WRITINGS BY THE MOTHER
© Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust

The higher knowledge

23 December 1953

If the mind "is incapable of finding knowledge" what part of the being finds knowledge?

One must enter the knowledge which belongs to the supramental region.

But in order to bring it down?

Every time something attracts this knowledge (something which is evidently ready to receive it), it comes.

It does not come down into the mind, Sweet Mother?

Yes, it descends into the mind. Into a higher part of the mind or rather into the psychic. One may have knowledge from the psychic--though it is of another kind and is not formulated as in the mind. It is a sort of inner certitude which makes you do the right thing at the right moment and in the right way, without necessarily passing through the reason or mental formation.

For instance, one may act with a perfect knowledge of what should be done, and without intervention--the least intervention--of the reasoning mind. The mind is silent: it simply looks on and listens in order to register things, it does not act.