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
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.
atheist shadow hide-and-seek
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-lanka secret
Hidden nature is secret God.
spiritual looks moral
The deeper we look, the more we shall be convinced that the one thing wanting, which we must strive to acquire before all others, is strength strength physical, strength mental, strength moral, but above all strength spiritual which is the one inexhaustible and imperishable source of all the others. If we have strength everything else will be added to us easily and naturally.
average genius talent
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
mind consciousness awake
While doing sadhana you must quieten your mind and keep awake the Purusha consciousness behind all your activities.
grief heart stupidity
I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me.
energy action output
Is it true that existence consists only in the action of energy? Or is it not rather that energy is an output of Existence?
spiritual issues humanity
The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge....
silence mind capacity
While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
ocean boards vastness
In the middle of an ocean on board a ship, one can get a sense of vastness.
suicide atmosphere example
Terrorism thrives on administrative violence and injustice; that is the only atmosphere in which it can thrive and grow. It sometimes follows the example of indiscriminate violence from above; it sometimes, though very rarely, sets it from below. But the power above which follows the example from below is on the way to committing suicide.
ocean rushing soul
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.
hinduism embrace hindu-religion
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.