Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume I - Part 4
Fragment ID: 10432
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 to
the truth behind,– and 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 faith
in transformation, I can end by laying my hand on and unravelling the whole 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 SABCL, volume 22; Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- Vol. 2: for
2 SABCL, volume 22: and because it does
3 SABCL, volume 22; Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- Vol. 2: a faith
4 SABCL, volume 22: process
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