Sri Aurobindo on Love
Browse 10 quotations attributed to Sri Aurobindo, catalogued under love, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Sri Aurobindo, entry #190306: "There are two ways of avoiding the snare of woman; one is to shun all women and the other to love all beings."
Attributed to Sri Aurobindo, entry #68250: "They say, O my God, that I am mad because I see no fault in Thee; but if I am indeed mad with Thy love, I do not wish to recover my sanity."
10 Quotes by Sri Aurobindo on Love
"There are two ways of avoiding the snare of woman; one is to shun all women and the other to love all beings."
"They say, O my God, that I am mad because I see no fault in Thee; but if I am indeed mad with Thy love, I do not wish to recover my sanity."
"If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth."
"Others boast of their love for God. My boast is that I did not love God; it was He who loved me and sought me out and forced me to belong to Him."
"When thou findest thyself scorning another, look then at thy own heart and laugh at thy folly."
"O Thou that lovest, strike! If Thou strike me not now, I shall know that Thou lov'st me not."
"To thy lover, O Lord, the railing of the world is wild honey and the pelting of stones by the mob is summer rain on the body. For is it not Thou that railest and peltest, and is it not Thou in the stones that strikest and hurtest me?"
"But that immergence is not in the nature of an annihilation. Extinction is not the fulfilment of all this search and passion, suffering and rapture. The game would never have been begun if that were to be its ending."
"My lover took away my robe of sin and I let it fall, rejoicing; then he plucked at my robe of virtue, but I was ashamed and alarmed and prevented him. It was not till he wrested it from me by force that I saw how my soul had been hidden from me."
"I looked and it was not the Magistrate whom I saw, it was Vasudeva, it was Narayana who was sitting there on the bench. I looked at the Prosecuting Counsel and it was not the Counsel for the prosecution that I saw; it was Sri Krishna who sat there, it was my Lover and Friend who sat there and smiled. "Now do you fear?" He said, "I am in all men and I overrule their actions and their words. My protection is still with you and you shall not fear. This case which is brought against you, leave it in my hand. It is not for you. It was not for the trial that I brought you here but for something else. The case itself is only a means for my work and nothing more."