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Indian religion cannot be described by any of the definitions known to the occidental intelligence.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
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What India needs especially at this moment is the aggressive virtues, the spirit of soaring idealism, bold creation, fearless resistance, courageous attack; of the passive tamasic spirit of inertia we have already too much.
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#IntegralYoga
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Today is
#SriAurobindo
’s birth anniversary. He was born on 15 August 1872.
At the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, we are gearing up for Darshan.
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Dear
@nsitharaman
ji and
@anirbanganguly
ji, it was a delight to see you at the Samadhi, the dining room and the Ashram school.
Do come again.
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Ganesha is the Power that removes obstacles by the force of Knowledge.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
#HappyGaneshChaturthi
#गणेश_चतुर्थी
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We need faith above all things, faith in ourselves, faith in the nation, faith in India’s destiny.
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#IntegralYoga
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The Vedas are much more ancient than we usually suppose. Sayana represents the scholarship & traditions of a period not much anterior to our own. There is therefore no authoritative rendering of the hymns. The Veda remains its own best authority.
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#IntegralYoga
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Mother Durga! Rider on the lion, giver of all strength, Mother, beloved of Shiva! We, born from thy parts of Power, we the youth of India, are seated here in thy temple. Listen,O Mother, descend upon earth, make thyself manifest in this land of India.
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#IntegralYoga
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This Hindu nation was born with the Sanatana Dharma, with it it moves and with it it grows.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
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Whatever one wants sincerely and persistently from the Divine, the Divine is sure to give.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
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Indian culture has been from the beginning and has remained a spiritual, an inward-looking religio-philosophical culture.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
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The secret of success in Yoga is to regard it not as one of the aims to be pursued in life, but as the one and only aim, not as an important part of life, but as the whole of life.
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#IntegralYoga
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Mind and body are not our real self; they are mutable formations or images which we go on constructing in the drive of Time as a result of the mass of our past energies.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
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“I,
#Vivekananda
,” stands up to the ordinary eye like a Himalaya of self-confident egoism. This was the attitude of the fighter who, as the representative of something very great, could not allow himself to be put down or belittled.
#SriAurobindo
on
#SwamiVivekananda
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Never allow any fear to enter into you. Face all you meet and see in this world with detachment and courage.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
#Consciousness
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Our real self is not the individual mental being, that is only a figure, an appearance; our real self is cosmic, infinite, it is one with all existence and the inhabitant of all existences.
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#IntegralYoga
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Dharma in the spiritual sense is not morality or ethics. Dharma, says the Gita elsewhere, is action governed by the swabhava, the essential law of one's nature.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
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We do not call the dharma and the fundamental thought of India, just because they are old, the eternal dharma, the eternal truth.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
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You can’t found metaphysics on physical science; for, when you have built your philosophy, after some thirty years or so science will change and your building will tumble down.
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#IntegralYoga
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We shall never lose our fortitude, our courage, our endurance. There are some who think that by lowering our heads the country will escape repression. That is not my opinion.
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Today is
#TheMother
’s birth anniversary.
She was born on 21 February 1878 in Paris and named Mirra Alfassa.
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One who has not the courage to face patiently and firmly life and its difficulties will never be able to go through the still greater inner difficulties of the sadhana.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
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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;
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#IntegralYoga
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The secret of success in Yoga is to regard it not as one of the aims to be pursued in life, but as the one and only aim, not as an important part of life, but as the whole of life.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
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The
#Vedas
and the
#Upanishads
are not only the sufficient fountain-head of Indian philosophy and religion, but of all Indian art, poetry and literature.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
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The destiny of India will not wait on the falterings and failings of individuals; the mother demands that men shall arise to institute her worship and make it universal.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
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Yoga is a passage from ignorance to self-knowledge, from our apparent to our true being, from an outer phenomenal mental vital material life-existence to an inner spiritual existence and a spiritualised nature.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
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Agni is at once a fire of aspiration, a fire of purification, a fire of tapasya, a fire of transformation.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
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The Gayatri mantra is the mantra for bringing the light of Truth into all the planes of the being.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
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A certain class of minds shrink from aggressiveness as if it were a sin. Their temperament forbids them to feel the delight of battle and they look on what they cannot understand as something monstrous and sinful.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
#Gita
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To recover Indian thought, Indian character, Indian perceptions, Indian energy, Indian greatness, and to solve the problems that perplex the world in an Indian spirit and from the Indian standpoint, this, in our view, is the mission of
#Nationalism
.
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#IntegralYoga
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If you want to do yoga, you must get rid of fear. Yoga and fear do not go together.
