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
yoga practice faces
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
world stumbling
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
sight consciousness thinker
The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought: ...
firsts stable conditions
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
book lines vedas
All fanaticism is false, because it is a contradiction of the very nature of God and of Truth. Truth cannot be shut up in a single book, Bible or Veda or Koran, or in a single religion. The Divine Being is eternal and universal and infinite and cannot be the sole property of the Mussulmans or of the Semitic religions only, - those that happened to be in a line from the Bible and to have Jewish or Arabian prophets for their founders.
games play perfection
Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
meditation divine-power watches
[S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
philosophy ideas scripture
The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
spiritual self names
Hinduism ... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up no single narrow path or gate of salvation; it was less a creed or cult than a continuously enlarging tradition of the God ward endeavor of the human spirit. An immense many-sided and many staged provision for a spiritual self-building and self-finding, it had some right to speak of itself by the only name it knew, the eternal religion, Santana Dharma...
inspirational god religious
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
soul prejudice opinion
What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
archer arrows target
A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point , but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
human-nature human-life irrational
To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
spiritual looks moral
The deeper we look, the more we shall be convinced that the one thing wanting, which we must strive to acquire before all others, is strength strength physical, strength mental, strength moral, but above all strength spiritual which is the one inexhaustible and imperishable source of all the others. If we have strength everything else will be added to us easily and naturally.