{"id":4565,"date":"2026-08-22T12:49:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T07:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurobook.saorg.in\/index.php\/inspiration\/reason-and-spiritual-life-ii\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T12:49:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T07:19:47","slug":"reason-and-spiritual-life-ii","status":"publish","type":"inspiration","link":"https:\/\/aurobook.saorg.in\/index.php\/inspiration\/reason-and-spiritual-life-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"REASON AND SPIRITUAL LIFE &#8211; II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A being who is in a whirlwind of darkness is obviously not ready to receive the Spirit. But when by the use of reason one has managed to organise his being logically and reasonably, in a balanced and wise way, reason is essentially an instrument of wisdom, well, this is an excellent preparation for going beyond, on condition that one knows that it is not a culmination, that it is only a preparation. It is like a base, you see; people who have spiritual experiences, who have a contact with the higher worlds and are not ready in the lower domains, have a lot of trouble, because they have to fight constantly against a heap of elements which are neither organised nor purified nor classified; and each one pulls its own way, there are impulses and preferences and desires, and so this light which has come from above has to organise all this; whereas if the reason had worked to begin with and made the place at least a habitable one, when the Spirit came it would have been more easily installed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-4565","inspiration","type-inspiration","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aurobook.saorg.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inspiration\/4565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aurobook.saorg.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inspiration"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aurobook.saorg.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/inspiration"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aurobook.saorg.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}