INTERMEDIATE ZONE - ITS CONFUSIONS
At this stage the sadhak may fail to realise also that if he
rushes to apply what he is realising or receiving as if it was
something definitive, he may either fall into confusion and error or else get shut up in some partial formation
in which there may be an element of spiritual Truth but it is likely to be outweighed by more dubious mental and
vital accretions that deform it altogether. It is only when he able to draw back (whether at once or after a time)
from his experiences, stand above them with the dispassionate witness consciousness, observe their real nature,
limitations, composition, mixture that he can proceed on his way towards a real freedom and a higher, larger and
truer siddhi. At each step this has to done. For whatever comes in this way to the sadhak of this yoga, whether
it be from overmind or Intuition or Illumined Mind or some exalted Life Plane or from all these together, it is
not definite and final; it is not the supreme Truth in which he can rest, but only a stage. And yet these stages
have to be passed through, for the supramental or the Supreme Truth cannot be reached in one bound or even in many
bounds; one has to pursue a calm patient steady progress through many intervening stages without getting bound
or attached to their lesser Truth and Light or Power or Ananda.
On these shining backs falsehood could ride;
Truth lay with delight in error's passionate arms
Gliding downstream in a blithe gilded barge:
She edged her ray with a magnificent lie.
