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The Supreme Wisdom

Wisdom
When I see others suffer, I feel that I am unfortunate, but
the wisdom that is not mine, sees the good that is com-
ing and approves. — Sri Aurobindo

What is this "wisdom"?

It is the supreme wisdom, the wisdom of the Supreme. By
this wisdom the present, the past and the future are all seen
equally. It knows the causes of all effects and the effects of all
causes. The sum total of all circumstances, perceived simulta-
neously in their entirety, is seen by it as Nature's sublime ef-
fort to express the Divine progressively, her ascending march
towards divine perfection. That is "the good that is coming",
everything tends towards that; and that is why the true wis-
dom approves.
For it is only our shortsightedness, our too limited percep-
tion and our misguided sensations that, for us, change into suf-
fering what is a possibility and an opportunity for progress.
And this is proved by the fact that as soon as we under-
stand and collaborate, suffering disappears.
CWM 10: 49-50

Wisdom and Knowledge
Late, I learned that when reason died then Wisdom was
born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.
— Sri Aurobindo

Once again I must repeat that the form of these Aphorisms
is purposely paradoxical in order to give the mind a little shock

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