Sri Aurobindo

The Vaishya, purified and liberated, becomes the supreme giver and lover & enjoyer, Vishnu’s ansha preserving & making the most of the world. He is the Vishnushakti, as the Brahmana is the Shivashakti & the Kshatriya the Rudrashakti. #SriAurobindo #IntegralYoga #Consciousness

You must accept all things — and only those things — that come from the Divine. Because things can come from concealed desires. #TheMother #IntegralYoga #Consciousness

The desires work in the subconscious and bring things to you which, although you may not recognise them as such, nevertheless do not come from the Divine but from disguised desires. #TheMother #IntegralYoga #Consciousness

It [Sanatan Dharma] is the one religion which does not separate life in any smallest detail from religion, which knows what immortality is and has utterly removed from us the reality of death. #SriAurobindo #IntegralYoga #Consciousness

The individual Self and the universal Self are one; in every world, in every being, in every thing, in every atom is the Divine Presence, and man’s mission is to manifest it. #TheMother #IntegralYoga #Consciousness

The deeper we look, the more we shall be convinced that the one thing wanting, which we must strive to acquire before all others, is strength… #SriAurobindo #IntegralYoga #Consciousness

If we have strength, everything else will be added to us easily and naturally. In the absence of strength we are like men in a dream who have hands but cannot seize or strike, who have feet but cannot run. #SriAurobindo #IntegralYoga #Consciousness

…strength physical, strength mental, strength moral, but above all strength spiritual which is the one inexhaustible and imperishable source of all the others. #SriAurobindo #IntegralYoga #Consciousness

It is very good to learn the habit of pausing a few seconds before acting in order to ask oneself whether the action is truly helpful from the standpoint of spiritual life. #TheMother #IntegralYoga #Consciousness

I am the lord of tempest and mountain, I am the Spirit of freedom and pride. Stark must he be and a kinsman to danger Who shares my kingdom and walks at my side. #SriAurobindo #IntegralYoga #Consciousness

Hate is a dangerous sentiment which leaves you always at the mercy of the one you hate: to hate means that you are still attached; the true attitude is one of complete indifference. #TheMother #IntegralYoga #Consciousness

The nature of the poem and much of its subject matter might at least justify the conclusion that Valmiki wrote in a political and social atmosphere much resembling that which surrounded Vyasa. #SriAurobindo #IntegralYoga #Consciousness

He lived … in an age of approaching if not present disorder and turmoil, of great revolutions and unbridled aristocratic violence, when the governing chivalry, the Kshatriya caste, in its pride of strength was asserting its own code of morals as the one rule of conduct.