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        say, ought not to feel entirely safe against  only subordinately intuitional, on experience
        the possibility of error. The confirmation of  more than on intuition (11).”
        experience is needed for our intellectual security
        (9).”                                    We need to build from the bottom up by
                                                 training the intellect to open to intuition
        Sri  Aurobindo  proposes,  in  the  context  and revelation but always confirmed
        of research and rediscovery of Vedic  by experience to validate intuition and
        psychology, “… a process of psychological  revelation.  This  training  of  the  intellect
        experiment and spiritual experience aided by  differs from the rigorous training required
        the higher intuitive or revelatory faculties…  for metaphysical and scientific research. Here
        (10)” However, the intuitive or revelatory  the intellect must be trained to be silent and
        faculties are not in possession of the  passive so that the powers of intuition and
        researcher and hence the first task is of  revelation can develop in the researcher.
        building the lab itself which means upgrading  Without developing these higher-order
        one’s own personal cognitive faculties with  cognitive skills we cannot utilise the Vedic
        the aid of Yoga. “It differs from the method  method and validate the knowledge they
        by which the ancient Rishis received Vedic  possessed. Applying metaphysical and
        truth, — revelation confirmed by experience,  scientific methods is awfully insufficient.
        — only by the side of approach which must  The greater impact of the Vedic method goes
        be for us from below, not from above, and the  beyond the gain of knowledge itself into the
        weight of the emphasis which must rest for a  transformation of one’s own inner nature
        mentality preponderatingly intellectual and  which no other method can provide.















        Summary of the three methods of research


                  Research          Direct process          Confirmatory process
                  methods
         1    Metaphysics        Speculation          Reasoning under strict rules of
                                                      verbal logic
         2    Science            Hypothesis           Proof by physical experiment, sense
                                                      evidence, demonstration
         3    Vedic              Revelatory processes  Experience by the mind and body


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