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The Soul’s Faith Is a Precursor to Attainment of the Truth of Existence · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Faith is generally put in opposition to knowledge.
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  Underlying the long-term dispute in the west between religion and
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  science. This debate has religion,
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  requiring belief in the tenets of the religion based on pure
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  faith and denying the validity of a science-based knowledge
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  approach, that may contradict those intensely held beliefs
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  based on faith. In this view of things faith and
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  science are irreconcilable opposed to one another, it must
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  be noted, however, that Reliance on faith in this context is to
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  justify specific, belief systems or dogmas.
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  This does not reflect on the dynamic between the mental
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  Consciousness, and the experiences and shift to the
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  spiritual consciousness, which also all on a form of Faith to
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  appreciate the process involved. SRI, aurobindo describes the
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  faith of the Soul, which matures into knowledge as the higher
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  Consciousness manifests and the shift to the spiritual basis
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  occurs. This is not that he rents to a
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  belief system that has no proofs rather.
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  It is the souls knowledge expressing itself prior to
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  having externally visible factual underpinning.
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  We speak many times of a sense, we have about something about an
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  intuition, about a gut feeling that is not based in mental,
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  logic or ideation, but nevertheless turns out to be
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  true in the event, the Souls faith is akin to this type of
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  action, we're something becomes known.
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  Even though the mind has not worked out the details SRI
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  aurobindo writes, quote, until we know the truth, not mentally.
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  But by experience, by change of Consciousness, we need the souls
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  Faith to sustain us and hold on to the truth.
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  But when we live in the knowledge, this faith is Changed
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  into knowledge. And quote, reference SRI
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  aurobindo, and the mother growing within the psychology of
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  inner development. Chapter 3 growth of
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  Consciousness basic requisites page 32.