What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
SRI AUROBINDOOutside 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.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
-
-
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.
SRI AUROBINDO -
Hidden nature is secret God.
SRI AUROBINDO -
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.
SRI AUROBINDO -
The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
SRI AUROBINDO -
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
SRI AUROBINDO -
To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
SRI AUROBINDO -
The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
SRI AUROBINDO -
The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
SRI AUROBINDO -
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.
SRI AUROBINDO -
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.
SRI AUROBINDO -
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
SRI AUROBINDO -
No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
SRI AUROBINDO -
Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
SRI AUROBINDO -
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
SRI AUROBINDO -
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
SRI AUROBINDO