The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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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Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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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 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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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
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Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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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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Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
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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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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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But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
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