... bring about a total transformation of the deficient or adverse sensibilities of physical Nature." 70 Personality of the Gnostic Being : Perfection of Fourfold Personality There is, indeed, a question of the nature of the personality of the Gnostic being. According to Sri Aurobindo, in the supermind consciousness personality and impersonality are not opposite principles; they are inseparable... in reality, a sea of the secret Super- conscience. As a result, a first formation of a supramental or Gnostic consciousness and nature will take place. A farther result of the emergence of the Gnostic being would be the increasing concretization and fulfillment of the hope of a more harmonious evolutionary order in terrestrial Nature. Sri Aurobindo even envisages the transmutation of the human species... same time divinely emergent in a spiritual air of transcendental infinity, like a high cloud-surpassing summit; for he individualises the divine Transcendence." 69 There would be in the Gnostic being a total change and reversal of consciousness that would establish a new relation of Spirit with Mind and Life and Matter. In the Gnostic way of being and living, the will of the Spirit would directly ...
... itself; Man must now grow into the complete Superman, the supramental being, or the Gnostic being. The induction of the supramental principle and power into the human being must also mean the gradual supramentalisation of man's environment, in other words the transformation of nature into supernature. The "gnostic being" would be the consummation of the climb of the spiritual man: ...his whole... life as himself and can form with them a group with its own autonomous existence or else a separate community or order of being with its own inner law of life. 62 With the appearance of the gnostic being and the beginnings of the gnostic dispensation in earth-nature, the "Life Divine" itself would become no longer a pretext for dreaming and speculative system-building1 but a marvel of daily man... European philosopher "the ultimate destiny of man... is to be one with the life-current... to be identical with God", for the Indian philosopher man's destiny is to exceed himself and become the Gnostic Being. 76 Again, A.N. Whitehead the "most systematic thinker in the West today as Sri Aurobindo is in the East", took all knowledge for his province like his Indian contemporary, but his philosophy of ...
... This will be first effective in the shaping of his own inner and outer individual existence, but the same power and principle will operate in any common gnostic life; the relations of gnostic being with gnostic being will be the expression of their one gnostic self and supernature shaping into a significant power and form of itself the whole common existence. In all spiritual living the inner life... movement. A gnostic being will possess not only a truth-conscious control of the realised spirit's power over its physical world, but also the full power of the mental and vital planes and the use of their greater forces for the perfection of the physical existence. This greater knowledge and wider hold of all existence will enormously increase the power of instrumentation of the gnostic being on his ... way of life, because it is itself bound and limited in vision and capacity; but gnostic being takes up into itself the whole of life and existence, fulfilled, transmuted into the harmonic self-expression of a vast Truth one and diverse, infinitely one, infinitely multiple. The knowledge and action of the gnostic being would have the wideness and plasticity of an infinite freedom. This knowledge would ...
... being, in the gnostic life, there will be a close and complete consciousness of the self of others, a consciousness of their mind, life, physical being which are felt as if they were one's own. The gnostic being will act, not out of a surface sentiment of love and sympathy or any similar feeling, but out of this close mutual consciousness, this intimate oneness. All his action in the world will be enlightened... purpose of the All as seen Page 1066 in the light of the highest Consciousness and in the way and by the steps through which it must be effectuated in the power of the Supernature. The gnostic being finds himself not only in his own fulfilment, which is the fulfilment of the Divine Being and Will in him, but in the fulfilment of others; his universal individuality effectuates itself in the... ousness and its truth of nature. A single Consciousness-Force, of which all would be aware and see themselves as its instruments, would act through all and harmonise their action together. The gnostic being would feel a single consonant Force of supernature acting in all: he would accept its formation in himself and obey or use the knowledge and power it gave him for the divine work, but he would be ...
... 21 “A gnostic being will possess not only a truth-conscious control of the realised Spirit’s power over its physical world, but also the full power of the mental and vital planes and the use of their greater forces for the perfection of the physical existence. This greater knowledge and wider hold of all existence will enormously increase the power of instrumentation of the gnostic being on his ... forces of Supernature would be a natural, normal and spontaneously simple working of the new higher or greater consciousness into which the being enters in the course of his self-evolution; the gnostic being accepting the gnostic life would develop and use the powers of this greater consciousness, even as man develops and uses the powers of his mental nature.” 17 Cleaning up the Mess The ...
