Category Archives: Soul

The Highest Secret of The Gita — Sri Aurobindo

The Gita insists that the nature of the action does matter and that there is a positive sanction for continuance in works, not only that one quite negative and mechanical reason, the objectless compulsion of Nature. There is still, after … Continue reading →

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Change of Consciousness True Basis of Life — Sri Aurobindo

All this insistence upon action is absurd if one has not the light by which to act. Yoga must include life and not exclude it does not mean that we are bound to accept life as it is with all … Continue reading →

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The Role of Logic and Reason — Mother

45—Logic is the worst enemy of Truth, as self-righteousness is the worst enemy of virtue; for the one cannot see its own errors nor the other its own imperfections. What is the role of logic and reason in our lives? … Continue reading →

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The Test and Sign of an Aspirant — Sri Aurobindo

Equality is the sign and also for the aspirant the test. Where there is inequality in the soul, there there is in evidence some unequal play of the modes of Nature, motion of desire, play of personal will, feeling and … Continue reading →

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Why The Divine Grace Might Not Act ? — Mother

If you open yourself on one side or in one part to the Truth and on another side are constantly opening the gates to hostile forces, it is vain to expect that the divine Grace will abide with you. You … Continue reading →

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One Can Live Without Quarrelling — Sri Aurobindo

Either do not give the name of knowledge to your beliefs only and of error, ignorance or charlatanism to the beliefs of others; or do not rail at the dogmas of the sects and their intolerance. — Sri Aurobindo The … Continue reading →

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The Yogin Should Not Think Of Anything At All — Sri Aurobindo

The cessation of thought is the one thing which the believer in intellect as the highest term of our evolution cannot contemplate with equanimity. To master the fleeting randomness of thought by regulating the intellectual powers and thinking consecutively and … Continue reading →

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How Shall the Veil of Imperfection Dissappear? — Mother

I await, without haste, without inquietude, the tearing of another veil, the Union made more complete. I know that the veil is formed of a whole mass of small imperfections, of attachments without number…. How shall all these disappear? Slowly, … Continue reading →

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Earth: The Place for Last Finite Towards Supreme Infinite — Sri Aurobindo

“I, Earth, have a deeper power than Heaven;    My lonely sorrow surpasses its rose-joys, A red and bitter seed of the raptures seven;—    My dumbness fills with echoes of a far Voice. “By me the last finite, yearning, strives    To reach the last … Continue reading →

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Common Myths About Mind & Spirit — Sri Aurobindo

There are several capital and common errors here— (1) That mind and spirit are the same thing. (2) That all consciousness can be spoken of as “mind”. (3) That all consciousness therefore is of a spiritual sub stance. (4) That … Continue reading →

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