Sri Aurobindo Quotes

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

For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.

The soul in man is greater than his fate.

The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.

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.

Thy goal, the road thou choosest are thy fate.

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.

Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.

You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.

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