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.
SRI AUROBINDOWhen we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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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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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One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.
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Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite’s thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
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Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
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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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What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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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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Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.
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My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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