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Namah Evolution Next XVI — the Age of Truth

with standard textbook answers. The irony that which dispels all illusions and goes
of it all is that we have now ‘all the answers’ behind appearances and external differences
but few questions and that is never a healthy to reveal the core of Truth. It is the knowledge
state. It is through awakening of the right based on the Oneness behind creation rather
kind of questions that we begin to arrive than the knowledge based on divisions and
at a truer and deeper knowledge. Indeed differentiations that one experiences on the
question is the mental form taken by the surfaces. Of course both are needed but the
deeper quest in man. Since we are mental latter without the former becomes a source of
beings, the questions we raise can be simply evil and disconnects us from the larger Whole
the starting points for becoming aware of this that is always greater than all the parts put
deeper quest. This happens because we do together. To discover that deeper Oneness is
reach a point where the answers raise more indeed the real business of information so that
questions and the riddle of life becomes more we can also discover the interconnectedness
puzzling the more we seem to solve it! A of life and the wonder that creation is.
point comes when we discover that all that we
have understood and known is insufficient to To keep this sense of wonder alive in the child
explain the cosmos and ourselves. Then we are by showing him the relativity of all human
ready for a new journey where the lamplight knowledge acquired by the mind and reason
of reason and the staff of intellectual analysis is one important step in this direction. To raise
become insufficient. A fire is lit within and a the level of his seeking by turning it from
greater light, the light of aspiration becomes questioning to quest is another important
the leader and faith becomes the staff of step. When the quest is born then the task
the journey. We once again rediscover the of the educator is over. For the quest itself
wonder we had lost as we passed through carries its own light that will see us through
the production machine called the school. the journey. All that is needed after that is to
The artificial scales of knowledge enshrined instil the sense of wonder in the human heart
and rigidly embossed in our degrees fall off and to fill it with beauty and joy and love. For
and we begin to perceive something that therein lies the ultimate secret of evolution.
was always there and yet never visible to our Knowledge is but an aspect of the Universal
mind and senses. Deity, one which we may term the head. But
Love is its core and Delight and Beauty, the
Perhaps it is beyond the grasp of our mind two streams of energy flowing from this core
and senses. The original sense of the Indian that sustain and help us through life and its
term for Knowledge is Vidya, which means manifold journey.

Dr. Alok Pandey, an editor of NAMAH and a member of SAIIIHR, is a doctor practising at the
Sri Aurobindo Ashram.

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