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Similarly, Huxley asserts that: realize how they fit in. To
If, in our pride and state the matter differently,
madness, we treat it reason is a rational process
(reason) as a proximate in which one must enter
means to the divine End step by step and gradually
(as so many religious and determine the etiology
people have done and of cause and effect.
still do), or if, denying According to Lankavatara
the existence of an eternal Sutra, “Those who vainly reason
End, we regard it as at without understanding the truth
once the means to are lost in the jungle of the
Progress and its ever- Vijnanas (the various forms
receding goal in time, of relative knowledge), running
cleverness becomes the about here and there and trying
enemy, a source of spiritual to justify their view of ego-
blindness, moral evil and substance”. (Ref: Ibid: 14)
social disaster. (Huxley, Thus, it is not possible
1945: 163) for reason to understand the
totality at once, rather it must
The Argumentative Nature go in a definite manner in a
of Reason syllogistic logical step. In this
Reason by its very nature, is regard Spurgeon remarks:
analytical. In other words, if The mystic believes that
an individual is about to as the intellect is given
find out the truth through reason, us to apprehend material
he or she has to split up the things, so the spirit is
known entities which are given us to apprehend
going to be analyzed and
