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At the Feet of The Mother

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from writings of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

 

The same consciousness which was the monopoly of the vital and the mind has become that of the body: the consciousness is working in the cells of the body.
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Any well-planned and scientifically arranged programme of exercises practised with a yogic attitude will become yogic exercises [...]
... if you want to have a divine consciousness, you must not give up spiritual aspiration; but if you want to become an integral divine being on earth, take good care not to let go of the other end, and make your body the best possible instrument.
We have limbs and muscles and nerves, indeed everything that constitutes the body; if we don't give them a special development, a special education, all these things do what they can to express the Power in the body, but it is a very clumsy and very incomplete expression.
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Nothing great is ever accomplished without endurance. If you study the lives of great men you will see how they set themselves like flint against the weaknesses of the vital.