How to read sri Aurobindo works

". . . the best thing would be to obtain perfect silence -and achieve a state of immobility of the brain, I might say, so that the attention becomes as still and immobile as a mirror, like the surface of absolutely still water. Then what one has read passes through the surface and penetrates deep into the being where it is received with a minimum of distortion. Afterwards -sometimes long afterwards -it wells up again from the depths and manifests in the brain with its full power of comprehension, not as knowledge acquired from outside, but as a light one carried within."
The Mother

Sri Aurobindo vision and teaching

There is an ascending evolution in nature which goes from the stone to the plant, from the plant to the animal, from the animal to man. Because man is, for the moment, the last rung at the summit of the ascending evolution, he considers himself as the final stage in this ascension and believes there can be nothing on earth superior to him. In that he is mistaken. In his physical nature he is yet almost wholly an animal, a thinking and speaking animal, but still animal in his material habits and instincts. Undoubtedly, nature cannot be satisfied with such an imperfect result; she endeavours to bring out a being who will be to man what man is to the animal, a being who will remain a man in its external form, and yet whose consciousness will rise far above the mental and its slavery to ignorance.
Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to teach this truth to men. He told them that man is only a transitional being living in a mental consciousness, but with the possibility of acquiring a new consciousness, the Truth-consciousness, and capable of living a life perfectly harmonious, good and beautiful, happy and fully conscious. During the whole of his life upon earth, Sri Aurobindo gave all his time to establish in himself this consciousness he called supramental, and to help those gathered around him to realise it.
The Mother

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Sri Aravindhar

Sri Aurobindo came to tell us: "One need not leave the earth to find the Truth, one need not leave the life to find his soul, one need not abandon the world or have only limited beliefs to enter into relation with the Divine. The Divine is everywhere, in everything and if He is hidden, it is because we do not take the trouble to discover Him." - The Mother

The Core Of The Inner Surrender

Sri Aurobindo

The core of the inner surrender is trust and confidence in the Divine.

one takes the attitude:"I want the Divine and nothing else.I want to give myself entirely to him and since my soul wants that, it cannot be but that i shall meet and realize him.I ask nothing but that and his action in me to bring me to him,his action secret or open, veiled or manifest.I do not insist on my own time and way;Let him do all his own time and way;I shall believe in him accept his will, aspire steadily for his light and presence and joy, go through all difficulties and delays, relaying on him and never giving up.Let my mind be quiet and trust him and let him open it to his Light;Let my vital be quiet and turn to him alone and let him open to his calm and joy.All for him and myself for him.Whatever happens i will keep to his aspiration and self-giving and go on perfect reliance that it will be done."

Letter on yoga,p.587