... whole. The basis is the Higher Mind: in the first half many of the lines (2-7) are illumined and there is even a strong influence of the Overmind Intuition. In the latter half, the same with a slighter illumination (9, 10), last line again the uplifting Overmind Intuition influence." * (What precisely is meant when we say poems exist already on the higher planes and have only to be transmitted... authenticity and beauty, there is seldom anything to change; (3) a higher level of grander movement and language in which you pull down or reach the influences of the Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Overmind Intuition. The last you have not yet fully Page 152 mastered so as to write with an absolute certainty and faultlessness except by lines and stanzas or else as a whole in rare moments ...
... Blue Light Blue light, according to the shades, means several different things. If the blue lights [ seen in vision ] were of different shades it might mean the overhead planes, Overmind, Intuition, Illumined Mind, Higher Mind. The light from the higher planes of consciousness just above the mind is blue. The light indicates an action of force (bluish probably indicates the... Page 130 red light has a strong transforming power. The golden Light is that of the modified (overmentalised) Supramental, i.e., the Supramental Light passing through the Overmind, intuition etc. and becoming the Light of Truth in each of these planes. When it is golden red it means the same modified supramental-physical Light—the Light of divine Truth in the physical. "Red ...
... The basis is the Higher Mind: in the first half many of the lines (2-7) are illumined and there is even a strong influence of the Overmind Intuition. In the latter half, the same with a slighter illumination (9, 10), last line again the uplifting Overmind Intuition influence." * (What precisely is meant when we say poems exist already on the higher planes and have only to be ...
... touch." In regard to that analysis and the description now of it as coming from the Overmind Intuition, see the next question and answer. (K.D.S.) Page 97 should expect its intervention to be extremely rare even as a touch; but I refer at present all higher Overmind intervention to the Overmind Intuition in order to avoid any risk of overstatement. In the process if overmental transformation... It is a combined inspiration, Illumined Mind with an element cf Higher Mind coming in to Page 95 modify it and sometimes rising to touch Intuition—even what might be called Overmind intuition. The last touch is strongest in lines 2, 3, there is something of it in lines 5, 6, 7, a little in the last three lines. "It is, I suppose, some Anandamaya rhythm of the divine inmost Silence... intuisive inspiration. Lines 7, 8—1 am inclined to ascribe them at their source of vision to an Page 96 intermediate plane which is not Overmind itself but may be called the Overmind Intuition You are right about the' second line—'The mute unshadowed spaces of her mind'; it is one of the finest you have written and is absolutely authentic and true. 1 Both lines have a strong revelatory ...
... Intuition. Now you have spoken of Overmind Intuition as 1 This line originally was part of another poem which was far from being overhead. Sri Aurobindo there called it "splendid" and in a later analysis of sources said of it: "Intuitive with Overmind touch." In regard to that analysis and the description now of it as coming from the Overmind Intuition, see the next question and answer... taken upwards by a wide intuitive inspiration. Lines 7,8—I am inclined to ascribe them at their source of vision to an intermediate plane which is not Overmind itself but may be called the Overmind Intuition. You are right about the second line—'The mute unshadowed spaces of her mind'; it is one of the finest you have written and is absolutely authentic and true. 1 Both lines have a strong revelatory... sufficiently to say whether it enters in anywhere or not.... I should expect its intervention to be extremely rare even as a touch; but I refer at present all higher Overmind intervention to the Overmind Intuition in order to avoid any risk of overstatement. In the process of overmental transformation what I have observed is that the Overmind first takes up the illumined and higher mind and intellect ...
