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Satprem
Nolini Kanta Gupta
A. B. Purani
Anilbaran Roy
A. S. Dalal
Champaklal
Mona Sarkar
M. P. Pandit
Nirodbaran
Pavitra
Sri Chinmoy
M Alan Kazlev
see also ::: BRUNTON, HEMSELL, HUTCHINSON, JOSHI, MONICA_GUPTA, MUKHERJEE, NAGIN_DOSHI, NAHAR_SUJATA, NARAD, PADIYATH, POSNER_ROY, PRITI_DASGUPTA, REDDY, VREKHEM, YATSENKO
- POWERS & ELEMENTS IN THE YOGA -
Aspiration ::: Aspiration is a turning upward of the inner being with a call, yearning, prayer for the Divine, for the Truth, for the Consciousness, Peace, Ananda, Knowledge, descent of Divine Force or whatever else is the aim of one's endeavour.
Balance
Bravery :::
Calm
Cheerfulness
Concentration1 ::: Concentration, for our Yoga, means when the consciousness is fixed in a particular state (e.g. peace) or movement (e.g. aspiration, will, coming into contact with the Mother taking the Mother s name); meditation is when the inner mind is looking at things to get the right knowledge.
Concentration2 ::: An all-inclusive concentration is the difficult achievement towards which we must labour
Confidence ::: Even if things are not as they ought to be, worry does not help to make them better. A quiet confidence is the source of strength.
Consecration
Courage ::: Courage is a sign of soul's nobility.
Determination
Devotion ::: Worship is only the first step on the path of devotion. Where external worship changes into the inner adoration, real Bhakti begins; that deepens into the intensity of divine love; that love leads to the joy of closeness in our relations with the Divine; the joy of closeness passes into the bliss of union.
Effort ::: In the first movement of self-preparation, the period of personal effort, the method we have to use is this concentration of the whole being on the Divine that it seeks and, as its corollary, this constant rejection, throwing out, katharsis, of all that is not the true Truth of the Divine. An entire consecration of all that we are, think, feel and do will be the result of this persistence.
Endurance ::: Ordinarily we have to begin with a period of endurance; for we must learn to confront, to suffer and to assimilate all contacts. Each fiber must be taught not to wince away from that which pains and repels and not to run eagerly towards that which pleases and attracts, but rather to accept, to face, to bear and to conquer. ... This is the stoical period of the preparation of equality, its most elementary and yet its heroic age.
Enthusiasm ::: True enthusiasm is full of a peaceful endurance.
Equality ::: Not to be disturbed by either joy or grief, pleasure or displeasure by what people say or do or by any outward things is called in yoga a state of samata, equality to all things.
Faith ::: Faith is spontaneous knowledge in the psychic.
Faithfulness
Focus
Generosity
Goodness
Gratitude ::: A humble recognition of all that the Divine has done and is doing for you.
Happiness ::: Real happiness is of divine origin; it is pure and unconditioned. Ordinary happiness is of vital origin; it is impure and depends on circumstances.
Heroism ::: Heroism is ... to become wholly unified - and the Divine help will always be with those who have resolved to be heroic in full sincerity.
Hope ::: One must never lose hope or faith - there is nothing incurable, and no limit can be set to the power of the Divine.
Humility ::: True humility is humility before the Divine, that is, a precise, exact, living sense that one is nothing, one can do nothing, understand nothing without the Divine, that even if one is exceptionally intelligent and capable, this is nothing in comparison with the divine Consciousness, and this sense one must always keep, because then one always has the true attitude of receptivity - a humble receptivity that does not put personal pretensions in opposition to the Divine.
Integrality
Integrity
Interiorization
Joy
Love ::: There is only one love - the Divine's Love; and without that Love there would be no creation. All exists because of that Love and it is when we try to find our own love which does not exist that we do not feel the Love, the only Love, the Divine's Love which permeates all existence.
Opening/Openness
Offering ::: Offer yourself more and more - all the consciousness, all that happens in it, all your work and action.
Patience ::: The ideal attitude of the sadhaka towards Time is to have an endless patience as if he had all eternity for his fulfilment.
Peace ::: When the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us.
Perseverance ::: the decision to go to the very end
Presence :::
Prudence ::: the wise man is prudent in what he looks at, in what he listens to, and in what he says. He considers the consequences, thinks of the morrow, and if he does not know his way, he asks. :::
Progress1 ::: is the sign of the divine influence in creation.
Progress2 ::: to be ready, at every minute, to give up all one is and all one has in order to advance on the way.
Purity ::: Purity is to accept no other influence but only the influence of the Divine.
Rejection ::: throwing out of the being.
Receptivity ::: the power to receive the Divine Force and to feel its presence and the presence of the Mother in it and allow it to work, guiding one's sight and will and action.
Repentance ::: the first step towards rectifying mistakes.
Renunciation ::: to throw far away from oneself all that prevents one from going forward
Sacrifice ::: Every moment and every movement of our being is to be resolved into a continuous and devoted self-giving to the Eternal.
Sraddha ::: the soul's belief in the Divine's existence, wisdom, power, love and grace.
Self-Confidence
Self-Control
Self-Giving
Self-Surrender in Works
Self-Offering
Sincerity ::: Sincerity means to lift all the movements of the being to the level of the highest consciousness and realisation already attained. Sincerity exacts the unification and harmonisation of the whole being in all its parts and movements around the central Divine Will.
Silence
Straightforwardness
Strength1 ::: The strength is always with you to be always faithful to the Divine Will.
Strength2 ::: All our strength is with the Divine. With Him we can surmount all the obstacles.
Surrender ::: Surrender means to consecrate everything in oneself to the Divine, to offer all one is and has, not to insist on one's ideas, desires, habits, etc., but to allow the divine Truth to replace them by its knowledge, will and action everywhere.
Surrender to the Divine Will
Tapasya ::: a discipline aiming at the realisation of the Divine
Trust
Truth
Truthfulness
Vigilence
Will
Willpower
- OBSTACLES & DIFFICULTIES -
Addiction
agony
Ambition
anger ::: Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~ Thomas A Kempis
anxiety:
automatic
Avoidance
challenge
circumstances
Confusion
Darkness
death
Defects
defeat
demons
Depression ::: A depression is always unreasonable as it leads nowhere. It is the most subtle enemy of the Yoga. ~ The Mother Words Of The Mother - II,
Desires
despair
difficulty/difficulties ::: The whole purpose of the Yoga is to gather all the divergent parts together and forge them into an undivided unity. Till then you cannot hope to be without difficulties - difficulties, for example, like doubt or depression or hesitation.
Distractions ::: If one were truly aware of the value of human life, to waste it blithely on distractions and the pursuit of vulgar ambitions would be the height of confusion. ~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
distress
Doubt
down
Dryness ::: Dryness is ordinarily the sign of too great a concern with oneself (whether material or spiritual) and a consequent narrowing of the consciousness, which is no longer sufficiently in communion with the divine forces.
The remedy: a completer self-giving to the Divine. With my blessings and all my love.
Ego ::: this ego-centrism is our rock of safety against the cosmic and the infinite, our defense.
emotions
emptiness/empty:
Escapism
Evil ::: Always we must repeat to the doubting intellect the promise of the Master, 'I will deliver thee from all sin and evil; do not grieve.' At the end, the flickerings of faith will cease; for we shall see his face and feel always the Divine Presence.
excuse ::: It is no use excusing yourself; you must have the will never to fall back into the faults you have committed.
Expectations
failure
fall
Fatigue
Fear
Greed (for Food)
grief
Habits
hard
hostile forces
ignorance
Impulses ::: We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
Impulses ::: Control over the lower impulsions is the first step towards realisation.
incapacity
Indifference
insincerity/halfheartness
Jealousy
Judging/Judgement
lack of concentration
laziness
loss
Lost
Lower movements:
Mara
Material Desires
Mistakes ::: If even then we make mistakes, yet God makes none.
Mistakes ::: Repentance: the first step towards rectifying mistakes.
Mistakes ::: A mistake recognised is a mistake pardoned.
Mistakes ::: A mistake one denies is a mistake one refuses to set right
Narrowness and One-Sidedness
negative thoughts
not knowing
obscure/obscurity
Obstacles ::: One puts veils, obstacles between oneself and the Divine. That is how one punishes oneself. The Divine does not withdraw; one makes oneself incapable of receiving him. The Divine does not distribute in this way rewards and punishments..
obstructions
Ordeals ::: Be grateful for all ordeals, they are the shortest way to the Divine.
oscillations
pain
Preferences
powers of the Ignorance
Pride
problem
Quarrels
resist
Sadness ::: It is always our weaknesses that make us sad, and we can easily recover by advancing one step more on the way.
self-deceit ::: Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. ~ Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac, sec. 19
Selfishness
separation
Shame ::: Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule. ~ Jetsun Milarepa
shortcomings
Sin
sorrow
struggle
Suffering ::: Suffering is due only to our weakness and imperfection. When external forces affect us, if we have acquired sufficient strength to assimilate them, we derive joy from them, otherwise they produce pain.
Suffering ::: Turn towards the Divine, all your sufferings will disappear.
tamas
test
the abyss
the Adversary
the Ignorance
the sevenfold ignorance
the void
tired
Tiredness ::: Tiredness shows lack of will for progress. When you feel tired or fatigued that is lack of will for progress. Fire is always burning in you.
Torture
trial
tribulations
troubles
undivine forces
unknowable
upset
Vanity
Waste
weakness/Weaknesses ::: If you have faults and weaknesses, hold them up before the Divine to be changed or abolished.
- QUOTES -
The fundamental realisations of this yoga are:
1. The psychic change so that a compete devotion can be the main motive of the heart and the ruler of the thought, life and action in constant union with the Mother and in her Presence.
2. The descent of the Peace, Power, Light, etc. of the Higher Consciousness through the head and heart into the whole being, occupying the very cells of the body.
3. The perception of the One and Divine infinitely everywhere, the Mother everywhere and living in that infinite consciousness.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - IV
--- NO METHOD
There is no method in this Yoga except to concentrate, preferably in the heart, and call the presence and power of the Mother to take up the being and by the workings of her force transform the consciousness; one can concentrate also in the head or between the eyebrows, but for many this is a too difficult opening. When the mind falls quiet and the concentration becomes strong and the aspiration intense, then there is a beginning of experience. The more the faith, the more rapid the result is likely to be. For the rest one must not depend on one's own efforts only, but succeed in establishing a contact with the Divine and a receptivity to the Mother s Power and Presence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II
to do the integral yoga ::: ...to do the integral yoga one must first resolve to surrender entirely to the Divine, there is no other way, this is the way. But after that one must have the five psychological virtues, five psychological perfections and we say that the perfections are:
1.Sincerity or Transparency
2.Faith or Trust (Trust in the Divine)
3.Devotion or Gratitude
4.Courage or Inspiration
5.Endurance or Perseverance
~ The Mother Questions And Answers 1956
--- THE TRIPLE WAY
The triple way takes for its chosen instruments the three main powers of the mental soul-life of the human being.
Knowledge ::: selects the reason and the mental vision and it makes them by purification, concentration and a certain discipline of a God-directed seeking its means for the greatest knowledge and the greatest vision of all, God-knowledge and God-vision. Its aim is to see, know and be the Divine.
Works ::: , action selects for its instrument the will of the doer of works; it makes life an offering of sacrifice to the Godhead and by purification, concentration and a certain discipline of subjection to the divine Will a means for contact and increasing unity of the soul of man with the divine Master of the universe.
Devotion ::: selects the emotional and aesthetic powers of the soul and by turning them all Godward in a perfect purity, intensity, infinite passion of seeking makes them a means of God-possession in one or many relations of unity with the Divine Being. All aim in their own way at a union or unity of the human soul with the supreme Spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Self-Perfection, The Principle of the Integral Yoga, 609
three paths as one :::
We can see also that in the integral view of things these three paths are one. Divine Love should normally lead to the perfect knowledge of the Beloved by perfect intimacy, thus becoming a path of Knowledge, and to divine service, thus becoming a path of Works. So also should perfect Knowledge lead to perfect Love and Joy and a full acceptance of the works of That which is known; dedicated Works to the entire love of the Master of the Sacrifice and the deepest knowledge of His ways and His being. It is in the triple path that we come most readily to the absolute knowledge, love and service of the One in all beings and in the entire cosmic manifestation.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Introduction - The Conditions of the Synthesis, The Systems of Yoga
way of the Integral Yogin ::: Nor is the seeker of the integral fulfilment permitted to solve too arbitrarily even the conflict of his own inner members. He has to harmonise deliberate knowledge with unquestioning faith; he must conciliate the gentle soul of love with the formidable need of power; the passivity of the soul that lives content in transcendent calm has to be fused with the activity of the divine helper and the divine warrior. ... An all-inclusive concentration is the difficult achievement towards which he must labour. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Self-Consecration, 78
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The Integral Yoga
Integral Yoga ::: a union (yoga) in all the parts of our being with the Divine and a consequent transmutation of all their now jarring elements into the harmony of a higher divine consciousness and existence; this yoga implies not only the realisation of God but the entire consecration and change of the inner and outer life till it is fit to manifest a divine consciousness and become part of a divine work.
Integral Yoga
Integral Yoga
Integral Yoga and Gita ::: The Gita’s Yoga consists in the offering of one’s work as a sacriflee to the Divine, the conquest of desire, egoless and dcsirdess action, bhakti for the Divine, an entering into the cosmic consciousness, the sense of unity
Integral Yoga
Integral Yoga, Gita and Tantra ::: The Gita follows the
Integral Yoga and Hatha-Raja Yogas ::: For an integral yoga the special methods of Rajayoga and Hathayoga may be useful at times in certain stages of the progress, but are not indispens- able. Their principal aims must be included in the integrality of the yoga ; but they can be brought about by other means. For the methods of the integral yoga must be mainly spiritual, and dependence on physical methods or fixed psychic or psycho- physical processes on a large scale would be the substitution of a lower for a higher action.
Integral Yoga and Kimdalim Yoga ::: There is a feeling of waves surging up, mounting to the head, which brings an outer unconsciousness and an inner waking. It is the ascending of the lower consciousness in the iidhara to meet the greater conscious-
Integral Yoga and other Yogas ::: The old yogas reach
Integral Yoga and Patanjala Yoga ::: Cilia is the stuff of mixed mental-vital-physical consciousness out of which arise the movements of thought, emotion, sensation, impulse etc.
Integral Yoga::: The integral Yoga is that which, having found the Transcendent, can return upon the universe and possess it, retaining the power freely to descend as well as ascend the great stair of existence.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 23-24, Page: 18-19
Integral Yoga ::: a union (yoga) in all the parts of our being with the Divine and a consequent transmutation of all their now jarring elements into the harmony of a higher divine consciousness and existence; this yoga implies not only the realisation of God but the entire consecration and change of the inner and outer life till it is fit to manifest a divine consciousness and become part of a divine work.
Integral Yoga
Integral Yoga
Integral Yoga and Gita ::: The Gita’s Yoga consists in the offering of one’s work as a sacriflee to the Divine, the conquest of desire, egoless and dcsirdess action, bhakti for the Divine, an entering into the cosmic consciousness, the sense of unity
Integral Yoga
Integral Yoga, Gita and Tantra ::: The Gita follows the
Integral Yoga and Hatha-Raja Yogas ::: For an integral yoga the special methods of Rajayoga and Hathayoga may be useful at times in certain stages of the progress, but are not indispens- able. Their principal aims must be included in the integrality of the yoga ; but they can be brought about by other means. For the methods of the integral yoga must be mainly spiritual, and dependence on physical methods or fixed psychic or psycho- physical processes on a large scale would be the substitution of a lower for a higher action.
Integral Yoga and Kimdalim Yoga ::: There is a feeling of waves surging up, mounting to the head, which brings an outer unconsciousness and an inner waking. It is the ascending of the lower consciousness in the iidhara to meet the greater conscious-
Integral Yoga and other Yogas ::: The old yogas reach
Integral Yoga and Patanjala Yoga ::: Cilia is the stuff of mixed mental-vital-physical consciousness out of which arise the movements of thought, emotion, sensation, impulse etc.
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1:O Truth, come, manifest. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
2:One day the victory is certain. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
3:I am near you. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I , #KEYS
4:It is not enough to try, you must succeed. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
5:Have faith and go on. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
6:Nothing is impossible for one who is attentive. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
7:Now is the time to be heroic. ~ The Mother, Agenda Vol 13 , #KEYS
8:This Agenda... is my gift to those who love me. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
9:All life is Yoga. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga , #KEYS
10:Accept the world as God's theater; be thou the mask of the Actor and let Him act through thee; and take God within for thy only critic and audience. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #KEYS
11:The Psychic’s Choice at the Time of DeathThe psychic being at the time of death chooses what it will work out in the next birth and determines the character and conditions of the new personality. Life is for the evolutionary growth by experience in the conditions of the Ignorance till one is ready for the higher light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, 532.php">CWSA.php">532 , #KEYS
12:Let the Divine fill your thoughts with His Presence. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
13:If any error occurs just once repeat my name maa maa. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
14:Any suggestion about Sadhana? Patient aspiration. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
15:Faith first, knowledge afterwards. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
16:Her greatest progress is a deepened need. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri , #KEYS
17:Have faith in the Lord's mercy and all can and will change. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
18:The world is preparing for a big change.Will you help? ~ The Mother, #KEYS
19:Missing its aim is all that it can speak ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 1:4, #KEYS
20:There are muffled throbs of laughter's undertones, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri , #KEYS
21:With faith in the Divine Grace, all difficulties are solved. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
22:It is the supermind we have to bring down, manifest, realise. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #KEYS
23:Let the Lord of Truth be always with you. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
24:He laid experience at the Godhead's feet; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 05.02 - Satyavan, #KEYS
25:Remain sheltered in my arms, enveloped by my love and blessings. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
26:They who have faith will go through. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
27:All Art is interpretation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Early Cultural Writings Art, #KEYS
28:In the silence of the heart burns the steady fire of aspiration. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
29:A voice cried, 'Go where none have gone! Dig deeper, deeper yet ~ Sri Aurobindo, #KEYS
30:Character is nothing but habit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad Book III, #KEYS
31:Man lifted up the burden of his fate ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #KEYS
32:The difficulties are for the strong, and help to make them stronger. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
33:The key to the flaming doors of ecstasy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #KEYS
34:Yet when he is most near, she feels him far. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.06, #KEYS
35:All renews itself, nothing perishes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 1.06 - The Transformation of Dream Life, #KEYS
36:Learn to call me in your dreams - and you will see the result. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
37:Never make a mistake. Never lose your temper. Always understand. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
38:By men is mightiness achieved ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems Baji Prabhou, #KEYS
39:Death is our road to immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.01 - The Word of Fate, #KEYS
40:If you do not study, the inertia will go on increasing. ~ The Mother, On Education , #KEYS
41:Life ran to gaze from every gate of sense: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 05.02 - Satyavan, #KEYS
42:The criterion is within. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.05 - Renunciation, #KEYS
43:When spirituality is lost all is lost. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin Ourselves, #KEYS
44:With patience any difficulty can be overcome. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
45:A Godhead stands behind the brute machine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.02 - The Issue, #KEYS
46:All can be done if the god-touch is there ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #KEYS
47:Alone the Divine can give us a perfect safety. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
48:A look, a turn decides our ill-poised fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 05.02 - Satyavan, #KEYS
49:He sees within the face of deity, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
50:Love the Lord full-heartedly and all will be well.In Love eternal. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
51:The godhead greater by a human fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #KEYS
52:A fathomless zero occupied the world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #KEYS
53:And in her bosom nursed a greater dawn ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 12.01 - The Return to Earth, #KEYS
54:Change yourself and the circumstances will change. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I , #KEYS
55:Each dawn opens into a larger Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.01 - The Word of Fate, #KEYS
56:Our sympathies become our torturers. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.01 - The Word of Fate, #KEYS
57:Study, that is the best way to understand. ~ The Mother, More Answers From The Mother , #KEYS
58:All that we meet is a symbol and gateway ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.02 - Ahana, #KEYS
59:A persevering will surmounts all obstacles. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II Will, #KEYS
60:Death stays the journeying discoverer, Life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.02 - The Issue, #KEYS
61:Good will for all and good will from all is the basis of peace and harmony. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
62:Mind flowed unknowing in the sap of life ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.01 - The World-Stair, #KEYS
63:Only a little the god-light can stay: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #KEYS
64:Savitri is a mantra for the transformation of the world. ~ The Mother, (to Udar Pinto) , #KEYS
65:The greatness of the Great is the greatness of the Divine in him. ~ Nolini Kanta Gupta, #KEYS
66:The palace woke to its own emptiness; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 04.03 - The Call to the Quest, #KEYS
67:What we call ourself is only the ego - our true self is the Divine. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
68:A powerless spirit is no spirit ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
69:Charm is the seal of the gods upon woman. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.01 - Ilion, #KEYS
70:The difficult is not the impossible. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II Baha i Faith, #KEYS
71:The world being what it is, it could not be otherwise. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine , #KEYS
72:To know is best, however hard to bear. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.01 - The Word of Fate, #KEYS
73:After ‘tis cold, none heeds, none hinders. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.01 - Ilion, #KEYS
74:Always the Ideal beckoned from afar. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.12 - The Heavens of the Ideal, #KEYS
75:A still identity their way to know, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
76:Each year a mile upon the heavenly Way, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.01 - The Word of Fate, #KEYS
77:The Divine is what you adore in Sri Aurobindo. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I , #KEYS
78:There is no fear in the higher Nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Fear, #KEYS
79:Thy youth is but a noon, of night take heed. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Translations 3.1.11 - Appeal, #KEYS
80:A formless spirit became the soul of form. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.14 - The World-Soul, #KEYS
81:A gate of dreams ajar on mystery’s verge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #KEYS
82:At play with him as with her child or slave, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
83:For others’ bliss who lives, he lives indeed. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Translations 3.1.11 - Appeal, #KEYS
84:Her acts became gestures of sacrifice. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 04.02 - The Growth of the Flame, #KEYS
85:Must fire always test the great of soul? ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.01 - The Word of Fate, #KEYS
86:My child, every day you are going to read Savitri ~ The Mother, Sweet Mother , #KEYS
87:No one I am, I who am all that is. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems Liberation - I, #KEYS
88:The first step is perfect calm and equanimity. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II 1.3.03 - Quiet and Calm, #KEYS
89:A million lotuses swaying on one stem, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.12 - The Heavens of the Ideal, #KEYS
90:Be severe to yourself before being severe to others. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
91:Even fall has its perverted joy ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Glory and Fall of Life, #KEYS
92:Ignorance is not a state of innocence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II Purity, #KEYS
93:It does not matter if you do not understand it - Savitri, read it always. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
94:Never out of evil one plucked good: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
95:On the bare peak where Self is alone with Nought ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.02 - The Issue, #KEYS
96:Our smallness saves us from the Infinite ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces, #KEYS
97:See God everywhere and be not frightened by masks ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human , #KEYS
98:Space is himself and Time is only he. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
99:Surrender is the best way of opening. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II 1.2.10 - Opening, #KEYS
100:The gods make use of our forgotten deeds. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.01 - The Word of Fate, #KEYS
101:To know how to wait is to put time on one's side. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953 , #KEYS
102:A dire duality is our way to be. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Glory and Fall of Life, #KEYS
103:Assent to thy high self, create, endure. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.04 - The Vision and the Boon, #KEYS
104:Each thought turned towards oneself veils the Divine. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
105:Fear not, your sincerity is your safeguard. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II Sincerity, #KEYS
106:Have the courage to be completely frank with the Divine. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
107:If even then we make mistakes, yet God makes none. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human , #KEYS
108:In true courage there is no impatience and no rashness. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
109:Only in human limits man lives safe. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 09.01 - Towards the Black Void, #KEYS
110:Our error crucifies Reality ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #KEYS
111:Perhaps the blindness of our will is Fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.01 - The Word of Fate, #KEYS
112:Perseverance breaks down all obstacles. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II Perserverance, #KEYS
113:Replace the eagerness for fame by the aspiration for perfection. ~ The Mother, On Education , #KEYS
114:Swift and easy is the downward path. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
115:The Divine Consciousness must be our only guide. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
116:The enemy of faith is doubt. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga Faith and Shakti, #KEYS
117:To learn is good, To become is better. ~ The Mother, On Thoughts And Aphorisms Nov 25 1969, #KEYS
118:Desire, the troubled seed of things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.04 - The Vision and the Boon, #KEYS
119:Habit is nothing but an operation of memory. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad Book III, #KEYS
120:IT was for delightHe sought existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 3.1.23 - The Rishi, #KEYS
121:One should read Sri Aurobindo and know the answer. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I , #KEYS
122:Our life is a paradox with God for key. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
123:Out of the darkness we still grow to light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.01 - The Word of Fate, #KEYS
124:All, even pain, was the soul’s pleasure here; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.01 - The World-Stair, #KEYS
125:All things too great end soon. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - II Act I, #KEYS
126:... a single word that breaks the seals of the mind... ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga , #KEYS
127:But still the invisible Magnet drew his soul ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.01 - The World-Stair, #KEYS
128:Hard is it to persuade earth-nature’s change; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #KEYS
129:I am stronger than death and greater than my fate ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.01 - The Word of Fate, #KEYS
130:My life is a throb of Thy eternity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems Bliss of Identity, #KEYS
131:No life can be successful without self-discipline. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
132:Our life is a paradox with God for key. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
133:The inmost is the infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry The Power of the Spirit, #KEYS
134:The Knowledge brings also the Power and the Joy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga , #KEYS
135:To aspire and to call for help are quite indispensable. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
136:You must feel that Sri Aurobindo is looking at you. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I , #KEYS
137:A dual Nature covered the Unique. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.03 - The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
138:But thou hast come and all will surely change: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 05.03 - Satyavan and Savitri, #KEYS
139:Convincing the abyss by heavenly form ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.02 - The Kingdom of Subtle Matter, #KEYS
140:Death has no reality except as a process of life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 1.06 - The Transformation of Dream Life, #KEYS
141:I carry the fire that never can be quenched. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces, #KEYS
142:Imagination the free-will of Truth, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Glory and Fall of Life, #KEYS
143:Only the Eternal's strength in us can dare ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.12 - The Heavens of the Ideal, #KEYS
144:Sincerity is the key of the divine doors. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II Sincerity - II, #KEYS
145:The laws of the Unknown create the known. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
146:Time's sun-flowers' gaze at gold Eternity: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.12 - The Heavens of the Ideal, #KEYS
147:A deep surrender is their source of might, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
148:And leaves its huge white stamp upon our lives. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
149:A thinking entity appeared in Space. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.04 - The Kingdoms of the Little Life, #KEYS
150:Beauty of our dim soul is amorous. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems Our godhead calls us, #KEYS
151:Calling the adventure of consciousness and joy ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #KEYS
152:Each in himself is sole by Nature’s law. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces, #KEYS
153:He moves there as the Soul, as Nature she. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
154:Life always seeks immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 0.03 - The Threefold Life, #KEYS
155:Our plans may fail, God’s purpose cannot. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin Facts and Opinions, #KEYS
156:Out of the unknown we move to the unknown. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
157:The Bliss that is creation’s splendid grain ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.13 - In the Self of Mind, #KEYS
158:The zero covers an immortal face. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.02 - The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #KEYS
159:Truth of oneness creates its own order. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
160:A faith she craves that can survive defeat, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
161:A god come down and greater by the fall. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.04 - The Vision and the Boon, #KEYS
162:And drinks experience like a strengthening wine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
163:Devotion is the key which opens the door to liberation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human , #KEYS
164:Each part in us desires its absolute. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #KEYS
165:Force is a self-expression of Existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 1.13 - The Divine Maya, #KEYS
166:Necessity rules all the infinite world, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 4.2.03 - The Birth of Sin, #KEYS
167:Our waking thoughts the output of its dreams. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Descent of Night, #KEYS
168:Progress: is the sign of the divine influence in creation. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III , #KEYS
169:Repentance: the first step towards rectifying mistakes. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
170:The Enigma’s knot is tied in human kind. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.04 - The Vision and the Boon, #KEYS
171:The speech that labels more than it lights; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
172:What is the secret of success in sadhana? Surrender. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
173:Work without ideals is a false gospel. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - II Work and Ideal, #KEYS
174:Almighty powers are shut in Nature’s cells. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 04.03 - The Call to the Quest, #KEYS
175:As if in a struggle of the Void to be. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.04 - The Kingdoms of the Little Life, #KEYS
176:A struggling ignorance is his wisdom’s mate: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
177:Eternity speaks, none understands its word; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 04.03 - The Call to the Quest, #KEYS
178:Everyday, at each moment, my blessings are with you. ~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother 03 June, #KEYS
179:He has need of darkness to perceive some light ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.04 - The Vision and the Boon, #KEYS
180:Immortality assured itself by death; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.03 - The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
181:Knowledge is power and mastery. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 1.07 - The Ego and the Dualities, #KEYS
182:Man’s mind is the dupe of his animal self. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems A God’s Labour, #KEYS
183:Never tell a lie: absolute condition for safety on the path ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
184:Night a process of the eternal light ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.03 - The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
185:One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine , #KEYS
186:Speak not my secret name to hostile Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.04 - The Vision and the Boon, #KEYS
187:The body is the chrysalis of a soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.03 - The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
188:Unity is a means and not an end in itself. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - II About Unity, #KEYS
189:What it knew was an image in a broken glass, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.13 - In the Self of Mind, #KEYS
190:What should I read at present? Sri Aurobindo's books. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
191:A casual passing phrase can change our life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 04.03 - The Call to the Quest, #KEYS
192:A prey to the staring phantoms of the gloom ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
193:Aversion is not equality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 4.11 - The Perfection of Equality, #KEYS
194:Harmony is the natural rule of the spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
195:His hunger for the eternal thou must nurse ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces, #KEYS
196:If thoughts come, what should I do? Dismiss them. ~ The Mother, More Answers From The Mother , #KEYS
197:Love must be turned singly towards the Divine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Desire, #KEYS
198:Man is fortunately inconsistent. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Materialism, #KEYS
199:Steady efforts always bring great results. With my blessings ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
200:The child of the Void shall be reborn in God, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 05.03 - Satyavan and Savitri, #KEYS
201:' . . . the supreme Mage, the divine Magician, . . .' [the Lord] ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine , #KEYS
202:The Truth is sure to prevail in spite of all oppositions. ~ The Mother, White Roses 124, #KEYS
203:The Wise who know see but one half of Truth, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 04.03 - The Call to the Quest, #KEYS
204:To copy on earth’s copies is his art. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.02 - The Kingdom of Subtle Matter, #KEYS
205:To love the Divine is to be loved by Him. 2 November 1932 ~ The Mother, Some Answers From The Mother , #KEYS
206:With confidence we shall advance; with certitude we shall wait. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
207:An outer renunciation by itself does not liberate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV The Second Sex, #KEYS
208:An unseen Presence moulds the oblivious clay. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
209:A saviour gesture stretched her lifted arm, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.05 - The Finding of the Soul, #KEYS
210:A subtle link of union joins all life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.02 - The Kingdom of Subtle Matter, #KEYS
211:Be always faithful to your faith and you will feel no sorrow. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
212:Even if there is real danger, fear does not help. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Fear, #KEYS
213:Have confidence, I am near you.With all my tender love. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I , #KEYS
214:I am an epitome of opposites. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 1.03 - The Spiritual Being of Man, #KEYS
215:If there is no creation, there must be disintegration. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin Ourselves, #KEYS
216:Infinity wore a boundless zero’s form. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.03 - The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
217:Its signs stare at us like an unknown script, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
218:Limitation is mortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda 1.02 - The Doctrine of the Mystics, #KEYS
219:Often the idea creates the need. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - II Oligarchy or Democracy?, #KEYS
220:Only a consciousness full of light can be pure. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II Purity, #KEYS
221:Our outward happenings have their seed within, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
222:Plastic and passive to the all-shaping Fire ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.02 - The Kingdom of Subtle Matter, #KEYS
223:Savitri the supreme revelation of Sri Aurobindo's vision. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I , #KEYS
224:Solitude wrapped him in its voiceless folds. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
225:That Godhead's seed might flower in mindless Space. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
226:The true repose is that of a perfect surrender to the Divine. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
227:The whole of our life should be a prayer offered to the Divine. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III , #KEYS
228:All difficulties are there to test the endurance of the faith. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
229:And all grows beautiful because Thou art. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems The Divine Hearing, #KEYS
230:A vast surrender was his only strength ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.02 - The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #KEYS
231:Dare greatly and thou shalt be great. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - II Act I, #KEYS
232:He has need of death to find a greater life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.04 - The Vision and the Boon, #KEYS
233:Here was a quiet country of fixed mind ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.03 - The Entry into the Inner Countries, #KEYS
234:If all forms, quantities, qualities were to disappear, this would remain. ~ Sri Aurobindo, TLD 1.09-08 , #KEYS
235:Let us be prepared for death but work for life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - I The Crisis, #KEYS
236:Once kindled, never can its flamings cease. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.12 - The Heavens of the Ideal, #KEYS
237:Only those who are perfectly truthful can be my true children. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
238:The Eternal’s quiet holds the cosmic act: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Glory and Fall of Life, #KEYS
239:What is my true worth in this life? To serve the Divine. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
240:When all has been explained nothing is known. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces, #KEYS
241:Adore and what you adore attempt to be. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - I Act V, #KEYS
242:All is a wager and danger, all is a chase and a battle. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.02 - Ahana, #KEYS
243:A steady hope helps much on the way. With my blessings ~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother 15 August, #KEYS
244:By its breath of grace our lives abide. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.01 - The Pursuit of the Unknowable, #KEYS
245:Each part in us desires its absolute. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #KEYS
246:His little hour is spent in little things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #KEYS
247:His thought labours, a bullock in Time’s fields; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
248:In Death’s realm repatriate immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.03 - The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
249:Many are God’s forms by which he grows in man; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces, #KEYS
250:My body a dot in the soul’s vast expanse. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems The Self’s Infinity, #KEYS
251:Peace was a thrilled voluptuous purity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.09 - The Paradise of the Life-Gods, #KEYS
252:Sorrow if indulged becomes a habit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II Jainism and Buddhism, #KEYS
253:Spiritually there is nothing big or small. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II Work and Yoga, #KEYS
254:The eye of man outside matters nothing; the eye within is all. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga , #KEYS
255:There is no greater courage than to be always truthful ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II Courage., #KEYS
256:We must decide to get rid of all doubts, they are among the worst enemies of our progress. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
257:What is liberty? Liberty is to depend only on the Divine. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
258:A discipline imposed by the will for any spiritual end is tapasya.§ ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
259:All is in God's hands; whatever He makes us do, that we shall do. ~ The Mother, Agenda Vol 3 Satprem, #KEYS
260:A thinking puppet is the mind of life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #KEYS
261:A thousand aspects point back to the One. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.03 - The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
262:Even the body has its intuitions. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 3.05 - The Divine Personality, #KEYS
263:Hopes that soon fade to drab realities ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #KEYS
264:In my heart’s chamber lives the unworshipped God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 7.5.56 - Omnipresence, #KEYS
265:Make the abysm a road for Heaven's descent, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #KEYS
266:Man is too weak to bear the Infinite’s weight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.04 - The Vision and the Boon, #KEYS
267:Mind is a passage, not a culmination. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 1.14 - The Supermind as Creator, #KEYS
268:One man’s perfection still can save the world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.05 - The Finding of the Soul, #KEYS
269:Simple sincerity: the beginning of all progress. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II Sincerity, #KEYS
270:Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga IV , #KEYS
271:The moon floated, a luminous waif through heaven ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 04.03 - The Call to the Quest, #KEYS
272:An immutable Power has made this mutable world; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.04 - The Vision and the Boon, #KEYS
273:But all power is in the end one, all power is really soul-power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga , #KEYS
274:ekas tisthati viras tisthati - he stands alone, he stands as a hero. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Glossary of terms , #KEYS
275:Her smile could persuade a dead lacerated heart ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces, #KEYS
276:Ignorance was a thin shade protecting light, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Glory and Fall of Life, #KEYS
277:It is the East that must conquer in India’s uprising. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin In Either Case, #KEYS
278:Masked the high gods act; the doer is hid by his working. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.01 - Ilion, #KEYS
279:Mountains and trees stood there like thoughts from God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 05.03 - Satyavan and Savitri, #KEYS
280:Necessity fashionsAll that the unseen eye has beheld. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.01 - Ilion, #KEYS
