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Sri Aurobindo
Bhavani Bharati – Verse 40
04/07/2019
Sri Aurobindo
Bhavani Bharati – Verse 41
04/08/2019
Published by The Mother on 04/08/2019
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…the best way of receiving anything whatever is not to pull, but to give. If they want to give themselves to the new life, well, the new life will enter into them. But if they want to pull the new life down into themselves, they will close their door with their own egoism. That’s all.

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