... spontaneous right action of all the being are there as native powers of the supramental truth-consciousness and these will in their very nature transform mind and life and body even here upon earth into a manifestation of the truth-conscious spirit. The obscurations of earth will not prevail against the supramental truth-consciousness, for even into the earth it can bring enough of the omniscient... into the supramental truth and the divine nature. These obstacles can be overcome, the denials and resistance of the body surmounted, its transformation is possible. Even the inconscient and animal part of us can be illumined and made capable Page 151 of manifesting the god-nature even as our mental humanity can be made to manifest the super humanity of the supramental truth-consciousness... constitute the fullness of the divine life upon earth; it would be a new orientation of the earthly life but not the consummation of its change. For that there must be the sovereign reign of a supramental truth-consciousness to which all other forms of life would be subordinated and depend upon it as the master principle and supreme power to which they could look up as the goal, profit by its influences ...
... renunciation of his works to the Supreme Will. By degrees his mind of an imperfect human intelligence will be replaced by a spiritual and illumined mind and that can in the end enter into the supramental Truth-Light; he will then no longer act from his nature of the Ignorance with its three modes of confused and imperfect activity, but from a diviner nature of spiritual calm, light, power and bliss... with the drive of a still more ignorant heart of emotion and the desire of the life-being and the urge and instinct of the flesh, but first from a spiritualised self and nature and, last, from a supramental Truth-Consciousness and its divine force of supernature. Thus are made possible the final steps when the veil of Nature is withdrawn and the seeker is face to face with the Master of all existence... manifestation in its self-existent infinite. Overmind, then, gives us no final and positive solution; it is in a supramental cognition beyond it that we are left to seek for an answer. A supramental Truth-Consciousness is at once the self-awareness of the Infinite and Eternal and a power of self-determination inherent in that self-awareness; the first is its foundation and status, the second is ...
... life. It is indeed so that life and mind involved in Matter have realised themselves here; for only what is involved can evolve, otherwise there could be no emergence. The manifestation of a supramental truth-consciousness is therefore the capital reality that will make the divine life possible. It is when all the movements of thought, impulse and action are governed and directed by a self-existent... life truly and utterly divine. This and all else that the spiritual consciousness can bring to him the divine life will give him when it reaches its utmost completeness and perfection and the supramental truth-consciousness is fulfilled in all himself; but even before that he can attain to something of it all, grow in it, live in it, once the Supermind has descended upon him and has the direction of... immediate effect would be on all who are capable the possibility of entering into the truth-consciousness and changing all the movements of the nature more and more into the movements of the supramental truth, truth of thought, truth of will, truth in the feelings, truth in the acts, true conditions of the whole being even to the body, eventually transformation, a divinising change. For those who could ...
... mind; the former is our ordinary consciousness, the latter that on which there comes the dawn, the light and power from the supramental Truth. Moreover this Agni increases in his own home. We shall see hereafter whether the own home of Agni is not the plane of the supramental Truth itself on which the divine powers dwell and from which they descend to the aid of the seeker. We must also understand the... dream to which the darkness or falsehood of existence belongs. We shall find too that in the Vedic idea the divine bliss or immortality of beatitude was held to be a result of the winning of the supramental Truth and this is evidently the idea which the verse indicates. It is indeed the central conception of the Vedic doctrine. The next verse introduces and is connected in syntax with the rik which ...
... or manifestation in its self-existent infinite. Overmind, then, gives us no final and positive solution; it is in a supramental cognition beyond it that we are left to seek for an answer. A Supramental Truth-consciousness is at once the self-awareness of the Infinite and Eternal and a power of self-determination inherent in that self-awareness; the first is its foundation and status, the second is... only forces determining results by some balance of the meeting of their powers; the original Determinant or determinants, if it or they exist, are veiled from us by our ignorance. But to the supramental Truth-Consciousness these imperatives would be apparent, would be the very stuff of its seeing and experience: in the supramental creative process the imperatives, the nexus of possibilities, the resultant... the manifested Spirit: here surely existence would not at all be based on the determination of the One in multiplicity, it would manifest solely and simply a pure identity in oneness. But the supramental truth-consciousness would not be absent from these planes, for it is an inherent power of Sachchidananda: the difference would be that the determinations Page 334 would not be demarcations ...
... individual identity. This new place or the “hall” is not the common type with doors, windows, etc., seen in the physical world. It is a place in the new world, filled with the golden light of the Supramental Truth and it can he-reached only through a higher consciousness that transcends all earthly consciousness. Here, “Self's vast spiritual silence” is experienced and a sweet, musical sound of a mantra... numerous living figures representing the vital being getting merged into the light of the higher consciousness. Outside was seen a golden universal Purusha, the physical embodiment of the Supramental Truth. His “body was composed only of suns, implying that each cell of His body was Supramentalised. The very glance and touch of this “Virat Purusha” of the material universe lifted Champaklal into... beautiful vision begins with the “Forget thyself” 1 type of experience and gradually unfolds the process of transformation into a higher consciousness, immersing Champaklal in the light of the Supramental Truth: ”“His soul was a delegation of the All That turned from, itself to join the one Supreme.” || 83.23 || Champaklal seeing a vision in Claude Monet's garden lawn ...
... Spirit November 7, 1932 Q. If everything else is falsehood except the Supramental Truth, how can the lower Overmind be a passage to the possibility of the Supermind? A. I have not said that everything is falsehood except the Supramental Truth. I said that there was no complete Truth below the Supramental. In the Overmind or take its share in worlds made... the Truth through much limitation, conflict, confusion and error. To get back to Overmind, if one can do it completely, which is not easy for physical beings, is to stand on the borders of the Supramental Truth with the hope of entry there. Sri Aurobindo ...
... Ignorance growing at each level nearer to the full Knowledge. Below Supermind there may be Knowledge but it is not all Knowledge. I have not said that everything is falsehood except the supramental Truth. I said that there was no complete Truth below the supramental. In the Overmind the Truth of supermind which is whole and harmonious enters into a separation into parts, many Truths fronting each... the Truth through much limitation, conflict, confusion and error. To get back to Overmind, if one can do it completely, which is not easy for physical beings, is to stand on the borders of the supramental Truth with the hope of entry there. If the supermind were not to give us a greater and completer truth than any of the lower planes, it would not be worth while trying to reach it. Each plane... Impersonal is a truth of the Overmind—there is no separate truth of them in the supermind, they are inseparably one. But one who has not mastered and lived the truths of Overmind cannot reach the supramental Truth. The incompetent pride of man's mind makes a sharp distinction and wants to call all else untruth and leap at once to the highest truth whatever it may be—but that is an ambitious and arrogant ...
... Higher and the Lower Truth "If everything else is falsehood except the Supramental Truth, how can the lower Overmind be a passage to the possibility of the Supermind ?" I have not said that everything is falsehood except the Supramental Truth. I said that there was no complete Truth below the Supramental. In the Overmind the Truth... the Truth through much limitation, conflict, confusion and error. To get back to Overmind, if one can do it completely, which is not easy for physical beings, is to stand on the borders of the Supramental Truth with the hope of entry there. November 7, 1932 Page 47 ...
... forward the idea of the higher planes and the supramental Truth-Consciousness..." 5 Similarly, not understanding what precisely Sri Aurobindo intends by the word "transformation" 6 in spite of his making it quite clear what he does not mean and what he means by it, Nair objects to his adding that the Gita overlooks "the bringing down of the supramental Truth-Consciousness as the means of the complete... understand the various aspects of Sri Aurobindo's vision and work. Nair seems to stumble at every step. He can only see "contradictions". Nor can he get to the core of key-concepts like "the supramental Truth-Consciousness". I find him peppering his "Epilogue" with the adjective "supramental" six times, 4 aware — as his quotation-marks show — that it is a special term of Sri Aurobindo's but using ...
... s right action of all the being are there as native powers of the supramental truth-consciousness and these will in Page 536 their very nature transform mind and life and body even here upon earth into a manifestation of the truth-conscious spirit. The obscurations of earth will not prevail against the supramental truth-consciousness, for even into the earth it can bring enough of the ... limiting humanity into the supramental truth and the divine nature. These obstacles can be overcome, the denials and resistance of the body surmounted, its transformation is possible. Even the inconscient and animal part of us can be illumined and made capable of manifesting the god-nature, even as our mental humanity can be made to manifest the superhumanity of the supramental truth-consciousness and the... constitute the fullness of the divine life upon earth; it would be a new orientation of the earthly life but not the consummation of its change. For that there must be the sovereign reign of a supramental truth-consciousness to which all other forms of life would be subordinated and depend upon it as the master principle and supreme power to which they could look up as the goal, profit by its influences ...
... the basis of the Ignorance, a division of individual consciousness from the cosmic and the transcendent of which yet it is an intimate part, in essence inseparable, a division of Mind from the supramental Truth of which it should be a subordinate action, of Life from the original Force of which it is one energism, of Matter from the original Existence of which it is one form of Page 285 substance... over to be treated in a more close examination of the dual phenomenon of Knowledge-Ignorance which makes our consciousness a blend of light and darkness, a half-light between the full day of the supramental Truth and the night of the material Inconscience. All that is necessary to note at present is that it must be in its essential character an exclusive concentration on one movement and status of Conscious... it from that one movement's now partial knowledge. Still there is one aspect of this problem which must be immediately considered; it is the gulf created between Mind as we know it and the supramental Truth-Consciousness of which we have found Mind in its origin to be a subordinate process. For this gulf is considerable and, if there are no gradations between the two levels of consciousness, a transition ...
... in the mind derives from the supermind—and must do so because everything derives from the spirit. All that is mental is but a partial, a modified, a suppressed or half-suppressed figure of the supramental truth, a deformation or a derived and imperfect figure of its greater knowledge. The mind begins with ignorance and proceeds towards knowledge. As an actual fact, in the material universe, it appears... division and diversion, not in the body of the sun, but first in its nearer and then in its far-off rays. There is a highest intuitive mind which receives more nearly the Page 792 supramental truth, but even this is a formation which conceals the direct and greater real knowledge. There is an intellectual mind which is a luminous half-opaque lid which intercepts and reflects in a radiantly ...
... conscious supermind on the terrestrial plane will be done therefore not only from above by the Spirit but from below by the Earth-Power. The sun of supramental Truth will descend into the body, but also it will awake another secret sun of supramental Truth that was asleep in the foundations and very principle of Matter. 169 The boon that we have asked from the Supreme is the greatest that ...
... according to the level it crosses, creates the ranges from Overmind to higher Mind. The golden light is usually a light from the supermind—a light of Truth-Knowledge (it may sometimes be the supramental Truth-Knowledge turned into overmind or intuitive Truth). It [ golden light ] always means the light of Truth—but the nature of the Truth varies according to the plane to which it belongs. Light... shade as an element. Gold-Green Light Gold-green: gold indicates at its most intense something from the supramental, otherwise overmind truth or intuitive truth deriving ultimately from the supramental Truth consciousness. Green has much to do with the vital and indicates here, I think, the emotional forces in their outpouring. The play of the emotional forces in the divine Truth is, obviously, very ...
... 1934 In The Mother, you have said: "Ask for nothing but the divine, spiritual and supramental Truth" [ p. 13 ]. Should one have Page 110 such a high aspiration? The general impression in the Ashram is that it would be laughable to try. There is nothing laughable in aspiring for the supramental Truth so long as one understands that it is not possible to have it at once and one must ...
... than all the austerities of the ascetic: it is the austerity which is necessary for the integral transformation, the fourfold austerity which prepares the individual for the manifestation of the supramental truth. For example, one can say that few austerities are as strict as those which physical culture demands for the perfection of the body. But we shall return to this point in due time. Page 48... its interminable march, so that they may take part in the spiritual advance which will lead them along the swiftest paths towards the creation of the new race, the race that will express the supramental truth upon earth. These rare Page 68 souls must reject all forms of love between human beings, for however beautiful and pure they may be, they cause a kind of short-circuit and cut off ...
... (RV), III. 39.5. ,8 /?V,II.24.4. 19 Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, SABCL, 1971, Vol. 18, pp. 318-9. 20 Vide RV, V.62.1. In this verse, the word Sun symbolizes supramental Page 89 truth- consciousness where all the multiple rays of light and knowledge are united in a vast comprehensiveness. Reference to the truth hidden by the truth indicates the transition from the... Ignorance would Page 97 intervene. Such a veil exists, says the Upanishad, constituted by the action of Mind itself: it is in Overmind a golden lid which hides the face of the supramental Truth but reflects its image; in Mind it becomes a more opaque and smoky-luminous coverture. That action is the absorbed looking downward of Mind on the diversity which is its characteristic movement ...
... They must go by their own way. Disciple : How would the Supramental yoga affect the earth-plane and the laws of this universe ? Page 259 Sri Aurobindo : If the Supramental Truth were marl fact on this earth, then surely, you do not think that the Pushwala also would immediately change. It would be more easily possible for other human beings to embody that Truth (i.e.... sudden break. It would make it more easy for a larger number of men to attain to the Intuitive plane, – at present there are very few who can do it. The influence of the man who brings down the Supramental Truth would be more effective on those who came in contact with him and that would be in proportion to his opening to the Higher Power. It would not mean that the trees would begin to speak or that ...
