It is not by the intellect that one can progress in the yoga but by psychic and spiritual receptivity – as for knowledge and true understanding, it grows in sadhana by the growth of the intuition, not of the physical intellect.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
03. Basic Requisites of the Path
Fragment ID: 966
Faith is a thing that precedes knowledge, not comes after knowledge. It is a glimpse of a truth which the mind has not yet seized as knowledge.
It is not by the intellect that one can progress in the yoga but by psychic and spiritual receptivity – as for knowledge and true understanding, it grows in sadhana by the growth of the intuition, not of the physical intellect.