Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
SRI AUROBINDOIndia 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.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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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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You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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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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That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
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Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
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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 supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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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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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 supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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