... new Chapter XXIII, "Man and the Evolution", and Arya chapter XXXVI, "Man and the Evolutionary Movement"; and between new Chapter XXVII, "The Gnostic Being", and Arya Chapters LI and LII, "The Necessity of the Gnostic Being" and "The Spiritual Gnostic Being". When setting aside Arya Chapter XL, "The Fundamental Character of the Ignorance", Sri Aurobindo wrote a note to his secretary indicating that... Divine Life -- L The Four Theories of Existence XVI Chapter comprising revised Arya material as well as new material. LI The Necessity of the Gnostic Being -- LII The Spiritual Gnostic Being -- LIII Conclusion -- Page 1116 TABLE II. Chapters in the 1940 edition of Book Two with corresponding Arya chapters ... -- XXV Entirely new chapter. The Triple Transformation -- XXVI Entirely new chapter. The Ascent towards Supermind -- XXVII Entirely new chapter. The Gnostic Being -- XXVIII Entirely new chapter. The Divine Life -- Page 1117 × It is interesting ...
... power of the spiritual Higher Mind and its idea-force, modified and diminished as it must be by its entrance into our mentality, is not sufficient to sweep out all these obstacles and create the gnostic being, but it can make a first change, a modification that will capacitate a higher ascent and a more powerful descent and further prepare an integration of the being in a greater Force of consciousness... Nature,—in the same way in which thinking Mind has been established through the human evolution as an overtly operative power in Life and Matter. This would mean the appearance in the evolution of a gnostic being or Purusha and a gnostic Prakriti, a gnostic Nature. There must be an emergent supramental Consciousness-Force liberated and active within the terrestrial whole and an organised supramental ins ...
... power of the spiritual Higher Mind and its idea-force, modified and diminished as it must be by its entrance into our mentality, is not sufficient to sweep out all these obstacles and create the gnostic being, but it can make a first change, a modification that will capacitate a higher ascent and a more powerful descent and further prepare an integration of the being in a greater Force of consciousness... that assumption, shakti, virya, daivi prakriti, sraddha. ² The third element of perfection is, according to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the evolution of the mental into the supramental gnostic being. For it is the supramental gnosis which, once effectively called into action, will progressively take up all the terms of intelligence, will, sense-mind, heart, the vital and sensational being and ...
... circumstances not visualised in the works of Sri Aurobindo, a somewhat altered perspective to the spiritual picture comprising features describable in Aurobindonian language as New Race, Superman, Gnostic Being, Gnostic Community. Sri Aurobindo, in his writings, conceived a further rise in the earth's evolutionary scale which has so far produced man the mental being. The answer to a question put... power called supramental by Sri Aurobindo is the all- creative as well as the all-transformative divinity to which he attaches several names besides Supermind - "Truth-Consciousness", "Gnosis", "Gnostic Being", "Vijnana", "Mahas" - and which he considers to have never before been directly manifested. It is by the descent of this power into the figure of humanity with the co-operation of the aspiring... really merit to be regarded as composed of Gnostic Beings and making the Gnostic Community. Evidently her New Race and her Superman do not coincide as mostly did Sri Aurobindo's. Nor are her Gnostic Being and Gnostic Community the same as his. Doubtless, the description "New Race" is at a few places employed by her for the human supramentalised, as when she says: "We must not confuse a supramental ...
... time ): Do you envisage the gnostic being as living and acting in the world in a group formation? SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, If the individual has to remain in society, the gnostic being has to do this too and the individual must merge in the group. SATYENDRA: In place of individual isolation, it will then be group isolation? SRI AUROBINDO: From the group the gnostic being will act on the world. Since ...
... all our members to call and support that assumption, ś akti, vīrya, dam prakrti, śraddhā." 63 Evolution of the Supramental or Gnostic Being The third element of perfection implies the evolution of the mental into the supramental or Gnostic being, vijnānamaya. This implies a stride upward and a conversion of all that we are into the terms of this greater consciousness. In the supermind ...
... through the opposition of earth's Powers And Nature's ambushes and the world's attacks. 244 This saviour who has understood the way-s of the world and the workings of fate, the gnostic being, undergoes the darkest of earth's terrors, the acutest of the world's pains and the deepest of human sufferings, so that he may bring to the dark world—even to the dark world—the Light Divine: ... knows his Sun. For this he must go down into the pit, For this he must invade the dolorous Vasts. 245 Having passed through this dark night of the soul, the gnostic being would emerge into the Eternal Light. The superconscient beam shall touch men's eyes And the truth-conscious world come down to earth Page 166 Invading Matter ...
