This month, we focus on Sri Aurobindo

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Words of Power Sri Aurobindo
This month, we focus on Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950), a great revolutionary, visionary and Hindu mystic of relatively modern times. A brief biography of him can be accessed here.

• The will of a single hero can breathe courage into the hearts of a million cowards...
• So long as a cause has on its side one soul that is intangible in faith, it cannot perish...
• The Veda was the beginning of our spiritual knowledge; the Veda will remain its end. These compositions of an unknown antiquity are as the many breasts of the eternal Mother of knowledge from which our succeeding ages have all been fed...
• Modern artists are putting an end to art. Vulgarization everywhere! When this craze for utility comes, beauty goes to the dogs. This is the modern tendency...
• Man is a transitional being; he is not final....
• The traditions of the past are very great in their own place, in the past, but I do not see why we should merely repeat them and not go farther. In the spiritual development of the consciousness upon earth the great past ought to be followed by a greater future...

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posted on Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 at 11:51 pm and is filed under Culture, Spirituality & Lifestyle.