"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."
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"Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper."
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"Spirituality is indeed the master-key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it."
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"The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it."
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"The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit."
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"Detachment is the beginning of mastery."
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"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."
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"The business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own intellectual, moral, aesthetic and practical capacities and to grow freely as an organic being, not to be kneaded and pressured into form like an inert plastic material"
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The soul in man is greater than his fate."
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"Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal's gate."
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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."
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"There is nothing small in God's eyes; let there be nothing small in thine"
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"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."
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"The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these."
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"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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"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."
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"The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives."
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