Sri Aurobindo
Letters on Yoga
4. Reason, Science and Yoga
Fragment ID: 257
See letter itself (letter ID: 655)
Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar
December 1935
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If I write about these questions from the yogic point of view, even though on a logical basis, there is bound to be much that is in conflict with the current opinions, e.g., about miracles, the limits of judgment by sense-data, etc. I have avoided as much as possible writing about these subjects because I would have to propound things that cannot be understood except by reference to other data than those of the physical senses or of reason founded on these alone. I might have to speak of laws and forces not recognised by reason or physical science. In my public writings and my writings to sadhaks I have not dealt with these because they go out of the range of ordinary knowledge and the understanding founded on it. These things are known to some, but they do not usually speak about them, while the public view of much of those as are known is either credulous or incredulous, but in both cases without experience or knowledge.
1 Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- Vol. 2; CWSA, volumes 31, 35: your own settled and perhaps cherished
2 Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- Vol. 2; CWSA, volumes 31, 35: persons, the limits
3 SABCL, volumes 22, 26; Letters of Sri Aurobindo. 4 Ser.: reason or physical science
4 CWSA, volumes 31, 35: dwelt on
5 Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- Vol. 2; CWSA, volumes 31, 35: it
6 CWSA, volume 31: views
7 CWSA, volumes 31, 35: such of them
8 CWSA, volume 35; Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- Vol. 2: are
Current publication:
Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga // SABCL.- Volume 22. (≈ 28 vol. of CWSA).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1971.- 502 p.
Other publications:
Sri Aurobindo. On Himself // SABCL.- Volume 26. (≈ 35 vol. of CWSA)