281:Nobody can say, 'there is no hope for me.' because the Divine Grace is there. ~ The Mother, White Roses , #KEYS
282:Tell your vital not to judge on appearances and to collaborate. All is well in the long run. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
283:The gnosis does not seek, it possesses. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.22 - Vijnana or Gnosis, #KEYS
284:The golden virgin, Usha, mother of life,Yet virgin. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems Urvasie, #KEYS
285:The measure of the sincerity is the measure of the success.23 April 1968 ~ The Mother, On Education , #KEYS
286:The past cannot bind the future. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II 1.2.01 - The Call and the Capacity, #KEYS
287:There is a zero sign of the Supreme. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.02 - The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #KEYS
288:They always speak of the rights of love but love's only right is the right of self giving. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
289:Uniformity is death, not life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle The Inadequacy of the State Idea, #KEYS
290:A contradiction founds the base of life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.04 - The Kingdoms of the Little Life, #KEYS
291:All was a limitless sea that heaved to the moon. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.04 - The Vision and the Boon, #KEYS
292:A mistake recognised is a mistake pardoned. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II 2.3.08 - The Mother's Help in Difficulties, #KEYS
293:Asia has always initiated, Europe completed. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - II The Asiatic Role, #KEYS
294:By Light we live and to the Light we go. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.01 - The Dream Twilight of the Ideal, #KEYS
295:Day after day our aspiration will grow and our faith will intensify. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
296:Experience comes through many errors. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle The Spiritual Aim and Life, #KEYS
297:God is at once impersonal and personal. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita 2.04 - The Secret of Secrets, #KEYS
298:God’s long nights are justified by dawn. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.01 - The Dream Twilight of the Ideal, #KEYS
299:Inner happiness can only come by right living. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita Deva and Asura, #KEYS
300:Man was moulded from the original brute. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #KEYS
301:Nothing in this world is created, all is manifested. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Early Cultural Writings Art, #KEYS
302:Our souls deputed selves of the Supreme. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #KEYS
303:Pain grew a trembling undertone of bliss ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.01 - The Dream Twilight of the Ideal, #KEYS
304:Peace is a sign of mukti—Ananda moves towards siddhi. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II the Divine Peace, #KEYS
305:Rhythm is the subtle soul of poetry. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry Recent English Poetry - I, #KEYS
306:The eye of Faith is not one with the eye of Knowledge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin In Either Case, #KEYS
307:The spiritual fullness of the being is eternity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
308:This world is God fulfilled in outwardness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.03 - The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
309:What devours must also be devoured. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 3.04 - The Spirit in Spirit-Land after Death, #KEYS
310:While life remains, action is unavoidable. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 1.12 - The Divine Work, #KEYS
311:With patience one arrives always. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II Will and Perserverance, #KEYS
312:All stability is a fixed equilibrium of rhythm. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad The Isha Upanishad, #KEYS
313:All the world's possibilities in manAre waiting as the tree waits in its seed: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri , #KEYS
314:Deep in our being inhabits the voiceless invisible Teacher; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.02 - Ahana, #KEYS
315:Her greatest progress is a deepened need. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.04 - The Kingdoms of the Little Life, #KEYS
316:He who chooses the Infinite has been chosen by the Infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga , #KEYS
317:Knowledge is incomplete without action. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad Action and the Divine Will, #KEYS
318:Material Nature is not ethical. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine Delight of Existence, #KEYS
319:One age has seen the dreams another lives. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - II Act I, #KEYS
320:Quality and quantity differ, the self is equal. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 1.09 - The Pure Existent, #KEYS
321:The intellectual ages sing less easily. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry The Form and the Spirit, #KEYS
322:The perfect man is a divine child! ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Heraclitus - VII, #KEYS
323:The simple approach means trust. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II Bhakti Yoga and Vaishnavism, #KEYS
324:Thought the great-winged wanderer paraclete ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 7.2.04 - Thought the Paraclete, #KEYS
325:To our gaze God’s light is a darkness, His plan is a chaos. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.01 - Ilion, #KEYS
326:Truth is the secret of life and power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle Civilisation and Barbarism, #KEYS
327:A Calm that cradles Fate upon its knees. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 7.5.29 - The Universal Incarnation, #KEYS
328:A cave of darkness guards the eternal Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.01 - The Pursuit of the Unknowable, #KEYS
329:Action solves the difficulties which action creates. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin Facts and Opinions, #KEYS
330:All quarrels proceed from egoism. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Problems in Human Relations, #KEYS
331:Alone the wise Can walk through fire with unblinking eyes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems Epigram, #KEYS
332:Be perfectly sincere and no victory will be denied to you. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II Sincerity, #KEYS
333:Even in inanimate Matter Mind is at work. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 0.03 - The Threefold Life, #KEYS
334:Eviller fate there is none than life too long among mortals. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.01 - Ilion, #KEYS
335:From a veiled God-joy the worlds were made ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #KEYS
336:If you pray, trust that he hears. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II Bhakti Yoga and Vaishnavism, #KEYS
337:Instinct was hers, the chrysalis of Truth, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.04 - The Kingdoms of the Little Life, #KEYS
338:It is in an unshakable peace that can be found the true power. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II the Divine Peace, #KEYS
339:Let each suffering pave the wave to transformation. With my Blessings. ~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother , #KEYS
340:Like one who wakes to find his dreams were true ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.01 - The Dream Twilight of the Ideal, #KEYS
341:One can be free only by living in the Divine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I 5.4.01 - Occult Knowledge, #KEYS
342:Our minds are starters in the race to God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #KEYS
343:Sight is the essential poetic gift. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry Poetic Vision and the Mantra, #KEYS
344:That is the divine Brahman and not this which men here adore. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga , #KEYS
345:The earth you tread is a border screened from heaven ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 04.03 - The Call to the Quest, #KEYS
346:The Mind creates the chain and not the body. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad Conclusion and Summary, #KEYS
347:The One by whom all live, who lives by none, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.01 - The Pursuit of the Unknowable, #KEYS
348:The pure intellect cannot create poetry. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry New Birth or Decadence?, #KEYS
349:There is no last certitude in which thought can pause ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
350:The vital does not like waiting. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Wrong Movements of the Vital, #KEYS
351:Truth is bare like stone and hard like death; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.03 - The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
352:A constant aspirations conquers all defects. With my Blessings. ~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother May 21, #KEYS
353:All absoluteness is pure delight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine Delight of Existence, #KEYS
354:All here can change if the Magician choose. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
355:All in the cosmos has a divine origin. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 3.05 - The Divine Personality, #KEYS
356:Dreams that are hints of unborn Reality, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.03 - The Entry into the Inner Countries, #KEYS
357:Ego is the principal knot. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 4.04 - The Perfection of the Mental Being, #KEYS
358:Here to fulfil himself was God’s desire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.02 - The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #KEYS
359:If desire comes up, the Ananda is obliged to draw back. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Desire, #KEYS
360:In the divine consciousness there is no ego. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Ego and Its Forms, #KEYS
361:Let Him choose for thee a king's palace or the bowl of the beggar. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human , #KEYS
362:Love is a seeking for mutual possession. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 3.03 - The Godward Emotions, #KEYS
363:Mind hushes stilled in eternity; waves of the Infinite wander ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.02 - Ahana, #KEYS
364:My life is a silence grasped by timeless hands; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems The Self’s Infinity, #KEYS
365:One cannot demand or compel grace. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II Bhakti Yoga and Vaishnavism, #KEYS
366:The Bliss whose rapture dreamed the worlds. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #KEYS
367:The heart is wiser than the thought. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 3.01 - Love and the Triple Path, #KEYS
368:The mind pre-eminently is man; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga 5.02 - Perfection of the Body, #KEYS
369:The only atonement for a wrong thing done is to do the right thing on the next occasion. ~ Nolini Kanta Gupta, #KEYS
370:There can be no firm foundation in sadhana without equality, samata. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II , #KEYS
371:There is a purpose in each stumble and fall. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
372:We are the heirs of infinite widenesses. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems The Call of the Impossible, #KEYS
373:All this is the Brahman; this Self is the Brahman and the Self is fourfold. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine , #KEYS
374:All time is one body, Space a single look. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
375:As knowledge grows Light flames up from within. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.03 - The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
376:Compassion to all creatures is the condition of sainthood. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - II Swaraj, #KEYS
377:Delight, God’s sweetest sign and Beauty’s twin. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.03 - The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
378:Each time you have to make progress, you have to undergo an examination. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
379:Heavy is godhead to bear with its mighty sun-burden of lustre. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.02 - Ahana, #KEYS
380:Himself was to himself his only scene. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.15 - The Kingdoms of the Greater Knowledge, #KEYS
381:Hope not to hear truth often in royal courts. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - II Act I, #KEYS
382:It is from unsatisfied desire that all suffering arises. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Desire, #KEYS
383:It is our lack of faith that creates our limitations. With my blessings, ~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother , #KEYS
384:Man, human, follows in God’s human steps. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.03 - The Entry into the Inner Countries, #KEYS
385:Mind is born from that which is beyond mind. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.22 - Vijnana or Gnosis, #KEYS
386:Only those who sympathise can help. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Problems in Human Relations, #KEYS
387:Renunciation of desires: the essential condition for realisation. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
388:Study cannot take the same or a greater importance than sadhana. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - IV , #KEYS
389:There none was weak, so falsehood could not live; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Glory and Fall of Life, #KEYS
390:The Supermind alone commands unity in diversity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 1.22 - The Problem of Life, #KEYS
391:The Yogi eats not out of desire, but to maintain the body. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Food, #KEYS
392:To feed death with her works is here life’s doom. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Glory and Fall of Life, #KEYS
393:To feed death with her works is here life’s doom. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Glory and Fall of Life, #KEYS
394:Truth born too soon might break the imperfect earth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.04 - The Vision and the Boon, #KEYS
395:Whatever our hearts conceive, our heads create, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.02 - The Kingdom of Subtle Matter, #KEYS
396:Aggression is necessary for self-preservation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin The Awakening Soul of India, #KEYS
397:All things shall change in God's transfiguring hour. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.04 - The Vision and the Boon, #KEYS
398:An awful Silence watches tragic Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
399:A serpent Power twinned the insensible Force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #KEYS
400:God is love and beauty as well as purity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle Religion as the Law of Life, #KEYS
401:Heavenly voices to us are a silence, those colours a whiteness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.01 - Ilion, #KEYS
402:How can humanity become one? By becoming conscious of its origin. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III , #KEYS
403:Immortal bliss lives not in human air. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
404:In order to remember something, you must first of all be conscious of it. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III , #KEYS
405:Liberation is self-possession, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga 5.7.1.07 - Involution and Evolution, #KEYS
406:Man out of Nature wakes to God’s complexities, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - II Act I, #KEYS
407:Poetry like everything else in man evolves. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry New Birth or Decadence?, #KEYS
408:Realisations are the essence of knowledge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV 4.22 - The supramental Thought and Knowledge, #KEYS
409:Spiritual force can always raise up material force to defend it. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin Ourselves, #KEYS
410:The occult is a part of existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.15 - Reality and the Integral Knowledge, #KEYS
411:The principle of the Yoga is rejection-throwing out of the being. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II , #KEYS
412:Vision only opens, it does not embrace. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.02 - The Status of Knowledge, #KEYS
413:Who am I? The Divine under many disguises. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II "The Divine" and "Man", #KEYS
414:All existence here is a universal Life that takes form of Matter. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 1.06 - The Transformation of Dream Life, #KEYS
415:All self-fulfilment is satisfaction of being. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 1.14 - The Supermind as Creator, #KEYS
416:All that denies must be torn out and slain ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.02 - The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #KEYS
417:Alone she is equal to her mighty task. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
418:An eternal instant is the cause of the years. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.02 - The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #KEYS
419:Death fosters life that life may suckle death. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - II Act II, #KEYS
420:Each is a mass of forces thrown in shape. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems Discoveries of Science - III, #KEYS
421:Even an hour of the soul can unveil the Unborn, the Everlasting, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.02 - Ahana, #KEYS
422:God still keepsNear to a paler world the hour ere dawn ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems Chitrangada, #KEYS
423:His soul was freed and given to her alone. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.02 - The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #KEYS
424:It is the essentials alone that matter. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II 1.2.01 - The Call and the Capacity, #KEYS
425:It is the soul in us which turns always towards Truth, Good and Beauty. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine , #KEYS
426:Joy that throbs behindThe marvel and the mystery of pain. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.01 - The Word of Fate, #KEYS
427:Knowledge gropes, but meets not Wisdom’s face. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.04 - The Kingdoms of the Little Life, #KEYS
428:Let the Divine Presence be always with you. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II 1.02 - The Divine Is with You, #KEYS
429:Life’s wholeTremendous theorem is Thou complete. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 1.18 - The Divine Worker, #KEYS
430:Open God’s door, enter into his trance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.02 - The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #KEYS
431:Our lives are God’s messengers beneath the stars. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.03 - The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
432:Our souls are moved by powers behind the wall. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #KEYS
433:She held their hands, she chose for them their paths: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 04.02 - The Growth of the Flame, #KEYS
434:Sincerity in Yoga means to respond to the Divine alone. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II Sincerity, #KEYS
435:The Divine's peace must dwell constantly in our hearts. With my Blessings. ~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother , #KEYS
436:The greatest have their limitations. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad A Commentary on the Isha Upanishad, #KEYS
437:The ideal never yet was real made. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.02 - The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal, #KEYS
438:The Inconscient is the Superconscient’s sleep. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.01 - The Dream Twilight of the Ideal, #KEYS
439:The Inconscient is the Superconscient’s sleep. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.01 - The Dream Twilight of the Ideal, #KEYS
440:There is an hour for knowledge, an hour to forget and to labour. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.01 - Ilion, #KEYS
441:There should be no big I, not even a small one. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Ego and Its Forms, #KEYS
442:The soul is a figure of the Unmanifest, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
443:We can construct nothing which goes beyond our nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
444:We think according to what we are. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Poetry and Art Bertrand Russell, #KEYS
445:What is God? God is the perfection that we must aspire to realise. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
446:A fiery portion of the Wonderful, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Souls Release, #KEYS
447:All evil is in travail of the eternal good. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.04 - The Divine and the Undivine, #KEYS
448:All great poetic utterance is discovery. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry Poetic Vision and the Mantra, #KEYS
449:All sincere prayers are granted, every call is answered. With my blessings, ~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother , #KEYS
450:Always the blood is wiser and knows what is hid from the thinker. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.01 - Ilion, #KEYS
451:And all the while within us works His love. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.2.02 - The Meditations of Mandavya, #KEYS
452:And crying for a direction in the void ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #KEYS
453:Aspiring he transcends his earthly self. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.02 - The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #KEYS
454:Calm is self’s victory overcoming fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
455:Encourage only what leads quickly to the Lord and serves His divine purpose. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
456:Escape, however high, redeems not life, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
457:Eternal truth lives not with mortal men. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
458:Faith is not intellectual belief but a function of the soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II Baha i Faith, #KEYS
459:Hard are God’s terms and few can meet them of men who are mortal. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.01 - Ilion, #KEYS
460:Have a sincere faith in the Divine and you will clearly know what you have to do. Blessings. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
461:His knowledge dwells in the house of Ignorance; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #KEYS
462:Is here and in the pleasant house He choseTo harbour God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 3.1.23 - The Rishi, #KEYS
463:Knowledge is not complete without works. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 3.01 - Love and the Triple Path, #KEYS
464:Live within, in the depth of your heart, and nobody or nothing will have the power to disturb you. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
465:Men have made kings that folly might have food. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - II Act II, #KEYS
466:Mind is His wax to write and, written, raseForm and name. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 3.1.23 - The Rishi, #KEYS
467:Mortal delight has its mortal danger. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda The Guardians of the Light, #KEYS
468:The dim subconscient is his cavern base. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.02 - The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #KEYS
469:There is no darkness, we only close our eyes and shut out the Light. ~ Nolini Kanta Gupta, To The Heights , #KEYS
470:The spiritual man is one who has discovered his soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.27 - The Gnostic Being, #KEYS
471:The sweet vast centre and the cave divineCalled Paradise, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 3.1.23 - The Rishi, #KEYS
472:This is a constructive way of feeling which leads straight to the future. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
473:Time is a manifestation of the Eternal. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.06 - Reality and the Cosmic Illusion, #KEYS
474:299. Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human 3.1.10 - Karma, #KEYS
475:Accord and concord are the true normality of the spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
476:According to my experience people fall into tamas when they go into solitude. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
477:All action is surrounded by a complexity of forces. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I 5.4.01 - Occult Knowledge, #KEYS
478:All evil shall perforce change itself into good. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.24 - Gnosis and Ananda, #KEYS
479:All impurity is a confusion of working. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.03 - The Purified Understanding, #KEYS
480:All is an episode in a meaningless tale. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
481:And in the heart of the worst the best shall be born by my wisdom. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.01 - Ilion, #KEYS
482:Art’s brilliant gleam is a pastime for his eyes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #KEYS
483:Doubt is the mind’s persistent assailant. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II 7.05 - Patience and Perseverance, #KEYS
484:Ego is the reason of the difficulty in everybody. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Ego and Its Forms, #KEYS
485:Even in the worm is a god and it writhes for a form and an outlet. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.01 - Ilion, #KEYS
486:Hail to Thee, Master of the world, who triumphest over all darkness. ~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations , #KEYS
487:He who is himself in bonds cannot easily free others. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.05 - Renunciation, #KEYS
488:He who to some gives victory, joy and good,To some gives rest. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems To R., #KEYS
489:His good and evil, sin and virtue, tillHe bids thee leave. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 3.1.23 - The Rishi, #KEYS
490:In absolute silence sleeps an absolute Power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.02 - The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #KEYS
491:In IslamAll men are equal underneath the King. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - I Act I, #KEYS
492:It reveals itself rather than is learned. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.03 - The Eternal and the Individual, #KEYS
493:Mire is the man who hears not the gods when they cry to his bosom. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.01 - Ilion, #KEYS
494:Powers of his godhead we live; the Creator dwells in the creature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.02 - Ahana, #KEYS
495:She is the golden bridge, the wonderful fire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.02 - The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #KEYS
496:Successful assimilation depends on mastery. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine and Human On Original Thinking, #KEYS
497:Supermind is the vast self-extension of the Brahman that contains and develops. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine , #KEYS
498:The end of all Science is Agnosticism. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad A Commentary on the Isha Upanishad, #KEYS
499:The goal of evolution is also its cause. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 0.02 - The Three Steps of Nature, #KEYS
500:The moments are Fate’s thoughtsWatching me. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - II Act III, #KEYS
501:The more we know the more we can see that we do not know. With my Blessings. ~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother , #KEYS
502:This too must now be overpassed and left ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.10 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind, #KEYS
503:Thou art thyself the author of thy pain. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
504:Unity is as strong a principle in Nature as division. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 1.21 - The Ascent of Life, #KEYS
505:We must live as a nation before we can live in humanity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin Opinion and Comments, #KEYS
506:When Love desires Love, Then Love is born. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - II Act I, #KEYS
507:With pain and labour all creation comes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
508:Words are but ghosts unless they speak the heart. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - II Act I, #KEYS
509:A secret Will compels us to endure. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #KEYS
510:A thrill that smites the nerves is music’s spell. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #KEYS
511:A whole mysterious world is locked within. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.02 - The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #KEYS
512:Clouds from Zeus come and pass; his sunshine eternal survives them. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.01 - Ilion, #KEYS
513:Each soul is the great Father’s crucified Son, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.03 - The Entry into the Inner Countries, #KEYS
514:Equality is the very sign of liberation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 4.11 - The Perfection of Equality, #KEYS
515:Everything is a poise of contrary energies. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Heraclitus - IV, #KEYS
516:For each his difficult goalHewn out of infinite possibility. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.01 - The Word of Fate, #KEYS
517:If the need is a true one, the means to do it will come spontaneously. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
518:Ignorance is a self-oblivion of Being. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.15 - Reality and the Integral Knowledge, #KEYS
519:Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. ~ , 1 Corinthians 13:7, #KEYS
520:Love is the hoop of the godsHearts to combine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - II Act I, #KEYS
521:Love itself is sweet enoughThough unreturned. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - II Act II, #KEYS
522:man carries the seed of the divine life in himself ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga Faith and Shakti, #KEYS
523:Receptivity is the capacity of admitting and retaining the Divine Workings. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
524:The evening sky,God’s canopy of blue sheltering our lives ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 12.01 - The Return to Earth, #KEYS
525:The gods cannot, if they would, give themselves unasked. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - I Bhawani Mandir, #KEYS
526:The mind labours to think the Unthinkable. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
527:The soul suffering is not eternity’s key, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
528:The sunlight was a great god’s golden smile. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 04.01 - The Birth and Childhood of the Flame, #KEYS
529:The Yogi knows by his capacity for a containing or dynamic identity with things and persons and forces. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
530:To be equal is to be infinite and universal. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 4.13 - The Action of Equality, #KEYS
531:Two are the angels of God whom men worship, strength and enjoyment. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.01 - Ilion, #KEYS
532:what matters in a symbol is what it means for you. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III The Animal World, #KEYS
533:When a force ceases to conquer, it ceases to live. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin The Awakening Soul of India, #KEYS
534:When you stand in the light of the Supreme Consciousness, you must not make a shadow. ~ The Mother, Agenda 10 , #KEYS
535:Without reason life is a tangle of dreams, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
536:All awareness is power and all power conceals awareness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Hymns to the Mystic Fire RV I.1.1, #KEYS
537:All things embrace in death and the strife and the hatred are ended. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.01 - Ilion, #KEYS
538:And yet she cannot choose but labours on; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #KEYS
539:A new ordeal always brings with it a new awakening. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - II Ideals Face to Face, #KEYS
540:An idiot hour destroys what centuries made ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
541:A wide Compassion leans to embrace earth’s pain; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 7.5.29 - The Universal Incarnation, #KEYS
542:But there is never any end when one has loved. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.2.02 - The Meditations of Mandavya, #KEYS
543:Error is the comrade of our mortal thought ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
544:Faith fights for God, while Knowledge is waiting for fulfilment. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin In Either Case, #KEYS
545:Falsehood lurks in the deep bosom of truth ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
546:Limited and divided being is ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda 1.02 - The Doctrine of the Mystics, #KEYS
547:Man his passion prefers to the voice that guides from the immortals. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.01 - Ilion, #KEYS
548:Men die that man may live and God be born. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
549:Only the one who can give everything, enjoys the Divine All everywhere. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga , #KEYS
550:Prayer is not a form of words but an aspiration. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - II The Need of the Moment, #KEYS
551:The body of God,The link of the finite with the Infinite, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 05.03 - Satyavan and Savitri, #KEYS
552:The characteristic energy of pure Mind is change. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 0.03 - The Threefold Life, #KEYS
553:The Divinity in man dwells veiled in his spiritual centre. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
554:The Formless and the Formed were joined in her: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.02 - The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #KEYS
555:The gnostic soul is the child, but the king-child. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.24 - Gnosis and Ananda, #KEYS
556:The master of my stars is heWho owns no master. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - II Act V, #KEYS
557:There is only one reality, there is only one life, there is only one consciousness: the Divine. ~ The Mother, CWM 11 , #KEYS
558:The supreme faith is that which sees God in all. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita 2.12 - The Way and the Bhakta, #KEYS
559:Time was Eternity’s transparent robe. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.03 - The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, #KEYS
560:What seemed the source and end was a wide gate, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.02 - The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #KEYS
561:You cannot utterly die while the Power lives untired in your bosoms; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.01 - Ilion, #KEYS
562:A gossiping spirit is always an obstacle. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram Avoiding Gossip, #KEYS
563:A gossiping spirit is always an obstacle. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram Avoiding Gossip, #KEYS
564:All things Vary to keep the secret witness pleased. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - II Act II, #KEYS
565:Always a nameless goal beckons beyond, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.10 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind, #KEYS
566:A timeless mystery works out in Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #KEYS
567:A vast subliminal is man’s measureless part. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.02 - The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #KEYS
568:Go on aspiring and the necessary progress is bound to come. With my blessings ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
569:He journeys sleepless through an unending night; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
570:In silence seek God’s meaning in thy depths, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.02 - The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #KEYS
571:In the Alone there is no room for love. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.02 - The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal, #KEYS
572:My mind is a torch lit from the eternal sun. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
573:Space is a stillness of God building his earthly abode. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry Trance of Waiting, #KEYS
574:Surely the steel grows dear in the land when a traitor can flourish.” ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.01 - Ilion, #KEYS
575:The All-Wonderful has packed heaven with his dreams, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.03 - The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
576:The Divine alone is the support that never fails. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II The Divine Is with You [14], #KEYS
577:The help of Sri Aurobindo is constant; it is for us to know how to receive it. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I , #KEYS
578:The knot of the Ignorance is egoism. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad: The Inhabiting Godhead Life and Action, #KEYS
579:The law of the supermind is unity fulfilled in diversity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.27 - The Gnostic Being, #KEYS
580:The ordinary man is not yet a rational being. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle The Curve of the Rational Age, #KEYS
581:The Word that ushers divine experience ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.03 - The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, #KEYS
582:The world is not cut off from Truth and God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
583:To the soul and Shakti in man nothing is impossible. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga Faith and Shakti, #KEYS
584:To the soul and Shakti in man nothing is impossible. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga Faith and Shakti, #KEYS
585:Unity the race moves towards and must one day realise. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle Diversity in Oneness, #KEYS
586:Above her brows where will and knowledge meet ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.02 - The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #KEYS
587:All is their play:This whole wide world is only he and she. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
588:All life is either consciously or subconsciously a Yoga. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 0.01 - Life and Yoga, #KEYS
589:Because others are mean is no reason to be mean yourself. 24 April 1933 ~ The Mother, Some Answers From The Mother 2020-08-29, #KEYS
590:By itself the intelligence can only achieve talent. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle The Suprarational Beauty, #KEYS
591:Every man is not only himself, he is that which he represents. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin Facts and Opinions, #KEYS
592:Heaven’s joys might have been earth’s if earth were pure. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Glory and Fall of Life, #KEYS
593:He who seeks the Divine must consecrate himself to God and to God only. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga , #KEYS
594:If you ask from within for peace, it will come. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II Peace and Silence, #KEYS
595:It is vision that sees Truth, not logic. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Poetry and Art Bertrand Russell, #KEYS
596:Love the signOf one outblaze of godhead that two share. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems The Life Heavens, #KEYS
597:Never say, I cannot. Look more closely, you will find that it means in reality, I want not. ~ Nolini Kanta Gupta, #KEYS
598:nothing is truly vain the One has made ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #KEYS
599:Only a slow advance the earth can bear. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.10 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind, #KEYS
600:Our dead selves come to slay our living soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.02 - The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #KEYS
601:Soul determines Form & Action & is not determined by them. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad The Isha Upanishad, #KEYS
602:The psychic is the support of the individual evolution ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I 1.05 - The Ascent of the Sacrifice - The Psychic Being, #KEYS
603:The real truth of man is to be found in his soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle The Spiritual Aim and Life, #KEYS
604:The sole timeless WordThat carries eternity in its lonely sound, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.01 - The World-Stair, #KEYS
605:The Unknown is not the Unknowable. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine The Two Negations, #KEYS
606:This darkness hides our nobler destiny. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.03 - The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, #KEYS
607:Tied up the spirit to golden posts of bliss. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.10 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind, #KEYS
608:When the path is known it is easy to tread upon it. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II The Path of Yoga, #KEYS
609:Worlds were many, but the Self was one. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.03 - The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, #KEYS
610:yoga: union with the Divine - by extension: the path which leads to this union ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
611:A beam of the Eternal smites his heart, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Souls Release, #KEYS
612:Action solves the difficulties which action creates. Inaction can only paralyse and slay. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin , #KEYS
613:A vast disguise conceals the Eternal’s bliss. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
614:Equality does not include inert acceptance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II Equality - The Chief Support, #KEYS
615:Fearless of death they must walk who would live and be mighty for ever. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.01 - Ilion, #KEYS
616:Have faith in the Divine, and go deep inside yourself. My help is always with you. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
617:He who seeks the Divine must consecrate himself to God and -- to God only. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 1.02, #KEYS
618:How can I have more and more faith and calm, Mother? Aspiration and will. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
619:Integral opening of the being towards the Divine: the first step of the ascent. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
620:Man’s conscience is a creation of his evolving nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle The Suprarational Good, #KEYS
621:Nature’s vision climbs beyond her acts. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #KEYS
622:Nobler must kings be than natures of earth on whom Zeus lays no burden. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.01 - Ilion, #KEYS
623:Strong poisons are the only salvation in desperate diseases. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - II The New Ideal, #KEYS
624:The tongue is always an easily erring member. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Depression and Despondency, #KEYS
625:This world is in love with its own ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
626:This world of fragile formsCarried on canvas-strips of shimmering Time, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.02 - The Issue, #KEYS
627:Through glorious things and base the wheel of GodFor ever runs. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 3.1.23 - The Rishi, #KEYS
628:Without a great ideal there can be no great movement. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - I The Leverage of Faith, #KEYS
629:Wrong could not come where all was light and love. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.02 - The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #KEYS
630:A mutual giving and receiving is the law of Life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita 1.13 - The Lord of the Sacrifice, #KEYS
631:Behind everything in life there is an Absolute. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle The Reason as Governor of Life, #KEYS
632:By Truth is the progress towards the Truth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda The Ashwins, #KEYS
633:Faith is spontaneous knowledge in the psychic. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II 3.03 - Faith and the Divine Grace, #KEYS
634:Heaven is too high for outstretched hands to seize. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.02 - The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #KEYS
635:Her signs still covered more than they revealed; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #KEYS
636:How beautiful is the day when one can offer one's devotion to Sri Aurobindo. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I , #KEYS
637:In finite things the conscious Infinite dwells: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
638:It becomes itself in the world by knowing itself; it knows itself by becoming itself. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine , #KEYS
639:Life is to be found in the recesses of its own being. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - II 01.01 - The One Thing Needful, #KEYS
640:Mind is only a preparatory form of our consciousness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 1.14 - The Supermind as Creator, #KEYS
641:One has sometimes to deny God in order to find him. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle The Spiritual Aim and Life, #KEYS
642:Oneness is the soul of multitude. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Yoga of the King, #KEYS
643:Perfect knowledge indeed leads to perfect love. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 3.01 - Love and the Triple Path, #KEYS
644:Perseverance: the decision to go to the very end ... [and] is patience in action ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
645:The Divine Grace comes in to help and save. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II 1.4.01 - The Divine Grace and Guidance, #KEYS
646:The great are strongest when they stand alone. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
647:The intuitive mentality is still mind and not gnosis. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 4.20 - The Intuitive Mind, #KEYS
648:The lyric is a moment of heightened soul experience. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry The Form and the Spirit, #KEYS
649:The movement that stores up and concentrates is no less needed than the movement that spreads and diffuses. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
650:There is a freedom in each face of Fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
651:There is no such thing as a mere accident. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Accidents, #KEYS
652:The soul that can live alone with itself meets God; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
653:The spirit is doomed to pain till man is free. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
654:The Supermind using the Word is the creative Logos. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Kena and Other Upanishads The Supreme Word, #KEYS
655:Time’s accidents are steps in its vast scheme. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
656:Truth made the world, not a blind Nature-Force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.02 - The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #KEYS
657:Vision is the characteristic power of the poet. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry Poetic Vision and the Mantra, #KEYS
658:All knowledge is in oneself, in the knower. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Early Cultural Writings Things Seen in Symbols - II, #KEYS
659:All sincere prayers are granted, but it may take some time to realise materially. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III , #KEYS
660:All work must be play, but a divine play, played for the Divine, with the Divine. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
661:Each through his nature He leads and the world by the lure of His wisdom. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.01 - Ilion, #KEYS
662:God is the one stable and eternal Reality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad: Brahman Oneness of God and the World, #KEYS
663:Hidden in the mortal’s heart the Eternal lives: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
664:His love has paved the mortal’s road to Heaven. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
665:It is good to have this unshakable faith - it makes your path easier and shorter. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
666:She throws a glittering robe on Ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.10 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind, #KEYS
667:The best way of meeting difficulties is a quiet and calm confidence in the Grace. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
668:The eternal Truth can manifest its truths in Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 1.11 - The Master of the Work, #KEYS
669:The more we concentrate on the goal, the more it blossoms forth and becomes precise. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