... II, Part 2) by the climactic inquiry: "How, then, shall avidya-ridden man surpass his ignorance (and the impotence born of it) and reclaim the sovereignty of the Divine Knowledge or Gnosis or supramental Truth-Consciousness"? Mental man is a transitional being in the evolving history of the earth. He has behind him the geological and prehistoric ages of inanimate or animal existence; but ahead of him... self-lost obscurity; truth of law and act and knowledge expressive of that harmonious truth of being.. . 22 The link-principle is therefore described as Truth-consciousness or even as supramental Truth-consciousness, and it operates between the unitarian and indivisible Sachchidananda above and the analytic and dividing Mind or mental activity below. This mediating Supermind is both the child ...
... it is possible to have some kind of Ananda on all the planes, vital, mental, physical; but if one wants to live securely in the highest divine Ananda it can only be done by bringing down the (supramental) Truth and living first in the supramental Light. But this is the eventual aim of the Yoga; it does not debar one from accepting whatever Ananda comes on the way. Only, mere pleasure or vital Page... its shortcomings and dangers,—just as mental ideas are excellent and indispensable things in their own field in the human stage. But our aim is to go beyond mental ideas into the light of the supramental Truth, which exists not by ideative thought but by direct vision and identity. In the same way our aim is to go beyond emotion to the height and depth and intensity of the Divine Love and there feel... feel Page 345 through the inner psychic heart an inexhaustible oneness with the Divine which the spasmodic leapings of the vital emotions cannot reach or experience. As supramental Truth is not merely a sublimation of our mental ideas, so Divine Love is not merely a sublimation of human emotions; it is a different consciousness, with a different quality, movement and substance. Human ...
... an incarnation is not the object of this Yoga; it is only a condition or means towards the object. The one and only aim we have before us is to bring down the supramental consciousness and the supramental Truth into the world; the Truth and nothing but the Truth is our aim, and if we cannot embody this Truth, a hundred incarnations do not matter. But to bring down the true supramental and nothing but... between the human and the supramental and like all mind are capable of admitting great and capital errors. Till then there may be descents of supramental influence, light, power, Ananda, but the supramental Truth cannot be possessed, organised, put in possession of the whole nature. One must not think before that that one possesses the supermind; for that is a delusion which would prevent the fulfilment... existence that gives mukti. The Vedic Rishis seem to have looked to an ascent into a divine luminous world or state above the falsehood and ignorance. In the Upanishad the sun is the symbol of the supramental Truth and it is said that those who pass into it may return but those who pass through the gates of the Sun itself do not; possibly this means that an ascent into the supermind itself above the golden ...
... difficult for us to conceive in theory or admit as a practical possibility the transformation of the human mentality I have suggested as a change that would naturally take place under the lead of the supramental Truth-consciousness, because our notions about mind are rooted in an experience of human mentality in a world which starts from inconscience and proceeds through a first almost complete nescience and... character and be once more a principle and power of Light and even in its own way aid in the 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... bridge between the two levels or orders of being by which the evolution would make its transition from one to the other; the mind would there be capable of contact with and modification by the supramental truth and thus would be the means of the soul's passing on upward: there must be a status of mind capable of receiving and growing in the Light towards Supermind though not reaching it; through that ...
... diluted extensions. “… There is an increasing self-limitation [of Supermind] which begins even with Overmind: Overmind is separated by only a luminous border from the full light and power of the supramental Truth and it still commands direct access to all that Supermind can give it.” Every overmental Being, or God, represents the Supreme and therefore all the other gods. “There is further limitation or... might well be the creator of the universe? But such a Mind would be something quite different from the definition of mind as we know it: it would be something beyond mentality; it would be the supramental Truth. An infinite Mind constituted in the terms of mentality as we know it could only create an infinite chaos, a vast clash of chance, accident, vicissitude wandering towards an indeterminate end... conscious form of that soul growing in the evolution – in the persistent process that develops first life in Matter, mind in life, until finally mind can develop into overmind and overmind into the supramental Truth. The soul supports the nature in its evolution through these grades , but is itself not any of these things …” 44 “The soul or psyche is immutable only in the sense that it contains all ...
... Transformation and the Supramental Words of the Mother - III The Supramental Realisation: the establishment of the supramental Truth upon earth. In the supramental Truth all falsehoods will be dissolved. The supramental is not only Truth itself, but also the very negation of falsehood. The supramental will never come down, settle and manifest... 10 July 1954 New words are needed to express new ideas, new forms are necessary to manifest new forces. 1 August 1954 We must never forget that we are here to serve the Supramental Truth and Light and to prepare its manifestation in ourselves and upon the earth. 13 August 1954 Each new progress in the universal expression means the possibility of a new manifestation ...
... play of our waking state. But we cannot but take note of the fact of spiritual experience certified by most seekers of the Truth that an immense hiatus seems to exist between the supramental Truth-Consciousness and the Mind-Consciousness we normally know of. And unless this seemingly unbridgeable gulf intervening between the two is satisfactorily bridged, we have to forego our dream.... stairs in the ascension of Mind or in a descent into Mind from That which is beyond it." 2 In this incessant ascending gradation through which our consciousness rises towards the supramental Truth-Consciousness, four principal ascents may be distinguished. These gradations may be broadly described as 'a series of sublimations of the consciousness' through what Sri Aurobindo has termed... Intuitive Mind is a superconscient cosmic Mind, a principle of global knowledge which carries in it 'a 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 ...
... for us to conceive in theory or admit as a practical possibility the transformation of the human mentality I have suggested as a change that would naturally take place under the lead of the supramental truth-consciousness, because our notions about mind are rooted in an experience of human mentality in a world which starts from inconscience and proceeds through a first almost complete nescience and... character and be once more a principle and power of Light and even in its own way aid in the 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... levels or orders of being by which the evolution would make its transition from one to the other; Page 190 the mind would there be capable of contact with and modification by the supramental truth and thus would be the means of the soul's passing on upward: there must be a status of mind capable of receiving and growing in the Light towards Supermind though not reaching it: through that ...
... life and mind involved in Matter have Page 173 realised themselves here, for only what is involved can evolve, otherwise there could be no emergence. The manifestation of a supramental truth-consciousness is therefore the capital reality that will make the divine life possible. It is when all the movements of thought, impulse and action are governed and directed by a self-existent... life truly and utterly divine. This and all else that the spiritual consciousness can bring to him the divine life will give him when it reaches its utmost completeness and perfection and the supramental truth-consciousness is fulfilled in all himself; but even before that he can attain to something of it all, grow in it, live in it, once the Supermind has descended upon him and has the direction of... immediate effect would be on all who are capable the possibility of entering into the truth-consciousness and changing all the movements of the nature more and more into the movements of the supramental truth, truth of thought, truth of will, truth in the feelings, truth in the acts, true conditions of the whole being even to the body, eventually transformation, a divinising change. For those who could ...
... s of persons who can be accepted and admitted into the holy ashram as sadhaks. There are no specific qualifications except the call to lead a divine life embodying a higher spiritual and supramental Truth (not Sannyasa), the spirit which is prepared to sacrifice all for that one end accepting even the hardest conditions, ordeals and tests, and the recognition of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. It... compelled to stay may have no ground for growing in you. You have mentioned X 's case more than once as analogous, but his was quite opposite. He considered himself as the holder of the supramental Truth whom all ought to approach for the Truth, but that this was an Asram peopled by Asuras who refused to recognise him and all these Asuras were supported against him at every step by the Mother ...
... the higher principle is possible which will not merely release the spiritual Self out of the world, but release it in the world, replace the mind's ignorance or its very limited knowledge by a supramental truth-consciousness which will be a sufficient instrument of the inner Self and make it possible for the human being to find himself dynamically as well as inwardly and grow out of his still animal... of the Being. But even then it is not at once the full supramental Light and Force. For there are several ranges of consciousness Page 548 between the ordinary human mind and the supramental Truth-consciousness. These intervening ranges have to be opened up and their power brought down into the mind, life and body. Only afterwards can the full power of the Truth-consciousness work in the ...
... Reprinted from the Bulletin of Physical Education, Feb. to Aug. 1953 (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondieherry). Page 132 which prepares the individual for the manifestation of the supramental truth. One can say, for example, that few austerities are so severe as those which physical culture demands for the perfection of the body. But of that we shall speak in due time. Before I... and its endless journey, enabling them to take part in the spiritual progress which will lead them along the quickest path towards the creation of the new race, the race that will express the supramental truth upon earth. These exceptional souls must reject all love that is between human beings; for, however beautiful and pure it may be, it creates a kind of short circuit and cuts the direct connection ...
... such relation or interchange immediately ties down the soul to the lower consciousness and its lower nature, prevents the true and full union with the Divine and hampers both the ascent to the supramental Truth consciousness and the descent of the supramental Ishwari Shakti. Still worse would it be if this interchange took the form of a sexual relation or a sexual enjoyment, even if kept free from any... Light, creative Power, pure Divine Ananda. It is only the bringing down of the supramental Light, Power and Bliss into the centre that can so change it. As to the working afterwards, it is the supramental Truth and the creative vision and will of the Divine Mother that will determine it. But it will be a working of the conscious Truth, not of the Darkness and Ignorance to which sexual desire and enjoyment ...
... truth manifests out of himself in place of the inauspicious and inferior creation, which he then looses away from us, the illimitable harmony of the divine worlds governed by the self-conscious supramental Truth and the living law of the manifested godhead. Still, the name Surya is seldom used when there is question of this creation; it is reserved for his passive aspects as the body of the infinite Light... to shatter the strong places of the Page 478 mountain, the artificial obstructions of the Titans are broken and this Sun soars up radiant into our heavens. Arisen he mounts to the supramental Truth. "He goes where the gods have made a path for him cleaving like an eagle to his goal"; he ascends with his seven shining horses to the utter luminous ocean of the higher existence; he is led over ...
... the powers of evil, enriches the soul with all they try to withhold, gives the triple peace and the triple fulfilment of the mental, vital and physical being and, labouring in the light of the supramental Truth, leads beyond, creating in us the world of immortal felicity.] त्वामग्ने वसुपतिं वसूनामभि प्र मन्दे अध्वरेषु राजन् । त्वया वजं वाजयन्तो जयेमाऽभि ष्याम पृत्सुतीर्मर्त्यानाम् ॥१॥ 1) Strength... division, evil and falsehood. The vital powers are the motive forces that bear us on our journey and are therefore symbolised by the Horse. The herds are the illuminations that come to us from the supramental Truth, herding rays of the sun of Light. ...
... renunciation of his works to the Supreme Will. By degrees his mind of an imperfect human intelligence will be replaced by a spiritual and illumined mind and that can in the end enter into the supramental Truth-Light; he will then no longer act from his nature of the Ignorance with its three modes of confused and imperfect activity, but from a diviner nature of spiritual calm, light, power and bliss... with the drive of a still more ignorant heart of emotion and the desire of the life-being and the urge and instinct of the flesh, but first from a spiritualised self and nature and, last, from a supramental Truth-consciousness and its divine force of supernature. Thus are made possible the final steps when the veil of Nature is withdrawn and the seeker is face to face with the Master of all existence ...
... of the Divine Consciousness, the bliss of the Divine Delight of existence,—not concealed or disguised as here, for we can possess them in their full independent reality. A fourth principle of supramental truth-consciousness is associated with them; manifesting unity in infinite multiplicity, it is the characteristic power of self-determination of the Infinite. This quadruple power of the supreme existence... admitting the light of a larger knowledge; it must transform its own more ignorant, imperfect and conflicting powers and values into the divinely effective potencies and harmonious values of the supramental truth-consciousness. All the powers of the lower hemisphere with their structures of the Ignorance can find their true selves only by a transformation in the light that descends to us from the higher ...
... which is beyond Mind into forms of itself. A Truth of conscious being supports these forms and expresses itself in them, and the knowledge corresponding to the truth thus expressed reigns as a supramental Truth-consciousness 1 organising real ideas in a perfect harmony before they are cast into the mental-vital-material mould. Mind, Life and Body are an inferior consciousness and a partial expression... creator of the universe? But such a Mind would be something quite different from the definition of mind as we know it: it would be something Page 126 beyond mentality; it would be the supramental Truth. An infinite Mind constituted in the terms of mentality as we know it could only create an infinite chaos, a vast clash of chance, accident, vicissitude wandering towards an indeterminate end ...
... Aurobindo discusses the spiritual value of gold: Gold indicates at its most intense something from the supramental, otherwise overmind truth or intuitive truth deriving ultimately from the supramental Truth-Consciousness. (SABCL, Vol. 23, p. 959) In Savitri gold, as a metaphor, has been used effectively to establish the presence of the spiritual element in earth-consciousness. Probably... "Yoga of Sri Aurobindo" Sethna addresses his spiritual masters as 'wisdom-packed messengers twixt the deep gold and the grey of the out-gaze'. Here 'deep gold', in all probability, refers to the supramental Truth-consciousness. 'Out-gaze' seems to be a word coined by the poet or is it simply a contraction of the phrase 'outward gaze'? Is there a realm beyond the gold? Human imagination, deprived ...
