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action activity appearance aspect attain beauty become body bonds bound Brahma bring Buddha comes complete consciousness create creation death desire direct earth eternal everything evil existence expression extend fact feel field finite flower forces freedom fully gain give greater harmony heart highest hold human idea ignorance immortal India individual infinite inner keep knowledge leads lies light limits live look lose man's manifestation meaning merely mind moral move nature never object once ourselves pain pass perfect physical play pleasure possessions present reach realise reality relation reveals rise seeking sense separate side song soul spirit stand step strength sufferings surroundings thee things thou thought tion touch Translated trouble true truly truth ultimate union unity universal Upanishads whole wish
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Page 152 - Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.
Page 8 - When a man does not realise his kinship with the world, he lives in a prison-house whose walls are alien to him.
Page 14 - They who having attained the supreme soul in knowledge were filled with wisdom, and having found him in union with the soul were in perfect harmony with the inner self ; they having realised him in the heart were free from all selfish desires, and having experienced him in all the activities of the world, had attained calmness. The rishis were they who having reached the supreme God from all sides had found abiding peace, had become united with all, had entered into the life of the Universe...
Page 3 - divide and rule" in our mental outlook, which begets in us a habit of securing all our conquests by fortifying them and separating them from one another. We divide nation and nation, knowledge and knowledge, man and nature. It breeds in us a strong suspicion of whatever is beyond the barriers we have built, and everything has to fight hard for its entrance into our recognition. When the first Aryan invaders appeared in India it was a vast land of forests, and the new-comers rapidly took advantage...
Page 41 - The revealment of the infinite in the finite, which is the motive of all creation, is not seen in its perfection in the starry heavens, in the beauty of the flowers. It is in the soul of man.
Page 8 - The man whose acquaintance with the world does not lead him deeper than science leads him, will never understand what it is that the man with the spiritual vision finds in these natural phenomena. The water does not merely cleanse his limbs, but it purifies his heart ; for it touches his soul. The earth does not merely hold his body, but it gladdens his mind ; for its contact is more than a physical contact—it is a living presence.
Page 47 - THE question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is imperfection, or, in other words, why there is creation at all. We must take it for granted that it could not be otherwise; that creation must be imperfect, must be gradual, and that it is futile to ask the question, Why we are?
Page 125 - In the great western continent we see that the soul of man is mainly concerned with extending itself outwards; the open field of the exercise of power is its field. Its partiality is entirely for the world of extension, and it would leave asidenay, hardly believe in—that field of inner consciousness which is the field of fulfilment.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Sadhana |
| Author | RabindranathTagore |
| Published | 1916 |
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