To have true
intuition one must get rid of the mind’s self-will, and the vital’s also, their
preferences, fancies, fantasies, strong insistences and eliminate the mental
and vital ego’s pressure which sets the consciousness to work in the service of
its own claims and desires. Otherwise these things will come in with force and
claim to be intuitions, inspirations and the rest of it. Or if any intuitions
come, they can be twisted and spoiled by the mixture of these forces of
Ignorance.
Intuition is a
power of consciousness nearer and more intimate to the original knowledge by
identity; for it is always something that leaps out direct from a concealed
identity. It is when the consciousness of the subject meets with the
consciousness in the object, penetrates it and sees, feels or vibrates with the
truth of what it contacts, that the intuition leaps out like a spark of
lightning-flash from the shock of the meeting; or when the consciousness, even
without any such meeting, looks into itself and feels directly and intimately
the truth or the truths that are there or so contacts the hidden forces behind
appearances, then also there is the outbreak of an intuitive light; or, again,
when the consciousness meets the Supreme Reality or the spiritual reality of
things and beings and has a contractual union with it, then the spark, the
flash or the blaze of intimate truth-perception is lit in its depths.
(‘Our Many Selves - Selections from the works of
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’, Compiled, with an Introduction ,by A.S.
Dalal, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry)
”If mankind only caught a glimpse of what
infinite enjoyment, what perfect forces, what luminous reaches of spontaneous
knowledge, what wide calms of our being lie waiting for us in the tracts which
our animal evolution has not yet conquered, they would leave all and never rest
till they had gained these treasures. But the way is narrow, the doors are hard
to force, and fear, distrust and scepticism are there, sentinels of Nature, to
forbid the turning away of our feet from her ordinary pastures.”
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