The Mother’s commentaries on Sri Aurobindo’s 'Thoughts and Aphorisms' spoken or written in French.
Ce volume comporte les commentaires de la Mère sur les Pensées et Aphorismes de Sri Aurobindo, et le texte de ces Aphorismes.
The Mother’s commentaries on Sri Aurobindo’s 'Thoughts and Aphorisms' were given over the twelve-year period from 1958 to 1970. All the Mother's commentaries were spoken or written in French. She also translated Sri Aurobindo's text into French.
255—So long as a cause has on its side one soul that is intangible in faith, it cannot perish. 256—Reason gives me no basis for this faith, thou murmured. Fool! if it did, faith would not be needed or demanded of thee. Page 287 257—Faith in the heart is the obscure and often distorted reflection of a hidden knowledge. The believer is often more plagued by doubt than the most inveterate sceptic. He persists because there is something subconscient in him which knows. That tolerates both his blind faith and twilit doubts and drives towards the revelation of that which it knows.
255—So long as a cause has on its side one soul that is intangible in faith, it cannot perish.
256—Reason gives me no basis for this faith, thou murmured. Fool! if it did, faith would not be needed or demanded of thee.
Page 287
257—Faith in the heart is the obscure and often distorted reflection of a hidden knowledge. The believer is often more plagued by doubt than the most inveterate sceptic. He persists because there is something subconscient in him which knows. That tolerates both his blind faith and twilit doubts and drives towards the revelation of that which it knows.
Is it good to have a "blind faith" which neither questions nor reasons?
What men usually call blind faith is in fact what the Divine Grace sometimes gives to those whose intelligence is not developed enough to have true knowledge. So blind faith can be something very respectable, although it is of course clear that one who has true knowledge is in a far superior position.
29 December 1969
To which plane does faith belong—mental or psychic?
Faith is an exclusively psychic phenomenon.
30 December 1969
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