Religion Quotes by Sri Aurobindo

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,…

— 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

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

— Sri Aurobindo

The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.

— 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

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

— Sri Aurobindo

The deeper we look, the more we shall be convinced that the one thing wanting, which we must strive to acquire before…

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

If it be true that spirit is involved in Matter and apparent Nature is secret God, then the manifestation in the divine…

— 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

The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.

— Sri Aurobindo

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

— Sri Aurobindo

The seers of ancient India had, in their experiments and efforts at spiritual training and the conquest of the body, perfected a…

— 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

To play with baubles is our ambition, not to deal with grave questions in a spirit of serious energy. But while we…

— Sri Aurobindo

The Hindu religion appears ... as a cathedral temple, half in ruins, noble in the mass, often fantastic in detail but always…

— Sri Aurobindo

Each religion has helped mankind. Paganism increased in man the light of beauty, the largeness and height of his life, his aim…

— 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

The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and…

— 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

All fanaticism is false, because it is a contradiction of the very nature of God and of Truth. Truth cannot be shut…

— Sri Aurobindo

If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only…

— Sri Aurobindo

All religions have some truth in them, but none has the whole truth; all are created in time and finally decline and…

— Sri Aurobindo

The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.

— 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