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.
SRI AUROBINDOMan in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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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In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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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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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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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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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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If 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.
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That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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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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But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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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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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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The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
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The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (ādhāra). A part of it remains behind the veil and prepares itself.
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