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When one truly attains wisdom, the true wisdom, the wis-
dom Sri Aurobindo is speaking of here, there is no longer higher
and lower; there is only a play of forces in which each thing has
its place and its importance. And if there is a hierarchy it is a
hierarchy of surrender to the Supreme. It is not a hierarchy of
superiority with regard to what is below.
And with human understanding, human reason, human
knowledge, one is unable to discern this hierarchy. Only the
awakened soul can recognise another awakened soul, and then
the sense of superiority disappears completely.
True wisdom comes only when the ego disappears, and the
ego disappears only when you are ready to abandon yourself
completely to the supreme Lord without any personal motive
and without any expectation of profit — when you do it be-
cause you cannot do otherwise.
CWM 10: 16

True Knowledge
What men call knowledge is the reasoned acceptance
of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and
sees. Reason divides, fixes details and contrasts them;
Wisdom unifies, marries contrasts in a single harmony.
— Sri Aurobindo

All that Sri Aurobindo writes about knowledge, reason,
Wisdom is said in order to bring us out of the rut of conven-
tional thinking, and, if possible, make us perceive the reality
behind the appearances.
As a general rule, with a few very rare exceptions, men are
content to observe more or less accurately everything that
happens around them, and sometimes within themselves, and
to classify all these observations according to one superficial

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