What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
Sri Aurobindo
They say, O my God, that I am mad because I see no fault in Thee; but if I am indeed mad with Thy love, I do not wish to recover my sanity.
faults
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius. It is dangerous for an army to be led by veterans; for on the other side God may place Napoleon.
places talent stereotypes system
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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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.
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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.
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If thou wouldst have humanity advance, buffet all preconceived ideas. Thought thus smitten awakes and becomes creative. Otherwise it rests in a mechanical repetition and mistakes that for its right activity.
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If thy aim be great and thy means small, still act; for by action alone these can increase to thee.
action
Not result is the purpose of action, but God's eternal delight in becoming, seeing and doing.
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The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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appearance life wisdom men
Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.
key mind
Transform effort into an easy and sovereign overflowing of the soul-strength; let all thyself be conscious force. This is thy goal.
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Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.
life wisdom
Even when one has climbed up into those levels of bliss where pain vanishes, it still survives disguised as intolerable ecstasy.
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Open thy eyes and see what the world really is and what God; have done with vain and pleasant imaginations.
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