Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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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Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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Hidden nature is secret God.
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Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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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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That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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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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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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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.
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Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you … political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
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Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.
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The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
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To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
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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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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
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The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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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 consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.
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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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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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The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
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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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Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.
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