New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths, Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts. Sri Aurobindo More Quotes by Sri Aurobindo More Quotes From Sri Aurobindo They proved to me by convincing reasons that God does not exist; Afterwards I saw God, for he came and embraced me. And now what am I to believe- the reasoning of others or my own experience? Truth is what the soul has seen and experienced; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion. Sri Aurobindo soul god believe Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one's ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness. Sri Aurobindo yoga spiritual names Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection. Sri Aurobindo perfection games play All fanaticism is false, because it is a contradiction of the very nature of God and of Truth. Truth cannot be shut up in a single book, Bible or Veda or Koran, or in a single religion. The Divine Being is eternal and universal and infinite and cannot be the sole property of the Mussulmans or of the Semitic religions only, - those that happened to be in a line from the Bible and to have Jewish or Arabian prophets for their founders. Sri Aurobindo vedas lines book Safety lies in tending towards our highest and not in resting content with an inferior potentiality..... To rest in or follow after an inferior potentiality may seem safe, rational, comfortable, easy, but it ends badly, in some futility or in a mere circling down the abyss or in a stagnant morass. Our right and natural road is towards the summits. Sri Aurobindo safety may lying Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal. Sri Aurobindo intuition light goal The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man's real business in the world and the justification of his existence, without which he would only be an insect crawling among the ephemeral insects on a speck of surface mud and water which has managed to form itself amid the appalling immensities of the physical universe. Sri Aurobindo sacrifice real life The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber. Sri Aurobindo unjust charity awakening The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these. Sri Aurobindo four levels mind Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests. Sri Aurobindo guests nurse enemy The progressive growth of the finite consciousness of man towards this Self, towards the universal , the eternal, the infinite, in a word his growth into spiritual consciousness by the development of his ordinary ignorant natural being into an illumined divine nature, this is for Indian thinking the significance of life and the aim of human existance. Sri Aurobindo spiritual men thinking The human mind moves always forward, alters its viewpoint and enlarges its thought substance, and the effect of these changes is to render past systems of thinking obsolete or, when they are preserved, to extend, to modify and subtly or visibly to alter their value. Sri Aurobindo past moving thinking Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature. Sri Aurobindo elements shapes expression What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden. Sri Aurobindo garden games children What is required is faith. Man has body, life and mind but that is not all that constitutes man. He has risen to the mind as a result of evolution. Now a higher consciousness will be evolved - this I call Supermind. It is the instrument of the Divine Consciousness, the Truth-Consciousness. Sri Aurobindo body mind men A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther. Sri Aurobindo archer arrows target There is therefore no reason to put a limit to evolutionary possibility by taking our present organization or status of existence as final. The animal is a laboratory in which Nature has worked out man; man may very well be a laboratory in which she wills to work out superman, to disclose the soul as a divine being, to evolve a divine nature. Sri Aurobindo organization animal men We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery. Sri Aurobindo machinery slave would-be Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper. Sri Aurobindo failing care time The business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own intellectual, moral, aesthetic and practical capacities and to grow freely as an organic being, not to be kneaded and pressured into form like an inert plastic material Sri Aurobindo parent teacher children
