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Quotes from Sri Aurobindo


In this Yoga one is supposed to go beyond every mental idealistic culture.  Ideas and Ideals belong to the mind and are half-truths only; the mind too is, more often than not, satisfied with merely having an ideal, with the pleasure of idealising while life remains always the same, untransformed or changed only a little and mostly in appearance.  The spiritual seeker does not turn aside from the pursuit of realisation to mere idealising; not to idealise, but to realise the Divine Truth is always his aim, either beyond or in life also -- and in the latter case it is necessary to transform mind and life which cannot be done without surrender to the action of the Divine Force, the Mother. 

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