 " They proved to me by convincing reasons that God did not exist, and I believed them. Afterwards I saw God, for He came and embraced me. And now which am I to believe, the reasonings of others or my own experience? " - Sri Aurobindo The Mother's views on this:Sri Aurobindo is not asking a question, but rather making an ironic comment. It is to bring out clearly the stupidity of the reasonings of the mind, which imagines it can speak of what it does not know. It is nothing else. You can prove anything with the mind. When you know how to use it and have mastered reasoning and deduction, you can prove anything.  As a matter of fact, this is an exercise that is given in universities to make the mind supple: you are given a thesis to prove and immediately afterwards, with equal conviction, you have to prove its antithesis—in the hope that if you rise a little above both, you will discover the synthesis. Therefore, once it is conceded that anything can be proved, it follows that reasoning leads nowhere;because if you can prove something and in the next moment prove its opposite, this is the proof that your proofs are worthless. Someone has asked me, “How is it possible for God to reveal Himself to an unbeliever?” That’s very funny; because if it pleases God to reveal Himself to an unbeliever, I don’t see what would prevent Him from doing so! |
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