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the intelligence is luminous, it is only the phenomenon of the Reality (3).”
luminosity of Reality that can lead us to the
true functioning, can guide us to override The Central Will, the pull of the nucleus
the confounding and land us ashore with
the Reality, transformed and healed. The Thus, the way out: the “central will”, to which
intellect and intelligence, however much on the Mother and Sri Aurobindo call to, remind
the higher side, still are subjugated to the of, make aware of this “central will”, its presence
thinking mind alone, are not pure and cannot — undeniable ultimately — and impulsion
be purified, cannot be cleansed of the many and its growing impulsion to the exclusion
impressions and imprints acquired, even and of all else, to finally become the whole
more often unbeknownst, those influences and hence sole impulsion impacting every
from the collective, and those consequent poise, state and strata of consciousness. It is
experiences in the past, and those concurrent essential that right down to the nether depths
and corresponding perceptions which we of the Inconscient its pull is experienced and
find difficult to let go, those impulsions, adhered to, in this process and purpose of
those ‘lower movements’ which become integral transformation.It is their Word,
habitual in keeping with the state of our encouraging and guiding, that despite many
nature, presenting them as the statements of a stumbling, the “central will” be aspired
our nature. The very word, ‘understanding’, for, accessed and surrendered to, as matters,
becomes a misnomer, intellect and intelligence essentially, being always centred, as only
finding themselves falling well short of then Matter realises realises its purpose,
explanations for the occurrences and their manifesting the centre of all and everything,
recurrences… That, which is not free from the Divine.
such impulsions and dependences, is not pure.
Now this “central will”, the Centre’s Will,
“The second cause of impurity in the under- comes up as the pull of the nucleus… and our
standing is the illusion of the senses and departure from it, corresponding to and resultant
the intermiscence of the sense-mind in the of the myriad expressions of Ignorance, are
thinking functions. No knowledge can be received in that flash as: the distance of the
true knowledge which subjects itself to the departure from the Centre decides and results
senses or uses them otherwise than as first in the departure, the influence reflecting not
indices whose data have constantly to be the “central will”, with the distance increasing
corrected and overpassed. The beginning of from the Centre, the consciousness not the
Science is the examination of the truths of “true consciousness”. And yet, it is the state
the world-force that underlie its apparent to be at, only and constantly.
workings such as our senses represent them
to be; the beginning of philosophy is the “The consciousness that is aware of the
examination of the principles of things which Divine and the Truth and does not look at
the senses mistranslate to us; the beginning things from the ego [is the true consciousness]
of spiritual knowledge is the refusal to accept — it is wide and calm and strong and aspires to
the limitations of the sense-life or to take the union and surrender —it is many things besides,
visible and sensible as anything more than but this is the essential (4).”

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