Sri Aurobindo

Date of Birth:

15-Aug-1872

Nationality:

India

Profession:

Aurobindo Ghose was a renowned Indian scholar and a spiritual preacher known for his theory of divine life. After his studies in United Kingdom, he returned to his homeland and served the ruler of the princely state of Baroda. There, he served as a teacher in various colleges and nurtured his intellect on Indian traditions. He understood the bad impact of the British Empire and covertly coordinated with several revolutionaries of the time. He collaborated with revolutionaries and contributed in building the four main pillars of Swaraj, Swadesh, Boycott and National Education in the national movement. He worked actively toeards uniting the people for the national movement of freedom against the oppressive British government. After his participation in the national struggle, turned towards spirituality and shifted to Pondicherry (then a French colony). His influential writings on yoga and spirituality increased his followers and helped him establish the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. He was nominated twice for the ‘Nobel Prize’ for his contributions in the field of spirituality and philosophical literature. He shared his thoughts on spirituality, freedon, God, life, love and much more. His thoughts are quite often quoted. Here is a collection of profound thoughts and quotations by Sri Aurobindo.

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True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.

There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

My God is love and sweetly suffers all.

Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.