Sri Aurobindo Quotes
Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself - for this is your true self.
Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you ... political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.
The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed.
The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.
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.
All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.
The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting.
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
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.
To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.
The expression "from above" is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action - we call it intuition.
To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
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.
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.
The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and a new meaning for every civilization.
The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
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.
All kinds of indications will come from above and whatever you do must be referred to the Above.
