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give us the truth in that ordered and articulated 2. Ibid.
form which our nature demands (12)”. A
methodical discipline is needed to cultivate 3. The Mother: Flowers and Their Messages. 4 ed.
th
intuition as a supra-cognitive faculty. In fact, an Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust;
unravelling of the techniques facilitating the 1992, p. 179.
receptivity to true intuitive thinking is going
to be one of the hallmarks of an emergent 4. Jung C, von Franz M-L (eds). Man and his Symbols,
consciousness-based psychology arising p. 152.
from Sri Aurobindo’s integral thought. An
exploration of the collective unconscious is 5. Anirvan. Letters from a Baul: Life within Life.
one part of the story; a concomitant probing Kolkata: Sri Aurobindo Pathamandir; 1983,
of the superconscious is necessary for a p. 179.
true integral vision. It is through intuition
that we can re-connect with the universal 6. Jung C, von Franz M-L (eds). Man and his
psyche — a capacity we lost in our zeal to Symbols, p. 35.
build a rational world-order. It is through
intuition that we would be able to decipher 7. Ibid., p. 57.
the messages that come through the cosmic
consciousness, a capacity that the primitive 8. Ibid., p. 26.
man could do through instinctual knowledge.
In fact, a developed intuition would perform 9. Holroyd S. Dream Worlds. London: Aldus
the same functions that instincts could do but Books; 1976, p. 74.
in a more organised way and from a higher
denouement. We are not only inheritors of 10. Sri Aurobindo. Complete Works of Sri Auobindo,
the past but at every living moment dynamic Volumes 21-22. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo
creators of the future. In a way, it is intuition Ashram Trust; 2006, p.73.
that guides even our interpretation of instincts.
After all, it was intuition that led Jung to 11. Maitra SK. An Introduction to the Philosophy of
the discovery of the archaic psyche and the Sri Aurobindo. 2 ed. Sri Aurobindo Ashram
nd
collective unconscious. Trust; 1965, p. 25.

References 12. Sri Aurobindo.CWSA, Volumes 21-22, p. 74.

1. Jung C, von Franz M-L (eds). Man and his Symbols.
London: Picador (Pan Books): 1978, p. 85. — Dr. Soumitra Basu

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