... Superconscience — consciousness above and beyond our present level of awareness in which are included the higher planes of mental being as well as the supramental and spiritual. Supermind — the Supramental, the Truth-Consciousness, the Divine Gnosis, the highest divine consciousness and force operative in the universe. A principle of consciousness superior to mentality, it exists, acts and ...
... influx of a half-veiled and indirect supramental light and power into the nature. This would continue until the point was reached at which Overmind would begin itself to be transformed into Supermind; the supramental consciousness and force would take up the transformation directly into its own hands, reveal to the terrestrial mind, life, bodily being their own spiritual truth and divinity and, finally ...
... and indirect supramental light and power into the nature. This would continue until the point was reached at which overmind would begin itself to be transformed Page 989 into supermind; the supramental consciousness and force would take up the transformation directly into its own hands, reveal to the terrestrial mind, life, bodily being their own spiritual truth and divinity and, finally ...
... conscient and greater than the waking consciousness. The subconscient is that which is below the ordinary physical consciousness, the subliminal that which is behind and supports it. Supermind —the Supramental, the Truth-Consciousness, the Divine Gnosis, the highest divine consciousness and force operative in the universe. A principle of consciousness superior to mentality, it exists, acts and ...
... Supramental is the total Truth-Consciousness; the Overmind draws down the truths separately and gives them a separate identity. subliminal — inner, not on the waking surface. Supermind — the Supramental, the Truth-Consciousness, the Divine Gnosis, the highest divine consciousness and force operative in the universe. A principle of consciousness superior to mentality, it exists, acts and ...
... individuality xvi Soul (psychic) personality xv- xvi, 1,8,81,104 Spirit 83 Spiritual and psychic 22-25, 23 Spiritual change see Transformation, spiritual Supermind (the supramental) 100, 104, 107 tapasyā 95, 109 Transformation xxxi-xxxii, 84 spiritual 99, 100, 101, 102, Page 134 103, 107 ...
... pause there while others went higher and could reach and live on superior strata of a semi-divine existence. It is not to be supposed that all humanity would rise in a block into the supermind...." The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 20-22 It is precisely about this progressive transformation that I am going to speak to you this evening.... I have often been asked this question ...
... Real-Idea is the determinative form and creative agent. Consciousness that is Force is the nature of Being and this conscious Being manifested as a creative Knowledge-Will is the Real-Idea or Supermind. The supramental Knowledge-Will is Consciousness-Force rendered operative for the creation of forms of united being in an ordered harmony to which we give the name of world or universe; so also Mind and Life ...
... that combines hearing, sight, and so on. Then you say: "All that is certainly the consciousness of what Sri Aurobindo called... [ here you say 'the Overmind,' but I think it's the Supermind ] the supramental: the being to come after man.... Yes, its "supramental." "...How will he be? I haven't yet seen.... I haven't yet seen that. I did see, I did have perceptions of the superman, ...
... ultimate archetypal creativity, is one substance with matter so that matter may be looked upon as itself omnipotent in its hidden nature and destined to reveal its consubstantiality with Supermind, the supramental Will's miracles in the body are as if with roots there and seem to grow out of matter itself on contact between the supramental and the material. There is no superimposition anywhere ...
... words of his Integral Yoga: "Supermind." In the days of his monthly periodical Arya (1914-1921) he took all the ranges of spiritual dynamism above the mind as different statuses of the Supermind, the Supramental being a continuous climb "overhead" from light to greater and more dynamic light of Perfection. The terms "super" and "supra" were used in the literal connotation of "above" - except that ...
... is only a vital being. Even so, the beings of the Over mind are stupendous in comparison with us, human beings, who are truly bewildered whenever we come in contact with such entities. And Supermind and supramental beings are yet beyond. So you realise the distance to be covered. But there is a kind of Grace that comes to your help. If a scientist had again to go over all the experiments that... to come out of experiences they have had, of what they have heard and read about always and everywhere. It is difficult for them not to think of the Supermind in terms of the Overmind, not to confuse Page 299 the Supermind with the Overmind. They are unable to conceive of anything beyond or different. Sri Aurobindo used to say always that his Yoga Began where all the past... is that of a dazzling light that almost blinds you. But one can and has to press on and go beyond. Sri Aurobindo says, the rule of the Overmind is precisely coming to its end and the rule of the Supermind will replace it. All the past spiritual experiences were concerned with the Overmind: so it is a thing known to all who have found the Divine and are identified with Him. What Sri Aurobindo says is ...
