To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
Sri AurobindoLate, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.
Sri AurobindoThe desire of your vital being is towards work. And the vital being won't find any interest in yoga so long as you do not have any experience of the higher and fuller life that is in yoga. As long as this experience is not there, the vital being will not find any interest.
Sri AurobindoIn order to explain why the ordinary Sadhus and Yogis take to tobacco and gānja [an intoxicant], I said that these cause stimulation of the physical brain. But these have reactions. And to stimulate the brain thus is not the proper process.
Sri Aurobindo