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
mind trying needs
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.
expression elements shapes
Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
pain play cities
Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
mind watches silent
With which part do you watch? Surely with the mind? That won't do. It is the silent Purusha within who must watch all.
love soulmate two
The supreme state of human love is...the unity of one soul in two bodies.
secret delight might
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God. What then was the commencement of the whole matter? Existence that multiplied itself for sheer delight of being and plunged into numberless trillions of forms so that it might find itself innumerably.
discipline force submit
Can everybody contact the higher forces? No, not indeed; but they submit themselves to a discipline and this brings them success.
spiritual yoga names
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.
freedom spirit ends
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
yoga perfect soul
Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God offers him to take or refuse. The task is to find it, develop it & use it. The chief aim of education should be to help the growing soul to draw out that in itself which is best and make it perfect for a noble use.
expression intuition way
The expression "from above" is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action - we call it intuition.
lonely deeds omnipotent
One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
running thinking self
The mind is running on all sides to think about many things, - what we call thoughts coming from outside. We must withdraw the mind from these distractions and make it abide in the self. Thus guarding the peace within we shall have to do the work without.
ignorance light sri-lanka
India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.