Spiritual Quotes by Sri Aurobindo

Hinduism... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma,…

— 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

Hinduism ... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible…

— 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

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

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

— 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

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 fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and…

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God…

— 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

Spirituality is the master key of the Indian mind. It is this dominant inclination of India which gives character to all the…

— Sri Aurobindo

The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its…

— Sri Aurobindo