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Sri Aurobindo Quotes on God

Sri Aurobindo was an Indian philosopher, yogi, poet, and anti-colonial revolutionary. This page collects quotes attributed to Sri Aurobindo on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Sri Aurobindo:

    “Hidden nature is secret God.”

  • “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.”

    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.”

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

    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.