Life Quotes by Sri Aurobindo

Death fosters life that life may suckle death.

— Sri Aurobindo

Life, the river of the Spirit, consenting to anguish and sorrow.

— Sri Aurobindo

Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.

— Sri Aurobindo

For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.

— Sri Aurobindo

To feed death with her works is here life's doom.

— Sri Aurobindo

Man in the world's life works out the dreams of God.

— Sri Aurobindo

Our lives are God's messengers beneath the stars.

— Sri Aurobindo

Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.

— Sri Aurobindo

The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy…

— Sri Aurobindo

The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these…

— Sri Aurobindo

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a…

— Sri Aurobindo

Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the…

— Sri Aurobindo

The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching…

— Sri Aurobindo

When I approached God at that time, I hardly had a living faith in Him. The agnostic was in me, the atheist…

— Sri Aurobindo

There is therefore no reason to put a limit to evolutionary possibility by taking our present organization or status of existence as…

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

The first and the most important thing is to know that life is one and immortal. Only the forms, countless in number,…

— 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

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

— Sri Aurobindo

Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God. What then was the commencement of the whole…

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

For the powers of our mind, life, and body are bound to their own limitations, and however high they may rise or…

— Sri Aurobindo

The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man's real…

— Sri Aurobindo

A total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature can alone lift humanity beyond itself. . . It…

— Sri Aurobindo

There are four great events in history, the siege of Troy, the life and crucifixion of Christ, the exile of Krishna in…

— Sri Aurobindo

An aimless life is always a troubled life. Every individual should have an aim. But do not forget that the quality of…

— Sri Aurobindo

Spirituality is much wider than any particular religion, and in the larger ideas of it that are now coming on us even…

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

The yoga we practice is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of…

— Sri Aurobindo

“The spiritual life (adhyatma-jivana), the religious life (dharma-jivana) and the ordinary human life of which morality is a part are three quite…

— Śrī Aurobindo

The supramental transformation, the supramental evolution must carry with it a lifting of mind, life and body out of themselves into a…

— Sri Aurobindo

The desire of your vital being is towards work. And the vital being won't find any interest in yoga so long as…

— Sri Aurobindo

All existence is a manifestation of God.

— Sri Aurobindo

To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.

— Sri Aurobindo

All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the…

— Sri Aurobindo

She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our…

— Sri Aurobindo

Life was a sorrowful throb of this Matter teaching it anguish, Teaching it hope and desire trod out too soon in the…

— Sri Aurobindo