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The slow self-manifesting birth of God in Matter is the purpose of the terrestrial Lila.
A. Ghose (1997)
The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
New Lamps for Old (1893)
In India, the bourgeois, in Japan, the Samurai; in this single difference is comprised the whole contrasted histories of the two nations during the nineteenth century.
Evil cannot perish without the destruction of much that lives by the evil, and it is no less destruction even if we personally are saved the pain of a sensational act of violence.
If the will is fixed on the purpose it sets itself to accomplish, then circumstances will suggest the right course; but the schemer finds himself always tripped up by the unexpected.
Only the soul that is naked and unashamed, can be pure and innocent, even as Adam was in the primal garden of humanity.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
Unity we must create, but not necessarily uniformity.
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.
The Foundations of Indian Culture (1953)
Not result is the purpose of action, but God's eternal delight in becoming, seeing and doing.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
Revolutions hew the past to pieces and cast it into a cauldron, but what has emerged is the old Aeson with a new visage.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
In a word, godhead; to remake ourselves in the divine image.
Thoughts and Glimpses (1916)
Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at the mercy of external causes.
The Renaissance in India (1918)
One lucent corner windowing hidden things
Forced the world's blind immensity to sight.
The darkness failed and slipped like a falling cloak
From the reclining body of a god.
Savitri (1918)
Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinite is native to it.
The Renaissance in India (1918)
The fundamental idea of all Indian religion is one common to the highest human thinking everywhere.
Open thy eyes and see what the world really is and what God; have done with vain and pleasant imaginations.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
To commit adultery with God is the perfect experience for which the world was created.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
In God's providence there is no evil, but only good or its preparation.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)