... at its immeasurable centre, then all will be luminous and another universe—something different from the universe—will manifest. Then, and only then, he whom Sri Aurobindo called the superman, or gnostic being, will appear and a physically immortal race will exist in the world. Page 76 The world, which is a misperception of paradise, will become paradisiacal, not to reward the new race ...
... power of the spiritual Higher Mind and its idea-force, modified and diminished as it must be by its entrance into our mentality, is not sufficient to sweep out all these obstacles and create the gnostic being, but it can make a first change, a modification that will capacitate a higher ascent and a more powerful descent and further prepare an integration of the being in a greater Force of consciousness ...
... above, progressively, from its own domain of perfect light and power and beauty all that is ready to descend from that domain into terrestrial being. Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine - II: The Gnostic Being Balcony Darshan If my understanding is limited, widen it; If my knowledge is obscure, enlighten it; If my heart is empty of ardour, set it aflame; If my love is insignificant ...
... meet with the Divine; each at its height rises up into the infinite and absolute, each therefore offers a sufficient way of arrival, for all the hundred separate paths meet in the Eternal. But the gnostic being is a complete enjoyment and possession of the whole divine and spiritual nature; and it is a complete Page 614 lifting of the whole nature of man into its power of a divine and spiritual ...
... We can raise our internal consciousness from plane to plane of the relations of Purusha with Prakriti, and even become, instead of the mental being dominated by the physical soul and nature, the gnostic being or the bliss-self and assume the gnostic or the bliss nature. And by this raising of the inner life we can transform our whole outward-going existence; instead of a life dominated by matter we shall ...
... fact of consciousness, by an inner realisation. ( Silence ) That means that before hoping to realise this gnostic collectivity, each one should first become—or at least begin to become—a gnostic being. This is obvious; the individual work should go on ahead and the collective work should follow; but it so happens that spontaneously, without any arbitrary intervention of the will, the individual ...
... supramental intervention will take the form of a twofold process. When the evolutionary Nature is found ready and receptive, there will be "a supramental inflow from above, the descent of a gnostic being into the nature, and an emergence of the concealed supramental force from below; the influx and the unveiling between them will remove ...the nature of the Ignorance. The rule of the Inconscient ...
... supramental intervention will take the form of a twofold process. When the evolutionary Nature is found ready and receptive, there will occur "a supramental inflow from above, the descent of a gnostic being into the 10. The Life Divine, p. 962. 11. Ibid., p. 917. Page 231 nature, and an emergence of the concealed supramental force from below; the influx and the unveiling ...
... in Sri Aurobindo, new discoveries, new applications of the knowledge, new achievements, new proposals for further realisations. The concepts of the descent of the supermind on the earth, of the Gnostic Being, of the Divine Body are some of the results of the recent yogic research. Page 268 It may be noted that the science of Yoga not only provides us with the knowledge of the various states ...
... be shaped into the image of and filled with the force of greater infinite energy. The third element of perfection is, according to Sri Aurobindo, the evolution of the mental into the supramental Gnostic being which would progressively take up all the terms of intelligence, will, sense-mind, heart, the vital and sensational being and translate them by a luminous and harmonizing conversion into a unity ...
... and a perfect faith in all our members to call and support that ascension, — s'akti, virya, daivi prakrti, s'raddha. The third perfection will consist of the evolution of the mental into the Gnostic being. The fourth element of perfection will consist of the accomplishment of the Gnostic perfection in the body, and this will imply the bringing in the law of the Gnostic Purusha, vijhanamaya purusa ...
... that assumption, shakti, vīrya, daivi prakriti, śraddhā. ²² The third element of perfection is, according to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the evolution of the mental into the supramental gnostic being. For it is the supramental gnosis which, once effectively called into action, will progressively take up all the terms of intelligence, will, sense-mind, heart, the vital and sensational being and ...
... of the divine Idea and its Power. That is to be found beyond these lower principles in the supramental gnosis; therefore the next step of perfection will be the evolution of the mental into the gnostic being. This evolution is effected by a breaking beyond the mental limitation, a stride upward into the next higher plane or region of our being hidden from us at present by the shining lid of the mental ...
... consciousness, by an inner realization. ( silence ) This means that before hoping to realize such a gnostic collectivity, each one must first of all become (or at least start to become) a gnostic being. It is obvious that the individual work must take the lead and the collective work follow; but the fact remains that spontaneously, without any arbitrary intervention of Page 107 will ...
