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
mistake moving peaceful
What comes from outside, one mistakes it as coming from inside. So many thoughts etc. move about outside in the universal - these manifest inside you. All these you must push away as foreign to you and the inside must be made peaceful, calm and quiet; then it will start descending from above.
sea persons bubbles
The Person is a bubble on Time's sea.
mind use helpful
To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
evolution consciousness existence
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
light goal intuition
Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
views consciousness individual
We can arrive at a point of view where the preservation of the individual activities is no longer inconsistent with our comprehension of the cosmic consciousness or our attainment to the transcendent and supracosmic.
god humorous universe
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
intellectual vision would-be
A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.
men hands infinity
Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite's thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
reign calm quiet
The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting.
ocean rushing soul
If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
play self behinds
The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself - for this is your true self.
eye
There is nothing small in God's eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
spiritual issues humanity
The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge....