Outside 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 AUROBINDOMan in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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 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 Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.
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When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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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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The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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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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That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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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 subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
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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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Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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