Sri Aurobindo Quotes

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• Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea…
• The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
• India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a…
• Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.
• To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
• India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself…
• Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty…
• India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight,…
• She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only…
• To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very…
• Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
• The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of…
• The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the…
• The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.
• The yoga we practice is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of the Divine in…
• A total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature can alone lift humanity beyond itself. . . It is only the…
• The first and the most important thing is to know that life is one and immortal. Only the forms, countless in number, are transient and…
• For the powers of our mind, life, and body are bound to their own limitations, and however high they may rise or however widely expand,…
• Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
• The supreme state of human love is...the unity of one soul in two bodies.

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