... in Akhenaton’s iconography of the Sun disk.) Having become a high occult initiate, Tiy may have had the vision or inspiration – or a series of visions or inspirations – of the supramental Truth. The word ‘supramental Truth’ is nothing but a verbal abstraction for a divine Reality which surpasses everything an ordinary human being can feel, imagine and experience. It is the One Reality present in all ...
... On the 19th I painted the chrysanthemums and white dahlias sent by the Mother. I showed her the paintings in the evening. She held my hands and said eagerly: Child, we shall express the Supramental Truth through paintings. And she laughed. At that very instant a prayer surged spontaneously from my heart. I urged: "O, Mother, let your will be done." The Mother pressed my hands and... and affirmed: Yes. I did not realise at that moment what I had babbled out. But later at night I became aware and chided myself: "Fool, do you think that to express the Supramental Truth is an easy thing? Stupid, the Mother was talking about the higher and superior things. You have to live that Truth first." Tears rolled unchecked down my cheeks. I knew, and knew it perfectly well, that ...
... everlasting Truth Glimmered like a faint star bordering the night Above the golden Overmind's shimmering ridge. There is a night between the Overmind and the Supramental Truth-world, and so vast, so deep is it that the Supermind appears above the Overmind as no more than a tiny star at the furthest end of the darkness. These lines and the Mother's words... that part of his sadhana when the prospect of the overhead planes was opened up, knew intuitively the essential character of the Supermind. He could not but know it, since he had come from the Supramental Truth as its Avatar to establish it on earth. But he has said that in the course of his sadhana he passed through a stage when the Overmind did not seem radically different from the Supermind. It is ...
... that formula and is not a power for a dynamic transcendence." ² Sri Aurobindo, expressing his new vision, tells us: "...we discover a superconscient cosmic Mind in direct contact with the Supramental Truth-Consciousness, an original intensity determinant of all movements below it and all mental energies, - not Mind as we know it, but an Overmind that covers as with the wide wings of some creative... can serve as the packed nucleus of a whole revolution in spiritual philosophy, an astonishing reversal in the final vision of reality. For, they posit a "night" between the Overmind and the Supramental Truth-World, and so vast, so deep is it that the latter appears beyond the former as no more than a tiny scintillation at the remotest end of the darkness. The only parallel to this view is to be ...
... the higher principle is possible which will not merely release the spiritual Self out of the world, but release it in the world, replace the mind's ignorance or its very limited knowledge by a supramental Truth-Consciousness which will be a sufficient instrument of the inner Self and make it possible for the human being to find himself dynamically as well as inwardly and grow out of his still animal... of a higher principle of the Being. But even then it is not at once the full supramental Light and Force. For there are several ranges of consciousness between the ordinary human mind and the supramental Truth-Consciousness. These intervening ranges have to be opened up and their power brought down into the mind, life and body. Only afterwards can the full power of the Truth-Consciousness work in the ...
... however spiritualised, perceive. One has to pass beyond the spiritualised consciousness to the Spirit and partake of Its creative integral vision. The natural poise of the Supreme Spirit is the Supramental Truth-Consciousness, Rita-Chit, where all contraries are reconciled and realised as complementaries so necessary for the fulfilment of the complex destinies of the many-sided manifestation. To raise... thought and human sense are now completely taken and transformed into the nature of Divine Thought and Divine Sense. The result is an instantaneous transvaluation of all values in the light of the Supramental Truth-Consciousness. As it spoke all changed within her and without; All was, all lived; she felt all being one. It is the vision of the One omnipresent Reality affirming all, denying ...
... unfallen possession of itself and the world. The synthesis of yoga that is discerned in the Veda is presented in the image of many paths of the upward journey, which lead to the goal of the supramental Truth, Right and Vast and to the indescribable Joy, Delight and Ecstasy. The cosmic beings, Varuna, Mitra, Aryaman and Bhaga, are addressed in the Veda as solar powers ( Adityas ) and as Sons of Aditi... cave of our being . 36 In the process of the battle and the conquest, the Angirasa rishis receive the aid of Ayasya, who has the seven-headed thought, and the world of the light of the supramental truth, swar, is attained. The seven-headed thought is the knowledge of the divine existence with its seven heads or powers, since the divine existence is seven fold. The seven headed thought of Ayasya ...
... blissful divine reality and its unity with the increasing soul of the individual and the eternal divine fullness of the cosmic powers; the highest point of realisation was the manifestation of the supramental truth-consciousness in the physical consciousness up to a point where the body consciousness of the individual could become universalised This synthesis of yoga was later on broken into specialised... immortality. When we try to understand what was the nature of the path to immortality and the nature of immortality that was attained, we find that the path consisted of the manifestation of the supramental truth by holding the truth-consciousness in the mind and diffusing it in all parts of the being (Rig Veda, 1.71.3), and the state of immortality consisted of the attainment of the universalisation of ...
... that are being manifested in the world are supported by a Truth of conscious being; that Truth expresses itself in them, and the knowledge corresponding to the truth thus expressed reigns as a supramental Truth-Consciousness or Real-Idea organizing real ideas in a perfect harmony. This is the status of the world in the supramental realm. It is true that the world of our ordinary experience, the... the Beyond-Mind. That inferior consciousness through which the world of our ordinary experience is expressed can also be understood and explained only if it is derived and derivable from the supramental Truth-Consciousness. Page 13 ...
... they become conscious. The still mind has no definite localisation ; it is a question of habit. For the moment you are localising it in the brain, but its true seat, which corresponds to the supramental truth, is Sahasrara.** Above, this very consciousness will spread out and become the cosmic consciousness. There are two different points to consider. The first is to empty the active mind of thoughts... it comes to the centre in the chest, it awakens the being to the truth and turns it upwards. It is the human way of establishing the communication with what is above, a straight line with the supramental truth. When the force will be established there and the central being come out, seize upon the outer being, it will effect the transformation. It will direct the force downwards, every-where, and effect ...
... AUROBINDO: Why should there be any compulsion? One can go, if he likes, to the mountains and live there, but if one is impelled from within to lead a group life he can follow the impulsion. If the Supramental Truth commends itself to one, one can live according to it. PURANI: I told Satyendra that the very fact that he talks of compulsion and of keeping one's individuality, shows that he is, talking from... s, one is no longer bound by such ideas, one is led to accord oneself to that higher consciousness. SRI AUROBINDO: And if he wants to keep his individuality, for that he has to accept the Supramental Truth; for in the Supermind alone there is diversity and difference but without division—diversity there is based on unity and difference is a play of the One. EVENING PURANI: That book of astrology ...
... its own province or state of the total human nature. But there is also the absolute Aryan who would conquer and pass beyond these states to the transcendental harmony of them all. It is the supramental Truth that is the instrument of this great inner transfiguration. That replaces mentality by luminous vision and the eye of the gods, mortal life by breath and force of the infinite existence, obscure ...
... by the appearance of a body with many hands and then with many eyes). The flow of bright glistening liquid could mean a flow from the higher consciousness (lake). Then, the golden light of Supramental Truth spreads all around from the huge figure. This would bring in its wake the increase in the activities of the inner consciousness and progress in sadhana (indicated by the ringing of many bells) ...
... completely one with the psychic being and rests securely in the hands of our two divine gurus who have shown through the varied phases of the experience the possibility of the human realising its own supramental truth, down to the very world of matter. “All must hearken to their psychic being and learn from it to search for the Divine Truth without fear and with perfect trust, making no formations by expecting ...
... in the light of what Sri Aurobindo says about the seven Suns of the Supermind making a steady and inexorable descent into man's material body in terms of Tantrik diction: 1.The Sun of Supramental Truth (Descent into the Sahasradala) 2.The Sun of Supramental Light and Will-Power (Descent into the Ajna Chakra, the centre between the eyes) 3.The Sun of Supramental Word (Descent into ...
... significance of gold he explains to us that Gold indicates at its most intense something from the supramental, otherwise overmind truth or intuitive truth deriving ultimately from the supramental Truth-Consciousness. 16 When Sri Aurobindo encrusts the lines of Savitri with rare gems and metals he opens out their semiotic value. The following line illustrates 15 Ibid .,p.712 ...
... Perspectives of Savitri - Part 2 Savitri: Its Inner Significance Savitri is, at its highest, a revelation and a flame: a revelation of the Supramental Truth and a flame of man's immemorial aspiration for immortality. This epic of inner voyage is in its essence symbolic of the answering Grace from above and the call from below embodied in the two protag ...
... which could not be had otherwise. The whole of humanity should be organised upon these bases. But the organisation will not be true and viable unless at its centre and at its head there is the supramental Truth-Consciousness manifested in an individual or a small group of individuals who will be representatives of the new race, the incarnation of the supramental consciousness upon earth. During the ...
... an intermediary of a greater Truth-Light with which our mind cannot directly communicate. At the source of this Intuition we discover a superconscient cosmic Mind in direct contact with the supramental Truth-Consciousness, an original intensity determinant of all movements below it and all mental energies—not Mind as we know it, but an Overmind that covers as with the wide wings of some creative Oversoul ...
... highest deepest vastest Self, it is apparent on its summits or by reflection in ourselves as Sachchidananda creating us and the world by the power of His divine Knowledge-Will, spiritual, supramental, truth-conscious, infinite. That is the real Being, Lord and Creator, who, as the Cosmic Self veiled in Mind and Life and Matter, has descended into that which we call the Inconscient and constitutes ...
... s which is the integral consciousness of the spiritual being. Mind cannot be our last conscious expression because mind is fundamentally an ignorance seeking for knowledge; it is only the supramental Truth-Consciousness that can bring us the true and whole Self-Knowledge and world-Knowledge; it is through that only that we can get to our true being and the fulfilment of our spiritual evolution ...
... dynamic. Colour incandescent becomes light. Gold-green: gold indicates at its most intense something from the supramental, otherwise overmind truth or intuitive truth drawing ultimately from the supramental truth-consciousness. Green has much to do with the vital and indicates here, I think, the emotional forces in their outpouring. The play of the emotional forces in the divine Truth is, obviously very ...
... Yoga of the World’; ‘all the results of falsehood had disappeared’ with, as a consequence, the disappearance of death, illness and ignorance; it had been accepted that the world should know the supramental Truth and it would be expressed totally, integrally. As this was a culmination of her yoga of the cells, itself the culmination of the Integral Yoga which was the essence of her and Sri Aurobindo’s ...
... , carrying everything. ‘And how to express it in the world? It was like an impossibility, because of the contradiction. But then it came: “You have accepted that the world should know the Supramental Truth and it will be expressed totally, integrally.” Yes, yes. ‘And the thing is done. [long silence] ‘The individual consciousness came back: just the sense of a limitation, a limitation of ...
... inner consciousness but also in the outermost, with wonderful consequences in the material sheath itself and an earnest of the full and final result which would come by the arrival of the Supramental Truth: The total earnest of the Godlike future was revealed on November 26-a signal almost incredible to the human mind haunted and obsessed by millennia of mortality. That is why the Mother considered ...
... very creditable that he had obeyed immediately, but it wasn't Sri Aurobindo tell-ing him. Though proverbially Truth is found at the bottom of a well, (laughter) it cannot be the Supramental Page 40 Truth; this Truth is to be found somewhere high up. ( laughter ) They had to haul him up. g) No doubt, I always had the ambition in my younger days to took like Bernard Shaw ...
... needed at each step for when ‘one founders there, recovery is difficult.’ The author draws out Sri Aurobindo in topics of great significance like the Overmind, the Purushottam of the Gita, the Supramental Truth, the problem of bringing down the Supermind, preparing the earth atmosphere for the descent and the cosmic view on things etc. He describes his experience of union with the Guru. He tells him ...
... 1957: 7.2.57 Bonjour To My dear little child , To my sweet Huta I have received your nice letter. Yes, we are going towards a painting that will be able to express the supramental truth of things. My love and blessings and the Presence of the Divine Grace are always with you. That same evening she explained to me: I want you to do something new You must try to do ...
... d, for they are typal and not evolutionary beings, they can come for conversion—that is to say, to give up their own ideas and outlook on things and conform themselves to the higher Will and supramental Truth of the Divine. The higher beings are not likely to be in disharmony with each other as they are not subject to the lower ignorance. Page 456 The Gods have their own enjoyments ...
... consciousness veiled in its own exceeding light and impenetrable for ever. These things are to the dimensional mind irreconcilable opposites, but to the constant vision and experience of the supramental Truth-consciousness they are so simply and inevitably the intrinsic nature of each other that even to think of them as contraries is an unimaginable violence. The walls constructed by the measuring ...
... and finite action is in the Truth-Consciousness a movement of the Eternal and Infinite and partakes of the inherent absoluteness and perfection of the Eternal and Infinite. An ascent into the supramental Truth not only raises our spiritual and essential consciousness to that height but brings about a descent of this Light and Truth into all our being and all our parts of nature. All then becomes part ...
... the phenomenon of the Ignorance would intervene. Such a veil exists, says the Upanishad, constituted by the action of Mind itself: it is in Over mind a golden lid which hides the face of the supramental Truth but reflects its image; in Mind it becomes a more opaque and smoky-luminous coverture. That action is the absorbed looking downward of Mind on the diversity which is its characteristic movement ...
