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

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

When we have passed beyond individualising, then we shall be real Persons. Ego was the helper; Ego is the bar.
—Sri Aurobindo
Topics: Goals

Even when one has climbed up into those levels of bliss where pain vanishes, it still survives disguised as intolerable ecstasy.
—Sri Aurobindo
Topics: Faith

I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.
—Sri Aurobindo
Topics: Knowledge

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

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

When we have passed beyond enjoyings, then we shall have Bliss. Desire was the helper; Desire is the bar.
—Sri Aurobindo
Topics: Goals

If the will is fixed on the purpose it sets itself to accomplish, then circumstances will suggest the right course; but the schemer finds himself always tripped up by the unexpected.
—Sri Aurobindo

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

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

If thy aim be great and thy means small, still act; for by action alone these can increase to thee.
—Sri Aurobindo

My lover took away my robe of sin and I let it fall, rejoicing; then he plucked at my robe of virtue, but I was ashamed and alarmed and prevented him. It was not till he wrested it from me by force that I saw how my soul had been hidden from me.
—Sri Aurobindo
Topics: Faith

Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and eternal knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses.
—Sri Aurobindo
Topics: Knowledge

Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
—Sri Aurobindo

Transform effort into an easy and sovereign overflowing of the soul-strength; let all thyself be conscious force. This is thy goal.
—Sri Aurobindo
Topics: Goals

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

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

Transform the Animal into the Driver of the herds; let all thyself be Krishna. This is thy goal.
—Sri Aurobindo
Topics: Goals

The fundamental idea of all Indian religion is one common to the highest human thinking everywhere.
—Sri Aurobindo

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

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

When we have passed beyond willings, then we shall have Power. Effort was the helper; Effort is the bar.
—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

When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge. Reason was the helper; Reason is the bar.
—Sri Aurobindo
Topics: Goals

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

Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
—Sri Aurobindo
Topics: Goals

Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.
—Sri Aurobindo
Topics: Mankind, Man

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

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

Arise, transcend thyself. Thou art man and the whole nature of man is to become more than himself.
—Sri Aurobindo

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