... the Knowledge. It will not be a sudden revelation and effectuation of the absolute Supermind and the supramental being as they are in their own plane, the swift apocalypse of a truth-conscious existence ever self-fulfilled and complete in self-knowledge; it will be the phenomenon of the supramental being descending into a world of evolutionary becoming and forming itself there, unfolding the powers of... too abstract or in mental figures which might turn it into something quite different from its reality. It would not seem to be possible, therefore, for the mind to anticipate or indicate what a supramental being shall be or how he shall act; for here mental ideas and formulations cannot decide anything or arrive at any precise definition or determination, because they are not near enough to the law and... the hidden Light, into what it always was in reality, a sea of the secret Superconscience. A first formation of a gnostic consciousness and nature will be the consequence. The creation of a supramental being, nature, life on earth, will not be the sole result of this evolution; it will also carry with it the consummation of the steps that have led up to it: for it will confirm in possession of terrestrial ...
... He enters upon the path of the supramental being. For, in truth, this growing self of fire, this ardent body which bears more and more resemblance to our divine archetype, our brother of light up above, and which seems to exceed us on all sides and even to radiate all around with an already orange vibration, is the very body that will form the supramental being. It is the next earthly substance... more, for man is still made of the same substance as the ape while the new being will be made of another substance – immortal, luminous and light as Truth itself. He is the elaborator of the “supramental being” announced by Sri Aurobindo, and his substance is the humble laboratory of a perilous adventure. Our body's cells must hold the Immortal's flame. Else would the spirit reach alone its... its right will and divine acquiescence. This is the Force of the yoga, the Consciousness-Force Sri Aurobindo spoke of. It is the one which forges the superman, the one which will forge the supramental being – the one which will forge itself in that forgetfulness of itself. Page 161 Thy golden Light came down into my brain And the grey rooms of mind sun-touched became A bright ...
... Overman 6: The Consciousness of the Overman The transition from man to supramental being is accomplished through the overman. There may be a few overmen – there are – who will actually make that transition. 1 – The Mother The transitional beings are always in an unstable equilibrium. 2 – The Mother We have now returned to the... badly battered body (for the Integral Yoga “is not a joke”): “ ‘Now you shall set right everything that is out of order and gradually realise this intermediate overmanhood between man and the supramental being – in other words: what I call the overman.’ And this is what I have been doing for the last eight years, and even much more during the past two years, since 1956. Now it is the work of each day... on the earth: she had, as it were, created by the partial transformation of her own adhara the mould for the overman to appear as an intermediary degree in the evolution of the human and the supramental being. Remember what she said in 1958: “One may conclude from this that the moment one body [i.e. her own], of course formed according to the old animal method, is capable of living this consciousness ...
... tion, which was, after all, her avataric Yoga in the last years of her life, the crucial step which would make the appearance of the overman and the supramental being possible. It is a matter of importance that the creation of the supramental being, the next step in the terrestrial evolution, is not to happen according to a once-and-for-all fixed ideological scheme, but that it is an open, unknown... as Sri Aurobindo and the Mother called it, and the supramental being. In the course of the evolution of life on Earth the formation of a species with a higher consciousness, succeeding Homo sapiens , is inevitable. Between the primates and Homo sapiens in its various appearances the gap was enormous; between Homo sapiens and the supramental being the gap is unimaginable. Secondly, where in the... anything about the transitional processes required to fashion the supramental being, that is: about our own participation in the Work. The effort of the practitioner of the Integral Yoga at present is to become, through his aspiration and surrender, one of the transitional beings which will make the appearance of the supramental being possible. As the Mother said: “This was certainly what Sri Aurobindo ...
... will return to this point later). Sri Aurobindo used to say that it would take three centuries – and he had a clear vision – for a full supramental being to emerge, luminous, light, etc., as we have previously tried to describe him. Short of a full supramental being (even Plato was not born in a day), we must then build in our flesh a transitional being, a link between the human and the superhuman... separate thing, each being, each force; it is an all-encompassing view that does not terminate in a single, central point but in myriads of points: a single innumerable look... 256 The supramental being sees things not as one on the levels surrounded by a jungle of present facts and phenomena but from above, not from outside and judged by their surfaces, but from within and viewed from the truth... may recognize the Face as their own face. There is but one miracle: the instant of recognition that nothing, any longer, is "other." The individual is the key to the supramental power. The supramental being has not only a transcendent and cosmic status but also an individual one: the triple hiatus of experience that divided the monist, the pantheist, and the individualist is healed. His transcendent ...
