The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
SRI AUROBINDOThe Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
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A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.
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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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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.
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Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
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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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There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.
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The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
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The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
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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 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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He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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