Sri Aurobindo Quotes

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

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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.

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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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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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Each religion has helped mankind. Paganism increased in man the light of beauty, the largeness and height of his life, his aim at a many-sided perfection; Christianity gave him some vision of divine love and charity; Buddhism has shown him a noble way to be wiser, gentler, purer, Judaism and Islam how to be religiously faithful in action and zealously devoted to God; Hinduism has opened to him the largest and profoundest spiritual possibilities.

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

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

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

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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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The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.

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Threefold are those supreme births of this divine force that is in the world, they are true, they are desirable; he moves there wide-overt within the Infinite and shines pure, luminous and fulfilling.... Of that which is in mortal in mortals, and possessed of the truth, is a God and established inwardly as an energy working out in our divine powers.... Become high uplifted, O Strength, pierce all veils, manifest in as the things of the Godhead.

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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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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.

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

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

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Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.

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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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