... Consciousness came..." A footnote identifies what the Mother is referring to: "The superman consciousness which manifested on 1 January 1969." We have also a brief reference on 5 August of the same year to its pressure for "sincerity" - and on this occasion the Mother has used "He" to designate the Superman-consciousness. Perhaps an indirect commentary may be understood, from all that she has... Mother announced that the force to realise the Intermediate Race had come in its own right to the earth - evidently from the subtle-physical. She distinguished the occasion as the advent of the Superman Consciousness and mentioned some of its outstanding qualities. About the non-evolutionary aspect of her work - the supramental humanised from its own level, the New Race, as she named it - she has not said... being required for transformation. No proof from Sri Aurobindo's pen so far! 9) Supramental being. Superman, Superhuman being, distinguished variously by the Mother PLUS Superman consciousness (latest). Then what about Sri Aurobindo writing in The Life Divine about various types of Supramental beings having various intermixtures of planes between the Mind and Supermind ...
... unwilling shall be obliged to recognise it". Years later, on 1 January 1969, the Superman Consciousness floated down slowly like a golden dawn, spraying a smiling benevolence on all and a peaceful delight as well. But be it the powerful supramental descent and manifestation of 1956 or the Superman Consciousness of 1969, it is a global possession now, offering a global opportunity for the evolutionary... near and far; the audacious futurist thrust on 28 February 1968 when Auroville, the City of Dawn, was inaugurated on the outskirts of Pondicherry and not far from the Ashram; the coming of the Superman Consciousness on 1 January 1969; the laying of the foundation stone of Matrimandir on 21 February 1971; the splendour of world-wide participation in Sri Aurobindo's birth centenary celebrations; and all ...
... On The Mother CHAPTER 57 Superman Consciousness I The Mother's New Year message for 1969 ("No words - acts ") had doubtless been decided upon in the last weeks of the previous year. During the small hours of the night preceding the dawn on 1 January, however, she had the experience of the descent of a new power of consciousness: In the... Material, external, concrete, "it did not pass through an inner being, through the psychic being, it came directly upon the body"! On 8 January she said that it was the descent of the superman consciousness, the intermediary between man and the supramental being. On the 18th, she described it as "a mighty power"; and in those touched by it there would enter "a precision and a certitude" in their... attentive to it, it was blissfulness. It was indeed the source of beatitude. 1 The New Year message certainly gained in significance when read with the declaration of the descent of the superman consciousness. Several of her New Year messages had indicated her preference for action rather than words. Her advice in 1950 was: "Don't speak. Act. Don't announce. Realise." And in 1954: "Never boast ...
... doing it every night, but during the night... There was (but then, in the body, yesterday in the waking state) a sort of aspiration to know what the functioning would be, the action in the superman consciousness. I said, "Having this consciousness around oneself [like a rampart] is very fine, but one must also know what changes there will be in the body's functioning, in the work, in one's workings... didn't call them "figures," I don't know), "this I put here because of that...." I gave you explanations. It's odd. From every side it comes to me. It must be an activity of this [superman] consciousness, because it's not something I've had for a long time. Last night, I knew I had been doing it regularly every night, but not for a long time. It must have come with this consciousness. I... This body RECEIVES things. It receives them. It doesn't feel it's... I don't know how to explain (the thought isn't working). All of a sudden it felt the need to know the effect this [superman] consciousness will have on the consciousness here, how it will work. And then, for you, I wondered, "Where and how does this consciousness act?" And that's why I've had this experience [of figures]—that's ...
... accuracy of the transmission (that increases the power a lot), the accuracy I credit this Consciousness with. It's this Consciousness that made the power far more PRECISE in its action.... The superman consciousness. It's interesting. But we mustn't tell the story, that would instantly look like boasting, it's disgusting! It can go to the Agenda , but... If only people had trust... Oh! ... it's over. I saw that, with examples to back it up; not narrated examples, there's nothing mental: everything shown—shown with vibrations. And that's really interesting. It means that in the superman consciousness, with the full impersonalization (that is, no preference, no desire, no refusal, nothing—you are like this [ gesture of an immobile Witness ]), there will be the capacity to direct the Power... interesting example! I don't remember (that's deliberate, I don't remember anything), but out of a movement of consciousness here (and now the body is very conscious of this presence of the superman consciousness, it's very open and grateful, and very conscious), well, it saw a movement... something resembling compassion, a keen compassion, but with the emotion the vital feels when it has compassion ...
