One must have first of all a solid foundation. Sri Aurobindo More Quotes by Sri Aurobindo More Quotes From Sri Aurobindo You have however within you an inclination towards completeness. Sri Aurobindo completenessinclinationwithin-you If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth. Sri Aurobindo cuttingwould-beheaven But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light. Sri Aurobindo lightsoulpath All religions have some truth in them, but none has the whole truth; all are created in time and finally decline and perish. Mahomed himself never pretended that the Koran was the last message of God and there would be no other. God and Truth outlast these religions and manifest themselves anew in whatever way or form the Divine Wisdom chooses. Sri Aurobindo lastsdivine-wisdommessages Is it true that existence consists only in the action of energy? Or is it not rather that energy is an output of Existence? Sri Aurobindo outputenergyaction Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction. Sri Aurobindo afterlifestrongthinking India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples. Sri Aurobindo sri-lankacreativeage She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit. Sri Aurobindo sri-lankasawsmind The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and a new meaning for every civilization. Sri Aurobindo yogawisdommeaningful The desire of your vital being is towards work. And the vital being won't find any interest in yoga so long as you do not have any experience of the higher and fuller life that is in yoga. As long as this experience is not there, the vital being will not find any interest. Sri Aurobindo yogadesirelong As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of nature in its narrow terms - runs riot here (in psychoanalysis). Moreover, the exaggeration of the importance of suppressed sexual complexes is a dangerous falsehood. Sri Aurobindo mindrunningtrying All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being. Sri Aurobindo egoismdesire Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite. Sri Aurobindo sri-lankaperfectmen That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it. Sri Aurobindo progressusemind What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because this temporal universe was a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal created it out of His being. Sri Aurobindo possibilityparadoxeternal But what after all, behind appearances, is this seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself returning again to itself, emerging out of its giant self-forgetfulness, slowly, painfully, as a Life that is would be sentient, half-sentient, dimly sentient, wholly sentient and finally struggles to be more than sentient, to be again divinely selfconscious, free, infinite, immortal. Sri Aurobindo giantsgrowthself Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom. Sri Aurobindo freedomsoulfirsts Even if the being is not entirely purified, varieties of inspirations and powers may come down from above but this may lead to serious errors. Inspirations from above mixing with the impurities from below get all muddled up and the sadhak takes this for an absolute command. Many a sadhak has thus fallen into danger. Therefore, one must particularly lay stress on the purification of the being. Sri Aurobindo errorsstressinspiration Spirituality is indeed the master-key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it. Sri Aurobindo sri-lankakeysspiritual To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very height of ignorance and futility. Sri Aurobindo educationalignorancerace
