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1872–1950 India
Sri Aurobindo [born Aravinda Akroyd Ghose] (15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian nationalist, scholar, poet, mystic, philosopher, yogi and guru, who developed concepts of human progress and spiritual evolution. With the help of his spiritual collaborator, Mirra Alfassa, he founded the Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
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Differences of credal belief are to the Indian mind nothing more than various ways of seeing the one Self and Godhead in all.
A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.
The Uttarpara Address (1909)
The spirit expresses itself in many ways while itself remaining essentially the same but the body must change to suit its changing environments if it wishes to live.
All religions have some truth in them, but none has the whole truth; all are created in time and finally decline and perish.
India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
New Lamps for Old (1893)
None can reach heaven who has not passed through hell.
Savitri (1918)
This too the traveller of the worlds must dare.
Savitri (1918)
Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
The supreme truths are neither the rigid conclusions of logical reasoning nor the affirmations of credal statement, but fruits of the soul's inner experience.
How much hatred and stupidity men succeed in packing up decorously and labelling “Religion”?
The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
The great rule of life is to have no schemes but one unalterable purpose.
Spirituality is the master key of the Indian mind.
I am working in everybody and whatever men may think or do, they can do nothing but help in my purpose.
The Uttarpara Address (1909)
The end of a stage of evolution is usually marked by a powerful recrudescence of all that has to go out of the evolution.
Politics is the work of the Kshatriya and it is the virtues of the Kshatriya we must develop if we are to be morally fit for freedom.
He is not satisfied with being Molière, He must needs also be Aristophanes and Rabelais.
They are periods when the wisdom of the wise is confounded and the prudence of the prudent turned into a laughing-stock....
It is the nature of human institutions to degenerate, to lose their vitality, and decay, and the first sign of decay is the loss of flexibility and oblivion of the essential spirit in which they were conceived.
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