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Basic Writings of Sri Ramchandra
turning towards method by which they would have the experience or intuition and realisation of the essence of being or existence. There are of course some who do not think that experience can solve any problems and believe that belief alone in the methods or means of philosophies will be sufficient and personal experience is merely a lure and a mirage. With such thinkers we of course do not agree and man has never agreed. True indeed this personal experience should be of the highest and not merely a hallucinatory product of one’s wishes and constructions-mental projections so to speak and not reality. Hallucination is the projection of one set of illusions in the place of those it is said to replace, namely the experience of Nature.
The evolution of man into a higher consciousness or reality is indeed our endeavour, and this evolution can no longer be achieved through the old patterns suitable to lower species and forms of life including man. The growth of a cosmic consciousness, or an intuition that can grasp all in one sweep of consciousness rather than in fragments, or that which will integrate all knowledge and perceive the integral reality is a Divine gift and cannot be expected to be attained through natural means of mere aspiration. Science expects this to happen in natural evolution through man’s infinite capacity to adapt the environment to his needs, and also to rouse within himself powers and capacities latent in a sense (such as he had already done)
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