My Pilgrimage to the Spirit

February 20, 1932

It is the Overmind transmitting something of the Supramental Light—but so long as the Supermind does not directly manifest, it is that Light modified by Overmind and applied to the needs of the individual nature.

Its success, e.g., in purifying the physical is not immediate and absolute as the full and direct Supramental action would be but still relative, conditioned by the individual nature and balance of the universal forces, it is progressive, but resisted by the adverse powers, by the unwillingness of the lower workings to cease, by the want of complete consent in the personal nature.

Sri Aurobindo