... power of the spiritual Higher Mind and its idea-force, modified and diminished as it must be by its entrance into our mentality, is not sufficient to sweep out all these obstacles and create the gnostic being, but it can make a first change, a modification that will capacitate a higher ascent and a more powerful descent and further prepare an integration of the being for a greater Force of consciousness ...
... in the same way in which thinking Mind has been established through the human evolution as an overtly operative power in Life and Matter. This would mean the appearance in the evolution of a gnostic being or Purusha and a gnostic Prakriti, a gnostic Nature. There must be an emergent supramental Consciousness-Force liberated and active within the terrestrial whole 1 The Life Divine, ...
... rdha or the lower hemisphere of existence. It is only with the attainment of this divine Supermind that the ascent of Sight can come to its integral fulfilment. For, the supramental or gnostic being, the vij ñā namaya puru ṣ a, "lives in the Sun itself, in the very body and blaze of the true light; he knows this light to be his own self-luminous being and he sees the whole truth of the lower ...
... Page 417 substantial stuff of the body, although still remaining material, will be of an altogether different sort. For corresponding to the supramental consciousness of the gnostic being there exists what Sri Aurobindo has called "supramental substance". This supramental substance alone can confer on the body the status of a worthy mansion of the self-manifesting Spirit, "in the ...
... consciousness and the Supramental Consciousness. This descending Consciousness is that of the Superman, which is still that of man but with a very enlarged range and power, but not transformed into the gnostic being. This consciousness of the Superman has not only descended into earth's consciousness, but is established there and is fully operative. ...
... reasons so sublime that they are beyond" our grasp. 27 As soon as Sri Aurobindo withdrew from his body the Mind of Light as the leader of the intermediate race, prior to the arrival of the gnostic being, got realised in the Mother. 28 It was only by "consciously experiencing and transforming death" 29 that the divine pace could be hastened in the earth consciousness. It was an occult imperative ...
... on. In the literature relating to the integral yoga, Sri Aurobindo has presented the yoga of self-perfection and described in detail the psychology of what he calls, the Page 66 Gnostic Being, a being that is thoroughly supramentalised by the consciousness and force of the supermind. It is impossible to include in the scope of this book even an indication of this vast literature ...
... image of and filled with the force of a greater infinite energy. Page 49 The third element of perfection is, according Sri Aurobindo, the evolution of the mental into the supramental gnostic being which would progressively take up all the terms of intelligence, will, sense mind, heart, the vital and sensational being and translate them by a luminous and harmonising conversion into a unity ...
... evolution. And latest philosophical speculations, we are told, affirm the idea of evolution, and, in varying degrees, come quite close to the Indian promise of the future evolution of-man into a gnostic being. This theme is global in character, and its call is to the whole being of man. Once undertaken, it keeps one on the track of continuous self-development and self- exceeding. It can, indeed ...
... shaped into the image of and filled with the force of a greater infinite energy. The third element of perfection is, according Sri Aurobindo, the evolution of the mental into the supramental gnostic being which would progressively take up all the terms of intelligence, will, sense-mind, heart, the vital and sensational being and translate them by a luminous and harmonising conversion into a unity ...
... to meet and join with the supramental light and power descending from the superconscient. The consequence of the transformation of the Inconscient would mean the appearance in the evolution of a Gnostic being and a Gnostic nature, Gnostic Purusha and Gnostic Prakriti. Humanity today is, in respect to the higher possible evolution, much in the position of the original Ape of the Darwinian Theory. That ...
... Page 309 very substantial stuff of the body, although still remaining material, will be of an altogether different sort. For, corresponding to the supramental consciousness of the gnostic being there exists what Sri Aurobindo calls "supramental substance". This supramental substance alone can confer on the physical body the status of a worthy mansion for the self-manifesting Spirit ...
... 40): In ancient theories, even in Indian theories with their idea of Karma, "there was no suggestion of a progressive evolution from type to higher type, still less of birth into a kind of being [gnostic being,] that has never yet existed but has still to evolve in the future. "If evolution there is, then [according to those theories,] man is the last stage, because through him there can be the ...
... 25 Poet of Yoga I While examining the implications of Sri Aurobindo's Vision of the Future, we saw how the probable divinisation of man the individual - the emergence of the Gnostic being - will necessarily inspire his immediate environment leading to a better social order and also accelerate the urge towards the realisation of global human unity. But the new Man would also evolve ...
... face was like a renewal of strength and hope, and one dared to hope that even the frailest foulest clay could evolve - however long the journey and arduous the path - into the supermanhood of the Gnostic Being and the triune glory of Sachchidananda! VI Darśan and Pranām were special occasions - elected moments - when through physical contacts the physical is transcended and the ...