... Even so, the beings of the Overmind are stupendous in comparison Page 4 with us, human beings, who are truly bewildered whenever we come in contact with such entities. And Supermind and supramental beings are yet beyond. So you realise the distance to be covered. But there is a kind of Grace that comes to your help. If the scientist had again to go over all the experiments ... difficult for people to come out of experiences they have had, of what they have heard and read about always and everywhere. It is difficult for them not to think of the Supermind in terms of the Overmind, not to confuse the Supermind with the Overmind. They are unable to conceive of anything beyond or different. Sri Aurobindo used to say always that his Yoga began where all the past Yogas ended:... that of a dazzling light that almost blinds you. But one can and has to press on and go beyond. Sri Aurobindo says, the rule of the Overmind is precisely coming to its end and the rule of the Supermind will replace it. All the past spiritual experiences were concerned with the Overmind: so it is a thing known to all who have found the Divine and are identified with Him. What Sri Aurobindo says ...
... something from the supramental, otherwise overmind truth or intuitive truth deriving ultimately from the supramental Truth-Consciousness. Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: Colours Supramental is simply the direct self-existent Truth-Consciousness and the direct self-effective Truth-Power. Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I: The Supermind or Supramental The supramental is the Tru ...
... beings live and move in an ineffable completeness. (3) The Supramental Mahashakti immanent in the worlds of Supermind. (4) The Cosmic Mahashakti immanent in the lower hemisphere. Yes; that is all right. One speaks often however of all above the lower hemisphere as part of the transcendence. This is because the Supermind and Ananda are not manifested in our universe at present, but are... Transcendent Mother and the Divine is the Transcendent Divine? Yes; but from the point of view of the present triple world of mind, life and body governed by the Overmind (Maya), the Supermind and the supramental Divine (all the upper hemisphere in fact) can be spoken of as Transcendent. 27 January 1932 Page 53 × ... Supreme Transcendence is परात्पर [ parātpara ]. The Sanskrit terms are here clearer than the English. 27 January 1932 X asked me the meaning of the term "transcendent". He also asked if the Supermind is a world of transcendence. So far as I can see, the gradations of the upper hemisphere are, in a sense, the heights of transcendence, with the Mother at the summit. Yes. Is it here at ...
... - II: The Ascent towards Supermind × Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine - II: The Ascent towards Supermind × Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I: The Supermind or Supramental ... itself all light, the Inconscience, became at all possible. For Supermind transmits to Overmind all its realities, but leaves it to formulate them in a movement and according to an awareness of things which is still a vision of Truth and yet at the same time a first parent of the Ignorance."' 31 Supermind [The term "Supermind" is apt to convey the sense of a super-eminent mind which is far... spatial) Infinite many concording infinities are possible." 30 "In its nature and law the Overmind is a delegate of the Supermind Consciousness, its delegate to the Ignorance. Or we might speak of it as a protective double, a screen of dissimilar similarity through which Supermind can act indirectly on an Ignorance whose darkness could not bear or receive the direct impact of a supreme Light. Even, ...
... Aims, Methods, Processes and Results PART FOUR Ascent to the Supermini!, Descent of the Supermind and Supramental Transformation The process of ascent to the supermind from the mind and the descent of the supermind, which would transform successively the Overmind, Intuitive mind, Illumined mind, Higher mind, mind and the rest cannot be a logical... penetrate, transform into itself and so replace the blind Ananke of the Inconscience." 53 When the supermind descends, the whole substance of the being comes to be changed supramentally. At the lowest level of material nature, the involved Supermind emerges to meet and join with the supramental light and power descending from the superconscient. The consequence of the transformation of the Inconscient... operating of the supermind that is above and the supermind that is in the inconscience, we shall be led to the conclusion that man is a transitional being and that he is a living and thinking laboratory in whom the nature, with the collaboration of the conscious will in man, is working out a new species, the supramental species. Evolution and Establishment of the Supermind in Matter According ...
... Planes of Consciousness The Vertical System: Supermind to Subconscient Letters on Yoga - I Chapter II The Supermind or Supramental Supermind and the Purushottama Purushottama of the Gita is the supreme being; the supermind is a power of the Supreme—or proceeding from him, if you like. Supermind is not the Purushottama consciousness, it is... and the dynamic contact with the Supermind and a descent of its Light and Power here is intended that it can be otherwise. Supermind and Other Planes The words supermind and supramental were first used by me, but since then people have taken up and are using the word supramental for anything above the mind. The highest or true Vijnana is the supramental plane—the plane of the Divine Kn... presence the lower Prakriti, but not transforming it. The supermind alone can transform the lower nature. In the supramental consciousness, there are no problems—the problem is created by the division set up by the Mind. The Supramental sees the Truth as a single whole and every thing falls into its place in that whole. The Supramental is also spiritual, but the old Yogas reach Sachchidananda ...