... immanent in the world that was preparing for the "big change". The breath of the Lord was abroad upon the waters of our being, - there was a stir and exhilaration in the air and the new, the superman consciousness that had been abroad for a year was seeking more and more centres for its vigorous functioning. Will mankind let slip that moment of divine opportunity? In the Hour of God - in the hour... said in the passage cited above that the spiritual revolution awaited its hour. But by 1970, things had moved forward: the supramental manifestation of 1956, followed by the descent of the superman consciousness in 1969 "working energetically to prepare the earth for the new creation". 2 And yet, while a power may be working energetically and even irresistibly, to cooperate with that power would mean... it would mean the abolition of 'death' - of "whatever is not capable of transforming itself in the image of the psychic and becoming an integral part of the psychic". Talking about the superman consciousness on 5 August, the Mother observed that it had been with them for over one and a half years. Its nature was not to stand pretence or self-deception, but it was "an excellent mentor for the body" ...
... for some other time. Then there is "Apropos," then the "Notes on the Way"... I've wondered, Mother, if for February 21 we couldn't play a recording of what you said, for instance on the superman consciousness? Do you think... Yes, at the Playground they still play old "Questions and Answers". Do you think it can be useful? I think it obviously has much more power than... Than... special!... It has extraordinary precision, and such intensity that the body's whole attention is turned towards that, but it can't communicate yet.... Unless it comes quite naturally with this [superman] consciousness acting—acting in others, for some detail or other, for one thing or other (that is to say, people themselves don't know, everyone isn't aware of the whole action, he is aware only according ...
... And this descent of the superman consciousness... Did I tell you I had afterwards identified it? When you spoke last time, you had identified it. Yes, but I spoke of "supramental consciousness." Later, you said, "Maybe the superman?" Yes, that's it. It's the descent of the superman consciousness. I had the assurance of it afterwards. It was on the ...
... particularities and can be fully developed. In this case there is also, and above all, a psychic fully developed that governs the whole house and directs all action. Moreover, there is the superman-consciousness that has manifested from the beginning of this year and serves as mentor to the body which learns from it things the mind itself did not know. 3.3.1969 The lack of consecration of... You, O Mother, that I say farewell to this year. And as for me, I say, give good welcome to the new year that brings with it a new decade and an intensification of the work of the superman Consciousness. With my blessings for a Happy New Year. 31.12.1969 Page 120 ...
... achieved only if either an Avatar of the Supermind was physically present amongst us or else the Supramental Consciousness which manifested on a universal scale on February 29,1956, and the Superman Consciousness which came at the end of 1969, became the ruling power in the earth's evolutionary history, 2 a natural force towards supramentalisation. The use of the word "postponed" has been debated... the success of the disciples in this particular part of the Integral Yoga—the postponement will end not before one of the Gurus reappears in some fashion or the manifested Supermind and the Superman Consciousness start operating directly in the forefront of universal evolution. In the meanwhile the Mother's new creation, already a multiform splendour in the subtle-physical, is trying to break forth ...
... for the end to come! (That also happens.) But now the body has learned to be ab-so-lute-ly indifferent to those reactions—absolutely. It smiles. It smiles with this benevolent Smile [of the superman consciousness], it has the same smile. And it sees, it knows, it senses where that [the worry or the "haste"] comes from, it's thoroughly conscious. After all, it's very amusing! There's a whole gamut, a... Ignorance coming together. The body has become very conscious: it's very sensitive to what comes from people. It didn't have that before, but now it senses. It's supported, helped: this superman consciousness that has come helps it a lot, it's through it that the body feels, and that helps it a lot. Sometimes, when someone comes in, along with him (him or her or them) comes a slight acute uneasiness; ...
... receptive enough: every time I do something, there is a result... but the result he attributes to his gods! So it makes a muddle in his consciousness. ( silence ) It has remained, this [superman] consciousness. It has remained, it's very strong, oh!... Today again, with these [Jain] sadhus, I had the experience: it came, mon petit, it was tremendous! It came massively, it enveloped me completely... themselves in their saintliness. Page 28 Many of them, I am sure, have suppressed desires and all kinds of such things in a state of ferment.... But the body kept very still with that [superman consciousness] around it, and the Consciousness kept saying to him, "The individual is nothing, abdicate, abdicate the individual—be sincere, abdicate the individual. The supreme Consciousness alone is. ...
