Sri Aurobindo Quotes - Page 2

The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.

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.

Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.

That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.

Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.

To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all things, is the condition for being a flawless servant.

Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite's thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.

To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.

Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.

The language of the Veda itself is sruti, a rhythm not composed by the intellect but heard, a divine Word that same vibrating out of the Infinite to the inner audience of the man who had previously made himself fit fot the impersonal knowledge.

The business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own intellectual, moral, aesthetic and practical capacities and to grow freely as an organic being, not to be kneaded and pressured into form like an inert plastic material

The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.

One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.

One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.

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.

The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man's real business in the world and the justification of his existence, without which he would only be an insect crawling among the ephemeral insects on a speck of surface mud and water which has managed to form itself amid the appalling immensities of the physical universe.

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.

All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.

For the powers of our mind, life, and body are bound to their own limitations, and however high they may rise or however widely expand, they cannot rise beyond them. But still, mental man can open to what is beyond him and call down a Supramental Light, Truth, and Power to work in him and do what the mind cannot do. If mind cannot by effort become what is beyond mind, Supermind can descend and transform mind into its own substance.

War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat.

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.

The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.

Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.

When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.