Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume IV - Part 1

Fragment ID: 13590

I was speaking of your experiences of the higher consciousness, of your seeing the Mother in all things – these are what are called spiritual realisations, spiritual knowledge. Realisations are the essence of knowledge – thoughts about them, expression of them in words are a lesser knowledge and if the thoughts are merely mental without experience or realisation, they are not regarded as jñāna in the spiritual sense at all.