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That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting.
While doing sadhana you must quieten your mind and keep awake the Purusha consciousness behind all your activities.
With which part do you watch? Surely with the mind? That won't do. It is the silent Purusha within who must watch all.
To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
Only the soul that is naked and unashamed, can be pure and innocent , even as Adam was in the primal garden of humanity .
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
Is it true that existence consists only in the action of energy? Or is it not rather that energy is an output of Existence?
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.
Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.
All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.
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.
Can everybody contact the higher forces? No, not indeed; but they submit themselves to a discipline and this brings them success.
The expression "from above" is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action - we call it intuition.
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.
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.
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.
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 Purusha should assume at all times the attitude of a giver of sanction while rejecting the lower movements and accepting only truth-movements.
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.
Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Turkey, Japan do great work because they can keep under control their little personal selfishness, egoism, jealousy, etc. when they get down to work.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.