In one of his most famous ghost stories, “O Whistle and I’ll come to you, my lad” , M.R James depicts the rude awakening of a stuffy university professor from his doctrinaire assumptions about the plain, ordinary, materiality of the world, when he finds and uses an ancient bronze whistle and summons a frightening supernatural entity.
If we ask the question and seek with intent rather than reason, the answer emerges in the Silent Mind from beyond the confines of intellectual understanding, which in itself is limited by relative knowledge. Truth is attained not by thinking but by Will, through supramental faculties that are open to the unknown and the unknowable, so that when the answer is received the intellect lacks the language to speak of such knowledge.
If we ask the question and seek with intent rather than reason, the answer emerges in the Silent Mind from beyond the confines of intellectual understanding, which in itself is limited by relative knowledge. Truth is attained not by thinking but by Will, through supramental faculties that are open to the unknown and the unknowable, so that when the answer is received the intellect lacks the language to speak of such knowledge.
Perfectly put!