black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Sri Aurobindo

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
SRI AUROBINDO

God Imagination Laughter Listening People
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
SRI AUROBINDO

Condition Peace Stability
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Identity Play True Universe
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Cleaning Experience Past People Rejection Willing
Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
SRI AUROBINDO

Divine Power Stand Work Yourself
No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
SRI AUROBINDO

Calm Dangerous Myself Spirit
An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.
SRI AUROBINDO

Active Force Mindset Oneself Stop Try
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Afford Institution Machine Ourselves Raise Simplicity Slave
Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
SRI AUROBINDO

Cry Emotion Enemy Force Hypocrisy Sentiment Weakness
The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
SRI AUROBINDO

Heart Man Mindset Ordinary
Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
SRI AUROBINDO

Change Death Forever Gate
Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
SRI AUROBINDO

Effort Game God Perfection Resistance Sin Virtue
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 AUROBINDO

Consciousness Discipline Greatness Limitation Name Ordinary
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Awakening Conscious Existence Poverty Society
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Essence Experience Mindset Remember Right Soul Touch
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
SRI AUROBINDO

God Love Object Religious
Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
SRI AUROBINDO

Goal Intuition Light Order Transformation
You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
SRI AUROBINDO

Complete Responsibility Yourself
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Energy Force Nature Ocean Survive Water Young
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
SRI AUROBINDO

Face Knowledge Wisdom
What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
SRI AUROBINDO

Appearance Experience Opinion Prejudice Soul
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
SRI AUROBINDO

God Humor Smile Universe
When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
SRI AUROBINDO

Chance Mindset Purity Silence
Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you … political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
SRI AUROBINDO

Human Politics Recover Source Strength World
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 AUROBINDO

Consciousness Mindset Play Truth
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 AUROBINDO

Ego God Greatness Stand Vision Way
Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
SRI AUROBINDO

Art Himself Nature Transcendence

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Sri Aurobindo Quotes