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.
SRI AUROBINDOIf 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.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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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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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We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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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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She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
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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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A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.
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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 inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
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The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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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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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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