Consciousness Quotes by Sri Aurobindo

17 Consciousness quotes by Sri Aurobindo

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Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.

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While doing sadhana you must quieten your mind and keep awake the Purusha consciousness behind all your activities.

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We can arrive at a point of view where the preservation of the individual activities is no longer inconsistent with our comprehension…

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The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the…

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There is the physical mind which is mechanical but the awareness which is the essential character (dharma) of the mind is also…

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Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is…

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Yes, this Purusha consciousness must be maintained; otherwise the calm will not last. The knocks and blows that come from outside cannot…

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Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one's ordinary mental…

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Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is…

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What is required is faith. Man has body, life and mind but that is not all that constitutes man. He has risen…

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But what after all, behind appearances, is this seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself…

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The progressive growth of the finite consciousness of man towards this Self, towards the universal , the eternal, the infinite, in a…

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Those who have advanced rise to the mind which is in the head, - they have the play of their mental movements…

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But what after all, behind appearance, is the seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself,…

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The one aim of [my] yoga is an inner self-development by which each one who follows it can in time discover the…

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The consciousness of the supreme Purusha remains above, but in the mind there may be a Purusha consciousness which they call the…

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One can see light above the head; that indicates a consciousness outside the body. But that itself is not the Truth-Consciousness or…

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