The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
SRI AUROBINDOThe supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
SRI AUROBINDOLove is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
SRI AUROBINDOThe soul in man is greater than his fate.
SRI AUROBINDOThe mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
SRI AUROBINDOArise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
SRI AUROBINDONot 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.
SRI AUROBINDODetachment is the beginning of mastery.
SRI AUROBINDOOutside 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 principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
SRI AUROBINDOOur actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
SRI AUROBINDOWitness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
SRI AUROBINDOMan in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
SRI AUROBINDOThe highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.
SRI AUROBINDOIndia 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.
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.
SRI AUROBINDOHe who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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