Sri Aurobindo Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo Famous Quotes & Sayings
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.
Only the soul that is naked and unashamed, can be pure and innocent , even as Adam was in the primal garden of humanity .
Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths, Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts.
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
Until you get a guidance from above you cannot be sure; but to get this guidance it requires time and sadhana.
All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.
With which part do you watch? Surely with the mind? That won't do. It is the silent Purusha within who must watch all.
The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature.
The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.
Forgiveness is praised by the Christian and the Vaishnava, but for me, I ask, "What have I to forgive and whom?"
Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.
The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
My love is not a hunger of the heart, My love is not a craving of the flesh; It came to me from God, to God returns.
An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.
Is it true that existence consists only in the action of energy? Or is it not rather that energy is an output of Existence?
Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.
To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
The expression "from above" is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action - we call it intuition.
While doing sadhana you must quieten your mind and keep awake the Purusha consciousness behind all your activities.
Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite's thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.