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.
SRI AUROBINDOArise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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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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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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When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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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 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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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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The fly that touches honey cannot use it’s wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation.
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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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To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
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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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He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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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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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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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
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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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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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Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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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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That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
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Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
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The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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