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“A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.”

Sri Aurobindo

Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Bhakti

“In Kashmir, the Hindus had all the monopoly. Now if the Muslim demands are acceded to, the Hindus will be wiped out.”

Sri Aurobindo

June 21, 1940
India's Rebirth

“God's servant is something; God's slave is greater.”

Sri Aurobindo

Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Bhakti

“As you know, I do not believe that the Mahatma's principle [of non-cooperation] can be the true foundation or his programme the true means of bringing out the genuine freedom and greatness of India, her Swarajya and Samrajya. On the other hand … I hold that school [of Tilakite nationalism] to be out of date. My own policy, if I were in the field, would be radically different in principle and programme from both, however it might coincide in certain points. But the country is not yet ready to understand its principle or to execute its programme…. Because I know this very well, I am content to work still on the spiritual and psychic plane, preparing there the ideas and forces, which may afterwards at the right moment and under the right conditions precipitate themselves into the vital and material field….”

Sri Aurobindo

December 1, 1922
India's Rebirth

“India is the meeting-place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realisation and aspiration. What will finally come out of all this stir and ferment, lies yet in the future.”

Sri Aurobindo

The Renaissance in India (1918)

“Canst thou see God as the bodiless Infinite and yet love Him as a man loves his mistress? Then has the highest truth of the Infinite been revealed to thee. Canst thou also clothe the Infinite in one secret embraceable body and see Him seated in each and all of these bodies that are visible and sensible? Then has its widest and profoundest truth come also into thy possession.”

Sri Aurobindo

Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Bhakti

“Each language is the sign and power of the soul of the people which naturally speaks it. Each develops therefore its own peculiar spirit, thought-temperament, way of dealing with life and knowledge and experience…. A nation, race or people which loses its language, cannot live its whole life or its real life. And this advantage to the national life is at the same time an advantage to the general life of the human race.”

Sri Aurobindo

December, 1917
India's Rebirth

“When we have passed beyond willings, then we shall have Power. Effort was the helper; Effort is the bar.”

Sri Aurobindo

Thoughts and Glimpses (1916-17)

“The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.”

Sri Aurobindo

Thoughts and Glimpses (1916-17)
Thoughts and Glimpses (1916-17)

“To rotate on its own axis is not the one movement for the human soul. There is also its wheeling round the Sun of an inexhaustible illumination.”

Sri Aurobindo

Thoughts and Glimpses (1916-17)

“The Hindu religion appears … as a cathedral temple, half in ruins, noble in the mass, often fantastic in detail but always fantastic with a significance — crumbling or badly outworn in places, but a cathedral temple in which service is still done to the Unseen and its real presence can be felt by those who enter with the right spirit.”

Sri Aurobindo

Letters, Vol. II (1949) p. 53; also in The Soul of India (1974) by Satyavrata R Patel

“Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.”

Sri Aurobindo

Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Karma

“Belief is not a merely intellectual process, belief is not a mere persuasion of the mind, belief is something that is in our heart, and what you believe, you must do, because belief is from God. It is to the heart that God speaks, it is in the heart that God resides…. Here is a work that you have undertaken, a work so gigantic, so stupendous, the means for which are so poor, the resistance to which will be so strong, so organised … and what means have you with which to carry out this tremendous work of yours? If you look at it intellectually, it is hopeless…. This intellectual process, if it is used honestly, if it is followed to the very end, leads you to despair. It leads you to death.”

Sri Aurobindo

January 19, 1908
India's Rebirth

“The whole world is my seraglio and every living being and inanimate existence in it is the instrument of my rapture.”

Sri Aurobindo

Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Bhakti

“In a word, godhead; to remake ourselves in the divine image.”

Sri Aurobindo

Thoughts and Glimpses (1916-17)

“Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and eternal knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses.”

Sri Aurobindo

Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Jnana

“Mother India is not a piece of earth; she is a Power, a Godhead, for all nations have such a Devi supporting their separate existence and keeping it in being. Such Beings are as real and more permanently real than the men they influence but they belong to a higher plane, are part of the cosmic consciousness and being and act here on earth by shaping the human consciousness on which they exercise their influence. It is natural for man who sees only his own consciousness individual, national or racial at work and does not see what works upon it and shapes it, to think that all is created by him and there is nothing cosmic and greater behind it.”

Sri Aurobindo

December 2, 1946(From a letter.)
India's Rebirth

“Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.”

Sri Aurobindo

Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Karma

“The strangest of the soul's experiences is this, that it finds, when it ceases to care for the image and threat of troubles, then the troubles themselves are nowhere to be found in one's neighbourhood. It is then that we hear from behind those unreal clouds God laughing at us.”

Sri Aurobindo

Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Bhakti

“The way of yoga followed here has a different purpose from others, — for its aim is not only to rise out of the ordinary ignorant world-consciousness into the divine consciousness, but to bring the supramental power of that divine consciousness down into the ignorance of mind, life and body, to transform them, to manifest the Divine here and create a divine life in Matter.”

Sri Aurobindo

Lights on Yoga (1935)