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 AUROBINDOThe supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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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Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.
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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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She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
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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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Hidden nature is secret God.
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To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
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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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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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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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What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
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The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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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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