Top 200 Sri Aurobindo Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.”

— Sri Aurobindo

52. “Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.”

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

55. “Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act.”

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

58. “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

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

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

63. “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

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

— Sri Aurobindo

65. “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

66. “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

67. “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

68. “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

69. “Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.”

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

73. “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

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

— Sri Aurobindo

75. “While doing sadhana you must quieten your mind and keep awake the Purusha consciousness behind all your activities.”

— Sri Aurobindo

76. “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

77. “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

78. “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

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

— Sri Aurobindo

80. “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

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

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

85. “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

86. “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

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

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

90. “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

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

— Sri Aurobindo

92. “God does work through both pure and impure vessels but that does not mean that one should keep nature impure for ever. When the vessel will become pure the urge for action coming from within will be a flawless, definitive action. As long as that does not happen one has to minimize one’s activities.”

— Sri Aurobindo

93. “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.”

— Sri Aurobindo

94. “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

95. “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

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

— Sri Aurobindo

100. “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.”

— Sri Aurobindo