... what way the supramental consciousness-force is not identical with the spiritual. If spiritual and supramental were the same thing, then all the sages and devotees and Yogis and sadhaks throughout the ages would have been supramental beings and all I have written about the supermind would be so much superfluous rubbish. Anybody who had spiritual experiences would then be a supramental being; the... seem to misunderstand certain words used by Dr. Sircar in his lectures: "supermind" or "supramental", "psychic", "ascent and descent" etc. I think such terms should be defined precisely when used. The words supermind and supramental were first used by me, but since then people have taken up and are using the word supramental for anything above mind. Psychic is ordinarily used in the sense of anything... 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 ...
... antimony and opposition. The supramental vision of the world that Sri Aurobindo presents goes farther in idealism; here the manifesting and conceptive Supermind or Supramental Idea is not mental in character; it is neither an abstract idea divided from the Reality, nor is it an imaginative idea that constructs a fiction or illusion or hallucination or distorts the Reality. Supermind is not merely the creative... sensuous hearing but their corresponding supramental faculties of revelation and inspiration. Whereas the human mentality gropes for knowledge, supermind is possessed of knowledge; revelation and inspiration are, according to the Vedic seers, direct operations of inherent Knowledge describable as truth-vision and truth-audition. Truth-consciousness or supramental consciousness is an intermediate formulation... Supermind as the Real-Idea To the supramental consciousness, the world is not a play of cosmic Imagination, a fantasia of the Infinite imposed on the blank indeterminable of his own eternal pure existence. It is imperishably aware that the entire manifestation of the universe is, in its first movement, the manifestation of Sachchidananda through its own powers of the supramental consciousness ...
... task. The first step is to arrive at the loftiest peaks of supramental consciousness; next is the gradual descent of the supermind right up to the level of the physical consciousness and physical substance and into sub-conscience and the inconscience. The third step would be that of transformation of the inconscience and fixing of the supramental consciousness page - 127 into the material substance... darkness of our subconscience; last, ... there must take place as a crowning movement the ascent into the Supennind and the trans- forming descent of the supramental Consciousness into our entire being and nature." 73 Integral Yoga: Supermind and Humanity The most significant thing about the "Synthesis of Yoga" is that it is indispensably connected with the solutions that are being... n into our earthly existence, Sri Aurobindo has stated: "... it would not only establish the Supermind and a supramental race of beings upon the earth, it could bring about an uplifting and transforming change in mind itself and as an inevitable consequence in the consciousness of man, the mental being and would equally bring about a radical and transforming change in the principles and forms ...
... must become thoroughly supramental first (achieve supermind) and then only one can begin to know something about supermind? Page 271 Well! However if I have time one day, I will deliver—for evidently with such ideas about, an éclaircissement is highly advisable. 29 August 1935 What exactly is the significance of the 24th November? Overmental, supramental realisation or what? You... 24th is a day of victory. By that some mean that the Supermind (supramental consciousness) descended into the physical consciousness of Sri Aurobindo. Others say it was the coming down of Krishna into the physical consciousness. If it was the descent of Krishna, does that mean the descent of the supramental light? Krishna is not the supramental light. The descent of Krishna would mean the descent... supramentalised in parts? Getting supramentalised is one thing and the achieved supramental is another. You have unnerved a lot of people by that statement that you haven't achieved the supermind. Good Lord! And what do these people think I meant when I was saying persistently that I was trying to get the supermind down into the material? If I had achieved it on Nov. 24. 1926, it would have been ...
... ties of their energies are freely organised and their actuality always possible." 51 Overmind and Supermind : Towards Supramental Transformation Beyond the Overmind is the plenary Supramental consciousness. If Overmental consciousness is global in character, the Supramental consciousness is integral. The Overmental consciousness is compared by Sri Aurobindo to a sun and its system... higher power, the supramental power, is needed, and this is the reason of bringing down the supermind in the lowest layers of the lower Nature. As Sri Aurobindo points out, only the Page 63 supermind can descend with its full power of action, since its action is always intrinsic and automatic, its will and knowledge identical and the result commensurate. The supramental Truth-Consciousness... still be there. In the supramental consciousness there is, on the other hand, a plenitude of light, and if it so wills, it can illumine everything integrally. The supramental consciousness is the Truth-Consciousness; it is at once the self-awareness of the Infinite and Eternal and a power of self-determination inherent in that self-awareness. As Sri Aurobindo states: "In Supermind being, consciousness ...
