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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.

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You Carry In Yourself

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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.

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

The Consciousness Of The Supreme Purusha Remains Above, But In The Mind There May Be A Purusha Consciousness Which They Call The Cosmic Consciousness - It Is Wide, All-pervading, One. Outside This Goes On The Play Of Prakriti.

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.

Live According To Nature, Runs The Maxim Of The West; But According To What Nature, The Nature Of The Body Or The Nature Which Exceeds The Body? This First We Ought To Determine.

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When Reason Died, Then Wisdom Was Born.

And, In Order To Possess The Truth, The Plays Of The Lower Nature Must Be Stopped.

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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 Principle Of Yoga Is The Turning Of One Or Of All Powers Of Our Human Existence Into A Means Of Reaching Divine Being.

To Hope For A True Change Of Human Life Without A Change Of Human Nature Is An Irrational And Unspiritual Proposition.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

Live Within; Be Not Shaken By Outward Happenings.

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

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

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.

My God Is Love And Sweetly Suffers All.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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Solid Foundation

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.

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.

Crucifixion Of Christ

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

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

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.

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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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.

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

Evolution Of Consciousness Is The Central Motive Of Terrestrial Existence.

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Safety Lies In Tending Towards Our Highest And Not In Resting Content With An Inferior Potentiality..... To Rest In Or Follow After An Inferior Potentiality May Seem Safe, Rational, Comfortable, Easy, But It Ends Badly, In Some Futility Or In A Mere Circling Down The Abyss Or In A Stagnant Morass. Our Right And Natural Road Is Towards The Summits.

Man In The World's Life Works Out The Dreams Of God.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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[s]tand Aside And Watch The Working Of The Divine Power In Yourself.

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

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

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

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

It Will Not Do To Depend On The Mind Alone.

Be Conscious First Of Thyself Within, Then Think And Act. All Living Thought Is A World In Preparation; All Real Act Is A Thought Manifested. The Material World Exists Because An Idea Began To Play In Divine Self–consciousness.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

No Danger Can Perturb My Spirit's Calm.

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.

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.

Life Is Life - Whether In A Cat, Or Dog Or Man. There Is No Difference There Between A Cat Or A Man. The Idea Of Difference Is A Human Conception For Man's Own Advantage.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Hidden Nature Is Secret God.

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

One Can See Light Above The Head; That Indicates A Consciousness Outside The Body. But That Itself Is Not The Truth-consciousness Or Vijnana. But Much Light Descending From There Illumines This Consciousness.

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.

Do Not Be Eager For Things Above.

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.

War Is A Dangerous Teacher And Physical Victory Leads Often To A Moral Defeat.

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 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.

There Are All Kinds Of People, And In The Attempt To Build Up A Solidarity Among Them, Defects Of Each One Affect All The Others.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ourselves Within Us Lethal Forces Nurse; We Make Of Our Own Enemies Our Guests.

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.

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.

Not Only A Truer Knowledge, But A Greater Power Comes To One In The Quietude And Silence Of A Mind That, Instead Of Bubbling On The Surface, Can Go To Its Own Depths And Listen.

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

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

Detachment Is The Beginning Of Mastery.

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.

The Truth-power Must Be Brought Down From Above Into That State Of Peace, And This Higher Power - Parashakti - Will Directly Guide The Vehicle - ādhāra - And Transform It.

Spirituality Is The Master Key Of The Indian Mind. It Is This Dominant Inclination Of India Which Gives Character To All The Expressions Of Her Culture. In Fact, They Have Grown Out Of Her Inborn Spiritual Tendency Of Which Her Religion Is A Natural Out Flowering. The Indian Mind Has Always Realized That The Supreme Is The Infinite And Perceived That To The Soul In Nature The Infinite Must Always Present Itself In An Infinite Variety Of Aspects.

For All Problems Of Existence Are Essentially Problems Of Harmony.

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.

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

By Your Stumbling, The World Is Perfected.

He Who Chooses The Infinite Has Been Chosen By The Infinite.

Thy Goal, The Road Thou Choosest Are Thy Fate.

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.

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.

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.

Propaganda Is Necessary Only For The Sake Of Money!

The Person Is A Bubble On Time's Sea.

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

Fear Not To Be Nothing That Thou Mayst Be All.

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

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.

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.

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

An Aimless Life Is Always A Troubled Life. Every Individual Should Have An Aim. But Do Not Forget That The Quality Of Your Aim Will Depend The Quality Of Your Life. Your Aim Should Be High And Wide, Generous And Disinterested; This Will Make Your Life Precious To Yourself And To Others. Whatever Your Ideal, It Cannot Be Perfectly Realized Unless You Have Realized Perfection In Yourself.

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

New Sentient Creatures Filled The Unseen Depths, Life's Glory And Swiftness Ran In The Beauty Of Beasts.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

A Thought Is An Arrow Shot At The Truth; It Can Hit A Point, But Not Cover The Whole Target. But The Archer Is Too Well Satisfied With His Success To Ask Anything Farther.

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

The Soul In Man Is Greater Than His Fate.

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

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

The Supreme End Is The Freedom Of The Spirit.

To Have A Developed Intellect Is Always Helpful If One Can Enlighten It From Above And Turn It To A Divine Use.

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

Knowledge Gropes But Meets Not Wisdom's Face.

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

What Have I To Forgive And Whom?

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

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 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.

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.

All Existence Is A Manifestation Of God.

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.

Death Fosters Life That Life May Suckle Death.

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.

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.

There Is A Knowledge In The Heart Of Sleep.

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

We Can Arrive At A Point Of View Where The Preservation Of The Individual Activities Is No Longer Inconsistent With Our Comprehension Of The Cosmic Consciousness Or Our Attainment To The Transcendent And Supracosmic.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Our Lives Are God's Messengers Beneath The Stars.

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.

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

What Comes From Outside, One Mistakes It As Coming From Inside. So Many Thoughts Etc. Move About Outside In The Universal - These Manifest Inside You. All These You Must Push Away As Foreign To You And The Inside Must Be Made Peaceful, Calm And Quiet; Then It Will Start Descending From Above.

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.

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.

What You Call The Psychic Being Is The Mind Of The Vital. The Heart Is The Seat Of This Mind. And This Mind Is The Essence Of The Senses. It Receives Things From Outside, Acts Upon Things That Are Outside - Knows, Gives Consent, Takes Interest In Them. But This Mind Cannot Be The Ishwara, But It Is The Knower, The Giver Of The Consent.

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.

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

We Are Sons Of God And Must Be Even As He.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Yoga We Practice Is Not For Ourselves Alone, But For The Divine; Its Aim Is To Work Out The Will Of The Divine In The World, To Effect A Spiritual Transformation And To Bring Down A Divine Nature And A Divine Life Into The Mental, Vital And Physical Nature And Life Of Humanity. Its Object Is Not Personal Mukti, Although Mukti Is A Necessary Condition Of The Yoga, But The Liberation And Transformation Of The Human Being. It Is Not Personal Ananda, But The Bringing Down Of The Divine Ananda - Christ's Kingdom Of Heaven, Our Satyayuga - Upon The Earth.

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.

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.

Be Conscious First Of Thyself Within, Then Think And Act.

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

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