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.
SRI AUROBINDOThe mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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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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The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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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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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
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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 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.
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