670:The poison of the world has stained his throat. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
671:The senses there were outlets of the soul; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.03 - The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, #KEYS
672:Vital desire grows by being indulged, it does not become satisfied. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Desire, #KEYS
673:We cannot get strength unless we adore the Mother of strength. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - I Bhawani Mandir, #KEYS
674:Whatever comes to you, if you take it in the right spirit, will turn for the best. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III , #KEYS
675:Yoga demands mastery over the nature, not subjection to the nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Desire, #KEYS
676:A mistake one denies is a mistake one refuses to set right. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II 2.3.08 - The Mother's Help in Difficulties, #KEYS
677:...before Thee we bow down and implore that we may never forget all we owe to Thee. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I , #KEYS
678:Darkness grew nurse to wisdom’s occult sun. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.10 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind, #KEYS
679:Faith divines in the large what Knowledge sees distinctly and clearly. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin In Either Case, #KEYS
680:Faith is only a will aiming at greater truth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 4.14 - The Power of the Instruments, #KEYS
681:Heal from above instead of struggling from below. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.15 - The Cosmic Consciousness, #KEYS
682:Heaven’s wiser love rejects the mortal’s prayer; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
683:In Nature’s endless lines is lost the God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #KEYS
684:Its faith is perfectibility, its watchword is progress. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 0.03 - The Threefold Life, #KEYS
685:Nothing but a radical change of consciousness can deliver the world from its present obscurity. ~ The Mother, On Education , #KEYS
686:Our death is made a passage to new worlds. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #KEYS
687:Purity is to accept no other influence but only the influence of the Divine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II , #KEYS
688:She has a secret of will power which no other nation possesses. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - II The New Ideal, #KEYS
689:The intelligent are intelligent only in patches. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 1.10 - The Three Modes of Nature, #KEYS
690:The mind is a thing that dwells in diffusion, in succession. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.04 - Concentration, #KEYS
691:There is a meaning in each play of Chance, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
692:The Word expresses that which is self-hidden in the Silence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 1.04 - Reality Omnipresent, #KEYS
693:Without being possessed one does not possess oneself utterly. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 1.21 - The Ascent of Life, #KEYS
694:With trust in the Divines Grace all obstacles can be surmounted. with my blessings ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
695:Alike ‘tis heaven,Rule or obedience to the one heart given. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems Khaled of the Sea, #KEYS
696:All Nature is a display and a play of God, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga 5.7.1.07 - Involution and Evolution, #KEYS
697:And plundered the Unknowable's vast estate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Souls Release, #KEYS
698:Commercialism is still the heart of modern civilisation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle Civilisation and Culture, #KEYS
699:God is a hard master and will not be served by halves. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - II The Wheat and the Chaff, #KEYS
700:He has trod with bleeding brow the Saviour’s way. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
701:His days were a long growth to the Supreme. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Souls Release, #KEYS
702:In relation to the universe the Supreme is Brahman. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.01 - The Object of Knowledge, #KEYS
703:Nothing can be done by the weak and so nothing is given to the weak. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin Bhawanipur Speech, #KEYS
704:Real faith is something spiritual, a knowledge of the soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I Morality and Yoga, #KEYS
705:Renunciation is an indispensable instrument of our perfection. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.05 - Renunciation, #KEYS
706:Soonest is always bestWhen noble deeds are to be done. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - I Act II, #KEYS
707:The Jiva is a spirit and self, superior to Nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.09 - The Release from the Ego, #KEYS
708:Time is a convention of movement, not a condition of existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad The Isha Upanishad, #KEYS
709:To be alone with the Divine is the highest of all privileged states for the sadhak. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - IV , #KEYS
710:Vision is not sufficient; one must become what inwardly one sees. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad Self-Realisation, #KEYS
711:When everything goes wrong, one must know how to remember that God is all-powerful. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
712:Yea, the soul of a man too is mightyMore than the stone and the mortar! ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.01 - Ilion, #KEYS
713:All the gods in a mortal body dwelt, bore a single name. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems A Strong Son of Lightning, #KEYS
714:Always do what you know to be the best even if it is the most difficult thing to do. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III , #KEYS
715:A sun of wisdom in a miracled grove. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Eternal Day The Souls Choice and the Supreme Consummation, #KEYS
716:A wide God-knowledge poured down from above, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Souls Release, #KEYS
717:Even grief has joy hidden beneath its roots. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #KEYS
718:Everything becomes, nothing is made. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga 1.13 - The Stress of the Hidden Spirit, #KEYS
719:Everything must be transformed by the knowledge of the Truth. With my blessings ~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother 6 May, #KEYS
720:First we must live, afterwards we can learn to live well. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - II 01.01 - The One Thing Needful, #KEYS
721:It is only through life that one can reach to immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga 1.02 - Karmayoga, #KEYS
722:Love dwells in us like an unopened flowerAwaiting a rapid moment of the soul, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 05.02 - Satyavan, #KEYS
723:Mental boldness: let your mind be capable of foreseeing the perfections of tomorrow. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
724:Never get excited, nervous or agitated. Remain perfectly calm in the face of all circumstances. ~ The Mother, On Education , #KEYS
725:Sadhana can go on in the dream or sleep state as well as in the waking. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep, #KEYS
726:The abodeOf rapturous Love,The bright epiphany whom we name God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 3.1.23 - The Rishi, #KEYS
727:The brain is impotent without the right arm of strength. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - I The Writing on the Wall, #KEYS
728:The gods use instruments,Not ask their consent. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Short Stories - I Act Five, #KEYS
729:The imagination is like a knife which may be used for good or evil purposes. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931 , #KEYS
730:The law of the body arises from the subconscient or inconscient. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.27 - The Gnostic Being, #KEYS
731:The light is everywhere, the force is everywhere. And the world is so small. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother MCW Vol. 15., #KEYS
732:The lyric which is poetry’s native expression. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry The Course of English Poetry - II, #KEYS
733:The principle of division is not proper to Matter, but to Mind. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 1.25 - The Knot of Matter, #KEYS
734:The reason understands itself, but not what is beyond it. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 4.20 - The Intuitive Mind, #KEYS
735:The supermind lives in the light of spiritual certitudes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 4.20 - The Intuitive Mind, #KEYS
736:The supreme divine nature is founded on equality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 4.11 - The Perfection of Equality, #KEYS
737:Thought for a godlike birthBroadens the mould of our mortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems Evolution - II, #KEYS
738:Where Ignorance is, there suffering too must come. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
739:Without indomitable Faith or inspired Wisdom no great cause can conquer. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin In Either Case, #KEYS
740:All is eternal in the eternal spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga 1.13 - The Stress of the Hidden Spirit, #KEYS
741:All problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 1.01 - The Human Aspiration, #KEYS
742:All spiritual life is in its principle a growth into divine living. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
743:Be quiet and confident and try to find me inside yourself, it will help you to sleep. ~ The Mother, White Roses Aug 5 1959, #KEYS
744:By contact with the facts of life Art attains to vitality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 0.03 - The Threefold Life, #KEYS
745:Comparison with others brings in a wrong standard of values. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Ego and Its Forms, #KEYS
746:Credence, when mediocrity multipliedEquals itself with genius. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems Lines on Ireland, #KEYS
747:Death is a passage, not the goal of our walk: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #KEYS
748:Does God ever become angry with us? If yes, when? When you believe He is angry. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
749:Ever she circled towards some far-off Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #KEYS
750:Falsehood is merely a wrong placing of the Truth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda 1.19 - The Victory of the Fathers, #KEYS
751:Gratitude: A humble recognition of all that the Divine has done and is doing for you. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
752:Having once seen God, man can have no farther object in life than to reach and possess Him. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad , #KEYS
753:His Grace is always with those who want to progress and realise the Truth of tomorrow. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I , #KEYS
754:Man is a creature blinded by the sunWho errs by seeing ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - II Act III, #KEYS
755:Perfection cannot come without self-knowledge and God-knowledge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita Above the Gunas, #KEYS
756:Pride is only one form of ego—there are ten thousand others. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Ego and Its Forms, #KEYS
757:Sraddha: the soul's belief in the Divine's existence, wisdom, power, love and grace. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II , #KEYS
758:The condition of freedom is the search for truth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Early Cultural Writings The Revival of Indian Art, #KEYS
759:The difficulties you cannot overcome today will be overcome tomorrow or later on. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I , #KEYS
760:The Divine is the unborn Eternal who has no origin. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita 2.07 - The Supreme Word of the Gita, #KEYS
761:The heart is the meeting place of God and the Soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - II The Soul and India’s Mission, #KEYS
762:The soul is the watchful builder of its fate; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #KEYS
763:The soul is the watchful builder of its fate; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #KEYS
764:The soul that can live alone with itself meets God; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
765:To grieve is an insult to Sri Aurobindo who is here with us, conscious and alive. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I , #KEYS
766:We live self-exiled from our heavenlier home. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
767:We renounce ourselves in order to find ourselves. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Kena and Other Upanishads The Supramental Godhead, #KEYS
768:What is my true destiny? The true destiny is to reach the Divine Consciousness. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
769:What we are, we know not; what we know, we cannot effect. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad Action and the Divine Will, #KEYS
770:Adventurers, we have colonised Matter’s night. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
771:All ran like hopes that hunt a lurking chance; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #KEYS
772:Each man in this path has his own method of Yoga. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 0.05 - The Synthesis of the Systems, #KEYS
773:Evolution is an inverse action of the involution. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.24 - The Evolution of the Spiritual Man, #KEYS
774:For a subject people there is no royal road to emancipation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - I The Leverage of Faith, #KEYS
775:His business is to suggest and not to impose. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Early Cultural Writings A System of National Education, #KEYS
776:If you want union in the world, first unify the different parts of your own being. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III , #KEYS
777:In this immoral and imperfect world even sin has sometimes its rewards. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry The Mantra, #KEYS
778:Knowledge will not come without self-communion, without light from within. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin In Either Case, #KEYS
779:Perfect attachment to the Divine replaces all vital attractions and passions ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II 128, #KEYS
780:The earliest formula of Wisdom promises to be its last, -- God, Light, Freedom, Immortality ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine , #KEYS
781:The pure intellectual direction travels away from life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 3.05 - The Divine Personality, #KEYS
782:There is no other way than to persevere. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Human Relations and the Spiritual Life, #KEYS
783:The Self of things is not their outward view,A Force within decides. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 3.1.19 - Parabrahman, #KEYS
784:When naked of ego and mind it hears the Voice ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
785:Without heroism man cannot grow into the Godhead. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle The Suprarational Ultimate of Life, #KEYS
786:A deeper interpretation greatened Truth, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Yoga of the King, #KEYS
787:All our existence is a constant creation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda Surya Savitri, #KEYS
788:All pain and suffering are a sign of imperfection, of incompleteness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
789:all suffering in the evolution is a preparation of strength and bliss ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad Self-Realisation, #KEYS
790:All the values of the mind are constructions of ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV 4.22 - The supramental Thought and Knowledge, #KEYS
791:Brahman is one, not numerically, but in essence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad: Brahman Oneness of God and the World, #KEYS
792:Each finite is that deep InfinityEnshrining His veiled soul of pure delight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 7.5.65 - Form, #KEYS
793:For the physical plane the work always repeated is the foundation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II Work and Yoga, #KEYS
794:Good, not utility, must be the principle and standard of good. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle The Suprarational Good, #KEYS
795:It is always the business of man the thinker to know. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.07 - The Knowledge and the Ignorance, #KEYS
796:It is the going inward that most helps to deliver the nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Anger and Violence, #KEYS
797:Love, joy and happiness come from the psychic. The Self gives peace or a universal Ananda. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - I , #KEYS
798:Once one is in full sadhana, sleep becomes as much a part of it as waking. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep, #KEYS
799:Power can abase as well as elevate; nothing is more liable to misuse. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
800:Renunciation must be for us merely an instrument and not an objec. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.05 - Renunciation, #KEYS
801:Self-conscious existence is the essential nature of the Being; that is Sat or Purusha. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga , #KEYS
802:The aspiration is always the sign of the possibility and perseverance leads to the certitude of the realisation. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
803:The mind forms or accepts the theories that support the turn of the being. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II Baha i Faith, #KEYS
804:There is no greater bliss than that of being like a new born child in front of the Divine.With my blessings ~ The Mother, #KEYS
805:When man is free in spirit, all other freedom is at his command. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - II Asiatic Democracy, #KEYS
806:Will coloured by desire is an impure will. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga Purification - Intelligence and Will, #KEYS
807:A city of ancient IgnoranceFounded upon a soil that knew not Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
808:All sentience is ultimately self-sentience. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Kena and Other Upanishads The Philosophy of the Upanishads, #KEYS
809:All things are in Nature and all things are in God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 0.05 - The Synthesis of the Systems, #KEYS
810:A prayer, a master act, a king idea Can link man's strength to a transcendent Force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.02 - The Issue, #KEYS
811:Beauty is a sweet difference of the Same. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Yoga of the King, #KEYS
812:Consider the Divine Life as the most important thing to obtain. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II The True Aim of Life [7], #KEYS
813:Equality, not indifference is the basis. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.08 - The Release from the Heart and the Mind, #KEYS
814:Even now great thoughts are here that walk alone: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.10 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind, #KEYS
815:Helped are the souls that wait more than strengths soon fulfilled and exhausted. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.01 - Ilion, #KEYS
816:Not only Spirit is one, but Mind, Life, Matter are one. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.15 - The Cosmic Consciousness, #KEYS
817:Our chains are either a play or an illusion or both play & illusion. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad The Isha Upanishad, #KEYS
818:Our greater truth of being lies behind: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.06 - Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute, #KEYS
819:Say-'I have received his Grace: I must be worthy of it', and then all will be well. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
820:The body has an unexpressed knowledge of its own. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga 5.05 - Supermind and Humanity, #KEYS
821:The fatigue comes from the resistance and the worry, do not worry, let yourself go, and the fatigue will go also. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
822:The inner must change before the outermost can follow. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I Transformation and the Body, #KEYS
823:The life-work of a great man often does not begin till he dies. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - II Mustafa Kamal Pasha, #KEYS
824:The lower is for us the first condition of the higher. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.07 - The Knowledge and the Ignorance, #KEYS
825:The mind and the vital are much more full of ego than the body. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Ego and Its Forms, #KEYS
826:There is no greater courage than that of recognising ones own mistakes With my blessings ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
827:The song that nerves the nation’s heart is in itself a deed. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - I The Writing on the Wall, #KEYS
828:The song that nerves the nation’s heart is in itself a deed. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - I The Writing on the Wall, #KEYS
829:The stumbling-block of romanticism is falsity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry The Movement of Modern Literature - I, #KEYS
830:To each his own difficulties seem enormous and radical. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II 1.2.01 - The Call and the Capacity, #KEYS
831:To follow the path to the end, one must be armed with a very patient endurance. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II 1.3.5.05 - The Path, #KEYS
832:Truth shines far from the falsehoods of the world; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.02 - The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal, #KEYS
833:We move as we must,Not as we choose, whatever we may think. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - I Act II, #KEYS
834:young portress brightWho opens to our souls the worlds of light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems The Fear of Death, #KEYS
835:All is one in self, but all is variation in the phenomenon. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita 2.05 - The Divine Truth and Way, #KEYS
836:All spiritual experience is experience of the Infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.06 - Reality and the Cosmic Illusion, #KEYS
837:Always we bear in us a magic keyConcealed in life’s hermetic envelope. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
838:A mighty shuddering coil of ecstasy Crept through the deep heart of the universe. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.01 - The Word of Fate, #KEYS
839:By identity alone can complete and real knowledge exist. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 3.01 - Love and the Triple Path, #KEYS
840:Easy are mortalHearts to be bent by Fate and soon we consent to our fortunes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.01 - Ilion, #KEYS
841:It is by the thought that we dissipate ourselves in the phenomenal. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.04 - Concentration, #KEYS
842:It is never in vain that an ardent and sincere prayer is addressed to the Divine's Grace. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III , #KEYS
843:It is the seeing mind that is the master of poetic utterance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry The Word and the Spirit, #KEYS
844:It is when one mixes up sex and spirituality that there is the greatest havoc. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV The Second Sex, #KEYS
845:Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest. ~ Sri Chinmoy, #KEYS
846:Let this be our one need in life, to realise the Divine. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II The True Aim of Life [3], #KEYS
847:Life here is God, the materials of Life here are God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad A Commentary on the Isha Upanishad, #KEYS
848:Love is a yearning of the One for the One. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Yoga of the King, #KEYS
849:No Law is absolute, because only the infinite is absolute. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 1.27 - The Sevenfold Chord of Being, #KEYS
850:Ominous beings passed him on the roadWhose very gaze was a calamity: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
851:Oneness and multiplicity are poles of the same Reality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.07 - The Knowledge and the Ignorance, #KEYS
852:One should not think too much of food either to indulge or unduly to repress. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Food, #KEYS
853:Order is indeed the law of life, but not an artificial regulation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle Diversity in Oneness, #KEYS
854:Problems are the creations of mental ignorance seeking for knowledge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.27 - The Gnostic Being, #KEYS
855:Reason is science, it is conscious art, it is invention. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle The Reason as Governor of Life, #KEYS
856:Stop thinking of the adverse forces and they will have no power over you. My force is always there to protect you. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
857:The Divine's love and knowledge must always govern our thoughts and actions. 24 July 1954 ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
858:The growth of the god in man is man’s proper business. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works, #KEYS
859:The universe is a self-creative process of a supreme Reality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.20 - The Philosophy of Rebirth, #KEYS
860:The wisdom of the Lover is justified and supported by the wisdom of the Seer. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin In Either Case, #KEYS
861:this ego-centrism is our rock of safety against the cosmic and the infinite, our defense. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 241, #KEYS
862:those who rely on the Divine will arrive in spite of all difficulties, stumbles or falls. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - IV , #KEYS
863:To be in full union with the Divine is the final aim. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II 1.1.02 - The Aim of the Integral Yoga, #KEYS
864:When mind is still, then Truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human , #KEYS
865:A knowledge which became what it perceived. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Yoga of the King, #KEYS
866:All finites are in their spiritual essence the Infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.06 - Reality and the Cosmic Illusion, #KEYS
867:A once living story has prepared and madeOur present fate, child of past energies. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.02 - The Issue, #KEYS
868:A point she had reached where life must be in vain Or, in her unborn element awake, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.02 - The Issue, #KEYS
869:A soul made ready through a thousand yearsIs the living mould of a supreme Descent. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 05.02 - Satyavan, #KEYS
870:Desire always creates perturbation and even its fulfilment does not satisfy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Desire, #KEYS
871:God in man is the whole revelation and the whole of religion. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - II The Glory of God in Man, #KEYS
872:Hid deep in man celestial powers can dwell. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Yoga of the King, #KEYS
873:I move in an ocean of stupendous LightJoining my depths to His eternal height. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems Light, #KEYS
874:India must remain India if she is to fulfil her destiny. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - II Indian Resurgence and Europe, #KEYS
875:In him soul and Nature, equal Presences,Balance and fuse in a wide harmony. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.01 - The Word of Fate, #KEYS
876:I shall always be with you, my dear little child, in the struggle and in the victory. ~ The Mother, Some Answers From The Mother , #KEYS
877:Its builder is thought, its base the heart’s desire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.02 - The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal, #KEYS
878:Love is the power and passion of the divine self-delight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 3.01 - Love and the Triple Path, #KEYS
879:Mankind is still no more than semi-civilised. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Renaissance in India Indian Spirituality and Life - IV, #KEYS
880:No anti-vital culture can survive. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Renaissance in India A Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture - V, #KEYS
881:Nothing can evolve out of Matter which is not therein already contained. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 1.10 - Conscious Force, #KEYS
882:Nothing can exist which is not substance and power of Brahman. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.20 - The Philosophy of Rebirth, #KEYS
883:...One must not go into the vital world without a special purpose or command and a special protection. ~ The Mother, White Roses , #KEYS
884:Religion has to be lived, not learned as a creed. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Early Cultural Writings A System of National Education, #KEYS
885:Religion is the seeking after the spiritual, the suprarational. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle The Suprarational Beauty, #KEYS
886:Sheer objectivity brings us down from art to photography. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry Poetic Vision and the Mantra, #KEYS
887:The absolute immunity can only come with the supramental change. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Illness and Health, #KEYS
888:The beginning of Ignorance is a limitation of Knowledge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.07 - The Knowledge and the Ignorance, #KEYS
889:The one thing that man sees above the intellect is the spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry The Power of the Spirit, #KEYS
890:THe soul cannot think the Divine but knows Him with certitude. With my blessings. ~ The Mother, Mantras of the Mother 26 December, #KEYS
891:The true individual is behind veiled by the activities of the outer nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II the Silence, #KEYS
892:This body which was once my universe,Is now a pittance carried by the soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems The Body, #KEYS
893:What do obstacles matter? We shall always go forward. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II Face and Overcome Difficulties, #KEYS
894:When the aspiration is awake each day brings us nearer to the goal. With my blessings, ~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother , #KEYS
895:A great joy is always deep in our heart, and always we can find it there. With my blessings ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
896:All end and beginning presuppose something beyond the end or beginning. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 1.09 - The Pure Existent, #KEYS
897:All forms are Thy dream-dialect of delight,O Absolute, O vivid Infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 7.5.62 - Divine Sight, #KEYS
898:A magic leverage suddenly is caughtThat moves the veiled Ineffable’s timeless will: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.02 - The Issue, #KEYS
899:And channel to earth-mind the wizard ray ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Eternal Day The Souls Choice and the Supreme Consummation, #KEYS
900:An integral knowledge presupposes an integral Reality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.15 - Reality and the Integral Knowledge, #KEYS
901:As the darkness disappears, the inner doors too will open. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II 7.05 - Patience and Perseverance, #KEYS
902:Essential mentality is idealistic and a seeker after perfection. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 0.03 - The Threefold Life, #KEYS
903:Even the body shall remember God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Eternal Day, #KEYS
904:Everything will come in its time; keep a confident patience and all will be all right. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
905:Fate,The dim great presence, is but nature madeIrrevocable in its fruits. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems Urvasie, #KEYS
906:From step to step, from truth to truth, we shall climb ceaselessly until we reach the perfect realisation of tomorrow. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
907:Good we have made by our thoughts and sin by our fear and recoiling; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.2.01 - The Descent of Ahana, #KEYS
908:In the silence of the heart, you will receive the command. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II Peace and Silence, #KEYS
909:Music and thunder are the rhythmic chordsOf one majestic harp. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - II Act I, #KEYS
910:Only the past fulfilled can conjure room to the future that presses. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.2.01 - The Descent of Ahana, #KEYS
911:Pain with its lash, joy with its silver bribeGuard the Wheel’s circling immobility. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.02 - The Issue, #KEYS
912:Religion is in the human mind the first native. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Renaissance in India Indian Spirituality and Life - I, #KEYS
913:The animal prepares human intelligence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.18 - The Evolutionary Process - Ascent and Integration, #KEYS
914:The birds crying for heart’s happiness,Winged poets of our solitary reign ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 12.01 - The Return to Earth, #KEYS
915:There is a darkness in terrestrial thingsThat will not suffer long too glad a note. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.02 - The Issue, #KEYS
916:There is a great power in the simple confidence of a child. With my blessings. ~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother November 17th, #KEYS
917:Transmuted is ravishment’s minister,A high note and a fiery refrain. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems The Life Heavens, #KEYS
918:Whether it seem good or evil to men's eyes, Only for good the secret Will can work. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.01 - The Word of Fate, #KEYS
919:According to the status of the soul is the status of the Prakriti. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.22 - Vijnana or Gnosis, #KEYS
920:A diversity in oneness is the law of the manifestation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.24 - The Evolution of the Spiritual Man, #KEYS
921:A jingling silver laugh of anklet bellsTravelled the roads of a solitary heart; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.14 - The World-Soul, #KEYS
922:All things are in nature and all things are in God, but for practical purposes we will differentiate between them. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #KEYS
923:A perfect face amid barbarian faces,A perfect voice of sweet and serious rhyme, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #KEYS
924:Bliss is her goal, but her road is through whirlwind and death-blast and storm-race. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.02 - Ahana, #KEYS
925:Death is his mask and immortality is his self-revelation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works, #KEYS
926:Existence is a fundamental unity under a superficial diversity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad The Eternal in His Universe, #KEYS
927:Few are always of one kind and none is entire in his kind. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 1.10 - The Three Modes of Nature, #KEYS
928:God found in Nature, Nature fulfilled in God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Yoga of the King, #KEYS
929:He is the adventurer and cosmologistOf a magic earth’s obscure geography. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
930:He is the explorer and the marinerOn a secret inner ocean without bourne. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
931:His is a search of darkness for the light,Of mortal life for immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
932:If one learns all by oneself, the chances are that one will learn all wrong. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II 2.11 - The Guru, #KEYS
933:It is when one feels like a blind man that one begins to be ready for the illumination. ~ The Mother, Some Answers From The Mother , #KEYS
934:Life is an infinite Force working in the terms of the finite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 3.04 - The Spirit in Spirit-Land after Death, #KEYS
935:Mind-Energy, Life-Energy, material Energy are different dynamisms of one World-Force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 1.06 - The Transformation of Dream Life, #KEYS
936:Most people do not really choose—they undergo the play of the forces. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I 5.4.01 - Occult Knowledge, #KEYS
937:Nature is God’s power of various self-becoming, ātma-vibhūti. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita The Theory of the Vibhuti, #KEYS
938:Nor punishes. Impartially he dealsTo every strenuous spirit its chosen reward. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems Urvasie, #KEYS
939:One has to persevere until the light conquers there. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II Peace - The Basis of the Sadhana, #KEYS
940:The disciples judge the forms by the Master. Outsiders judge the Master by the forms. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III 202, #KEYS
941:The form is phenomenon, the idea is reality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga 1.13 - The Stress of the Hidden Spirit, #KEYS
942:The Power that acts in us is not our force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.06 - Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute, #KEYS
943:There can be no physical life without an order and rhythm. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II Practical Concerns in Work, #KEYS
944:The strength is always with you to be always faithful to the Divine Will. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II Faithfulness, #KEYS
945:The vital and physical life, a human edition of the animal round. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle Civilisation and Culture, #KEYS
946:Too heavy falls a Shadow on man’s heart;It dares not be too happy upon earth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.01 - The Word of Fate, #KEYS
947:When least defaced, then is it most divine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.06 - Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute, #KEYS
948:All existences are instinct with the life of the one indivisible Spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita 2.01 - The Two Natures, #KEYS
949:All ignorance is a penumbra which environs an orb of knowledge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.04 - The Divine and the Undivine, #KEYS
950:All variations resolve themselves into an unity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Kena and Other Upanishads The Philosophy of the Upanishads, #KEYS
951:But for one who has faith in the Divine Grace, the return to the Light becomes easy. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953 , #KEYS
952:Divine compassion which strengthens the arm and clarifies the knowledge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.05 - Renunciation, #KEYS
953:Energy distributes itself, but never really dissipates itself. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Heraclitus - V, #KEYS
954:Faith is the first condition of success in every great undertaking. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - I The Leverage of Faith, #KEYS
955:For the plenitude of His light we invoke the Divine to awaken in us the power to express Him. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
956:If one reads Sri Aurobindo carefully one finds the answers to all that one wants to know. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I , #KEYS
957:In every heart is hidden the myriad One. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 09.02 - The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness, #KEYS
958:In the subconscient knowledge or consciousness is involved in action, for action is the essence of Life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, TLD 1.08-9, #KEYS
959:My God is love and sweetly suffers all. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 09.02 - The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness, #KEYS
960:None who has not been prodigal of his best has ever risen to greatness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - II More about Unity, #KEYS
961:Nothing we think or do is void or vain;Each is an energy loosed and holds its course. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 04.04 - The Quest, #KEYS
962:One step firmly taken makes easier all the others. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga Purification - The Lower Mentality, #KEYS
963:Reduce your ideal to a system and it at once begins to fail. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle The Reason as Governor of Life, #KEYS
964:The Divine Force can always do more than the personal effort. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II The Divine Force in Work, #KEYS
965:The mighty perish in their might;The slain survive the slayer. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry 7.3.14 - The Tiger and the Deer, #KEYS
966:The only important thing is to follow the Divine's truth with love and joy. My blessings ~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother 9 May, #KEYS
967:The only thing worth living for is to serve the Divine. January 1966 ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II The True Aim of Life [5], #KEYS
968:The self of things is an infinite indivisible existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine Delight of Existence, #KEYS
969:The trudge of Time changed to a splendid march; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Souls Release, #KEYS
970:The war of thoughts that fathers the universe, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Yoga of the King, #KEYS
971:To lift our hopes heaven-high and to extend themAs wide as earth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - I Act I, #KEYS
972:To see Thy Victory in all circumstances is certainly the best way of helping It to come. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III 240, #KEYS
973:Truth is followed as the path to the divine beatitude. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda To Bhaga Savitri, #KEYS
974:Turn towards the Divine, all your sufferings will disappear. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II 4.04 - Weaknesses, #KEYS
975:Unity is sweet substance of the heartAnd not a chain that binds. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - II Act I, #KEYS
976:Vital forces want neither liberation nor transformation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Attacks by the Hostile Forces, #KEYS
977:Whatever the difficulty if we keep truly quiet the solution will come. With my blessings, ~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother , #KEYS
978:Where there is life, there is always a hope of better things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle The Curve of the Rational Age, #KEYS
979:454. In those whom God loves, have delight; on those whom He pretends not to love, take pity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human , #KEYS
980:All the hundred separate paths meet in the Eternal. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 4.01 - The Principle of the Integral Yoga, #KEYS
981:An entry into the gnostic consciousness would be an entry into the Infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
982:An integral knowledge is the aim of the conscious evolution. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine Memory, #KEYS
983:Apparent evil is often the shortest way to the good. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga The Strength of Stillness, #KEYS
984:A Silence that was Being’s only word,The unknown beginning and the voiceless end ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems Adwaita, #KEYS
985:A single occupation, a single aim, a single joy - the Divine. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II 1.02 - The Divine Is with You, #KEYS
986:Development into forms is an imperative rule of effective manifestation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 0.01 - Life and Yoga, #KEYS
987:Here and not elsewhere the highest Godhead has to be found. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works, #KEYS
988:How should I meditate? Fix your mind on the aspiration and dismiss everything else. ~ The Mother, More Answers From The Mother , #KEYS
989:If we cannot define the Eternal, we can unify ourselves with it. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.11 - The Modes of the Self, #KEYS
990:In activity and in silence, in taking and in giving, always the glad remembrance of Thee. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
991:In every being and object God dwells concealed and discoverable. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita 2.08 - God in Power of Becoming, #KEYS
992:It is only through consciousness that we can approach Being. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.07 - The Knowledge and the Ignorance, #KEYS
993:Man demands miracles that he may have faith; he wishes to be dazzled in order that he may see ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga , #KEYS
994:No human law is the absolute expression of the divine justice, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Heraclitus - VI, #KEYS
995:One cannot cease to be individually except by being infinitely. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 3.04 - The Spirit in Spirit-Land after Death, #KEYS
996:One will pass through as many stages as it is necessary to take, but one will arrive. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II 1.3.5.05 - The Path, #KEYS
997:Only in the spiritual self can we possess the true unity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 4.08 - The Liberation of the Spirit, #KEYS
998:O worshipper of the formless Infinite, Reject not form, what dwells in it is He. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 7.5.65 - Form, #KEYS
999:Each day was a spiritual romance, As if he was born into a bright new world; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 04.02 - The Growth of the Flame, #KEYS
1000:Regard the nation as a necessary unit but no more in a common humanity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin The Doctrine of Sacrifice, #KEYS
1001:Rely on the Mother always. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III Experiences on the Subtle Physical, #KEYS
1002:Some day surelyThe world too shall be saved from death by love. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - II Act III, #KEYS
1003:The high meets the low, all is a single plan. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.06 - Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute, #KEYS
1004:The Lord is there, not only in that self, but in Nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita The Fullness of Spiritual Action, #KEYS
1005:The realisation of the Self as Sachchidananda is the aim of human existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad Self-Realisation, #KEYS
1006:There knowledge needs not words to embody Idea; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Yoga of the King, #KEYS
1007:The strength of Europe is in details, the strength of Asia in synthesis. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - II The Asiatic Role, #KEYS
1008:This higher scheme of being is our causeAnd holds the key to our ascending fate; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.01 - The World-Stair, #KEYS
1009:What we call the Ignorance is a cloaked Knowledge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga 5.08 - Supermind and Mind of Light, #KEYS
1010:An all-inclusive concentration is the difficult achievement towards which we must labour ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga , #KEYS
1011:A single word lets loose vast agencies;A casual act determines the world’s fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.01 - The Word of Fate, #KEYS
1012:Brahman self-extended in Space and Time is the universe. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad: Brahman Oneness of God and the World, #KEYS
1013:Closeness to the Divine will always grow with the growth of consciousness, equanimity and love. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
1014:Colour was a visible tone of ecstasy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Eternal Day, #KEYS
1015:Fear is more even of a nervous sensation than an emotion. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 4.05 - The Instruments of the Spirit, #KEYS
1016:Grief too long continued does not help but delays the journey of the departed soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I 3.04 - The Spirit in Spirit-Land after Death, #KEYS
1017:Identification with the body is an error, not an illusion. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II The Adwaita of Shankaracharya, #KEYS
1018:In us the secret Spirit can inditeA page and summary of the Infinite, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 7.5.59 - The Hill-top Temple, #KEYS
1019:It was to amuse himself God made the world.For He was dull alone! ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - II Act II, #KEYS
1020:Knowledge and Ignorance are in their nature subjective. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III Inner Experience and Outer Life, #KEYS
1021:Let us give ourselves without reserve to the Divine, so best shall we receive the Divine Grace. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
1022:Nature creates and acts, the Soul enjoys her creation and action. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita The Field and its Knower, #KEYS
1023:One of the two great steps in this Yoga is to take refuge in the Mother. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother , #KEYS
