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What is the Mind?

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The Secret of the Path
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The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Making Life Perfect
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Published by Sri Aurobindo on 03/21/2018
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Mind is not sufficent to explain existence in the universe. Infinite Consciousness must first translate itself into infinite faculty of Knowledge or, as we call it from our point of view, omniscience. But Mind is not a faculty of knowledge nor an instrument of omniscience; it is a faculty for the seeking of knowledge, for expressing as much as it can gain of it in certain capacities of action. Even when it finds, it does not possess; it only keeps a cetrain fund of current coin of Truth – not Truth itself – in the bank of Memory to draw upon according to its needs. For Mind is that which does not know, which tries to know and which never knows except as in a glass darkly. It is the power which interprets truth of Universal existence for the practical uses of a certain order of things; it is not the power which knows and guides that existence and therefore it cannot be the power which created or manifested it.

Ref: The Life Divine

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