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!

Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (?dh?ra). A part of it remains behind the veil and prepares itself.

For what the Spirit sees becomes a truthAnd what the soul imagines is made a world

True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.

When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.

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.

There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.

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.

A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.

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.

The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.

Spirituality is indeed the master-key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.

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.

The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.

All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.

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.

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.

Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you ... political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.

Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.

Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.

War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat.