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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hate not the oppressor; for, if he is strong, thy hate increases his force of resistance; if he is weak, thy hate was needless.
—Sri Aurobindo

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

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

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

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: Man

There are times of great change, times when old landmarks are being upset, when submerged forces are rising, and just as we deal promptly or linger over the solution of these problems, our progress will be rapid or slow, sound or broken.
—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

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

Transform the divided individual into the world-personality; let all thyself be the divine. This is thy goal.
—Sri Aurobindo
Topics: Goals

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

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

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

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

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

The highest spirituality indeed moves in a free and wide air far above that lower stage of seeking which is governed by religious form and dogma; it does not easily bear their limitations and, even when it admits, it transcends them; it lives in an experience which to the formal religious mind is unintelligible.
—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

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

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

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

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

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

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 willings, then we shall have Power. Effort was the helper; Effort is the bar.
—Sri Aurobindo
Topics: Goals

When thou findest thyself scorning another, look then at thy own heart and laugh at thy folly.
—Sri Aurobindo

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

Open thy eyes and see what the world really is and what God; have done with vain and pleasant imaginations.
—Sri Aurobindo
Topics: Knowledge

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

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

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

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 humanity, then we shall be the Man. The Animal was the helper; the Animal is the bar.
—Sri Aurobindo
Topics: Goals

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

When I was mounting upon ever higher crests of His joy, I asked myself whether there was no limit to the increase of bliss and almost I grew afraid of God’s embraces.
—Sri Aurobindo
Topics: Faith

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

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