Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Second Series

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It is because it is the analysing mind that is active – that always brings a certain dryness; the higher mind or the intuition brings a much more spontaneous and complete knowledge – the beginning of the real jnana without this effort. The bhakti which you feel is psychic, but with a strong vital tinge; and it is the mind and the vital between them that bring in the opposition between the bhakti and the jnana. The vital concerned only with emotion finds the mental knowledge dry and without rasa, the mind finds the bhakti to be a blind emotion, fully interesting only: when its character has been analysed and understood. There is no such opposition when the psychic: and the higher-plane knowledge act together predominantly – the psychic welcomes knowledge that supports its emotion, the higher thought consciousness rejoices in the Bhakti.