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still works wholly in the field of ignorance. To this region of practical reason belong
the “polysyllables” of which Sri Aurobindo speaks, the commonplaces and cliches, all
the ready-made phrases which run about in the mental atmosphere from one brain to
another and which people repeat when they want to appear knowledgeable, or when
they think themselves wise.
Sri Aurobindo puts us on our guard against this trite and inferior way of thinking when
we are faced with a new or unexpected phenomenon and try to explain it. He tells us to
search always, untiringly, using our highest intelligence, the intelligence which thirsts
to know the true cause of things, and to go on searching without being satisfied by facile
and popular explanations, until we have discovered a more subtle and truer truth. Then
at the same time we shall find that behind everything, even what seems to be chance and
illusion, there is a conscious will at work to express the Supreme Vision.
— The Mother**
* Heading provided by Editor.
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** The Mother. The Collected Works of the Mother, Volume 10. 2 ed. Pondicherry Sri Aurobindo
Ashram Trust; 1998, pp. 42-43.
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