Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindowas an Indian nationalist, hindu philosopher, yogi, guru and poet. He joined the Indian movement for independence from British rule, for a while was one of its influential leaders and then became a spiritual reformer, introducing his visions on human progress and spiritual evolution...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 August 1872
CountryIndia
educational ignorance race
To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very height of ignorance and futility.
death may
Death fosters life that life may suckle death.
light soul path
But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
successful horde thyself
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
mean men self
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.
dark men race
Many of us, utterly overcome by Tamas, the dark and heavy demon of inertia, are saying nowadays that it is impossible, that India is decayed, bloodless and lifeless, too weak ever to recover; that our race is doomed to extinction. It is a foolish and idle saying. No man or nation need be weak unless he chooses, no man or nation need perish unless he deliberately chooses extinction.
acceptance men veils
What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
self mindfulness would-be
But what after all, behind appearance, is the seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself, returning to itself, emerging out of its giant self-forgetfulness, slowly, painfully, as a life that is would-be sentient, to be more than sentient, to be again divinely self-conscious, free, infinite, immortal.
long watches righteous
Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
strong thinking afterlife
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.
running mind trying
As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of nature in its narrow terms - runs riot here (in psychoanalysis). Moreover, the exaggeration of the importance of suppressed sexual complexes is a dangerous falsehood.
mind progress use
That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
might stand-alone force
The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
book civilization race
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.