That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
SRI AUROBINDOThat which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
SRI AUROBINDOThat within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
SRI AUROBINDOLove is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
SRI AUROBINDOMan in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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 AUROBINDOThe great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
SRI AUROBINDOWhen mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
SRI AUROBINDOKnowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
SRI AUROBINDOThe spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
SRI AUROBINDOStand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
SRI AUROBINDOA quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.
SRI AUROBINDOThe practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
SRI AUROBINDOThe 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.
SRI AUROBINDOIf 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.
SRI AUROBINDOThe 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.
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 AUROBINDO