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Letters On Himself And The Ashram
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31 Sri Aurobindo
1 \“… we must not only cut asunder the snare of the mind and the senses
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1:A gossiping spirit is always an obstacle. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram Avoiding Gossip, #KEYS
2:A gossiping spirit is always an obstacle. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram Avoiding Gossip, #KEYS
3: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
4:A divided nature is the worst possible condition for this path. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram Acceptance as a Disciple, #KEYS
5:The self or spirit has the joy of its own existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram Vedanta and Other Paths of Self-Realisation, #KEYS
6:For one who has the assured inner life, there is no dullness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram Profiting from One’s Stay in the Ashram, #KEYS
7:The end of tamas is disintegration, dispersal of forces, failure of material. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram Care of Material Things, #KEYS
8:If you have not the entire and undivided call, it is better not to take the plunge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram Marriage, #KEYS
9:Well-known or unknown has absolutely no importance from the spiritual point of view. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram No Propaganda or Proselytism, #KEYS
10:One man who earnestly pursues the Yoga is of more value than a thousand well-known men. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram No Propaganda or Proselytism, #KEYS
11:So long as you feel the sense of duty, it is better to follow it out until you are liberated. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram Marriage, #KEYS
12:Nothing can spiritually justify individual violence done in anger or passion or from any vital motive. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram Essays on the Gita, #KEYS
13:All is possible if there is a true faith, a complete consecration, a sincere and pure aspiration and a persistent endeavour. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Himself And The Ashram 539, #KEYS
14:Every day should be regarded as a day when a descent may take place or a contact established with the higher consciousness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Himself And The Ashram , #KEYS
15:Work (or life either) without discipline would soon become a confusion and an anarchic failure. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram The Place of Rules in Work, #KEYS
16:If the Truth has to spread itself, it will do it of its own motion; these things are unnecessary. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram No Propaganda or Proselytism, #KEYS
17:The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram Passages from The Synthesis of Yoga, #KEYS
18:Whenever there is something to be produced, created, organised, achieved, conquered, it is the vital that is indispensable. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram No Politics in the Ashram, #KEYS
19:The words supermind and supramental were first used by me, but since then people have taken up and are using the word supramental for anything above mind. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Himself And The Ashram 142, #KEYS
20:When one comes out of the world, the forces that govern the world do all they can to pull you back into their own unquiet movement. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram Departure from the Ashram, #KEYS
21:Live always as if you were under the very eye of the supreme and the Divine Mother. Do nothing, try to think and feel nothing that would be unworthy of the Divine Presence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Himself And The Ashram 852, #KEYS
22:Yogic or occult powers are no more supernatural or incredible than is supernatural or incredible the power to write a great poem or compose great music. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram Education, #KEYS
23:Awaken the psychic in you, let the inner being come out and replace the ego, then the latent power also will become effective. You can then do the work and the service to which you aspire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Himself And The Ashram , #KEYS
24:Consistency is usually a rigid or narrow-minded inability to see more than one side of the truth or more than their own narrow personal view or experience of things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram On His Philosophy in General, #KEYS
25:Forceful suppression stands on the same level as free indulgence; in both cases, the desire remains; in the one it is fed by indulgence, in the other it lies latent and exasperated by suppression. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram Food, #KEYS
26:There can be no question about the power to change, to develop, to awaken faculties that were not there before; this power exists already, but it can be raised to an acme by being lifted to a spiritual plane. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Himself And The Ashram , #KEYS
27:Clarity of knowledge and inner self-vision, subjugation of the ego, love, scrupulousness in selfless and dedicated works, are the four wheels of the chariot of Yoga. One who has them will progress safely on the path. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Himself And The Ashram , #KEYS
28:The Guru must deal with each disciple according to his separate nature and accordingly guide his sadhana; even if it is the same line of sadhana for all, yet at every point for each it differs. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram General Rules and Individual Natures, #KEYS
29:No one can understand by his personal mental judgment the Mother’s actions and reasons for action; it can only be understood by entering into the larger consciousness from which she sees things and acts upon them. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram General Rules and Individual Natures, #KEYS
30:\“… we must not only cut asunder the snare of the mind and the senses, but flee also beyond the snare of the thinker, the snare of the theologian and the church-builder, the meshes of the Word and the bondage of the Idea\” [[p. 330](/cwsa/23/renunciation ~ \“… we must not only cut asunder the snare of the mind and the senses, but flee also beyond the snare of the thinker the snare of the theologian and the church-builder, #KEYS
31:The intermediate zone means simply a confused condition or passage in which one is getting out of the personal consciousness and opening into the cosmic (cosmic Mind, cosmic vital, cosmic physical, something perhaps of the cosmic higherMind) without having yet transcended the human mind levels. One is not in possession of or direct contact with the divine Truth on its own levels, but one can receive something from them, even from the Overmind, indirectly.Only, as one is still immersed in the cosmic Ignorance, all that comes from above can be mixed, perverted, taken hold of for their purposes by lower, even by hostile Powers. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Himself And The Ashram 118, #KEYS
32:Life's meaningA mighty life-self with its inner powersSupports the dwarfish modicum we call life;It can graft upon our crawl two puissant wings. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram Birthday Messages for Disciples, #KEYS
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1:A gossiping spirit is always an obstacle. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram, Avoiding Gossip,
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2:Death is only a shedding of the body, not a cessation of the personal existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram, Death,
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3:A divided nature is the worst possible condition for this path. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram, Acceptance as a Disciple,
