object:1969_12_31
book class:On Thoughts And Aphorisms
author class:The Mother
subject class:Integral Yoga
class:chapter
1969 Wed 31 December
Aphorism - 258, 259, 260, 261
258The world thinks that it moves by the light of reason, but it is really impelled by its faiths and instincts.
259Reason adapts itself to the faith or argues out a justification of the instincts; but it receives the impulse subconsciously, therefore men think that they act rationally.
260The only business of reason is to arrange and criticise the perceptions. It has neither in itself any means of positive conclusion nor any comm and to action. When it pretends to originate or impel, it is masking other agencies.
261Until Wisdom comes to thee, use the reason for its God-given purposes and faith and instinct for theirs. Why shouldst thou set thy members to war upon each other?
What are the highest aims of reason, faith and instinct in ordinary life and in spiritual life?
Each one has his own aims according to his nature and the goal he wants to attain in ordinary life.
As for spiritual life, it has only one goal: to know the Divine and to unite with Him, by every possible means and with the help of faith, which is certainly the most powerful motive-force for beginners.
31 December 1969
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Aphorism - 255, 256, 257
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