India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
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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To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
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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.
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Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
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The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
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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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The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
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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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Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
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A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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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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The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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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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Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one’s ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.
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We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.
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Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
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No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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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.
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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
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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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The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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