition, Not To Deal With Grave Questions In A Spirit Of Serious Energy. But While We Are Playing With Baubles, With Our Legislative Councils, Our Simultaneous Examinations, Our Ingenious Schemes For Separating The Judicial From The Executive Functions, - While We, I Say, Are Finessing About Trifles, The Waters Of The Great Deep Are Being Stirred And That Surging Chaos Of The Primitive Man Over Which Our Civilised Societies Are Superimposed On A Thin Crust Of Convention, Is Being Strangely And Ominously Agitated.

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

Recover The Source Of All Strength In Yourself, And All Else Will Be Added To You ... Political Freedom, The Mastery Of Human Thought, The Hegemony Of The World.

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.

Religions, Creeds And Forms Are Only A Characteristic Outward Sign Of The Spiritual Impulsion And Religion Itself Is The Intensive Action By Which It Tries To Find Its Inward Force. Its Expansive Movement Comes In The Thought Which It Throws Out On Life, The Ideals Which Open Up New Horizons And Which The Intellect Accepts And Life Labours To Assimilate.

Outside And Above The Mind There Is The Play Of A Consciousness Which Is Lighted By The Higher Truth, But Man Is Not Conscious Of It And Of That He Has To Be Conscious.

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.

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.

What Men Call Knowledge, Is The Reasoned Acceptance Of False Appearances. Wisdom Looks Behind The Veil And Sees.

Samskrit Language, As Has Been Universally Recognized By Those Competent To Form A Judgment, Is One Of The Most Magnificent, The Most Perfect, The Most Prominent And Wonderfully Sufficient Literary Instrument Developed By The Human Mind.

The Atheist Is God Playing At Hide And Seek With Himself.

There Is Therefore No Reason To Put A Limit To Evolutionary Possibility By Taking Our Present Organization Or Status Of Existence As Final. The Animal Is A Laboratory In Which Nature Has Worked Out Man; Man May Very Well Be A Laboratory In Which She Wills To Work Out Superman, To Disclose The Soul As A Divine Being, To Evolve A Divine Nature.

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

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Life, The River Of The Spirit, Consenting To Anguish And Sorrow.

There Is Nothing Small In God's Eyes; Let There Be Nothing Small In Thine

All That Is Born And Destroyed Is Reborn In The Sweep Of The Ages; Life Like A Decimal Ever Recurring Repeats The Old Figure.

To Make A Revolution Is Not In The Grain Of Our People's Nature.

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.

Thy Goal, The Road Thou Choosest Are Thy Fate.

Metaphysical Thinking Will Always No Doubt Be A Strong Element In Her Mentality, And It Is To Be Hoped That She Will Never Lose Her Great, Her Sovereign Powers In That Direction.

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

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.

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.

Remember That You Are At An Exceptional Hour In A Unique Epoch, That You Have This Great Happiness, This Invaluable Privilege, Of Being Present At The Birth Of A New World.

A Total Spiritual Direction Given To The Whole Life And The Whole Nature Can Alone Lift Humanity Beyond Itself. . . It Is Only The Full Emergence Of The Soul, The Full Descent Of The Native Light And Power Of The Spirit And The Consequent Replacement Or Transformation And Uplifting Of Our Insufficient Mental And Vital Nature By A Spiritual And Supramental Supernature That Can Effect This Evolutionary Miracle.

The Mind Of An Ordinary Man Is Truly Near The Heart.

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.

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.

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

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

The Psychic Being And The Mental Being, Manomaya Purusha, Are Not The Same. The Psychic Being Is Behind The Mind, It Is What The Westerners Call The Soul. It Takes Interest In The Movements Of The Mind And The Vital Only When There Is A Harmony Between These Movements And The Truth Above. The Knowledge Of The Psychic Being Is Deeper.

The Mind Is Running On All Sides To Think About Many Things, - What We Call Thoughts Coming From Outside. We Must Withdraw The Mind From These Distractions And Make It Abide In The Self. Thus Guarding The Peace Within We Shall Have To Do The Work Without.

What Is God After All? An Eternal Child Playing An Eternal Game In An Eternal Garden.

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.

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.

The Ascent To The Divine Life Is The Human Journey, The Work Of Works, The Acceptable Sacrifice. This Alone Is Man's Real Business In The World And The Justification Of His Existence, Without Which He Would Only Be An Insect Crawling Among The Ephemeral Insects On A Speck Of Surface Mud And Water Which Has Managed To Form Itself Amid The Appalling Immensities Of The Physical Universe.

Until You Get A Guidance From Above You Cannot Be Sure; But To Get This Guidance It Requires Time And Sadhana.

Many Of Us, Utterly Overcome By Tamas, The Dark And Heavy Demon Of Inertia, Are Saying Nowadays That It Is Impossible, That India Is Decayed, Bloodless And Lifeless, Too Weak Ever To Recover; That Our Race Is Doomed To Extinction. It Is A Foolish And Idle Saying. No Man Or Nation Need Be Weak Unless He Chooses, No Man Or Nation Need Perish Unless He Deliberately Chooses Extinction.

All Thoughts, Desires, Conventions, Attachments Which Come From Outside Must Be Ruthlessly Pushed Away.

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

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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