Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin. Sri Aurobindo More Quotes by Sri Aurobindo More Quotes From Sri Aurobindo Even in rags I am a god,fallen I am divine,high I triumph when down-trod,long I live when slain! Sri Aurobindo rags triumph long 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 inspiration teaching teacher In the middle of an ocean on board a ship, one can get a sense of vastness. Sri Aurobindo vastness boards ocean The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being. Sri Aurobindo yoga principles mean And, in order to possess the Truth, the plays of the lower nature must be stopped. Sri Aurobindo play order A total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature can alone lift humanity beyond itself. . . It is only the full emergence of the soul, the full descent of the native light and power of the Spirit and the consequent replacement or transformation and uplifting of our insufficient mental and vital nature by a spiritual and supramental Supernature that can effect this evolutionary miracle. Sri Aurobindo light uplifting spiritual One may come armoured, Invinsible. His will immobile meets the mobile hour. The world blows cannot bend this Victor Head. Calm and sure are his steps in the growing night. The goal recedes, he hurries not his pace. He asks from no help from the inferior Gods. His eyes are fixed on the immutable aim. Sri Aurobindo eye blow night One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself. Sri Aurobindo manifestation oneself divine With which part do you watch? Surely with the mind? That won't do. It is the silent Purusha within who must watch all. Sri Aurobindo silent mind watches There is the physical mind which is mechanical but the awareness which is the essential character (dharma) of the mind is also to some extent present there. Sri Aurobindo essentials mind character Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions. Sri Aurobindo passion pride success There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep. Sri Aurobindo sleep heart The higher Truth is all the time working in us but through the lower power - Aparashakti. It is when we become conscious of the play of this higher Power then only yoga begins. Sri Aurobindo truth-is yoga play Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face. Sri Aurobindo faces knowledge It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of the unseeen dynamisms which explain his surface activities. But the lower vital subconscious which is all that this psycho-analysis of Freud seems to know, - and of that it knows only a few ill-lit corners, - is no more than a restricted and very inferior portion of the subliminal whole... to begin by opening up the lower subconscious, risking to raise up all that is foul or obscure in it, is to go out of one's way to invite trouble. Sri Aurobindo opening-up secret men When thou findest thyself scorning another, look then at thy own heart and laugh at thy folly. Sri Aurobindo heart laughing looks I say, of the Congress, then, this - that its aims are mistaken, that the spirit in which it proceeds towards their accomplishment is not a spirit of sincerity and whole-heartedness, and that the methods it has chosen are not the right methods, and the leaders in whom it trusts, not the right sort of men to be leaders; - in brief, that we are at present the blind led, if not by the blind, at any rate by the one-eyed. Sri Aurobindo leader spirit men Death fosters life that life may suckle death. Sri Aurobindo may death In order to satisfy the vital being, it must be offered some activity, and at the same time the mind should be slowly made to take interest in yoga. Sri Aurobindo yoga mind order A hidden Bliss is at the root of things. Sri Aurobindo self roots time
