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-15_Reason and Religion.htm

Chapter XIII   Reason and Religion   IT WOULD seem then that reason is an insufficient, often an inefficient, even a stumbling and at its…

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-15_Rhyme.htm

Rhyme   Rhyme and Inspiration   Some rhyme with ease ―others find a difficulty. The coming of the rhyme is a part of the inspiration…

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-15_Short Poems from Manuscripts Circa 1900 – 1901.htm

  Short Poems from Manuscripts Circa 1900 ­ 1901   The Spring Child   (On Basanti’s birthday  —  Jyestha 1900)   Of Spring is her…

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-15_Stanzaic Rendering of the Opening of Canto 1.htm

  The Birth of the War-God   EDITORS’ NOTE   In the first and third versions of this translation, Sri Aurobindo left some lines or…

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-15_The Claims of Theosophy.htm

The Claims of Theosophy   I wish to write in no narrow and intolerant spirit about Theosophy. There can be nothing more contemptibly ignorant than…

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-15_The Mother^s Presence.htm

The Mother’s Presence   She Is Always Present   Why do I sometimes feel myself far from the Mother? I want to be able to…

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-15_The Movement of Modern- Literature – 2.htm

Chapter XV    The Movement of Modern  Literature ­ 2   OUT OF the period of dominant objective realism what emerges with the strongest force…

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-15_The Possibility and Purpose of Avatarhood.htm

XV   The Possibility and Purpose of Avatarhood   IN SPEAKING of this Yoga in which action and knowledge become one, the Yoga of the…

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-15_The Supreme Truth-Consciousness.htm

Chapter XV   The Supreme Truth-Consciousness     One seated in the sleep of Superconscience, a massed Intelligence, blissful and the enjoyer of Bliss. ….

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-15_The Terminology of His Writings.htm

The Terminology of His Writings   Spiritual and Supramental   Krishnaprem has always complained (and quite naturally) that it was difficult to get the right…

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