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Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Second Series

Fragment ID: 20812

Z’s fall after his one year’s rapid progress had obvious reasons in his character which do not exist in others. It is well-known to all Yogis that a fall is possible and the Gita speaks of it more than once. But how does the fall prove that spiritual experience is not true and genuine? The fall of a man from a great height does not prove that he never reached am a great height.