... comes "A Propos" and then "Notes on the Way". Sweet Mother, I had wondered if, for February 21st, we couldn't play the tape recordings of what you said, for example, about the descent of the superman consciousness? Page 98 Do you think that... Yes, at the Playground they always play your old conversations. Do you think it might be useful? I think it obviously ...
... are, it is that ( Mother hands out a white hibiscus, which she has named "Grace" ). Page 160 × The superman consciousness. ...
... × On November 24, 1938. × The "superman consciousness" which came on January 1, 1969 . ...
... And the last: To people of ill-will The harm you have caused willfully always comes back to you in one form or another. 2 Below there is a note: "Dictated by the S. M. [superman] consciousness." Page 29 Yes, it's that Consciousness which, one day... I remember, I was thinking, "Why be attached to things like that?" Then it answered this and insisted until I had written ...
... New Consciousness The new consciousness manifested upon earth on 1 January 1969 . Its characteristics are described in several talks of January 1969, where the Mother called it the superman consciousness ( la conscience du surhomme ). These talks appear in Notes on the Way , Volume 11 of the Collected Works of the Mother. To be able to receive the new consciousness without deforming it: ...
... they are incapable of perceiving it. 1 March 1970 × Mother is referring to the "New Consciousness" (or Superman Consciousness) which manifested on 1 January 1969. ...
... The Mother, On Thoughts and Aphorisms , Cent. Vol. 10, pp. 323-25 . × The superman consciousness, which manifested on 1 January 1969 (see the January 1969 conversations in this volume). ...
... Mother’s Agenda 1969 February 15, 1969 Just one thing, this atmosphere, this [superman] Consciousness is very active, and active like a mentor, as I already told you. And it's going on. One of these last few mornings, for a few hours early in the morning, it was... Never, never had the body been so happy! It was the complete ...
... gone!... what we call the physical "fact", that itself disappears, not merely the pain. I feel as though I had touched... the central experience.' 1969 Jan 1 Experiences descent of the Superman Consciousness. 'A golden light, transparent and... benevolent. "Benevolent" in the sense of a certainty - a harmonious certainty.... It gave the impression of a personal divinity who comes to help....' ...
... 11:114 20. MO 11:124-27 21. MO 11:131 22. MO 11:132-34 23. MO 11:141 24. MO 11:144-46 25. MO 11:115 26. MO 13:210 (cf 202) 27. MO 13:279-80 57. Superman Consciousness 1. MO 11:148ff 2. NA:233 3. MO 13:54 4. MO 11:161-63 5. MO 14:206 6. Bull : Aug-69:99fn 7. MO 11:183 8. SA 25:373 9. MI Aug-69:458 10. SA 17:18 11 ...
... manifested in the subtle-physical layer of the earth since 29 February 1956 and pressing gradually towards manifestation in the gross-physical layer. There is also what the Mother called the Superman-Consciousness which came at the end of 1965 to push the earth forward. So the Mother has left powerful allies for us in addition to the fact that she, together with Sri Aurobindo, is inwardly watchful over ...
... formed in a supramental way (the type in which Sri Aurobindo has promised to return) and She announced in 1969 the certitude of its accomplishment, 1969 being the year at the end of which the Superman Consciousness came to earth and went out in search of those few who might be ready. Sri Aurobindo had wanted to build a bridge between earth and heaven, that is to say, the transformation of the bodily mind ...
... particular part of the Integral Yoga [i.e. the physical transformation]. The postponement will end not before one of the Gurus reappears in some fashion or the manifested Supermind and the Superman Consciousness start operating directly in the forefront of universal evolution.’ 10 In the last part of the sentence, Sethna seems to leave a door ajar. A Unanimous Conviction From all this we ...
... Mother and the books of Sri Aurobindo that now we have entered a new Age—the Age of a new Consciousness. The New Consciousness manifested upon earth on 1 January 1969. The Mother called It "The Superman Consciousness." We must try to live That. The whole world cannot be changed in a trice. But if each one of us tries to change our consciousness, then eventually the great Vision of the Supreme Lord will ...
