Nature of our work

Our work should be according to the truth within us, it should not be an accommodation with outward and artificial standards: it must be a living and sincere expression of the soul and its inborn powers.

Volume: 19 [CWSA] (Essays on the Gita), Page: 525

-- Sri Aurobindo

high and low work

Of course the idea of bigness and smallness is quite foreign to the spiritual truth.... Spiritually there is nothing big or small. Such ideas are like those of the literary people who think writing a poem is a high work and making shoes or cooking the dinner is a small and low one. But all is equal in the eyes of the Spirit—and it is only the spirit within with which it is done that matters. It is the same with a particular kind of work, there is nothing big or small.



Volume: 22-23-24 [SABCL] (Letters on Yoga), Page: 679



-- Sri Aurobindo

Average educated Indian mindset

“But our educated class have become so unfamiliar with the deeper knowledge of their forefathers that it has to be translated into modern European terms before they can understand it. For it is the European ideas alone that are real to them and the great truths of Indian thought seem to them mere metaphors, allegories and mystic parables. So well has British education done its fatal denationalising work in India.”

Sri Aurobindo - 20 Karmayogin, 19 June 1909

Influence of langauge.

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.

Volume: 25 [CWSA] (The Human Cycle), Page: 515

failure and spirituality

Even if I foresee an adverse result, I must work for the one that I consider should be; for it keeps alive the force, the principle of Truth which I serve and gives it a possibility to triumph hereafter so that it becomes part of the working of the future favourable Fate, even if the fate of the hour is adverse. Men do not abandon a cause because they have seen it fail or foresee its failure; and they are spiritually right in their stubborn perseverance.

Poetry and art

When one is living in the physical mind, the only way to escape from it is imagination. Incidentally, that is why poetry and art, etc. have so strong a hold. But these imaginations are often really shadows of supraphysical experience and once the barrier of the physical mind is broken or even swung a little open, there come the experiences themselves, if the temperament is
favorable.

[SABCL] (Letters on Yoga), Page: 902
-- Sri Aurobind

Wish I could blog regularly

To be able to be regular is a great force, one becomes master of one's time and one's movements.

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-- Sri Aurobindo