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The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Q: What is the use of knowledge when we can’t act according to its light and truth?

Knowledge is always better than ignorance. It makes things possible hereafter, if not at the moment, while ignorance actively obstructs and misleads.

– Sri Aurobindo

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