#NFDB
4:The self or spirit has the joy of its own existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram, Vedanta and Other Paths of Self-Realisation,
#NFDB
5:For one who has the assured inner life, there is no dullness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram, Profiting from One’s Stay in the Ashram,
#NFDB
6:The end of tamas is disintegration, dispersal of forces, failure of material. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram, Care of Material Things,
#NFDB
7:If you have not the entire and undivided call, it is better not to take the plunge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram, Marriage, Service and Yoga,
#NFDB
8:Well-known or unknown has absolutely no importance from the spiritual point of view. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram, No Propaganda or Proselytism,
#NFDB
9:One man who earnestly pursues the Yoga is of more value than a thousand well-known men. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram, No Propaganda or Proselytism,
#NFDB
10:Life-World
The Light is nearer to us than we think and at any time its hour may come. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram, Birthday Messages for Disciples,
#NFDB
11:So long as you feel the sense of duty, it is better to follow it out until you are liberated. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram, Marriage, Service and Yoga,
#NFDB
12:Nothing can spiritually justify individual violence done in anger or passion or from any vital motive. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram, Essays on the Gita,
#NFDB
13:Work (or life either) without discipline would soon become a confusion and an anarchic failure. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram, The Place of Rules in Work,
#NFDB
14:If the Truth has to spread itself, it will do it of its own motion; these things are unnecessary. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram, No Propaganda or Proselytism,
#NFDB
15:The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram, Passages from The Synthesis of Yoga,
#NFDB
16:All is possible if there is a true faith, a complete consecration, a sincere and pure aspiration and a persistent endeavour.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Himself And The Ashram, 539,
#NFDB
17:Every day should be regarded as a day when a descent may take place or a contact established with the higher consciousness.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Himself And The Ashram, [T5],
#NFDB
18:Whenever there is something to be produced, created, organised, achieved, conquered, it is the vital that is indispensable. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram, No Politics in the Ashram,
#NFDB
19:When one comes out of the world, the forces that govern the world do all they can to pull you back into their own unquiet movement. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram, Departure from the Ashram,
#NFDB
20:The words supermind and supramental were first used by me, but since then people have taken up and are using the word supramental for anything above mind.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Himself And The Ashram, 142,
#NFDB
21:For me the path of Yoga has always been a battle as well as a journey, a thing of ups and downs, of light followed by darkness followed by a greater light.
Letters on Himself and the Ashram, p.372 ~ Sri Aurobindo
#NFDB
22:Live always as if you were under the very eye of the supreme and the Divine Mother. Do nothing, try to think and feel nothing that would be unworthy of the Divine Presence.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Himself And The Ashram, 852,
#NFDB
23:Yogic or occult powers are no more supernatural or incredible than is supernatural or incredible the power to write a great poem or compose great music. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram, Education, Belief and Yoga,
#NFDB
24:Awaken the psychic in you, let the inner being come out and replace the ego, then the latent power also will become effective. You can then do the work and the service to which you aspire.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Himself And The Ashram,
#NFDB
25:Consistency is usually a rigid or narrow-minded inability to see more than one side of the truth or more than their own narrow personal view or experience of things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram, On His Philosophy in General,
#NFDB
26:Forceful suppression stands on the same level as free indulgence; in both cases, the desire remains; in the one it is fed by indulgence, in the other it lies latent and exasperated by suppression. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram, Food,
#NFDB
27:By the heart's self-giving the Presence and the Influence will be there even in the inconscience and prepare the nature for the true light and consciousness through the whole range of the being.
Letters on Himself and the Ashram, p.839 ~ Sri Aurobindo
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28:There can be no question about the power to change, to develop, to awaken faculties that were not there before; this power exists already, but it can be raised to an acme by being lifted to a spiritual plane.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Himself And The Ashram,
#NFDB
29:The only necessity in this sadhana is to open yourself to the Divine Force; if one is open the necessary understanding or knowledge will come of itself through spiritual experience.
Sri Aurobindo
Letters on Himself and the Ashram, p.448 ~ Sri Aurobindo
#NFDB
30:Clarity of knowledge and inner self-vision, subjugation of the ego, love, scrupulousness in selfless and dedicated works, are the four wheels of the chariot of Yoga. One who has them will progress safely on the path.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Himself And The Ashram,
#NFDB
31:The Guru must deal with each disciple according to his separate nature and accordingly guide his sadhana; even if it is the same line of sadhana for all, yet at every point for each it differs. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram, General Rules and Individual Natures,
#NFDB
32:No one can understand by his personal mental judgment the Mother’s actions and reasons for action; it can only be understood by entering into the larger consciousness from which she sees things and acts upon them. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram, General Rules and Individual Natures,
#NFDB
33:The method is to quiet the mind and, in order to do so, to concentrate on an aspiration for faith in the Divine Power, peace and calm in the mind, single-minded sincerity in the heart, and a conscious opening to the Light and Truth and Power.
Letters on Himself and the Ashram, p.817 ~ Sri Aurobindo
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34:\“… we must not only cut asunder the snare of the mind and the senses, but flee also beyond the snare of the thinker, the snare of the theologian and the church-builder, the meshes of the Word and the bondage of the Idea\” [[p. 330](/cwsa/23/renunciation# ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram, Passages from The Synthesis of Yoga,
#NFDB
35:The intermediate zone means simply a confused condition or passage in which one is getting out of the personal consciousness and opening into the cosmic (cosmic Mind, cosmic vital, cosmic physical, something perhaps of the cosmic higherMind) without having yet transcended the human mind levels. One is not in possession of or direct contact with the divine Truth on its own levels, but one can receive something from them, even from the Overmind, indirectly.Only, as one is still immersed in the cosmic Ignorance, all that comes from above can be mixed, perverted, taken hold of for their purposes by lower, even by hostile Powers.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Himself And The Ashram, 118,
#NFDB
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