The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.
SRI AUROBINDOIf 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.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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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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Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
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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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The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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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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Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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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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If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
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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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We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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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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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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Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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All existence is a manifestation of God.
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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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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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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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