"To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion,……" — Sri Aurobindo
"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 height of ignorance and futility."
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105 Quotes by Sri Aurobindo
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Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat…
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The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
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Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still…
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Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in…
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never…
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She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he…
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Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
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The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right…
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The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at…
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