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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
divine manifestation oneself
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
success passion pride
Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.
knowledge faces
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.
ambition men primitive-man
To play with baubles is our ambition, not to deal with grave questions in a spirit of serious energy. But while we are playing with baubles, with our Legislative Councils, our Simultaneous Examinations, our ingenious schemes for separating the judicial from the executive functions, while we, I say, are finessing about trifles, the waters of the great deep are being stirred and that surging chaos of the primitive man over which our civilised societies are superimposed on a thin crust of convention, is being strangely and ominously agitated.