#SriAurobindo
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Physics can know the truth of the phenomenon of life and that also when combined with biology, but not the essential truth of life.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
#Consciousness
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This is a miracle that men can love God, yet fail to love humanity. With whom are they in love then?
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#IntegralYoga
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They [the capitalist class] are the source of national wealth. They should be encouraged to spend for the nation.
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#IntegralYoga
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Seventy three years ago, on 9 December 1950, Sri Aurobindo's body was laid to rest.
Om Shanti…
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Gandhi’s theories are like other mental theories built on one-sided reasoning for limited truth.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
#GandhiJayanti
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MOTHER DURGA! Rider on the lion, giver of all strength, Mother, beloved of Siva! We born from thy parts of Power, we the youth of India, are seated here in thy temple. Listen, O Mother, descend upon earth, make thyself manifest in this land of India.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
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To think that communism is the Truth is to make the same error as all religious fanaticism and puts communism on the same level as all other religions... very far from the Truth.
#TheMother
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If you do your work as an offering which you lay in all sincerity at the feet of the Divine, work will do you as much good as meditation.
#TheMother
#IntegralYoga
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The best way to express one’s gratitude to the Divine is to feel simply happy.
#TheMother
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Whatever has been done in the world has been done by the very few who can stand outside the action in silence; for it is they who are the instruments of the Divine Power.
#TheMother
#IntegralYoga
#Consciousness
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If we go a little way within ourselves, we shall discover that there is in each of us a
#consciousness
that has been living throughout the ages and manifesting in a multitude of forms.
#TheMother
#IntegralYoga
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If you observe yourself attentively, you will see that before acting you need an inner impetus, something which pushes you. In the ordinary man this impetus is generally desire.
#TheMother
#IntegralYoga
#Consciousness
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The Karma of the Siddha Yogin must be like that of the sun and stars, the avalanche and the cyclone, the breeze, moon or flowers, fire and the dust of the earth,
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#IntegralYoga
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One should be so sincere in his aspiration that he doesn’t even know he is aspiring, that he becomes the aspiration itself. When this indeed can be realised, one truly attains to an extraordinary power.
#TheMother
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Desire is only a mode of the emotional mind which by ignorance seeks its delight in the object of desire and not in the Brahman who expresses Himself in the object. By destroying that ignorance one can do action without entanglement in desire.
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The body is not connected ordinarily with the higher consciousness, it only receives what it can from the mind.
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#IntegralYoga
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There are five fires in the Vedic sacrifice. If the five are not there, the sacrifice is incomplete. We may say that we need these five fires in the psychic, the mental, the vital, the physical and the subconscient.
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#IntegralYoga
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Born of the same Mother, on her lap we live, in her five elements we merge and melt, in spite of a thousand real dissensions we shall unite at Her call.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
#nationalism
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If Arjuna were to abstain or even if the battle of Kurukshetra were not to be fought, that evasion would only prolong and make worse the inevitable confusion, disorder, ruin that are coming.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
#Gita
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Control over one’s speech is more important than complete silence. The best thing is to learn to say only what is useful in the most accurate and truthful way possible.
#TheMother
#IntegralYoga
#Consciousness
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To walk through life armoured against all fear, peril and disaster, only two things are needed, two that go always together — the Grace of the Divine Mother and on your side an inner state made up of faith, sincerity and surrender.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
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If the higher
#consciousness
comes down and you reject all the falsehood of the mind, vital and body, the truth will be established.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
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You are to be conscious of yourself, you must awake to your nature and movements, you must know why and how you do things or feel or think them...
#TheMother
#IntegralYoga
#Consciousness
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India has been preeminently the land of the Dharma and the Shastra.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
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We have faith and we believe in the great rule of life in the Gita, “Remember me and fight.”
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
#Consciousness
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Because a good man dies or fails and the evil live and triumph, is God therefore evil? I do not see the logic of the consequence.
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#IntegralYoga
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#SriAurobindo
always loved deeply his Motherland. But he wished her to be great, noble, pure and worthy of her big mission in the world. He refused to let her sink to the sordid and vulgar level of blind self-interests and ignorant prejudices.
#TheMother
#IntegralYoga
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Mother
#Durga
! Slay the enemy within, then root out all obstacles outside.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
#Consciousness
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War is no longer, perhaps, a biological necessity, but it is still a psychological necessity; what is within us, must manifest itself outside.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
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Finally, it was Rama’s business to make the world safe for the ideal of the sattwic human being by destroying the sovereignty of Ravana, the Rakshasa menace.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
#Consciousness
#RamMandirPranPrathistha
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The animal is a living laboratory in which Nature has, it is said, worked out man. Man himself may well be a thinking and living laboratory in whom and with whose conscious co-operation she wills to work out the superman, the god.