... last time, you had identified it. Yes, but I had said "the supramental consciousness". Afterwards you had said "perhaps the superman". Yes, it is that. It is the descent of the superman consciousness. I had the assurance later on. It was the first of January after midnight. I woke up at two in the morning, surrounded by a consciousness, so concrete, and new in the sense that I had ...
... Notes on the Way 1 January 1969 About the descent of what Mother later identified as the superman consciousness ( la conscience du surhomme ). In the night it came slowly and on waking up this morning, there was as though a golden dawn, and the atmosphere was so light. The body felt: "Well, it is truly, truly new." A golden light, transparent ...
... Mother’s Agenda 1969 January 18, 1969 ( Regarding the "descent of the superman consciousness". ) Oh, did I tell you? The other day, when the [Jain] sadhu came, as soon as he came in (he stood there), this atmosphere came from here up to there ( Mother draws a half circle in front of her ), it surrounded me like a wall ...
... Mother’s Agenda 1969 January 22, 1969 ( Again regarding the descent of the superman consciousness. ) I wanted to tell you something, and it's gone.... There's been such a hurly-burly since this morning. ( Mother remains absorbed ) I told you how I was surrounded [by a rampart].... Oh, but this Page 32 ...
... affected; you can avoid that, you can isolate what goes wrong, but it's only a beginning, it's very, VERY far from a realization. Only, it's interesting; interesting in the sense that since this [superman] Consciousness has been here, the body has learned a lot of things, a whole lot of things. Really interesting. The body has learned things the mind didn't know (!), so that's very interesting—new things, ...
... , 14 Subtle sight, 8 1910-14 (Programme of Sapta Chatushthaya), 17-23 Superconscience, 256-7, 263 1914 (Mother's arrival at Pondicherry), 23 Superman consciousness, 182-6 1914 (Mother meets Sri Aurobindo), 23, 49-50 Supermind, 13, 14-7, 33, 73, 80-1, 88-90, 105, 113, 176, 213, 244, 246, 249, 263, 265-7 1914 ('Arya' ...
... for the jelly-fish and moved up through all the intermediaries to the human body. Man's body like his consciousness has to be remoulded in such a way as to be able to enclose and express the superman-consciousness. The rigid natural laws that bind down the body—the so-called natural laws of temperature and pressure, of respiration and circulation, of assimilation and rejection—have to be turned, obviated ...
... the jelly-fish and moved up through all the intermediaries to the human body. Man's body like his consciousness has to be remoulded in such a way as to be able to enclose ' and express the superman-consciousness. The rigid natural laws that bind down the body—the so-called natural laws of temperature and pressure, of respiration and circulation, of assimilation and rejection—have to be turned, obviated ...
... for the jelly-fish and moved up through all the intermediaries to the human body. Man's body like his consciousness has to be remoulded in such a way as to be able to enclose and express the superman-consciousness. The rigid natural laws that bind down the body – the so-called natural laws of temperature and pressure, of respiration and circulation, of assimilation and rejection – have to be turned, ...
... Divine Presence 767-8, 783, 804 reversal of consciousness 'in all details... domains' 768 simultaneous experience of suffering and Ananda 768, 784 what tires her body 769 descent of superman consciousness 770ff, 780, 784 Page 908 spends 3 hours with Sri Aurobindo 772 symbol of the whole earth 772-3, 777, 794-6 (cf123, 525) body's only business now 773 complete immobility ...
... that - the pure adhesion to Truth, the uncompromising expulsion of falsehood - was "the thing worth living for". Meeting the Mother on 10 March, the disciple asked her about the new (superman) Consciousness. Whenever he tried to come in contact with it he had the feeling of "a luminous vastness". Was it enough to let oneself be filled with That? The Mother answered: I think, that it is the ...
