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Transform enjoying into an even and objectless ecstasy; let all thyself be bliss. This is thy goal.
Thoughts and Glimpses (1916)
Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
Thoughts and Glimpses (1916)
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
Thoughts and Glimpses (1916)
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.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
Into the little room of mortal life.
Savitri (1918)
I prefer not to use the term race, for race is a thing much more obscure and difficult to determine than is usually imagined. In dealing with it the trenchant distinctions current in the popular mind are wholly out of place.
What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because this temporal universe was a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal created it out of His being.
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.
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.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
When we have passed beyond willings, then we shall have Power. Effort was the helper; Effort is the bar.
Thoughts and Glimpses (1916)
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge. Reason was the helper; Reason is the bar.
Thoughts and Glimpses (1916)
When we have passed beyond humanity, then we shall be the Man. The Animal was the helper; the Animal is the bar.
Thoughts and Glimpses (1916)
All exists here, no doubt, for the delight of existence, all is a game or Lila; but a game too carries within itself an object to be accomplished and without the fulfillment of that object would have no completeness of significance.
A. Ghose (2009)
For the transformation of the Ignorance into the integral Knowledge the growth in us of a spiritual intelligence ready to receive a higher light and canalise it for all the parts of our nature is an intermediate necessity of great importance.
This Hindu nation was born with the Sanatan Dharma, with it it moves and with it it grows. When the Sanatan Dharma declines, then the nation declines, and if the Sanatan Dharma were capable of perishing, with the Sanatan Dharma it would perish.
The Uttarpara Address (1909)
O Death, our masked friend and maker of opportunities, when thou wouldst open the gate, hesitate not to tell us beforehand; for we are not of those who are shaken by its iron jarring.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
Transform the Animal into the Driver of the herds; let all thyself be Krishna. This is thy goal.
Thoughts and Glimpses (1916)
When we have passed beyond enjoyings, then we shall have Bliss. Desire was the helper; Desire is the bar.
Thoughts and Glimpses (1916)
When we have passed beyond individualising, then we shall be real Persons. Ego was the helper; Ego is the bar.
Thoughts and Glimpses (1916)