Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.
SRI AUROBINDOThe Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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.
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Hidden nature is secret God.
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Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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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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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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The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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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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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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For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
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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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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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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 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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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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