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.
SRI AUROBINDOBut difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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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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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
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Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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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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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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True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
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We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
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The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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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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Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
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Faith is the soul’s witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.
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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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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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Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
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If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.
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But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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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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Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
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