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be in a hurry to abandon reason in the conviction that you will
immediately attain to Wisdom, because you must be ready for
Wisdom; otherwise, by abandoning reason, you run a great risk
of falling into unreason, which is rather dangerous.
Many times in his writings, particularly in The Synthesis of
Yoga, Sri Aurobindo warns us against the imaginings of those
who believe they can do sadhana without rigorous self-control
and who heed all sorts of inspirations, which lead them to a
dangerous imbalance where all their repressed, hidden, secret
desires come out into the open under the pretence of libera-
tion from ordinary conventions and ordinary reason.
One can be free only by soaring to the heights, high above
human passions. Only when one has achieved a higher, selfless
freedom and done away with all desires and impulses does one
have the right to be free.
CWM 10: 14-16

The Measure of True Wisdom
But neither should people who are very reasonable, very
moral according to ordinary social laws, think themselves wise,
for their wisdom is an illusion and holds no profound truth.
One who would break the law must be above the law. One
who would ignore conventions must be above conventions.
One who would despise all rules must be above all rules. And
the motive of this liberation should never be a personal, ego-
istic one: the desire to satisfy an ambition, aggrandise one's
personality, through a feeling of superiority, out of contempt
for others, to set oneself above the herd and regard it with con-
descension. Be on your guard when you feel yourself superior
and look down on others ironically, as if to say, "I'm no longer
made of such stuff". That's when you go off the track and are
in danger of falling into an abyss.

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