... own work which derives from there? If not, is it possible to give some idea as to what quality of rhythm, language and substance would constitute the difference between the expression of the Overmind Intuition and the Overmind Gnosis? Those four lines I quoted to you from yourself the other day—where do they hail from? Arms taking to a voiceless supreme delight, Life that meets the Eternal... sufficiently to say whether it enters in anywhere or not. I should expect its intervention to be extremely rare even as a touch; but I refer at present all higher overmind intervention to the O.I. [ Overmind Intuition ] in order to avoid any risk of overstatement. In the process of overmental transformation what I have observed is that the Overmind first takes up the illumined and higher mind and intellect... itself to suit the operation—the result is what may be called a mental Overmind—then it lifts these lower movements and the intuitive mind together into a higher reach of itself, forming there the Overmind Intuition, and then all that into the Overmind Gnosis awaiting the supramental transformation. The overmind "touch" on the Higher Mind and Illumined Mind can thus raise towards the O.I. or to the O.G. ...
... and below Supermind, that we find the four “spiritual” levels which play such an important part in the subject that concerns us. They are, in descending order and as named by Sri Aurobindo: Overmind, Intuition, Illumined Mind and Higher Mind. Together they make up a region which contains the possible gradations of consciousness of the transitional beings whom Sri Aurobindo called “the new humanity”... Absolute, and therefore of the upper hemisphere, are Light in all its modulations, variations, and powers. The substances of the Inconscient, and therefore of the lower hemisphere, are darkness. Overmind, Intuition, Illumined Mind and Higher Mind are modulations of the Light of the upper hemisphere, while actually belonging to the lower hemisphere. “Thus there is a succession of ranges of consciousness... × Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine, p. 946. × Overmind, Intuition, Illumined Mind and Higher Mind are of course supra-mental. But to avoid confusion with Supermind, which is also named “the Supramental” and which is designated by the adjective “supramental” ...
... little potential I may have had to start with. For instance, can I ever believe that I could have written "Overhead poetry" in any bulk - tapping at times the plane which Sri Aurobindo has called "Overmind Intuition" and even receiving "an Overmind touch" - without his labouring upon my thick skull for years to bring about something of the situation hit off by him so overheadily in those lines of his own ...
... mind! 14 SRI AUROBINDO'S COMMENT That is extraordinarily fine thioughout. But it is too fine for any need of remarks. Lines 3 4, 5, also 10,11, 12, 13, 14, Illumined Mind with Overmind Intuition touch—the rest Higher Mind suffused with Illumined Mind." * (The Muse is again away and I am feeling impatient. Can't you give me some clue about the direction of consciousness ...
... natural home. 1 Are not these lines, which I regard as the ne plus ultra in world-poetry, a snatch of the sheer Overmind?) "This passage is, I believe, what I might call the Overmind Intuition at work expressing itself in something like its own rhythm and language. It is difficult to say about one's own poetry, but I think I have succeeded here and in some passages later on in catching ...
... infinite trance. SRI AUROBINDO'S COMMENT All the lines are very fine, especially those marked. The three first of each stanza have a great intensity of vision— Higher Mind plus Overmind Intuition touch. The last—Higher Mind plus Illumined Mind—is not equal in vision but still not too far below." (Is it a bad habit on my part or the natural movement of a certain type of inspiration ...
... her he met a vastness like his own; His warm high subtle ether he refound And moved in her as in his natural home. [ cf. pp. 14-16 ] This passage is, I believe, what I might call the Overmind Intuition at work expressing itself in something like its own rhythm and language. It is difficult to say about one's own poetry, but I think I have succeeded here and in some passages later on Page ...
... the same level as the preceding and following lines all these six become one piece with one power and level of inspiration: Higher Mind with some colour of Illumination and just touched by Overmind Intuition—a faultless movement of vision and colour, all welded together into a harmonious whole. The next two rise still more to an extraordinary lofty inspiration (Illumined Mind with the Overmind ...
... "Very fine throughout. It is a combined inspiration, Illumined Mind with an element of Higher Mind coming in to modify it and sometimes rising to touch Intuition—even what might be called Overmind Intuition. The last touch is strongest in lines 2, 3, there is something of it in lines 5,6, 7, a little in the last three lines. "It is, I suppose, some Anandamaya rhythm of the divine inmost ...
