The Fires of Dawn

There are two powers that alone can effect in their conjunction the great and difficult thing which is the aim of our endeavour, a fixed and unfailing aspiration that calls from below and a supreme Grace from above that answers.
But the supreme Grace will act only in the conditions of the Light and the Truth; it will not act in conditions laid upon it by the Falsehood and the Ignorance. For if it were to yield to the demands of the Falsehood, it would defeat its own purpose.
These are the conditions of the Light and Truth, the sole conditions under which the highest Force will descend; and it is only the very highest supramental Force descending from above and opening from below that can victoriously handle the physical Nature and annihilate its difficulties... There must be a total and sincere surrender; there must be an exclusive self-opening to the divine Power; there must be a constant and integral choice of the Truth that is descending, a constant and integral rejection of the falsehood of the mental, vital and physical Powers and Appearances that still rule the earth-Nature. [...]

Supramental Consciousness and Human Evolution, talk

About one hundred years ago, Sri Aurobindo withdrew from active politics in order to pursue a line of development that he realised was far more important for the humanity. Having passed through a series of experiences, including the experience of Brahman and of the Immanent Divine in the world, he was given a series of revelations of the nature of further development of human evolution [...]

On the Isha Upanishad, talks

The twelve great Upanishads are written round one body of ancient knowledge; but they approach it from different sides. The Isha Upanishad and the Kena are both concerned with the same grand problem, the winning of the state of Immortality, the relations of the divine, all-ruling, all-possessing Brahman to the world and to the human consciousness, the means of passing out of our present state of divided self [...]