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If thou think defeat is the end of thee, then go not forth to fight, even though thou be the stronger. For Fate is not purchased by any man nor is Power bound over to her possessors. But defeat is not the end, it is only a gate or a beginning.

— Sri Aurobindo Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)

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Differences of credal belief are to the Indian mind nothing more than various ways of seeing the one Self and Godhead in all.

A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.

The Uttarpara Address (1909)

The spirit expresses itself in many ways while itself remaining essentially the same but the body must change to suit its changing environments if it wishes to live.

All religions have some truth in them, but none has the whole truth; all are created in time and finally decline and perish.

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.

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