Top 100 Sri Aurobindo Quotes
#1. If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.
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#2. Yes, it is difficult for man to cross beyond the idea of duty.
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#5. There should of course be left a field of work for the sake of experiment but at all times one must remember that there will always remain open a possibility of err.
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#6. War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat.
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#7. 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.
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#8. And, in order to possess the Truth, the plays of the lower nature must be stopped.
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#9. The language of the Veda itself is sruti, a rhythm not composed by the intellect but heard, a divine Word that same vibrating out of the Infinite to the inner audience of the man who had previously made himself fit fot the impersonal knowledge.
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#10. 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.
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#11. Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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#12. Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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#13. 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.
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#14. receptiveness which promises a revolution both in philosophical and in religious thinking; here they are filtering in through many indirect influences, there slowly pouring through direct and open channels. There is hardly a
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#15. Life was a sorrowful throb of this Matter teaching it anguish, Teaching it hope and desire trod out too soon in the mire, Life the frail joy that regrets its briefness, life the long sorrow.
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#17. Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.
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#19. [S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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#20. One can see light above the head; that indicates a consciousness outside the body. But that itself is not the Truth-Consciousness or Vijnana. But much light descending from there illumines this consciousness.
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#21. The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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#22. The first and the most important thing is to know that life is one and immortal. Only the forms, countless in number, are transient and brittle. The life everlasting is independent of any form but manifests itself in all forms. Life then does not die ... but the forms are dissolved.
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#23. Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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#24. One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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#25. 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.
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#28. The soul attracted leaned to the Abyss:
It longed for the adventure of Ignorance
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#29. 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.
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#31. The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
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#32. But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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#33. Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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#35. Man in the world's life works out the dreams of God.
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#36. India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.
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#37. But though hast come and all will surely change.
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#38. What is required is faith. Man has body, life and mind but that is not all that constitutes man. He has risen to the mind as a result of evolution. Now a higher consciousness will be evolved - this I call Supermind. It is the instrument of the Divine Consciousness, the Truth-Consciousness.
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#39. The desire of your vital being is towards work. And the vital being won't find any interest in yoga so long as you do not have any experience of the higher and fuller life that is in yoga. As long as this experience is not there, the vital being will not find any interest.
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#40. Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one's ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.
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#41. 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.
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#42. Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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#43. The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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#44. Do not belong to the past dawns,but to the noons of future
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#45. 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.
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#46. Death fosters life that life may suckle death.
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#47. 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.
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#49. The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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#50. 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.
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#51. You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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#52. To make a revolution is not in the grain of our people's nature.
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#53. 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
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#54. That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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#55. She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.
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#56. 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: ...
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#57. All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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#58. Yes, this Purusha consciousness must be maintained; otherwise the calm will not last. The knocks and blows that come from outside cannot disturb one, if this Purusha consciousness remains at the back.
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#59. Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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#60. The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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#61. All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.
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#62. Can everybody contact the higher forces? No, not indeed; but they submit themselves to a discipline and this brings them success.
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#63. What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because this temporal universe was a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal created it out of His being.
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#64. Turkey, Japan do great work because they can keep under control their little personal selfishness, egoism, jealousy, etc. when they get down to work.
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#65. While doing sadhana you must quieten your mind and keep awake the Purusha consciousness behind all your activities.
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#66. What comes from outside, one mistakes it as coming from inside. So many thoughts etc. move about outside in the universal - these manifest inside you. All these you must push away as foreign to you and the inside must be made peaceful, calm and quiet; then it will start descending from above.
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#67. Is it true that existence consists only in the action of energy? Or is it not rather that energy is an output of Existence?
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#69. A fugitive paradise smiles at him from her eyes: He dreams of her beauty made for ever his, He dreams of his mastery her limbs shall bear, He dreams of the magic of her breasts of bliss.
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#70. 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.
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#71. In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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#72. The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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#73. The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
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#74. What sort of politics you people do? Such is the way of all parliaments: one can sense even beforehand the trend of voting, in which direction it will turn.
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#75. All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being.
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#76. The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
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#77. To feed death with her works is here life's doom.
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#78. We can arrive at a point of view where the preservation of the individual activities is no longer inconsistent with our comprehension of the cosmic consciousness or our attainment to the transcendent and supracosmic.
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#80. Even in rags I am a god,fallen I am divine,high I triumph when down-trod,long I live when slain!
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#81. Samskrit language, as has been universally recognized by those competent to form a judgment, is one of the most magnificent, the most perfect, the most prominent and wonderfully sufficient literary instrument developed by the human mind.
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#82. To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
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#83. What do you want to do sadhana for? The aim should not be the satisfaction of egoism: "I want to be a great yogi; I shall have so much power and with that power I shall establish myself in the world." All such thoughts must be thrown far away.
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#85. Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
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#86. With which part do you watch? Surely with the mind? That won't do. It is the silent Purusha within who must watch all.
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#87. The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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#88. 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.
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#89. The one aim of [my] yoga is an inner self-development by which each one who follows it can in time discover the One Self in all and evolve a higher consciousness than the mental, a spiritual and supramental consciousness which will transform and divinize human nature.
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#90. 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.
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#91. God does work through both pure and impure vessels but that does not mean that one should keep nature impure for ever. When the vessel will become pure the urge for action coming from within will be a flawless, definitive action. As long as that does not happen one has to minimize one's activities.
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#92. There are two powers that alone can effect in their conjunction the great and dificult thing which is the aim of our endeavour, a fixed and unfailing aspiration that calls from below and a supreme Grace from above that answers.
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#93. Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
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#95. Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and
free done without subjection to sense and passion, desireless and unattached works, are the first secret of perfection.
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#96. 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.
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#97. Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.
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#98. Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
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#99. But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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#100. Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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