Today morning, I was reading from Incarnate Word, where I came across the following lines said by The Mother: How many times… how many times have we said, Sri Aurobindo (and I too) said, “When a thing is true, you can be sure that its opposite is also true. When you have understood this, then you will begin to understand.” 📖🍂[…]

I didn’t understand what Mother and Sri Aurobindo meant by opposite is also true. Can you please explain?

This is true of the mind that takes an either-or position with regard to its angle of vision. This angle of vision itself depends upon its starting point of reference. Take an example of the sun rising and setting. It is simply a truth relative to the reference point of Earth and depends upon how the senses operate. Its opposite is also true that the sun neither rises nor sets. In other words, all truths and views that the mind forms are relative. They are reference points for a particular person at a particular stage of evolution. But the mind tends to turn them into absolute truths and rigid dogmas. Thus, for example, there is a truth of democracy but also a truth in autocracy, there is a truth in communism but also a truth in capitalism, and there is a truth in religion but also a truth in atheism. As the mind widens and consciousness rises higher, we begin to see how seemingly irreconcilable opposites are simply complementary rather than contradictory aspects of One Reality.

Affectionately,

Alok Da