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#IntegralYoga
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Orange is the colour of occult knowledge or occult experience.
Yellow is the thinking mind.
The violet is the light of Divine Grace and Compassion.
Purple is the colour of the vital force — crimson is usually physical.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
#FestivalOfColours
#HappyHoli
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The chain of Karma only binds the movement of Nature and not the soul which, by knowing itself, ceases even to appear to be bound by the result of its works.
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When one has learned to silence the mind at will and to concentrate it in receptive silence, then there will be no problem that cannot be solved, no mental difficulty whose solution cannot be found.
#TheMother
#IntegralYoga
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We must recognise that our primary aim in knowledge must be to realise our own supreme Self more than that Self in others or as the Lord of Nature or as the All...
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
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In my view, a man’s value does not depend on what he learns or his position or fame or what he does, but on what he is and inwardly becomes.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
#Consciousness
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To see the Truth does not depend on a big intellect or a small intellect. It depends on being in contact with the Truth and the mind silent and quiet to receive it.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
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All feelings, all sensations, all thoughts, all reflexes, all attractions, all repulsions, all existing things, all that forms the fabric of our physical life must be overcome, transformed and freed from all their habits.
#TheMother
#IntegralYoga
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The spiritual man who can guide human life towards its perfection is typified in the ancient Indian idea of the Rishi, one who has lived fully the life of man and found the word of the supra-intellectual, supramental, spiritual truth.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
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Yogic methods have something of the same relation to the customary psychological workings of man as has the scientific handling of the force of electricity or of steam to their normal operations in Nature.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
#science
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All yoga is difficult, because the aim in every
#yoga
is to reach the Divine, to turn entirely towards the Divine and that means to turn away from the ordinary movements of the nature to something beyond it.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
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Nobody can give you the true mantra. It’s not something that is given: it’s something that wells up from within.
#TheMother
#IntegralYoga
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The truth of the spirit is a truth of being and
#consciousness
and not a truth of thought:
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
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The handling of the Vedic hymns by the bold & ingenious scholarship of the Europeans has had at any rate one striking outcome…
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
#Consciousness
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A nation is building in India today before the eyes of the world so swiftly, so palpably…
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
#Consciousness
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Teaching, example, influence — these are the three instruments of the
#Guru
.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
#GuruPurnima
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When you give yourself to the accomplishment of an unselfish aim, never expect ordinary people to praise and support you — on the contrary, they will always fight against you, hate and curse you.
But the Divine will be with you.
#TheMother
#IntegralYoga
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We believe that it is to make the
#yoga
the ideal of human life that India rises today...
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
#InternationalYogaDay
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The mind is silent, the brain is still, everything is clear, quiet, calm; and at the right moment, by divine Grace a drop of light falls into the
#consciousness
and what needs to be known is known.
#TheMother
#IntegralYoga
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Take Vivekananda’s famous answer to the Madras Pundit who objected to one of his assertions, “But Shankara does not say so.” To which Vivekananda replied, “No, Shankara does not say so, but I, Vivekananda, say so.”
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
#SwamiVivekananda
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I make no difference between work and yoga. Work itself is yoga if it is done in a spirit of dedication and surrender.
#TheMother
#IntegralYoga
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#Silence
is synonymous with peace and it is all-powerful; it is the perfectly effective remedy for fatigue, tension and exhaustion arising from that internal over-activity and noise which generally escape our control and cease neither by day nor night.
#TheMother
#IntegralYoga
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The mother-tongue is the proper medium of education and therefore the first energies of the child should be directed to the thorough mastering of the medium.
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
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Horoscopes have no importance for those who take up
#yoga
, because the influence that works through yoga is much more powerful than the influence of the stars.
#TheMother
#IntegralYoga
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The articles and dogmas of a
#religion
are mind-made things and, if you cling to them and shut yourself up in a code of life made out for you, you cannot know the truth of the Spirit that lies beyond all codes and dogmas, wide and large and free.
#TheMother
#IntegralYoga
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If you are sincere in all the elements of your being, to the very cells of your body and if your whole being integrally wants the Divine, you are sure of victory but for nothing less than that. That is what I call being sincere.
#TheMother
#IntegralYoga
#Consciousness
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I knew I would come out [of Alipore jail]. The year of detention was meant only for a year of seclusion and of training. How could anyone hold me in jail longer than was necessary for God’s purpose?
#SriAurobindo
#IntegralYoga
#Consciousness
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Let the birth of the new year be the new birth of our
#consciousness
.
Leaving the past far behind us, let us run towards a luminous future.
#TheMother
#IntegralYoga
#HappyNewYear
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