... has not the sovereign Truth which can transform all human parts and activities completely into divine ones: the Overmind does not hold the impeccable and all-harmonising Archetype of the evolutionary mind, life-force and matter that are our cosmos. The Supermind is the supreme Creator, and everything, including our cosmos of ignorance, is actualised by it freely, through Overmind and other... infinite freedom founded in the perfection its plane manifests through the balance and integration of the One and the Many: its plane alone is free enough and perfect enough to fulfill evolutionary mind, life-force and matter by converting the progressive Lightward straining of darkness and dusk into a process of ever-unfolding Light. Hence only the Supermind can create the radical ...
... would allow its operation through the opaque wall which it has created by its downward and absorbed look on the diversity of which alone it takes cognizance. At the level of the mind (not the evolutionary mind, but mind, which is above as the last operation of the third status of the Supermind), the involutionary movement of the consciousness becomes gradually more and more ignorant of unity. This ...
... consciousness can indeed arrive in its cognition at a considerable approach towards a total comprehensiveness and catholicity, but to organise that in action and life seems to be beyond its power. Evolutionary Mind, manifest in individuals or collectivities, throws up a multiplicity of divergent view-points, divergent lines of action and lets them work themselves out side by side or in collision Page ...
... original "darkness wrapped within darkness". The working out spells the expression of the supreme Divine in all the evolutionary terms — mind, life-force, even matter. The Supermind holds in itself the ultimate truth, the archetypal model of these terms: a divine mentality of which our seeking mind is a half-lit image, a divine vitality whose semi-effective reflex is our struggling life-force, a divine materiality... Supermind's flawless unity-in-multiplicity. That is why immortality, which is the nature of the Divine and represented inwardly here by the developing and reincarnating soul, is the goal of all evolutionary terms, including the physical. There is nothing illogical in the Aurobindonian Yoga's vision of the body becoming, as a result of its supramentalisation, immune to disease, free from the ageing... usual jibe that mysticism and spirituality are only for emotional and non-intellectual beings is met right royally by these books. Thirdly, there is the need of the present age to satisfy itself on the mind-plane. The books answer to this need in a magnificent manner. Page 205 The Integral Yoga is for man in his integrality: it brings its spiritual revelations to him on all levels and ...
... Gnosis. For, till now Mind has been the last, term of the evolutionary consciousness—Mind as developed in man is the highest instrument built up and organised by Nature through which the self-conscious being can express itself. That is why the Buddha said: Mind Page 11 is first of all principles, Mind is the highest of all principles: indeed Mind is the constituent of all p... withdrawal from the evolutionary cycle, a merging and an absorption into the static status that is altogether beyond it, that lies, as it were, at the other extreme—the Spirit in itself, Atman, Brahman, Sachchidananda, Nirvana, the One without a second, the Zero without a first. The first contact that one has with this static supra-reality is through the higher ranges of the mind : a direct and closer... which came down and became involved in Matter and has been endeavouring since to release itself through the upward march of evolution. It is this which presses on continually as the stimulus to the evolutionary movement; and in man it has attained sufficient growth and power and has come so far to the front from behind the veil that it can now lead and mould his external consciousness. It is also the channel ...
... Gnosis. For, till now Mind has been the last term of the evolutionary Page 16 consciousness—Mind as developed in man is the highest instrument built up and organised by Nature through which the self-conscious being can express itself. That is why the Buddha said: Mind is the first of all principles, Mind is the highest of all principles: indeed Mind is the constituent of all p... withdrawal from the evolutionary cycle, a merging and an absorption into the static status that is altogether beyond it, that lies, as it were, at the other ex- treme—the Spirit in itself, Atman, Brahman, Sachchidananda, Nirvana, the One without a second, the Zero without a first. The first contact that one has with this static supra-reality is through the higher ranges of the mind: a direct and closer... came down and became involved in Matter and has been endeavouring ever since to release itself through the upward march of evolution. It is this which presses on continually as the stimulus to the evolutionary movement; and in man it has attained sufficient growth and power and has come so far to the front from behind the veil that it can now lead and mould his external consciousness. It is also the channel ...
