Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.
Sri AurobindoRead
The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
Interpretation
The ultimate truth transcends all human interpretations and beliefs.
Sri Aurobindo suggests that the Divine Truth encompasses a greater reality that exceeds the limits of human religions, creeds, scripts, and philosophies. It implies that while these constructs may provide paths to understanding, they are not the entirety of the Divine Truth itself, which is beyond human articulation and categorization.
In practice
In a discussion about the nature of beliefs, one might quote this to emphasize universality over divisiveness.
Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.
Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.
Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.
We trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins.
What is life without incompatible realities?
Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?
We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.
Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.
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