... but there is a mental rhythm— very good and expressive rhythm, no doubt. The rest is the Higher Mind with touch of Illumination and Intuition—the last three lines are the Illumined Mind with Overmind Intuition touch, extremely fine." * Page 49 "If I have given high praise to a passage, it does not follow that it is from the Overmind; the poetic (aesthetic) value or ...
... infinite trance. Sri Aurobindo's Comment "All the lines are very fine, especially those marked. The three first of each stanza have a great intensity of vision—Higher Mind plus Overmind Intuition touch. The last—Higher Mind plus Illumined Mind—is not equal in vision but still not too far below." (Is it a bad habit on my part or the natural movement of a certain type of inspiration ...
... 6)The Higher Mind. 7)The Illumined Mind. 8)The Intuition or the Intuitive Mind. 9)The Overmind, with its four domains: a)The Mental Overmind. b)The Intuitive Overmind or the Overmind Intuition. c)The Overmind Proper. d)The Gnostic or Supramentalised Overmind. The Inner Mind Intelligence is the Inner Mind acting not in a special field of its own but in the same field as... suit the new working it forms the Mental Overmind. When it takes up the Intuition together with these powers into itself and again gets suitably modified, we have the Intuitive Overmind or the Overmind Intuition. Perhaps the Overmind Proper and the Gnostic Overmind may be regarded as one whole, but it may be useful to distinguish them in the sense that the former may be conceived as employing whatever* ...
... SRI AUROBINDO'S COMMENT "That is extraordinarily fine throughout. But it is too fine for any need of remarks. Lines 3, 4, 5, also 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, Illumined Mind with Overmind Intuition touch - the rest Higher Mind suffused with Illumined Mind." MADONNA MIA I merge in her rhythm of haloed reverie By spacious vigil-lonelinesses drawn... and highly inspired. When the inspiration is there, you reach more and more a peculiar fusion of the three influences, higher mental, illumined mental and intuitive, with a touch of the Overmind Intuition coming in. This touch is strongest here in the second and the two closing lines, but it is present in all except two — the third which is yet a very fine line indeed and the seventh where ...
... asked Sri Aurobindo: "Are not these lines which I regard as the ne plus ultra in world-poetry a snatch of the sheer Overmind?" He replied: "This passage is, I believe, what I might call the Overmind Intuition at work expressing itself in something like its own rhythm and language. It is difficult to say about one's own poetry, but I think I have succeeded here and in some passages later on in catching... considering that several lines of other poets which he had hesitated about were later adjudged by him to be from the Overmind, it seems certain that this passage which he had ascribed to the Overmind Intuition, a plane he had defined as not Overmind itself but an intermediate level where intuition proper grows massive in substance and rhythm, would have been traced by him to the supreme source if he ...
... from the Illumined Mind, the third is Higher Mind at a high level. The fifth comes from the I higher Mind—the sixth, seventh and eighth from the Illumined Mind touched with something from the Overmind Intuition, though the touch is more evident in 6 and 8 only" * Page 113 SILVER GRACE A love has sealed us one with paradise— A kiss of crescent moon upon earth's... Mind but there is a mental rhythm—very good and expressive rhythm, no doubt. The rest is the Higher Mind with touch of Illumination and Intuition—The last three lines are the Illumined Mind with Overmind Intuition touch, extremely fine." * "If I have given high praise to a passage, it does not follow that it is from the Overmind; the poetic (aesthetic) value or perfection of a line, passage ...
... it to be the Supermind. Acting in the Asram means only acting in the earth consciousness to prepare its own possibility. The forces above the human Page 351 mind, especially Overmind, Intuition, Illumined Mind can be very intense and fiery. They have divine powers in them. 12 18 September 1935 You wrote that you are "trying to get the supermind down into the material". 13 ...
... authenticity and beauty, there is seldom anything to change; (3) a higher level of grander movement and language in which you pull down or reach the influences of the Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Overmind Intuition. This last you have not yet fully mastered so as to write with an absolute certainty and faultlessness except by lines and stanzas or else as a whole in rare moments of total inspiration, but ...
