Sri Aurobindo

Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.

— Sri Aurobindo

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.

— Sri Aurobindo

To make a revolution is not in the grain of our people's nature.

— Sri Aurobindo

One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.

— Sri Aurobindo

Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.

— Sri Aurobindo

Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal's gate.

— Sri Aurobindo

One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.

— Sri Aurobindo

In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

Forgiveness is praised by the Christian and the Vaishnava, but for me, I ask, "What have I to forgive and whom?"

— Sri Aurobindo

Your mind has some clearness and capacity for right thinking; it opens towards the heights, but for its own sake, - to…

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to…

— Sri Aurobindo

The Truth-power must be brought down from above into that state of peace, and this higher power - Parashakti - will directly…

— Sri Aurobindo

While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time…

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Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of…

— Sri Aurobindo

Religions, creeds and forms are only a characteristic outward sign of the spiritual impulsion and religion itself is the intensive action by…

— Sri Aurobindo

You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick…

— Sri Aurobindo

I say, of the Congress, then, this - that its aims are mistaken, that the spirit in which it proceeds towards their…

— Sri Aurobindo

“But now the Light supreme is far away: Our conscious life obeys the inconscience’ laws; To ignorant purposes and blind desires Our…

— Sri Aurobindo

Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter…

— Sri Aurobindo

Thus to act under the guidance coming from above, this is one side of the sadhana, the dynamic side. The other one…

— Sri Aurobindo

India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not…

— Sri Aurobindo

As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it…

— Sri Aurobindo

The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.

— Sri Aurobindo

Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.

— Sri Aurobindo

In the middle of an ocean on board a ship, one can get a sense of vastness.

— Sri Aurobindo

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.

— Sri Aurobindo

For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.

— Sri Aurobindo

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

— Sri Aurobindo

Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.

— Sri Aurobindo

But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.

— Sri Aurobindo

Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.

— Sri Aurobindo

The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.

— Sri Aurobindo

Yes, it is difficult for man to cross beyond the idea of duty.

— Sri Aurobindo

The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.

— Sri Aurobindo

When thou findest thyself scorning another, look then at thy own heart and laugh at thy folly.

— Sri Aurobindo

To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.

— Sri Aurobindo

New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths, Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts.

— Sri Aurobindo

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

— Sri Aurobindo