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Intellectual Understanding and Understanding in the Consciousness · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Those who find their base is primarily in the mind, tend to
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  believe that their intellectual understanding of something
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  represent, something real and definitive, and that, there
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  knowing means they know something.
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  This is, however, not quite accurate.
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  For instance, one can read books and know about a particular
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  activity or process. But nevertheless be unable to
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  fully comprehend all The subtlety or complexity that only
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  becomes clear through experience and in a review there is also
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  the famous statement that reading about swimming does not
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  mean one can swim when one enters the water.
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  Yoga is not dependent on an intellectual understanding of
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  the processes or steps along the way.
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  It is a matter of inner experiential understanding that
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  may not correspond to the mental formations that develop as one
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  Studies books. For here's lectures on the
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  subject, it is one of the great distinguishing factors between
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  academic learning and real life experience SRI aurobindo writes
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  quote. There are two kinds of
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  understanding understanding by the intellect and understanding
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  in the Consciousness. It is good to have the former if
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  it is accurate, but it is not indispensable.
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  Understanding by the Consciousness comes.
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  If there is Faith and openness though, it may come only
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  gradually and through steps of experience.
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  But I have seen people without education or intellectuality
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  understand in this way. Perfectly well, the course of
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  the yoga in themselves. While intellectual men make big
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  mistakes, for instance, take a neutral mental quietude for the
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  spiritual peace, and refused to come out of it in order to go
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  farther. And quote reference, SRI
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  aurobindo, integral yoga, SRI, aurobindo stitching and method
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  of practice, chapter 12, other aspects of Sri aurobindo
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  teaching and method of practice, mental development, reading and
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  study Pages 361 to 365.