... Knowledge, 434; Karma and rebirth, 434; dynamics of spirituality, 434; ascent towards Supermind, 436ff; steps of ascent, 436ff; higher mind, illumined mind, intuition, overmind, 436-7; emergence of Gnostic being, 437ff; current evolutionary crisis, 438; Mind of light, 439; a Manifesto for the Future, 440; tributes, 440; synthesis of West & East, 440-41; compared with Plato, Plotinus & others, 441-2; with ...
... terrestrial existence. 31 The coming of such a spiritual age cannot, of course, be taken for granted, or prepared for institutionally. Much would depend upon those - not just an isolated Gnostic Being or Mahatma or Mahayogi, but a number of them - who by their self-evolution or self-transcendence into a higher mould have qualified to be leaders of the spiritual march. But although these first ...
... in operation on earth shaping a race of mental beings, this supramental consciousness has to be brought down to earth to shape a race of spiritual or gnostic beings and it his is what he has done by sacrificing his own life for the future of humanity. This will naturally take time for its manifestation as Mind took time to appear in the life-being of the animals. The evolutionary principle works... pursuit of the highest knowledge, i .e., self- knowledge be considered such? The play of involution and evolution, of self .concealment and self discovery is the 'Lila ' of the Divine one. Every being and everything is inhabited by the Divine which is His own self-creation, then why should not soul in man seek the Divine attracted like iron to magnet t? It is the nature of the soul to realise its ...
... Quotes In the untransformed part of humanity itself there might well arise a new and greater order of mental human beings: for the directly intuitive or partly intuitivised but not yet gnostic mental being, the directly or partly illumined mental being, the mental being in direct or part communion with the higher-thought plane would emerge: these would become more and more numerous, more and... parts of the embodied being. Sri Aurobindo: Essays in Philosophy and Yoga , pp. 536-37 It can be affirmed with certainty that there will be an intermediate specimen between the mental and the supramental being, a kind of overman who will still have the qualities and in part the nature of man, which means that he will still belong in his most external form to the human being of animal origin, but... secure in their type, and might even exist as a formed race of higher humanity leading upwards the less evolved in a true fraternity born of the sense of the manifestation of the One Divine in all beings. Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine , p. 999 It might be that the psychological change, a mastery of the nature by the soul, a transformation of the mind into a principle of light, of the life-force ...
... not its last summit." And again : "As there has been established on earth a mental consciousness and power which shapes a race of mental beings, so now there will be established here a gnostic consciousness and power which will shape a race of gnostic spiritual beings and take up into itself all of earth nature that is ready for this new transformation." Since this was what he foresaw in his spiritual... therefore, insists that we have to go deeper after this first realisation of the soul to the Psychic entity lying dormant in the deepest recesses of our being. This psychic transformation has been achieved by only a limited number of human beings up to the present. But this is only a first step in his yoga, the triple transformation of psychic, spiritual and supramental change will achieve a complete... first in the vegetable kingdom, then in insects, worms, reptiles, birds and beasts and lastly in the developed mental consciousness of developed animals and human beings. The mental consciousness Page 8 of human beings is not the last term of the evolutionary progression of consciousness. It will exceed Mind as mind has exceeded the life consciousness of animals and culminate in ...
... fumbling humanity. The supramental Light is to be invoked to come down into our nature in order to change it. That "gnostic" Power would perfect the organization of this nature around our inmost soul-element or psychic being and call forth the Divinity which is involved in material existence and which serves, by its covert presence... use may be diminishing, but surely for a very long time a good deal will be to hand. It is not after the prophesied "heat-death" of the universe that Sri Aurobindo's "gnostic beings" are envisaged as developing out of us by human aspiration and the response of divine grace. Long before the anticipated low-temperature dead-end the involved... of entropy follows its rigorous course", 46 cannot with its remotely far future stand in the way of the Aurobindonian super-evolution. And, if indeed "gnostic beings" come to be, can one say what they will do about the problem of entropy? Put an active Supermind both below and above the evolutionary process and you immediately imply ...
