Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindowas an Indian nationalist, hindu philosopher, yogi, guru and poet. He joined the Indian movement for independence from British rule, for a while was one of its influential leaders and then became a spiritual reformer, introducing his visions on human progress and spiritual evolution...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 August 1872
CountryIndia
unbroken world solidarity
This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
sri-lanka mind saws
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.
atheist atheism hide-and-seek
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
teaching firsts taught
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
acceptance men veils
What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
people kind solidarity
There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect all the others.
might stand-alone force
The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
mind progress use
That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
running mind trying
As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of nature in its narrow terms - runs riot here (in psychoanalysis). Moreover, the exaggeration of the importance of suppressed sexual complexes is a dangerous falsehood.
long watches righteous
Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
dark men race
Many of us, utterly overcome by Tamas, the dark and heavy demon of inertia, are saying nowadays that it is impossible, that India is decayed, bloodless and lifeless, too weak ever to recover; that our race is doomed to extinction. It is a foolish and idle saying. No man or nation need be weak unless he chooses, no man or nation need perish unless he deliberately chooses extinction.
guides states vehicle
The Truth-power must be brought down from above into that state of peace, and this higher power - Parashakti - will directly guide the vehicle - ādhāra - and transform it.
death may
Death fosters life that life may suckle death.
educational ignorance race
To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very height of ignorance and futility.