To add to my previous post:
Logic and intellect have certain fundamental inherent limitations and one must remember that the intellect is a mode of apprehending reality and is not to be confused with reality itself. We don't simply know by 'logic'. In fact, Western philosophers such as Whitehead moved in this direction.
Rumi gives a famous example of this ability to know, by describing a person lost in the desert, on the verge of dying of thirst. When he is given a glass of water to drink, the man without any haste starts drinking the water to appease his thirst. He does not 'intellectually' work out how the water will affect his body, but he already knows the water will quench his thirst, irrespective of his intellectual level.
Logic and intellect have certain fundamental inherent limitations and one must remember that the intellect is a mode of apprehending reality and is not to be confused with reality itself. We don't simply know by 'logic'. In fact, Western philosophers such as Whitehead moved in this direction.
Rumi gives a famous example of this ability to know, by describing a person lost in the desert, on the verge of dying of thirst. When he is given a glass of water to drink, the man without any haste starts drinking the water to appease his thirst. He does not 'intellectually' work out how the water will affect his body, but he already knows the water will quench his thirst, irrespective of his intellectual level.
