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colour combinations. The Mother explains: 9. Cent. ed. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Trust; 1977, p. 154.
“There is not one psychological perfection
but five. They are sincerity, faith, devotion, 2. Lizelle R. To Live Within. The story of five years
aspiration and surrender”. She elaborates, with a Himalayan guru. UK: George Allen
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devotion, etc. make up the perfection indicated
in our language of the flowers. In ordinary 3. Sethna KD. Sri Aurobindo –The Poet: Rose of
language it would mean something else such God: A Comment on its Mysticism and its Poetry.
as purity, love, benevolence, fidelity and a host Pondicherry: SAICE; 1970, pp. 264-88.
of other virtues (5).”
4. Sri Aurobindo. Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo,
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Dr. Soumitra Basu, a practising psychiatrist and member of SAIIIHR, is the Director of a school of
psychology, Integral Yoga Psychology. He is also one of the editors of NAMAH.

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