Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Yoga

4. Reason, Science and Yoga

Fragment ID: 217

See letter itself (letter ID: 474)

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

August 25, 1934

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The faith in spiritual things that is asked of the sadhak is not an ignorant but a luminous faith, a faith in light and not in darkness. It is called blind by the sceptical intellect because it refuses to be guided by outer appearances or seeming facts,– for it looks for the truth behind,– and because it does not walk on the crutches of proof and evidence. It is an intuition, an intuition not only waiting for experience to justify it, but leading towards experience. If I believe in self-healing, I shall after a time find out the way to heal myself. If I have a faith³ in transformation, I can end by laying my hand on and unravelling the process of transformation. But if I begin with doubt and go on with more doubt, how far am I likely to go on the journey?

¹ CWSA, volume 28: to

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² Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- Vol. 2; CWSA, volume 28: and does

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⁴ Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- Vol. 2; CWSA, volume 28: whole process

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Current publication:

Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga // SABCL.- Volume 22. (≈ 28 vol. of CWSA).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1971.- 502 p.

Other publications:

[A letter: ] Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo to Dilip / edited by Sujata Nahar, Shankar Bandyopadhyay.- 1st ed.- In 4 Volumes.- Volume 2. 1934 – 1935.- Pune: Heri Krishna Mandir Trust; Mysore: Mira Aditi, 2003.- 405 p.

Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga. I // CWSA.- Volume 28. (≈ 22 vol. of SABCL).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2012.- 590 p.

Sri Aurobindo. More Lights on Yoga [: Extracts from letters].– First Edition.– Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1948.– 141p.