Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
SRI AUROBINDOThe Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
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The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
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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.
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To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
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Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
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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.
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.
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The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (ādhāra). A part of it remains behind the veil and prepares itself.
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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.
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