336 Quotes by Sri Aurobindo

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

The consciousness of the supreme Purusha remains above, but in the mind there may be a Purusha consciousness which they call the cosmic consciousness – it is wide, all-pervading, one. Outside this goes on the play of Prakriti.

The higher Truth is all the time working in us but through the lower power – Aparashakti. It is when we become conscious of the play of this higher Power then only yoga begins.

Man’s freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature.

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

A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.

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

To feed death with her works is here life’s doom.

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