1024:One who has made in sport the suns and seasMirrors in our being his immense caprice. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 7.5.37 - Lila, #KEYS
1025:Our human knowledge is a candle burntOn a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.12 - The Heavens of the Ideal, #KEYS
1026:Rare is the cup fit for love’s nectar wine,As rare the vessel that can hold God’s birth; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 05.02 - Satyavan, #KEYS
1027:Rules us, who in the Brahmin and the dogCan, if He will, show equal godhead. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems Baji Prabhou, #KEYS
1028:She made earth her home, for whom heaven was too small. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
1029:The Absolute is everywhere; it has to be seen and found everywhere. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.17 - The Soul and Nature, #KEYS
1030:The business of poetry is to express the soul of man to himself. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry The Ideal Spirit of Poetry, #KEYS
1031:The Grace, the Grace alone can act. That alone can open the way, that alone can do the miracle. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
1032:The main business of the heart, its true function is love. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 4.14 - The Power of the Instruments, #KEYS
1033:The reason deals with the finite and is helpless before the infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.22 - Vijnana or Gnosis, #KEYS
1034:There is a power in the idea—a force of which the idea is a shape. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV 4.22 - The supramental Thought and Knowledge, #KEYS
1035:There is a Power within that knows beyondOur knowings; we are greater than our thoughts, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 05.02 - Satyavan, #KEYS
1036:There is no I nor thou, but only one divine Self equal in all embodiments. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.05 - Renunciation, #KEYS
1037:The supreme greatness cannot come in poetry without the supreme beauty. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry The Victorian Poets, #KEYS
1038:The truth of ourselves lies within and not on the surface. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine Delight of Existence, #KEYS
1039:The white spiritual touch,The calm that broods in the deep Infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.03 - The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
1040:True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become. ~ A B Purani, EVENING TALKS WITH SRI AUROBINDO , #KEYS
1041:What am I to do to get rid of these defects of my nature? Become more and more conscious. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
1042:Whatever we do, we must always remember our aim. 7 December 1954 ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II 1.01 - The True Aim of Life, #KEYS
1043:Whoever is too great must lonely live.Adored he walks in mighty solitude; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 04.02 - The Growth of the Flame, #KEYS
1044:All she can do is marvellous in his sight:He revels in her, a swimmer in her sea, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
1045:A progressively perfect realisation in the body is the aim of human evolution. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad Self-Realisation, #KEYS
1046:Aspiration is a call to the Divine, will is the pressure of the conscious force on Nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II , #KEYS
1047:Banish all thought from thee and be God’s void. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.06 - Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute, #KEYS
1048:Division of consciousness is the basis of the Ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine Supermind, #KEYS
1049:Every individual man must be in little what the Cosmos is in large. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad The Eternal in His Universe, #KEYS
1050:Form has a certain fixity which limits. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Renaissance in India A Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture - VI, #KEYS
1051:It is not possible really to possess what is not-self to us. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Kena and Other Upanishads The Supramental Godhead, #KEYS
1052:Keep only my soul to adore eternallyAnd meet Thee in each form and soul of Thee. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 1.2.07 - Surrender, #KEYS
1053:Knowledge is the foundation of a constant living in the Divine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 3.01 - Love and the Triple Path, #KEYS
1054:Let the Divine Consciousness be the leading power in your life. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II 1.02 - The Divine Is with You, #KEYS
1055:Love dies before the lover in our breast:Our joys are perfumes in a brittle vase. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.01 - The Word of Fate, #KEYS
1056:Man’s consciousness can be nothing else than a form of Nature’s consciousness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 1.10 - Conscious Force, #KEYS
1057:Men work almost always without knowing for what they have worked. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle The Peril of the World-State, #KEYS
1058:Night a path to unknown dawnsOr a dark clue to some diviner state. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.04 - The Kingdoms of the Little Life, #KEYS
1059:Obey thy nature and fulfil thy fate: Accept the difficulty and godlike toil ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.04 - The Vision and the Boon, #KEYS
1060:Perfection is progressive, evolutive in Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 1.07 - Standards of Conduct and Spiritual Freedom, #KEYS
1061:Rhythm is the most potent, founding element of poetic expression. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry Recent English Poetry - II, #KEYS
1062:Rise with the world in thy bosom,O Word gathered into the heart of the Ineffable. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry the Ascent, #KEYS
1063:Spiritual power in the present creates material power in the future. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - II One More for the Altar, #KEYS
1064:The God of Force, the God of Love are one;Not least He loves whom most He smites. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 4.2.04 - Epiphany, #KEYS
1065:The Grace is infinite for him who sincerely trusts the Grace. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II Trust in the Divine Grace and Help, #KEYS
1066:The guru is always ready to give what can be given, if the disciple can receive. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II 2.11 - The Guru, #KEYS
1067:The materialist idea mistakes a creation for the creative Power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.01 - The Object of Knowledge, #KEYS
1068:The moon gliding amazed through heavenIn the uncertain wideness of the night. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 05.03 - Satyavan and Savitri, #KEYS
1069:Then with a magic transformation's speed They rushed into each other and grew one ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.05 - The Finding of the Soul, #KEYS
1070:The poet is a magician who hardly knows the secret of his own spell. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry The Word and the Spirit, #KEYS
1071:The rational being is only a middle term of Nature’s evolution. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle The End of the Curve of Reason, #KEYS
1072:The sage is never alone... he bears in himself the Lord of all things. My Blessings. ~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother 21 September, #KEYS
1073:The world’s deep contrasts are but figures spunDraping the unanimity of the One. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems Contrasts, #KEYS
1074:Too often here the careless Mother leavesHer chosen in the envious hands of Fate: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.01 - The Word of Fate, #KEYS
1075:We must be governed by the guide within rather than by the opinions of men. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.05 - Renunciation, #KEYS
1076:Whatever happens we must remain quiet and trust the Divine's Grace. With my blessings. ~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother 25 October, #KEYS
1077:What gives the force and joy of the work is however not physical but vital. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II Work and Yoga, #KEYS
1078:Where there is no limitation, there can be no pain. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Kena and Other Upanishads The Philosophy of the Upanishads, #KEYS
1079:Accomplishment is without any doubt the fruit of patience. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II Will and Perserverance, #KEYS
1080:A deep spiritual calm no touch can swayUpholds the mystery of this Passion-play. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems Life-Unity, #KEYS
1081:A depression is always unreasonable as it leads nowhere. It is the most subtle enemy of the Yoga. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
1082:A figure in the ineffable Witness' shrine ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness, #KEYS
1083:After all, it is very simple, we have only to become what we are in the depths of our being. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
1084:Alone of gods Death loves not gifts: he visitsThe pure heart as the stained. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 10.03 - The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
1085:A mental knowledge can always be blinded by the tricks of the vital. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV 4.22 - The supramental Thought and Knowledge, #KEYS
1086:A new light shall break upon the earth, a light of Truth and Harmony. With my blessings. ~ The Mother, Mantras of the Mother 24 December, #KEYS
1087:A perfected community also can exist only by the perfection of its individuals. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
1088:At the hour of danger a perfect quietness is required. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II Elements of Yoga, #KEYS
1089:Calm heavens of imperishable Light,Illumined continents of violet peace, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Glory and Fall of Life, #KEYS
1090:Climbed back from Time into undying Self, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness, #KEYS
1091:Daily we must aspire to conquer all mistakes, all obscurities, all ignorances. With my blessings ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
1092:Every stumble is a needed paceOn unknown routes to an unknowable goal. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.03 - The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
1093:Every symbol was a realityAnd brought the presence which had given it life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.05 - The Finding of the Soul, #KEYS
1094:Form was a tenuous raiment of the soul: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Eternal Day, #KEYS
1095:Imperfect is the joy not shared by all. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Eternal Day, #KEYS
1096:In all action there is an imperative of existence that seeks to be fulfilled. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.27 - The Gnostic Being, #KEYS
1097:In the full realisation the body is within us, not we in it. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II The Adwaita of Shankaracharya, #KEYS
1098:It is a truth of the Infinite, one in an infinite diversity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.24 - The Evolution of the Spiritual Man, #KEYS
1099:It is the Infinite’s blind minute abode.In that small flaming chariot Shiva rides. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems Electron, #KEYS
1100:It lived upon the margin of the Idea Protected by Ignorance as in a shell. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #KEYS
1101:Men are fathers of their fate;They dig the prison, they the crown command. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems Lines on Ireland, #KEYS
1102:Necessity is the child of the spirit’s free self-determination. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Karma and Freedom, #KEYS
1103:Of what use are the godsIf they crown not our just desires on earth? ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - II Act I, #KEYS
1104:One must persist however long it takes, so only one can achieve. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II 7.05 - Patience and Perseverance, #KEYS
1105:One should be able to see the faults of others without hatred. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Problems in Human Relations, #KEYS
1106:Prakriti has to reveal itself as shakti of the Purusha. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 4.03 - The Psychology of Self-Perfection, #KEYS
1107:Taste is natural and quite permissible so long as one is not the slave of the palate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Food, #KEYS
1108:The aim of our life on earth is to become conscious of the Divine. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II 1.01 - The True Aim of Life, #KEYS
1109:The calm delight that weds one soul to all,The key to the flaming doors of ecstasy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #KEYS
1110:The characteristic of Life is desire and the instinct of possession. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle Civilisation and Barbarism, #KEYS
1111:The complete soul possesses all its self and all Nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga 5.7.1.07 - Involution and Evolution, #KEYS
1112:The mind can hardly conceive unity except as an abstraction, a sum or a void. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad The Worlds - Surya, #KEYS
1113:There is nothing impossible. We put this bar - this is possible, this is not. Like prisoners we imprison ourselves ~ Nolini Kanta Gupta, #KEYS
1114:The sentinel love in man ever imaginesStrange perils for its object. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - II Act I, #KEYS
1115:The soul cannot act by itself, it can only act through Nature and her modes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita Above the Gunas, #KEYS
1116:The supreme Self is one, but the souls of the Self are many. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.24 - The Evolution of the Spiritual Man, #KEYS
1117:The true quiet is within and no other will give you the condition you want. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II 1.3.03 - Quiet and Calm, #KEYS
1118:The wide-winged hymn of a great priestly windArose and failed upon the altar hills; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #KEYS
1119:Truth and error live always together in the human evolution. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.24 - The Evolution of the Spiritual Man, #KEYS
1120:Yes, my child, it is quite true that the Divine is the sole refuge - with Him is absolute safety. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
1121:Yes, this is the true love, which is a force; it is the union that enables new possibilities to be realised... ~ The Mother, On Education , #KEYS
1122:Yoga of Bhakti is a matter of the heart and not of the intellect. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 3.02 - The Motives of Devotion, #KEYS
1123:You must know what you want and want it with your whole will. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Wrong Movements of the Vital, #KEYS
1124:All error is a disfiguration of some misunderstood fragments of truth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 4.12 - The Way of Equality, #KEYS
1125:All in thyself and thyself in all dwelling,Act in the world with thy being beyond it. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems the Ascent, #KEYS
1126:All our thoughts, all our sentiments will move towards the Divine as a river towards the sea. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
1127:All that we internally are is not ego, but consciousness, soul or spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 1.08 - The Supreme Will, #KEYS
1128:All this infinite becoming is a birth of the Spirit into form. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga 3.7.1.06 - The Ascending Unity, #KEYS
1129:A man must be strong and free in himself before he can live usefully for others. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin Opinion and Comments, #KEYS
1130:A sincere heart is worth all the extraordinary powers in the world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I 5.4.02 - Occult Powers or Siddhis, #KEYS
1131:Errors are permitted to the mind because they open doors upon truth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.12 - The Origin of the Ignorance, #KEYS
1132:Even the animal is more in touch with a certain harmony in things than man. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I Science and Yoga, #KEYS
1133:God having entirely become Nature, Nature seeks to become progressively God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 1.06 - Man in the Universe, #KEYS
1134:Is measured by the throbs of the soul’s pain, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 09.02 - The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness, #KEYS
1135:Karma is only a machinery, it is not the fundamental cause of terrestrial existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I 3.1.15 - Rebirth, #KEYS
1136:Look into the depths of your heart and you will see the Divine Presence. With my Blessings. ~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother 14 July, #KEYS
1137:My child, I have not abandoned you, and I am ready to forget, to efface all revolt. My help is always with you. ~ The Mother, Agenda Vol 1 , #KEYS
1138:Nature must flower into artAnd science, or else wherefore are we men? ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - II Act I, #KEYS
1139:One must do things with all the ardour of one's soul, with all the strength of one's will. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1950-1951 , #KEYS
1140:Our consciousness a torch that plays Between the Abyss and a supernal Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems Man of the Mediator, #KEYS
1141:The essence of consciousness is the power to be aware of itself and its objects. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
1142:The highest heavens of the cosmic plan are subject to a return to rebirth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita 2.03 - The Supreme Divine, #KEYS
1143:The ideal creates the means of attaining the ideal, if it is itself true. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - II Ideals Face to Face, #KEYS
1144:The joy of the soul in the dualities is the secret of the mind’s pleasure in living. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita 1.19 - Equality, #KEYS
1145:The malady of the world is that the individual cannot find his real soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 1.23 - The Double Soul in Man, #KEYS
1146:The mind is an inveterate divider of the indivisible. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.13 - The Difficulties of the Mental Being, #KEYS
1147:The miraculous Inconscient,A subtle wizard skilled, was at its task. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #KEYS
1148:The original Desire born in the VoidPeered out. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Yoga of the King, #KEYS
1149:The real difficulty is always in ourselves, not in our surroundings. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Early Cultural Writings The Real Difficulty, #KEYS
1150:The root of the past is the source from which the future draws its sap. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - II 01.01 - The One Thing Needful, #KEYS
1151:This cosmic Nature’s balance is not oursNor the mystic measure of her need and use. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.01 - The Word of Fate, #KEYS
1152:We must not only see God and embrace Him, but become that Reality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.02 - The Status of Knowledge, #KEYS
1153:Whatever work you do, do it as perfectly as you can. That is the best service to the Divine in man ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
1154:What is expressed is always only a part of what is behind. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV The Power of Expression and Yoga, #KEYS
1155:A dry and strong or even austere logic is not a key to Truth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Poetry and Art Bertrand Russell, #KEYS
1156:Always joyfully accept what is given you by the Divine. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II Gratitude and Faithfulness, #KEYS
1157:And the Name, foundation of eternity, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The World of Falsehood, #KEYS
1158:Any advice? Be steady and confident. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II Elements of Yoga, #KEYS
1159:A World-adventurer borne on Destiny’s wingGambles with death and triumph, joy and grief. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 7.5.37 - Lila, #KEYS
1160:Brahman is in this world to represent Itself in the values of Life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 1.05 - The Destiny of the Individual, #KEYS
1161:Desire is limitation and insecurity in a hunger for pleasure and satisfaction. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.05 - Renunciation, #KEYS
1162:He who follows the steep path that climbs the heights can easily slip down into the abyss. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II 1.3.5.05 - The Path, #KEYS
1163:I have beheld the princes of the SunBurning in thousand-pillared homes of light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 05.03 - Satyavan and Savitri, #KEYS
1164:It is the Absolute who is all these relativities. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine The Progress to Knowledge - God, #KEYS
1165:I wear the face of Kali when I kill,I trample the corpses of the demon hordes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces, #KEYS
1166:Life creates institutions; institutions do not create, but express and preserve life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin Passing Thoughts, #KEYS
1167:Life-force is the dynamisation of a consciousness which exceeds it. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.01 - The Object of Knowledge, #KEYS
1168:Love is a passion and it seeks for two things, eternity and intensity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 3.03 - The Godward Emotions, #KEYS
1169:Man moves towards something which fulfils the universe by transcending it. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad Knowledge and Ignorance, #KEYS
1170:Mind cannot possess the infinite, it can only suffer it or be possessed by it. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 1.18 - Mind and Supermind, #KEYS
1171:Moral evil is in reality a form of mental disease or ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine Delight of Existence, #KEYS
1172:Music deepens the emotions and harmonises them with each other. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Early Cultural Writings The National Value of Art, #KEYS
1173:Neither the ethical being nor the aesthetic being is the whole man. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle Aesthetic and Ethical Culture, #KEYS
1174:No power can slay my soul; it lives in Thee.Thy presence is my immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 1.18 - The Divine Worker, #KEYS
1175:One has not only to be sincere but to be faithful through all. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II 1.4.01 - The Divine Grace and Guidance, #KEYS
1176:One who is not self-ruler, cannot be master of his surroundings. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 4.11 - The Perfection of Equality, #KEYS
1177:Perfect love is inconsistent with the admission of the motive of fear. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 3.03 - The Godward Emotions, #KEYS
1178:Reason can only establish half-lights and a provisional order. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle The Suprarational Ultimate of Life, #KEYS
1179:The infinity of the One pours itself out and possesses itself. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.15 - Reality and the Integral Knowledge, #KEYS
1180:The Master of man and his infinite Lover,He is close to our hearts, had we vision to see. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 3.1.02 - Who, #KEYS
1181:The physical consciousness is constitutionally ignorant. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Difficulties of the Physical Nature, #KEYS
1182:The soul in man is greater than his fate: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Eternal Day, #KEYS
1183:The strength of every particular individual is the strength of God and not his own. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin Facts and Opinions, #KEYS
1184:The touch of his hands is the alchemist of a miraculous transformation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga The Mystery of Love, #KEYS
1185:The universe is an endless masquerade:For nothing here is utterly what it seems; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
1186:The way to liberation is to turn from the outward to the inward. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works, #KEYS
1187:To whatsoever living form I turnI see my own body with another face. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems The Indwelling Universal, #KEYS
1188:Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays In Philosophy And Yoga , #KEYS
1189:Yoga is the unravelling of the knot of Life’s difficulty. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 4.03 - The Psychology of Self-Perfection, #KEYS
1190:Yoga is the unravelling of the knot of Life’s difficulty. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 4.03 - The Psychology of Self-Perfection, #KEYS
1191:252. I have failed, thou sayest. Say rather that God is circling about towards His object. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human 3.1.10 - Karma, #KEYS
1192:265. Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human 3.1.10 - Karma, #KEYS
1193:Above the world the world-creators stand,In the phenomenon see its mystic source. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
1194:An opulent beauty of passionate differenceThe recurring beat that moments God in Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.01 - The World-Stair, #KEYS
1195:As with the figure of a symbol danceThe screened Omniscient plays at Ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems The Dual Being, #KEYS
1196:Bhakti and Karma cannot be perfect and enduring unless they are based upon Jnana. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - I Bhawani Mandir, #KEYS
1197:Each finite thing I see is a façade;From its windows looks at me the Illimitable. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 7.5.56 - Omnipresence, #KEYS
1198:Faith is the surest guide in the darkest days. 16 August 1954 ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II 3.03 - Faith and the Divine Grace, #KEYS
1199:Fate revealed a chain of seeing Will; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Yoga of the King, #KEYS
1200:Form cannot unveil the indwelling Power;Only it throws its symbols at our hearts. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 05.03 - Satyavan and Savitri, #KEYS
1201:Freedom and not a skilful subjection is the true means of mastery. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 0.02 - The Three Steps of Nature, #KEYS
1202:From light lips and casual thoughtsThe gods speak best as if by chance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - II Act I, #KEYS
1203:God is Beauty and Delight hidden in the variation of his masks and forms. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle The Suprarational Beauty, #KEYS
1204:Heart feels for heart, limb cries for answering limb;All strives to enforce the unity all is. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 05.02 - Satyavan, #KEYS
1205:Here chaos sorts itself into a world, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Yoga of the King, #KEYS
1206:Hidden in an earthly garment that survives,I am the worldless being vast and free. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems Conscious Immortality, #KEYS
1207:If the body is left insufficiently nourished, it will think of food more than otherwise. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Food, #KEYS
1208:Impose not on the mortal’s tremulous breastThe dire ordeal that foreknowledge brings; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.01 - The Word of Fate, #KEYS
1209:In all pursuits, intellectual or active, your one motto should be, Remember and Offer. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931 , #KEYS
1210:INDIA MUST BE REBORN, BECAUSE HER REBIRTH IS DEMANDED BY THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - I Bhawani Mandir, #KEYS
1211:It is not what you do but the spirit in which you do it that is important for the integral Yoga. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I , #KEYS
1212:It is the mind that turns concrete realities into abstractions. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III Experiences and Realisations, #KEYS
1213:It is the Self who has become all these becomings. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine The Progress to Knowledge - God, #KEYS
1214:Man’s virtue, a coarse-spun ill-fitting dress,Apparels wooden images of Good; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.12 - The Heavens of the Ideal, #KEYS
1215:Memory is only a process of consciousness, a utility. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine Memory, #KEYS
1216:Outward circumstances are only a cover for the real workings of the spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga Faith and Shakti, #KEYS
1217:Should I try meditation? It is not necessary if your work is a constant offering to the Divine. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I , #KEYS
1218:That is always the end at which we arrive and we can only escape it by refusing to complete the journey. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine , #KEYS
1219:The destiny of India will not wait on the falterings and failings of individuals. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - I Bhawani Mandir, #KEYS
1220:The free spirit can stand fearless before even the biggest forces of Nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I Morality and Yoga, #KEYS
1221:The life of a man is unfulfilled unless he has found the Divine. 2 June 1972 ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II 1.01 - The True Aim of Life, #KEYS
1222:The reason deals successfully only with the settled and the finite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle The Reason as Governor of Life, #KEYS
1223:The sattwic quality is a first mediator between the higher and the lower nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita Deva and Asura, #KEYS
1224:The truth above shall wake a nether truth, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Eternal Day, #KEYS
1225:Think of the Divine alone and the Divine will be with you. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II 1.02 - The Divine Is with You, #KEYS
1226:To break up the form is to injure the spirit’s self-expression. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Renaissance in India “Is India Civilised?” - I, #KEYS
1227:To understand the Divine we must have no more preferences. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II 1.05 - The Ways of Working of the Lord, #KEYS
1228:Violence in ordinary Nature does not justify violence in a spiritual work. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Anger and Violence, #KEYS
1229:All grief is born of the shrinking of the ego from the contacts of existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad Conclusion and Summary, #KEYS
1230:All the terrestrial past of the world is there summarised in man. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga 3.7.1.06 - The Ascending Unity, #KEYS
1231:All we have done is ever still to do.All breaks and all renews and is the same. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.04 - The Vision and the Boon, #KEYS
1232:A lying reality is falsehood’s crownAnd a perverted truth her richest gem. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.03 - The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
1233:A pure intuition is a rare occurrence in our mental activity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine Supermind, #KEYS
1234:... a shadow depends on light for its existence, but light does not depend for its existence on the shadow ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine , #KEYS
1235:Behind all eyes I meet Thy secret gazeAnd in each voice I hear Thy magic tune: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 7.5.61 - Because Thou Art, #KEYS
1236:Earth’s pains were the ransom of its prisoned delight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Yoga of the King, #KEYS
1237:For the most part men are the slaves of their associations. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Kena and Other Upanishads On Translating the Upanishads, #KEYS
1238:Here dreadfully entangled love and hateMeet us blind wanderers mid the perils of Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.01 - The Word of Fate, #KEYS
1239:I'm re-reading Savitri. Lucky man! I would love to read it again. And the more you read, the more marvellous it becomes. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
1240:In a small corner of infinity,Our lives are inlets of an ocean’s force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #KEYS
1241:It is only the Grace that can bring the real supramental change. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I The Supramental Transformation, #KEYS
1242:Kali (Iron Lords of Time)Am love, am passion; I create the world.I am the only Brahma. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems Kama, #KEYS
1243:Nothing happens in the cosmic playBut at its time and in its foreseen place. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Destined Meeting-place, #KEYS
1244:Ravenous waves that marchWith blue fierce nostrils quivering for prey, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - I Flower Adornment Sutra (Avatamsaka Sutra) Prologue, #KEYS
1245:The ally who helps, may also covet. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Autobiographical Notes and Other Writings of Historical Interest To Motilal Roy, #KEYS
1246:The beginning of wisdom, perfection and beatitude is the vision of the One. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad Self-Realisation, #KEYS
1247:The Divine manifests upon earth whenever and wherever it is possible. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II 1.02 - The Divine Is with You, #KEYS
1248:The joy of perfect union can come only when what has to be done is done. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II 1.04 - Relationship with the Divine, #KEYS
1249:The limbs were trembling densities of soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Eternal Day, #KEYS
1250:The nation must exist before it can sacrifice its interests for a higher good. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin The Doctrine of Sacrifice, #KEYS
1251:The perfect path: for each one the path which leads fastest to the Divine. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II The Path of Yoga, #KEYS
1252:There can be no immortality of the body without supramentalisation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I Transformation and the Body, #KEYS
1253:There is no body without soul, no body that is not itself a form of soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.20 - The Philosophy of Rebirth, #KEYS
1254:The spiritual life of India is the first necessity of the world’s future. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - II One More for the Altar, #KEYS
1255:The Will is mightier than any law, fate or force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad The Ishavasyopanishad with a Commentary in English, #KEYS
1256:To understand the Divine one must become the Divine. 24 May 1972 ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II The Ways of Working of the Lord [25], #KEYS
1257:Vainly man, crouched in his corner of safety, shrinks from the fatalLure of the Infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.02 - Ahana, #KEYS
1258:What the mind wants is not at all always what is intended in a larger purpose. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I 5.4.01 - Occult Knowledge, #KEYS
1259:What we call unconsciousness is simply other-consciousness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.12 - The Realisation of Sachchidananda, #KEYS
1260:Where there is not the personal egoism of the doer, desire becomes impossible. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita 1.18 - The Divine Worker, #KEYS
1261:Absolute equality is non-existent in this world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle The Formation of the Nation-Unit - The Three Stages, #KEYS
1262:A cricket’s rash and fiery single note,It marked with shrill melody night’s moonless hush ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.14 - The World-Soul, #KEYS
1263:Addressed to the One Supreme Lord, There is no other sin, no other vice than to be far from Thee. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III 240, #KEYS
1264:All experience lies within us as passive or potential memory. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Early Cultural Writings A System of National Education, #KEYS
1265:All world is expression or manifestation, creation by the Word. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda Brihaspati, #KEYS
1266:An evil environment worsened evil souls: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The World of Falsehood, #KEYS
1267:At the top of the head or above it is the right place for yogic concentration in reading or thinking. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II , #KEYS
1268:Being dwelling in consciousness upon itself for bliss, this is the divine Tapas. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.04 - Concentration, #KEYS
1269:But within there is a soul and above there is Grace. 'This is all you know or need to know' ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Poetry And Art , #KEYS
1270:Cosmos cannot be governed by a Power that does not transcend cosmos. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita 2.07 - The Supreme Word of the Gita, #KEYS
1271:Democracy has travelled from the East to the West in the shape of Christianity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - II Asiatic Democracy, #KEYS
1272:Error is continually the handmaid and pathfinder of Truth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine The Two Negations, #KEYS
1273:For Life is Force and Force is Power and Power is Will and Will is the working of the Master-consciousness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine , #KEYS
1274:In a world of beings and momentary eventsWhere all must die to live and live to die. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.13 - In the Self of Mind, #KEYS
1275:In its essentiality all is divine even if the form baffles or repels us. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.04 - The Divine and the Undivine, #KEYS
1276:It is He in the sun who is ageless and deathless,And into the midnight His shadow is thrown. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 3.1.02 - Who, #KEYS
1277:Which of Sri Aurobindo's books should I start with?The Life Divine.My blessings.11 March 1941 ~ The Mother, On Education , #KEYS
1278:Let us constantly aspire to be a perfect instrument for the Divine's work. With my Blessings. ~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother 27 August, #KEYS
1279:Let us give joy to all, for joy is ours.For not for ourselves alone our spirits came ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 12.01 - The Return to Earth, #KEYS
1280:Look at the simplicity of the Truth with a straight and simple gaze. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Depression and Despondency, #KEYS
1281:Love in her was wider than the universe,The whole world could take refuge in her single heart. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.02 - The Issue, #KEYS
1282:Man is constantly acting upon man both by the silent and the spoken word. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Kena and Other Upanishads The Supreme Word, #KEYS
1283:Man’s natural joy of life is overcastAnd sorrow is his nurse of destiny. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.04 - The Kingdoms of the Little Life, #KEYS
1284:Nobody can really help—only the Divine Grace. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Interactions with Others and the Practice of Yoga, #KEYS
1285:One can give not only one’s soul, but all one’s powers to the Divine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II 1.2.09 - Consecration and Offering, #KEYS
1286:Our blind or erring government of life;A loose republic once of wants and needs. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.05 - The Finding of the Soul, #KEYS
1287:Our works are part of an indivisible cosmic action. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 1.07 - Standards of Conduct and Spiritual Freedom, #KEYS
1288:Out, out with the mind and its candle flares,Light, light the suns that never die. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems Musa Spiritus, #KEYS
1289:The Riddle of the WorldIf you can solve it, you will be immortal, but if you fail you will perish. ~ The Mother, On Education , #KEYS
1290:Purification is an essential means towards self-perfection. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 4.04 - The Perfection of the Mental Being, #KEYS
1291:Scattered on sealed depths, her luminous smileKindled to fire the silence of the worlds. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #KEYS
1292:The Dragon of the dark foundations keepsUnalterable the law of Chance and Death; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.04 - The Vision and the Boon, #KEYS
1293:The eternal, the divine RealityHas faced itself with its own contraries. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.04 - The Kingdoms of the Little Life, #KEYS
1294:The ethical ideality one of the master impulses of the cultured being. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle Aesthetic and Ethical Culture, #KEYS
1295:The great rule of life is to have no schemes but one unalterable purpose. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - II The Glory of God in Man, #KEYS
1296:The hand that sent Jupiter spinning through heaven,Spends all its cunning to fashion a curl. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 3.1.02 - Who, #KEYS
1297:The impossible is the hint of what shall be,Mortal the door to immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems Our godhead calls us, #KEYS
1298:The soul does not move, but motion of Nature takes place in its perfect stillness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad The Isha Upanishad, #KEYS
1299:Three fundamental aspects of the Divine - the Individual or Immanent, the Cosmic and the Transcendent ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga , #KEYS
1300:Through the shocks of difficulty and deathMan shall attain his godhead. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - I Flower Adornment Sutra (Avatamsaka Sutra) Prologue, #KEYS
1301:Took the mind captive in its own net;His rigorous logic made the false seem true. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
1302:What is the right way of achieving lasting world unity? To realise the Consciousness of the ONE. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III , #KEYS
1303:When, in our despair, we cry to the Divine, always He answers to our call. With my blessings. ~ The Mother, Mantras of the Mother 21 December, #KEYS
1304:When waking up every morning, let us pray for a day of complete consecration. With my blessings ~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother 19 June, #KEYS
1305:A great Negation was the Real’s faceProhibiting the vain process of Time: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.01 - The Dream Twilight of the Ideal, #KEYS
1306:All force is power or means of a secret spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Renaissance in India A Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture - V, #KEYS
1307:A psychic fire within must be lit into which all is thrown with the Divine Name upon it. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga , #KEYS
1308:Division ceased to be, for God was there. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The World of Falsehood, #KEYS
1309:Each form and way of being has its own appropriate way of the delight of being. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.23 - Man and the Evolution, #KEYS
1310:Every breath of life is a breath too of death. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita 2.10 - The Vision of the World-Spirit - Time the Destroyer, #KEYS
1311:For nothing have we learned, but still repeatOur stark misuse of self and others’ souls. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.01 - The Word of Fate, #KEYS
1312:From exchange we can rise to the highest possible idea of interchange. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Heraclitus - VII, #KEYS
1313:His knowledge scans bright pebbles on the shoreOf the huge ocean of his ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces, #KEYS
1314:If birth is a becoming, death also is a becoming, not by any means a cessation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita 2.03 - The Supreme Divine, #KEYS
1315:Immensity was exceeded by a look,A Face revealed the crowded Infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.02 - The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #KEYS
1316:In each success a seed of failure lurks. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Yoga of the King, #KEYS
1317:In spite of death and evil circumstanceA will to live persists, a joy to be. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.03 - The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
1318:In vain was my prison of separate body made;His occult presence burns in every cell. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 7.5.56 - Omnipresence, #KEYS
1319:Life is not entirely real until it opens into the sense of the infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita 1.13 - The Lord of the Sacrifice, #KEYS
1320:Nationalism tempered by expediency is like the French despotism tempered by epigrams. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin Opinion and Comments, #KEYS
1321:Nationalism tempered by expediency is like the French despotism tempered by epigrams. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin Opinion and Comments, #KEYS
1322:Our hidden centres of celestial forceOpen like flowers to a heavenly atmosphere. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.12 - The Heavens of the Ideal, #KEYS
1323:Our mind perhaps deceives us with its wordsAnd gives the name of doom to our own choice; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.01 - The Word of Fate, #KEYS
1324:Pain affects us more intensely because it is abnormal to our being. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine Delight of Existence, #KEYS
1325:Pass slowly through that perilous space,A prayer upon his lips and the great Name. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
1326:Self-blame and self-condemnation, are the beginning of true ethics. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine Delight of Existence, #KEYS
1327:The darkness was the Omnipotent’s abode,Hood of omniscience, a blind mask of God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems The Inconscient, #KEYS
1328:The difference between knowledge and ignorance is a grace of the Spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 1.11 - The Master of the Work, #KEYS
1329:The English Bible is a translation, but it ranks among the finest pieces of literature in the world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Poetry and Art , #KEYS
1330:The finite is a circumstance and not a contradiction of the infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.06 - Reality and the Cosmic Illusion, #KEYS
1331:The idea is a mighty force, even when it has no physical power behind it. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin: The Right of Association Speech, #KEYS
1332:The plants are very psychic, but they can express it only by silence and beauty. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I Science and Yoga, #KEYS
1333:The Truth is in you - but you must want it, in order to realise it. With my Blessings. ~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother August 29th, #KEYS
1334:The violent and hungry hounds of painTravelled through his body biting as they passed ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 08.03 - Death in the Forest, #KEYS
1335:To be by oneself very much needs a certain force of inner life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II Asceticism and the Integral Yoga, #KEYS
1336:We are not the body, but the body is still something of ourselves. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II The Adwaita of Shankaracharya, #KEYS
1337:Whatever is mechanical and artificial is inoperative for good. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Early Cultural Writings A System of National Education, #KEYS
1338:What help is in prevision to the driven?Safe doors cry opening near, the doomed pass on. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 06.01 - The Word of Fate, #KEYS
1339:Will: power of consciousness turned towards effectuation. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II Elements of Yoga, #KEYS
1340:A Light there is that leads, a Power that aids; Unmarked, unfelt it sees in him and acts: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.04 - The Vision and the Boon, #KEYS
1341:All here is a mystery of contraries:Darkness a magic of self-hidden Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.01 - The Dream Twilight of the Ideal, #KEYS
1342:All life is a Yoga of Nature seeking to manifest God within itself. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 0.05 - The Synthesis of the Systems, #KEYS
1343:All light is but a flash from his closed eyes: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Eternal Day, #KEYS
1344:Both the Being and the Becoming are truths of one absolute Reality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.15 - Reality and the Integral Knowledge, #KEYS
1345:But like a shining answer from the gods Approached through sun-bright spaces Savitri. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 04.03 - The Call to the Quest, #KEYS
1346:Desire is the root of all sorrow, disappointment, affliction. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga Purification - The Lower Mentality, #KEYS
1347:Destruction is the first condition of progress. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita 2.10 - The Vision of the World-Spirit - Time the Destroyer, #KEYS
1348:Earth’s grain that needs the sap of pleasure and tearsRejected the undying rapture’s boon: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #KEYS
1349:Even the most successful victor receives much from the vanquished. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Renaissance in India “Is India Civilised?” - II, #KEYS
1350:Even the profoundest and surest political instinct is not wisdom. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle Ancient and Modern Methods of Empire, #KEYS
