Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume I - Part 4
Fragment ID: 10429
See letter itself (letter ID: 257)
Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar
August 1932
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I do not ask “undiscriminating faith” from anyone, all I ask is fundamental faith, safeguarded by a patient and quiet discrimination – because it is these that are proper to the consciousness of a spiritual seeker and it is these that I have myself used and found that they removed all necessity for the quite gratuitous dilemma of “either you must doubt everything supraphysical or be entirely credulous”, which is the stock-in-trade of the materialist argument. Your doubt, I see, constantly returns to the charge with a repetition of this formula in spite of my denial – which supports my assertion that Doubt cannot be convinced, because by its very nature it does not want to be convinced; it keeps repeating the old ground always.
1 Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- Vol. 1: fortuitous
2 Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- Vol. 1: it cannot in its very nature want
3 Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- Vol. 1: be
4 Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- Vol. 1: grounds
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