Top 200 Sri Aurobindo Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.”

— Sri Aurobindo

103. “What is required is faith. Man has body, life and mind but that is not all that constitutes man. He has risen to the mind as a result of evolution. Now a higher consciousness will be evolved – this I call Supermind. It is the instrument of the Divine Consciousness, the Truth-Consciousness.”

— Sri Aurobindo

104. “It will not do to depend on the mind alone.”

— Sri Aurobindo

105. “Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.”

— Sri Aurobindo

106. “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

107. “Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.”

— Sri Aurobindo

108. “The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself – for this is your true self.”

— Sri Aurobindo

109. “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.”

— Sri Aurobindo

110. “What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.”

— Sri Aurobindo

111. “All can be done if the god-touch is there.”

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

113. “The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought:...”

— Sri Aurobindo

114. “What do you want to do sadhana for? The aim should not be the satisfaction of egoism: “I want to be a great yogi; I shall have so much power and with that power I shall establish myself in the world.” All such thoughts must be thrown far away.”

— Sri Aurobindo

115. “The heart’s words fall back unheard from Wisdom’s throne.”

— Sri Aurobindo

116. “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

117. “The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.”

— Sri Aurobindo

118. “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.”

— Sri Aurobindo

119. “Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.”

— Sri Aurobindo

120. “They proved to me by convincing reasons that God does not exist; Afterwards I saw God, for he came and embraced me. And now what am I to believe- the reasoning of others or my own experience? Truth is what the soul has seen and experienced; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.”

— Sri Aurobindo

121. “A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.”

— Sri Aurobindo

122. “Those who have advanced rise to the mind which is in the head, – they have the play of their mental movements in the head itself. But all these are inside the body; man is, as it were, shut up in a box, his entire consciousness is confined within the organism. This imprisonment has to be undone.”

— Sri Aurobindo

123. “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.”

— Sri Aurobindo

124. “One may come armoured, Invinsible. His will immobile meets the mobile hour. The world blows cannot bend this Victor Head. Calm and sure are his steps in the growing night. The goal recedes, he hurries not his pace. He asks from no help from the inferior Gods. His eyes are fixed on the immutable aim.”

— Sri Aurobindo

125. “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.”

— Sri Aurobindo

126. “Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.”

— Sri Aurobindo

127. “Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.”

— Sri Aurobindo

128. “What sort of politics you people do? Such is the way of all parliaments: one can sense even beforehand the trend of voting, in which direction it will turn.”

— Sri Aurobindo

129. “Your mind has some clearness and capacity for right thinking; it opens towards the heights, but for its own sake, – to receive light from above for its own activity.”

— Sri Aurobindo

130. “Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at the mercy of external causes.”

— Sri Aurobindo

131. “You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.”

— Sri Aurobindo

132. “We can arrive at a point of view where the preservation of the individual activities is no longer inconsistent with our comprehension of the cosmic consciousness or our attainment to the transcendent and supracosmic.”

— Sri Aurobindo

133. “Do not allow things to intrude from outside.”

— Sri Aurobindo

134. “All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.”

— Sri Aurobindo

135. “Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God. What then was the commencement of the whole matter? Existence that multiplied itself for sheer delight of being and plunged into numberless trillions of forms so that it might find itself innumerably.”

— Sri Aurobindo

136. “Transcendence transfigures; it does not reconcile, but rather transmutes opposites into something surpassing them that effaces their oppositions.”

— Sri Aurobindo

137. “One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.”

— Sri Aurobindo

138. “Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.”

— Sri Aurobindo

139. “Our lives are God’s messengers beneath the stars.”

— Sri Aurobindo

140. “Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.”

— Sri Aurobindo

141. “That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.”

— Sri Aurobindo

142. “In the normal play of our mind there are all sorts of perversions; hence the need to stop all these things and inculcate right thinking, right willing – in other words, Truth must be established.”

— Sri Aurobindo

143. “The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.”

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

145. “And, in order to possess the Truth, the plays of the lower nature must be stopped.”

— Sri Aurobindo

146. “The utmost mission of Mind is to train our obscure consciousness which has emerged out of the dark prison of Matter, to enlighten its blind instincts, random intuitions, vague perceptions till it shall become capable of this greater light and this higher ascension. Mind is a passage, not a culmination.”

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

148. “The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.”

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

150. “The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.”

— Sri Aurobindo