Sri Aurobindo
Letters on Yoga
2. Integral Yoga and Other Paths
Fragment ID: 68
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Sri Aurobindo — Unknown addressee
1933
Your objection is correct. The snake-rope image cannot be used to illustrate the non-existence of the world, it would only mean that our seeing of the world is not that of the world as it really is. The idea of complete illusion would better be illustrated by the juggler’s rope-climbing trick where there is no rope and no climber, and yet one is persuaded that they are there.
Current publication:
Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga // SABCL.- Volume 22. (≈ 28 vol. of CWSA).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1971.- 502 p.
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