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.
SRI AUROBINDOThe 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.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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India saw from the beginning, – and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, – that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
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When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.
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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.
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The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.
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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
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You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
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