Preparing for the Miraculous

192 eleven talkscatholic affirmation,” his faith “a faith which the highestReason, the widest and most patient reflection do not deny,but rather affirm.” 2 It may therefore be said that Sri Aurobindo’steaching is the most rational, for it expounds anintegration or synthesis of all material and spiritual knowledgefrom the past and the present, and an open attitudeto embrace and find a place for everything. Because all isThat. In the practice of the Yoga one has to be one-pointedin one’s heart, but in one’s mind, as a human incarnationin the present time, one has to be open and wide-ranging,therein following the example of Sri Aurobindo and theMother.“We have to find a truth that can entirely reconcile Spiritand Matter and can give to both their due portion in Lifeand their due justification in Thought, amercing neither ofits rights, denying in neither the sovereign truth from whicheven its errors, even the exclusiveness of its exaggerationsdraw so constant a strength. For wherever there is an extremestatement [like the tenets of materialistic science] thatmakes such a powerful appeal to the human mind, we maybe sure that we are standing in the presence of no mere error,superstition or hallucination, but of some sovereign factdisguised which demands our fealty and will avenge itselfif denied or excluded. … It is therefore through the utmostunification of Spirit and Matter that we shall best arrive attheir reconciling truth and so at some strongest foundationfor a reconciling practice in the inner life of the individualand his outer existence.” 3True to this attitude, Sri Aurobindo followed withconstant interest the goings-on in the world, including themain discoveries in science, where the revolutionary new2 Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine, p. 37.3 Id., p. 29.