This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers. Sri Aurobindo More Quotes by Sri Aurobindo More Quotes From Sri Aurobindo Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world. Sri Aurobindo manifestation materials world Your mind has some clearness and capacity for right thinking; it opens towards the heights, but for its own sake, - to receive light from above for its own activity. Sri Aurobindo light mind thinking The Purusha should assume at all times the attitude of a giver of sanction while rejecting the lower movements and accepting only truth-movements. Sri Aurobindo assuming movement attitude Only the soul that is naked and unashamed, can be pure and innocent , even as Adam was in the primal garden of humanity . Sri Aurobindo garden soul humanity It will not do to depend on the mind alone. Sri Aurobindo depends mind The seers of ancient India had, in their experiments and efforts at spiritual training and the conquest of the body, perfected a discovery which in its importance to the future of human knowledge dwarfs the divinations of Newton and Galileo , even the discovery of the inductive and experimental method in Science was not more momentous. Sri Aurobindo effort spiritual discovery The supramental transformation, the supramental evolution must carry with it a lifting of mind, life and body out of themselves into a greater way of being in which yet their own ways and powers would be, not suppressed or abolished, but perfected and fulfilled by the self-exceeding. Sri Aurobindo self would-be mind Many of us, utterly overcome by Tamas, the dark and heavy demon of inertia, are saying nowadays that it is impossible, that India is decayed, bloodless and lifeless, too weak ever to recover; that our race is doomed to extinction. It is a foolish and idle saying. No man or nation need be weak unless he chooses, no man or nation need perish unless he deliberately chooses extinction. Sri Aurobindo race dark men You have a strong active nature. And this in you is a point of strength. If you can mould it rightly this will become a very great strength. On the other hand, this too is your weak point - a hindrance in sadhana. Sri Aurobindo weak-points strong hands What comes from outside, one mistakes it as coming from inside. So many thoughts etc. move about outside in the universal - these manifest inside you. All these you must push away as foreign to you and the inside must be made peaceful, calm and quiet; then it will start descending from above. Sri Aurobindo peaceful mistake moving Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature. Sri Aurobindo responsible imperfection men Can everybody contact the higher forces? No, not indeed; but they submit themselves to a discipline and this brings them success. Sri Aurobindo contact force discipline Do not be eager for things above. Sri Aurobindo Turkey, Japan do great work because they can keep under control their little personal selfishness, egoism, jealousy, etc. when they get down to work. Sri Aurobindo turkeys selfishness japan What sort of politics you people do? Such is the way of all parliaments: one can sense even beforehand the trend of voting, in which direction it will turn. Sri Aurobindo trends voting people There should of course be left a field of work for the sake of experiment but at all times one must remember that there will always remain open a possibility of err. Sri Aurobindo fields sake remember To feed death with her works is here life's doom. Sri Aurobindo doom life A woman has the greatest opportunity to provide the best outcome for a baby and its potentialities. Not only by having a conscious and definite will to form the child accordingly to the highest ideal she can conceive, but first and foremost having the aspiration to work on herself. Sri Aurobindo opportunity baby children Samskrit language, as has been universally recognized by those competent to form a judgment, is one of the most magnificent, the most perfect, the most prominent and wonderfully sufficient literary instrument developed by the human mind. Sri Aurobindo language perfect mind To make a revolution is not in the grain of our people's nature. Sri Aurobindo revolution grain people
