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.
SRI AUROBINDOThe 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.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one’s ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.
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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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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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Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
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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 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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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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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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Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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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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But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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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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