... relinquished in the rich totality of a supreme and integral realisation of eternal Being. It is this that is the aim we have conceived, the consummation of our existence here by an ascent to the supramental Truth-Consciousness and its descent into our nature. The psychic transformation after rising into the spiritual change has then to be completed, integralised, exceeded and uplifted by a supramental ...
... own highest deepest vastest Self, it is apparent on its summits or by reflection in ourselves as Sachchidananda creating us and the world by the power of His divine Knowledge-Will, spiritual, supramental, truth-conscious, infinite. That is the real Being, Lord and Creator, who, as the Cosmic Self veiled in Mind and Life and Matter, has descended into that which we call the Inconscient and constitutes ...
... and Indra the god of the sky, but has a very profound and striking significance if Indra be the illumined Mind and Saraswati the inspiration that proceeds from the hidden plane of the supramental Page 101 Truth. But it is impossible to give Saraswati so important a place with regard to the other gods as would be implied by interpreting the phrase mahnā mahato arṇavasya in the sense "by the ...
... n of the divine Truth. We now begin to have reason for concluding that the Flame, which is only another aspect of Light, is the Vedic symbol for the Force of the divine consciousness, of the supramental Truth. In another passage, VI.11.3, we have mention of the "seer most illumined of the Angirases", vepiṣṭho aṅgirasāṁ vipraḥ , where the reference is not at all clear. Sayana, ignoring the collocation ...
... world for their dwelling place," ghnanto vṛtram ataran rodasī apa uru kṣayāya cakrire ,—that this supra-celestial wideness, this illimitable light is a supramental heaven, the heaven of the supramental Truth, of the immortal Beatitude, and that the light which is its substance and constituent reality, is the light of Truth. But at present it is enough to emphasise this point that it is a heaven concealed ...
... × This verse is addressed to Indra, the Power of divine Mind, through whom comes the illumination of the supramental Truth; by the advancing chariots of this giver of Light we conquer our divine possessions. × Man's ...
... of Supramental Form-Energy holding and embodying the supramental life and stabilising the creation. Page 1341 Undated Notes - VI The Seven Suns of the Supermind 1) The Sun of Supramental Truth,—Knowledge-Power originating the supramental creation. Descent into the Sahasradala. 2) The Sun of Supramental Light and Will-Power, transmitting the Knowledge Power as dynamic vision and ...
... is the divine Truth-Light on whatever plane of consciousness. It is, I suppose, the original cosmic Truth that is here indicated. The Sun is the Truth from above, in the last resort the Supramental Truth. The sun is the symbol of the Supermind. The sun in the Yoga is the symbol of the supermind and the supermind is the first power of the Supreme which one meets across the border ...
... divine consciousness, but with a calm and deep aspiration. It can be ardent as well as calm, but not impatient, restless or full of rajasic eagerness. Only in the quiet mind and being can the supramental Truth build its true creation. The calm from above came to you and established your connection with the Above,—and if you hold firmly to it, you will be able to remain calm. But to be rid of ...
... you had the psychic being in front in the physical or even in the heart and the vital, you would feel that at once. Moreover, these experiences are not supramental as you seem to imagine. The supramental Truth could never stand behind such errors as you are making now. Moreover to get the supramental Light is not so easy as you fancy; I have warned again and again the sadhaks against the error of thinking ...
... straight way or he will depart on his own path wherever his inner destiny calls him. If you have not an entire confidence in us, are not prepared to submit absolutely to our guidance, if the supramental Truth is not your one aim, if you are not prepared to go through the slow, difficult and often painful process of self-emptying new creation by which alone it can form in you, putting away all pride ...
... Mother and Sri Aurobindo These are questions that I cannot answer—it is not for me to reply to such queries. 1 I can only say that the final aim of the Yoga here is to bring down the supramental Truth (all other aims and stages being preliminary and instrumental) and organise its action. The Asram proceeds on the assumption that this has to be done through myself and the Mother and in accepting ...
... also an answer to the terrible theory that all that takes place is God's direct working. For once you rise to the Supermind you immediately perceive that the world is false and distorted. The supramental truth has not at all found manifestation. How then can the world be a genuine expression of the Divine? Only when the Supermind is established and rules here, then alone the Supreme Will may be said ...
... even reached an enviable length owing to still further auto-suggestion. The power of mental formation is most useful in Yoga also; when the mind is put in communication with the Divine Will, the supramental Truth begins to descend through the layers intervening between the mind and the highest Light and if, on reaching the mind, it finds there the power of making forms it easily becomes embodied and stays ...
... Impersonal is a truth of the Overmind- there is no separate truth of them in the Supermind, they are inseparably one. But one who has not mastered and lived the truths of Overmind cannot reach the supramental Truth. The incompetent pride of man's mind makes a sharp distinction and wants to call all else untruth and leap at once to the highest truth whatever it may be - but that is an ambitious and arrogant ...
... 16 May 1956 " In sum, it may be safely affirmed that no solution offered can be anything but provisional until a supramental Truth-Consciousness is reached by which the appearances of things are put in their place and their essence revealed and that in them which derives straight from the spiritual essence. In the meanwhile ...
... draw from it all the possibilities it holds, if you educate it by the normal, well-known, scientific methods, if you make this instrument into something as perfect as possible, then, when the supramental truth manifests in that body, it will become immediately —without centuries of preparation—a marvellous instrument for the expression of the Spirit. That is why Sri Aurobindo used to repeat and ...
... consciousness, but with a calm and deep aspiration. It can be ardent as well as calm, but not impatient, restless or full of rajasic eagerness. "Only in the quiet mind and being can the supramental Truth build its true creation." Sweet Mother, what is the Sat-Purusha? The Purusha? What is it in the being? Knowledge. The conscious being. What is this true supramental creation? ...
... 1954 This talk is based upon Sri Aurobindo's Elements of Yoga , Chapter 4, "Sincerity" and Chapter 5, "Faith". "Q: What is the right attitude to stick on to this path till the Supramental Truth is realised?" "A: There is the psychic condition and sincerity and devotion to the Mother." What is "the psychic condition"? The psychic condition? That means being in relation with ...
... conscious form of that soul growing in the evolution—in the persistent process that develops first life in matter, mind in life, until finally mind can develop into overmind and overmind into the supramental Truth. The soul supports the nature in its evolution through these grades, but is itself not any of these things. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: The Jivatman in the Integral Yoga The ...
... conscious form of that soul growing in the evolution—in the persistent process that develops first life in Matter, mind in life, until finally mind can develop into overmind and overmind into the supramental Truth. The soul supports the nature in its evolution through these grades, but is itself not any of these things. The lower Nature, aparā prakṛti , is this external objective and superficial subjective ...
... each case must have its own solution. What will be the role of the different gods of the religions Page 308 in the supramental age? Can they help in the establishment of the supramental Truth upon earth and in the work of the transformation of Matter? It is too soon to put such a question. 19 February 1969 Seventeenth Seminar: 27 April 1969 1) Why is our yoga an adventure ...
... does not mean that things should be given to people who do not know how to use them. What is needed to administer Auroville is a consciousness free from all conventions and conscious of the supramental Truth. I am still waiting for someone like that. Each one must do his best to achieve that. 15 July 1970 ( Some temporary visitors claimed the right to intervene in the organisation of Auroville ...
... manifestation. Secondly, there is the psychic consciousness which climbs from below, the seed of the Divine developing through time till it meets the Force from above and takes the impress of the supramental Truth. This psychic consciousness is the inner being of a man, the material from which his true soul or jiva can be fashioned when, in response to its aspiration, the Supramental descends to give it ...
... its most superficial appearance—as illusory for the latest discoveries of today's science as for the experience of spirituality in former ages—that the body is not divine. Supreme Reality, Supramental Truth, this body is all-vibrant with intense gratitude. You have given it, one by one, all the experiences that can lead it most infallibly towards You. It has reached a state where the identification ...
... through personal will (these things were eliminated from my consciousness long, long ago). But I saw that this most material consciousness was already completely permeated with the transforming supramental truth, and it could no longer follow the rhythm of normal life. It was much more attuned to the true consciousness than to the world! I couldn't possibly blame it for lagging behind; on the contrary ...
... light to illumine it. Response of the mind to the supramental light: represents an important step towards realisation. Page 340 Victory in the mind is the reign of the supramental Truth in the mind. Supramentalised mind: mind has become an instrument for transformation. Mental Limitations and Weaknesses Does one enter a temple with dirty feet? Likewise, one does ...
... make living conditions for those who survive impossible due to the effects of the nuclear fall-out. In case the possibility of such a war is still there, will it not affect the advent of the Supramental Truth and the New Race upon earth? All these are mental speculations and once you enter the domains of mental imaginations there is no end to the problems and to their solutions. But all that does ...
... under its modest appearance it is a great force for transformation. Transformation is the change by which all the elements, and all the movements of the being become ready to manifest the supramental Truth. ...
... return, which expects nothing in return. Page 325 × "Ask for nothing but the divine, spiritual and supramental Truth, its realisation on earth and in you and in all who are called and chosen and the conditions needed for its creation and its victory over all opposing forces." ...
... is as illusive to the latest discoveries of the Science of today as to the experience of the spirituality of the past—that the body is not divine. August 1954 O Supreme Reality, O Supramental Truth, this body is totally vibrant with an intense gratitude. Thou hast given to it, one after another, all the experiences that can lead it most certainly towards Thee. It has come to the point where ...
... make living conditions for those who survive impossible due to the effects of the nuclear fall-out. In case the possibility of such a war is still there, will it not affect the advent of the Supramental Truth and of the New Race upon earth?" Here is the answer: "All these are mental speculations and once you enter the domain of mental imaginations there is no end to the problems and to ...
... on the traditional Yogas. But the sense is possible only if the human intellect stops sitting in judgment on the character of God and understands that the evolutionary working out of the full supramental Truth which can make man perfect and solve at length all the jarring riddles of his mortality is the grand aim set up by the Divine. The Truth is being manifested here by a process and play of ...
... 118 sense of the beginning of a new important working in my sadhana. But was this only something with a personal significance? Or did the Mother really visit me to announce some new supramental truth manifested? September 22 I spoke of my dream to the Mother. She said: "On that very night I wanted to give you something and I did so." November 25 In the morning the ...
... shall collaborate to do nice things and express in painting a higher world and consciousness." And in the second letter she said: "We are going towards a painting that will be able to express the Supramental Truth of things." Now the work is over and I am ever grateful to the Divine Mother and Sri Aurobindo for making me their instrument. "All can be done if the God-touch is there." This is what Sri ...
... of Water Gold : Knowledge of the divine Truth; indicates at its most intense 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 ...
... earthly rose, I have slain desire. 11.11.1935 Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Bride of the Fire ============= The Sun is the Truth from above, in the last resort the supramental Truth. Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: Sun, Moon, Star, Fire Call of the Divine Grace: Not noisy but persistent and very perceptible to those who know how to listen. The Mother ...
... appears Page 69 no hope for human survival. And that change can come only by self-knowledge, by a change of our present half-enlightened mental consciousness into a spiritual and supramental Truth-consciousness or All-knowledge, All-power, All-bliss. A change of consciousness alone can bring about a change of human nature—from the ignorant separative .consciousness of the mind to the illumined ...
... spontaneous 1 2 The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, pp. 30-31. (Italics ours) Page 21 right action of all the being are there as native powers of the supramental truth-consciousness and these will in their very nature transform mind and life and body even here upon earth into a manifestation of the truth-conscious spirit." 1 And if Matter — which ...
... be realised in the foreseeable future. For, Sri Aurobindo has assured us, Nature is ready and has taken the evolutionary decision and along with it, according to the Mother's declaration, the supramental Truth-Consciousness - the complete power of the Spirit -has descended into the earth-atmosphere and is very much active there. As a result all the difficulties encountered on the Path will be progressively ...
... It has been hinted at by some that the Ashram may have acted as a scaffolding for the accomplishment of the real mission of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, the descent and establishment of the supramental Truth-Consciousness into the earth atmosphere, and once that mission was adequately fulfilled, the Ashram lost its functional utility for their purpose and may now be passing into the phase of being ...
... Please sprinkle your supramental humour now and then. A too matter-of-fact dealing takes our breath away, or at least makes life damned harder, you know. Or are your humours also decided by Supramental Truth-sight? Sri Aurobindo: It depends on the state of my inner humerus. 3 The situation being as such, we feel like administering a friendly warning to the unwary readers of the present ...
... swar, the supramental world is a world corresponding to the Upanishadlic vijnana: and one can rise into higher worlds of Ananda, Chit and Sat. But even then, as Sri Aurobindo points out, "the Supramental Truth-Consciousness would not be absent from these planes, for it is an inherent power of Sachchidananda: the difference would be that the determinations would not be demarcations, they would be plastic ...
... all be based on the determination of the One in multiplicity, and it would manifest solely and simply a pure identity in oneness. In reply to this argument, Sri Aurobindo points out that the supramental Truth-Consciousness would not be absent from these planes, for it is an inherent power of Sachchidananda. Sri Aurobindo acknowledges that in the complete experience of Sachchidananda, determinations ...
... signifies knowledge or a consciousness of the truth and the right, satyam rtam. As Sri Aurobindo explains: "Ignorance is the absence of the divine eye of perception which gives us the sight of the supramental Truth; it is the non-perceiving principle in our consciousness as opposed to the truth-perceiving conscious vision and knowledge (acitti and citti). In its actual operation this non-perceiving is ...
