Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume I - Part 4

Fragment ID: 10434

The sense of calm and light and divine guidance can never be an illusion. It is the dark state which is the state of Ignorance, of Maya – if faith fails then, it is because the darkness of the Ignorance shuts the mind to the Truth, obscuring the buddhi. What is thought when the buddhi is obscured cannot be the Truth; it is not darkness but the Light that brings Truth. Therefore you must take what you feel when you are in the light to be true, not what you feel when you are in the darkness.