The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
SRI AUROBINDOWhen mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
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Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
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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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When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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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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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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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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The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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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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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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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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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 soul in man is greater than his fate.
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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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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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Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
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One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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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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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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