... and internal. It became clearer that the task of fixing the Supermind in the physical had to be done by opening up the physical cells. Just when the descent of the supermind reached a critical point, the Second World War broke out. This war was perceived by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother as a fierce resistance to the task of the Supramental descent. Hence, they put all their yogic force against Nazism... consciousness in the cells of the body so as to establish in the world, the conditions of the emergence of the next species, the supramental species that would manifest the Supermind in the supramental body. It was in the course of this "Yoga of the Cells" that the Mother discovered the "Mind of the Cells" which has the necessary capacity to reconstitute the physical body. This great yogic process has... attained to a decisive stage and the Overmind was brought down into Matter, and an overmental creation came into view. But the aim was to bring about the supramental creation. As Sri Aurobindo became too occupied with the descent of the supermind, he did not have the time to deal with people, and he put The Mother in charge of all the disciples and external activities of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. This ...
... the instrument for direct action upon the most material. This physical mind receiving the supramental light Sri Aurobindo called the Mind of Light.’ 8 This needs some elucidation. The Supermind is the divine Unity-Consciousness or Truth-Consciousness. (‘Supermind’ and ‘supramental’ are technical terms denoting a reality far surpassing our consciousness. Sri Aurobindo has often defined them in his... and the same Avatar of the Supermind. From the Arya onwards their Work, which received its definitive seal at the time of their second meeting in 1920, was like a mighty river in the landscape of Matter — a river that would branch out into a broadening delta of increasing supramental Force in the earth-atmosphere, and that finally would flow into the ocean of the supramental Presence in the living ... of Light got realised in me. The Supermind had descended long ago — very long ago — into the mind and even into the vital: it was working in the physical also but indirectly through those intermediaries. The question was about the direct action of the Supermind in the physical. Sri Aurobindo said it could be possible only if the physical mind received the supramental light: the physical mind was the ...
... Nature and in Nature. The Prakriti of sattva, rajas, and tamas, has to be fully transformed by the Divine Nature, the Supramental Nature, so that Nature itself would be liberated from its limitations and be the direct and fall expression of the Divine Supermind. In the supramental transformation of Nature, there is not merely the transcendence of the three gunas but the three gunas themselves become... radical change in the evolution from a basis of Ignorance to a basis of Knowledge can only come by the intervention of the supramental power and its direct action in earth-existence.'16 V The results of the descent of the Supermind on the earth and the consequent supramental transformation of the mind, life body and the inconscient would mean a momentous stage in the evolutionary process. It... supermanhood.'19 Page 37 The descent of the Supermind and the appearance of the superman on the earth would, according to Sri Aurobindo, have immense influence on mankind as a whole. In his Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth, Sri Aurobindo has given us some glimpses into the consequences for humanity of the descent of the Supermind on the earth. As he points out: 'The descent into ...
... consisted of scaling to the supreme heights of the supramental consciousness; the second part consisted of connecting the supramental consciousness with the earth-consciousness and of effecting the descent of the supermind on various levels that link the supramental consciousness with earth-consciousness and of bringing about the decisive descent of the supermind in Matter; and the third part of this research... is this intuition or gnosis which is the Vedic truth, the self-vision and all-vision of Surya, the Sun, that symbolizes the supramental and integral consciousness. In the Isa Upanishad, we find towards its close a significant description of the Supermind and Supramental Truth-Consciousness as self-vision and all-vision of Surya. It is said that the face of Truth is covered with a brilliant golden... their yogic achievements and to the discovery of the supermind, have been underlined by Sri Aurobindo, appear to have only an imperfect experience in this regard. Sri Aurobindo states as follows: "The Vedic Rishis never attained to the supermind for the earth or perhaps did not even make the attempt. They tried to rise individually to the supramental plane, but they did not bring it down and make it ...