... 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 can overcome the limitations of the overmental descent because whereas overmind is global but characterized by the operation of the dividing principle, supermind is total, integral ...
... is the work for which he laboured. Man's mind and intelligence, his life-energy, his body-form are all taken up, purified of the lower formulation, remoulded into the mode and pattern of the supramental truth-consciousness: he becomes a complete, integral perfect being expressing and embodying in all his limbs and movements the supreme reality made of utter truth and knowledge and power and delight ...
... is the work for which he laboured. Man's mind and intelligence, his life energy, his body-form are all taken up, purified of the lower formulation, remoulded into the mode and pattern of the supramental truth-consciousness: he becomes a complete, integral perfect being expressing and embodying in all his limbs and movements the supreme reality made of utter truth and knowledge and power and delight ...
... consciousness veiled in its own exceeding light and impenetrable for ever. These things are to the dimensional mind irreconcilable opposites, but to the constant vision and experience of the supramental Truth-Consciousness they are so simply and inevitably the intrinsic nature of each other that even to think of them as contraries is an unimaginable violence." 33 Cosmic Consciousness ...
... proceed in the end through a totality of integrated knowledge, emotion, will of dynamic action, perfection of the being and the entire nature. There must come about ultimately an ascent into the supramental Truth, which can bring about a descent of that Light and Truth into the entire being and all parts of our nature. Page 10 A Dilemma 9 that confronts the Integral Yoga: Importance of ...
... 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 lid. It is that golden lid which prevents the synthesis of the different ...
... veiled in its own exceeding light and page - 99 impenetrable for ever. These things are to the dimensional mind irreconcilable opposites, but to the constant vision and experience of the supramental Truth-Consciousness they are so simply and inevitably the intrinsic nature of each other that even to think of them as contraries is an unimaginable violence. The walls constructed by the measuring ...
... This marks the victory of the Aryan seeker. He is now in the very home of the gods (swe dame). This is the home of the Truth, the Right and the Vast (satyam, ritam brihat). This is the supramental Truth-Consciousness (Sat-Chit). It is that by which reality expresses itself, and in which expression, even the Idea-Expression, is the concrete body of the Truth itself. It may therefore be described ...
... 'Higher Mind', 'Illumined Mind', 'Intuitive Page 23 Mind', and 'Overmind'.² The Supermind is an eternal reality of the divine Being and divine Nature. In the words of Sri Aurobindo, 'A Supramental Truth-Consciousness is at once the self-awareness of the Infinite and Eternal and a power of self-determination inherent in that self-awareness, the first is its foundation and status, the second is ...
... in perfect Unity which allows free interpenetration of One and Many. The One and the Many basing themselves on the Infinite have a free interchange Page 253 and mixing. In the Supramental Truth Consciousness, total and individual determinations are held together. In All and the One, the One and the Many are held tgether, in clarity, "in complete incomparable Unity," and "yet close in ...
... Supermind finds expression it would carry its meaning only to the man who knows; as the Veda puts it, "Words of the Seer which reveal their mystery only to the Seer". One can't express the whole Supramental Truth but something of it can come through. Disciple : The other day you spoke about the psychic element in poetry. Is it that which constitutes the highest expression of Truth in poetry? ...
... When Sastriar met Sri Aurobindo in 1923, the basis of their future relationship was established, and the disciple made a note of the guidelines received from the Master: Faith in the Supramental Truth; Faith in yourself, in your capacity to achieve; Faith in me (the Guru whose special help you would receive) Peace, Power and Light are the threefold aim of the sadhana. 1 ...
... too rigid a separation between A.G. (Aurobindo Ghose] and Mirra. Both influences are necessary for the complete development of the Sadhana. The work of the two together alone brings down the supramental Truth into the physical plane. A.G. acts directly on the mental and on the vital being through the illumined mind; he represents the Purusha element whose strength is predominantly in illumined knowledge ...
... herself, and from that leverage she would change the world. She would lose herself in the Divine, and she would strive to establish here a new Heaven and a new Earth inhabited and governed by the supramental Truth-Consciousness. But she knows too that so radical - so revolutionary - a change in the human mentality or the earth-consciousness is not easy to accomplish. There is being waged a bitter struggle ...
... of sincerity and courage and Truth for the Aurovilians. "What is needed to administer Auroville," she wrote on 15 July 1970, "is a consciousness free from all conventions and conscious of the supramental Truth," and she still awaited "someone like that". 17 On another occasion, she asked an Aurovilian: Page 787 Is it to satisfy personal needs that you have come to Auroville? That was ...
... and vanquish (or transform) it once and for all. The Power greater than that of Evil, and greater than that of the current Good of the world, can only be a new Power of the Divine, the power of supramental Truth-Consciousness that manifested itself, according to the Mother's testimony, on 29 February 1956 and continues as an operative power in human and terrestrial affairs. The Power has arrived indeed ...
... manifestation - (because four indicates manifestation) - in three superimposed worlds; the outermost... that is a physical world, then a vital world and a mental world, and then at the centre, the supramental Truth 4 On a subsequent occasion, when the Mother gave this flower, the Golden Champak, to a sadhak, he wanted to know what precisely "Supramentalised Psychological Perfection" was - and her answer ...
... down the Truth and the Beauty and the Love and the Ananda is verily the whole aim of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga. But when Truth comes, can the rest be far behind? Truth - Page 721 the supramental Truth-Consciousness - is already here, it has been here for years. And so - "Salute to the Advent of the Truth." III During her conversation on 12 January 1965, the Mother said that there ...
... such relation or inter- change immediately ties down the soul to the lower consciousness and its lower nature, prevents the true and full union with the Divine and hampers both the ascent to the supramental Truth-consciousness and the descent of the supramental Iśwarī Śakti. Still worse would it be if this interchange took the form of a sexual relation or a sexual enjoyment, even if kept free from ...
... world forces that its results, however strong or however adequate to the immediate object, must necessarily be partial. 30 A global consciousness, even when it is rather less than the Supramental Truth-Consciousness, carries with it knowledge as well as power, and thus, although cooped up to all intents and movements in a small room in a far comer of South India, Sri Aurobindo's consciousness ...
... build a symbolic center around Sri Aurobindo's symbol, like an enormous lotus bud ("Aurobindo" means lotus) rising from the earth, from the mud of the earth into which the true consciousness, the supramental Truth-Consciousness, must infiltrate. It is what Mother called with her delightful sense of humor "the Tower of Babel in reverse." They united and divided in the construction, so now, they come together ...
... psychic push and pressure are indispensable at the earlier stages of the sâdhanâ in order to awaken the less evolved parts to their own potentiality and destiny. But for the descent of the supramental Truth-Light and the work of the integral transformation, the consent and cooperation of every part are absolutely necessary. Each part of the composite being must desire the Divine, and a constant ...
... form of effulgence is the oneness of the Spirit and his rays dispersed here on the mental level are the shining Page 335 diffusion of the thought mind and conceal his own infinite supramental truth, the body and self of this Sun, the truth of the spirit and the Eternal: The face of the Truth is covered with a golden lid: O fostering Sun, that uncover for the law of the truth, for sight ...
... disastrous. It is the kind of formation X was persistently making that all must approach and realise the Truth through him and he even hoped that one day we would realise the fact that the supramental Truth had descended into him and into him alone and would order all to approach it and us only through him! You Page 567 probably saw in your dream something like that moving about and the ...
... manifestation. Secondly, there is the psychic consciousness which climbs up from below, the seed of the Divine developing through time till it meets the Force from above and takes the impress of the supramental Truth. This psychic consciousness is the inner being of a man, the material from which his true soul or jiva can be fashioned when, in response to its aspiration, the Supramental descends to give ...
... is, to follow the divine movement in its unfolding. Sweet Mother, I am mixing up things. Here it is written: "But one who has not mastered and lived the truths of Overmind cannot reach the supramental Truth." Yes. It is here that I am getting mixed up. Often you have said that the reign of Overmind is finished and that of the Supermind is to come, and that one doesn't need to go through the ...
... talk is based upon Chapter 3 of The Mother by Sri Aurobindo. Which of you did not ask questions last time?... The first one! What is the difference between "the divine, spiritual and supramental Truth?" If I could only hear what you are saying, it would be easier! ( The child repeats the same question more distinctly. ) The divine truth... "...spiritual and supramental." I ...
... doubt" [ p. 348 ]. Those things were not only in you but were created by you. If you put it like that it can only be because of the conditions of the earth nature. From the point of view of the supramental truth, you are the creator of the supramental plane. Page 349 That is another matter. The supermind plane is a plane above, its nature is not yet manifested in the material world, which ...
... mistake if you make too rigid a separation between A.G and Mira. Both influences are necessary for the complete development of the sadhana. The work of the two together can alone bring down the supramental Truth into the physical plane. A.G acts directly on the mental and on the vital being through the illumined mind; he represents the Purusha element whose strength is predominantly in illumined (intuitive ...
... mind's entire ignorance and accepted that salutary knowledge. That humility of the mental being and the clear perception of its own incompetence is the first step towards a sound approach to the supramental Truth. Otherwise you will always live in messages, approximations and suggestions, some from the Truth, some from the many regions of half Truth, some from the Twilight and Error and have no sure power ...
... should be given to people who Page 71 do not know how to use them. What is needed to administer Auroville is a consciousness free from all conventions and conscious of the supramental Truth. I am still waiting for someone like that. Each one must do his best to achieve that. 15.7.1970 * To the inhabitants of Auroville Only those who have resolved to stay in Auroville ...
... even reached an enviable length owing to still further auto-suggestion. The power of mental formation is most useful in Yoga also; when the mind is put in communication with the Divine Will, the supramental Truth begins to descend through the layer intervening between the mind and the highest Light and if, on reaching the mind, it finds there the power of making forms it easily becomes embodied and stays ...
... would only have to be condensed, so to say, for it to become visible to all. What would then be interesting would be to develop this inner perception which would put you into contact with the supramental truth which is already manifested, and is veiled for you only for want of appropriate organs to enter into relation with it. It is possible that those who are conscious of their dreams may have dreams ...
... ―in three superimposed worlds: the outermost―these are the largest petals, the lightest in colour―that is a physical world, then a vital world and a mental world, and then at the centre, the supramental Truth. And you can discover all kinds of other analogies. Page 158 Is that all? Mother, about the division of works, Sri Aurobindo writes here: "A Yoga turned towards an all-embracing ...
... and present make-up are only a fraction of what could be, but if they became complete and dominant would be truly able to bring about with the help of the light and force of the soul and the supramental truth-consciousness the necessary physical transformation and its consequences. This might be found in the system of Chakras revealed by Tantric knowledge and accepted in the systems of Yoga, conscious ...
... behind things, why is it so difficult to find it? Because it is hidden! ( Laughter ) Even in the Ignorance it is working, it leads to the Truth.... Sri Aurobindo explains that if the supramental truth had not been there behind things, the world could never have been organised, even as it is organised now. We have the feeling of a Page 201 consciousness with a very enlightened will ...
... truth and come to the path of the supramental Yoga? I don't know what you mean. But there are also many people who believe they are following the yoga of Sri Aurobindo and who don't reach the supramental truth. Page 63 It does not depend so much on the path one follows; it depends on the capacity one has. But I am asking: the central truth of the Gita is surrender to the Lord—why doesn't ...
... of the physical mind, the lower zone of ordinary thoughts, full of error and ignorance and falsehood, to the plane of the higher mind which receives, in the form of intuitions, the rays of the supramental truth. Between these two extremes there is a gradation of countless intermediate planes that are superimposed one upon another and which influence each other. In one of the lower zones lies the practical ...
... he will be told, 'You are a heretic.' So I do not want that. But it is indisputable that the atmosphere has changed, there is something new in the atmosphere—we can call it the 'descent of the supramental truth', because for us these words have a meaning, but I do not want to make a declaration out of it, because I do not want that to be the classical or 'true' way of describing the event. That is ...
... 1954 Never forget that to be a good teacher one has to abolish in oneself all egoism. 2 10 December 1959 Page 167 And to be worthy of teaching according to the supramental truth given us by Sri Aurobindo there should no longer be any ego. 3 December 1960 All studies, or in any case the greater part of studies consists in learning about the past, in the ...
... things. But as the individual becomes cosmic (the universalising of the individual without his losing his higher individuality as a divine centre is one of the processes which lead towards the supramental Truth), this disability begins to disappear. The truth behind the dāsya or madhura or any other bhāva or fusion of bhāvas becomes a vast and ample continuous state,—if by chance they lose something ...
... cessation of birth in the world as the ultimate aim or at least the ultimate culmination of Yoga; it does not bring forward the idea of spiritual evolution or the idea of the higher planes and the supramental Truth-Consciousness and the bringing down of that consciousness as the means of the complete transformation of earthly life. The idea of the supermind, the Truth-Consciousness is there in the Rig ...
... dedicated work Page 209 or bhakti for the Divine. In our Yoga, which seeks not only a static peace or absorption but a dynamic spiritual action, work is indispensable. As for the Supramental Truth, that is a different matter; it depends only on the descent of the Divine and the action of the Supreme Force and is not bound by any method or rule. There are very few among the sadhaks ...
