Top 200 Sri Aurobindo Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.”

— Sri Aurobindo

52. “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

53. “For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.”

— Sri Aurobindo

54. “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.”

— Sri Aurobindo

55. “Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.”

— Sri Aurobindo

56. “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

57. “The language of the Veda itself is sruti, a rhythm not composed by the intellect but heard, a divine Word that same vibrating out of the Infinite to the inner audience of the man who had previously made himself fit fot the impersonal knowledge.”

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

59. “Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.”

— Sri Aurobindo

60. “When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.”

— Sri Aurobindo

61. “If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.”

— Sri Aurobindo

62. “The human mind moves always forward, alters its viewpoint and enlarges its thought substance, and the effect of these changes is to render past systems of thinking obsolete or, when they are preserved, to extend, to modify and subtly or visibly to alter their value.”

— Sri Aurobindo

63. “After having stopped the lower activities of the mind, it must be made receptive; and, instead of weaving all kinds of empty and idle thoughts, the mind should receive intuitions from above.”

— Sri Aurobindo

64. “What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.”

— Sri Aurobindo

65. “Fear not to be nothing that thou mayst be all.”

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

67. “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.”

— Sri Aurobindo

68. “Faith is the soul’s witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.”

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

70. “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

71. “Is it true that existence consists only in the action of energy? Or is it not rather that energy is an output of Existence?”

— Sri Aurobindo

72. “Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.”

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

74. “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.”

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

77. “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.”

— Sri Aurobindo

78. “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.”

— Sri Aurobindo

79. “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.”

— Sri Aurobindo

80. “Death fosters life that life may suckle death.”

— Sri Aurobindo

81. “There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.”

— Sri Aurobindo

82. “If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.”

— Sri Aurobindo

83. “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

84. “But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.”

— Sri Aurobindo

85. “In the middle of an ocean on board a ship, one can get a sense of vastness.”

— Sri Aurobindo

86. “The mind is running on all sides to think about many things, – what we call thoughts coming from outside. We must withdraw the mind from these distractions and make it abide in the self. Thus guarding the peace within we shall have to do the work without.”

— Sri Aurobindo

87. “There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect all the others.”

— Sri Aurobindo

88. “One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.”

— Sri Aurobindo

89. “Can everybody contact the higher forces? No, not indeed; but they submit themselves to a discipline and this brings them success.”

— Sri Aurobindo

90. “Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.”

— Sri Aurobindo

91. “There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine.”

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

95. “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.”

— Sri Aurobindo

96. “But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.”

— Sri Aurobindo

97. “Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.”

— Sri Aurobindo

98. “There is a veil between the Supermind above and the lower Prakriti below – the veil of ingrained formations. This veil may completely withdraw or be partially withdrawn. Thus even if there is some little opening, with the contact of Light from above the lower nature will get slowly changed.”

— Sri Aurobindo

99. “Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.”

— Sri Aurobindo

100. “Forgiveness is praised by the Christian and the Vaishnava, but for me, I ask, “What have I to forgive and whom?””

— Sri Aurobindo