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
stars messengers our-lives
Our lives are God's messengers beneath the stars.
average genius talent
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
unique world privilege
Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.
hinduism embrace hindu-religion
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
attachment desire conventions
All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
inspiration love-is joy
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
faith soul absence
Faith is the soul's witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.
sri-lanka secret
Hidden nature is secret God.
life real sacrifice
The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man's real business in the world and the justification of his existence, without which he would only be an insect crawling among the ephemeral insects on a spec of surface mud and water which has managed to form itself amid the appalling immensities of the physical universe.
suicide atmosphere example
Terrorism thrives on administrative violence and injustice; that is the only atmosphere in which it can thrive and grow. It sometimes follows the example of indiscriminate violence from above; it sometimes, though very rarely, sets it from below. But the power above which follows the example from below is on the way to committing suicide.
teacher children parent
The business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own intellectual, moral, aesthetic and practical capacities and to grow freely as an organic being, not to be kneaded and pressured into form like an inert plastic material
teacher children parent
The business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own intellectual, moral, aesthetic and practical capacities and to grow freely as an organic being, not to be kneaded and pressured into form like an inert plastic material
mind depends
It will not do to depend on the mind alone.