Sri Aurobindo Quotes

If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.

Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.

But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.

Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.

Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.

We are sons of God And must be even as he.

Do not belong to the past dawns,but to the noons of future

In the normal play of our mind there are all sorts of perversions; hence the need to stop all these things and inculcate right thinking, right willing - in other words, Truth must be established.

Is it true that existence consists only in the action of energy? Or is it not rather that energy is an output of Existence?

Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction.

There is no greater pride and glory than to be a perfect instrument of the Master.

The heart's words fall back unheard from Wisdom's throne.

War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat.

One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.

There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.

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.

The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (ādhāra). A part of it remains behind the veil and prepares itself.

All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being.

One must have first of all a solid foundation.

There is the physical mind which is mechanical but the awareness which is the essential character (dharma) of the mind is also to some extent present there.

Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.

With which part do you watch? Surely with the mind? That won't do. It is the silent Purusha within who must watch all.

It will not do to depend on the mind alone.

Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and eternal knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses.

Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.

Until you get a guidance from above you cannot be sure; but to get this guidance it requires time and sadhana.

A hidden Bliss is at the root of things. A mute Delight regards Time's countless works: To house God's joy in things Space gave wide room, To house God's joy in self our souls were born.

When thou findest thyself scorning another, look then at thy own heart and laugh at thy folly.

The higher Truth is all the time working in us but through the lower power - Aparashakti. It is when we become conscious of the play of this higher Power then only yoga begins.

While doing sadhana you must quieten your mind and keep awake the Purusha consciousness behind all your activities.

Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act.

In order to satisfy the vital being, it must be offered some activity, and at the same time the mind should be slowly made to take interest in yoga.

Your mind has some clearness and capacity for right thinking; it opens towards the heights, but for its own sake, - to receive light from above for its own activity.

Propaganda is necessary only for the sake of money!

The Purusha should assume at all times the attitude of a giver of sanction while rejecting the lower movements and accepting only truth-movements.

After having stopped the lower activities of the mind, it must be made receptive; and, instead of weaving all kinds of empty and idle thoughts, the mind should receive intuitions from above.

And, in order to possess the Truth, the plays of the lower nature must be stopped.

Death fosters life that life may suckle death.

In the middle of an ocean on board a ship, one can get a sense of vastness.

Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature.

Even in rags I am a god,fallen I am divine,high I triumph when down-trod,long I live when slain!

Thy goal, the road thou choosest are thy fate.

Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at the mercy of external causes.

To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all things, is the condition for being a flawless servant.

The Force which has to be called down from above must be pure and quiet because there are all kinds of forces - it will not do to call them all. And one must have sincerity.

There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect all the others.

Do not allow things to intrude from outside.

Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.

Fear not to be nothing that thou mayst be all.

Yes, it is difficult for man to cross beyond the idea of duty.