Latest Sri Aurobindo Quotes from Interviews

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• To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Doubt, Discouraging

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• In order to explain why the ordinary Sadhus and Yogis take to tobacco and gānja [an intoxicant], I said that these cause stimulation of the physical brain. But these have reactions. And to stimulate the brain thus is not the proper process.

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  Order, Brain, Ordinary

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• The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Past, Come Up, Surface

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• The navel region is the centre of the vital. It is from here that the movements of the vital rise upward. Above the navel and behind the chest is the centre of the play of emotions and below this takes place the play of the physical. Mulādhāra is the base of the physical. In between the Mulādhāra and the navel, there is another centre of the vital.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Play, Movement, Emotion

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• The consciousness of the supreme Purusha remains above, but in the mind there may be a Purusha consciousness which they call the cosmic consciousness - it is wide, all-pervading, one. Outside this goes on the play of Prakriti.

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  Play, Mind, Goes On

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• One can see light above the head; that indicates a consciousness outside the body. But that itself is not the Truth-Consciousness or Vijnana. But much light descending from there illumines this consciousness.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Light, Body, Consciousness

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• Those who have advanced rise to the mind which is in the head, - they have the play of their mental movements in the head itself. But all these are inside the body; man is, as it were, shut up in a box, his entire consciousness is confined within the organism. This imprisonment has to be undone.

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  Men, Play, Mind

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• Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Men, Play, Mind

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• Yes, this Purusha consciousness must be maintained; otherwise the calm will not last. The knocks and blows that come from outside cannot disturb one, if this Purusha consciousness remains at the back.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Blow, Lasts, Calm

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• The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Heart, Men, Mind

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• The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (ādhāra). A part of it remains behind the veil and prepares itself.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Veils, Action, Vehicle

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• Propaganda is necessary only for the sake of money!

  Sri Aurobindo

  Sake, Propaganda

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• The psychic being and the mental being, Manomaya Purusha, are not the same. The psychic being is behind the mind, it is what the Westerners call the soul. It takes interest in the movements of the mind and the vital only when there is a harmony between these movements and the truth above. The knowledge of the psychic being is deeper.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Psychics, Soul, Mind

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• The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Mind, Levels, Four

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• There is the physical mind which is mechanical but the awareness which is the essential character (dharma) of the mind is also to some extent present there.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Character, Mind, Essentials

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• Your mind has some clearness and capacity for right thinking; it opens towards the heights, but for its own sake, - to receive light from above for its own activity.

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  Thinking, Light, Mind

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• What you call the psychic being is the mind of the vital. The heart is the seat of this mind. And this mind is the essence of the senses. It receives things from outside, acts upon things that are outside - knows, gives consent, takes interest in them. But this mind cannot be the Ishwara, but it is the knower, the giver of the consent.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Heart, Essence, Psychics

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• The desire of your vital being is towards work. And the vital being won't find any interest in yoga so long as you do not have any experience of the higher and fuller life that is in yoga. As long as this experience is not there, the vital being will not find any interest.

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  Yoga, Long, Desire

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• 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.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Yoga, Order, Mind

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• Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.

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  Awareness, States, Higher Power

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• After having stopped the lower activities of the mind, it must be made receptive; and, instead of weaving all kinds of empty and idle thoughts, the mind should receive intuitions from above.

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  Intuition, Mind, Weaving

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• 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.

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  Yoga, Play, Truth Is

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• The mind is running on all sides to think about many things, - what we call thoughts coming from outside. We must withdraw the mind from these distractions and make it abide in the self. Thus guarding the peace within we shall have to do the work without.

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  Running, Thinking, Self

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• The Truth-power must be brought down from above into that state of peace, and this higher power - Parashakti - will directly guide the vehicle - ādhāra - and transform it.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Guides, States, Vehicle

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• The Purusha should assume at all times the attitude of a giver of sanction while rejecting the lower movements and accepting only truth-movements.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Attitude, Movement, Assuming

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