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 8 July 1953    “The mind is an instrument of action and formation and not an instrument of knowledge; at each moment it is creating…

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 23 December 1953   If the mind “is incapable of finding knowledge”¹ what part of the being finds knowledge?   One must enter the knowledge…

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16 September 1953   “The force that comes down into one who is doing Yoga and helps him in his transformation, acts along many different…

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 18 March 1953   “We are conscious of only an insignificant portion of our being.”  Questions and Answers 1929 (7 April)              What are these…

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 18 November 1953   “In rebirth it is not the external being, that which is formed by parents, environment and circumstances, – the mental, the…

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1 April 1953   “Ambition has been the undoing of many Yogis. That canker can hide long. Many people start on the Path without any…

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25 November 1953   You have said: “It is in proportion to our trust in the Divine that the Divine Grace can act for us…

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Appendix   (Extract from a talk of Sri Aurobindo with a French scientist-disciple)   8 May 1926   In the West the highest minds are…

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29 April 1953   Sweet Mother, you have said that one can exercise one’s conscious will and change the course of one’s dreams.   Ah,…

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 30 December 1953   What do you mean by the instinct of destruction in children?   It is not there in all children. I have…

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