Q: What is the utility of reason in our life?
A: The
Mother: Without reason, human life would be incoherent and unregulated; we
would be like impulsive animals or unbalanced madmen.
Q: What are knowledge and intelligence? Have they
important roles to play in our life?
A: The
Mother: Knowledge and intelligence are precisely the qualities of the higher
mind in man which differentiate him from the animal.
Without
knowledge and intelligence, one is not a man but an animal in human form.
Q: In your Conversations you have said that the
intellect is like a mediator between the true knowledge and its realisation
down here. Does it not follow that intellectual culture is indispensable for
rising above the mind to find there the true knowledge ?
A: The Mother: In rising above the
mind, it is more often a hindrance than a help, for, in general, a refined and
educated mind finds its satisfaction in itself and rarely seeks to silence
itself so as to be surpassed.
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