336 Quotes by Sri Aurobindo

A million lotuses swaying on one stem,

All-vision gathered into a single ray,As when the eyes stare at an invisible pointTill through the intensity of one luminous spotAn apocalypse of a world of imagesEnters into the kingdom of the seer.

Silence is round me, wideness ineffable;White birds on the ocean diving and wandering;A soundless sea on a voiceless heaven,Azure on azure, is mutely gazing.Identified with silence and boundlessnessMy spirit widens clasping the universeTill all that seemed becomes the Real,One in a mighty and single vastness.Someone broods there nameless and bodiless,Conscious and lonely, deathless and infinite,And, sole in a still eternal rapture,Gathers all things to his heart for ever.

Pain is the hammer of the Gods to break a dead resistance in the mortal's heart

The touch of Earth is always reinvigorating to the son of Earth, even when he seeks a supraphysical Knowledge. It may even be said that the supraphysical can only be really mastered in its fullness - to its heights we can always reach - when we keep our feet firmly on the physical. 'Earth is His footing,' says the Upanishad, whenever it images the Self that manifests in the universe.

Thus shall the earth open to divinityAnd common natures feel the wide uplift,Illumine common acts with the Spirit’s rayAnd meet the deity in common things.Nature shall live to manifest secret God,The Spirit shall take up the human play,This earthly life become the life divine.(Savitri, Book 11, Canto 1, pp. 710-711)

Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full andfree done without subjection to sense and passion, desireless and unattached works, are the first secret of perfection.

Mountains and trees stood there like thoughts from God.

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.