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Inspirational Quotes by Sri Aurobindo (Indian Mystic, Philosopher, Poet)

Aurobindo Ghose (1872–1950) was a widely revered Indian nationalist leader and Hindu mystic-philosopher.

Born in Calcutta and educated in England, Ghose was indicted for seditious journalism against British rule in Bengal. During his time in prison, he underwent a spiritual transformation while practicing yoga. Upon his release, he developed a system of yoga called Purna Yoga (“Integral Yoga”) by assimilating a variety of practices and ideas, including different yoga traditions, Tantric wisdom, and scientific disciplines, particularly the theory of evolution.

In 1910, when threatened with further arrest, Ghose retreated to the French commune of Pondicherry in South India, where he established an āśram and spent the next forty years writing and meditating. He met there Mirra Alfassa, known as “The Mother,” who became his devoted support and companion. Alfassa established the Sri Aurobindo Āśram and the Auroville City to embody his teaching.

Sri Aurobindo wrote prolifically. His notable literary and religious works include his commentary on the Bhagavad Gītā, The Life Divine (1939,) commentaries on the Hindu scriptures, and The Synthesis of Yoga (1948.)

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Inspirational Quotes by Sri Aurobindo (Indian Mystic, Philosopher, Poet)

There are twallied powers in man; knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge is so much of the truth seen in a distorted medium as the mind arrives at by groping, wisdom what the eye of divine vision sees in the spirit.
Sri Aurobindo
Topics: Knowledge

Very usually, altruism is only the sublimest form of selfishness.
Sri Aurobindo

We are all gods and creators; not only the making of new forms of creation, but preservation is creation, destruction itself is creation. It rests with us what we shall create; for we are not unless we choose, puppets dominated by Fate and Maya; we are the facets and manifestations of Almighty Power.
Sri Aurobindo

There are no true and false religions, but rather all religions are true in their own way and degree. Each is one of the thousand paths to the One Eternal.
Sri Aurobindo

In God’s providence there is no evil, but only good or its preparation.
Sri Aurobindo
Topics: Knowledge

The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities.
Sri Aurobindo

Forgiveness is praised by the Christian and the Vaishnava, but for me, I ask, “What have I to forgive and whom?”
Sri Aurobindo
Topics: Knowledge

What then was the commencement of the whole matter? Existence that multiplied itself for sheer delight of being and plunged into numberless trillions of forms so that it might find itself innumerably.
Sri Aurobindo

Hard is it to be in the world, free, yet living the life of ordinary men; but because it is hard, therefore it must be attempted and accomplished.
Sri Aurobindo

Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
Sri Aurobindo
Topics: Knowledge

Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
Sri Aurobindo

Mankind has used two powerful weapons to destroy its own powers and enjoyment, wrong indulgence and wrong abstinence.
Sri Aurobindo

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 all experience.
Sri Aurobindo
Topics: Soul, Mind, Light, Right, Experience, Joy

Hinduism gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up no single narrow path or gate of salvation; it was less a creed or cult than a continuously enlarging tradition of the Godward endeavor of the human spirit.
Sri Aurobindo

Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
Sri Aurobindo
Topics: Duty

We have to create strength where it did not exist before; we have to change our natures, and become new men with new hearts, to be born again.
Sri Aurobindo

If thou think defeat is the end of thee, then go not forth to fight, even though thou be the stronger. For Fate is not purchased by any man nor is Power bound over to her possessors. But defeat is not the end, it is only a gate or a beginning.
Sri Aurobindo

The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine in to the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
Sri Aurobindo

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine God never laughs.
Sri Aurobindo
Topics: Advice

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
Sri Aurobindo
Topics: Knowledge

True spirituality rejects new light, no added means or materials of our human self-development.
Sri Aurobindo

If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.
Sri Aurobindo
Topics: Faith

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
Sri Aurobindo
Topics: Goals

Hatred is the sign of a secret attraction that is eager to flee from itself and furious to deny its own existence. That too is God’s play in His creature.
Sri Aurobindo
Topics: Knowledge

Transform enjoying into an even and objectless ecstasy; let all thyself be bliss. This is thy goal.
Sri Aurobindo
Topics: Goals

Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
Sri Aurobindo
Topics: Goals

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior tourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
Sri Aurobindo

Man may be, as he has been defined, a reasoning animal, but it is necessary to add that he is, for the most part, a very badly reasoning animal. He does not ordinarily think for the sake of finding out the truth, but much more for the satisfaction of his mental preferences and emotional tendencies.
Sri Aurobindo

Others boast of their love for God. My boast is that I did not love God; it was He who loved me and sought me out and forced me to belong to Him.
Sri Aurobindo
Topics: Faith

Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
Sri Aurobindo

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