... between humanity as it is and the supramental being created in the supramental way, in other words: in no way part of the animal life any longer and freed from all animal needs. “As we are, we have been procreated in the ordinary way, the animal way, and as a consequence something of this animal origin will remain, even if we transform ourselves. The supramental being as he [Sri Aurobindo] conceived... only thing I asked of my body. I said to it: ‘Now you shall set right everything which is out of order and gradually realise this intermediate overmanhood [surhumanité] between man and the supramental being, in other words, what I call the overman [surhomme]:’ And this is what I have been doing for the last eight years, and even much more during the past two years, since 1956. Now it is the work... seen that an intermediary species or variety of beings, called by him “the new humanity” and by the Mother “overman” (le surhomme), would be necessary to make the appearance of “superman”, the supramental being, possible on the Earth, as the gap between Mind and Supermind was too huge for a direct transformation. A new species necessitates a newly evolved, higher physical embodiment, “a greater existence” ...
... called a divine life upon earth, a first sketch of supermanhood, of a supramental being in the circumstances of the earth-nature.’ 5 The Mother said in 1959, looking back on her sadhana since 1950: ‘I have told [to my body]: “ … You are going to realize that intermediary overhumanity between the human and the supramental being, which is what I call le surhomme. And it is that what I have been... itself [the Mother plants both fists on the armrests of her chair] … ‘It is perhaps the overman [le surhomme ], I don’t know, the intermediary between the two [between the human and the supramental being]. Perhaps the overman. It was very human, but of a humanity with divine proportions, you see. A humanity without weaknesses and without darknesses: it was nothing but light. It was all light and... it spread out and went to find all those who were able to receive it. And I came to know that it was the consciousness of the overman, which means the intermediary between the human and the supramental being.’ 18 January 1969. ‘That [consciousness of the overman] is very consciously active. It is like a projection of power and it has now become habitual. ‘It contains a consciousness — something ...
... disciples, longing for a miracle, never realized was that no earthly being at present could stand the unscreened presence of a supramental being, whose light, being divine, is of a brightness compared to which the light of the sun is dark, as the Mother said. Moreover, the Supramental being the Truth-Consciousness, its unveiled presence would simply annihilate any form of falsehood, which is what the human... express itself in the bodies which will be the bodies of the Supramental. Or perhaps – perhaps – the overman [le surhomme], I don’t know, the intermediary between the two [between man and the supramental being]. Perhaps the overman: it was very human, but human in divine proportions, you see, human without weaknesses and without shadows. It was all light, all light and smiling and sweetness at the same... hours. And afterwards it spread out and went in search of people who could receive it. And I knew that it was the consciousness of the overman, that’s to say, the intermediary between man and the supramental being. That has given to the body [i.e. her body] a kind of assurance, of confidence. This experience has, as it were, stabilized the body, and if it keeps the true attitude, every support is there ...
... Aurobindo stresses once again that by this he does not mean “superman”. “Still these levels might become stages of the ascent …” 17 The gap, the quantum jump between the human and the supramental being is enormous. In the following pages will be quoted several passages from The Life Divine pointing in the direction of the necessity of a transitional being or several kinds of transitional beings... Life.” 18 The last sentence clearly describes the transitional being, “able to receive and bear the descent of the divine light and power”, as a necessary stage between the human and the supramental being in order to make the advent of the latter possible. “A new humanity would then be a race of mental beings on the earth and in the earthly body”, reads the beginning of the sixth article, “but... presentation of “a new type of human being”, but that he repeats the word “inevitable”, one of his key words when discoursing on the continuation of the earthly evolution and the appearance of a supramental being on the Earth. In the course of this series of articles the language has gradually become more affirmative. He goes on to say that the embodiment of the Mind of Light will proceed in two stages ...
... was written in 1936. Less than thirty years later the Supramental was there, the transitional being was there (at least in the Mother) and the full supramental being was there in principle. How much more time would it take for the supramental being to be there as a perceptible fact? Not long ago, the Mother’s guess had been thousands of years, but in her later Entretiens it had come down to three... the evolution towards its divinization. Two years later the Mother announced the realization of the overman, the transitional being, the indispensable link for the material embodiment of the supramental being. This was immediately followed by the supramental yoga of the cells, whereof the outcome, only a couple of years later, was a Victory the songs of which filled the sky. What Victory? Let us... But would this realization not remain limited to the Mother’s body alone? How could this yogic feat of hers profit the whole of humanity, how could it contribute to the materialization of the supramental being on Earth? Here we should recall that the consciousness of her cells was being universalized and that her body was being decentralized. Moreover, does not even science tell us now that an event ...
