Top 100 Aurobindo Quotes
#1. There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.
B.W. Powe
#2. The Divine is what you adore in Sri Aurobindo.
The Mother
#3. As Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin knew, the future of humankind is God-consciousness.
Ken Wilber
#4. PUBLISHER'S NOTE To seize the knowledge of the UNKNOWABLE needs a language, which is at once symbolically creative, revealingly poetic, infinitely plastic, luminously rhythmic, automatic perception of right relations and their inevitable descent of truth of idea, word and action.
Maa Krishna Sri Aurobindo
#5. If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.
Sri Aurobindo
#6. 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.
Sri Aurobindo
#7. Yes, it is difficult for man to cross beyond the idea of duty.
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#10. Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal's gate.
Sri Aurobindo
#11. 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.
Sri Aurobindo
#12. War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat.
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#13. The heart's words fall back unheard from Wisdom's throne.
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#14. 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
#15. 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.
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#16. 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.
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#17. What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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#19. There is nothing small in God's eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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#20. A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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#21. Fear not to be nothing that thou mayst be all.
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#22. The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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#23. And, in order to possess the Truth, the plays of the lower nature must be stopped.
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#24. 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.
Sri Aurobindo
#25. 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
#26. Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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#27. Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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#28. 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.
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#29. The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge ...
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#30. The supreme state of human love is ... the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. 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.
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#36. Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.
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#37. If it be true that spirit is involved in Matter and apparent Nature is secret God, then the manifestation in the divine in himself and the realization of God within and without are the highest and most legitimate aim possible to man on earth.
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#38. There is no greater pride and glory than to be a perfect instrument of the Master.
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#39. I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me.
Sri Aurobindo
#40. The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
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#41. Life, the river of the Spirit, consenting to anguish and sorrow.
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#44. [S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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#45. 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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#46. The expression "from above" is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action - we call it intuition.
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#47. 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.
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#48. The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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#49. 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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#50. Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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#51. Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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#52. This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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#53. 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.
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#54. 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.
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#55. One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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#56. 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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#57. The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
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#58. 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.
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#61. The soul attracted leaned to the Abyss:
It longed for the adventure of Ignorance
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#62. Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
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#63. 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.
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#64. 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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#66. 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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#67. The business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own intellectual, moral, aesthetic and practical capacities and to grow freely as an organic being, not to be kneaded and pressured into form like an inert plastic material
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#68. 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.
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#69. But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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#70. 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.
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#71. Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.
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#72. Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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#73. rend the lid and tear the covering and shape the
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#74. Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature.
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#75. The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
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#76. Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.
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#78. Man in the world's life works out the dreams of God.
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#79. Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.
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#80. 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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#81. But though hast come and all will surely change.
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#82. 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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#83. 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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#84. Only the soul that is naked and unashamed, can be pure and innocent , even as Adam was in the primal garden of humanity .
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#85. 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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#86. 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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#87. Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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#88. 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.
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#89. Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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#90. Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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#91. The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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#92. Do not belong to the past dawns,but to the noons of future
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#93. 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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#94. Death fosters life that life may suckle death.
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#95. In the middle of an ocean on board a ship, one can get a sense of vastness.
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#96. If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.
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#97. 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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#99. 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.
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#100. The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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