1351:For the key is hid and by the Inconscient kept; The secret God beneath the threshold dwells. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
1352:God prepares, but He does not hasten the ripening of the fruit before its season. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin The Doctrine of Sacrifice, #KEYS
1353:Heaven ever young and earth too firm and oldDelay the heart by immobility: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.01 - The Dream Twilight of the Ideal, #KEYS
1354:He mastered the tides of Nature with a look:He met with his bare spirit naked Hell. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
1355:He puts on joy and sorrow like a robeAnd drinks experience like a strengthening wine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
1356:His pains are her means to grow, to see and feel;His death assists her immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces, #KEYS
1357:However long the journey may be and however great the traveller, at the end is always found exclusive reliance on the Divine Grace. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
1358:If one wants to do a divine work upon earth, one must come with tons of patience and endurance. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1954 , #KEYS
1359:I guide man to the path of the DivineAnd guard him from the red Wolf and the Snake. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces, #KEYS
1360:I have a sweet little Mother Who lives in my heart; We are so happy together, We shall never part. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III , #KEYS
1361:In sincerity is the certitude of victory. Sincerity! Sincerity! How sweet is the purity of thy presence! ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
1362:It is forces that effect great political changes, not moral sentiments or vague generosities. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin The Elections, #KEYS
1363:Logic can serve any turn proposed to it by the mind’s preferences. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Poetry and Art Bertrand Russell, #KEYS
1364:Love fulfilled does not exclude knowledge, but itself brings knowledge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 3.01 - Love and the Triple Path, #KEYS
1365:O Lord, in the depths of all that is, of all that shall be, is Thy divine and unvarying smile ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III 240, #KEYS
1366:One who has shaped this world is ever its lord:Our errors are his steps upon the way. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
1367:Only what the man admires and accepts, becomes part of himself; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Early Cultural Writings A System of National Education, #KEYS
1368:Our earth is a fragment and a residue;Her power is packed with the stuff of greater worlds ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.01 - The World-Stair, #KEYS
1369:Poetry is a highly charged power of aesthetic expression of the soul of man. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry New Birth or Decadence?, #KEYS
1370:Poetry too is an interpreter of truth, but in the forms of an innate beauty. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry New Birth or Decadence?, #KEYS
1371:Purification is not complete till it brings about liberation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 4.04 - The Perfection of the Mental Being, #KEYS
1372:Selfishness is to live for oneself and not for something greater than the self. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Ego and Its Forms, #KEYS
1373:Sometimes we know them leastWhom most we love and constantly consort with. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - I Act III, #KEYS
1374:Sri Aurobindo is constantly among us and reveals himself to those who are ready to see and hear him. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I , #KEYS
1375:The human mind’s picture of heaven is the incessant repetition of an eternal monotone. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
1376:The severest school of anarchism rejects all compromise with communism. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle The End of the Curve of Reason, #KEYS
1377:The soul is seated within and impervious to the shocks of external events. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita The Field and its Knower, #KEYS
1378:This is sure that he and she are one;Even when he sleeps, he keeps her on his breast: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
1379:Those whom the Force has touched and taken up, belong thenceforth to the Divine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II 1.4.02 - The Divine Force, #KEYS
1380:Thought was not there but a knowledge near and oneSeized on all things by a moved identity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.14 - The World-Soul, #KEYS
1381:To clear the vital, you must get out of it all compromise with falsehood. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV The Nature of the Vital, #KEYS
1382:To get rid of mortal body is not to get rid of mortal mind. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.13 - The Difficulties of the Mental Being, #KEYS
1383:Tranquillity is a sign of increasing self-mastery and purity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.25 - The Higher and the Lower Knowledge, #KEYS
1384:We must never forget that our goal is to manifest the Supramental Reality. With my blessings ~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother 25 May, #KEYS
1385:Whatever you do, always remember the Divine. 5 May 1954 ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II 1.02 - The Divine Is with You, #KEYS
1386:34. O Thou that lovest, strike! If Thou strike me not now, I shall know that Thou lovst me not. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human 4.1 - Jnana, #KEYS
1387:Action solves the difficulties which action creates. Inaction can only paralyse and slay. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin Facts and Opinions, #KEYS
1388:All is one Being, one Consciousness, one even in infinite multiplicity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.06 - Reality and the Cosmic Illusion, #KEYS
1389:A spark of the eternal Fire, it cameTo build a house in Matter for the Unborn. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems The Miracle of Birth, #KEYS
1390:Beauty and happiness are her native right,And endless Bliss is her eternal home. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Glory and Fall of Life, #KEYS
1391:Can You now say with certainty whether this supramental substance will help decisively to realise this new birth? EVIDENTLY. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
1392:Each nation is a Shakti or power of the evolving spirit in humanity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Renaissance in India “Is India Civilised?” - I, #KEYS
1393:Eternity drew close disguised as LoveAnd laid its hand upon the body of Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.09 - The Paradise of the Life-Gods, #KEYS
1394:Even Good she makes a hook to drag to Hell. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The World of Falsehood, #KEYS
1395:Every man is knowingly or unknowingly the instrument of a universal Power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 1.11 - The Master of the Work, #KEYS
1396:Evil deforms and disguises good. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.16 - The Integral Knowledge and the Aim of Life; Four Theories of Existence, #KEYS
1397:Here in a difficult half-finished worldIs a slow toiling of unconscious Powers ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.02 - The Kingdom of Subtle Matter, #KEYS
1398:Here where our half-lit ignorance skirts the gulfsOn the dumb bosom of the ambiguous earth, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #KEYS
1399:He wades through mud to reach the Wonderful,And does what Matter must or Spirit can. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 7.4.01 - Man the Enigma, #KEYS
1400:I believe that it is his message; all the rest are the preparations, but Savitri is the message. ~ The Mother, In 1963 to Satprem (MA 1963:86), #KEYS
1401:In concentration and silence we must gather strength for the right action. With my blessings. ~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother November 8th, #KEYS
1402:In the country of the lotus of the headWhich thinking mind has made its busy space, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.05 - The Finding of the Soul, #KEYS
1403:It entered the mystic lotus in her head,A thousand-petalled home of power and light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 09.01 - Towards the Black Void, #KEYS
1404:It is in the Divine that we shall always find all that we need. 17 April 1954 ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II The Divine Is with You [10], #KEYS
1405:It is on the Silence behind the cosmos that all the movement of the universe is supported. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II the Silence, #KEYS
1406:It is possible to be one with all, yet above all. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita 2.11 - The Vision of the World-Spirit - The Double Aspect, #KEYS
1407:It is the idea which expresses itself in matter and takes to itself bodies. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin: The Right of Association Speech, #KEYS
1408:It is the spirit within and not the mind without that is the fount of poetry. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry New Birth or Decadence?, #KEYS
1409:It is the tears, the bloodProdigally spent that build a nation’s greatness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - I Act III, #KEYS
1410:Knowledge must be aggressive, if it wishes to survive and perpetuate itself. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle Civilisation and Barbarism, #KEYS
1411:Let us go to sleep with a prayer and wake with an aspiration for the New and Perfect Creation. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II 1.01 - The Human Aspiration, #KEYS
1412:Lord, Thou hast told us: Do not give way, hold tight. It is when everything seems lost that all is saved. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III , #KEYS
1413:Man, sole awake in an unconscious world,Aspires in vain to change the cosmic dream. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.04 - The Vision and the Boon, #KEYS
1414:Mind as we know it is a power of the Ignorance seeking for Truth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine Supermind, #KEYS
1415:Mind is not the destined archangel of the transformation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle The Necessity of the Spiritual Transformation, #KEYS
1416:Mystic daughter of Delight,Life, thou ecstasy,Let the radius of thy flightBe eternity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 1.06 - The Transformation of Dream Life, #KEYS
1417:Naked my spirit from its vestures stands;I am alone with my own self for space. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems The Self’s Infinity, #KEYS
1418:Not for a changeless littleness were you meant,Not for vain repetition were you built ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 04.03 - The Call to the Quest, #KEYS
1419:One Brahman, one reality in Self and Nature is the object of all knowledge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita The Field and its Knower, #KEYS
1420:Our human ignorance moves towards the TruthThat Nescience may become omniscient, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Glory and Fall of Life, #KEYS
1421:Our thoughts;Where a free Wisdom works, they seek for a rule. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
1422:Poems in largeness cast like moving worldsAnd metres surging with the ocean’s voice ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 04.02 - The Growth of the Flame, #KEYS
1423:That which we call ourselves is only a trembling ray on the surface. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine Delight of Existence, #KEYS
1424:The Absolute is beyond stability and movement as it is beyond unity and multiplicity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 1.09 - The Pure Existent, #KEYS
1425:The Divine's Presence is for us an absolute, immutable, invariable fact. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II 1.02 - The Divine Is with You, #KEYS
1426:The ethical imperative comes not from around, but from within him and above him. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle The Suprarational Good, #KEYS
1427:The Immobile’s ocean-silence saw him pass, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Yoga of the King, #KEYS
1428:The Immobile’s ocean-silence saw him pass, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Yoga of the King, #KEYS
1429:The mysterious and unchanging changeOf the persistent movement we call Time ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #KEYS
1430:The world has three layers, infra-ethical, ethical and supra-ethical. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine Delight of Existence, #KEYS
1431:To know we have to go within ourselves and see with an inner knowledge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine Memory, #KEYS
1432:To see things as parts, as incomplete elements is a lower analytic knowledge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.17 - The Soul and Nature, #KEYS
1433:We are always free to make our proposals to the Lord, but after all it is only His will that is realised. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
1434:We must gather ourselves in a calm resolution and an unshakable certitude. With my blessings. ~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother November 9th, #KEYS
1435:We must rest at nothing less than the All, nothing short of the utter transcendence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.05 - Renunciation, #KEYS
1436:When darkness was blind and engulfed within darkness,He was seated within it immense and alone. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 3.1.02 - Who, #KEYS
1437:Cessation of thought and other vibrations is the climax of the inner silence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV 4.22 - The supramental Thought and Knowledge, #KEYS
1438:Chaff are men’s armiesThreshed by the flails of Fate; ‘tis the soul of the hero that conquers. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.1.01 - Ilion, #KEYS
1439:Climbing from Nature’s deep surrendered heartIt blooms for ever at the feet of God, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.12 - The Heavens of the Ideal, #KEYS
1440:Death is only a shedding of the body, not a cessation of the personal existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram 3.04 - The Spirit in Spirit-Land after Death, #KEYS
1441:Death lay beneath him like a gate of sleep. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Yoga of the King, #KEYS
1442:Each member of our being has its own proper principles of purification. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.03 - The Purified Understanding, #KEYS
1443:I, Earth, have a deeper power than Heaven;My lonely sorrow surpasses its rose-joys. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems The Life Heavens, #KEYS
1444:If it be true that the Self alone exists, it must be also true that all is the Self. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 1.04 - Reality Omnipresent, #KEYS
1445:If you desire only the Divine, there is an absolute certitude that you will reach the Divine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II Baha i Faith, #KEYS
1446:In the inconscient dreadful dumb AbyssAre heard the heart-beats of the Infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 7.5.The Unseen Infinite, #KEYS
1447:In the night a million stars ariseTo watch us with their ancient friendly eyes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems Perigone Prologuises, #KEYS
1448:It is difficult to get rid of all habits. They must be faced with a steady determination. With my blessings, ~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother , #KEYS
1449:It is the resurgence of the barbarian in ourselves, in civilised man, that is the peril. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
1450:Law and Process are one side of our existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine Rebirth and Other Worlds; Karma, #KEYS
1451:Love and serve men, but beware lest thou desire their approbation. Obey rather God within thee. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human Bhakti, #KEYS
1452:No action, however vast, exhausts the original power from which it proceeds. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.12 - The Origin of the Ignorance, #KEYS
1453:Our body is an epitome of some Vast That masks its presence by our humanness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 7.5.59 - The Hill-top Temple, #KEYS
1454:Our ego is only a face of the universal being and has no separate existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.04 - The Divine and the Undivine, #KEYS
1455:Poet, who first with skill inspired did teachGreatness to our divine Bengali speech. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems Madhusudan Dutt, #KEYS
1456:Shuddered in silence as obscurely stirOcean’s dim fields delivered to the moon. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.03 - The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
1457:Sri Aurobindo is in the subtle physical, you can meet him when you sleep, if you know how to go there. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I , #KEYS
1458:The blue sea dances like a girlWith sapphire and with pearlCrowning her locks. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems Songs to Myrtilla, #KEYS
1459:The genius of Japan lies in imitation and improvement, that of India in origination. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - II The Asiatic Role, #KEYS
1460:The heart of man is nearer to the Truth than his intelligence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Renaissance in India Indian Spirituality and Life - I, #KEYS
1461:There is a need within the soul of man The splendours of the surface never sate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 7.5.28 - The Greater Plan, #KEYS
1462:There was no second, it had no partner or peer;Only itself was real to itself. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.01 - The Pursuit of the Unknowable, #KEYS
1463:The separate self must melt or be rebornInto a Truth beyond the mind’s appeal. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 03.01 - The Pursuit of the Unknowable, #KEYS
1464:The spiritual is the one truth of which all others are the veiled aspects ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle The End of the Curve of Reason, #KEYS
1465:The Supreme's power is infinite -it is our faith that is small. With my Blessings. ~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother 23 August, #KEYS
1466:The white passion of God-ecstasyThat laughs in the blaze of the boundless heart of Love. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.13 - In the Self of Mind, #KEYS
1467:Think of your work only when it is being done, not before and not after. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II Practical Concerns in Work, #KEYS
1468:Through all its differences and discords humanity is striving to become one. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin: The Right of Association Speech, #KEYS
1469:Thy golden Light came down into my feet;My earth is now Thy playfield and Thy seat. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 7.5.26 - The Golden Light, #KEYS
1470:Time voyages with Thee upon its prow,—And all the future’s passionate hope is Thou. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 7.5.61 - Because Thou Art, #KEYS
1471:Until man in his heart is ready, a profound change of the world conditions cannot come. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle Internationalism, #KEYS
1472:Will not past action come in the way of sadhana? Complete consecration to the Divine wipes out what one has been in the past. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
1473:All things are wrapped in the dynamic One:A subtle link of union joins all life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.02 - The Kingdom of Subtle Matter, #KEYS
1474:A rose of splendour on a tree of dreams,The face of Dawn out of mooned twilight grew. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.05 - The Finding of the Soul, #KEYS
1475:A vast Unknown is round us and within;All things are wrapped in the dynamic One: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.02 - The Kingdom of Subtle Matter, #KEYS
1476:Behind all intelligent action there must be an intelligent will. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.14 - The Passive and the Active Brahman, #KEYS
1477:By the swift vibration of a nerveLinks its mechanic throbs to light and love. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.04 - The Kingdoms of the Little Life, #KEYS
1478:Cheer up, all will be all right, if we know how to last and endure. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II Will and Perserverance, #KEYS
1479:Doubt is not a sport to indulge in with impunity; it is a poison which drop by drop corrodes the soul. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II , #KEYS
1480:Even wisdom, hewer of the roads of God,Is a partner in the deep disastrous game: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.03 - The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
1481:From the standpoint of Yoga it is not so much what you do but how you do it that matters most. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II 2.04 - Yogic Action, #KEYS
1482:Give all that you have, this is the beginning; give all that you do, this is the way; give all that you are, this is the fulfilment. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
1483:Her spirit, guilty of being, wandered doomed, Moving for ever through eternal Night. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.01 - The Dream Twilight of the Ideal, #KEYS
1484:Immeasurable ecstasy where TimeAnd Space have fainted in a swoon sublime! ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems 5.2.02 - The Meditations of Mandavya, #KEYS
1485:It is the soul within us that decides, that makes our history, that determines Fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - II The 7th of August, #KEYS
1486:Krishna and Radha for ever entwined in bliss,The Adorer and Adored self-lost and one. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 07.05 - The Finding of the Soul, #KEYS
1487:Man is at present only partly liberated from the animal involution. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga The Gradations of the Supermind, #KEYS
1488:Nations that conquer widest, perish first, Sapped by the hate of an uneasy world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - I Act III, #KEYS
1489:No Joy is comparable to the feeling of the eternal Presence in one's heart. With my Blessings. ~ The Mother, Mantras Of The Mother 04 July, #KEYS
1490:No man is simply good or simply bad; every man is a mixture of contraries. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.03 - The Eternal and the Individual, #KEYS
1491:One must lose one’s little lower self to find the greater self. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 1.13 - The Supermind and the Yoga of Works, #KEYS
1492:Our mind is a house haunted by the slain past,Ideas soon mummified, ghosts of old truths, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.13 - In the Self of Mind, #KEYS
1493:Our rapture here is short before we goTo other sweetness on some rarer height ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories - II Act II, #KEYS
1494:Renunciation is to go to the extreme, but also enjoyment is to be equally integral. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad Conclusion and Summary, #KEYS
1495:Science and Philosophy are never entirely dispassionate and disinterested. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle The Reason as Governor of Life, #KEYS
1496:That which refuses to give itself, is still the food of the cosmic Powers ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda 2 - Other Hymns to Agni, #KEYS
1497:The human mind is an instrument not of truth but of ignorance and error. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV Problems in Human Relations, #KEYS
1498:The integral truth of things is truth not of the reason but of the spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle The End of the Curve of Reason, #KEYS
1499:The lyrical impulse is the original and spontaneous creator of the poetic form, ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry The Form and the Spirit, #KEYS
1500:The outward and the immediate are our field,The dead past is our background and support; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
*** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:It is not what you do but the spirit in which you do it that is important for the integral Yoga. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
2:integral yoga aims at “opening the springs of creative inspiration hidden in the human psyche” and the “active participation ~ Mark Stephens, #NFDB
3:In the integral yoga there is no distinction between the sadhana and the outward life; it is in each and every movement of the daily life that the Truth must be found and practised. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
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30 Integral Yoga
104 Sri Aurobindo
19 Satprem
6 The Mother
70 The Synthesis Of Yoga
20 Savitri
19 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
14 The Life Divine
10 The Integral Yoga
9 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
4 The Mothers Agenda
3 Words Of The Mother II
3 Letters On Yoga III
3 Letters On Yoga I
00.01_-_The_Mother_on_Savitri, #Sweet Mother - Harmonies of Light, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
My child, yes, everything is there: mysticism, occultism, philosophy, the history of evolution, the history of man, of the gods, of creation, of Nature. How the universe was created, why, for what purpose, what destiny - all is there. You can find all the answers to all your questions there. Everything is explained, even the future of man and of the evolution, all that nobody yet knows. He has described it all in beautiful and clear words so that spiritual adventurers who wish to solve the mysteries of the world may understand it more easily. But this mystery is well hidden behind the words and lines and one must rise to the required level of true consciousness to discover it. All prophesies, all that is going to come is presented with the precise and wonderful clarity. Sri Aurobindo gives you here the key to find the Truth, to discover the Consciousness, to solve the problem of what the universe is. He has also indicated how to open the door of the Inconscience so that the light may penetrate there and transform it. He has shown the path, the way to liberate oneself from the ignorance and climb up to the superconscience; each stage, each plane of consciousness, how they can be scaled, how one can cross even the barrier of death and attain immortality. You will find the whole journey in detail, and as you go forward you can discover things altogether unknown to man. That is Savitri and much more yet. It is a real experience - reading Savitri. All the secrets that man possessed, He has revealed, - as well as all that awaits him in the future; all this is found in the depth of Savitri. But one must have the knowledge to discover it all, the experience of the planes of consciousness, the experience of the Supermind, even the experience of the conquest of Death. He has noted all the stages, marked each step in order to advance integrally in the Integral Yoga.
0.02_-_The_Three_Steps_of_Nature, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
of the material or food sheath and the nervous system or vital vehicle.1
If, then, this inferior equilibrium is the basis and first means of the higher movements which the universal Power contemplates and if it constitutes the vehicle in which the Divine here seeks to reveal Itself, if the Indian saying is true that the body is the instrument provided for the fulfilment of the right law of our nature, then any final recoil from the physical life must be a turning away from the completeness of the divine Wisdom and a renunciation of its aim in earthly manifestation. Such a refusal may be, owing to some secret law of their development, the right attitude for certain individuals, but never the aim intended for mankind. It can be, therefore, no Integral Yoga which ignores the body or makes its annulment or its rejection indispensable to a perfect spirituality. Rather, the perfecting of the body also should be the last triumph of the Spirit and to make the bodily life also divine must be God's final seal upon His work in the universe. The obstacle which the physical presents to the spiritual is no argument for the rejection of the physical; for in the unseen providence of things our greatest difficulties are our best opportunities. A supreme difficulty is Nature's indication to us of a supreme conquest to be won and an ultimate problem to be solved; it is not a warning of an inextricable snare to be shunned or of an enemy too strong for us from whom we must flee.
Equally, the vital and nervous energies in us are there for a great utility; they too demand the divine realisation of their possibilities in our ultimate fulfilment. The great part assigned to this element in the universal scheme is powerfully emphasised by the catholic wisdom of the Upanishads. "As the spokes of a wheel in its nave, so in the Life-Energy is all established, the triple knowledge and the Sacrifice and the power of the strong and the purity of the wise. Under the control of the LifeEnergy is all this that is established in the triple heaven."2 It is therefore no Integral Yoga that kills these vital energies, forces them into a nerveless quiescence or roots them out as the source
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The ultimate knowledge is that which perceives and accepts God in the universe as well as beyond the universe; the Integral Yoga is that which, having found the Transcendent, can return upon the universe and possess it, retaining the power freely to descend
0.04_-_The_Systems_of_Yoga, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The Conditions of the Synthesis
differs also in this, - and here from the point of view of an Integral Yoga there seems to be a defect, - that it is indifferent to mental and bodily perfection and aims only at purity as a condition of the divine realisation. A second defect is that as actually practised it chooses one of the three parallel paths exclusively and almost in antagonism to the others instead of effecting a synthetic harmony of the intellect, the heart and the will in an integral divine realisation.
0.05_-_The_Synthesis_of_the_Systems, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Y THE very nature of the principal Yogic schools, each covering in its operations a part of the complex human integer and attempting to bring out its highest possibilities, it will appear that a synthesis of all of them largely conceived and applied might well result in an Integral Yoga. But they are so disparate in their tendencies, so highly specialised and elaborated in their forms, so long confirmed in the mutual opposition of their ideas and methods that we do not easily find how we can arrive at their right union.
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may effect itself by the rejection of the lower and escape into the higher, - the ordinary view-point, - or by the transformation of the lower and its elevation to the higher Nature. It is this, rather, that must be the aim of an Integral Yoga.
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Thirdly, the divine Power in us uses all life as the means of this Integral Yoga. Every experience and outer contact with our world-environment, however trifling or however disastrous, is used for the work, and every inner experience, even to the most repellent suffering or the most humiliating fall, becomes a step on the path to perfection. And we recognise in ourselves with opened eyes the method of God in the world, His purpose of light in the obscure, of might in the weak and fallen, of delight in what is grievous and miserable. We see the divine method to be the same in the lower and in the higher working; only in the one it is pursued tardily and obscurely through the subconscious in
Nature, in the other it becomes swift and self-conscious and the instrument confesses the hand of the Master. All life is a Yoga of Nature seeking to manifest God within itself. Yoga marks the stage at which this effort becomes capable of self-awareness and therefore of right completion in the individual. It is a gathering up and concentration of the movements dispersed and loosely combined in the lower evolution.
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functioning of the complex instrument we are in our outer parts, is the condition of an integral liberty. Its result is an integral beatitude, in which there becomes possible at once the Ananda of all that is in the world seen as symbols of the Divine and the Ananda of that which is not-world. And it prepares the integral perfection of our humanity as a type of the Divine in the conditions of the human manifestation, a perfection founded on a certain free universality of being, of love and joy, of play of knowledge and of play of will in power and will in unegoistic action. This integrality also can be attained by the Integral Yoga.
0.07_-_1957, #Agenda Vol 1, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This vision took place early in the night and woke me up with a rather unpleasant feeling. Then I fell back to sleep and forgot about it; but a little while ago, when I was thinking of the question put to me, it returned. It returned with a great intensity and so imperatively that now, just as I wanted to tell you what kind of collectivity we wish to realize according to the ideal described by Sri
Aurobindo in the last chapter of The Life Divine - a gnostic, supramental collectivity, the only kind that can do Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga and be realized physically in a progressive collective body becoming more and more divine - the recollection of this vision became so imperative that I couldn't speak.
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November 12, 1957
The Integral Yoga is made up of an uninterrupted series of tests that you must pass through without any advance notice, thereby forcing you to be always vigilant and attentive.
01.01_-_The_One_Thing_Needful, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
01.01_-_The_Symbol_Dawn, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
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01.02_-_The_Issue, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
01.02_-_The_Object_of_the_Integral_Yoga, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
object:01.02 - The Object of the Integral Yoga
class:chapter
01.03_-_The_Yoga_of_the_King_The_Yoga_of_the_Souls_Release, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
A world's desire compelled her mortal birth.
01.03_-_Yoga_and_the_Ordinary_Life, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
01.04_-_Motives_for_Seeking_the_Divine, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
01.04_-_The_Secret_Knowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
On a height he stood that looked towards greater heights.
01.05_-_The_Yoga_of_the_King_The_Yoga_of_the_Spirits_Freedom_and_Greatness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
This knowledge first he had of time-born men.
02.01_-_Metaphysical_Thought_and_the_Supreme_Truth, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
02.01_-_The_World-Stair, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
part:2
02.02_-_The_Kingdom_of_Subtle_Matter, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
IN THE impalpable field of secret self,
02.03_-_The_Glory_and_the_Fall_of_Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
AN UNEVEN broad ascent now lured his feet.
02.04_-_The_Kingdoms_of_the_Little_Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
A QUIVERING trepidant uncertain world
02.05_-_The_Godheads_of_the_Little_Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
A FIXED and narrow power with rigid forms,
02.06_-_The_Integral_Yoga_and_Other_Yogas, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
object:02.06 - The Integral Yoga and Other Yogas
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I have never said that my Yoga was something brand new in all its elements. I have called it the Integral Yoga and that means that it takes up the essence and many processes of the old Yogas - its newness is in its aim, standpoint and the totality of its method. In the earlier stages which is all I deal with in books like the Riddle or the Lights1 there is nothing in it that distinguishes it from the old Yogas except the aim underlying its comprehensiveness, the spirit in its movements and the ultimate significance it keeps before it - also the scheme of its psychology and its working, but as that was not and could not be developed systematically or schematically in these letters, it has not been grasped by those who are not already acquainted with it by mental familiarity or some amount of practice. The detail or method of the later stages of the Yoga which go into little known or untrodden regions, I have not made public and I do not at present intend to do so.
02.06_-_The_Kingdoms_and_Godheads_of_the_Greater_Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
AS ONE who between dim receding walls
02.07_-_The_Descent_into_Night, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
02.08_-_The_World_of_Falsehood,_the_Mother_of_Evil_and_the_Sons_of_Darkness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
THEN could he see the hidden heart of Night:
02.09_-_The_Paradise_of_the_Life-Gods, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
AROUND him shone a great felicitous Day.
02.10_-_The_Kingdoms_and_Godheads_of_the_Little_Mind, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
THIS too must now be overpassed and left,
02.11_-_The_Kingdoms_and_Godheads_of_the_Greater_Mind, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
THERE ceased the limits of the labouring Power.
02.12_-_The_Heavens_of_the_Ideal, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
ALWAYS the Ideal beckoned from afar.
02.13_-_In_the_Self_of_Mind, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
AT LAST there came a bare indifferent sky
02.14_-_The_World-Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
A COVERT answer to his seeking came.
02.15_-_The_Kingdoms_of_the_Greater_Knowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
AFTER a measureless moment of the soul
03.01_-_The_Evolution_of_Consciousness, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
03.02_-_The_Gradations_of_Consciousness_The_Gradation_of_Planes, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
03.03_-_The_Inner_Being_and_the_Outer_Being, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
1.00_-_INTRODUCTION, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
author class:Satprem
subject class:Integral Yoga
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not only our human but our superhuman and divine possibilities, and not only to believe in them but to discover them ourselves, step by step, to see for ourselves and to become vast, as vast as the earth we love and all the lands and all the seas we hold within us? For there is Sri Aurobindo the explorer, who was also a yogi; did he not say that Yoga is the art of conscious self-finding? 3 It is this exploration of consciousness that we would like to undertake with him. If we proceed calmly, patiently, and with sincerity, bravely facing the difficulties of the road and God knows it is rugged enough there is no reason that the window should not open at some point and let the sun shine on us forever. Actually, it is not one but several windows that open one after another, each time on a wider perspective, a new dimension of our own kingdom; and each time it means a change of consciousness as radical as going from sleep to the waking state. We are going to outline the main stages of these changes of consciousness,
as Sri Aurobindo experienced them and described them to his disciples in his Integral Yoga, until they take us to the threshold of a new, still unknown experience that may have the power to change life itself.
For Sri Aurobindo is not only the explorer of consciousness, he is the builder of a new world. Indeed, what is the point of changing our consciousness if the world around us remains as it is? We would be like Hans Christian Andersen's emperor walking naked through the streets of his capital. Thus, after exploring the outermost frontiers of worlds that were not unknown to ancient wisdom, Sri Aurobindo discovered yet another world, not found on any map, which he called the Supermind or Supramental, and which he sought to draw down upon Earth. He invites us to draw it down a little with him and to take part in the beautiful story, if we like beautiful stories. For the Supermind, Sri Aurobindo tells us, brings a dramatic change to the 3
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evolution of consciousness on earth; it is the change of consciousness that will have the power to hope as thoroughly and lastingly as the Mind did when it first appeared in living matter. We will see,
therefore, how the Integral Yoga leads to a supramental yoga, or yoga of terrestrial transformation, which we will try to outline only, because the story is still in the making; it is quite new and difficult, and we do not quite know yet where it will take us, or even whether it will succeed.
That, in fact, depends a little upon us all.
1.00_-_PREFACE, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
author class:Satprem
subject class:Integral Yoga
1.01_-_An_Accomplished_Westerner, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
author class:Satprem
subject class:Integral Yoga
1.01_-_The_Four_Aids, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
class:chapter
subject class:Integral Yoga
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SHASTRA
2:The supreme Shastra of the Integral Yoga is the eternal Veda secret in the heart of every thinking and living being. The lotus of the eternal knowledge and the eternal perfection is a bud closed and folded up within us. It opens swiftly or gradually, petal by petal, through successive realisations, once the mind of man begins to turn towards the Eternal, once his heart, no longer compressed and confined by attachment to finite appearances, becomes enamoured, in whatever degree, of the Infinite. All life, all thought, all energising of the faculties, all experiences passive or active, become thenceforward so many shocks which disintegrate the teguments of the soul and remove the obstacles to the inevitable efflorescence. He who chooses the Infinite has been chosen by the Infinite. He has received the divine touch without which there is no awakening, no opening of the spirit; but once it is received, attainment is sure, whether conquered swiftly in the course of one human life or pursued patiently through many stadia of the cycle of existence in the manifested universe.
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7:For the Sadhaka of the Integral Yoga it is necessary to remember that no written Shastra, however great its authority or however large its spirit, can be more than a partial expression of the eternal Knowledge. He will use, but never bind himself even by the greatest Scripture. Where the Scripture is profound, wide, catholic, it may exercise upon him an influence for the highest good and of incalculable importance. It may be associated in his experience with his awakening to crowning verities and his realisation of the highest experiences. His Yoga may be governed for a long time by one Scripture or by several successively, -- if it is in the line of the great Hindu tradition, by the Gita, for example, the Upanishads, the Veda. Or it may be a good part of his development to include in its material a richly varied experience of the truths of many Scriptures and make the future opulent with all that is best in the past. But in the end he must take his station, or better still, if he can, always and from the beginning he must live in his own soul beyond the written Truth, -- sabdabrahmativartate -- beyond all that he has heard and all that he has yet to hear, -- srotaryasya srutasya ca. For he is not the Sadhaka of a book or of many books; he is a Sadhaka of the Infinite.
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10:By this Yoga we not only seek the Infinite, but we call upon the Infinite to unfold himself in human life. Therefore the Shastra of our Yoga must provide for an infinite liberty in the receptive human soul. A free adaptability in the manner and type of the individual's acceptance of the Universal and Transcendent into himself is the right condition for the full spiritual life in man. Vivekananda, pointing out that the unity of all religions must necessarily express itself by an increasing richness of variety in its forms, said once that the perfect state of that essential unity would come when each man had his own religion, when not bound by sect or traditional form he followed the free self-adaptation of his nature in its relations with the Supreme. So also one may say that the perfection of the Integral Yoga will come when each mall is able to follow his own path of Yoga, pursuing the development of his own nature in its upsurging towards that which transcends the nature. For freedom is the final law and the last consummation.
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14:But this is only one side of the force that works for perfection. The process of the Integral Yoga has three stages, not indeed sharply distinguished or separate, but in a certain measure successive. There must be, first, the effort towards at least an initial and enabling self-transcendence and contact with the Divine; next, the reception of that which transcends, that with which we have gained communion, into ourselves for the transformation of our whole conscious being; last, the utilisation of our transformed humanity as a divine centre in the world. So long as the contact with the Divine is not in some considerable degree established, so long as there is not some measure of sustained identity, sayujga, the element of personal effort must normally predominate. But in proportion as this contact establishes itself, the Sadhaka must become conscious that a force other than his own, a force transcending his egoistic endeavour and capacity, is at work in him and to this Power he learns progressively to submit himself and delivers up to it the charge of his Yoga. In the end his own will and force become one with the higher Power; he merges them in the divine Will and its transcendent and universal Force. He finds it thenceforward presiding over the necessary transformation of his mental, vital and physical being with an impartial wisdom and provident effectivity of which the eager and interested ego is not capable. It is when this identification and this self-merging are complete that the divine centre in the world is ready. Purified, liberated, plastic, illumined, it can begin to serve as a means for the direct action of a supreme Power in the larger Yoga of humanity or superhumanity, of the earth's spiritual progression or its transformation.
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GURU
18:As the supreme Shastra of the Integral Yoga is the eternal Veda secret in the heart of every man, so its supreme Guide and Teacher is the inner Guide, the World-Teacher, jagad-guru, secret within us. It is he who destroys our darkness by the resplendent light of his knowledge; that light becomes within us the increasing glory of his own self-revelation. He discloses progressively in us his own nature of freedom, bliss, love, power, immortal being. He sets above us his divine example as our ideal and transforms the lower existence into a reflection of that which it contemplates. By the inpouring of his own influence and presence into us he enables the individual being to attain to identity with the universal and transcendent.
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23:To be conscious of him in all parts of our being and equally in all that the dividing mind sees as outside our being, is the consummation of the individual consciousness. To be possessed by him and possess him in ourselves and in all things is the term of all empire and mastery. To enjoy him in all experience of passivity and activity, of peace and of power, of unity and of difference is the happiness which the jiva, the individual soul manifested in the world, is obscurely seeking. This is the entire definition of the aim of Integral Yoga; it is the rendering in personal experience of the truth which universal Nature has hidden in herself and which she travails to discover. It is the conversion of the human soul into the divine soul and of natural life into divine living.
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29:The Sadhaka of the Integral Yoga will make use of all these aids according to his nature; but it is necessary that he should shun their limitations and cast from himself that exclusive tendency of egoistic mind which cries, "My God, my Incarnation, my Prophet, my Guru," and opposes it to all other realisation in a sectarian or a fanatical spirit. All sectarianism, all fanaticism must be shunned; for it is inconsistent with the integrity of the divine realisation.
30:On the contrary, the Sadhaka of the Integral Yoga will not be satisfied until he has included all other names and forms of Deity in his own conception, seen his own Ishta Devata in all others, unified all Avatars in the unity of Him who descends in the Avatar, welded the truth in all teachings into the harmony of the Eternal Wisdom.
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32:The Teacher of the Integral Yoga will follow as far as he may the method of the Teacher within us. He will lead the disciple through the nature of the disciple. Teaching, example, influence, -- these are the three instruments of the Guru. But the wise Teacher will not seek to impose himself or his opinions on the passive acceptance of the receptive mind; he will throw in only what is productive and sure as a seed which will grow under the divine fostering within. He will seek to awaken much more than to instruct; he will aim at the growth of the faculties and the experiences by a natural process and free expansion. He will give a method as an aid, as a utilisable device, not as an imperative formula or a fixed routine. And he will be on his guard against any turning of the means into a limitation, against the mechanising of process. His whole business is to awaken the divine light and set working the divine force of which he himself is only a means and an aid, a body or a channel.
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35:And it shall also be a sign of the teacher of the Integral Yoga that he does not arrogate to himself Guruhood in a humanly vain and self-exalting spirit. His work, if he has one, is a trust from above, he himself a channel, a vessel or a representative. He is a man helping his brothers, a child leading children, a Light kindling other lights, an awakened Soul awakening souls, at highest a Power or Presence of the Divine calling to him other powers of the Divine.
