Quotes

True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.

Sri Aurobindo
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
Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.

Sri Aurobindo
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
Do not belong to the past dawns, but to the noons of future

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

Sri Aurobindo
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.

Sri Aurobindo
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
By our stumbling the world is perfected.

Sri Aurobindo
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.

Sri Aurobindo
All problems of existence are essentially problems of Harmony.

Sri Aurobindo
Pain is the hammer of the Gods to break a dead resistance in the mortal's heart

Sri Aurobindo
Is it true that existence consists only in the action of energy? Or is it not rather that energy is an output of Existence?

Sri Aurobindo
Transcendence transfigures; it does not reconcile, but rather transmutes opposites into something surpassing them that effaces their oppositions.

Sri Aurobindo
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.

Sri Aurobindo
I spent quite sometime just watching enthralled, the gnarled hands of Mother Teresa in a portrait because those hands are associated with bringing comfort to the aged and abandoned in Kolkata’s streets. So they are beautiful.

Sri Aurobindo
Few are those from whom the Grace withdraws, but many are those who withdraw from the Grace.

Sri Aurobindo
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
Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full andfree done without subjection to sense and passion, desireless and unattached works, are the first secret of perfection.

Sri Aurobindo
The joy of service and the joy of inner growth through works is the sufficient recompense of the selfless worker.

Sri Aurobindo
The utmost mission of Mind is to train our obscure consciousness which has emerged out of the dark prison of Matter, to enlighten its blind instincts, random intuitions, vague perceptions till it shall become capable of this greater light and this higher ascension. Mind is a passage, not a culmination.

Sri Aurobindo
The only necessity in this sadhana is to open yourself to the Divine Force; if one is open the necessary understanding or knowledge will come of itself through spiritual experience.

Sri Aurobindo
When I had the dividing reason, I shrank from many things; after I had lost it in sight, I hunted through the world for the ugly and the repellant, but I could no longer find them.

Sri Aurobindo
Courage and love are the only indispensable virtues; even if all the others are eclipsed or fall asleep, these two will save the soul alive.

Sri Aurobindo
One can have a psychic feeling of love for someone, a universal love for all creatures, but one has to give oneself only to the Divine.

Sri Aurobindo
A thinking puppet is the mind of life: Its choice is the work of elemental strengths That know not their own birth and end and cause And glimpse not the immense intent they serve. In this nether life of man drab-hued and dull, Yet filled with poignant small ignoble things, The conscious Doll is pushed a hundred waysAnd feels the push but not the hands that drive. For none can see the masked ironic troupe To whom our figure-selves are marionettes, Our deeds unwitting movements in their grasp, Our passionate strife an entertainment’s scene.

Sri Aurobindo
For me the path of Yoga has always been a battle as well as a journey, a thing of ups and downs, of light followed by darkness followed by a greater light.

Sri Aurobindo
Be thyself immortal, and put not thy faith in death; for death is not of thyself, but of thy body. For the Spirit is immortality.

Sri Aurobindo
The first step on this long path is to consecrate all our works as a sacrifice to the Divine in us and in the world.

Sri Aurobindo
Anything else one may doubt but that he who desires only the Divine shall reach the Divine is a certitude and more certain than two and two make four.

Sri Aurobindo
Remain fixed in the sunlight of the true consciousness - for only there is happiness and peace. They do not depend upon outside happenings, but on this alone.

Sri Aurobindo
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.

Sri Aurobindo
Put stress always on the aspiration within; let that get depth and steadiness in the heart; the outer obstacles of mind and the vital will recede of themselves with the growth of the heart's love and aspiration.

Sri Aurobindo
For it is because he acts ignorantly, with a wrong intelligence and therefore a wrong will in these matters, that man is or seems to be bound by his works; otherwise works are no bondage to the free soul.

Sri Aurobindo
I become what I see in myself. All that thought suggests to me, I can do; all that thought reveals in me, I can become. This should be man’s unshakable faith in himself, because God dwells in him.

Sri Aurobindo
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Power is the strain, Knowledge is the performer, the infinite All is the composer and audience. We know only the preliminary discords which are as fierce as the harmony shall be great; but we shall arrive surely at the fugue of the divine Beatitudes.

Sri Aurobindo
The hymn was to the Rishi who composed it a means of spiritual progress for himself and for others.

Sri Aurobindo
A mutual debt binds man to the Supreme: His nature we must put on as he put ours; We are sons of God and must be even as he: His human portion, we must grow divine. Our life is a paradox with God for key.

Sri Aurobindo
The psychic being is a portion of the Divine; it has a natural attraction for the truth and the Divine but that attraction is desireless, free from demands and lower cravings. The psychic emotion is pure and stainless.

Sri Aurobindo
The value of our actions lies not so much in their apparent nature and outward result as in their help towards the growth of the divine within us.

Sri Aurobindo
Their aim was illumination, not logical conviction, their ideal the inspired seer, not the accurate reasoner.

Sri Aurobindo
We do not belong to the past dawns, but to the noons of the future.

Sri Aurobindo
There is no logical necessity for the conclusion that the change cannot begin at all because its perfection is not immediately possible.

Sri Aurobindo
By the heart's self-giving the Presence and the Influence will be there even in the inconscience and prepare the nature for the true light and consciousness through the whole range of the being.

Sri Aurobindo
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.

Sri Aurobindo
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
There can be no immortality of the body without supramentalisation; the potentiality is there in the yogic force and yogis can live for 200 or 300 years or more, but there can be no real principle of it without the supramental.

Sri Aurobindo
The method is to quiet the mind and, in order to do so, to concentrate on an aspiration for faith in the Divine Power, peace and calm in the mind, single-minded sincerity in the heart, and a conscious opening to the Light and Truth and Power.

Sri Aurobindo
A new consciousness is coming based upon inner silence and quietude. You must wait quietly for that to develop. True knowledge, true perceptions of people and things will come in that new silent consciousness.

Sri Aurobindo
You have to put your inner will and the Mother's light on the vital so that it shall change, not leave it to do what it likes. The Mother's force or the psychic can act, but on condition that the assent of the being is there.

Sri Aurobindo
Keep yourself open to the Mother and in perfect union with her. Make yourself entirely plastic to her touch and let her mould you swiftly towards perfection.

Sri Aurobindo