Sri Aurobindo Quotes

“Arise, slay thy enemies, enjoy a prosperous kingdom,”
― Bhagavad Gita

“The Divine is what you adore in Sri Aurobindo.”
― The Mother

“The utmost mission of Mind is to train our obscure consciousness which has emerged out of the dark prison of Matter, to enlighten its blind instincts, random intuitions, vague perceptions till it shall become capable of this greater light and this higher ascension. Mind is a passage, not a culmination.”
― Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine

“The complete use of pure reason brings us finally from physical to metaphysical knowledge. But the concepts of metaphysical knowledge do not in themselves fully satisfy the demand of our integral being. They are indeed entirely satisfactory to the pure reason itself, because they are the very stuff of its own existence. But our nature sees things through two eyes always, for it views them doubly as idea and as fact and therefore every concept is incomplete for us and to a part of our nature almost unreal until it becomes an experience.”
― Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, A Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy

“The complete use of pure reason brings us finally from physical to metaphysical knowledge. But the concepts of metaphysical knowledge do not in themselves fully satisfy the demand of our integral being. They are indeed entirely satisfactory to the pure reason itself, because they are the very stuff of its own existence. But our nature sees things through two eyes always, for it views them doubly as idea and as fact and therefore every concept is incomplete for us and to a part of our nature almost unreal until it becomes an experience.”
― Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine

“In fact, if one reads attentively what Sri Aurobindo has written, all that he has written, one would have the answer to every question.”
― The Mother, Questions and Answers 1957-1958

“Thus shall the earth open to divinity
And common natures feel the wide uplift,
Illumine common acts with the Spirit’s ray
And 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)”
― Sri Aurobindo, Savitri

“God did not created the world. He himself became the world. This is the core of vedantism. Every object, every being, each conscious as well as inconcient being is the divine manifestation on planet earth. Since, each one is the god itself, we have learnt to love, respect and worship everything around us.
Therefore millions of beings, millions of gods.”
― KUNAL NARAYAN UNIYAL, Journey To The Next Level-The Forbidden World

“God did not create the world. He himself became the world. This is the core of vedantism. Every object, every being, each conscious as well as inconcient being is the divine manifestation on planet earth. Since, each one is the god itself, we have learnt to love, respect and worship everything around us.
Therefore millions of beings, millions of gods.”
― KUNAL NARAYAN UNIYAL, Journey To The Next Level-The Forbidden World

“We do not belong to the past dawns, but to the noons of the future.”
― Sri Aurobindo, Bhagavad Gita and Its Message

“God always keeps for himself a chosen country in which the higher knowledge is through all chances and dangers, by the few or many, continually preserved, and for the present, that country is India.”
― Sri Aurobindo

“Savitri itself, one might say, is just such a ‘message from the unknown immortal Light’, revealed to humankind at the dawn of an age of global seeking and aspiration for change. To derive the utmost benefit from reading it, one must, to whatever degree, be able to open oneself to that Light.


Much of Savitri describes things that take place in an inner consciousness or in subtle worlds beyond our normal awareness. The three books of Part One, forming the first half of the epic, are almost entirely of this character. After two opening cantos introducing the heroine’s crisis on the morning of the fateful day to which the narrative returns hundreds of pages later in ‘The Book of Death’, the rest of Part One is a flashback to the spiritual and occult experiences of Aswapati, the king and yogi who is Savitri’s father in the legend. These books culminate in a vision of the Divine Mother and her promise of an incarnation who is to bring a new factor into the play of forces upon earth.”
― Gautam Chikermane, Reading Sri Aurobindo

“And more specifically, when asked by a youngster about the right way of reading Sri Aurobindo, the Mother replied:4


I advise always to read a little at a time, keeping the mind as tranquil as one can, without making an effort to understand, but keeping the head as silent as possible, and letting the force contained in what one reads enter deep within. This force received in the calm and the silence will do its work of light and, if needed, will create in the brain the necessary cells for the understanding. Thus, when one re-reads the same thing some months later, one perceives that the thought expressed has become much more clear and close, and even sometimes altogether familiar.


It is preferable to read regularly, a little every day, and at a fixed hour if possible; this facilitates the brain-receptivity (emphasis in the original).”
― Gautam Chikermane, Reading Sri Aurobindo