... world, do not have the supramental capacity. We do not have the necessary organs for that. We would have to become beings of the supermind, with a supramental substance, a supramental inner organisation, in order to be able to express the supramental knowledge in a supramental way. So far we are... half way; we can, somewhere in our consciousness, rise entirely into the supramental vision and knowledge... plane to be able to express itself. Do you catch what I mean? Yes? To be able to live fully in the supramental knowledge requires other means of expression than the ones we have now. New means of expression must be worked out to make it possible to express the supramental knowledge in a supramental way.... Now, we are obliged to raise our mental capacity to its utmost so that there is only, so to... this too is a truth-consciousness and a self-power of knowledge. This too proceeds from the Supermind and depends upon it even though it is limited and subordinate. What we have called specifically the Mind of Light is indeed the last of a series of descending planes of consciousness in which the Supermind veils itself by a self-chosen limitation or modification of its self-manifesting activities, ...
... straight____ At one time it was thought that the mind could grasp the whole Truth and solve all the problems that face humanity. ___________________ * Sri Aurobindo called "Supermind" or "Supramental" the region of full Truth-Consciousness which will be the normal state of consciousness of the next stage of evolution, just as the mind is the normal consciousness of our human stage. ... same old forms [as in ancient India]. But you can take the line of evolution and follow the bent of the genius of the race. Page 172 May 18, 1926 Life has no "isms" in it, Supermind* also has no "isms". It is the mind that introduces all "isms" and creates confusion. That is the difference between a man who lives and a thinker who can't: a leader who thinks too much and is busy... Mahomedan it was bound to produce the reaction it has produced: you fed the force, it gathered power and began to make demands which the Hindu mentality had to rise up and reject. That does not require Supermind to find out, it requires common sense. Then, the Mahomedan reality and the Hindu reality began to break heads at Calcutta.*** The leaders are busy trying to square the realities with their mental ...
... that what helps them to become supramental or hinders them from it, is very different from what our usual moral notions imagine. I felt how... ridiculous we are. 25 VIII Sri Aurobindo had often warned his disciples against picturing the supermind and supramental conditions in mental categories. In detailing her dream of the supramental world - of the intermediate zone or connecting... city, is fully organised.... It is the place where people who are destined for the supramental life are trained. These people - or at least a part of their being - had already undergone a supramental transformation, for the boat itself and everything on board... was of the most material supramental, the supramental substance which is closest to the physical world, the first to manifest.... The general... us when we try to look at the supramental world." 24 As if to reinforce her tentative conclusions, on the 3rd afternoon the Mother walked into the supramental world, "a world that exists in itself, and her action was like building a bridge between the two worlds. Although it was only a dream, it had a concreteness of its own, and she found that the supramental world was a permanent reality ...
... able out of it to manifest its multiplicity. If humanity and earth-nature are to Page 31 change decisively, a 'rending' of the 'veil' is necessary, for then the Supermind or the supramental consciousness would operate here, even as Mind of the mental consciousness is already operating. Neither the denial of matter through asceticism nor the denial of the Spirit through m... Gurdjieff's Gnosis, whereas Sri Aurobindo's vision of the Supermind is an integral unity of apprehension, "a primary spiritual intuition which is only afterwards elaborated by the reasoning mind." 66 As for Berdyaev, his postulation of Nature's 'transfiguration' is rather suggestive in the context of the Aurobindonian postulation of a supramental transformation of man and Nature. Dorothy M. Richardson... title, yet wonderfully apt to describe its total content. It grew out of his experience of the higher planes of consciousness which indicated to him the ultimate possibility of the descent of the Supermind. He sought corroborative Page 30 evidence in India's ancient scriptures—the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Gita —and found it in ample measure. For the rest he had to think ...
... Knowledge, yet it is Knowledge on the way to being Ignorance. So the Neo-Platonic Nous is very distant from being "supramental" - and the proof is simply this: complete conscious awareness of the Supermind must mean the awareness and revelation of the chief secret of the Supermind, namely, that man's entire nature, down to his material substance, can be divinised in an immortal perfect existence... and live in it with one's physical eyes open and bring about its progressive descent - as Sri Aurobindo and the Mother do. The constant day-to-day living in the light of the Supermind and the supramental descent into our whole constitution in order to shape a divine mind, a divine life-force, a divine body: this is the aim and the decisive condition of Sri Aurobindo's yoga. But there... before the last hundredth step there must be the sovereign entry into the Supermind with its clear vision of total transformation: can you point to any yogi or rishi who gives Page 70 signs of that clear vision, leave aside indications of the practice of the full dynamics of the supramental descent? Is there any wonder the disciples of Sri Aurobindo say that this ...
