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
passion self errors
Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and free done without subjection to sense and passion, desireless and unattached works, are the first secret of perfection.
fear-not
Fear not to be nothing that thou mayst be all.
forgiving
What have I to forgive and whom?
journey veils stage
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
nurse enemy guests
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
successful horde thyself
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
fate goal
Thy goal, the road thou choosest are thy fate.
knowing
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
long rags triumph
Even in rags I am a god,fallen I am divine,high I triumph when down-trod,long I live when slain!
spiritual yoga self
The one aim of [my] yoga is an inner self-development by which each one who follows it can in time discover the One Self in all and evolve a higher consciousness than the mental, a spiritual and supramental consciousness which will transform and divinize human nature.
guidance
Until you get a guidance from above you cannot be sure; but to get this guidance it requires time and sadhana.
freedom soul firsts
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.
two grace answers
There are two powers that alone can effect in their conjunction the great and dificult thing which is the aim of our endeavour, a fixed and unfailing aspiration that calls from below and a supreme Grace from above that answers.
kind quiet sincerity
The Force which has to be called down from above must be pure and quiet because there are all kinds of forces - it will not do to call them all. And one must have sincerity.