Mind Quotes by Sri Aurobindo

Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

The psychic being and the mental being, Manomaya Purusha, are not the same. The psychic being is behind the mind, it is…

— Sri Aurobindo

“The Unknown is not the Unknowable; it need not remain the unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance or persist in our…

— Sri Aurobindo

There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still,…

— Sri Aurobindo

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

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

— Sri Aurobindo

The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by…

— 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 mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.

— Sri Aurobindo

Samskrit language, as has been universally recognized by those competent to form a judgment, is one of the most magnificent, the most…

— Sri Aurobindo

The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic…

— 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

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

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to…

— Sri Aurobindo

After having stopped the lower activities of the mind, it must be made receptive; and, instead of weaving all kinds of empty…

— Sri 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

In order to satisfy the vital being, it must be offered some activity, and at the same time the mind should be…

— Sri Aurobindo

I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made…

— 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

It will not do to depend on the mind alone.

— Sri Aurobindo

A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be…

— Sri Aurobindo

The human mind moves always forward, alters its viewpoint and enlarges its thought substance, and the effect of these changes is to…

— Sri Aurobindo