... intuition. That is the reason why men of intellect distrust the mental intuition and say that it cannot be accepted or followed unless it is tested and confirmed by the intellect. What comes from the overmind intuition has a light, a certitude, an effective force of Truth in it that the mental intuition at its best even has not. Yes, 1 but it does not necessarily come from the original source—the ...
... Overmind There are different planes of the Overmind. One is mental, directly creative of all the formations that manifest below in the mental world—that is the mental Overmind. Above is the overmind Intuition. Still above are the planes of overmind that are more and more connected with the supermind and have a Page 153 partly supramental character. Highest in the overmind ranges is the ...
... luminous reproduction of the Truth in a diminished working, extending the power of the Light not only to its own but to lower levels of consciousness in their climb towards self-transcendence. Overmind, Intuition, Illumined Mind and what I have called Higher Mind, these and other levels of a spiritualised and liberated mentality, will be able to reflect in the uplifted human mind and its purified and ...
... fragmentary, casual or partial; we have still to begin to enlarge ourselves into their likeness and organise in us the greater Truth activities of which we are potentially capable. But, secondly, Overmind, Intuition, even Supermind not only must be, as we have seen, principles inherent and involved in the Inconscience from which we arise in the evolution and inevitably destined to evolve, but are secretly ...
... Life Divine as those of Spiritual Mind, employing the epithet "spiritual" in a particular sense in distinction from "supramental". Downward from Supermind these gradations he labels as Overmind, Intuition, 9 9 . This is to be distinguished from the intuitive mind constituted by the mere intelligence functioning intuitively. The intuition, coated over with intellectual elements ...
... powerful and highly inspired. When the inspiration is there, you reach more and more a peculiar fusion of the three influences, higher mental, illumined mental and intuitive, with a touch of the Overmind Intuition coming in. This touch is strongest here in the second and the two closing lines, but it is present in all except two—the third which is yet a very fine line indeed and the seventh where it ...
... from the Illumined Mind, the third is Higher Mind at a high level. The fifth comes from the Higher Mind—the sixth, seventh and eighth from the Illumined Mind touched with something from the Overmind Intuition, though the touch is more evident in 6 and 8." Page 48 ...
... mind! 14 Sri Aurobindo's Comment "That is extraordinarily fine throughout. But it is too fine for any need of remarks. Lines 3,4,5, also 10,11,12,13,14, Illumined Mind with Overmind Intuition touch—the rest Higher Mind suffused with Illumined Mind." * (The Muse is again away and I am feeling impatient. Can't you give me some clue about the direction of consciousness ...
... of shadowless mind! (Orison) About both these passages Sri Aurobindo says that they come Page 376 from the Illumined Mind with the touch of Overmind Intuition. 46 Sethna, we conclude, has always tried, under the guidance of his master, to widen the locus of his poetry, pushing its frontiers to regions normally unknown to the thinking mind ...
... infinite trance. SRI AUROBINDO COMMENT "All the lines are very fine, especially those marked. The three first of each stanza have a great intensity of vision -Higher Mind plus Overmind Intuition touch. The last -Higher Mind plus Illumined Mind - is not equal in vision but still not too far below." (Is it a bad habit on my part or the natural movement of a certain type of i ...
... poetry. It was possible to be receptive to it without myself getting stationed on those higher levels. Sri Aurobindo distinguished these levels as higher mind, illumined mind, intuitive mind and overmind intuition. He considered these planes as being communicated by us through our poems. The sheer overmind was difficult to tap and examples of the sheer communication could be found mostly in the Rig Veda ...
... y and beauty, there is seldom anything to change; (3) a higher level of grander movement and language in which you pull down or reach the influences of the Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Overmind Intuition. The last you have not yet fully mastered so as to write with an absolute certainty and faultlessness except by lines and stanzas or else as a whole in rare moments of total inspiration ...
