... develops in us, once we rise out of the sphere of mortal mind and look deep and high and far, we discover the splendours of a graded series of planes and powers of consciousness — an intervening spiritual mind-range — serving as links and bridges between the now normal waking mind and 'the native heights of supramental and pure spiritual being.' It is in these 'radiant altitudes' of the Spirit... delegated light from the supramental gnosis.' The Overmind is in direct contact with the Supramental Truth-Consciousness and represents the 'highest possible status-dynamis' of the Spirit in the spiritual-mind range. 'The cosmic empire of the Overmind' 3 represents 'the boundless finite's last expanse' 4 and Time's buffer state bordering Eternity, Too vast for the experience of man's ...
... dynamic movement, the resultant greater action of Consciousness-Force may present itself either simply as a pure spiritual dynamis not otherwise determinate in its character or it may reveal a spiritual mind-range where mind is no longer ignorant of the Reality,—not yet a supermind level, but deriving from the supramental Truth-Consciousness and still luminous with something of its knowledge. It is ...
... sation brings about mostly a subjective transformation, the instrumental Nature remaining as before full of many disabilities and deficiencies. Even the Overmind, the summit-reach of our spiritual mind-range , fails to effectuate a complete change of Nature, for this too is "subject to limitations in the working of the effective Knowledge, limitations in the working of the Power, subject to a ...
... and delight are above us, above mind and therefore above any perfection, within mind's own formula, of the foundations or .superstructure of our present nature."¹ The second step has, therefore, to be taken in the direction of the higher spiritual ranges of the mind and beyond. "A higher spiritual transformation must intervene on the psychic or psycho-spiritual change; the psychic movement inward... transforming. It descends into the human mind and widens it into infinity, filling it with its own all-revealing illumination; it descends into the heart and floods it with its own termless bliss and love and sweetness; it descends into life and its energies and informs them with its own all-achieving force. Its powers, unlike those of the spiritual mind-ranges, suffer no clouding or dilution by their... diminished and diluted by the lower energies of human nature. The ¹ The Life Divine by Sri Aurobindo. Page 433 second reason is, that the powers of the higher ranges of the spiritual mind, were it even possible for them to work here in their own purity and force, could not achieve a radical conversion of human nature, for, they are not the supreme creative powers of the Spirit ...
... how that could be made creative."³ With each revision Sri Aurobindo tried to lift the level of the poem higher and higher towards what he called "Over-mind poetry", the mantric, revelatory utterance of that highest of the spiritual mind ranges. ¹Sri Aurobindo, On Himself, pp. 404-06. ² Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Parts Two and Three (Pondicherry : Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1970), p. 728... it is always a full light and knowledge superior to all mental substance or mental movement. Between the supermind and the human mind are a number of ranges, planes or layers of consciousness – one can regard it in various ways – in which the element or substance of mind 1 Ibid. p. 8 2 Sri Aurobindo, On Himself (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1972), p. 479. 3 Purani, Evening... Yogic consciousness."³ We have seen that Sri Aurobindo had long been using his force on his sadhaks, to cure them of illness, for example, or to help them progress in their sadhana. But the range of a spiritual force cannot be determined by material distance. "Certainly, my force is not limited to the Ashram and its conditions," he once wrote. "As you know it is being largely used for helping ...
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