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Mental Knowledge Compared to Psychic Knowledge · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Each plane of consciousness has its own way of knowing.
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  Mental knowledge comes through a process of observation,
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  classification, comparison, categorization, analysis, and a
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  decision based on this process through a comparison to past
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  circumstances, events, or experiences.
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  Mental knowledge is limited by this framework and frequently
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  makes inaccurate judgments due to limited knowledge or
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  incorrect assessment, in many cases due to trained in biases
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  and prejudices. The psychic being on the other
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  hand, does not utilize this type of cumbersome and linear process
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  of step by step analysis to come to its understanding and
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  knowledge. Due to its direct connection to
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  the Divine, it possesses an unerring ability to instantly
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  separate truth from falsehood. Any perception, any vital
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  motive, any mental idea, when passed to the soul, yields an
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  instant vibrational pattern for an interpretation that either
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  represents a truth, a partial truth, or a falsehood.
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  We speak of a gut instinct, but instinct is very much made-up of
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  reactions of the external nature to patterns subliminally
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  received in many cases that correspond to some prior event,
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  some internalized understanding, training, or vital response, or
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  reactions embedded through the long history of the evolution of
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  consciousness. The soul's knowledge is not
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  quite the same as a gut instinct.
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  Rather, it is a form of knowledge by identity where the
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  truth of the spirit is either confirmed in the impinging
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  vibrational pattern or else a variance is experienced.
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  The purity of the soul is able to distinguish purity or
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  impurity in the energy received. The soul's knowledge provides an
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  instant sense, while it does not attempt to go into all of the
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  details and analysis of the mental being, which strives in
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  its turn to achieve knowledge through a process of increasing
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  detail and complexity. Each type of knowledge has its
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  uses and its place. For the spiritual seeker,
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  developing the ability to hear the voice of the soul is an
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  essential power for progress in the spiritual growth and
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  development, as it alone can provide real guidance to the
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  spiritual aspirant about the ultimate direction and decision
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  to take, Sri Rabindra writes quote.
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  The mental being within watches, observes and passes judgment on
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  all that happens in you. The psychic does not watch and
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  observe in this way like a witness, but it feels and knows
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  spontaneously, in a much more direct and luminous way, by the
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  very purity of its own nature and the divine instinct within
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  it. And so whenever it comes to the
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  front, it reveals at once what are the right and what the wrong
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  movements in your nature. End Quote Reference Shrioro
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  Bindu and the Mother The psychic being soul, its nature, Mission
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  and evolution Section 1 Meaning and Nature of the Psychic Being
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