... of Light”. The fact that he defined it as the lowest degree of the Supermind does not diminish its importance. Any degree of the Supermind is supramental; anything supramental is divine; anything divine is worlds above our human status. Secondly, in 1969 the Mother was already far advanced in the realisation of the supramental body within her gross material body. Therefore the fact that she was so... her parents especially with this factor in view: the robustness of their bodies. The double Avatar had come to establish the Supermind in the consciousness of the earth. It may be guessed that, through their love for humanity, they have shortened the appearance of the supramental being by hundreds, if not thousands, of years. The Mysteries of the Body The Mother withdrew, but only in certain ways... have seen (cf. ‘The Ship from the Supramental World’) that the supramental world was there, ready to permeate the gross material world and take its place. The more the Mother’s cells became supramentalised, the more she belonged physically to the supramental world too, which means that for years she belonged physically to two worlds, the gross material and the supramental! How does one do that? How does ...
... humanity of the advent of Supermind into the earth-nature. If mind in its origin from Supermind is itself a power of Supermind, a principle of Light and a power of Light or a force for Knowledge specialised in its action for a subordinate purpose, yet it assumes a different aspect when in the working out of this purpose it separates itself more and more from the supramental light, from the immediate... of Physical Education (1949-1950) From the Bulletin of Physical Education (1949-1950) The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Supermind and Humanity What then would be the consequence for humanity of the descent of Supermind into our earthly existence, its consequence for this race born into a world of ignorance and... workings of a true and complete knowledge. At its highest it might pass out of its limitations into the supramental truth and become part and function of the supramental knowledge or at the least serve for a minor work of differentiation in the consensus of that knowledge: in the lower degree below Supermind it might be a mental gnosis, a spiritual or spiritualised perception, feeling, activity, sense which ...
... humanity of the advent of Supermind into the earth-nature. If mind in its origin from Supermind is itself a power of Supermind, a principle of Light and a power of Light or a force for Knowledge specialised in its action for a subordinate purpose, yet it assumes a different aspect when in the working out of this purpose it separates itself more and more from the supramental light, from the immediate... workings of a true and complete knowledge. At its highest it might pass out of its limitations into the supramental truth and become part and function of the supramental knowledge or at the least serve for a minor work of differentiation in the consensus of that knowledge: in the lower degree below Supermind it might be a mental gnosis, a spiritual or spiritualised perception, feeling, activity, sense which... knowledge, grow too strong to be held back by the animal nature. There would be a liberated mind escaping from ignorance into light, aware of its affiliation to Supermind, a natural agent of Supermind and capable of bringing down the supramental influence into the lower reaches of being, a creator in the light, a discoverer in the depths, an illuminant in Page 194 the darkness, helping ...
... first step towards this change. All Yoga implies the carrying of that control to a very high pitch. But afterwards the mind must itself give place to the spirit, to the spiritual force, the supermind and the supramental force. And finally the body must develop a perfect power to hold whatever force is brought into it by the spirit and to contain its action without spilling and wasting it or itself getting... the will and activity of the mind. The same rule holds good of the supermind when it first comes into action. There are indeed states and activities in which the mind takes up the pranic shakti into itself and this dependence is not felt at all; but even then the force is there, though involved in the pure mental energy. The supermind, when it gets into full strength, can do pretty well what it likes... powerful working in the body; secondly, by the will in the mind opening itself rather to the spirit and its power and calling in a higher pranic energy from above, a supramental pranic force; thirdly, the last step, by the highest supramental will of the spirit entering and taking up directly the task of the perfection of the body. In fact, it is always really a will within which drives and makes effective ...
... the Mother entered into a new phase of Yoga, which aimed at fixing the supramental consciousness in the cells of the body so as to establish, in the world, the conditions of the emergence of the next species, the supramental species that would manifest the Supermind in the supramental body. It was in the course of this "Yoga of the Cells" that the Mother discovered the "Mind of... was in the course of this work that Sri Aurobindo declared that the Supramental is the Truth and that its advent on the earth is inevitable. To bring down the supramental consciousness and power on the earth has been the central work of Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo has explained the nature of this work, the nature of the Supermind, the necessity of its descent, the process of this descent and the... and internal. It became clearer that the task of fixing the Supermind in the physical had to be done by opening up the physical cells. Just when the descent of the supermind reached a critical point, the Second World War broke out. This war was perceived by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother as a fierce resistance to the task of the Supramental descent. Hence, they put all their yogic force against Nazism ...
