The enemy of faith is doubt, and yet doubt too is a utility and
necessity, because man in his ignorance and in his progressive
labour towards knowledge needs to be visited by doubt, otherwise
he would remain obstinate in an ignorant belief and limited
knowledge and unable to escape from his errors. This utility and
necessity of doubt does not altogether disappear when we enter
on the path of Yoga. The integral Yoga aims at a knowledge not
merely of some fundamental principle, but a knowing, a gnosis
which will apply itself to and cover all life and the world action,
and in this search for knowledge we enter on the way and are accompanied
for many miles upon it by the mind’s unregenerated
activities before these are purified and transformed by a greater
light: we carry with us a number of intellectual beliefs and ideas
which are by no means all of them correct and perfect and a host
of new ideas and suggestions meet us afterwards demanding our
credence which it would be fatal to seize on and always cling to
in the shape in which they come without regard to their possible
error, limitation or imperfection. And indeed at one stage in the
Yoga it becomes necessary to refuse to accept as definite and
final any kind of intellectual idea or opinion whatever in its
intellectual form and to hold it in a questioning suspension until
it is given its right place and luminous shape of truth in a spiritual
experience enlightened by supramental knowledge-The synthesis of yoga,
-Sri Aurobindo
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