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Transcript of Matthijs' AUM2005 talk: "Sri Aurobindo’s Theory of Knowledge"

Talk by Matthijs Cornelissen
Port Townsend, WA
June 11, 2005

... we are like kids in a class who are asked a question, a very difficult question, and somehow the answer has leaked. We know the answer, because Sri Aurobindo has given us the answer, but we haven’t found the answer ourselves and we don’t really know how he got there, we missed the route. So when we are asked the question we are shy of giving the answer, because if anybody were to ask how we know it, then we have to admit kind of sheepishly that we have copied it from Sri Aurobindo. So that creates a kind of inner tension, because when we speak it is tempting to use the most beautiful words, but then that doesn’t work because when the experience isn’t there then the Truth doesn’t come through. ...   more »