... integral consciousness of the spiritual being. Mind cannot be our last conscious expression because mind is fundamentally Page 396 an ignorance seeking for knowledge; it is only the Supramental Truth-Consciousness that can bring us the true and whole SelfKnowledge and world-Knowledge; it is through that only that we can get to our true being and the fulfilment of our spiritual evolution. ...
... uncertain certitudes, its representations, and a revealing of the truth concealed or half concealed and half manifested by these things, and in its higher action it is a first bringing of the supramental truth by a nearer directness of seeing, a luminous indication or memory of the spirit's knowledge, an intuition or looking in through the gates of the being's secret universal self-vision and knowledge ...
... the Reality and the vital being as the self and spirit; in the third essay he penetrated to Mind and the mental being; only afterwards could he get beyond the superficial subjective through the supramental Truth-Consciousness to the eternal, the blissful, the ever creative Reality of which these are the sheaths. Page 249 But humanity may not be as persistent or as plastic as the son of Varuna ...
... inertia, darkness and slowness of tamas. It is this material consciousness into which we are seeking to bring first the higher (divine or spiritual) Light and Power and Ananda, and then the supramental Truth which is the object of our Yoga. But there is an obstinate dark and inert resistance both from material Nature and from the physical conscious ness of the sadhaks—of which the lower vital and ...
... conscious form of that soul growing in the evolution—in the persistent process that develops first life in matter, mind in life, until finally mind can develop into overmind and overmind into the supramental Truth. The soul supports the nature in its evolution through these grades, but is itself not any of these things. The lower Nature, Apara Prakriti, is this external objective and superficial subjective ...
... supramental Mahashakti and brings pouring down her luminous transcendences from their ineffable ether. Then can human nature change into dynamic divine nature because all the elemental lines of the supramental Truth-consciousness and Truth-force are strung together and the harp of life is fitted for the rhythms of the Eternal. If you desire this transformation, put yourself in the hands of the Mother and ...
... the purity, force, light, wideness, calm, Ananda of the divine consciousness and its insistence to transform and perfect your mind, life and body. Ask for nothing but the divine, spiritual and supramental Truth, its realisation on earth and in you and in all who are called and chosen and the conditions needed for its creation and its victory over all opposing forces. Let your sincerity and surrender ...
... must be created for him from within, when he has the true consciousness and lives in the Light. They will be determined within him by the power and will of the Divine Mother according to the supramental Truth for the divine life and the divine work; they must not be determined by his mind and his vital desires. This is the thing you have to remember. Your psychic being is capable of giving itself to ...
... the supramental principle. Still there is an increasing 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 ...
... and defect, the law of our divine and infinite being is impaired or spoiled, works under restrictions and with perversions; it manifests fully, steadfastly and faultlessly only when the ideal, supramental truth-plane is upheld in us by the pure wideness and harmony of Varuna and Mitra and takes up the vital and the physical consciousness into its power and light. ...
... × The two shining horses of Indra identical probably with the two cows of light of the first verse; they are the two vision-powers of the supramental Truth-Consciousness, righthand and left-hand, probably direct truth-discernment and intuition. As cows symbolising light of knowledge they yoke themselves to the material mind, the wain; as horses ...
... the supreme Truth-consciousness and extricated from the soil and error of the Ignorance. In sum, it may be safely affirmed that no solution offered can be anything but provisional until a Supramental Truth-consciousness is reached by which the appearances of things are put in their place and their essence revealed and that in them which derives straight from the spiritual essence. In the meanwhile ...
... acitti , of the Truth and Right, an opposition to its workings and a creation of false or adverse workings. Ignorance is the absence of the divine eye of perception which gives us the sight of the supramental Truth; it is the non-perceiving principle in our consciousness as opposed to the truth-perceiving conscious vision and knowledge. 5 In its actual operation this non-perceiving is not an entire i ...
... × Mind is here used in its widest sense including the operation of an Overmind power which is nearest to the supramental Truth-Consciousness and which is the first fountain of the creation of the Ignorance. ...
... , and there must be no mental or other preference in me to limit, to interfere, to be a source of imperfect working. The mind must become a silent luminous channel for the revelations of the supramental Truth and of the Will involved in its seeing. Then shall the action be the action of that highest Being and Truth and not a qualified translation or mistranslation in the mind. Whatever limitation, ...
... the Upanishad expresses when it says that the heavens attained by the mind Purusha are those to which man is lifted by the rays of the sun, the diffused, separated, though intense beams of the supramental truth-consciousness, and from these it has to return to the earthly existence. But the illuminates who renouncing earth-life go beyond through the gateways of the sun, do not return hither. The mental ...
... action of the universal mind flowing into our mentality and our thought-action flowing out upon it as a wave into that wide sea. This unity embracing all mind, life and matter in the light of a supramental Truth and the pulse of a spiritual Bliss will be to us our internal fulfilment of the Divine in a complete cosmic consciousness. But since we must embrace all this in the double term of the Being ...
... fixed customary mould of thinking, taking that for its basis. Its basis, that to which all is referred, is above, upari budhne , in the largeness of the self, in the supreme foundation of the supramental truth, budhne ṛtasya . Its order of thought, its cycle of will, its stable movement of action does not crystallise into a mechanism or convention, but is always alive with the spirit, does not live ...
... qua non. Missing this "something that has been" secret", traditional Christianity has shut the one door it had of glorious anticipation - in however inadequate a manner - of Sri Aurobindo's supramental truth. Paul has no idea of the race's evolutionary development towards what Teilhard has termed the "Ultra-human" or of the individual soul's evolution through the ages by a series of rebirths or ...
... required for saving us from wars are impossible until what Sri Aurobindo calls the Truth-conscious Super-mind has been attained and brought down into all our self and all our activity. In the supramental Truth-consciousness lie the basic unity and harmony and egoless infallible compassion by which the ideal altruism that would be our saviour can be born. I am afraid Prof. K goes off the rails ...
... and scope of their action, not in the stuff or in their principle", then it will manifest, roughly, a threefold progression. "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 Page 127 ...
... of a still deeper aspect of Divine Existence — what Sri Aurobindo, employing the ancient Indian terminology, would call the Bliss-state, the Ananda-aspect, of the Absolute, which is behind the supramental Truth-consciousness, the Vijnana-aspect. Behind the Bliss-state there will be something else — and so on, as it should be when we are dealing with the Absolute and His manifestation. For, to use Meredith's ...
... premature. In order that it should succeed, one of two things was necessary, either a right entire knowledge and process or else the divine Grace supporting a complete descent of the highest supramental Truth and a complete ascent to meet it of the supramental from below. These things should have been got first and firmly founded, for till then there can be no effective divinisation of the material ...
... flowing out upon it as a wave into that wide sea. This unity embracing 1 Ibid., pp. 423-24 2 Ibid., pp. 424-25. Page 300 all mind, life and matter in the light of a supramental Truth and the pulse of a spiritual Bliss will be to us our internal fulfilment of the Divine in a complete cosmic consciousness." 1 Our approach through spiritual philosophy to Sri Aurobindo's ...
... whether such a thing will be realized in Tibet? It is not a dream. It will naturally be. But the time it will take, I do not know. This is something like what Sri Aurobindo has said about the Supramental. Truth, Love, Compassion will give a basis to the new creation. It is not birth but the value of men that should give the right to authority. If the teaching of Sri Aurobindo can spread over the ...
... Yoga is the Supramental Yoga: it brings into play the divine truth of the mind, the vital being, the body and asks the soul in us, whose instruments these are, to surrender itself wholly to the Supramental. Truth-Consciousness, God in His highest form, so that our whole self may ascend there and the whole Supermind may descend into us. All through human history, our imperfect nature has longed for ...
... experiences a “Celestial ecstasy”. The “transformation” can only be experienced, it cannot be expressed. Having transformed Champaklal, the. Mother herself leads him into the Light of the Supramental Truth and Force (the Golden Sun), Sri Aurobindo being its embodiment is there. Champaklal puts his head on Sri Aurobindo's lap signifying his total self-surrender and has the transcendental darshan ...
... stupendous, carrying everything. ‘And how to express it in the world? It was like an impossibility because of the contradiction. But then it came: “You have accepted that the world should know the Supramental Truth … and it will be expressed totally, integrally.” Yes, yes … ‘And the thing is done .’ Then, after a long silence: ‘The individual consciousness came back: just the sense of a limitation ...
... fruition. “This Thing of Capital Importance …” “If Supermind descends upon the earth, it will bring necessarily the divine life with it and establish it here … The manifestation of a supramental truth-consciousness is therefore the capital reality that will make the divine life possible,” 69 wrote Sri Aurobindo. “If Supermind descends …”, “if the supramental comes down …” It was the condition ...
... the body, turning into orange-coloured light and flowing away.... Explanation: The golden light is usually a light from the Supermind—a light of Truth-Knowledge (it may sometimes be the Supramental Truth-Knowledge turned into overmind or intuitive Truth). Orange often indicates occult power. You have a strong power of (subjective) creative formation, mostly, I think in the mental but partly too ...
... come into being ending with the appearance of Man. But what really is worth noticing in this evolution is the evolution of conciousness from the in-conscient Matter to the manifestation of the Supramental Truth-consciousness in man which is the final aim and end of this terrestrial Life. Page 74 ...
... Life Divine to the elites, the intellectuals and others who are interested in philosophical literature. From the point of view of practical guidance to spiritual or more properly speaking, the supramental Truth, this has an abiding value not only for the present but for all times to come in the future. This is all the more true that while the Gita insists upon the separation of the Soul from Prakriti ...
... towards death. That is why in ancient times in all sacred and secret institutions this act was interdicted to all spiritual seekers. Continence is the rule for all and for those who aspire for supramental truth, this continence must be replaced by a complete and total abstinence. It goes without saying that for the result to be truly beneficial, all sexual desires, thought and impulsions should be eliminated ...
... into an ineffable identity." 59 Otherwise, what to the dimensional mind are but irreconciliable Page 165 opposites, are "to the constant vision and experience of the supramental Truth-consciousness... so simply and inevitably the intrinsic nature of each other that even to think of them as contraries is an unimaginable violence." 60 But how to clothe this vision and ...
... and which lives in a division and diversion, not in the body of the sun, but first in its nearer and then in its far-off rays. There is a highest intuitive mind which receives more nearly the supramental truth, but even this is a formation which conceals the direct and greater real knowledge. There is an intellectual mind which is a luminous half-opaque lid which intercepts and reflects in a radiantly ...
... the purity, force, light, wideness, calm, Ananda of the divine consciousness and its insistence to transform and perfect your mind, life and body. Ask for nothing but the divine, spiritual and supramental Truth, its realisation on earth and in you and in all who are called and chosen and the conditions needed for its creation and its Victory over all opposing forces. Sri Aurobindo, The Mother with ...
... carrying everything. And how, how to express in the world? It was like an impossibility, because of the contradiction.... But then it came: "You have accepted that this world should know the Supramental Truth... and it will be expressed totally, integrally." Yes, yes.... Page 131 And the thing is DONE. ( long silence ) The individual consciousness came back, just the sense of a limitation ...
... stupendous, carrying everything. And how to express it in the world? It was like an impossibility, because of the contradiction. But then it came: "You have accepted that the world should know the Supramental Truth... and it will be expressed totally, integrally." Yes, yes.... And the thing is done . ( Long silence ) The individual consciousness came back: just the sense of a Page 391 ...
... "sweetness of heaven-sense", what in Savitri is called "the Paradise of the Life-Gods", a sudden reminder rises from the earthly depths which he has abandoned. The reminder is at once of the Supramental Truth-Consciousness and of the seeming abyss in which man's evolution has been set. It is "Earth's outcry to the limitless Sublime". The last part of it runs: "I, Earth, have a deeper power ...
... the Lord's silence. Lamb-Amal is sitting on that paw which has a wrist-watch above it, symbolising Lion-Sri Aurobindo's time-manifestation. I see that the golden Lion is clothed in green, the supramental Truth-Consciousness putting its presence into the vital world. The white Lamb - symbol of the psychicised purified being which I seek to reflect - is wearing a chequered red coat, the sign of the physical ...
... else, he will be told, 'You are a heretic.' So I don't want that. But it's undeniable that the atmosphere has changed, there is something new in the atmosphere—we can call it 'the descent of the supramental Truth' because for us these words have a meaning, but I don't want to make a declaration about it, because I don't want it to be THE classic or 'true' way to describe the event. That's why I keep it ...
... mistake if you make too rigid a separation between A. G.² and Mirra. Both influences are necessary for the complete development of the Sadhana. The work of the two together alone brings down the Supramental Truth into the physical plane. A. G. acts directly on the mental and on the vital being through the illumined mind; he represents the Purusha element whose strength is predominantly in illumined ...
... It was indeed very creditable that he had obeyed immediately, but it wasn't Sri Aurobindo telling him. Though proverbially Truth is found at the bottom of a well, (laughter) it cannot be the Supramental Truth; this Truth is to be found somewhere high up. (laughter) They had to haul him up. You see, these voices are dangerous and one has to be vigilant. Also I might say that even spiritual experience ...
