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The Limitations of the Thinking Mind · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The development of the mental Consciousness has brought about
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  enormous changes for life on Earth.
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  And as the for most species utilizing, the mental
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  Consciousness, Humanity has taken the mind to limits never
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  before considered as possible. Advances in logic science
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  philosophy, psychology mathematics astronomy quantum
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  physics and many other fields as well as technological
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  applications of theoretical Concepts.
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  Show off the powers that the mental development can manifest
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  in life yet. For all these advances, the mind
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  also has very serious limitations and progress is
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  ducted as a result of these limitations, in order, to
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  advance further, the mental framework and its limitations
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  must be overcome The Mind operates best in an analytical
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  mode where it can undertake systemic decomposition or
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  fragmentation of large issues into component parts and then
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  manipulate those parts Co defying labeling, organizing
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  combining and recombining yet this approach tends to narrow
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  down the vision and miss the big picture.
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  So to speak, which leads to false conclusions.
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  And an enormous number of unintended consequences that
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  result from the limits of this approach.
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  The pride of the mental Consciousness, in all its
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  accomplishments also leads to a sense of arrogance and thus
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  limits the openness and potential for growth.
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  The next stage in The evolutionary process, the
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  development of the higher mind and eventually the super mental
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  Consciousness, embodies a new Global manner of seeing and
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  understanding holistically. And comprehensively that
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  reverses the methodology of the mind and thereby overcomes, it's
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  essential limitations. SRI aurobindo writes quote to
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  have a developed intellect, is always helpful.
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  If one can Enlighten it from above and turn it to a Divine
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  use, the intellect can be as great.
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  An obstacle as the vital, when it chooses to prefer its own
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  constructions to the truth. The intellect of most men is
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  extremely imperfect ill-trained, half-developed.
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  Therefore, in most the conclusions of the Intellect or
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  Hasty ill-founded and erroneous or if, right?
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  Right more by chance than by Merit or right working, The
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  conclusions are formed without knowing the facts or the
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  corrector sufficient data merely by a rapid inference and the
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  process by which it comes from the premises to the conclusions,
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  is huge usually illogical or faulty the process being unsound
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  by, which the conclusion is arrived.
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  At the conclusion is also likely to be fallacious.
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  At the same time, the intellect is usually arrogant and
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  presumptuous confidently, asserting, its imperfect
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  conclusions as the truth and setting down as mistaken, stupid
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  or foolish those who differ from them.
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  Even when fully trained and developed the intellect cannot
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  arrive at Absolute certitude or complete truth, but it can
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  arrive at one aspect or side of it and make a reasonable or
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  probable affirmation. But untrained it is a quite
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  insufficient instrument at once Hasty and peremptory and unsafe
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  and unreliable and quote reference SRI aurobindo,
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  integral yoga. SRI aurobindo is teaching and
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  method of practice, chapter 9, transformation of the nature,
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  transformation of the Mind pages to 42 to 45.
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  SRI aurobindo, integral yoga. SRI aurobindo is teaching and
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  method of practice, chapter 9, transformation of the nature,
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  transformation of the Mind pages to 42 to 45.