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.
SRI AUROBINDOThe consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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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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.
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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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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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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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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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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The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
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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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Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed.
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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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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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