... continue enjoying all due respect!... It complains shrilly before departing. Oh, I have seen such fascinating things, mon petit! For hours I was a spectator—the consciousness witnessed an encounter between the Ego and the superman's consciousness... ( laughing ) it was like a duel! The ego was arguing so glibly! It seemed to be saying, "See, if you send me off, the world will become hellish!" And it was... Love he never accepted, because it would have meant surrendering himself. "A for-mi-dable pride," Mother once told me. 1 He trusted nothing except his biceps and was frustrated in his dreams of "superman" without any tangible physiological realization. In his own way, he was perfectly devoted, as a sportsman who knows he has lost the game he had hoped to win but sportingly plays on till the end. He... have trouble expressing myself; all of a sudden, I feel... I feel a sort of... I don't know, I can't say fatigue or exhaustion but... as though life were literally drained out of me—and yet the consciousness is more ALIVE, stronger than ever! Page 141 Suddenly, the body doesn't know if it will be able to hold on—that's what happens. So, for this reason, appearances may be very deceptive ...
... her hands ). I am tiring you, Mother, I'm really sorry. You see, one "does" in higher regions. Sri Aurobindo insisted, he said you were ready to get the superman's consciousness—not "superman": supramental, the supramental consciousness. And that's what he wanted to give you. He wanted... he insisted that you should be preoccupied with THAT, concentrated on that, because you have the capacity... come to announce the creation of tomorrow. Is that all? I wrote it in French and I put, "The creation of tomorrow, the advent of the supramental being." Because they are likely to call it "superman" if I don't put "supramental being." The advent of the supramental being. We are just in between. No longer this, not yet that—the time that's the most.... ( brief silence ) Page 230 ... you.... Page 236 Yes, I understand what you mean. ...That all the preoccupations stemming from the other consciousness, the old human consciousness, however enlightened it is, are to be left aside for the moment to allow the full emergence into that Consciousness. That's all. That's all I said. Yes, that I understand. I told those people what I knew, I told them that they were ...
... surpassing itself. This means that it is not man who becomes the superman; he is the link between the animal and the god, the laboratory in which the material and spiritual conditions for the formation of the superman are worked out, but not the superman as such. ‘The hiatus between the animal and the human is so great in consciousness, however physically small, that the scientists’ alleged cousinship... nothing to that which will be between man’s mind and the superman’s vaster consciousness and richer powers. That past step will be to this new one as the snail’s slow march in the grass to a Titan’s sudden thousand league stride from continent to continent.’ 43 (Sri Aurobindo). We may suppose that the transitional process from man to superman takes place in a way analogous to what has happened every... hemisphere, from the mental consciousness to the supramental consciousness, from our divisive, partial, impotent consciousness to a global, omnipotent, divine Unity-consciousness. All our misery and impotence derives from our divided consciousness; the new being, yet without a name, will constantly live in the essential divine Unity with its highest attributes of Being, Consciousness and Bliss. Therefore ...
... January: And this descent of the superman's consciousness... Did I tell you that I had identified it afterwards? When you talked to us last time, you bad identified it. Yes, but I had said 'the supramental consciousness'. Yes, you had said perhaps the superman?’ Yes, that's it. It is the descent of the consciousness of the superman. I got the assurance afterwards. ... co-operation she wills to work out the superman....² Three simultaneous and inter-related processes were going on in Mother's body. Firstly, there was a progressive dissolution of the Inconscience at its utmost bottom. Secondly, there was the infiltration permeation and invasion of the Supermind in the cellular consciousness and in the physical consciousness so as to counteract the Falsehood in... rapidly with increasing acceleration. * * * _____________ ¹ Ibid, p. 326. Page 181 On 1st January, 1969, Mother had an experience of 'new consciousness', which was later on described by her as the consciousness of the superman, an intermediate between the human and the supramental being. Speaking of this, Mother said: ; On the first, something strange has happened. ...
... a greater consciousness summing up in itself all that the world set out to be. He has, as was pointed out by a half blind seer, to exceed himself; man must evolve out of himself the divine superman: he was born for transcendence. Humanity is not enough, it is only a strong stepping stone; the need of the world is a superhuman perfection of what the world can be, the goal of consciousness is divinity... hiatus between the animal and the human is so great in consciousness, however physically small, that the scientists' alleged cousinship of monkey and man looks psychologically almost incredible. And yet the difference between vital animal and mental man is as nothing to that which will be between man's mind and the superman's vaster consciousness and richer powers. That past step will be to this new... was before him the infrahuman, the insect and animal, so there shall be after him the superhuman, the superman. Man may himself become the superman, he may become all that he is not now; but for that he must exceed himself. It is not by clinging to his present imperfect consciousness that he can take the next step in the evolution. He must discover and release the spiritual godhead within him, realise ...
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