Disciple : When the Mind is transformed by the action of the Higher Power what are the changes that take place in the Mind?
Sri Aurobindo : Which part of the mind ? The thinking mind ?
Disciple : Yes.
Sri Aurobindo : The reasonings and the fanciful constructions of the mind cease : there remains only a play of intuitions.
Disciple : Does not reason remain, at all ?
Sri Aurobindo : When the whole mind is intuitionised, it knows directly and therefore needs no reasoning. I see you before me; so, why should I argue whether you exist or not ?
Disciple : As regards mental constructions, – are they always incorrect ? May not they be inspired by the Truth ?
Sri Aurobindo : Mind may build on its intuitions, but there is every likelihood of its committing mistakes or errors. Mental transformation is a gradual process. First, the reasoning and constructions are silenced. Then the mind becomes intuitionised. Then one feels that there is something above which is much more than intuition. Intuition goes downwards and the higher Truth takes the place of intuition. At present, you find it difficult to understand how all reasoning and constructions of the mind can cease. That can be understood when you know what is intuition.
Disciple : I understand that reasoning and constructions are obstacles to the coming of the Truth.
Sri Aurobindo : Yes, if you go on eternally with them the Truth will not come.
Disciple : Then one must correct these things before the higher Truth can come down.
Sri Aurobindo : You cannot do that ; it is only the Truth which can change the nature and activities of the mind. You can only quiet them so that the Truth may come down and take up the Transformation.
Disciple : If the mind is silenced, will the Truth come down ?
Sri Aurobindo : If you do nothing else but merely silence the mind you will have a silent mind and nothing else.
Disciple : When a developed mind opens to the Truth and an underdeveloped mind opens to it which will be the richer of the two ?
Sri Aurobindo : First you have to see whether the under-developed mind can open itself to the higher Truth ; generally it cannot. Then, it may have a narrow opening and the result will be limited. The higher Truth may afterwards develop the mind but if the mind is already developed, there is already a rich material upon which the Truth can work. But the too much developed mind is also an obstacle. It has its fixed habits, its fixed grooves to which it sticks tenaciously. With the coming down of the Truth the mind may suddenly develop new powers – painting or poetry etc.
Sri Aurobindo : Which part of the mind ? The thinking mind ?
Disciple : Yes.
Sri Aurobindo : The reasonings and the fanciful constructions of the mind cease : there remains only a play of intuitions.
Disciple : Does not reason remain, at all ?
Sri Aurobindo : When the whole mind is intuitionised, it knows directly and therefore needs no reasoning. I see you before me; so, why should I argue whether you exist or not ?
Disciple : As regards mental constructions, – are they always incorrect ? May not they be inspired by the Truth ?
Sri Aurobindo : Mind may build on its intuitions, but there is every likelihood of its committing mistakes or errors. Mental transformation is a gradual process. First, the reasoning and constructions are silenced. Then the mind becomes intuitionised. Then one feels that there is something above which is much more than intuition. Intuition goes downwards and the higher Truth takes the place of intuition. At present, you find it difficult to understand how all reasoning and constructions of the mind can cease. That can be understood when you know what is intuition.
Disciple : I understand that reasoning and constructions are obstacles to the coming of the Truth.
Sri Aurobindo : Yes, if you go on eternally with them the Truth will not come.
Disciple : Then one must correct these things before the higher Truth can come down.
Sri Aurobindo : You cannot do that ; it is only the Truth which can change the nature and activities of the mind. You can only quiet them so that the Truth may come down and take up the Transformation.
Disciple : If the mind is silenced, will the Truth come down ?
Sri Aurobindo : If you do nothing else but merely silence the mind you will have a silent mind and nothing else.
Disciple : When a developed mind opens to the Truth and an underdeveloped mind opens to it which will be the richer of the two ?
Sri Aurobindo : First you have to see whether the under-developed mind can open itself to the higher Truth ; generally it cannot. Then, it may have a narrow opening and the result will be limited. The higher Truth may afterwards develop the mind but if the mind is already developed, there is already a rich material upon which the Truth can work. But the too much developed mind is also an obstacle. It has its fixed habits, its fixed grooves to which it sticks tenaciously. With the coming down of the Truth the mind may suddenly develop new powers – painting or poetry etc.
*A.B. Purani. Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo, p 122
Intuition is always an edge or ray or outleap of a superior light.
*The Life Divine - II: The Ascent towards Supermind
Flower Name: Caesalpinia coriaria
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Significance: Intuitive KnowledgeDivi-divi
Innumerable and vast for exploration, it is pure and fragrant.
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