Quotes from Sri Aurobindo

Death fosters life that life may suckle death.

If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.

The Person is a bubble on Time's sea.

Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite's thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.

Life was a sorrowful throb of this Matter teaching it anguish, Teaching it hope and desire trod out too soon in the mire, Life the frail joy that regrets its briefness, life the long sorrow.

Life, the river of the Spirit, consenting to anguish and sorrow.

To feed death with her works is here life's doom.

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.

Until you get a guidance from above you cannot be sure; but to get this guidance it requires time and sadhana.

A hidden Bliss is at the root of things. A mute Delight regards Time's countless works: To house God's joy in things Space gave wide room, To house God's joy in self our souls were born.

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.

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.

The supreme state of human love is...the unity of one soul in two bodies.

One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

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.

Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.

When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.

There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.

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.

India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.