Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
4. Reason, Science and Yoga
Fragment ID: 217
See letter itself (letter ID: 474)
Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar
August 25, 1934
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The faith in spiritual things that is asked of the sadhak is not an ignorant but a luminous faith, a faith in light and not in darkness. It is called blind by the sceptical intellect because it refuses to be guided by outer appearances or seeming facts,– for it looks for
the truth behind,– and because it does
not walk on the crutches of proof and evidence. It is an intuition, an intuition not only waiting for experience to justify it, but leading towards experience. If I believe in self-healing, I shall after a time find out the way to heal myself. If I have a faith3 in transformation, I can end by laying my hand on and unravelling the process
of transformation. But if I begin with doubt and go on with more doubt, how far am I likely to go on the journey?
1 CWSA, volume 28: to
2 Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- Vol. 2; CWSA, volume 28: and does
4 Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- Vol. 2; CWSA, volume 28: whole process
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