... Page 3 Bonjour To my dear little child To my sweet Huta I have received your nice letter. Yes, we are going towards a painting that will be able to express the supramental truth of things. My love and blessings and the Presence of the Divine Grace are always with you The Mother That same evening she explained to me: I want you to do something new ...
... A beautiful work of art indeed, says the artistic sense coming to the fore. But a piece of art with a deep significance,—says some inner chord of our being. For the Sun is a symbol of the Supramental Truth, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have told us; and the sun-ray will be the symbol of the ray of that Truth. In the Vedas the Sun has been called the Lord of Truth, "...the rays of Surya are ...
... carrying everything. And how to express it in the world? It was like an impossibility, because of the contradiction... But then it came: "You have accepted that the world should know the Supramental Truth... and it will be expressed totally, integrally." Yes, yes... And the thing is done. (Long Silence) The individual consciousness came back, just the sense Page 167 ...
... which could not be had otherwise. The whole of humanity should be organised upon these bases. But the organisation will not be true and viable unless at its centre and at its head there is the supramental Truth-Consciousness manifested in an. individual or a small group of individuals who will be the representatives of the new race, the incarnation of the supramental consciousness upon earth. During ...
... and present make-up are only a fraction of what could be, but if they became complete and dominant would be truly able to bring about with the help of the light and force of the soul and the supramental truth- consciousness the necessary physical transformation and its consequences. This might be found in the system of Chakras revealed by Tantric knowledge and accepted in the systems of Yoga, conscious ...
... intermediate world of Life and heaven of Mind, — the horse who was a mere horse for the human beings, but Arvan for the Titans, Vajin for the Gandharvas, and Haya for the Gods, whose home is that supramental Truth, Right and Vast, which constantly and imperishably manifests Supreme Bliss, Madhu. Let us read that description: "Dawn is the head of the horse sacrificial. The sun is his eye, his breath ...
... It is by constant awakening and impulsion that results in divine perception, ketu, that Saraswati brings into active consciousness of the human being the great flood ( maho arnah ) , the supramental Truth-Consciousness itself, which is for the Vedic Rishis a supramental plane, a level of the will of being (adreh sānu) which is beyond our ordinary reach and to which we have to climb with difficulty ...
... consciousness veiled in its own exceeding light and impenetrable for ever. These things are to the dimensional mind irreconcilable opposites, but to the constant vision and experience of the supramental Truth-Consciousness they are so simply and inevitably the intrinsic nature of each other that even to think of them as contraries is an unimaginable violence. The walls constructed by the measuring ...
... victory of the Aryan seeker. He is now in the very home of the gods (swe dame). This is the home of the Truth, the Right and the Vast (satyam, ritam, bhrihat). Page 14 This is the supramental Truth-Consciousness (Rita-Chit), the highest cosmic consciousness. It is that by which reality expresses itself, and in which expression, even the Idea- Expression, is the concrete body of the Truth ...
... Eternal and a power of self-determination inherent in that self-awareness; the first is its foundation and status, the second is its power of being, the dynamis of its self-existence." 3 The supramental Truth-Consciousness is the conscious power that manifests the timeless eternity and Spaceless infinity of the Supreme Sat-Chit-Ananda in Time-Eternity and Space-Infinity. The Supreme is not a rigid ...
... more difficult that all the austerities of the ascetic: the austerity necessary for the integral transformation, the fourfold austerity which prepares the individual for the manifestation of the supramental truth. One can say, for example, that few austerities are so severe as those which physical culture demands 'or the perfection of the body. But of that we shall speak in due time. Before I begin ...
... vital life." (The Life Divine, p. 1062) But whatever may have happened in the past, the Mother and Sri Aurobindo have undertaken this difficult task. For that they have brought down the Supramental Truth-Consciousness with its absolute potency into the earth nature and this will surely overcome the apparently insuperable difficulty of transformation and help to establish a perfect spiritual society ...
... field of supraphysical consciousness and experience with the imputation of unreality and clamps down to its earth-roots the growth of the spirit from its original limiting humanity into the supramental truth and the divine nature." 1 But the question is: Are the limitations imposed by man's body in its present state of development to be considered as something permanent and of the nature ...
... carrying everything. And how, how to express in the world? It was like an impossibility, because of the contradiction.... But then it came: 'You have accepted that this world should know the Supramental Truth... and it will be expressed totally, integrally.' Yes, yes.... And the thing is DONE (long silence) The individual consciousness came back, just the sense of a limitation, limitation ...
... creation, over whose shaping they have presided for almost fifty years, where their divine bodies remain interred in permanence, ceaselessly emanating their regenerating influence, and where the supramental Truth-Consciousness is inalienably active to bring about the desired earthly transformation? Page 86 Against all deceptive appearances to the contrary, we the disciples residing in the ...
... the higher principle is possible which will not merely release the spiritual Self out of the world, but release it in the world, replace the mind's ignorance or its very limited knowledge by a supramental Truth-Consciousness which will be a sufficient instrument of the inner Self and make it possible for the human being to find himself dynamically as well as inwardly and grow out of his still animal ...
... Please sprinkle your supramental humour how and then. A too matter-of-fact dealing takes our breath away, or at least makes lift damned harder, you know. Or are your humours also decided by Supramental Truth-sight? It depends on the state of my inner humerus. God, alas! What a queer fellow your Supramental will be! Can't be queerer than the mental human! .But I suppose he will seem queer ...
... is the work for which he laboured. Man's mind and intelligence, his life- energy, his body-form are all taken up, purified of the lower formulation, remoulded into the mode and pattern of the supramental truth-consciousness: he becomes a complete, integral perfect being expressing and embodying in all his limbs and movements the supreme reality made of utter truth and knowledge and power and delight ...
... Disciple : What relation will ;the Superman have with outside humanity? Sri Aurobindo : You again come to the old question of humanity. I have nothing directly to do with it. If this supramental Truth comes down then of course no problem remains because in the Supermind there are no problems – there is Truth. But it is not likely to happen that way, because that is not the way things are ...
... was the seed of the inner Truth in it, but the manifestation was vital. Now, I wish that if the day is observed it should be in keeping with the Truth it symbolises. You all know of the Supramental Truth that has to descend into our life. This day that Truth is symbolised. But there are several obstacles in the way of its coming down. There is the Mind and the mental ideas that grasp at the ...
... irrefutable truth: "He wills, I execute." After Sri Aurobindo's passing, it was feared in some quarters that the Ashram would collapse, at least decline. On the contrary, the manifestation of the Supramental Truth took place after his withdrawal, and since then the Ashram has expanded beyond all belief. Sri Aurobindo wrote to me, "...The Mother's pressure for change is always strong — even when she does ...
... Truth, come, manifest!" 2 And this "essential Truth" was also the "truth of essential Love". And the Truth the Mother invoked and saluted was not any partial or intellectualised truth but the supramental Truth-Consciousness itself which was also supreme Power at Page 738 the same time. But people understood - or misunderstood - things to the measure of their range of consciousness or their ...
... "giving an effective response to the Mother's repeated calls for collaboration with the working of the newly emergent forces released in the earth-atmosphere as a result of the manifestation of the supramental Truth in February 1956". The Mother's message for its inaugural session, held on 12 July, summed up the whole aim of The New Age Association: Never believe that you know. Always try to know better ...
... 'the supramental principle. Still there is an 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 ...
... fear; and this is the breeding-ground of diseases. To rest in the Divine is the only infallible remedy. It may also be added that, ultimately, only when man is established permanently in the supramental Truth-Consciousness that his body will be automatically protected from all inner disharmony and attacks from outside. IX Another question is the place for individual initiative in a world ...
... World"; "True Humility - Supramental Plasticity - Spiritual Rebirth"; and "The Supramental Realisation". "Chance", says the Mother, "can only be the opposite of order and harmony"; and when the Supramental Truth-Consciousness alone comes to prevail, chance will have no place at all. In our lower nature, the supreme Truth is obscured, and conflicting forces act at cross-purposes and precipitate what ...
... 1950, the Mind of Light had invaded and settled in her. Now, less than three months after Sri Aurobindo's passing, she was demonstrating in her own person the possibility of evolving towards the supramental Truth-Consciousness and the gnostic life. For the world too there is the charter: "Yes, the gnostic life is certain, because it has begun to be realised." VI By mid-April 1951, the readings ...
... attitude of unconditional self-surrender known as Madhur-Bhava. OVERMIND "At the source of this Intuition we discover a superconscient cosmic Mind in direct contact with the Supramental Truth-Consciousness, an original intensity determinant of all mental energies,—not Mind as we know it, but an Over- mind that covers as with the wide wings of some creative Oversoul this whole lower ...
... build the Reality. Supermind brings to birth this Unknown Power. Lest People should think that power is the only aspect of the Truth, I will give what Mother has to say on this problem. "Is the supramental truth-consciousness only power, only knowledge and illumination ? it is much more. Listen to the voice of the maternal Divine Love : "Oh beloved children, sorrowful and ignorant, and thou of rebellious ...
... 9 Letters on Savitri Page 99 APPENDIX III OVERMIND "At the source of this Intuition we discover a super-conscient cosmic Mind in direct contact with the Supramental Truth-Consciousness, and original intensity determinant of all mental energies,—not Mind as we know but an Overmind that covers as with the wide wings of not some creative Oversoul this whole lower ...
... and effect a radical and integral conversion and transformation. The Creator alone can refashion, remould and transmute into its own substance and force what it has created. The descent of the Supramental Truth-Force is, therefore, indispensable for the supramental transformation. But the Supermind is not only above, exerting from there its transforming pressure upon the evolving earth-nature, or descending ...
... and judgement of the buddhi, and a thrill and glow to the movements of the physical being. The choice of thought and action must lie with the buddhi, and later on in the sâdhanâ, with the supramental Truth-Consciousness, possessing and perfecting the whole nature, but never with the emotional being. THE TWO BASIC MOVEMENTS IN PURIFICATION The entire process of the purification ...
... purpose; you will profit fully by your stay in the Ashram and eventually become living examples for the world.” Page 386 This, then, is the Mother's work—to awaken in man the supramental Truth-Consciousness and help him grow according to its law. Evidently it is a signal departure from the aims and objects of traditional spirituality, which points to the Beyond as the only kingdom of ...
... to and worked by the Supramental Light. Mind, the alienated, and diminished Page 110 delegate of the Supermind, must be transformed into a luminous and powerful vehicle of the supramental Truth-Consciousness, and an efficient organiser and active agent for the establishment and consolidation of the Life Divine on earth. THE SURRENDER OF THE VITAL (PRANA) The surrender of ...
... help to achieve your purpose; you will profit fully by your stay in the Ashram and eventually become living examples for the world." This, then, is the Mother's work—to awaken in man the supramental Truth-Consciousness and help him grow according to its law. Evindently it is a signal departure from the aims and objects of traditional spirituality, which points to the Beyond as the only kingdom ...
... ion. Secondly, there is the psychic consciousness which climbs up from below, the seed of the Divine developing through tine till h meets the Force from above and takes the impress of the supramental Truth. ”¹ We have already seen how the psychic, a tiny, pulsing spark, develops through many births into a full-fledged psychic being in man. When it is fully formed, it often feels an aspiration ...
... of prayer". 2. "The mute unshadowed spaces of her mind" IV. OVERMIND "At the source of this Intuition we discover a superconscient cosmic Mind in direct contact with the Supramental Truth- Consciousness, an original intensity determinant of all movements below it and all mental energies,—not Mind as we know it, but an Overmind that covers as with the wide wings of some creative ...
... knowledge whose supreme form of effulgence is the oneness of the Spirit and his rays dispersed here on the mental level are the shining diffusion of the thought mind and conceal his own infinite Supramental truth, the body and self of this Page 189 Sun, the truth of the spirit and the Eternal . (Isha 16.) " The face of the Truth is covered with a golden lid: 0 fostering ...
... fulfilment. It was customary for Sri Aurobindo to make a brief speech on his birthday and also to answer questions. On 15 August 1923, he made a reference in his speech to the descent of the supramental Truth, and added: There is an idea that today every sadhak gets a new experience. That depends upon your capacity to receive the Truth in yourself. Real spiritual surrender is, of course, ...
... the ends of Purusha or Krishna, the mere ego being now eliminated: a progressive heightening of the power of consciousness through the influx of the higher knowledge till the mental becomes the Supramental Truth-Consciousness, the grand lever of change and transformation - such was the strategy of the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo. This was the real "work" on which he was engaged, but to the outside world he ...
... spiritualised mind ceases...." Let us note that there is no separate centre for the Supra-mental as it is not organized in the body. The Seven Suns of the Supermind : 1.The Sun of Supramental Truth,—Knowledge-Power originating the supramental creation. Descent into the Sahasradala (the full bloomed thousand petaled lotus above the head). 2.The Sun of Supramental Light and Will-Power ...
