Sri Aurobindo Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Sri Aurobindo:
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.
~Sri Aurobindo
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
~Sri Aurobindo
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Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.
~Sri Aurobindo
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Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.
~Sri Aurobindo
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Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.
~Sri Aurobindo
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Hidden nature is secret God.
~Sri Aurobindo
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The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
~Sri Aurobindo
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Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction.
~Sri Aurobindo
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She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.
~Sri Aurobindo
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
~Sri Aurobindo
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That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
~Sri Aurobindo
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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
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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
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