Sri Aurobindo
Aurobindo Ghose
1872-1950 • Indian
HinduismVedanta
Indian philosopher, yogi and revolutionary who developed Integral Yoga — a path of inner transformation aiming at the descent of a higher 'supramental' consciousness into matter and life. Co-founder, with The Mother, of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry.
Key Works
- The Life Divine
- The Synthesis of Yoga
- Savitri
- Essays on the Gita
- Letters on Yoga
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Quotes by Sri Aurobindo
110 quotes“A divine force shall flow through tissue and cell and take the charge of breath and speech and act.”
embodimentSavitri
“The world is a long preparation for a possibility, a slow preparation for a perfection.”
evolutionThe Life Divine
“The pure existent is a fact and no mere concept; it is the fundamental reality.”
beingThe Life Divine
“What you have made of yourself, that you will be; what you make of yourself now, that you will be hereafter.”
selfLetters on Yoga
“Doubt the past, mistrust the future, but live in the present with hope and faith.”
presenceLetters on Yoga
“Without conscious effort there can be no spiritual progress.”
disciplineLetters on Yoga
“Yoga is the giving of oneself to the Divine and the receiving of the Divine into oneself.”
yogaThe Synthesis of Yoga
“Indolence is sometimes mistaken for peace, but indolence is not peace.”
disciplineLetters on Yoga
“Joy is the soul's natural gait; sorrow is its limp.”
joyThoughts and Aphorisms
“All birth is a becoming; all life is a struggle to become.”
becomingThe Life Divine
“The soul puts on the body as a garment, and the world is the field of its action.”
soulEssays on the Gita
“There are two methods of yoga: the way of knowledge and the way of works.”
yogaEssays on the Gita
“All would be different if man could once consent to be himself, instead of being what he is not.”
selfThoughts and Aphorisms
“Existence is one in essence, infinite in possibility, infinite in becoming.”
beingThe Life Divine
“Earth's pains were the ransom of its prisoned delight.”
joySavitri
“Surely the earth shall come to be what is meant for it.”
destinySavitri
“The longest way is the shortest way home.”
patienceThoughts and Aphorisms
“There must always be in life what one does not know.”
mysteryLetters on Yoga
“The Divine grace alone is the true help; we have to depend on it and not on ourselves.”
graceLetters on Yoga
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