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“Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and eternal knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses.
— Sri Aurobindo
Philosopher and yogi
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913) / Jnana
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