Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
SRI AUROBINDOEvolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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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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.
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The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.
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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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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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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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The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (ādhāra). A part of it remains behind the veil and prepares itself.
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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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Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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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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A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.
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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.
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