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 There is nothing small in God's eyes; let there be nothing small in thine Sri Aurobindo eye When I approached God at that time, I hardly had a living faith in Him. The agnostic was in me, the atheist was in me, the sceptic was in me and I was not absolutely sure that there was a God at all. I did not feel His presence. Yet something drew me to the truth of the Vedas, the truth of the Gita, the truth of the Hindu religion. Sri Aurobindo vedas gita atheist Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen. Sri Aurobindo depth silence mind The soul in man is greater than his fate. Sri Aurobindo fate soul men [S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself. Sri Aurobindo divine-power meditation watches The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it. Sri Aurobindo wells shadow atheist Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious. Sri Aurobindo mind play men 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 endeavour of the human spirit. An immense many-sided many-staged provision for a spiritual self-building and self-finding, it had some right to speak of itself by the only name it knew, the eternal religion, Sanatana Dharma. Sri Aurobindo self spiritual names What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees. Sri Aurobindo acceptance wisdom men To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition. Sri Aurobindo human-life irrational human-nature The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself - for this is your true self. Sri Aurobindo behinds self play Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine. Sri Aurobindo body west running If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force. Sri Aurobindo rushing ocean soul The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit. Sri Aurobindo use doors art The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom. Sri Aurobindo devil kingdoms men For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony. Sri Aurobindo harmony existence problem Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal's gate. Sri Aurobindo robes garments waiting The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed. Sri Aurobindo surface come-up past Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God. 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 delight secret might The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself. Sri Aurobindo hide-and-seek atheism atheist