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insincerity, egoism and false attitude or to some weakness in the
brain or nervous system which cannot bear the Power it has called
down into it.
The safest way is to follow the guidance of someone who has
himself attained to mastery in the path. Only that guidance should
be implicitly and sincerely followed; one’s own mind and its ideas
and fancies must not be allowed to interfere. It goes without say-
ing that it must be a true guidance, not the leading of a tyro or an
impostor.
CWSA 31: 810

It is difficult for the ordinary Christian to be of a piece, because the
teachings of Christ are on quite another plane from the conscious-
ness of the intellectual and vital man trained by the education
and society of Europe — the latter, even as a minister or priest,
has never been called upon to practise what he preached in entire
earnest. But it is difficult for the human nature anywhere to think,
feel and act from one centre of true faith, belief or vision. The
average Hindu considers the spiritual life the highest, reveres the
Sannyasi, is moved by the Bhakta; but if one of the family circle
leaves the world for spiritual life, what tears, arguments, remon-
strances, lamentations! It is almost worse than if he had died a
natural death. It is not conscious mental insincerity — they will
argue like Pandits and go to Shastra to prove you in the wrong; it
is unconsciousness, a vital insincerity which they are not aware of
and which uses the reasoning mind as an accomplice.
CWSA 29: 53–54 Sri Aurobindo

Soul’s Sincerity
I mean by the measure of the soul’s sincerity a yearning after
the Divine and its aspiration towards the higher life.
CWSA 29: 55–56 Sri Aurobindo

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