... Supermind, unlike the other higher gradations of mind just mentioned, is not a superior level of mind but an altogether different evolutionary principle transcending mind. The supermind is an entirely different consciousness not only from the spiritualised Mind, but from the planes above spiritualised Page 392 Mind which intervene between it and the supramental plane... in the evolutionary process. Mind, the highest level of consciousness which has evolved up to now in the collectivity, has been the third step of the release from Inconscience. Evolution has not come to an end with the appearance of mind; it awaits a release into higher, spiritual levels of consciousness of which there are many gradations, ranging from Higher Mind through Illumined Mind, Intuition... Matter to Life and from Life to Mind was effected by the Consciousness-Force without a conscious will in the plant and the animal. The human being, endowed with mind and conscious will, can now aid and consciously collaborate in the evolutionary process. The aim of all systems of yoga or spiritual growth is to bring about conscious evolution towards a principle above Mind. The past has been ...
... descent of the higher consciousness together with an ascent of the lower. Those evolutionary terms, mind and life-force and matter - what is their fulfilment if the Divine Being from whom they have emanated carries only a sojourning soul through them and never grants them through that soul a deific destiny of their own - a mind not fumbling for knowledge but seizing it with a lightning flash, a life-force... ranges between which he could move but beyond which he could never go to an entirely new pattern of world-life. There was, in the old religious ideal, no sense of evolution. With the advent of the evolutionary concept into science the supernatural, if believed in, promises to be deemed no contradiction of the natural but rather its concealed reality, a perfection to be grown into and flowered forth, a... play on the notion of this possibility is the neo-vitalism of Bernard Shaw, the development of the Nietzschean nisus into the hopes and dreams of what Shaw has termed Creative Evolution. The evolutionary concept also underlines the value of the outer instrument of the inner vitality: if the natural is not to be effaced by the supernatural and if a new species may be evolved, then surely the external ...
... let me say here straightaway that the mind by itself cannot understand the Supermind. This is not surprising: after all, the animal, with its vital instincts and sensations, cannot follow the workings of man's mind. The Supermind represents a level and realm of consciousness radically different from and superior to Mind, just as, in the evolutionary process, Mind is a higher range of consciousness than... divine work to hasten the evolutionary process, to manifest the Supermind as its next decisive step. Sri Aurobindo has called the Supermind the 'Truth-Consciousness'. He writes: 'The essential character of Supermind is a Truth-Consciousness which knows by its own inherent right of nature, by its own light: it has not to arrive at knowledge but possesses it.' And again: 'Mind is an instrument of the Ignorance... Spirit and Matter, 'the two poles of existence', are not mutually exclusive or antagonistic, for Spirit is involved in Matter and is progressively manifesting itself in the material world through the evolutionary process. Sri Aurobindo teaches us that our world is the scene of an ascending evolution which goes from the stone to the plant, from the plant to the animal, and from the animal to man. But man ...
... enlighten the mind, but to silence it so that it can experience things directly and receive direct inspirations. He summed up the role of the mind in the evolutionary process as follows: Mind is a clumsy interlude between Nature's vast and precise subconscient action and the vaster infallible superconscient action of the Godhead. There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility... ideal we are currently cherishing, we would progress quite rapidly on the path of evolution. This physical mind is the stupidest of all, the vestige in us of the first appearance of Mind in Matter. It is a microscopic, stubborn, fearful, narrow, and conservative (this was its evolutionary purpose) mind, which sends us ten times to check if the door is locked when we know perfectly well we have locked it... for some, the higher mind or even the illumined mind is not superconscious, but a normal part of their waking consciousness, while for others, the mere reasoning mind is still a remote possibility of inner development; in other words, the line dividing the superconscient from the rest tends to recede upward as our evolution progresses. If the subconscient is our evolutionary past, the Superconscient ...
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