... a certain passage in Savitri — the description of Savitri herself in Canto Two of Book One — had come from. Very reluctantly he had admitted it to have come from the Overmind or rather the Overmind Intuition, as he very cautiously used to label the source of the highest poetry in his own works. The passage begins: Near to earth's wideness, intimate with heaven, Exalted and swift ...
... which takes up the Illumine Mind and Higher Mind and even the intellect to form a rental Overmind, next an uplifting of these lower movements and the Intuitive Mind together to constitute the Overmind Intuition, which is like the Intuitive Mind grown massive and widened, lastly the Gnostic Overmind or Over- mind Gnosis bearing some colour of the Supermind and ¹. The Supramental M ...
... opened Sri Aurobindo's Savitri at the passage in which he describes the avatar-like nature of Savitri. It is a passage which he, on being taxed by my questions, had said to be originating in the Overmind Intuition. I read it out loudly, giving full effect to its marvellous rhythm. Especially when I came to the line— Page 77 For even her gulfs were secrecies of light— I ...
... overwhelmingly powerful and fiery-keen. Acting in the Ashram means only acting in the earth-consciousness to prepare its own possibility. The forces above the human mind, especially Overmind, Intuition, Illumined Mind can be very intense and fiery. They have divine powers in them. You said that "the Supermind descent into Matter is what is being attempted". In that case, has ...
... luminous reproduction of the Truth in a diminished working extending the power of the Light not only to its own but to lower levels of consciousness in their climb towards self-transcendence. Overmind, Intuition, Illumined Mind and what I have called Higher Mind, these and other levels of a spiritualised and liberated .mentality, will be able to reflect in the uplifted human mind and its purified and ...
... his own, His high warm subtle ether he refound And moved in her as in his natural home. In her he met his own eternity". "This passage is, I believe, what I might call the Overmind Intuition at work expressing itself in something like its own rhythm and language. It is difficult to say about one's own poetry, but I think I have succeeded here and in some other passages later on in ...
... significance. I have understood it as follows: Central circle—Transcendental power. Four inner petals—Four powers working from the Supermind to Overmind. Twelve outer petals—Division of four into twelve powers from Overmind to Intuition and mind. Is my conception at all tenable? Essentially (in general principle) the 12 powers are the vibrations that are necessary for the complete ...
... self-limitation which begins even with Overmind: Overmind is separated by only a luminous border from the full light and power of the supramental Truth and Page 589 it still commands direct access to all that Supermind can give it. There is a further limitation or change of characteristic action at each step downwards from Overmind to Intuition, from Intuition to Illumined Mind, from Illumined... into the mental ignorance; it is capable of a mental gnosis that preserves its connection with the superior light and acts by its power. This is the character of Overmind in its own plane and of all the powers that are dependent on the Overmind: the Supermind works there but at one remove as if in something that it has put forth from itself but which is no longer entirely itself but is still a delegate ...
... increasing self-limitation which begins even with Overmind: Overmind is separated by only a luminous border on the full light and power of the supramental Truth and it still commands direct access to all that Supermind can give it. There is a further limitation or change of characteristic action at each step downwards from Overmind to Intuition, from Intuition to Illumined Mind, from Illumined Mind to what... into the mental ignorance; it is capable of a mental gnosis that preserves its connection with the superior light and acts by its power. This is the character of Overmind in its own plane and of all the powers that are dependent on the Overmind: the Supermind works there but at one remove as if in something that it has put forth from itself but which is no longer entirely itself but is still a delegate ...
... proceed on his way towards a real freedom and a higher, larger and truer siddhi. At each step this has to be done. For whatever comes in this way to the sadhaka 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 definitive and final; it is not the Supreme Truth in which he can rest, but only a stage. And yet these stages... matter which way it is put or whether one is quite aware of what one is doing or aware of it in these terms, it comes to that in substance. It is not the Overmind which was entered, for to go straight into the Overmind is impossible. The Overmind is indeed above and behind the whole action of the cosmi consciousness, but one can at first have only an indirect connection with it; things come down from... transmission, without anything like the full power and truth they have in the Overmind itself on its native level. Most of the movements come not from the Overmind, but down from higher mind ranges. The ideas with which these experiences are penetrated and on which they seem to rest their claim to truth are not of the Overmind, but of the higher Mind or sometimes of the illumined Mind; but they are mixed ...