1.01_-_Two_Powers_Alone, #The Mother With Letters On The Mother, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
0:The One whom we adore as the Mother is the divine Conscious Force that dominates all existence, one and yet so many-sided that to follow her movement is impossible even for the quickest mind and for the freest and most vast intelligence. The Mother is the consciousness and force of the Supreme and far above all she creates. But something of her ways can be seen and felt through her embodiments and the more seizable because more defined and limited temperament and action of the goddess forms in whom she consents to be manifest to her creatures.
1.02_-_Self-Consecration, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
class:The Synthesis Of Yoga
subject:Integral Yoga
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7:The first necessity is to dissolve that central faith and vision in the mind which concentrate it on its development and satisfaction and interests in the old externalised order of things. It is imperative to exchange this surface orientation for the deeper faith and vision which see only the Divine and seek only after the Divine. The next need is to compel all our lower being to pay homage to this new faith and greater vision. All our nature must make an integral surrender; it must offer itself in every part and every movement to that which seems to the unregenerated sensemind so much less real than the material world and its objects. Our whole being-soul, mind, sense, heart, will, life, body must consecrate all its energies so entirely and in such a way that it shall become a fit vehicle for the Divine. This is no easy task; for everything in the world follows the fixed habit which is to it a law and resists a radical change. And no change can be more radical than the revolution attempted in the Integral Yoga. Everything in us has constantly to be called back to the central faith and will and vision. Every thought and impulse has to be reminded in the language of the Upanishad that "That is the divine Brahman and not this which men here adore." Every vital fibre has to be persuaded to accept an entire renunciation of all that hitherto represented to it its own existence. Mind has to cease to be mind and become brilliant with something beyond it. Life has to change into a thing vast and calm and intense and powerful that can no longer recognise its old blind eager narrow self or petty impulse and desire. Even the body has to submit to a mutation and be no longer the clamorous animal or the impeding clod it now is, but become instead a conscious servant and radiant instrument and living form of the spirit.
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9:The very aim and conception of an Integral Yoga debars us from adopting this simple and strenuous high-pitched process. The hope of an integral transformation forbids us to take a short cut or to make ourselves light for the race by throwing away our impediments. For we have set out to conquer all ourselves and the world for God; we are determined to give him our becoming as well as our being and not merely to bring the pure and naked spirit as a bare offering to a remote and secret Divinity in a distant heaven or abolish all we are in a holocaust to an immobile Absolute. The Divine that we adore is not only a remote extracosmic Reality, but a half-veiled Manifestation present and near to us here in the universe. Life is the field of a divine manifestation not yet complete: here, in life, on earth, in the body, -- ihaiva, as the Upanishads insist, -- we have to unveil the Godhead; here we must make its transcendent greatness, light and sweetness real to our consciousness, here possess and, as far as may be, express it. Life then we must accept in our Yoga in order utterly to transmute it; we are forbidden to shrink from the difficulties that this acceptance may add to our struggle. Our compensation is that even if the path is more rugged, the effort more complex and bafflingly arduous, yet after a point we gain an immense advantage. For once our minds are reasonably fixed in the central vision and our wills are on the whole converted to the single pursuit. Life becomes our helper. Intent, vigilant, integrally conscious, we can take every detail of its forms and every incident of its movements as food for the sacrificial Fire within us. Victorious in the struggle, we can compel Earth herself to be an aid towards our perfection and can enrich our realisation with the booty torn from the powers that oppose us.
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13:But for the Sadhaka of the Integral Yoga this inner or this outer solitude can only be incidents or periods in his spiritual progress. Accepting life, he has to bear not only his own burden, but a great part of the world's burden too along with it, as a continuation of his own sufficiently heavy load. Therefore his Yoga has much more of the nature of a battle than others'; but this is not only an individual battle, it is a collective war waged over a considerable country. He has not only to conquer in himself the forces of egoistic falsehood and disorder, but to conquer them as representatives of the same adverse and inexhaustible forces in the world. Their representative character gives them a much more obstinate capacity of resistance, an almost endless right to recurrence. Often he finds that even after he has won persistently his own personal battle, he has still to win it over and over again in a seemingly interminable war, because his inner existence has already been so much enlarged that not only it contains his own being with its well-defined needs and experiences, but is in solidarity with the being of others, because in himself he contains the universe.
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15:Concentration is indeed the first condition of any Yoga, but it is an all-receiving concentration that is the very nature of the Integral Yoga. A separate strong fixing of the thought, of the emotions or of the will on a single idea, object, state, inner movement or principle is no doubt a frequent need here also; but this is only a subsidiary helpful process. A wide massive opening, a harmonised concentration of the whole being in all its parts and through all its powers upon the One who is the All is the larger action of this Yoga without which it cannot achieve its purpose. For it is the consciousness that rests in the One and that acts in the All to which we aspire; it is this that we seek to impose on every element of our being and on every movement of our nature. This wide and concentrated totality is the essential character of the sadhana and its character must determine its practice.
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20:But still the greater and wider the moving idea-force behind the consecration, the better for the seeker; his attainment is likely to be fuller and more ample. If we are to attempt an Integral Yoga, it will be as well to start with an idea of the Divine that is itself integral. There should be an aspiration in the heart wide enough for a realisation without any narrow limits. Not only should we avoid a sectarian religious outlook, but also all onesided philosophical conceptions which try to shut up the Ineffable in a restricting mental formula. The dynamic conception or impelling sense with which our Yoga can best set out would be naturally the idea, the sense of a conscious all-embracing but all-exceeding Infinite. Our uplook must be to a free, all-powerful, perfect and blissful One and Oneness in which all beings move and live and through which all can meet and become one. This Eternal will be at once personal and impersonal in his self-revelation and touch upon the soul. He is personal because he is the conscious Divine, the infinite Person who casts some broken reflection of himself in the myriad divine and undivine personalities of the universe. He is impersonal because he appears to us as an infinite Existence, Consciousness and Ananda and because he is the fount, base and constituent of all existences and all energies, -the very material of our being and mind and life and body, our spirit and our matter. The thought, concentrating on him, must not merely understand in an intellectual form that he exists, or conceive of him as an abstraction, a logical necessity; it must become a seeing thought able to meet him here as the Inhabitant in all, realise him in ourselves, watch and take hold on the movement of his forces. He is the one Existence: he is the original and universal Delight that constitutes all things and exceeds them: he is the one infinite Consciousness that composes all consciousnesses and informs all their movements; he is the one illimitable Being who sustains all action and experience; his will guides the evolution of things towards their yet unrealised but inevitable aim and plenitude. To him the heart can consecrate itself, approach him as the supreme Beloved, beat and move in him as in a universal sweetness of Love and a living sea of Delight. For his is the secret Joy that supports the soul in all its experiences and maintains even the errant ego in its ordeals and struggles till all sorrow and suffering shall cease. His is the Love and the Bliss of the infinite divine Lover who is drawing all things by their own path towards his happy oneness. On him the Will can unalterably fix as the invisible Power that guides and fulfils it and as the source of its strength. In the impersonality this actuating Power is a self-illumined Force that contains all results and calmly works until it accomplishes, in the personality an all wise and omnipotent Master of the Yoga whom nothing can prevent from leading it to its goal. This is the faith with which the seeker has to begin his seeking and endeavour; for in all his effort here, but most of all in his effort towards the Unseen, mental man must perforce proceed by faith. When the realisation comes, the faith divinely fulfilled and completed will be transformed into an eternal flame of knowledge.
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23:The Yoga must start with an effort or at least a settled turn towards this total concentration. A constant and unfailing will of consecration of all ourselves to the Supreme is demanded of us, an offering of our whole being and our many-chambered nature to the Eternal who is the All. The effective fullness of our concentration on the one thing needful to the exclusion of all else will be the measure of our self-consecration to the One who is alone desirable. But this exclusiveness will in the end exclude nothing except the falsehood of our way of seeing the world and our will's ignorance. For our concentration on the Eternal will be consummated by the mind when we see constantly the Divine in itself and the Divine in ourselves, but also the Divine in all things and beings and happenings. It will be consummated by the heart when all emotion is summed up in the love of the Divine, -- of the Divine in itself and for itself, but love too of the Divine in all its beings and powers and personalities and forms in the Universe' It will be consummated by the will when we feel and receive always the divine impulsion and accept that alone as our sole motive force; but this will mean that, having slain to the last rebellious straggler the wandering impulses of the egoistic nature, we have universalised ourselves and can accept with a constant happy acceptance the one divine working in all things. This is the first fundamental siddhi of the Integral Yoga.
1.02_-_Shakti_and_Personal_Effort, #The Mother With Letters On The Mother, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
1:In all that is done in the universe, the Divine through his Shakti is behind all action but he is veiled by his Yoga Maya and works through the ego of the Jiva in the lower nature.
1.02_-_The_Eternal_Law, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
author class:Satprem
subject class:Integral Yoga
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gods is also, at the same time, the country of a monolithic faith in Oneness: "One, He presides over all wombs and natures; Himself the womb of all." (Swetaswatara Upanishad V.5) But not everyone can at once merge with the Absolute; there are many degrees in the Ascent,
and one who is ready to understand a little Lalita's childlike face and to bring her his incense and flowers may not be able to address the Eternal Mother in the silence of his heart; still another may prefer to deny all forms and plunge into the contemplation of That which is formless. "Even as men come to Me, so I accept them. It is my path that men follow from all sides," says the Bhagavad Gita (IV,11). 14 As we see, there are so many ways of conceiving of God, in three or three million persons, that we should not dogmatize, lest we eliminate everything, finally leaving nothing but a Cartesian God, one and universal by virtue only of his narrowness. Perhaps we still confuse unity with uniformity. It was in the spirit of that tradition that Sri Aurobindo was soon to write: The perfection of the Integral Yoga will come when each man is able to follow his own path of Yoga, pursuing the development of his own nature in its upsurging towards that which transcends the nature. For freedom is the final law and the last consummation.15
Nor does an Indian ever ask: "Do you believe in God?" The question would seem to him as childish as: "Do you believe in CO2?"
1.03_-_Self-Surrender_in_Works_-_The_Way_of_The_Gita, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The Yoga of Divine Works
will create the form of a perfect living. A Yoga of works, a union with the Divine in our will and acts - and not only in knowledge and feeling - is then an indispensable, an inexpressibly important element of an Integral Yoga. The conversion of our thought and feeling without a corresponding conversion of the spirit and body of our works would be a maimed achievement.
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But still each must follow his nature, and there are always difficulties that have to be accepted for some time if we are to pursue our natural path of Yoga. Yoga is after all primarily a change of the inner consciousness and nature, and if the balance of our parts is such that this must be done first with an initial exclusiveness and the rest left for later handling, we must accept the apparent imperfection of the process. Yet would the ideal working of an Integral Yoga be a movement, even from the beginning, integral in its process and whole and many-sided in
1.03_-_The_Armour_of_Grace, #The Mother With Letters On The Mother, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
1:To walk through life armoured against all fear, peril and disaster, only two things are needed, two that go always together - the Grace of the Divine Mother and on your side an inner state made up of faith, sincerity and surrender. Let your faith be pure, candid and perfect. An egoistic faith in the mental and vital being tainted by ambition, pride, vanity, mental arrogance, vital self-will, personal demand, desire for the petty satisfactions of the lower nature is a low and smoke-obscured flame that cannot burn upwards to heaven. Regard your life as given you only for the divine work and to help in the divine manifestation. Desire nothing but the purity, force, light, wideness, calm, Ananda of the divine consciousness and its insistence to transform and perfect your mind, life and body. Ask for nothing but the divine, spiritual and supramental Truth, its realisation on earth and in you and in all who are called and chosen and the conditions needed for its creation and its victory over all opposing forces.
1.03_-_The_End_of_the_Intellect, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
author class:Satprem
subject class:Integral Yoga
1.04_-_Money, #The Mother With Letters On The Mother, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
1.04_-_The_Sacrifice_the_Triune_Path_and_the_Lord_of_the_Sacrifice, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
These are the three fundamental realisations, so fundamental that to the Yogin of the way of Knowledge they seem ultimate, sufficient in themselves, destined to overtop and replace all others. And yet for the integral seeker, whether accorded to him at an early stage suddenly and easily by a miraculous grace or achieved with difficulty after a long progress and endeavour, they are neither the sole truth nor the full and only clues to the integral truth of the Eternal, but rather the unfilled beginning, the vast foundation of a greater divine Knowledge. Other realisations there are that are imperatively needed and must be explored to the full limit of their possibilities; and if some of them appear to a first sight to cover only Divine Aspects that are instrumental to the activity of existence but not inherent in its essence, yet, when followed to their end through that activity to its everlasting
Source, it is found that they lead to a disclosure of the Divine without which our knowledge of the Truth behind things would be left bare and incomplete. These seeming Instrumentals are the key to a secret without which the Fundamentals themselves would not unveil all their mystery. All the revelatory aspects of the Divine must be caught in the wide net of the Integral Yoga.
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This extreme opposition of view from the two poles of one
Existence creates no fundamental difficulty for the seeker of the Integral Yoga; for his whole experience has shown him the necessity of these double terms and their currents of Energy, negative and positive in relation to each other, for the manifestation of what is within the one Existence. For himself Personality and
Impersonality have been the two wings of his spiritual ascension and he has the prevision that he will reach a height where their helpful interaction will pass into a fusion of their powers and disclose the integral Reality and release into action the original force of the Divine. Not only in the fundamental Aspects but in all the working of his sadhana he has felt their double truth and mutually complementary working. An impersonal Presence has dominated from above or penetrated and occupied his nature; a Light descending has suffused his mind, life-power, the very cells of his body, illumined them with knowledge, revealed him to himself down to his most disguised and unsuspected movements, exposing, purifying, destroying or brilliantly changing all that belonged to the Ignorance. A Force has poured into him in currents or like a sea, worked in his being and all its members, dissolved, new-made, reshaped, transfigured everywhere. A Bliss has invaded him and shown that it can make suffering and sorrow impossible and turn pain itself into divine pleasure. A
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It is an integral knowledge that is being sought, an integral force, a total amplitude of union with the All and Infinite behind existence. For the seeker of the Integral Yoga no single experience, no one Divine Aspect, - however overwhelming to the human mind, sufficient for its capacity, easily accepted as the sole or the ultimate reality, - can figure as the exclusive truth of the Eternal. For him the experience of the Divine Oneness carried to its extreme is more deeply embraced and amply fathomed by following out to the full the experience of the Divine Multiplicity.
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The third, identity in nature, likeness to the Divine, to be perfect as That is perfect, is the high intention of all Yoga of power and perfection or of divine works and service. The combined completeness of the three together, founded here on a multiple
Unity of the self-manifesting Divine, is the complete result of the Integral Yoga, the goal of its triple Path and the fruit of its triple sacrifice.
1.04_-_The_Silent_Mind, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
author class:Satprem
subject class:Integral Yoga
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upon the fundamental difference between Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga (purna yoga) and the other yogas. If one has practiced other methods of yoga before Sri Aurobindo's, one experiences an ascending Force (called kundalini in India), which awakens rather brutally at the base of the spine and rises from level to level until it reaches the top of the head, where it blossoms into a sort of luminous and radiating pulsation, bringing a sensation of immensity (and often a loss of consciousness called ecstasy), as if one had forever emerged Elsewhere. All yogic methods, which might be called thermogenetic
the asanas of hatha yoga, the concentrations of raja yoga, the breathing exercises of pranayama, etc. aim at arousing that ascending Force; they can be dangerous and cause profound perturbations, which make the presence and protection of an enlightened Master indispensable. We will return to this later. The difference in the direction of the current, ascending vs. descending,
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peacefully, irresistibly (it is never violent; its power is amazingly measured, as if it were directly guided by the wisdom of the Spirit),
and it is this Force that will universalize our being, right down to the lowest layers. This is the fundamental experience of the Integral Yoga.
When the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre . . . then into the navel and other vital centres . . . then into the
1.05_-_Consciousness, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
author class:Satprem
subject class:Integral Yoga
1.05_-_Mental_Education, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
author class:The Mother
subject class:Integral Yoga
subject:Integral Yoga
1.05_-_The_Ascent_of_the_Sacrifice_-_The_Psychic_Being, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
object:1.05 - The Ascent of the Sacrifice - The Psychic Being
subject class:Integral Yoga
subject:Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
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This then is in its foundations the integral knowledge of the Supreme and Infinite to whom we offer our sacrifice, and this the nature of the sacrifice itself in its triple character, -a sacrifice of works, a sacrifice of love and adoration, a sacrifice of knowledge. For even when we speak of the sacrifice of works by itself, we do not mean the offering only of our outward acts, but of all that is active and dynamic in us; our internal movements no less than our external doings are to be consecrated on the one altar. The inner heart of all work that is made into a sacrifice is a labour of self-discipline and self-perfection by which we can hope to become conscious and luminous with a Light from above poured into all our movements of mind, heart, will, sense, life and body. An increasing light of divine consciousness will make us close in soul and one by identity in our inmost being and spiritual substance with the Master of the world-sacrifice, -- the supreme object of existence proposed by the ancient Vedanta; but also it will tend to make us one in our becoming by resemblance to the Divine in our nature, the mystic sense of the symbol of sacrifice in the sealed speech of the seers of the Veda.
But if this is to be the character of the rapid evolution from a mental to a spiritual being contemplated by the Integral Yoga, a question arises full of many perplexities but of great dynamic importance. How are we to deal with life and works as they now are, with the activities proper to our still unchanged human nature? An ascension towards a greater consciousness, an occupation of our mind, life and body by its powers has been accepted as the outstanding object of the Yoga: but still life here, not some other life elsewhere, is proposed as the immediate field of the action of the Spirit, -- a transformation, not an annihilation of our instrumental being and nature. What then becomes of the present activities of our being, activities of the mind turned towards knowledge and the expression of knowledge, activities of our emotional and sensational parts, activities of outward conduct, creation, production, the will turned towards mastery over men, things, life, the world, the forces of Nature? Are they to be abandoned and to be replaced by some other way of living in which a spiritualised consciousness can find its true expression and figure. Are they to be maintained as they are in their outward appearance, but transformed by an inner spirit in the act or enlarged in scope arid liberated into new forms by a reversal of consciousness such as was seen on earth when man took up the vital activities of the animal to mentalise and extend and transfigure them by the infusion of reason, thinking will, refined emotions, an organised intelligence? Or is there to be an abandonment in part, a preservation only of such of them as can bear a spiritual change and, for the rest, the creation of a new life expressive, in its form no less than in its inspiration and motive-force, of the unity, wideness, peace, joy and harmony of the liberated spirit? It is this problem most of all that has exercised most the minds of those who have tried to trace the paths that lead from the human to the Divine in the long journey of the Yoga.
Every kind of solution has been offered from the entire abandonment of works and life, so far as that is physically possible, to the acceptance of life as it is but with a new spirit animating and uplifting its movements, in appearance the same as they were but changed in the spirit behind them and therefore in their inner significance. The extreme solution insisted on by the world-shunning ascetic or the inward-turned ecstatical and self-oblivious mystic is evidently foreign to the purpose of an Integral Yoga; for if we are to realise the Divine in the world, it cannot be done by leaving aside the world-action and action itself altogether. At a less high pitch it was laid down by the religious mind in ancient times that one should keep only such actions as are in their nature part of the seeking, service or cult of the Divine and such others as are attached to these or, in addition, those that are indispensable to the ordinary setting of life but done in a religious spirit and according to the injunctions of traditional religion and Scripture. But this is too formalist a rule for the fulfilment of the free spirit in works, and it is besides professedly no more than a provisional solution for tiding over the transition from life in the world to a life in the Beyond which still remains the sole ultimate purpose. An Integral Yoga must lean rather to the catholic injunction of the Gita that even the liberated soul, living in the Truth, should still do all the works of life so that the plan of the universal evolution under a secret divine leading may not languish or suffer. But if all works are to be done with the same forms and on the same lines as they are now done in the Ignorance, our gain is only inward and our life in danger of becoming the dubious and ambiguous formula of an inner Light doing the works of an outer Twilight, the perfect Spirit expressing itself in a mould of imperfection foreign to its own divine nature. If no better can be done for a time, -and during a long period of transition something like this does inevitably happen, -- then so it must remain till things are ready and the spirit within is powerful enough to impose its own forms on the life of the body and the world outside; but this can be accepted only as a transitional stage and not as our soul's ideal or the ultimate goal of the passage.
For the same reason the ethical solution is insufficient; for an ethical rule merely puts a bit in the mouth of the wild horses of Nature and exercises over them a difficult and partial control, but it has no power to transform Nature so that she may move in a secure freedom fulfilling the intuitions that proceed from a divine self-knowledge. At best its method is to lay down limits, to coerce the devil, to put the wall of a relative and very doubtful safety around us. This or some similar device of self-protection may be necessary for a time whether in ordinary life or in Yoga; but in Yoga it can only be the mark of a transition. A fundamental transformation and a pure wideness of spiritual life are the aim before us and, if we are to reach it, we must find a deeper solution, a surer supra-ethical dynamic principle. To be spiritual within, ethical in the outside life, this is the ordinary religious solution, but it is a compromise; the spiritualisation of both the inward being and the outward life and not a compromise between life and the spirit is the goal of which we are the seekers. Nor can the human confusion of values which obliterates the distinction between spiritual and moral and even claims that the moral is the only true spiritual element in our nature be of any use to us; for ethics is a mental control and the limited erring mind is not and cannot be the free and everluminous Spirit. It is equally impossible to accept the gospel that makes life the one aim, takes its elements fundamentally as they are and only calls in a half-spiritual or pseudo-spiritual light to flush and embellish it. Inadequate too is the very frequent attempt at a misalliance between the vital and the spiritual, a mystic experience within with an aestheticised intellectual and sensuous Paganism or exalted hedonism outside leaning upon it and satisfying itself in the glow of a spiritual sanction; for this too is a precarious and never successful compromise and it is as far from the divine Truth and its integrality as the puritanic opposite. These are all stumbling solutions of the fallible human mind groping for a transaction between the high spiritual summits and the lower pitch of the ordinary mind-motives and life-motives. Whatever partial truth may be hidden behind them, that truth can only be accepted when it has been raised to the spiritual level, tested in the supreme Truth-Consciousness and extricated from the soil and error of the Ignorance.
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This then is the true relation between divine and human knowledge; it is not a separation into disparate fields, sacred and profane, that is the heart of the difference, but the character of the consciousness behind the working. All is human knowledge that proceeds from the ordinary mental consciousness interested in the outside or upper layers of things, in process, in phenomena for their own sake or for the sake of some surface utility or mental or vital satisfaction of Desire or of the Intelligence. But the same activity of knowledge can become part of the Yoga if it proceeds from the spiritual or spiritualising consciousness which seeks and finds in all that it surveys or penetrates the presence of the timeless Eternal and the ways of manifestation of Eternal in Time. It is evident that the need of a concentration indispensable for the transition out of the Ignorance may make it necessary for the seeker to gather together his energies and focus them only on that which will help the transition and to leave aside or subordinate for the time all that is not directly turned towards the one object. He may find that this or that pursuit of human knowledge with which he was accustomed to deal by the surface power of the mind still brings him, by reason of this tendency or habit, out of the depths to the surface or down from the heights which he has climbed or is nearing, to lower levels. These activities then may have to be intermitted or put aside until secure in a higher consciousness he is able to turn its powers on all the mental fields; then, subjected to that light or taken up into it, they are turned, by the transformation of his consciousness, into a province of the spiritual and divine. All that cannot be so transformed or refuses to be part of a divine consciousness he will abandon without hesitation, but not from any preconceived prejudgment of its emptiness or its incapacity to be an element of the new inner life. There can be no fixed mental test or principle for these things; he will therefore follow no unalterable rule, but accept or repel an activity of the mind according to his feeling, insight or experience until the greater Power and Light are there to turn their unerring scrutiny on all that is below and choose or reject their material out of what the human evolution has prepared for the divine labour.
How precisely or by what stages this progression and change will take place must depend on the form, need and powers of the individual nature. In the spiritual domain the essence is always one, but there is yet an infinite variety and, at any rate in the Integral Yoga, the rigidity of a strict and precise mental rule is seldom applicable; for, even when they walk in the same direction, no two natures proceed on exactly the same lines, in the same series of steps or with quite identical stages of their progress. It may yet be said that a logical succession of the states of progress would be very much in this order. First, there is a large turning in which all the natural mental activities proper to the individual nature are taken up or referred to a higher standpoint and dedicated by the soul in us, the psychic being, the priest of the sacrifice, to the divine service; next, there is an attempt at an ascent of the being and a bringing down of the Light and Power proper to some new height of consciousness gained by its upward effort into the whole action of the knowledge. Here there may be a strong concentration on the inward central change of the consciousness and an abandonment of a large part of the outward-going mental life or else its relegation to a small and subordinate place. At different stages it or parts of it may be taken up again from time to time to see how far the new inner psychic and spiritual consciousness can be brought into its movements, but that compulsion of the temperament or the nature which, in human beings, necessitates one kind of activity or another and makes it seem almost an indispensable portion of the existence, will diminish and eventually no attachment will be left, no lower compulsion or driving force felt anywhere. Only the Divine will matter, the Divine alone will be the one need of the whole being; if there is any compulsion to activity it will be not that of implanted desire or of force of Nature, but the luminous driving of some greater Consciousness-Force which is becoming more and more the sole motive power of the whole existence. On the other hand, it is possible at any period of the inner spiritual progress that one may experience an extension rather than a restriction of the' activities; there may be an opening of new capacities of mental creation and new provinces of knowledge by the miraculous touch of the Yoga-shakti. Aesthetic feeling, the power of artistic creation in one field or many fields together, talent or genius of literary expression, a faculty of metaphysical thinking, any power of eye or ear or hand or mind-power may awaken where none was apparent before. The Divine within may throw these latent riches out from the depths in which they were hidden or a Force from above may pour down its energies to equip the instrumental nature for the activity or the creation of which it is meant to be a channel or a builder. But, whatever may be the method or the course of development chosen by the hidden Master of the Yoga, the common culmination of this stage is the growing consciousness of him above as the mover, decider, shaper of all the movements of the mind and all the activities of knowledge.
There are two signs of the transformation of the seeker's mind of knowledge and works of knowledge from the process of the Ignorance to the process of a liberated consciousness working partly, then wholly in the light of the Spirit. There is first a central change of the consciousness and a growing direct experience, vision, feeling of the Supreme and the cosmic existence, the Divine in itself and the Divine in all things; the mind will be taken up into a growing preoccupation with this first and foremost and will feel itself heightening, widening into a more and more illumined means of expression of the one fundamental knowledge. But also the central Consciousness in its turn will take up more and more the outer mental activities of knowledge and turn them into a parcel of itself or an annexed province; it will infuse into them its more authentic movement and make a more and more spiritualised and illumined mind its instrument in these surface fields, its new conquests, as well as in its own deeper spiritual empire. And this will be the second sign, the sign of a certain completion and perfection, that the Divine himself has become the Knower and all the inner movements, including the activities of what was once a purely human mental action, have become his field of knowledge. There will be less and less individual choice, opinion, preference, less and less of intellectualisation, mental weaving, cerebral galley-slave labour; a Light within will see all that has to be seen, know all that has to be known, develop, create, organise. It will be the inner Knower who will do in the liberated and universalised mind of the individual the works of an all-comprehending knowledge.
These two changes are the signs of a first effectuation in which the activities of the mental nature are lifted up, spiritualised, widened, universalised, liberated, led to a consciousness of their true purpose as an instrumentation of the Divine creating and developing its manifestation in the temporal universe. But this cannot be the whole scope of the transformation; for it is not in these limits that the integral seeker can cease from his ascension or confine the widening of his nature. For, if it were so, knowledge would still remain a working of the mind, liberated, universalised, spiritualised, but still, as all mind must be, comparatively restricted, relative, imperfect in the very essence of its dynamism; it would reflect luminously great constructions of Truth, but not move in the domain where Truth is authentic, direct, sovereign and native. There is an ascension still to be made from this height, by which the spiritualised mind will exceed itself and transmute into a supramental power of knowledge. Already in the process of spiritualisation it will have begun to pass out of the brilliant poverty of the human intellect; it will mount successively into the pure broad reaches of a higher mind and next into the gloaming belts of a still greater free intelligence illumined with a Light from above. At this point it will begin to feel more freely, admit with a less mixed response the radiant beginnings of an Intuition, not illumined, but luminous in itself, true in itself, no longer entirely mental and therefore subjected to the abundant intrusion of error. Here too is not an end, for it must rise beyond into the very domain of that untruncated Intuition, the first direct light from the self-awareness of essential Being and, beyond it, attain that from which this light comes. For there is an overmind behind Mind, a Power more original and dynamic which supports Mind, sees it as a diminished radiation from itself, uses it as a transmitting belt of passage downward or an instrument for the creations of the Ignorance. The last step of the ascension would be the surpassing of overmind itself or its return into its own still greater origin, its conversion into the supramental light of the Divine Gnosis. For there in the supramental Light is the seat of the divine Truth-Consciousness that has native in it, as no other consciousness below it can have, the power to organise the works of a Truth which is no longer .tarnished by the shadow of the cosmic Inconscience and Ignorance. There to reach and thence to bring down a supramental dynamism that can transform the Ignorance is the distant but imperative supreme goal of the Integral Yoga.
As the light of each of these higher powers is turned upon the human activities of knowledge, any distinction of sacred and profane, human and divine, begins more and more to fade until it is finally abolished as otiose; for whatever is touched and thoroughly penetrated by the Divine Gnosis is transfigured and becomes a movement of its own Light and Power, free from the turbidity and limitations of the lower intelligence. It is not a separation of some activities, but a transformation of them all by the change of the informing consciousness that is the way of liberation, an ascent of the sacrifice of knowledge to a greater and ever greater light and force. All the works of mind and intellect must be first heightened and widened, then illumined, lifted into the domain of a higher Intelligence, afterwards translated into workings of a greater non-mental Intuition, then again transformed into the dynamic outpourings of the overmind radiance, and these transfigured into the full light and sovereignty of the supramental Gnosis. It is this that the evolution of consciousness in the world carries prefigured but latent in its seed and in the straining tense intention of its process; nor can that process, that evolution cease till it has evolved the instruments of a perfect in place of its now imperfect manifestation of the Spirit.
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If knowledge is the widest power of the consciousness and its function is to free and illumine, yet love is the deepest and most intense and its privilege is to be the key to the most profound and secret recesses of the Divine Mystery. Man, because he is a mental being, is prone to give the highest importance to the thinking mind and its reason and will and to its way of approach and effectuation of Truth and, even, he is inclined to hold that there is no other. The heart with its emotions and incalculable movements is to the eye of his intellect an obscure, uncertain and often a perilous and misleading power which needs to be kept in control by the reason and the mental will and intelligence. And yet there is in the heart or behind it a profounder mystic light which, if not what we call intuition -- for that, though not of the mind, yet descends through the mind -- has yet a direct touch upon Truth and is nearer to the Divine than the human intellect in its pride of knowledge. According to the ancient teaching the seat of the immanent Divine, the hidden Purusha, is in the mystic heart, -- the secret heart-cave, hrdaye gunayam, as the Upanishads put it, -- and, according to the experience of many Yogins, it is from its depths that there comes the voice or the breath of the inner oracle.
This ambiguity, these opposing appearances of depth and blindness are created by the double character of the human emotive being. For there is in front in men a heart of vital emotion similar to the animal's, if more variously developed; its emotions are governed by egoistic passion, blind instinctive affections and all the play of the life-impulses with their imperfections, perversions, often sordid degradations, -- heart besieged and given over to the lusts, desires, wraths, intense or fierce demands or little greeds and mean pettinesses of an obscure and fallen life-force and debased by its slavery to any and every impulse. This mixture of the emotive heart and the sensational hungering vital creates in man a false soul of desire; it is this that is the crude and dangerous element which the reason rightly distrusts and feels a need to control, even though the actual control or rather coercion it succeeds in establishing over our raw and insistent vital nature remains always very uncertain and deceptive. But the true soul of man is not there; it is in the true invisible heart hidden in some luminous cave of the nature: there under some infiltration of the divine Light is our soul, a silent inmost being of which few are even aware; for if all have a soul, few are conscious of their true soul or feel its direct impulse. There dwells the little spark of the Divine which supports this obscure mass of our nature and around it grows the psychic being, the formed soul or the real Man within us. It is as this psychic being in him grows and the movements of the heart reflect its divinations and impulsions that man becomes more and more aware of his soul, ceases to be a superior animal, and, awakening to glimpses of the godhead within him, admits more and more its intimations of a deeper life and consciousness and an impulse towards things divine. It is one of the decisive moments of the Integral Yoga when this psychic being liberated, brought out from the veil to the front, can pour the full flood of its divinations, seeings and impulsions on the mind, life and body of man and begin to prepare the upbuilding of divinity in the earthly nature.
As in the works of knowledge, so in dealing with the workings of the heart, we are obliged to make a preliminary distinction between two categories of movements, those that are either moved by the true soul or aid towards its liberation and rule in the nature and those that are turned to the satisfaction of the unpurified vital nature. But the distinctions ordinarily laid down in this sense are of little use for the deep or spiritual purpose of Yoga. Thus a division can be made between religious emotions and mundane feelings and it can be laid down as a rule of spiritual life that the religious emotions alone should be cultivated and all worldly feelings and passions must be rejected and fall away from our existence. This in practice would mean the religious life of the saint or devotee, alone with the Divine or linked only to others in a common God-love or at the most pouring out the fountains of a sacred, religious or pietistic love on the world outside. But religious emotion itself is too constantly invaded by the turmoil and obscurity of the vital movements and it is often either crude or narrow or fanatical or mixed with movements that are not signs of the spirit's perfection. It is evident besides that even at the best an intense figure of sainthood clamped in rigid hieratic lines is quite other than the wide ideal of an Integral Yoga. A larger psychic and emotional relation with God and the world, more deep and plastic in its essence, more wide and embracing in its movements, more capable of taking up in its sweep the whole of life, is imperative.
A wider formula has been provided by the secular mind of mall of which the basis is the ethical sense; for it distinguishes between the emotions sanctioned by the ethical sense and those that are egoistic and selfishly common and mundane. It is the works of altruism, philanthropy, compassion, benevolence, humanitarianism, service, labour for the well-being of man and all creatures that are to be our Ideal; to shuffle off the coil of egoism and grow into a soul of self-abnegation that lives only or mainly for others or for humanity as a whole is the way of man's inner evolution according to this doctrine. Or if this is too secular and mental to satisfy the whole of our being, since there is a deeper religious and spiritual note there that is left out of account by the humanitarian formula, a religio-ethical foundation can be provided for it -and such was indeed its original basis. To the inner worship of the Divine or the Supreme by the devotion of the heart or to the pursuit of the Ineffable by the seeking of a highest knowledge can be added a worship through altruistic works or a preparation through acts of love, of benevolence, of service to mankind or to those around us. It is indeed by the religio-ethical sense that the law of universal goodwill or universal compassion or of love and service to the neighbour, the Vedantic, the Buddhistic, the Christian ideal, was created; only by a sort of secular refrigeration extinguishing the fervour of the religious element in it could the humanitarian ideal disengage itself and become the highest plane of a secular system of mental and moral ethics. For in the religious system this law of works is a means that ceases when its object is accomplished or a side issue; it is a part of the cult by which one adores and seeks the Divinity or it is a penultimate step of the excision of self in the passage to Nirvana. In the secular ideal it is promoted into an object in itself; it becomes a sign of the moral perfection of the human being, or else it is a condition for a happier state of man upon earth, a better society, a more united life of the race. But none of these things satisfy the demand of the soul that is placed before us by the Integral Yoga.