... Truth and Power to work in him and do what the mind cannot do. If mind cannot by effort become what is beyond mind, supermind can descend and transform mind into its own substance. If the supramental Power is allowed by man's discerning assent and vigilant surrender to act according to its own profound and subtle insight and flexible potency, it will bring about slowly or swiftly a divine tran... into a supramental spirit. A descent of the Divine Nature can alone divinise the human receptacle. For the powers of our mind, life and body are bound to their own limitations and, however high they may rise or however widely expand, they cannot rise above their natural ultimate limits or expand beyond them. But, still, mental man can open to what is beyond him and call down a supramental Light,... Essays Divine and Human Essays Divine and Human 1927 and after Essays Divine and Human The Path The supramental Yoga is at once an ascent towards God and a descent of Godhead into the embodied nature. The ascent can only be achieved by a one-centred all-gathering upward aspiration of the soul and mind and life and body; the descent can only ...
... orient tation of our life from the ignorant mental to spiritual and supramental consciousness is the call of the Spirit in us and to ignore this call is to invite certain defeat, death and disaster both for men and nations. It is the heightening, widening and deepening of the ignorant mental to the spiritual and supramental or truth consciousness that is the need of the hour. The task is no doubt difficult... individuals to be found amongst the various nations who constitute the world community to-day. What are these moral and spiritual values which are the core of civilisation ? They are certainly truth, honesty, sincerity, uprightness, kindness, love, compassion and right and just dealings between individuals and between nations. Do we find these among men and nations of the world to-day save a few... mentally enlightened. So, Buddha's teaching of ahimsa, non-violence, love and compassion has come to naught. Latterly, in our days, it was sought to be revived by Gandhi but his powerful advocacy of truth and non-violence has also become ineffective in the life not only of humanity in general but of his own countrymen in particular and he had to Page 39 acquiesce in the outburst of violence ...
... mental existence, a supramental or truth-consciousness and able to develop the power and perfection of the spirit. Here a slow and tardy change need no longer be the law or manner of our evolution; it will be only so to a greater or less extent so long as a mental ignorance clings and hampers our ascent; but once we have grown into the truth-consciousness its power of spiritual truth of being will determine... transformation since, being themselves illumined potentialities of mental being not yet supramental in the full sense of the word, they Page 108 could bring down to the mind only a partial divinity or raise the mind towards that but not effectuate its elevation into the complete supramentality of the truth-consciousness. Still these levels might become stages of the ascent which some would... can go beyond that state, open oneself to the supramental force which is now acting on earth and enter a transitional zone where the two influences meet and interpenetrate, where the consciousness is still mental and intellectual in its functioning, but sufficiently imbued with the supramental strength and force to become the instrument of a higher truth. At present this state can be realised on ...
... Overmind: The Overmind is a delegate of the Supramental Consciousness, its delegate to the cosmic Ignorance. The 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... using them as its instruments. Consciousness-Force — the Conscious Force that builds the worlds; a universal Energy that is the power of the Cosmic Spirit working out the cosmic and individual truth of things. Dharma — law; the deepest law of one's nature; the right law of individual and social life; literally, that which one lays hold of and which holds things together. Higher... divine consciousness and force operative in the universe. A principle of consciousness superior to mentality, it exists, acts and proceeds in the fundamental truth and unity of things and not like the mind in their appearances and phenomenal divisions. Tapasya (tapasyā) — effort, energy, austerity of the personal will; concentration of the will and energy to control the mind, vital and physical ...
... 15 transcendental peace 33 truth 2,4,7,9, 12,23,27,31,66, 69,81,82,83,98 truth-action 68 truth-consciousness 22,23,36,38, 46, 48, 68, 70, 98; Supramental 24 truth-creation 99 truth-feeling 68 truth-force 67 truth-sense 14, 68 truth-sight, the nature of 67 truth-thought 67,68; see also mind, higher truth-vision 67 universal consciousness... 101; the concept of 22-25; the nature of 2 Page 105 Supramental 2,12,13,18, 24, 30, 48-50, 87, 92, 94, 95, 97-102; consciousness 2, 15, 66, 69, 70, 71, 86, 99, 102; Nature 29; power 30, 36; superconscient 59; the advent of 38; transformation 15, 36 (The) Supramental Manifestation on the Earth 3, 15, 38 supra-physical things 57 supreme reality... eightfold path 43 energy-substance, grades of 66 Essays on the Git ā 3, 92 evolution 24, 26, 48, 50, 59, 60, 64, 65, 71, 76, 77, 85, 88, 89, 100; lower 28; of divine life 23; supramental 98; the cycles of 92-93; theories of 25; upward 27 evolutionary, consciousness 35; process 24, 25, 36,59, 65 (The) Foundations of Indian Culture 3 (The) Future Poetry 3 ...
... conclusion by a bound and does not need the ordinary steps of the logical mind. Overmind: The Overmind is a delegate of the Supramental Consciousness, its delegate to the cosmic Ignorance. The Supramental is the total Truth-Consciousness; the Overmind draws down the truths separately and gives them a separate identity. Guruvada —the doctrine that stresses the indispensability of the guru to... 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 proceeds in the fundamental truth and unity of things and not like the mind in their appearances and phenomenal divisions... Explanations of philosophical and psychological terms have generally been given in Sri Aurobindo's own words. the Adversary —anti-divine Force that is in revolt against the Divine, against the Truth and Light, and opposed to the yoga; see also Asura . Ananda —bliss, delight, beatitude, spiritual ecstasy; the essential principle of delight: a self-delight which is the very nature of the ...
... who can guide human life towards its perfection is typified in the ancient Indian idea of the Rishi, one who has lived fully the life of man and found the word of the supra-intellectual, supramental, spiritual truth. He has risen above these lower limitations and can view all things from above, but also he is in sympathy with their effort and can view them from within; he has the complete inner ... indeed to emerge from it but have not yet emerged. We must suppose then that in this leading, this predominant part assigned to religion by the normal human collectivity there is some great need and truth of our natural being to which we must always after however long an infidelity return. On the other hand, we must recognise the fact that in a time of great activity, of high aspiration, of deep sowing... is the infinite,—progress and not unmoving status is the necessary and desirable law of his life,—not indeed any breathless rush after novelties, but a constant motion towards a greater and greater truth of the spirit, the thought and the life not only in the individual, but in the collectivity, in the communal endeavour, in the turn, ideals, temperament, make of the society, in its strivings towards ...
... perfection is typified in the ancient Indian idea of the Rishi, one who has lived Page 19 fully the life of man and found the word of the supra-intellectual, supramental, spiritual truth. He has risen above these lower limitations and can view all things from above, but also he is in sympathy with their effort and can view them from within; he has the complete inner knowledge... is a truth of the universal existence, a Power of cosmic being, an all-self or world-spirit. Humanity is a formation or manifestation of the Reality in the universe, and there is a truth and self of humanity, a human spirit, a destiny of human life. The community is a formation of the Page 21 Reality, a manifestation of the spirit of man, and there is a truth, a self... community which is a part of life and not the whole life: his allegiance must be to the Truth, the Self, the Spirit, the Divine which is in him and in all; not to subordinate or lose himself in the mass, but to find and express that truth of being in himself and help the community and humanity in its seeking for its own truth and fullness of being must be his real object of existence. But the extent to which ...
... Veda The Secret of the Veda Chapter VII Varuna-Mitra and the Truth If the idea of the Truth that we have found in the very opening hymn of the Veda really carries in itself the contents we have supposed and amounts to the conception of a supramental consciousness which is the condition of the state of immortality or beatitude and if this be the leading... ninth book, a collection of more than a hundred hymns addressed to the deity Soma, the intoxication of the Ananda, the divine delight of being, inflowing upon the mind from the supramental consciousness through the ṛtam or Truth. If we accept these interpretations we can easily translate the hymn into its psychological significance. Indra and Vayu awaken in consciousness ( cetathaḥ ) to the flowings... void of reason or purpose. Page 78 We see then that in the second hymn we find again the same governing ideas as in the first. All is based on the central Vedic conception of the supramental or Truth-consciousness towards which the progressively perfected mentality of the human being labours as towards a consummation and a goal. In the first hymn this is merely stated as the aim of the sacrifice ...
... name for this supramental or truth consciousness is Mahas which also means the great, the vast. And as for the facts of sensation and appearance which are full of falsehoods ( anṛtam , not-truth or wrong application of the satyam in mental and bodily activity), we have for instruments the senses, the sense-mind ( manas ) and the intellect working upon their evidence, so for the truth-consciousness... hymn of the Veda we get the first indications of the principal ideas of the Vedic Rishis,—the conception of a Truth-consciousness supramental and divine, the invocation of the gods as powers of the Truth to raise man out of the falsehoods of the mortal mind, the attainment in and by this Truth of an immortal state of perfect good and felicity and the inner sacrifice and offering of what Page 68 ... in both Veda and Vedanta. This psychological conception is that of a truth which is truth of divine essence, not truth of mortal sensation and appearance. It is satyam , truth of being; it is in its action ṛtam , right,—truth of divine being regulating right activity both of mind and body; it is bṛhat , the universal truth proceeding direct and undeformed out of the Infinite. The consciousness ...
... 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 proceeds in the fundamental truth and unity of things and not like the mind in their appearances... conclusion by a bound and does not need the ordinary steps of the logical mind. Overmind: The Overmind is a delegate of the Supramental Consciousness, its delegate to the cosmic Ignorance. The Supra-mental is the total Truth-Consciousness; the Overmind draws down the truths separately and gives them a separate identity. guṇa, Guna — quality, character, property; the three Gunas of Nature... character is knowledge by identity, by which the Self is known, the Divine Sachchidananda is known, but also the truth of manifestation is known because this too is that. su ṣ upti, Sushupti — deep sleep; the Sleep-State, a consciousness corresponding to the supramental plane proper to the gnosis, which is beyond our experience because our causal body or envelope of gnosis is not developed ...
... even the sadhaks and not simply of the Master and the Mother. A letter of Sri Aurobindo on January 14, 1932 has the phrase: "... I want to divinise the human consciousness, to bring down the Supramental, the Truth-Consciousness, the Light, the Force into the physical to transform it..." Again, a letter of September 5,1935, which couples the Mother with Sri Aurobindo by name, says: "What is being done... by saying further that he would be the first to come back in a new supramental body made in the supramental way — that is, without the common process of birth as the result of a sex act. So we looked forward to a time when the Mother Page 108 would represent the human supramentalised and Sri Aurobindo the Supramental humanised, she consummating the earth's Godward travail, he initiating... of Supramental Descent and Transformation." In the middle of 1973 she had to stop meeting people. The influx of a Power which had never been experienced by any humanly built receptacle in the whole history of the earth became so divinely disturbing that she wondered whether it was the Will of the Supreme that she should continue her arduous task. After all, she had already made the Supramental Con ...
... down the Supramental, the Truth-Consciousness, the Light, the Force into the physical to transform it...." 1 The same letter goes on to say: "All other Yogas regard this life as an illusion or a passing phase; the supramental Yoga alone regards it as a thing created by the Divine for a progressive manifestation and takes the fulfilment of the life and the body for its object. The Supramental is simply... evolutionary, these were Avatars—and Supramental Avatars at that. Consequently, a time must come when Sri Aurobindo would go past possibility and even probability and reach practical certainty and the luminous dominating sense of achievement in the near future. Thus on December 25,1934 he writes: "I know with absolute certitude that the supramental is a truth and that its advent is in the very nature... "with love of the other shore", to get the Truth-touch we need for our integral Godward growth. The greater proximity of this compassionate Perfection to our body's soulful cry is what the Mother has accomplished through the apparent withdrawal from us that was her death. With its greater proximity comes a greater force to carry us towards the Supramental goal. But this proximity is not the whole ...
... surprise that this deceitful Supermind had not immunized them against death. If I want to divinise the human consciousness, wrote Sri Aurobindo to one of his disciples, to bring down the Supramental, the Truth-Consciousness, the Light, the Force into the physical to transform it... the response is repulsion or fear or unwillingness—or a doubt whether it is possible. On one side there is a claim that... after that, He would go on dictating and dictating.... And they would reproach him for living “up there” in his supramental dream while the poor humans had to face the "hard realities of life”: But what strange ideas again! He patiently replied, that I was born with a supramental temperament and that I know nothing of hard realities! Good God! My whole life has been a struggle with hard realities... now, in this life, that I insist on it and not in another or in the hereafter. 56 Nov. 1933 No, the supramental has not descended into my body or into Matter—it is only at the point where such a descent has become not only possible but inevitable. 57 Sept. 1934 The supramental Force is descending, but it has not yet taken possession of the body or of matter. 58 Feb.1935 Let ...
... the infrarational level but finds its fulfilment only at the suprarational or supramental level; and reason is the necessary realm between, though not the secure resting place. Even * Cf. Isha Upanishad: "The face of Truth is covered with a brilliant golden lid; that do thou remove, O Fosterer, for the law of the Truth, for sight." Page 477 in a predominantly infrarational period... In its search for self-knowledge, then. Life must ultimately rely only on the Light of the Spirit, and India's ideal man, the Rishi, is one who has found the supraintellectual and supramental spiritual truth. Such a man can "guide the world humanly as God guides it divinely, because like the Divine he is in the life of the world and yet above it". 23 This is not very different from the Platonic... the Reality, and there is a truth of the universal existence, a Power of cosmic being, an all-self or world-spirit. Humanity is a formation or manifestation of the Reality in the universe, and there is a truth and self of humanity, a human spirit, a destiny of human life. The community is a formation of the Reality, a manifestation of the spirit of man, and there is a truth, a self, a power of the collective ...
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