Sri Aurobindo famous quotes

A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Mean #Mind #Movement

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Dog #Philosophical #Cat

The yoga we practice is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of the Divine in the world, to effect a spiritual transformation and to bring down a divine nature and a divine life into the mental, vital and physical nature and life of humanity. Its object is not personal Mukti, although Mukti is a necessary condition of the yoga, but the liberation and transformation of the human being. It is not personal Ananda, but the bringing down of the divine Ananda - Christ's kingdom of heaven, our Satyayuga - upon the earth.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Spiritual #Yoga #Practice

They proved to me by convincing reasons that God does not exist; Afterwards I saw God, for he came and embraced me. And now what am I to believe- the reasoning of others or my own experience? Truth is what the soul has seen and experienced; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#God #Believe #Soul

Man is a transitional being. He is not final. The step from man to superman is the next approaching achievement in the earth evolution. It is inevitable because it is at once the intention of the inner spirit and the logic of nature's process.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Men #Finals #Earth

Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Beautiful #Perseverance #Honesty

Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Time #Care #Failing

The supreme state of human love is...the unity of one soul in two bodies.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Love #Soulmate #Two

When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Silence #Mind #Chance

Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God offers him to take or refuse. The task is to find it, develop it & use it. The chief aim of education should be to help the growing soul to draw out that in itself which is best and make it perfect for a noble use.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Yoga #Perfect #Soul

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Ignorance #Light #Sri Lanka

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. And that which must seek now to awake is not an anglicised oriental people, docile pupil of the West and doomed to repeat the cycle of the occident's success and failure, but still the ancient immemorable Shakti recovering her deepest self, lifting her head higher towards the supreme source of light and strength and turning to discover the complete meaning and a vaster form of her Dharma.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Light #Self #People

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Inspirational #Sri Lanka #People

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.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Essence #Joy #Touching

The human mind moves always forward, alters its viewpoint and enlarges its thought substance, and the effect of these changes is to render past systems of thinking obsolete or, when they are preserved, to extend, to modify and subtly or visibly to alter their value.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Moving #Past #Thinking

The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Yoga #Practice #Faces

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.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Sri Lanka #Creative #Age

The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Spiritual #Race #Sri Lanka

By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#World #Stumbling

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.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Book #Civilization #Race

Spirituality is the master key of the Indian mind. It is this dominant inclination of India which gives character to all the expressions of her culture. In fact, they have grown out of her inborn spiritual tendency of which her religion is a natural out flowering. The Indian mind has always realized that the Supreme is the Infinite and perceived that to the soul in Nature the Infinite must always present itself in an infinite variety of aspects.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Spiritual #Character #Expression

Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Firsts

Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Thinking #Silence #Meditation

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.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Unique #World #Birth

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.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Strong #Thinking #Afterlife

Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Keys #Sri Lanka #Mind

There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Silence #Mind #Done

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Philosophy #Ideas #Scripture

The soul in man is greater than his fate...
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Fate #Men #Soul

As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of nature in its narrow terms - runs riot here (in psychoanalysis). Moreover, the exaggeration of the importance of suppressed sexual complexes is a dangerous falsehood.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Running #Mind #Trying

That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Mind #Progress #Use

He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Infinite #Chosen

But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Overcoming #Spirituality #Made

One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Lonely #Deeds

Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Inspiration #Love Is #Joy

Hidden nature is secret God.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Sri Lanka #Secret

She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Sri Lanka #Mind #Saws

The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought: ...
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Sight #Consciousness #Thinker

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.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Spiritual #Wings #Soul

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Soul #Prejudice #Opinion

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Hypocrisy #Enemy #Selfishness

Hinduism ... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up no single narrow path or gate of salvation; it was less a creed or cult than a continuously enlarging tradition of the God ward endeavor of the human spirit. An immense many-sided and many staged provision for a spiritual self-building and self-finding, it had some right to speak of itself by the only name it knew, the eternal religion, Santana Dharma...
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Spiritual #Self #Names

The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Might #Stand Alone #Force

Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
-- Sri Aurobindo

#Art #Men #Awareness

Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
-- Sri Aurobindo