Quotes from Sri Aurobindo

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.

The heart's words fall back unheard from Wisdom's throne.

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.

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.

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.

Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.

The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.

While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.

Man in the world's life works out the dreams of God.

Turkey, Japan do great work because they can keep under control their little personal selfishness, egoism, jealousy, etc. when they get down to work.

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.

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.

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.

All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.

All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being.

To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.

The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.

The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.

Do not belong to the past dawns,but to the noons of future

Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.