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O splendour of eternal Truth, I call Thee. I salute Thee, O Sun of the morrow. -The Mother
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07/29/2017
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07/31/2017
Published by Sri Aurobindo on 07/30/2017
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Letters on Yoga - IV

It is your vital attachment to family ties and the ordinary social ideas and feelings that has risen in you and creates the difficulty. If you want to practise Yoga, you must be able to live in the world, so long as you are there, with a mind set upon the Divine and not bound by the environment. One who does this, can help those around him a hundred times more than one who is bound and attached to the world.

Ref: Letters on Yoga – IV

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