... And it was an asexual being, neither man nor woman. I then said to myself … “But it is the psychic being, it is this that will materialize and become the supramental being!”’ 3 She had so often asked herself how the supramental being could possibly arise from an animal humanity. Sri Aurobindo and she herself had seen the prerequisite of transitional beings, of overmen (surhommes), but these... who superimpose their impressions, their tendencies — all that was gone. And I have understood: so, this is it, it is the psychic being that must become the supramental being. ‘But I had never taken any time to find out how [the supramental being] would look like. And when I saw Rijuta, I understood. And I see it, I still see it, I have kept the remembrance. It was as if its hair was almost red (but... these would still have an animal-human origin and body despite their supramentalized consciousness. It was the leap from animal man to the supramental being that seemed to her so enormous, not to say impossible. ‘It is the leap, you understand, which looks so formidable to me.’ 4 For the divine being really had to be divine, for instance simultaneously present here, there and elsewhere, and not ...
... present in all things … True, there is no comparing the capacities of the supramental being with those put at our disposal by the advanced technology of our day. But the portent of the latter becomes very clear if we compare the physical capacities and the horizon of awareness of “ancient man” with those of the supramental being: then the fact that we, at present, live in a kind of intermediate world... world between what man has been for millennia and the supramental being becomes obvious. The difference between the supramental being and the human being at the very beginning of the Third Millennium is enormous, even unimaginable. Nonetheless, it definitely looks as if our technological wonderworld has its share in preparing the species for a quantum leap that otherwise might be impossible. Science... and loosens him from the otherwise inescapable rhythm of day and night. These may seem platitudes, but they acquire a striking significance if one recalls some of the characteristics of the supramental being as described by the Mother e.g. in her talks at the Playground and in a series of encounters with a young disciple, Mona Sarkar, as reported by him in two slim volumes which he has called Sweet ...
... a spiritual and supramental being as a next step of the evolutionary movement. Page 6 Evolutionary Appearance of the Supramental Being Sri Aurobindo examines also the suggestion that even if the appearance of the supramental being could be admitted as an evolutionary culmination, and even if man is to be the medium of the next species of the supramental being, it will only be... spiritual and physical evolution and transformation." 8 Significance of the Evolution of the Supermind for Humanity and Its Problems Sri Aurobindo contends that the evolution of the Supramental being would imply that the influence of the divine life on earth would fall upon the life of the Ignorance and impose harmony on it within its limits, and much that is disharmonious in human life would... settled new principle, a new creation, a permanent new order of being in the field of terrestrial Nature. The mind has evolved, but not the supermind, the spiritual man has evolved, but not the supramental being who shall thence forward be the leader of that Nature.14 According to Sri Aurobindo, the unaccomplished task has now to be worked out, and it is that unaccomplished task, in the process of its ...
... book Overman: The Intermediary between the Human and the Supramental Being (Rupa & Co), is clear, and so are the definitions and the reports of the realisations. The importance and necessity of a transitional being, or a variety of transitional beings, is obvious considering the enormous gap between the human and the supramental being. Besides, the necessity of this intermediary step in evolution... the Present Introduction Sri Aurobindo announced, in the very last months of his life, the necessity of a transitional being between man and the supramental being. This announcement was the result of his own yogic realisation in his physical being. The Mother took over this work immediately after his passing, called the transitional being surhomme , “overman”... case of the appearance in the past of every preceding species. The Mother said in 1958: “It can be affirmed with certainty that there will be an intermediate specimen between the mental and the supramental being, a kind of overman who will still have the qualities and in part the nature of man, which means that he will still belong in his most external form to the human being of animal origin, but that ...
... of healing and, to an extent, of acting upon circumstances. If it refers to the supreme faculties of the supramental being, we cannot say much about them, for all we can say at the moment belongs more to the realm of imagination than to the realm of knowledge, since this supramental being has not yet manifested on earth. 23 April 1960 * * * Sweet Mother, What are “the different p... spoke about Supernature. 15 December 1959 * * * Sweet Mother, Sri Aurobindo has written in The Life Divine: “There is as yet no overmind being or organised overmind nature, no supramental being or organised supermind nature acting either on our surface or in our normal subliminal parts.” Sweet Mother, now after the descent of the Supermind, is it still like that? What Sri Aurobindo... Aurobindo means is that only a few exceptional beings who do not belong to the ordinary humanity, have a conscious and organised overmind being and overmind life, and still fewer have an organised supramental being and supramental life, even admitting that there are any at all. Certainly the very recent descent of the first elements of the Supermind into the earth’s atmosphere (not yet quite four years ago) ...
... Aurobindo has often defined them in his writings.) In the view of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the Earth is an evolutionary field in which the mental being we call human must be succeeded by a supramental being, just as man has been preceded by a whole series of inframental beings. Man is a transitional creature. For every material, terrestrial embodiment of a new evolutionary gradation, a direct in... more elevated scale. The Mother therefore said in 1958: ‘It can with certainty be affirmed that there will be an intermediary being [she used the word specimen ] between the mental and the supramental being, a kind of overman who still has the qualities and partially the nature of man, which means that he will still belong to the human species of animal origin by his most external form, but that... This means that henceforth we will have to use the word ‘overman’ for the being which is procreated and born in the normal human way but which has acquired a supramental consciousness; the ‘supramental being’ is then the future, truly new species which has as yet no name and of which the procreation will no longer happen in the animal-human way. ‘From the new race [of intermediary beings] would be ...
