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Sri Aurobindo (Bengali: [Sri Ôrobindo]) (born Aurobindo Ghose; 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian philosopher, yogi, guru, poet, and nationalist. He joined the Indian movement for independence from British rule, for a while was one of its influential leaders and then became a spiritual reformer, introducing his visions on human progress and spiritual evolution.

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Religions, creeds and forms are only a characteristic outward sign of the spiritual impulsion and religion itself is the intensive action by which it tries to find its inward force. Its expansive movement comes in the thought which it throws out on life, the ideals which open up new horizons and which the intellect accepts and life labours to assimilate.

Ideals, Impulsion, Movement, New Horizons, Spiritual, Trying

Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite's thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.

Free, Hands, Infinity, Live, Men, Time

Each religion has helped mankind. Paganism increased in man the light of beauty, the largeness and height of his life, his aim at a many-sided perfection; Christianity gave him some vision of divine love and charity; Buddhism has shown him a noble way to be wiser, gentler, purer, Judaism and Islam how to be religiously faithful in action and zealously devoted to God; Hinduism has opened to him the largest and profoundest spiritual possibilities.

Beauty, Buddhism, Islam, Men, Spiritual, Way

Can everybody contact the higher forces? No, not indeed; but they submit themselves to a discipline and this brings them success.

Contact, Discipline, Force, Forces, Submit

The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.

Ends, Freedom, Spirit, Supreme

All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.

Age, Born, Figure, Life, Like

Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.

Real, Thinking, Self, Divine, Play, Living

A hidden Bliss is at the root of things. A mute Delight regards Time's countless works: To house God's joy in things Space gave wide room, To house God's joy in self our souls were born.

Delight, Regards, Roots, Self, Time, Wide

In order to satisfy the vital being, it must be offered some activity, and at the same time the mind should be slowly made to take interest in yoga.

Interest, Mind, Order, Time, Yoga

One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.

Divine, Manifestation, Oneself, Total

Our lives are God's messengers beneath the stars.

Beneath, Lives, Messengers, Our Lives, Stars

New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths, Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts.

Depth, Depths, Sentient, Swiftness, Unseen

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.

Allowed, Approach, Infinite, Men, Perfect, Sri Lanka

Death fosters life that life may suckle death.

Death, Fosters, Life, May, Suckle

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.

Begins, Play, Truth, Truth Is, Working, Yoga

Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.

Pain, Keys, Play, Suffering, Strength

There is a veil between the Supermind above and the lower Prakriti below - the veil of ingrained formations. This veil may completely withdraw or be partially withdrawn. Thus even if there is some little opening, with the contact of Light from above the lower nature will get slowly changed.

Contact, Light, May, Partially, Supermind, Veils

I say, of the Congress, then, this that its aims are mistaken, that the spirit in which it proceeds towards their accomplishment is not a spirit of sincerity and whole-heartedness, and that the methods it has chosen are not the right methods, and the leaders in whom it trusts, not the right sort of men to be leaders; in brief, that we are at present the blind led, if not by the blind, at any rate by the one-eyed.

Accomplishment, Leader, Men, Sort, Spirit, Towards

Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at the mercy of external causes.

Causes, Chance, External, Men, Nature, Processes

The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.

Consciousness, Inner, Perceptual, Seer, Sight, Thinker

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