... proceed on his way towards a real freedom and a higher, larger and truer siddhi. At each step this has to be 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 definitive and final; it is not the supreme Truth in which he can rest, but only a stage. And yet these stages... whether one is quite aware of what one is doing or aware of it in these terms, it comes to thatn substance. It is not the Overmind which was entered, fir to go straight into the Overmind is impossible. The Overmind is indeed above and behind the whole action If the cosmic consciousness, but one can at first have only an indirect connection with it; things come do.wn... transmission, without anything like the full power and truth they have in the Overmind itself on its native levels. Most of the movements come not from the Overmind, but down from higher mind ranges. The ideas with which these experiences are penetratedand on which they seem to rest their claim to truth are lot of the Overmind, but of the higher Mind or sometime of the illumined Mind; but they are mixed ...
... of the Supermind to Y. I know what it is, I had flashes and glimpses of it. I have been trying to Supramentalize the Overmind. Not that the Supermind is not acting. It is doing so through Overmind and Intuition and the intermediate powers have come down. Supermind is above the Overmind (He showed it by placing one palm above the other) so that one may mistake one for the other. I remember the day when... : If none is ready to receive how will the Supermind manifest itself? But instead of thinking of Supermind one has first to open oneself to Intuition. ( At this time Mother came and asked what we were talking.) Sri Aurobindo : About intuition etc. (Then as Mother lapsed into meditation we all joined. Mother departed for meditation at about 7 P. M.) Sri Aurobindo : "Does... I did not know about the many planes. It was Vivekananda who used to come to me in Alipore Jail and showed to me Intuitive plane and for about two to three weeks or so gave me training as regards Intuition. Then afterwards I began to see still higher planes. I am not satisfied with only a part, or a flash of Supermind but I want to bring down the whole mass of the Supermind pure, and that is an extremely ...
... to bear or, bearing, unable to respond and receive or, receiving, unable to assimilate. Till Nature is ready, the supramental Force has to act indirectly; it puts the intermediary powers of Overmind or Intuition in front, or it works through a modification of itself to which the already half-transformed being can be wholly or partially responsive. 127 Page 112 ... live above in the summit Page 99 consciousness where overmind has its seat with the other planes that are above the human Mind. The supramental transformation can only come when the lid between the lower and higher hemispheres or halves of existence is removed and the supermind instead of the overmind becomes the governing power of the existence.... 114 * The... 124 * It is the supramental alone that can transform the material being, but the physical mind and the physical vital can be very much changed by the action of the psychic and of the overmind. The entire change however is made only when there is the supramental influence. But for the present the psychic is the force that may be relied on for the preliminary purification of the lower nature ...
... of trouble into the higher zones of consciousness where one is in direct contact with the Divine Truth. On the other hand the passage through the higher zones—higher Mind, illumined Mind, Intuition, Overmind—is obligatory; they are the true Intermediaries between the present consciousness and the Supermind. All these experiences are of the same nature and what applies to one applies to another... proceed on his way towards a real freedom and a higher, larger and truer siddhi. At each step this has to be 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 definitive and final; it is not the supreme Truth in which he can rest, but only a stage. And yet these stages... matter which way it is put or whether one is quite aware of what one is doing or aware of it in these terms, it comes to that in substance. It is not the Overmind which was entered, for to go straight into the Overmind is impossible. The Overmind is indeed above and behind the whole action of the cosmic consciousness, but one can at first have only an indirect connection with it; things come down from ...
