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system of logic or another. And they call this organisation,
these systems, "knowledge". It has never occurred to them,
they have not even begun to perceive that all the things they
see, touch, feel, experience, are false appearances and not re-
ality itself.
The constant, general argument is, "But I see it, I touch it, I
feel it — consequently it is true."
They should, on the contrary, tell themselves, "I see it, I
touch it, I feel it — consequently it is false." We are at opposite
poles and there is no way of coming to an understanding.
For Sri Aurobindo, true knowledge is precisely Knowledge
by identity, and wisdom is the state one achieves when one is
in this true knowledge. He says it here: Wisdom looks behind
the veil of false appearances and sees the reality behind it. And
Sri Aurobindo emphasises that when one defines something
with the superficial, outer knowledge, it is always in opposition
to something else; it is always by means of a contrast that one
explains what one sees, feels, touches — and does not under-
stand.
Reason always sets one thing against another and compels
you to make a choice. People whose thought and reason are
clear see all the differences between things. It is rather remark-
able that reason can only work through differences; it is be-
cause one perceives the difference between this and that, one
act and another, one object and another, that one makes deci-
sions and that reason works.
But it is precisely true Knowledge, Knowledge by identity
and the wisdom which results from it that always see the point
where all apparently contradictory things harmonise, comple-
ment each other, form a perfectly coherent, coordinated whole.
And naturally that changes entirely the point of view, the per-
ception, and the consequences in action. CWM 10: 17-18

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