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Their Spiritual significance
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Knowledge
Is conversant with all sides of a question, whatever it may be
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Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit (Fabaceae [= Leguminosae]; Alt. Mimosaceae)
White leadtree
Cream white
By knowledge we mean in yoga not thought or ideas about spiritual things but psychic understanding from within and spiritual illumination from above.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 24. - Letters on Yoga.-P.4
The knowledge that seems to come to you from outside is only an occasion for bringing out the knowledge that is within you. The experience of misrepresentation of something we have said is a very common one and it has a similar source. We say something that is quite clear, but the way in which it is understood is stupefying! Each sees in it something else than what was intended or even puts into it something that is quite the contrary of its sense. If you want to understand truly and avoid this kind of error, you must go behind the sound and movement of the words and learn to listen in silence. If you listen in silence, you will hear rightly and understand rightly; but so long as there is something moving about and making a noise in your head, you will understand only what is moving in your head and not what is told you.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 3. - Questions and Answers (1929)
True knowledge is precisely Knowledge by identity, and wisdom is the state one achieves when one is in this true knowledge.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 10. - The Thoughts and Aphorismes
A Sun of which all knowledge is a beam
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volumes 28-29. - Savitri
When the gates of true knowledge are crossed, no words are left to express what is known.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 14. - Words of the Mother
Knowledge can only come by conscious identity, for that is the only true knowledge, – existence aware of itself.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 18. - The Life Divine: Books 1