Sri Aurobindo
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.Collection: Religion
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.Collection: Religion
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.Collection: Power
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.Collection: Religion
Hidden nature is secret God.Collection: Nature
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.
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.
Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.
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.
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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.
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.
Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.Collection: Hypocrisy
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.Collection: Teaching
When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.Collection: Silence
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the pictureCollection: Order
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 awayCollection: Mean
An aimless life is always a troubled life. Every individual should have an aim. But do not forget that the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life. Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others. Whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realized unless you have realized perfection in yourself.Collection: Should Have
Do not belong to the past dawns,but to the noons of futureCollection: Past
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.Collection: Beautiful
True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.Collection: Knowledge
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.Collection: World
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.Collection: Wisdom
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.Collection: Happenings
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.Collection: Inspiration
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.Collection: Evolution
To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.Collection: Mind
The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.Collection: Philosophy
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.Collection: Freedom
Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.Collection: Mean
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.Collection: Peace
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.Collection: Silence
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.Collection: His Love
What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.Collection: Knowledge
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.Collection: Journey
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.Collection: Strength
You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.Collection: Light
Is it true that existence consists only in the action of energy? Or is it not rather that energy is an output of Existence?Collection: Energy
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.Collection: Animal
What you call the psychic being is the mind of the vital. The heart is the seat of this mind. And this mind is the essence of the senses. It receives things from outside, acts upon things that are outside - knows, gives consent, takes interest in them. But this mind cannot be the Ishwara, but it is the knower, the giver of the consent.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Spiritual
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.Collection: Yoga
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.Collection: Character
The supramental transformation, the supramental evolution must carry with it a lifting of mind, life and body out of themselves into a greater way of being in which yet their own ways and powers would be, not suppressed or abolished, but perfected and fulfilled by the self-exceeding.Collection: Self
Thy goal, the road thou choosest are thy fate.Collection: Fate
With which part do you watch? Surely with the mind? That won't do. It is the silent Purusha within who must watch all.Collection: Mind
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.Collection: Mean
Can everybody contact the higher forces? No, not indeed; but they submit themselves to a discipline and this brings them success.Collection: Discipline
One may come armoured, Invinsible. His will immobile meets the mobile hour. The world blows cannot bend this Victor Head. Calm and sure are his steps in the growing night. The goal recedes, he hurries not his pace. He asks from no help from the inferior Gods. His eyes are fixed on the immutable aim.Collection: Eye