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-59_A Dream.htm

A Dream   This is the story of a dream that often came & always fled, a dream that continued by snatches and glimpses through…

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-60_The Beauty of a Crow’s Wings.htm

The Beauty of a Crow’s Wings   It is not only that the sable blackness of the crow’s wings has in it wonderful shades of…

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-61_Science.htm

Section Five   Science, Religion, Reason, Justice     Science   We live under the reign of Science, a reign which from the mouth of…

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-62_Religion.htm

Religion   In a word, the religious tendency, the religious spirit in man does not escape from the law of evolution that governs the other…

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-63_Reason and Society.htm

Reason and Society   A pragmatic mentalism would not be in its essential principle other than the attempt already made by the race to make…

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-64_Justice.htm

Justice   Justice, one says; but what is Justice? Plato’s question applies to this as to every other sacred icon set up by men for…

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-65_Jnana.html

Part Four   Thoughts and Aphorisms   Sri Aurobindo wrote the main series of 540 aphorisms around 1913 in a single notebook under the headings…

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-66_Karma.html

Karma     Karma   205. God leads man while man is misleading himself, the higher nature watches over the stumblings of his lower mortality;…

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-67_Bhakti.html

Bhakti     Bhakti   407. I am not a Bhakta, for I have not renounced the world for God. How can I renounce what…

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-68_Additional Aphorisms.htm

Additional Aphorisms   541. I know that the opposite of what I say is true, but for the present what I say is still truer….

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