... the central circle "of the Mother's symbol of Chakra" meant the Transcendental Power, the four inner petals the four powers working from the Supermind to the Overmind, and the twelve outer petals the powers from the Overmind to Intuition and Mind. 18 But of course the real worth of a symbol is in its fusion of connotative richness and aesthetic appeal. "Always the symbol is legitimate," says... interviews. There were the visits to the sadhaks' rooms, the drives in the evenings. In the early months after the Siddhi Day, the daily collective meditation was the time when the Mother invoked the Overmind gods into the sadhaks, and there were brilliant - and, occasionally, startling - results. Several had visions - some slipped into trance-like states - and a few had occasional nightmares. It was ...
... मनीषा, any of these might do, if no single word can be found or invented. Overmind and Intuition Is Overmind to the Cosmic Spirit as Intuition is to the individual Self? The Cosmic Spirit uses all powers, but Overmind power is the highest it normally uses in the present scheme of things here. In that sense as intuition is normally the highest power used by the individual being in the body, what... may be considered as correct. 2 June 1933 Intuition In a recent letter to me you wrote: "But the Intuition sees in flashes and combines through a constant play of light—through revelations, inspirations, intuitions, swift discriminations." Since all these terms connect up with "Intuition", perhaps "intuitions" is unnecessary. "Intuition" is the word for the general power proper to that... experiences. 7 July 1936 Supermind and Overmind Is it true that when you write "must", it is from the Supermind, and when you write "maybe" or "if", it is from the Overmind? No—I can't say that. The Overmind has its certitudes also, though of a less absolute kind than the supramental. 19 March 1933 What is the connection between Overmind and Supermind? That would need some chapters ...
... same time. Q : When a person receives illumination is that the working of the Overmind? A : Not in all cases. It might be only Intuition; it might be the Illumined Mind, it might be the Higher Mind. Overmind is very rare. Some operation of Overmind one may feel, but not the Overmind itself—Overmind itself is overwhelmingly wide. Q : Are there different stages of illumintion ?... intermediate station in space before they can launch to the moon. Overmind is such an intermediate level of consciousness for the human spirit when it moves from mind towards Supermind. Mind while ascending to the Overmind experiences the working of some new faculties Intuition, Inspiration, then Revelation, etc. When it reaches the Overmind then it is able to enter and make an approach to the Truth-Co... And Overmind communicates with the organized mind through intuition, through intimations of the mind. Mind's effort to universalise itself, is rewarded by the Overmind, by giving it first knowledge of the One, and its application in power. Mind is able to go further and further toward the Light. Thus the complete separation even in Matter does not make the whole process illusory. Overmind, through ...
... through an intuitivised will, feeling, emotion, sensation and physical contact. So, proceeding from intuition to a greater overmind height, there is a new conversion and we look at and experience everything from the overmind consciousness and through a mind, heart, vital and body surcharged with the overmind thought, sight, will, feeling, sensation, play of force and contact. And the last conversion is... to be prepared, at least theoretically, to accept Supermind and the possibility of its manifestation on earth? I doubt if there are many—they would give the answers you suggest. As for Overmind and Intuition, there are some who are in contact with these planes, I suppose. Those who live in them must be very rare. 20 March 1934 There appears to be so much self-concentration in the people... Supermind could be added as a fourth, as it draws upon the other three and belongs to the upper hemisphere. The Indian systems did not distinguish between the Overmind and the Supermind, which is the reason why they got confused about Maya (Overmind-Force), took it for the supreme creative power and lost the secret of the transformation—although the Vaishnava and Tantra Yogas groped to find it again and ...
