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Questions on Discipline

In current times, most of us, especially the younger ones, demand freedom. But without discipline, freedom becomes chaotic license to

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Importance of Discipline

Without discipline no proper work is possible.

Without discipline no proper life is possible.

And above all, without discipline no Sadhana is possible.

Source CWM 13, p. 163

One begins to be a man only when one aspires to a higher and truer life and when one accepts a discipline of transformation. For this one must start by mastering one’s lower nature and its desires.

It can be said that all discipline whatsoever, if it is followed strictly, sincerely, deliberately, is of considerable help, for it makes the earthly life reach its goal more rapidly and prepares it to receive the new life. To discipline oneself is to hasten the arrival of this new life and the contact with the supramental reality.

Source CWM 14, p. 46

One can do nothing without discipline

From Light on Life, questions and answers compiled by the Sri Aurobindo Society.

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