Yoga Quotes by Sri Aurobindo

11 Yoga quotes by Sri Aurobindo

If you’re after a brief window into Sri Aurobindo’s thoughts on Yoga, these eleven concise statements give a clear, focused snapshot. It’s an approachable entry point for readers who prefer a short, impactful selection.

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The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for…

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

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The higher Truth is all the time working in us but through the lower power - Aparashakti. It is when we become…

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The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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