... need the help of the intuition, the intuition needs the help of the overmind to combat the darkness or ignorance in which they labour and to give them their own fullness. Still, it is not possible in the end for the overmind status and integration to be complete until the higher mind and the illumined mind have been integrated and taken up into the intuition and the intuition itself subsequently integrated... altogether penetrated, turned into light, transformed by an inferior power of the Truth-nature. The next step of the ascent brings us to the Overmind; the intuitional change can only be an introduction to this higher spiritual overture. But we have seen that the Overmind, even when it is selective and not total in its action, is still a power of cosmic consciousness, a principle of global knowledge which... incomplete; these would then remain in the whole, acting along with the greater Power, often penetrated or sublimated by it or rising into it to form a greater or over mind intuition, a greater or overmind illumination, a greater or overmind spiritual thinking. This intricate action takes place because each descending power by its intensity of pressure on the nature and uplifting effect makes the being already ...
... light, transformed by an inferior power of the Truth-nature. The Life Divine, pp. 946-50 (d) Overmind The next step of the ascent brings us to the Overmind; the intuitional change can only be an introduction to this higher spiritual overture. But... the Overmind, even when it is selective and not total in its action, is still a power of cosmic consciousness, a principle... that we can know what it is and this also cannot be done until after a long process by which mind heightening and illuminating becomes pure Intuition (not the mixed thing that ordinarily goes by that name) and masses itself into overmind; after that overmind can be lifted into and suffused with supermind till it undergoes a transformation. In the supermind all is self-known self-luminously... main ascents, each with its high level of fulfilment. These gradations may be summarily described as a series of sublimations of the consciousness through Higher Mind, Illumined Mind and Intuition into Overmind and beyond it; there is a succession of self-transmutations at the summit of which lies the Supermind or Divine Gnosis. All these degrees Page 142 are gnostic in their principle ...
... I think it would need the Supermind itself to establish such a complete rapport . The psychic can do much in that direction but on condition it has a complete control. Overmind and Intuition could do it on their own plane, but here they have to descend into the physical consciousness and that interferes with its immense obscurity in addition to the distortions of mind and vital. 27 May 1934... experiences of higher stages like Overmind and Supermind, because the psychic has no instrumentality to know about them. Communication through letters would, therefore, still be necessary. But if a person had a perfect rapport with the Mother, he might be able to dispense with the need of communicating through letters. But would even a person who had realised the Overmind have such a perfect rapport? ...
... through an intuitivised will, feeling, emotion, sensation and physical contact. So, proceeding from Intuition to a greater overmind height, there is a new conversion and we look at and experience everything from the overmind consciousness and through a mind, heart, vital and body surcharged with the Overmind thought, sight, will, feeling, sensation, play of force and contact. But the last conversion is... penetrated, turned into light, transformed by an inferior power of the Truth-nature. The next step of the ascent brings us to the Overmind; the intuitional change can only be an introduction to this higher spiritual overture. But we have seen that the Overmind, even when it is selective and not total in its action, is still a power of cosmic consciousness, ________________ ¹ Ibid., pp... Aurobindo, published in Sri Aurobindo: Archives and Research, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 10-12.) Page 243 APPENDIX III (Selected Passages on Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuition, Overmind and Supermind) Our first decisive step out of our human intelligence, our normal mentality, is an ascent into a higher Mind, a mind no longer of-mingled light and obscurity or half-light ...
... will not be the sole result of this evolution; it will also carry with it the consummation of the steps that have led up to it: for it will confirm in possession of terrestrial birth the overmind, the intuition and the other gradations of the spiritual nature-force and establish a race of gnostic beings and a hierarchy, a shining ladder of ascending degrees and successive constituent Page 1003... by entering into all, by a contact bringing with it a leap of self-discovery and a flame of recognition, a greater and surer intuition of truth than the mind can reach; there will be an intuition too of the means of embodying and utilising the truth seen, an operative intuition of its dynamic processes, a direct intimate awareness guiding the life and the physical senses in every step of their action... grows by the Truth,—a King, a Godhead, the Truth, the Vast. Rig Veda. (IX. 110. 4; 108. 8.) As we reach in our thought the line at which the evolution of mind into overmind passes over into an evolution of overmind into supermind, we are faced with a difficulty which amounts almost to an impossibility. For we are moved to seek for some precise idea, some clear mental description of the ...
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