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"Search always; find out the reason for things which seem to the hasty glance to be mere chance or illusion."
At the Feet of The Mother
Commentaries on Thoughts & Aphorisms
This is a series of reflections by Alok Pandey on Sri Aurobindo’s Thoughts and Aphorisms. Written around 1913 in Pondicherry, they were never revised or published before 1950. The Mother’s commentaries were given over the period from 1958 to 1970.
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'That which men term a hallucination is the reflection in the mind and senses of that which is beyond our ordinary mental and sensory perceptions. Superstition arises from the mind’s wrong understanding of these reflections. There is no other hallucination.'
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"They proved to me by convincing reasons that God did not exist, and I believed them. Afterwards I saw God, for He came and embraced me. And now which am I to believe, the reasonings of others or my own experience?"
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We take up the remaining part of the Aphorism 11.
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JNANA 11: Immortality is not the survival of the mental personality after death, though that also is true, but the waking possession of the unborn and deathless Self of which body is only an instrument and a shadow.
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JNANA - 12: They proved to me by convincing reasons that God did not exist, and I believed them. Afterwards I saw God, for He came and embraced me. And now which am I to believe, the reasonings of others or my own experience?
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This talk is based on Sri Aurobindo's Aphorism below about the material scientists need of material proof for the soul.
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JNANA 9: What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
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"Either do not give the name of knowledge to your beliefs only and of error, ignorance or charlatanism to the beliefs of others; or do not rail at the dogmas of the sects and their intolerance."