Altruism, philanthropy, humanitarianism, service are flowers of the mental consciousness and are at best the mind's cold and pale imitation of the spiritual flame of universal Divine Love. Not truly liberative from ego-sense, they widen it at most and give it higher and larger satisfaction; impotent in practice to change mall's vital life and nature, they only modify and palliate its action and daub over its unchanged egoistic essence. Or if they are intensely followed with an entire sincerity of the will, it is by an exaggerated amplification of one side of our nature; in that exaggeration there can be no clue for the full and perfect divine evolution of the many sides of our individualised being towards the universal and transcendent Eternal. Nor can the religio-ethical ideal be a sufficient guide, -- for this is a compromise or compact of mutual concessions for mutual support between a religious urge which seeks to get a closer hold on earth by taking into itself the higher turns of ordinary human nature and an ethical urge which hopes to elevate itself out of its own mental hardness and dryness by some touch of a religious fervour. In making this compact religion lowers itself to the mental level and inherits the inherent imperfections of mind and its inability to convert and transform life. The mind is the sphere of the dualities and, just as it is impossible for it to achieve any absolute Truth but only truths relative or mixed with error, so it is impossible for it to achieve any absolute good; for moral good exists as a counterpart and corrective to evil and has evil always for its shadow, complement, almost its reason for existence. But the spiritual consciousness belongs to a higher than the mental plane and there the dualities cease; for there falsehood confronted with the truth by which it profited through a usurping falsification of it and evil faced by the good of which it was a perversion or a lurid substitute, are obliged to perish for want of sustenance and to cease. The Integral Yoga, refusing to rely upon the fragile stuff of mental and moral ideals, puts its whole emphasis in this field on three central dynamic processes -- the development of the true soul or psychic being to take the place of the false soul of desire, the sublimation of human into divine love, the elevation of consciousness from its mental to its spiritual and supramental plane by whose power alone both the soul and the life-force can be utterly delivered from the veils and prevarications of the Ignorance.
It is the very nature of the soul or the psychic being to turn towards the Divine Truth as the sunflower to the sun; it accepts and clings to all that is divine or progressing towards divinity and draws back from all that is a perversion or a denial of it, from all that is false and undivine. Yet the soul is at first but a spark and then a little flame of godhead burning in the midst of a great darkness; for the most part it is veiled in its inner sanctum and to reveal itself it has to call on the mind, the life-force and the physical consciousness and persuade them, as best they can, to express it; ordinarily, it succeeds at most in suffusing their outwardness with its inner light and modifying with its purifying fineness their dark obscurities or their coarser mixture. Even when there is a formed psychic being, able to express itself with some directness in life, it is still in all but a few a smaller portion of the being -- "no bigger in the mass of the body than the thumb of a man" was the image used by the ancient seers -- and it is not always able to prevail against the obscurity and ignorant smallness of the physical consciousness, the mistaken surenesses of the mind or the arrogance and vehemence of the vital nature. This soul is obliged to accept the human mental, emotive, sensational life as it is, its relations, its activities, its cherished forms and figures; it has to labour to disengage and increase the divine element in all this relative truth mixed with continual falsifying error, this love turned to the uses of the animal body or the satisfaction of the vital ego, this life of an average manhood shot with rare and pale glimpses of Godhead and the darker luridities of the demon and the brute. Unerring in the essence of its will, it is obliged often under the pressure of its instruments to submit to mistakes of action, wrong placement of feeling, wrong choice of person, errors in the exact form of its will, in the circumstances of its expression of the infallible inner ideal. Yet is there a divination within it which makes it a surer guide than the reason or than even the highest desire, and through apparent errors and stumblings its voice can still lead better than the precise intellect and the considering mental judgment. This voice of the soul is not what we call conscience -- for that is only a mental and often conventional erring substitute; it is a deeper and more seldom heard call; yet to follow it when heard is wisest : even, it is better to wander at the call of one's soul than to go apparently straight with the reason and the outward moral mentor. But It is only when the life turns towards the Divine that the soul can truly come forward and impose its power on the outer members; for, itself a spark of the Divine, to grow in flame towards the Divine is its true life and its very reason of existence.
1.05_-_The_True_Doer_of_Works, #The Mother With Letters On The Mother, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
1:If you want to be a true doer of divine works, your first aim must be to be totally free from all desire and self-regarding ego. All your life must be an offering and a sacrifice to the Supreme; your only object in action shall be to serve, to receive, to fulfil, to become a manifesting instrument of the Divine Shakti in her works. You must grow in the divine consciousness till there is no difference between your will and hers, no motive except her impulsion in you, no action that is not her conscious action in you and through you.
1.06_-_Quieting_the_Vital, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
author class:Satprem
subject class:Integral Yoga
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The method for dealing with these adverse forces is the same as for the other vibrations: silence, inner stillness that lets the storm blow over. We may not succeed the first time in dissolving these attacks,
but more and more they will seem to take place on the surface of our being; we may be shaken, upset, yet deep down we will feel the "Witness" in us, unscathed and unaffected he is never affected. We fall and get back up again, each time becoming stronger. The only sin is discouragement. In practice, the seeker of the Integral Yoga will be far more exposed than others (Sri Aurobindo often said his yoga was a 67
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1.06_-_The_Ascent_of_the_Sacrifice_2_The_Works_of_Love_-_The_Works_of_Life, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It is possible, as in a certain high exaggeration of the path of knowledge, to cut here also the knot of the problem, escape the difficulty of uniting the spirit of love with the crudities of the world-action by avoiding it; it is open to us, withdrawing from outward life and action altogether, to live alone with our adoration of the Divine in the heart's silence. It is possible too to admit only those acts that are either in themselves an expression of love for the Divine, prayer, praise, symbolic acts of worship or subordinate activities that may be attached to these things and partake of their spirit, and to leave aside all else; the soul turns away to satisfy its inner longing in the absorbed or the God-centred life of the saint and devotee. It is possible, again, to open the doors of life more largely and to spend one's love of the Divine in acts of service to those around us and to the race; one can do the works of philanthropy, benevolence and beneficence, charity and succour to man and beast and every creature, transfigure them by a kind of spiritual passion, at least bring into their merely ethical appearance the greater power of a spiritual motive. This is indeed the solution most commonly favoured by the religious mind of today and we see it confidently advanced on all sides as the proper field of action of the Godseeker or of the man whose life is founded on divine love and knowledge. But the Integral Yoga pushed towards a complete union of the Divine with the earth-life cannot stop short in this narrow province or limit this union within the lesser dimensions of an ethical rule of philanthropy and beneficence. All action must be made in it part of the God-life, our acts of knowledge, our acts of power and production and creation, our acts of joy and beauty and the soul's pleasure, our acts of will and endeavour and struggle and not our acts only of love and beneficent service. Its way to do these things will be not outward and mental, but inward and spiritual, and to that end it will bring into all activities, whatever they are, the spirit of divine love, the spirit of adoration and worship, the spirit of happiness in the Divine and in the beauty of the Divine so as to make all life a sacrifice of the works of the soul's love to the Divine, its cult of the Master of its existence.
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In itself the adoration in the act is a great and complete and powerful sacrifice that tends by its self-multiplication to reach the discovery of the One and make the radiation of the Divine possible. For devotion by its embodiment in acts not only makes its own way broad and full and dynamic, but brings at once into the harder way of works in the world the divinely passionate element of joy and love which is often absent in its beginning when it is only the austere spiritual Will that follows in a struggling uplifting tension the steep ascent, and the heart is still asleep or bound to silence. If the spirit of divine love can enter, the hardness of the way diminishes, the tension is lightened, there is a sweetness and joy even in the core of difficulty and struggle. The indispensable surrender of all our will and works and activities to the Supreme is indeed only perfect and perfectly effective when it is a surrender of love. All life turned into this cult, all actions done in the love of the Divine and in the love of the world and its creatures seen and felt as the Divine manifested in many disguises become by that very fact part of an Integral Yoga.
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It covers the entire range of life's more visible activities; under it fall the multiform energies of the Will-to-Life throwing itself outward to make the most of material existence. It is here that an ascetic or other-worldly spirituality feels an insurmountable denial of the Truth which it seeks after and is compelled to turn away from terrestrial existence, rejecting it as for ever the dark playground of an incurable Ignorance. Yet it is precisely these activities that are claimed for a spiritual conquest and divine transformation by the Integral Yoga. Abandoned altogether by the more ascetic disciplines, accepted by others only as a field of temporary ordeal or a momentary, superficial and ambiguous play of the concealed spirit, this existence is fully embraced and welcomed by the integral seeker as a field of fulfilment, a field for divine works, a field of the total self-discovery of the concealed and indwelling spirit. A discovery of the Divinity in oneself is his first object, but a total discovery too of the Divinity in the world behind the apparent denial offered by its scheme and figures and, last, a total discovery of the dynamism of some transcendent Eternal; for by its descent this world and self will be empowered to break their disguising envelopes and become divine in revealing form and manifesting process as they now are secretly in their hidden essence.
This object of the Integral Yoga must be accepted wholly by those who follow it, but the acceptance must not be in ignorance of the immense stumbling-blocks that lie in the way of the achievement; on the contrary we must be fully aware of the compelling cause of the refusal of so many other disciplines to regard even its possibility, much less its imperative character, as the true meaning of terrestrial existence. For here in the works of life in the earth-nature is the very heart of the difficulty that has driven Philosophy to its heights of aloofness and turned away even the eager eye of Religion from the malady of birth in a mortal body to a distant Paradise or a silent peace of Nirvana.
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Life refuses the aid of its intermediary energy to the spirit's other workings or is itself refused, they are likely to be reduced for all the effect they can have here to a static seclusion or a golden impotence; or if anything is done, it will be a partial irradiation of our action more subjective than objective, modifying existence perhaps, but without force to change it. Yet if Life brings its forces to the spirit but unregenerate, a worse result may follow since it is likely to reduce the spiritual action of Love or
Knowledge to diminished and corrupted motions or make them accomplices of its own inferior or perverse workings. Life is indispensable to the completeness of the creative spiritual realisation, but life released, transformed, uplifted, not the ordinary mentalised human-animal life, nor the demoniac or Titanic, nor even the divine and the undivine mixed together. Whatever may be done by other world-shunning or heaven-seeking disciplines, this is the difficult but unavoidable task of the Integral Yoga; it cannot afford to leave unsolved the problem of the outward works of Life, it must find in them their native Divinity and ally it firmly and for ever to the divinities of Love and Knowledge.
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The Integral Yoga cannot reject the works of Life and be satisfied with an inward experience only; it has to go inward in order to change the outward, making the Life-Force a part and a working of a Yoga-Energy which is in touch with the Divine and divine in its guidance.
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and almost fantastically subrational, but of an immense potency for the earth-life. Again behind our mind, our life, our conscious physical there is a larger subliminal consciousness, - there are inner mental, inner vital, inner more subtle physical reaches supported by an inmost psychic existence which is the animating soul of all the rest; and in these hidden reaches too lie a mass of numerous pre-existent personalities which supply the material, the motive-forces, the impulsions of our developing surface existence. For in each one of us here there may be one central person, but also a multitude of subordinate personalities created by the past history of its manifestation or by expressions of it on these inner planes which support its present play in this external material cosmos. And while on our surface we are cut off from all around us except through an exterior mind and sense contact which delivers but little of us to our world or of our world to us, in these inner reaches the barrier between us and the rest of existence is thin and easily broken; there we can feel at once
- not merely infer from their results, but feel directly - the action of the secret world-forces, mind-forces, life-forces, subtle physical forces that constitute universal and individual existence; we shall even be able, if we will but train ourselves to it, to lay our hands on these world-forces that throw themselves on us or surround us and more and more to control or at least strongly modify their action on us and others, their formations, their very movements. Yet again, above our human mind are still greater reaches superconscient to it and from there secretly descend influences, powers, touches which are the original determinants of things here and, if they were called down in their fullness, could altogether alter the whole make and economy of life in the material universe. It is all this latent experience and knowledge that the Divine Force working upon us by our opening to it in the Integral Yoga, progressively reveals to us, uses and works out the consequences as means and steps towards a transformation of our whole being and nature. Our life is thenceforth no longer a little rolling wave on the surface, but interpenetrant if not coincident with the cosmic life. Our spirit, our self rises not only into an inner identity with some wide cosmic Self but into
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The nature of the Integral Yoga so conceived, so conditioned, progressing by these spiritual means, turning upon this integral transformation of the nature, determines of itself its answer to the question of the ordinary activities of life and their place in the Yoga.
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A radical and total change of consciousness is not only the whole meaning but, in an increasing force and by progressive stages, the whole method of the Integral Yoga.
1.06_-_The_Four_Powers_of_the_Mother, #The Mother With Letters On The Mother, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
1.07_-_Standards_of_Conduct_and_Spiritual_Freedom, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
class:chapter
subject:Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
1.07_-_The_Psychic_Center, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
author class:Satprem
subject class:Integral Yoga
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Everything, then, depends upon the degree of our development and the extent to which our psychic being has participated in our outer life;
the more we have "colonized" the outside, the more memories we take with us. Unfortunately, we are often content to have a so-called inner life, while we live outer life in any old way, without paying much attention to it but this is the opposite of an Integral Yoga. If,
however, from the very beginning, we embrace everything in our search, all the levels of our being, all of life, instead of rejecting worldly activities for an exclusive quest of the soul, then we will achieve an integral and integrated life in which we are the same outside and inside. On the other hand, if we exclude everything to arrive at so-called spiritual goals, it becomes very difficult afterward to retrace our steps, to descend from our fragile heights, to widen and
1.08_-_Independence_from_the_Physical, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
author class:Satprem
subject class:Integral Yoga
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For the integral seeker, the work on the body has been added naturally to his work on the mind and the vital. For convenience, we have described the various levels of being one after another, but everything works as a whole, and each victory, each discovery at any level has its repercussions on all the other levels. When we worked on establishing mental silence, we observed that several mental layers had to be silenced: a thinking mind, which makes up our regular reasoning process; a vital mind, which justifies our desires, feelings and impulses; there is also a far more troublesome physical mind,
whose conquest is as important for physical mastery as the conquest of the thinking mind and the vital mind are for mental and vital mastery. It would indeed seem that the mind is the scapegoat in Integral Yoga, since it is being hunted down everywhere. Let us note that it has also been a very substantial aid in the course of our evolution, and it remains, for many, an indispensable agent, but any aid, however high or divine, eventually becomes an obstacle, because it is meant for one step only, and we have many steps to take and more than one truth to conquer. If we accepted this simple proposition throughout our entire value system, including the particular ideal we are currently cherishing, we would progress quite rapidly on the path of evolution. This physical mind is the stupidest of all, the vestige in us of the first appearance of Mind in Matter. It is a microscopic,
stubborn, fearful, narrow, and conservative (this was its evolutionary purpose) mind, which sends us ten times to check if the door is locked when we know perfectly well we have locked it, which panics at the slightest scratch and anticipates the worst illnesses the minute something goes wrong, which is unwaveringly skeptical of anything
1.08_-_The_Supreme_Will, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
class:chapter
subject:Integral Yoga
class:The Synthesis Of Yoga
1.09_-_Equality_and_the_Annihilation_of_Ego, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
class:The Synthesis Of Yoga
1.09_-_Sleep_and_Death, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
author class:Satprem
subject class:Integral Yoga
1.1.02_-_The_Aim_of_the_Integral_Yoga, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
object:1.1.02 - The Aim of the Integral Yoga
class:chapter
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The Aim of the Integral Yoga
A Yoga of Divine Life
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The Aim of the Integral Yoga
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The Aim of the Integral Yoga
1.10_-_The_Revolutionary_Yogi, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
author class:Satprem
subject class:Integral Yoga
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In the enormous spaces of the self The body now seemed only a wandering shell. . . .116
Sri Aurobindo's entire Integral Yoga was shattered. All his efforts of mental, vital and physical transformation, as well as his faith in a fulfilled earthly life, were swept away, swallowed up in a stupendous Illusion nothing remained except empty forms. It threw me suddenly into a condition above and without thought, unstained by any mental or vital movement; there was no ego, no real world only when one looked through the immobile senses, something perceived or bore upon its sheer silence a world of empty forms, materialized shadows without true substance. There was no One or many even, only just absolutely That featureless, relationless, sheer, indescribable,
unthinkable, absolute, yet supremely real and solely real. This was no mental realization nor something glimpsed somewhere above, no abstraction, it was positive, the only positive reality although not a spatial physical world, pervading, occupying or rather flooding and drowning this semblance of a physical world, leaving no room or space for any reality but itself, allowing nothing else to seem at all actual, positive or substantial. . . . What it [this experience] brought was an inexpressible Peace, a stupendous silence, an infinity of release and freedom.117 Sri Aurobindo had gone straight into what the Buddhists call Nirvana, what the Hindus call the Silent Brahman or That; the Tao of the Chinese; the Transcendent, the Absolute, or the Impersonal of the Westerners. He had reached that famous "liberation" (mukti), which is considered the "peak" of all spiritual life what could there be beyond the Transcendent? Sri Aurobindo could tangibly verify the words of the great Indian mystic Sri Ramakrishna:
1.11_-_Oneness, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
author class:Satprem
subject class:Integral Yoga
1.11_-_The_Master_of_the_Work, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
object:1.11 - The Master of the Work
subject class:Integral Yoga
subject:Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
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But the passage is long and the labour arduous before we can look upon him with eyes that see true, and still longer and more arduous must be our endeavour if we would rebuild ourselves in his true image. The Master of the work does not reveal himself at once to the seeker. Always it is his Power that acts behind the veil, but it is manifest only when we renounce the egoism of the worker, and its direct movement increases in proportion as that renunciation becomes more and more concrete. Only when our surrender to his divine shakti is absolute, shall we have the right to live in his absolute presence. And only then can we see our work throw itself naturally, completely and simply into the mould of the Divine Will.
There must, therefore, be stages and gradations in our approach to this perfection, as there are ill the progress towards all other perfection on any plane of Nature. The vision of the full glory may come to us before, suddenly or slowly, once or often, but until the foundation is complete, it is a summary and concentrated, not a durable and all-enveloping experience, not a lasting presence. The amplitudes, the infinite contents of the Divine Revelation come afterwards and unroll gradually their power and their significance. Or, even, the steady vision can be there on the summits of our nature, but the perfect response of the lower members comes only by degrees. In all Yogas the first requisites are faith and patience. The ardours of the heart and the violences of the eager will that seek to take the kingdom of heaven by storm can have miserable reactions if they disdain to support their vehemence on these humbler and quieter auxiliaries. And in the long and difficult Integral Yoga there must be an integral faith and an unshakable patience.
It is difficult to acquire or to practise this faith and steadfastness on the rough and narrow path of Yoga because of the impatience of both heart and mind and the eager but faltering will of our rajasic nature. The vital nature of man hungers always for the fruit of its labour and, if the fruit appears to be denied or long delayed, he loses faith in the ideal and in the guidance. For his mind judges always by the appearance of things, since that is the first ingrained habit of the intellectual reason in which he so inordinately trusts. Nothing is easier for us than to accuse God in our hearts when we suffer long or stumble in the darkness or to abjure the ideal that we have set before us. For we say, "I have trusted to the Highest and I am betrayed into suffering and sin and error." Or else, "I have staked my whole life on an idea which the stern facts of experience contradict and discourage. It would have been better to be as other men are who accept their limitations and walk on the firm ground of normal experience." In such moments -- and they are sometimes frequent and long -- all the higher experience is forgotten and the heart concentrates itself in its own bitterness. It is in these dark passages that it is possible to fall for good or to turn back from the divine hour.
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There is another greater step to be taken after the surrender of our instrumental ego to the Divine shakti. It is not enough to know her as the one Cosmic Force that moves us and all creatures on the planes of mind, life and Matter; for this is the lower Nature and, although the Divine Knowledge, Light, Power are there concealed and at work in the Ignorance and can break partly its veil and manifest something of their true character or descend from above and uplift these inferior workings, yet, even if we realise the One ill a spiritualised mind, a spiritualised life-movement, a spiritualised body-consciousness, an imperfection remains in the dynamic parts. There is a stumbling response to the Supreme Power, a veil over the face of the Divine, a constant mixture of the Ignorance. It is only when we open to the Divine shakti in the truth of her force which transcends this lower prakriti that we can be perfect instruments of her power and knowledge.
Not only liberation but perfection must be the aim of the Karmayoga. The Divine works through our nature and according to our nature; if our nature is imperfect, the work also will be imperfect, mixed, inadequate. Even it may be marred by gross errors, falsehoods, moral weaknesses, diverting influences. The work of the Divine will be done in us even then, but according to our weakness, not according to the strength and purity of its source. If ours were not an Integral Yoga, if we sought only the liberation of the self within us or the motionless existence of Purusha separated from prakriti, this dynamic imperfection might not matter. Calm, untroubled, not depressed, not elated, refusing to accept the perfection or imperfection, fault or merit, sin or virtue as ours, perceiving that it is the modes of Nature working in the field of her modes that make this mixture, we could withdraw into the silence of the spirit and, pure, untouched, witness only the workings of prakriti. But in an integral realisation this can only be a step on the way, not our last resting-place. For we aim at the divine realisation not only in the immobility of the Spirit, but also in the movement of Nature. And this cannot be altogether until we can feel the presence and power of the Divine in every step, motion, figure of our activities, in every turn of our will, in every thought, feeling and impulse. No doubt, we can feel that in a sense even in the nature of the Ignorance, but it is the divine Power and Presence in a disguise, a diminution, an inferior figure. Ours is a greater demand, that our nature shall be a power of the Divine in the Truth of the Divine, in the Light, in the force of the eternal self-conscient Will, in the wideness of the sempiternal Knowledge.
After the removal of the veil of ego, the removal of the veil of Nature and her inferior modes that govern our mind, life and body. As soon as the limits of the ego begin to fade, we see how that veil is constituted and detect the action of cosmic Nature in us, and in or behind cosmic Nature we sense the presence of the cosmic Self and the dynamisms of the world-pervading Ishwara. The Master of the instrument stands behind all this working, and even within the working there is his touch and the drive of a great guiding or disposing Influence. It is no longer ego or ego-force that we serve; we obey the World-Master and his evolutionary impulse. At each step we say in the language of the Sanskrit verse, "Even as I am appointed by Thee seated in my heart, so, 0 Lord, I act." But still this action may be of two very different kinds, one only illumined, the other transformed and uplifted into a greater supernature. For we may keep on in the way of action upheld and followed by our nature when by her and her illusion of egoism we were "turned as if mounted on a machine," but now with a perfect understanding of the mechanism and its utilisation for his world purposes by the Master of works whom we feel behind it. This is indeed as far as even many great Yogis have reached on the levels of spiritualised mind; but it need not be so always, for there is a greater supramental possibility. It is possible to rise beyond spiritualised mind and to act spontaneously in the living presence of the original divine Truth-Force of the Supreme Mother Our motion one with her motion and merged in it, our will one with her will, our energy absolved
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In a Yoga lived entirely on the spiritualised mental plane it is possible and even usual for these three fundamental aspects of the divine -- the Individual or Immanent, the Cosmic and the Transcendent -- to stand out as separate realisations. Each by itself then appears sufficient to satisfy the yearning of the seeker. Alone with the personal Divine in the inner heart's illumined secret chamber, he can build his being into the Beloved's image and ascend out of fallen Nature to dwell with him in some heaven of the Spirit. Absolved in the cosmic wideness, released from ego, his personality reduced to a point of working of the universal Force, himself calm, liberated, deathless in universality, motionless in the Witness Self even while outspread without limit in unending Space and Time, he can enjoy in the world the freedom of the Timeless. One-pointed towards some ineffable Transcendence, casting away his personality, shedding from him the labour and trouble of the universal Dynamis, he can escape into an inexpressible Nirvana, annul all things in an intolerant exaltation of flight into the Incommunicable.
But none of these achievements is enough for one who seeks the wide completeness of an Integral Yoga. An individual salvation is not enough for him; for he finds himself opening to a cosmic consciousness which far exceeds by its breadth and vastness the narrower intensity of a limited individual fulfilment, and its call is imperative; driven by that immense compulsion, he must break through all separative boundaries, spread himself in world-Nature, contain the universe. Above too, there is urgent upon him a dynamic realisation pressing from the Supreme upon this world of beings, and only some encompassing and exceeding of the cosmic consciousness can release into manifestation here that yet unlavished splendour. But the cosmic consciousness too is not sufficient; for it is not all the Divine Reality, not integral. There is a divine secret behind personality that he must discover; there, waiting in it to be delivered here into Time, stands the mystery of the embodiment of the Transcendence. In the cosmic consciousness there remains at the end a hiatus, an unequal equation of a highest Knowledge that can liberate but not effectuate with a Power seeming to use a limited Knowledge or masking itself with a surface Ignorance that can create but creates imperfection or a perfection transient, limited and in fetters. On one side there is a free undynamic Witness and on the other side a bound Executrix of action who has not been given all the means of action. The reconciliation of these companions and opposites seems to be reserved, postponed, held back in an Unmanifest still beyond us. But, again, a mere escape into some absolute Transcendence leaves personality unfulfilled and the universal action inconclusive and cannot satisfy the integral seeker. He feels that the Truth that is for ever is a Power that creates as well as a stable Existence; it is not a Power solely of illusory or ignorant manifestation. The eternal Truth can manifest its truths in Time; it can create in Knowledge and not only in Inconscience and Ignorance. A divine Descent no less than an ascent to the Divine is possible; there is a prospect of the bringing down of a future perfection and a present deliverance. As his knowledge widens, it becomes for him more and more evident that it was this for which the Master of Works cast down the soul within him here as a spark of his fire into the darkness, that it might grow there into a centre of the Light that is for ever.
The Transcendent, the Universal, the Individual are three powers overarching, underlying and penetrating the whole manifestation; this is the first of the Trinities. In the unfolding of consciousness also, these are the three fundamental terms and none of them can be neglected if we would have the experience of the whole Truth of existence. Out of the individual we wake into a vaster freer cosmic consciousness; but out of the universal too with its complex of forms and powers we must emerge by a still greater self-exceeding into a consciousness without limits that is founded on the Absolute. And yet in this ascension we do not really abolish but take up and transfigure what we seem to leave; for there is a height where the three live eternally in each other, on that height they are blissfully joined in a nodus of their harmonised oneness. But that summit is above the highest and largest spiritualised mentality, even if some reflection of it can be experienced there; mind, to attain to it, to live there, must exceed itself and be transformed into a supramental gnostic light, power and substance. In this lower diminished consciousness a harmony can indeed be attempted, but it must always remain imperfect: a co-ordination is possible, not a simultaneous fused fulfilment. An ascent out of the mind is, for any greater realisation, imperative. Or else, there must be, with the ascent or consequent to it, a dynamic descent of the self-existent Truth that exists always uplifted ill its own light above Mind, eternal, prior to the manifestation of Life and Matter.
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But that is the end of a long and difficult journey, and the Master of works does not wait till then to meet the seeker on the path of Yoga and put his secret or half-shown Hand upon him and upon his inner life and actions. Already he was there in the world as the Originator and Receiver of works behind the dense veils of the Inconscient, disguised in force of Life, visible to the Mind through symbol godheads and figures. It may well be in these disguises that he first meets the soul destined to the way of the Integral Yoga. Or even, wearing still vaguer masks, he may be conceived by us as an Ideal or mentalised as an abstract Power of Love, Good, Beauty or Knowledge; or, as we turn our feet towards the Way, he may come to us veiled as the call of Humanity or a Will in things that drives towards the deliverance of the world from the grasp of Darkness and Falsehood and Death and Suffering-the great quaternary of the Ignorance. Then, after we have entered the path, he envelops us with his wide and mighty liberating Impersonality or moves near to us with the face and form of a personal Godhead. In and around us we feel a Power that upholds and protects and cherishes; we hear a Voice that guides; a conscious Will greater than ourselves rules us; an imperative Force moves our thought and actions and our very body; an ever-widening Consciousness assimilates ours, a living Light of Knowledge lights all within, or a Beatitude invades us; a Mightiness presses from above, concrete, massive and overpowering, and penetrates and pours itself into the very stuff of our nature; a Peace sits there, a Light, a Bliss, a Strength, a Greatness. Or there are relations, personal, intimate as life itself, sweet as love, encompassing like the sky, deep like deep waters. A Friend walks at our side; a Lover is with us in our heart's secrecy; a Master of the Work and the Ordeal points our way; a Creator of things uses us as his instrument; we are in the arms of the eternal Mother All these more seizable aspects in which the Ineffable meets us are truths and not mere helpful symbols or useful imaginations; but as we progress, their first imperfect formulations in our experience yield to a larger vision of the one Truth that is behind them. At each step their mere mental masks are shed and they acquire a larger, a profounder, a more intimate significance. At last on the supramental borders all these Godheads combine their sacred forms and, without at all ceasing to be, coalesce together. On this path the Divine Aspects have not revealed themselves only in order to be cast away, they are not temporary spiritual conveniences or compromises with an illusory Consciousness or dream-figures mysteriously cast upon us by the incommunicable superconscience of the Absolute; on the contrary, their power increases and their absoluteness reveals itself as they draw near to the Truth from which they issue.
For that now superconscient Transcendence is a Power as well as an Existence. The supramental Transcendence is not a vacant Wonder, but an inexpressible which contains for ever all essential things that have issued from it; it holds them there in their supreme everlasting reality and their own characteristic absolutes. The diminution, division, degradation that create here the sense of an unsatisfactory puzzle, a mystery of Maya, themselves diminish and fall from us in, our ascension, and the Divine Powers assume their real forms and appear more and more as the terms of a Truth in process of realisation here. A soul of the Divine is here slowly awaking out of its involution and concealment in the material Inconscience. The Master of our works is not a Master of illusions, but a supreme Reality who is working out his self-expressive realities delivered slowly from the cocoons of the Ignorance in which for the purposes of an evolutionary manifestation they were allowed for a while to slumber. For the supramental Transcendence is not a thing absolutely apart and unconnected with our present existence. It is a greater Light out of which all this has come for the adventure of the Soul lapsing into the Inconscience and emerging out of it, and, while that adventure proceeds, it waits superconstient above our minds till it can become conscious in us. Hereafter it will unveil itself and by the unveiling reveal to us all the significance of our own being and our works; for it will disclose the Divine whose fuller manifestation in the world will release and accomplish that covert significance.
In that disclosure the Transcendent Divine will be more and more made known to us as the supreme Existence and the Perfect Source of all that we are; but equally we shall see him as a Master of works and creation prepared to pour out more and more of himself into the field of his manifestation. The cosmic consciousness and its action will appear no longer as a huge regulated Chance, but as a field of the manifestation; there the Divine is seen as a presiding and pervading Cosmic Spirit who receives all out of the Transcendence and develops what descends into forms that are now an opaque disguise or a baffling half-disguise, but destined to be a transparent revelation. The individual consciousness will recover its true sense and action; for it is the form of a Soul sent out from the Supreme and, in spite of all appearances, a nucleus or nebula in which the Divine Mother Force is at work for the victorious embodiment of the timeless and formless Divine in Time and Matter. This will reveal itself slowly to our vision and experience as the will of the Master of works and as their own ultimate significance, which alone gives to world-creation and to our own action in the world a light and a meaning. To recognise that and to strive towards its effectuation is the whole burden of the Way of Divine Works in the Integral Yoga.
1.12_-_The_Divine_Work, #unset, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
class:chapter
subject class:Integral Yoga
subject:Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
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the light and force of our spiritual self in union with the Divine
is the last state of this Integral Yoga of Works. The truest reason
why we must seek liberation is not to be delivered, individually, from the sorrow of the world, though that deliverance too
1.12_-_The_Superconscient, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
author class:Satprem
subject class:Integral Yoga
A triple change of consciousness, then, charts our journey on earth: the discovery of the psychic being or immanent Spirit, the discovery of Nirvana or transcendent Spirit, and the discovery of the central being of cosmic Spirit. This is probably the real meaning of the Father-Son-Holy Ghost trinity of the Christian tradition. Our purpose is not to decide which experience is better than the other, but to verify them for ourselves. Philosophies and religions dispute about the priority of different aspects of God and different Yogins, Rishis and Saints have preferred this or that philosophy or religion. Our business is not to dispute any of them, but to realize and become all of them, not to follow after any aspect to the exclusion of the rest, but to embrace God in all His aspects and beyond aspect 161 this is the very meaning of an Integral Yoga. Still, we wonder if there is nothing beyond this triple discovery, because however supreme each of them may seem when we experience it, none gives us the integral fulfillment to which we aspire, at least if we consider that both the earth and the individual must participate in this fulfillment.
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But who has realized cosmic consciousness? Not the yogi; the yogi goes on drinking, eating, sleeping, being ill at times like all human animals, and dying. It is not he, but a tiny point of his being that is experiencing cosmic consciousness, the very one on which he so earnestly concentrated to break through his carapace. The rest of his being, all the human and earthly nature that he has excluded from the experience, which he has repressed or mortified in order to better concentrate on that single point of escape, does not share in his cosmic consciousness, except through indirect radiation. Sri Aurobindo was therefore making this first important observation, that a linear realization, in one point, is not enough, but that a global realization, in all points one that embraces the individual's entire being is necessary. If you want to transform your nature and your being, and participate in the creation of a new world, the Mother says, that aspiration, that one-pointed and linear push is no longer enough; you must embrace everything and contain everything in your consciousness. Hence the Integral Yoga or "full yoga," purna yoga.
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A second, even more important observation commands our attention. To return to the rocket analogy: the rocket can break through the earth's atmosphere at any point, taking off either from New York or from the equator, and still reach the sun. There is no need to climb Mt. Everest to set up the launching pad! Similarly, the yogi can realize cosmic consciousness in any point, or at any level, of his being in his mind, in his heart, and even in his body because the cosmic Spirit is everywhere, in every point of the universe. The experience can begin anywhere, at any level, by concentrating on a rock or a sparrow, an idea, a prayer, a feeling, or what people scornfully call an idol. Cosmic consciousness is not the highest point of human consciousness; we do not go above the individual to reach it, but outside. It is hardly necessary to ascend in consciousness, or to become Plotinus, in order to attain the universal Spirit. On the contrary, the less mental one is, the easier it is to experience it; a shepherd beneath the stars or a fisherman of Galilee has a better chance at it than all the philosophers of the world put together. What, then, is the use of all this development of consciousness if folk-like mysticism works better? We must admit that either we are all on the wrong track, or else those mystical escapades do not represent the whole meaning of evolution. On the other hand, if we accept that the proper evolutionary course is that of the peak figures of earthly consciousness Leonardo da Vinci, Beethoven, Alexander the Great, Dante we are still forced to acknowledge that none of these great men has been able to transform life. Thus, the summits of the mind or the heart do not give us, any more than the cosmic summits, the key to the riddle and the power to change the world: another principle of consciousness is required. But it must be another principle without any break in continuity with the others, because if the line is broken or if the individual is lost, we fall back into cosmic or mystical dispersion, thereby losing our link with the earth. To be conscious of Oneness and of the Transcendent is certainly an indispensable basis for any realization (without which we might as well try to build a house without foundations), but it must be done in ways that respect evolutionary continuity; it must be an evolution, not a revolution. In other words, we must get out without getting out. Instead of a rocket that ends up crashing on the sun, we need a rocket that harpoons the Sun of the supreme consciousness and is able to bring it down to all points of our earthly consciousness: The ultimate knowledge is that which perceives and accepts God in the universe as well as beyond the universe and the Integral Yoga is that which, having found the Transcendent, can return upon the universe and possess it, retaining the power freely to descend as well as ascend the great stair of existence.171 This double movement of ascent and descent of the individual consciousness is the basic principle of the supramental discovery. But in the process Sri Aurobindo was to touch an unknown spring which would change everything.
