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Namah Perspective

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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