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
mind trying needs
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.
teacher peace war
War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat.
men mind body
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.
past come-up surface
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.
world want satisfaction
What do you want to do sadhana for? The aim should not be the satisfaction of egoism: "I want to be a great yogi; I shall have so much power and with that power I shall establish myself in the world." All such thoughts must be thrown far away.
son
We are sons of God And must be even as he.
garden soul humanity
Only the soul that is naked and unashamed, can be pure and innocent , even as Adam was in the primal garden of humanity .
men self ideas
Spirituality is much wider than any particular religion, and in the larger ideas of it that are now coming on us even the greatest religion becomes no more than a broad sect or branch of the one universal religion, by which we shall understand in the future man's seeking for the eternal, the divine, the greater self, the source of unity and his attempt to arrive at some equation, some increasing approximation of the values of human life with the eternal and the divine values.
doubt discouraging
To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
cups empty clean
The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
spiritual sri-lanka keys
Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.
hypocrisy enemy selfishness
Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
men devil kingdoms
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.
inspiration suffering god-is-love
My God is love and sweetly suffers all.