... towards the being of the gnosis; for so long as we live in the ego, it is idle to hope for this higher reality, this vast self-consciousness, this true self-knowledge. The least reversion to ego-thought, ego-action, ego-will brings back the consciousness tumbling out of such gnostic Truth as it has attained into the falsehoods of the divided mind-nature. A secure universality of being is the very basis... here because they are sought in the lower being, abnormally, by the ego for an egoistic satisfaction. In the Vijnana they are neither occult nor siddhis, but the open, unforced and normal play of its nature. The Vijnana is the Truth-power and Truth-action of the divine Being in its divine identities, and, when this acts through the individual lifted to the gnostic plane, it fulfils itself unperverted,... consciousness of the forces of the super-self above and around him. All changes when we pass from mind to gnosis; for there a direct inherent knowledge is the central principle. The gnostic ( vijñānamaya ) being is in its character a truth-consciousness, a centre and circumference of the truth-vision of things, a massed movement or subtle body of gnosis. Its action is a self-fulfilling and radiating ...
... my having experienced the Timeless in Time. When there at the darshan , there was not the least doubt in my mind that I had met two people who had experienced what they claimed. They were Gnostic Beings. They had realized this new consciousness which Sri Aurobindo called the Supramental.’ 38 Sri Aurobindo, Mahasamadhi, 5 December 1950 ... the documents of what has been the greatest, because decisive, intervention in the history of humankind. True, their work has been performed on a plane surpassing the ordinary consciousness of human beings, but the insight into it that the documents allow us can only clarify and increase our appreciation of it. Sri Aurobindo entered death voluntarily. The Mother said in the same month of December... still in progress and its crowning epilogue, the Kingdom of God upon Earth, will be visible, livable and describable only much later. Sri Aurobindo has not gone ‘the way of all flesh’ like human beings before him have and still do; he did not die because of a law of nature deemed unbreakable. In the aforementioned words of the Mother: ‘He was not forced to leave his body, he has chosen to do so.’ ...
... as my having experienced the Timeless in Time. When there at darshan, there was not the least doubt in my mind that I had met two people who had experienced what they claimed. They were Gnostic Beings. They had realized this new consciousness which Sri Aurobindo called the Supramental.’ 2 In those November days of 1938, the focus of all attention in the Ashram was the newly arrived... conclusions. Hitler was an ordinary human being, with a soul and a rather elementary, sentimental but cruel psychological makeup, once compared by Sri Aurobindo to that of a street criminal with the psychic being of a London cab driver. (Stalin, on the contrary, was not human, in the sense that he did not have a soul but was a direct incarnation of a vital being.) ‘It is the vital possession that gives... the Gods, on the other in ‘ensouling’ the manifestation – an ensoulment that on the occult side of the evolution has led to the World Soul being individualized in the many souls of humanity, and in the building up of the individual psychic being in every human being. When we connect the Mother’s role in the evolutionary action with what was at stake in the Second World War, and consider that the Mother ...
... realisation of what may be called a gnostic mentality, in a transformation of the human being, even before the supermind is reached, even in the earth-consciousness and in a humanity transformed, an illumined divine life. It would be an intermediate or forerunner race between our mentalised humanity and the ultimate supramentalised Gnostic beings.* Along with Sri Aurobindo's... was mentioned Page 695 that Sri Aurobindo knew Hebrew; on being told about it, Sri Aurobindo queried laughingly: "Why not say that I knew Amhari and other African languages?" He also referred to the 'miracles' he was supposed to have performed, according to Motilal Mehta's biography. Once on being told that he couldn't see Sri Aurobindo, a visitor had ingenuously asked the Mother:... 12 July 1911 - probably to Motilal Roy of Chandernagore - about his being able to put himself "into men and change them, removing the darkness and bringing light, giving them a new heart and a new mind".* During the intervening thirty years, this power had evidently grown and proved susceptible to purposive application. But being still an Overmental - not a Supramental - power, it was not certain ...
... 54 “In the untransformed part of humanity itself there might well arise a new and greater order of mental human beings; for the directly intuitive or partly intuitivised but not yet gnostic mental being, the directly or partly illumined mental being, the mental being in direct or part communion with the higher-thought plane would emerge: these would become more and more numerous, more and... ** “Even before the gnostic change there can be a beginning of this fundamental ecstasy of being translated into a manifold beauty and delight. In the mind, it translates into a calm of intense delight of spiritual perception and vision and knowledge, in the heart into a wide or deep or passionate delight of universal union and love and sympathy and the joy of beings and the joy of things. In... the possibility of a human ascent towards a divine living; then there will be, by the illumination of this mind of Light in the greater realisation of what may be called a gnostic mentality, in a transformation of the human being, even before the Supermind is reached, even in the earth-consciousness and in a humanity transformed, an illumined divine life.” 22 “Supermind and Mind of Light” is the ...
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