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.
SRI AUROBINDOWhile 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.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Hidden nature is secret God.
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One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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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 mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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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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The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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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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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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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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Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you … political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
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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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Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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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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The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
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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.
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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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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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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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