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192 - Sri Aurobindo Came to Me, 127
193 - It may be worthwhile to stress the great differences between an individual who receives occasional inspirations or illuminations, often of an unreliable nature, and one who has systematically developed his consciousness, so that he can settle at will on any level of consciousness, remain there as long as he wishes, and receive without distortion the corresponding inspirations and illuminations. This is the task of the Integral Yoga.
1.13_-_The_Supermind_and_the_Yoga_of_Works, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
N Integral Yoga includes as a vital and indispensable element in its total and ultimate aim the conversion of the whole being into a higher spiritual consciousness and a larger divine existence. Our parts of will and action, our parts of knowledge, our thinking being, our emotional being, our being of life, all our self and nature must seek the Divine, enter into the Infinite, unite with the Eternal. But man's present nature is limited, divided, unequal, - it is easiest for him to concentrate in the strongest part of his being and follow a definite line of progress proper to his nature: only rare individuals have the strength to take a large immediate plunge straight into the sea of the Divine Infinity. Some therefore must choose as a startingpoint a concentration in thought or contemplation or the mind's one-pointedness to find the eternal reality of the Self in them; others can more easily withdraw into the heart to meet there the
Divine, the Eternal: yet others are predominantly dynamic and active; for these it is best to centre themselves in the will and enlarge their being through works. United with the Self and source of all by their surrender of their will into its infinity, guided in their works by the secret Divinity within or surrendered to the
1.13_-_Under_the_Auspices_of_the_Gods, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
author class:Satprem
subject class:Integral Yoga
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on which the very future of our evolution depends.
One evening in February 1910, less than a year after his release from Alipore, someone came to the office of the Karmayogin to warn Sri Aurobindo that he was to be arrested again and deported to the Andaman Islands. Suddenly, he heard the Voice speak three distinct words: Go to Chandernagore. Ten minutes later, Sri Aurobindo was aboard the first boat going down the Ganges. It was the end of his political life, the end of the Integral Yoga, and the beginning of the supramental yoga.
1.14_-_The_Secret, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
author class:Satprem
subject class:Integral Yoga
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The Dark Half of the Truth
Now we are drawing nearer. The seeker began his journey with a positive experience. He set out on the way because he needed something else. He strove for mental silence and found that his very effort produced an Answer. He felt a descending Force, a new vibration within him, which made life clearer, more alive. Perhaps he even experienced a sudden tearing of the limits and emerged at another altitude. The signs might have come in a thousand ways to indicate that a new rhythm was setting in. But then, after this hopeful start, everything became veiled, as if he had been dreaming or had become carried away by some childish enthusiasm: something within him is now busy taking its revenge through a spell of skepticism, disgust, or revolt. This will be the second sign, perhaps the true sign, that he is progressing and has come to grips with the realities of his nature or, rather, that the descending Force has begun its churning work. Ultimately, progress is not so much a matter of ascending as of clearing up the prevailing obstructions for when we are clear, everything is right there. Thus the seeker begins to discover his many obstructions. On the path of Integral Yoga, the feeling is often of finding the worst when we had wished for the best, of waging war when we had sought peace and light. Actually, let us face it, it is a battle. As long as we are swimming with the current, we can believe ourselves to be very nice, proper and well-intentioned individuals, but the instant we take another direction, everything begins to resist. We begin tangibly to appreciate the colossal forces that weigh upon human beings and stupefy them; yet it is only by trying to get out of their clutches that we can realize this. Once the seeker has had a first decisive opening above, once he has seen the Light, then almost simultaneously he feels a kick in the shins, as if something in him were in pain. Now he knows what Sri Aurobindo meant by the wounded gloom complaining against light.229 And he will have learned his first lesson: each step upward is necessarily followed by a step downward. Instead of taking these sharp jolts as a kind of fatality, the seeker will make them the basis of his work. Indeed, this dual movement of ascent and descent is the fundamental process of the Integral Yoga: On each height we conquer we have to turn to bring down its power and its illumination into the lower mortal movement.
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Something radically different is needed another type of consciousness. All the poets and creative geniuses have known these swings of consciousness. Even as he experienced his Illuminations, Rimbaud visited strange realms that struck him with "terror"; he, too, went through the law of dark inversion. But instead of being unconsciously tossed from one extreme to another, of ascending without knowing how and descending against his will, the integral seeker works methodically, consciously, without ever losing his balance, and, above all, with a growing confidence in the Consciousness-Force, which never initiates more resistance than he can meet, and never unveils more light than he can bear. After living long enough from one crisis to the next, we will ultimately discern a pattern in the action of the Force, and will notice that each time we seem to leave the ascending curve or even lose something we had achieved, we ultimately retrieve the same realization, but on a higher, more expanded level, made richer by the part that our "fall" has added; had we not "fallen," this lower part would never have become integrated into our higher ones. Perhaps it was the same collective process that brought about Athens' fall, so that some old barbarians, too, might be exposed to Plato. The Integral Yoga does not follow a straight line rising higher and higher out of sight, toward a smaller and smaller point, but, according to Sri Aurobindo, a spiral that slowly and methodically annexes all the parts of our being in an ever vaster opening based upon an ever deeper foundation. Not only will we observe a pattern behind this Force, or rather this ConsciousnessForce, but also regular cycles and a rhythm as certain as that of the tides and the moons. The more we progress, the wider the cycles, and the closer their relationship with the cosmic movement itself until the day when we can perceive in our own descents the periodical descents of consciousness on earth, and in our own difficulties all the turmoil, resistance and revolt of the earth. Eventually, everything will become so intimately interconnected that we will be able to read in the tiniest things, the most insignificant events of daily life or the objects nearby, the signs of vaster depressions that will sweep over all men and compel their ascent or descent within the same evolutionary wave.
1.15_-_The_Supramental_Consciousness, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
author class:Satprem
subject class:Integral Yoga
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Body-Force, is always spiritual in its origin and divine in its character. It is the use made of it in the Ignorance by brute, man or Titan that has to be cast aside and replaced by its greater natural
even if to us supernormal action led by an inner consciousness which is in tune with the Infinite and the Eternal. The Integral Yoga cannot reject the works of Life and be satisfied with an inward experience only; it has to go inward in order to change the outward.275
This aspect of "force" or "power" of consciousness is represented in India by the eternal Mother. Without Consciousness there is no Force,
1.16_-_Man,_A_Transitional_Being, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
author class:Satprem
subject class:Integral Yoga
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But he wrote in an unusual manner not one book after another, but four and even six books concurrently, on the most varied subjects,
such as The Life Divine, his fundamental "philosophical" work and spiritual vision of evolution; The Synthesis of Yoga, in which he describes the various stages and experiences of the Integral Yoga, and surveys all the past and present yogic disciplines; the Essays on the Gita, which expounds his philosophy of action; The Secret of the Veda, with a study of the origins of language; and The Ideal of Human Unity and The Human Cycle, which approach evolution from its sociological and psychological standpoints and examine the future possibilities of human societies. He had found
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1.17_-_The_Transformation, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
author class:Satprem
subject class:Integral Yoga
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sinks below, into oblivion; but the moment we are involved in a terrestrial yoga, we find that it does not dissolve at all, but resurges again and again, relentlessly, as if the battle had never really been won indeed, as if we were waging a contest against that particular vibratory knot for the entire earth. It appears as if the seeker has become a special battlefield for a fierce and symbolic war against the same knot of darkness in all the rest of humanity. You no longer do yoga for yourself alone; you do it for everybody, unintentionally,
automatically, says the Mother. The seeker verifies in vivo the principle of the world's substantial oneness: trying to straighten a vibration in oneself triggers reactions from myriads of vibrations all over the world. This is what Sri Aurobindo calls a "yoga for the earthconsciousness."385 Accepting life, he [the seeker of the Integral Yoga]
has to bear not only his own burden, but a great part of the world's burden too along with it, as a continuation of his own sufficiently heavy load. Therefore his Yoga has much more the nature of a battle than others'; but this is not only an individual battle, it is a collective war waged over a considerable country. He has not only to conquer in himself the forces of egoistic falsehood and disorder, but to conquer them as representatives of the same adverse and inexhaustible forces in the world. Their representative character gives them a much more obstinate capacity of resistance, an almost endless 385
12.05_-_Beauty, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
2.01_-_The_Object_of_Knowledge, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
part:part III - The Yoga of Integral Knowledge
subject: Integral Yoga
summary:The object of our knowledge is the absolute; to reach it we must initially use the mind, but ultimately use supramental faculties; traditionally the mind, life, and body are rejected, while here only the ignorance is, and extinction of our worldly existence is not necessary, because this Brahman is manifest as it, also. - David Hutchinson
2.02_-_The_Status_of_Knowledge, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
class:The Synthesis Of Yoga
subject:Integral Yoga
2.02_-_Yoga, #Words Of The Mother II, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The Integral Yoga
Three Conceptions of the World
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Words of the Mother II
starts where the others end. Once the union with the Supreme is realised one must bring down that realisation to the exterior world and change the conditions of life upon the earth until a total transformation is accomplished. In accordance with this aim, the sadhaks of the Integral Yoga do not retire from the world to lead a life of contemplation and meditation. Each one must devote at least one third of his time to a useful work. All activities are represented in the Ashram and each one chooses the work most congenial to his nature, but must do it in a spirit of service and unselfishness, keeping always in view the aim of integral transformation.
2.03_-_The_Integral_Yoga, #Words Of The Mother II, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
object:2.03 - The Integral Yoga
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The Integral Yoga
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To those who want to practise the Integral Yoga, it is strongly advised to abstain from three things:
1) Sexual intercourse
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The more I go, the more I know that it is in work that Sri
Aurobindos Integral Yoga is best done.
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It is not what you do but the spirit in which you do it that is important for the Integral Yoga.
2.03_-_The_Purified_Understanding, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
class:The Synthesis Of Yoga
subject:Integral Yoga
2.04_-_Concentration, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
part:part III - The Yoga of Integral Knowledge
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4:We have, however, conceived as the aim of an Integral Yoga something more complex and less exclusive-less exclusively positive of the highest condition of the soul, less exclusively negative of its divine radiations. We must aim indeed at the Highest, the Source of all, the Transcendent but not to the exclusion of that which it transcends, rather as the source of an established experience and supreme state of the soul which shall transform all other states and remould our consciousness of the world into the form of its secret Truth. We do not seek to excise from our being all consciousness of the universe, but to realise God, Truth and Self in the universe as well as transcendent of it. We shall seek therefore not only the Ineffable, but also His manifestation as infinite being, consciousness and bliss embracing the universe and at play in it. For that triune infinity is His supreme manifestation and that we shall aspire to know, to share in and to become; and since we seek to realise this Trinity not only in itself but in its cosmic play, we shall aspire also to knowledge of and participation in the universal divine Truth, Knowledge, Will, Love which are His secondary manifestation. His divine becoming. With this too we shall aspire to identify ourselves, towards this too we shall strive to rise and, when the period of effort is passed, allow it by our renunciation of all egoism to draw us up into itself in our being and to descend into us and embrace us in all our becoming. This not only as a means of approach and passage to His supreme transcendence, but as the condition, even when we possess and are possessed by the Transcendent, of a divine life in the manifestation of the cosmos.
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9:This is the process of concentrated meditation; but a more strenuous method is the fixing of the whole mind in concentration on the essence of the idea only, so as to reach not the thought-knowledge or the psychological experience of the subject, but the very essence of the thing behind the idea. In this process thought ceases and passes into the absorbed or ecstatic contemplation of the object or by a merging into it m an inner Samadhi. If this be the process followed, then subsequently the state into which we rise must still be called down to take possession of the lower being, to shed its light, power and bliss on our ordinary consciousness. For otherwise we may possess it, as many do, in the elevated condition or in the inward Samadhi, but we shall lose our hold of it when we awake or descend into the contacts of the world; and this truncated possession is not the aim of an Integral Yoga.
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10:Ordinarily, once this state is obtained, strenuous concentration will be found no longer necessary. A free concentration of will310 using thought merely for suggestion and the giving of light to the lower members will take its place. This Will will then insist on the physical being, the vital existence, the heart and the mind remoulding themselves in the forms of the Divine which reveal themselves out of the silent Brahman. By swifter or slower degrees according to the previous preparation and purification of the members, they will be obliged with more or less struggle to obey the law of the will and its thought-suggestion, so that eventually the knowledge of the Divine takes possession of our consciousness on all its planes and the image of the Divine is formed in our human existence even as it was done by the old Vedic Sadhakas. For the Integral Yoga this is the most direct and powerful discipline.
2.05_-_Aspects_of_Sadhana, #Words Of The Mother II, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The Examiners
The Integral Yoga consists of an uninterrupted series of examinations that one has to undergo without any previous warning, thus obliging you to be constantly on the alert and attentive.
2.05_-_Renunciation, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
For the Sadhaka of an Integral Yoga none of these reasons are valid. With weakness and selfishness, however spiritual in their guise or trend, he can have no dealings; a divine strength and courage and a divine compassion and helpfulness are the very stuff of that which he would be, they are that very nature of the Divine which he would take upon himself as a robe of spiritual light and beauty. The revolvings of the great wheel bring to him no sense of terror or giddiness; he rises above it in hia soul and knows from above their divine law and their divine purpose. The difficulty of harmonising the divine life with human living, of being in God and yet living in man is the very difficulty that he is set here to solve and not to shun. He has learned that the joy, the peace and the deliverance are an imperfect crown and no real possession if they do not form a state secure in itself, inalienable to the soul, not dependent on aloofness and inaction but firm in the storm and the race and the battle, unsullied whether by the joy of the world or by its suffering. The ecstasy of the divine embrace will not abandon him because he obeys the impulse of divine love for God in humanity; or if it seems to draw back from him for a while, he knows by experience that it is to try and test him still farther so that some imperfection in his own way of meeting it may fall away from him. Personal salvation he does not seek except as a necessity for the human fulfilment and because he who is himself in bonds cannot easily free others, -- though to God nothing is impossible; for a heaven of personal joys he has no hankerings even as a hell of personal sufferings has for him no terrors. If there is an opposition between the spiritual life and that of the world, it is that gulf which he is here to bridge, that opposition which he is here to change into a harmony. If the world is ruled by the flesh and the devil, all the more reason that the children of Immortality should be here to conquer it for God and the Spirit. If life is an insanity, then there are so many million souls to whom there must be brought the light of divine reason; if a dream, yet is it real within itself to so many dreamers who must be brought either to dream nobler dreams or to awaken; or if a lie, then the truth has to be given to the deluded. Nor, if it be said that only by the luminous example of escape from the world can we help the world, shall we accept that dogma, since the contrary example of great Avataras is there to show that not only by rejecting the life of the world as it is can we help, but also and more by accepting and uplifting it. And if it is a play of the All-Existence, then we may well consent to play out our part in it with grace and courage, well take delight in the game along with our divine Playmate.
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class:The Synthesis Of Yoga
subject:Integral Yoga
2.06_-_The_Synthesis_of_the_Disciplines_of_Knowledge, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Therefore our Integral Yoga will take up these various disciplines arid concentrations, but harmonise and if possible fuse them by a synthesis which removes their mutual exclusions. Not realising the Lord and the All, only to reject them for silent Self or Unknowable Absolute as would an exclusively transcendental, nor living for the Lord alone or in the All alone as would an exclusively theistic or an exclusively pantheistic Yoga, the seeker of integral knowledge will limit himself neither in his thought nor in his practice nor in his realisation by any religious creed or philosophical dogma. He will seek the Truth of existence in its completeness. The ancient disciplines he will not reject, for they rest upon eternal truths, but he will give them an orientation in conformity with his aim.
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class:The Synthesis Of Yoga
subject:Integral Yoga
2.07_-_The_Release_from_Subjection_to_the_Body, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
This side of the method belongs properly to the Yoga of self-perfection; but it is as well to speak briefly of these things here both because we thereby lay a basis for what we shall have to say of self-perfection, which is a part of the Integral Yoga, and because we have to correct the false notions popularised by materialistic Science. According to this Science the normal mental and physical states and the relations between mind and body actually established by our past evolution are the right, natural and healthy conditions and anything other, anything opposite to them is either morbid and wrong or a hallucination, self-deception and insanity. Needless to say, this conservative principle is entirely ignored by Science itself when it so diligently and successfully improves on the normal operations of physical Nature for the greater mastery of Nature by man. Suffice it to say here once for all that a change of mental and physical state and of relations between the mind and body which increases the purity and freedom of the being, brings a clear joy and peace and multiplies the power of the mind over itself and over the physical functions, brings about in a word man's greater mastery of his own nature, Is obviously not morbid and cannot be considered a hallucination or self-deception since its effects are patent and positive. In fact, it is simply a willed advance of Nature in her evolution of the Individual, an evolution which she will carry out in any case but in which she chooses to utilise the human will as her chief agent, because her essential aim is to lead the Purusha to conscious mastery over herself.
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class:The Synthesis Of Yoga
subject:Integral Yoga
2.08_-_The_Release_from_the_Heart_and_the_Mind, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
class:The Synthesis Of Yoga
subject:Integral Yoga
2.09_-_The_Release_from_the_Ego, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
For the disciple of an Integral Yoga there can be no hesitation; as a seeker of knowledge it is the integral knowledge and not anything either half-way and attractive or high-pinnacled and exclusive he must seek. He must soar to the utmost height, but also circle and spread to the most all-embracing wideness, not binding himself to any rigid structure of metaphysical thought, but free to admit and contain all the soul's highest and greatest and fullest and most numerous experiences. If the highest height of spiritual experience, the sheer summit of all realisation is the absolute union of the soul with the Transcendent who exceeds the individual and the universe, the widest scope of that union is the discovery of that very Transcendent as the source, support, continent, informing and constituent spirit and substance of both these manifesting powers of the divine Essence and the divine Nature. Whatever the path, this must be for him the goal. The Yoga of Action also is not fulfilled, is not absolute, is not victoriously complete until the seeker has felt and lives in his essential and integral oneness with the Supreme. One he must be with the Divine will in his highest and inmost and in his widest being and consciousness, in work, his will, his power of action, his mind, body, life. Otherwise he is only released from the illusion of individual works, but not released from the illusion of separate being and instrumentality. As the servant and instrument of the Divine, he works, but the crown of his labour and its perfect base or motive is oneness with that which he serves and fulfils. The Yoga of devotion too is complete only when the lover and the Beloved are unified and difference is abolished in the ecstasy of a divine oneness, and yet in the mystery of this unification there is the sole existence of the Beloved but no extinction or absorption of the lover. It is the highest unity which is the express direction of the path of knowledge, the call to absolute oneness is its impulse, the experience of it its magnet: but it is this very highest unity which takes as its field of manifestation in him the largest possible cosmic wideness. Obeying the necessity to withdraw successively from the practical egoism of our triple nature and its fundamental ego-sense, we come to the realisation of the spirit, the self, lord of this individual human manifestation, but our knowledge is not integral if we do not make this self in the individual one with the cosmic spirit and find their greater reality above in an inexpressible but not Unknowable Transcendence. That Jiva, possessed of himself, must give himself up into the being of the Divine. The self of the man must be made one with the Self of all; the self of the finite , individual must pour itself into the boundless finite and that cosmic spirit must be exceeded in the transcendent Infinite.
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When there is an insufficient purity in the mental being, the release appears at first to be partial and temporary; the Jiva seems to descend again into the egoistic life and the higher consciousness to be withdrawn from him. In reality, what happens is that a cloud or veil intervenes between the lower nature and the higher consciousness and the prakriti resumes for a time its old habit of working under the pressure but not always with a knowledge or present memory of that high experience. What works in it then is a ghost of the old ego supporting a mechanical repetition of the old habits upon the remnants of confusion and impurity still left in the system. The cloud intervenes and disappears, the rhythm of ascent and descent renews itself until the impurity has been worked out. This period of alternations may easily be long in the Integral Yoga; for there an entire perfection of the system is required; it must be capable at all times and in all conditions and all circumstances, whether of action or inaction, of admitting and then living in the consciousness of the supreme Truth. Nor is it enough for the Sadhaka to have the utter realisation only in the trance of Samadhi or in a motionless quietude, but he must in trance or in waking, in passive reflection or energy of action be able to remain in the constant Samadhi of the firmly founded Brahmic consciousness349a. But if or when our conscious being has become sufficiently pure and clear, then there is a firm station in the higher consciousness. The impersonalised Jiva, one with the universal or possessed by the Transcendent, lives high-seated above349b and looks down undisturbed at whatever remnants of the old working of Nature may revisit the system. He cannot be moved by the workings of the three modes of prakriti in his lower being, nor can he be shaken from his station by the attacks even of grief and suffering. And finally, there being no veil between, the higher peace overpowers the lower disturbance and mobility. There is a settled silence in which the soul can take sovereign possession of itself above and below and altogether.
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These ideas of dream and illusion are simply results in our still existent mentality of the new poise of the Jiva and its denial of the claim made upon it by its old mental associations and view of life and existence. In reality, the prakriti does not act for itself or by its own motion, but with the Self as lord; for out of that Silence wells all this action, that apparent Void looses out as if into movement all these infinite riches of experiences. To this realisation the Sadhaka of the Integral Yoga must arrive by the process that we shall hereafter describe. What then, when he so resumes his hold upon the universe and views no longer himself in the world but the cosmos in himself, will be the position of the Jiva or what will fill in his new consciousness the part of the ego-sense? There will be no ego-sense even if there is a sort of individualisation for the purposes of the play of universal consciousness in an individual mind and frame; and for this reason that all will be unforgettably the One and every Person or Purusha will be to him the One in many forms or rather in many aspects and poises, Brahman acting upon Brahman, one Nara-Narayana351 everywhere. In that larger play of the Divine the joy of the relations of divine love also is possible without the lapse into the ego-sense, -- just as the supreme state of human love likewise is described as the unity of one soul in two bodies. The ego-sense is not indispensable to the world-play in which it is so active and so falsifies the truth of things; the truth is always the One at work on itself, at play with itself, infinite in unity, infinite in multiplicity. When the individualised consciousness rises to and lives in that truth of the cosmic play, then even in full action, even in possession of the lower being the Jiva remains still one with the Lord, and there is no bondage and no delusion. He is in possession of Self and released from the ego.
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class:The Synthesis Of Yoga
subject:Integral Yoga
2.10_-_The_Realisation_of_the_Cosmic_Self, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
For our real self is not the individual mental being, that is only a figure, an appearance; our real self is cosmic, infinite, it is one with all existence and the inhabitant of all existences. The self behind our mind, life and body is the same as the self behind the mind, life and body of all our fellow-beings, and if we come to possess it, we shall naturally, when we turn to look out again upon them, tend to become one with them in the common basis of our consciousness. It is true that the mind opposes any such identification and if we allow it to persist in its old habits and activities, it will rather strive to bring again its veil of dissonances over our new realisation and possession of self than to shape and subject itself to this true and eternal vision of things. But in the first place, if we have proceeded rightly on the path of our Yoga, we shall have attained to Self through a purified mind and heart, and a purified mind is one that is necessarily passive and open to the knowledge. Secondly, even the mind in spite of its tendency to limit and divide can be taught to think in the rhythm of the unifying Truth instead of the broken terms of the limiting appearance. We must therefore accustom it by meditation and
concentration to cease to think of things and beings as separately existent in themselves and rather to think always of the One everywhere and of all things as the One. Although we have spoken hitherto of the withdrawing motion of the Jiva as the first necessity of knowledge and as if it were to be pursued alone and by itself, yet in fact it is better for the Sadbaka of the Integral Yoga to unite the two movements. By one he will find the self within, by the other he will find that self in all that seems to us at present to be outside us. It is possible indeed to begin with the latter movement, to realise all things in this visible and sensale existence as God or Brahman or Virat Purusha and then to go beyond to all that is behind the Virat. But this has its inconveniences and it is better, if that be found possible, to combine the two movements.
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class:The Synthesis Of Yoga
subject:Integral Yoga
2.11_-_The_Modes_of_the_Self, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The Sadhaka of an Integral Yoga will take an integral view of his goal and seek its integral realisation. The Divine has many essential modes of His eternal self-manifestation, possesses and finds Himself on many planes and through many poles of His being; to each mode its purpose, to each plane or pole its fulfilment both in the apex and the supreme scope of the eternal Unity. It is necessarily through the individual Self that we must arrive at the One, for that is the basis of all our experience. By Knowledge we arrive at identity with the One; for there is, m spite of the Dualist, an essential identity by which we can plunge into our Source and free ourselves from all bondage to individuality and even from all bondage to universality. Nor is the experience of that identity a gain for knowledge only or for the pure state of abstract being. The height of all our action also, we have seen, is the immersion of ourselves in the Lord through unity with the divine Will or Conscious-Power by the way of works; the height of love is the rapturous immersion of ourselves in unity of ecstatic delight with the object of our love and adoration. But again for divine works in the world the individual Self converts itself into a centre of consciousness through which the divine Will, one with the divine Love and Light, pours itself out in the multiplicity of the universe. We arrive in the same way at our unity with all our fellow-beings through the identity of this self with the Supreme and with the self in all others. At the same time in the action of Nature we preserve by it as soul-form of the One a differentiation which enables us to preserve relations of difference in Oneness with other beings and with the Supreme Himself. The relations will necessarily be very different in essence and spirit from those which we had when we lived entirely in the Ignorance and Oneness was a mere name or a struggling aspiration of imperfect love, sympathy or yearning. Unity will be the law, difference will be simply for the various enjoyment of that unity. Neither descending again into that plane of division which clings to the separation of the ego-sense nor attached to an exclusive seeking for pure identity which cannot have to do with any play of difference, we shall embrace and reconcile the two poles of being where they meet in the infinity of the Highest.
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The place of the divine Personality in our synthesis will best be considered when we come to speak of the Yoga of devotion; it is enough here to indicate that it has its place and keeps it in the Integral Yoga even when liberation has been attained. There are practically three grades of the approach to the personal Deity; the first in which He is conceived with a particular form or particular qualities as the name and form of the Godhead which our nature and personality prefers365; a second in which He is the one real Person, the All-Personality, the Ananta-guna; a third in which we get back to the ultimate source of all idea and fact of personality in that which the Upanishad indicates by the single word Lie without fixing any attributes. It is there that our realisations of the personal and the impersonal Divine meet and become one in the utter Godhead. For the impersonal Divine is not ultimately an abstraction or a mere principle or a mere state or power and degree of being any more than we ourselves are really such abstractions. The intellect first approaches it through such conceptions, but realisation ends by exceeding them. Through the realisation of higher and higher principles of being and states of conscious existence we arrive not at the annullation of all in a sort of positive zero or even an inexpressible state of existence, but at the transcendent Existence itself which is also the Existent who transcends all definition by personality and yet is always that which is the essence of personality.
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class:The Synthesis Of Yoga
subject:Integral Yoga
2.12_-_The_Realisation_of_Sachchidananda, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
class:The Synthesis Of Yoga
subject:Integral Yoga
2.13_-_The_Difficulties_of_the_Mental_Being, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Further, there are two kinds of realisation of Self or Sachchidananda. One is that of the silent passive quietistic, self-absorbed, self-sufficient existence, consciousness and delight, one, impersonal, without play of qualities, turned away from the infinite phenomenon of the universe or viewing it with indifference and without participation. The other is that of the same existence, consciousness, delight sovereign, free, lord of things, acting out of an inalienable calm, pouring itself out in infinite action and quality out of an eternal self-concentration, the one supreme Person holding in himself all this play of personality in a vast equal impersonality, possessing the infinite phenomenon of the universe without attachment but without any inseparable aloofness, with a divine mastery and an innumerable radiation of his eternal luminous self-delight -- as a manifestation which he holds, but by which he is not held, which he governs freely and by which therefore he is not bound. This is not the personal God of the religions or the qualified Brahman of the philosophers, but that in which personal and impersonal, quality and non-quality are reconciled. It is the Transcendent possessing them both in His being and employing them both as modes for His manifestation. This then is the object of realisation for the Sadhaka of the Integral Yoga.
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But this is insufficient for the Integral Yoga. There must be a positive transformation and not merely a negative quiescence of the waking mentality. The transformation is possible because, although the divine planes are above the mental consciousness and to enter actually into them we have ordinarily to lose the mental in Samadhi, yet there are in the mental being divine planes superior to our normal mentality which reproduce the conditions of the divine plane proper, although modified by the conditions, dominant here, of mentality. All that belongs to the experience of the divine plane can there be seized, but in the mental way and m a mental form. To these planes of divine mentality it is possible for the developed human being to arise in the waking state; or it is possible for him to derive from them a stream of influences and experiences which shall eventually open to them and transform into their nature his whole waking existence. These higher mental states are the immediate sources, the large actual instruments, the inner stations382 of his perfection.
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But the Sadhaka of the Integral Yoga has to harmonise all so that they may become a plenary and equal unity of the full realisation of Sachchidananda. Here the last difficulty of mind meets him, its inability to hold at once the unity and the multiplicity. It is not altogether difficult to arrive at and dwell in a pure infinite or even, at the same time, a perfect global experience of the Existence which is Consciousness which is Delight. The mind may even extend its experience of this Unity to the multiplicity so as to perceive it immanent in the universe and in each object, force, movement in the universe or at the same time to be aware of this Existence-Consciousness-Bliss containing the universe and enveloping all its objects and originating all its movements. It is difficult indeed for it to unite and harmonise rightly all these experiences; but still it can possess Sachchidananda at once in himself and immanent in all and the continent of all. But with this to unite the final experience of all this as Sachchidananda and possess objects, movements, forces, forms as no other than He, is the great difficulty for mind. Separately any of these things may be done; the mind may go from one to the other, rejecting one as it arrives at another and calling this the lower or that the higher existence. But to unify without losing, to integralise without rejecting is its supreme difficulty.
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class:The Synthesis Of Yoga
subject:Integral Yoga
2.14_-_The_Passive_and_the_Active_Brahman, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The Integral Yoga of knowledge demands instead a divine return upon world-existence and its first step must be to realise the Self as the All, sarvam bharma. First, concentrating on the Self-existent, we have to realise all of which the mind and senses are aware as a figure of things existing in this pure Self that we now are to our own consciousness. This vision of the pure Self translates itself to the mind-sense and the mind-perception as an infinite Reality in which all exists merely as name and form, not precisely unreal, not a hallucination or a dream, but still only a creation of the consciousness, perceptual and subtly sensible rather than substantial. In this poise of the consciousness all seems to be, if not a dream, yet very much like a representation or puppet-show taking place in the calm, motionless, peaceful, indifferent Self. Our own phenomenal existence is part of this conceptual movement, a mechanical form of mind and body among other forms, ourselves a name of being among other names, automatically mobile in this Self with its all-encompassing, still self-awareness. The active consciousness of the world is not present in this state to our realisation, because thought has been stilled in us and therefore our own consciousness is perfectly still and inactive, -- whatever we do, seems to be purely mechanical, not attended with any conscious origination by our active will and knowledge. Or if thought occurs, that also happens mechanically like the rest, like the movement of our body, moved by the unseen springs of Nature as in the plant and element and not by any active will of our self-existence. For this Self is the immobile and does not originate or take part in the action which it allows. This Self is the All in the sense only of being the infinite One who is immutably and contains all names and forms.
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class:The Synthesis Of Yoga
subject:Integral Yoga
2.15_-_Reality_and_the_Integral_Knowledge, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
This Self is to be won by the Truth and by an integral knowledge. Mundaka Upanishad.1
2.15_-_The_Cosmic_Consciousness, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
class:The Synthesis Of Yoga
subject:Integral Yoga
2.16_-_Oneness, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The complete realisation of unity is therefore the essence of the integral knowledge and of the Integral Yoga. To know Sachchidananda one in Himself and one in all His manifestation is the basis of knowledge; to make that vision of oneness real to the consciousness in its status and in its action, and to become that by merging the sense of separate individuality in the sense of unity with the Being and with all beings is its effectuation in Yoga of knowledge; to live, think, feel, will and act in that sense of unity is its effectuation in the individual being and the individual life. This realisation of oneness and this practice of oneness in difference is the whole of the Yoga.
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The Integral Yoga of knowledge has to recognise the double nature of this manifestation, -- for there is the higher nature of Sachchidananda in which He is found and the lower nature of mind, life and body in which He is veiled, -and to reconcile and unite the two in the oneness of the illumined realisation. We have not to leave them separate so that we live a sort of double life, spiritual within or above, mental and material in our active and earthly living; we have to re-view and remould the lower living in the light, force and joy of the higher reality. We have to realise Matter as a sense-created mould of Spirit, a vehicle for all manifestation of the light, force and joy of Sachchidananda in the highest conditions of terrestrial being and activity. We have to see Life as a channel for the infinite Force divine and break the barrier of a sense-created and mind-created farness and division from it so that that divine Power may take possession of and direct and change all our life-activities until our vitality transfigured ceases in the end to be the limited life-force which now supports mind and body and becomes a figure of the all-blissful conscious-force of Sachchidananda. We have similarly to change our sensational and emotional mentality into a play of the divine Love and universal Delight; and we have to surcharge the intellect which seeks to know and will in us with the light of the divine Knowledge-Will until it is transformed into a figure of that higher and sublime activity.
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class:The Synthesis Of Yoga
subject:Integral Yoga
2.16_-_The_Integral_Knowledge_and_the_Aim_of_Life;_Four_Theories_of_Existence, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
When all the desires that cling to the heart are loosed away from it, then the mortal becomes immortal, even here he possesses the Eternal. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.1
2.17_-_The_Progress_to_Knowledge_-_God,_Man_and_Nature, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
Thou art That, O Swetaketu. Chhandogya Upanishad.1
2.17_-_The_Soul_and_Nature, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
class:The Synthesis Of Yoga
subject:Integral Yoga
2.18_-_The_Evolutionary_Process_-_Ascent_and_Integration, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
As he mounts from peak to peak, . . . Indra makes him conscious of that goal of his movement. Rig Veda.1
2.18_-_The_Soul_and_Its_Liberation, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
class:The Synthesis Of Yoga
subject:Integral Yoga
2.19_-_Out_of_the_Sevenfold_Ignorance_towards_the_Sevenfold_Knowledge, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
author class:Sri Aurobindo
subject:Integral Yoga
Seven steps has the ground of the Ignorance, seven steps has the ground of the Knowledge. Mahopanishad.1