... consciousness, 562; Gita's. Yoga, 562; ideal of Satya Yuga, 563; supramental Yoga, 564; multiform & all. inclusive Yoga, 564; the "newness" of the Yoga, 565; faith and knowledge, 566; 4 instruments of Yoga-Siddhi, 567ff; Guru, 567, 572; aspiration, rejection, surrender, 568; aspiration and Grace, 569; Sakti and Supermind, 569; supramental change & transformation, 570; an Earthly Paradise, 570,659 ... Chandernagore group, 540; collective meditation, 540; shift to Rue de la Marine, 540, "Master and Lord of Yoga", 541; birthday celebrations, 541ff; on 3 layers of supermind, 542; on possibility of his own death, 542; on conditions favouring supramental descent, 543,544ff; on Gayatri, 544; Overmind world of the Gods, 545-6; siddhi (24 Nov. 1926), 5478; "descent of Krishna", 549; significance of withdrawal,... law of sacrifice, 757; Supramental descent, 757, 759; the Grace of her giving, 758; on the Ashram's growth, 759; message to Sri Aurobindo Centres, 760; message to Delhi Branch of Ashram, 760; on the aim of the Ashram School, 762; message to Sri Aurobindo Memorial Convention, 762; about the University Centre, 764ff; letter to Jauhar, 764; message to children, 766; on Supramental Education, 767; 90th birthday ...
... ff Srinivas Iyengar, 215 Stalin, 215, 225 strength, 14-15, 16, 18,21,32,36,45, 52 -53.54,57,58, 124, 125 -126 see also India, Shakti suffering, 22 -23, 166-167, 176 ,253 Sufism, 168 supermind, supramental, 173-174. 199,200 super station. 55, 85. 87, 90. 95, 99-100, 106, 200 svadharma, 177 , 182,250 Swadeshi movement, 17.35,39. 40(fn), 156,180,183, 195 Swaraj, 17,35,56,93.180,209 inner... of India, 42, 43, 52, 59-61, 71- 72 , 86-87, 140,223 of Japan, 88, 216,218 evil, 124, 143 , 171, 182 evolution, 51, 59 , 65, 136, 189,201 ,217, 235, 254 the new evolution, 111 see al so supermind, truth Extremism, 32(fn) F fanaticism, 147, 167, 169, 190, 197 , 204 Fascism, 194,214,226 fast, see under hunger strike federation (for India ), 249 fight, see under battle force ...
... in the yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother needs some clarification. The Mother said almost in passing that Sri Aurobindo ‘had brought the supramental Light into the mental world,’ which is the same as saying that he had realized the Supramental or Supermind in his mental consciousness. These perhaps mysterious words mean nothing less than that Sri Aurobindo had, towards the end of 1920, divinized... One. For this fourth realm of manifestation, the concrete expression of the divine Unity-Consciousness, Sri Aurobindo coined the term ‘Supermind’ or ‘Supramental’ in his writings in the Arya. 92 (He also called it, but rarely, the ‘Real-Idea.’) The Supermind is a divine level of existence above everything we, mental beings, normally are and can be aware of. It is even above the levels of the... his mighty aura of the new creation where the rule of mind is going to be replaced by the Supermind, le nouveau Dieu [the new God] …’ ‘Sri Aurobindo is the only man who has won through to this vision and, what is more, has got the power to translate it in life by ushering in a new era of the Supramental apocalypse … Yes, he and no one else has the key of the world to be, and my tragedy is that ...
... Aurobindo has made for the earth!’, the Mother replied: ‘For his consciousness it was not a sacrifice.’ 30 It was a technical, practical, occult exigency to hasten the manifestation of the Supermind and the supramental transformation on Earth. It might not be unreasonable to postulate that this acceleration was seen as imperative by Sri Aurobindo to make it possible that the foundations of the divine future... Avatar, now physically embodied only in the Mother, would still be on Earth. Otherwise, a new incarnation would have been required somewhere in the future, which means that the manifestation of the Supermind would have been postponed. Sri Aurobindo, totally free of ego, had no personal desires, pride or purposes; the success of the work of the Avatar was to him the only object of importance. His ... was possible because the Mother remained behind. Had this not been so, their avataric embodiment and effort would indeed have been a fiasco as far as their main objective, the establishment of the Supermind in the Earth-atmosphere, was concerned. The physical half of the body of the Avatar that was better constituted to undergo the transformation remained upon Earth. As the Consciousness was one but ...
