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==Role of Honesty in Sadhana==
Straightforwardness means simply to be honest with oneself and with the Divine and not to be crooked in one's ways. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/sincerity#p25</ref><center>~</center>The indispensable basis of our Yoga is sincerity, honesty, unselfishness, disinterested consecration to the work to be done, nobility of character and straightforwardness. They who do not practise these elementary virtues are not Sri Aurobindo's disciples and have no place in the Ashram. That is why I refuse to answer imbecile and groundless accusations against the Ashram emanating from perverse and evil-intentioned minds. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/no-politics#p37</ref><center>~</center>Your service to the Divine must be scrupulously honest, disinterested and unselfish, otherwise it has no value.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/organisation-and-work#p90</ref>
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Therefore the qualities that make you worthy of leading the spiritual life are to have an inner balance, a balance in your action, and to be moderate in everything, to be sincere, honest, loyal. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/conjugate-verses#p57</ref>