O seeing Flame, thou carriest man of the crooked ways into the abiding truth and the knowledge. Rig Veda.1
I purify earth and heaven by the Truth. Rig Veda.2
His ecstasy, in one who holds it, sets into motion the two births, the human self-expression and the divine, and moves between them. Rig Veda.3
May the invincible rays of his intuition be there seeking immortality, pervading both the births; for by them he sets flowing in one movement human strengths and things divine. Rig Veda.4
Let all accept thy will when thou art born a living god from the dry tree, that they may attain to divinity and reach by the speed of thy movements to possession of the Truth and the Immortality. Rig Veda.5
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2.28 - The Divine Life
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1:A powerless spirit is no spirit ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
2:Truth of oneness creates its own order. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
3:Harmony is the natural rule of the spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
4:The spiritual fullness of the being is eternity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
5:We can construct nothing which goes beyond our nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
6:Accord and concord are the true normality of the spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
7:The Divinity in man dwells veiled in his spiritual centre. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
8:All spiritual life is in its principle a growth into divine living. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
9:All pain and suffering are a sign of imperfection, of incompleteness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
10:Power can abase as well as elevate; nothing is more liable to misuse. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
11:An entry into the gnostic consciousness would be an entry into the Infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
12:A perfected community also can exist only by the perfection of its individuals. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
13:The essence of consciousness is the power to be aware of itself and its objects. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
14:The human mind’s picture of heaven is the incessant repetition of an eternal monotone. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
15:It is the resurgence of the barbarian in ourselves, in civilised man, that is the peril. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
16:A perfected human world cannot be created by men or composed of men who are themselves imperfect. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
17:A perfected human world cannot be created by men or composed of men who are themselves imperfect. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
18:It is within us that the Reality must be found and the source and foundation of a perfected life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
19:The individual as spirit or being is not confined within his humanity; he has been less than human. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
20:The individual as spirit or being is not confined within his humanity; he has been less than human. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
21:Our humanity is not the whole of the Reality or its best possible self-formation or self-expression. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
22:Our present nature is a derivation from Supernature and is not a pure ignorance but a half-knowledge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
23:To be and to be fully is Nature’s aim in us; but to be fully is to be wholly conscious of one’s being. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
24:Our standards and values are created by ignorance and therefore cannot determine the life of Super nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
25:A total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature can alone lift humanity beyond itself. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
26:Tt is only by liberation and perfection and realisation of the truth of being that man can arrive at truth of living. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
27:To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
28:All life for the achieved spiritual or gnostic consciousness must be the manifestation of the realised truth of spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
29:Mind is not the native dynamism of consciousness of the Spirit; supermind, the light of gnosis, is its native dynamism. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
30:The discord, the disharmony of our life and nature is abnormal to it although it is normal to the life of the Ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
31:Man, the mental being, has an imperfect life because mind is not the first and highest power of consciousness of the Being. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
32:A rigid standardisation, however necessary for the mind’s arrangement of things, could not be the law of the spiritual life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
33:Wherever there is an increase of consciousness, there is an increase of the potential force and the actual power of the existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
34:The inner life has a supreme spiritual importance and the outer has a value only in so far as it is expressive of the inner status. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
35:For the awakened individual the realisation of his truth of being and his inner liberation and perfection must be his primary seeking. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
36:The individual is not a mere cell of the collective existence; he would not cease to exist if separated or expelled from the collective mass. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
37:The community exists by the individual, for its mind and life and body are constituted by the mind and life and body of its composing individuals. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
38:To look into ourselves and see and enter into ourselves and live within is the first necessity for transformation of nature and for the divine life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
39:Unity is the basis of the gnostic consciousness, mutuality the natural result of its direct awareness of oneness in diversity, harmony the inevitable power of the working of its force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
40:In our present life of Nature, in our externalised surface existence, it is the world that seems to create us; but in the turn to the spiritual life it is we who must create ourselves and our world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
41:In men, says the Upanishad, the Self-Existent has cut the doors of consciousness outward, but a few turn the eye inward and it is these who see and know the Spirit and develop the spiritual being. Thus to look into ourselves and see and enter into ourselves and live within is the first necessity for transformation of nature and for the divine life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
42:In the growth into a divine life the spirit must be our first preoccupation; until we have revealed and evolved it in our self out of its mental, vital, physical wrappings and disguises, extricated it with patience from our own body, as the Upanishad puts it, until we have built up in ourselves an inner life of the spirit, it is obvious that no outer divine living can become possible. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
43:This then is the first necessity, that the individual, each individual, shall discover the spirit, the divine reality within him and express that in all his being and living. A divine life must be first and foremost an inner life; for since the outward must be the expression of what is within, there can be no divinity in the outer existence if there is not the divinisation of the inner being.The Divinity in man dwells veiled in his spiritual centre; there can be no such thing as self-exceeding for man or a higher issue for his existence if there is not in him the reality of an eternal self and spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
44:A silence, an entry into a wide or even immense or infinite emptiness is part of the inner spiritual experience; of this silence and void the physical mind has a certain fear, the small superficially active thinking or vital mind a shrinking from it or dislike, - for it confuses the silence with mental and vital incapacity and the void with cessation or non-existence: but this silence is the silence of the spirit which is the condition of a greater knowledge, power and bliss, and this emptiness is the emptying of the cup of our natural being, a liberation of it from its turbid contents so that it may be filled with the wine of God; it is the passage not into non-existence but to a greater existence. Even when the being turns towards cessation, it is a cessation not in non-existence but into some vast ineffable of spiritual being or the plunge into the incommunicable superconscience of the Absolute. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
45:In the terrestrial formulation of Knowledge and Power, this correlation is not altogether apparent because there consciousness itself is concealed in an original Inconscience and the natural strength and rhythm of its powers in their emergence are diminished and disturbed by the discordances and the veils of the Ignorance. The Inconscient there is the original, potent and automatically effective Force, the conscious mind is only a small labouring agent; but that is because the conscious mind in us has a limited individual action and the Inconscient is an immense action of a universal concealed Consciousness: the cosmic Force, masked as a material Energy, hides from our view by its insistent materiality of process the occult fact that the working of the Inconscient is really the expression of a vast universal Life, a veiled universal Mind, a hooded Gnosis, and without these origins of itself it could have no power of action, no organising coherence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
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