... indwelling light and force of supermind, an occult gnosis,—an invisible self-knowledge and all-knowledge. If there is to be an entire transformation, it can only be by the Page 733 full emergence of the law of the spirit; its power of supermind or gnosis must have entered into Matter and it must evolve in Matter. It must change the mental into the supramental being, make the inconscient in... know now, always subconsciently at work, it is able to manifest life and living beings, to manifest mind and mental beings in a material world, and must therefore be able to manifest there supermind also and supramental beings. Thus has come about the present status of the evolution of which man is the now apparent culmination but not the real ultimate summit; for he is himself a transitional being and... really at once a reflection and a degradation of the supermind, a ray of gnosis seized by the sense-mentality and transformed by it into something other than its source: for it is agnostic like the sense mind in which and for which it works, not gnostic; it seeks to lay hold on knowledge, because it does not possess it, it does not like supermind hold knowledge in itself as its natural prerogative. ...
... give the best glass. Sri Aurobindo : If the supramental consciousness were perfected in the physical there would be no need of experiment. Disciple : Do you mean to say that a supramental being could be a better electrician without study and training in electricity ? Sri Aurobindo : Why not ? Do you think that the Supermind is inferior to the mind ? There is a doubt at the back... also "a circumstance" of our evolution. Duality is the device of manifesting the Infinite Page 203 in ignorance through imperfect instruments. For instance, in the Supermind and Supramental world all these things – suffering and duality etc. – do not enter at all because there is no possibility of them. What is suffering? Suffering means that the consciousness is not able... be made to aspire and made fit. The Purusha is silent, passive, looking at Prakriti. Disciple : What is the characteristic way of Purusha looking at the world from the Supermind ? Sri Aurobindo : The Supramental Purusha looks at the world as the Truth looks at it. Disciple : how does the Truth look at the world ? Sri Aurobindo : (with a gesture of hand pointing up) : You ...
... descent of the Supermind into the terrestrial formula, bringing into it the supreme law and light and dynamis of the Spirit and penetrating with it and transforming the inconscience of the material basis. A last transition from Overmind to Supermind and a descent of Supermind must Page 80 therefore intervene at this stage of evolutionary Nature.¹ Only the Supramental Force can, according... to Nature. The Prakriti or Nature of sattva, rajas, and tamas has to be fully transformed by the Divine Nature, the Supramental Nature, so that Nature itself would be liberated from its limitations and be the direct and full expression of the Divine Supermind. In the supramental transformation of Nature, there is not merely the transcendence of the three gunas of Nature (sattva, rajas and tamas)... radical change in the evolution from .a basis, of Ignorance to a basis of Knowledge can only come by the intervention of the supramental Power and its direct action in earth-existence.² The results of the descent of the Supermind on the earth and the consequent supramental transformation of the mind, life, body and the inconscient would mark a momentous stage in the evolutionary process. It would ...
... self-vision of supramental Nature. At the same time certain deductions can be made from the very fact of this difference of nature which might be valid at least for a general description of the passage from Overmind to Supermind or might vaguely construct for us an idea of the first status of the evolutionary supramental existence. This passage is the stage at which the supermind gnosis can take... in labour, but afterwards arriving more and more at half-luminous figures of itself which can become, once there is the supramental descent, a true progressive revelation. The descent from original supermind, the assumption of evolutionary supermind is a step which the supramental gnosis can very well undertake and accomplish without changing its own essential character. It can assume the formula of... evolution in the Knowledge. It will not be a sudden revelation and effectuation of the absolute Supermind and the supramental being as they are in their own plane, the swift apocalypse of a truth-conscious existence ever self-fulfilled and complete in self-knowledge; it will be the phenomenon of the supramental being descending into a world of evolutionary becoming and forming itself there, unfolding the ...
... wisdom, Sri Aurobindo discovered yet another world, not found on any map, which he called the Supermind or Supramental , and which he sought to draw down upon Earth. He invites us to draw it down a little with him and to take part in the beautiful story, if we like beautiful stories. For the Supermind, Sri Aurobindo tells us, brings a dramatic change to the evolution of consciousness on earth; it... transition from crude Matter to a more subtle Matter, and we will likewise have begun to realize the first supramental or glorious body on the earth. This immobility within movement is the basis of all the supramental being's activities. It is the practical premise of any discipline leading to the Supermind, perhaps even the premise of any effective action in this world. We have already said that immobility... 282 Immobility is the basis of the supramental power, but silence is the condition for its perfect operation. The supramental consciousness does not follow mental or moral criteria to determine its actions. There are no more "dilemmas"; its actions arise naturally and spontaneously. Spontaneity is the particular mark of the Page 239 Supermind: spontaneity of life, spontaneity of knowledge ...
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