... of healing and, to an extent, of acting upon circumstances. If it refers to the supreme faculties of the supramental being, we cannot say much about them, for all we can say at the moment belongs more to the realm of imagination than to the realm of knowledge, since this supramental being has not yet manifested on earth. 23 April 1960 Sweet Mother, What are "the different psychological... Aurobindo spoke about Supernature. 15 December 1959 Sweet Mother, Sri Aurobindo has written in The Life Divine: "There is as yet no overmind being or organised overmind nature, no supramental being or organised supermind nature acting either on our surface or in our normal subliminal parts." 4 Sweet Mother, now after the descent of the Supermind, 5 is it still like that? Page... that only a few exceptional beings who do not belong to the ordinary humanity, have a conscious and organised overmind being and overmind life, and still fewer are those who have an organised supramental being and supramental life, even admitting that there are any at all. Certainly the very recent descent of the first elements of the Supermind into the earth's atmosphere (not yet quite four years ago) ...
... consciousness, a Mind of Light. This kind of being will make possible the transition from the human to the supramental species. As the Mother said in April 1972: “The change from the human into the supramental being is being achieved … through the overman. It may be that there will be some overmen – there are some – who will make the transition possible.” 14 Another quotation from the Mother worth... 16 The occasion to throw off the veil may be one of the unexpected events the future has in store, for “this is the time of the unexpected.” “Now we will see”, said the Mother. The supramental being . To start and lay the foundations of the supramental transformation of the Earth was the mission of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The expectation of a new species beyond man is entirely logical... more powerful intervention; the beings of the Ignorance, influenced by the light of the gnosis through their association with gnostic beings and through the evolved and effective presence of the supramental Being and Power in earth-nature, would be more conscious and responsive.” 23 It is not for nothing that the historians scratch their heads in vain to find some meaning in or behind the present ...
... work which we will relate in the next chapter. The Concept of the ‘Superman’ The higher, divine being that will succeed man has as yet no name. Sri Aurobindo called it the gnostic or supramental being, or more often the superman. However, the word ‘superman’ 92 can easily be misunderstood because it actually means a human being with greater quantitative and/or qualitative human capacities... at present he does not come close to incarnating the divine potential contained in his soul. The most important means of transition to the following species, the species of the Aurobindonian supramental being, is a complete surrender to the Evolving Power by which, after the example of the double-poled, complete Avatar, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the present human qualities and way of being will... Yoga [the complete or integral Yoga] … No human being can do that.’ 52 No species can break through its own ceiling all by itself. The Unity-Consciousness, which will be the essence of the supramental being, surpasses man as much ‘as a lizard differs from a man.’ ‘As man is removed from the animal, so will be the Superman from man.’ 53 (Evening Talks) The differences with Nietzsche’s philosophy ...
... mental man. A small minority has pushed beyond the barriers, opening the doors to occult and spiritual knowledge and preparing the ascent of the evolution beyond mental man into spiritual and supramental being. Sometimes this minority has exercised an enormous influence as in Vedic India, Egypt or, according to tradition, in Atlantis, and determined the civilisation of the race, giving it a strong stamp... the veil and reveals its true and complete nature. Along with the mental evolution of man there has been going forward the early process of another evolution which prepares the spiritual and supramental being. This has had two lines, one the discovery of the occult forces secret in Nature and of the hidden planes and worlds concealed from us by the world of Matter and the other the discovery of man's... ages would have been supramental beings and all I have written about the supermind would be so much superfluous stuff, useless and otiose. Anybody who had spiritual experiences would then be a supramental being; the Asram would be chock-full of supramental beings and every other Asram in India also. Spiritual experiences can fix them selves in the inner consciousness and alter it, transform it, if you ...
... run after an ulterior object or aim of existence, to aspire to surpass the mental stature is to bring in a teleological element into existence which is not visible in the cosmic structure. If a supramental being is to appear in the terrestrial creation, it must be a new and independent manifestation; just as life and mind have manifested in Matter, so supermind must manifest there and the secret Cons... race, kind or type, at most there are only spiritualised mental beings who are seeking to escape out of the terrestrial creation. If by any occult law of Nature such a human development of the supramental being is intended, it could only be by a few in humanity detaching themselves from the race so as to become a first foundation for this new pattern of being. There is no reason to suppose that the whole... shell, the ripened decisive emergence, reversal, turning over of consciousness on itself that constitutes a new stage in the evolution. If it be supposed that her next step is the spiritual and supramental being, the stress of spirituality in the race may be taken as a sign that that is Nature's intention, the sign too of the capacity of man to operate in himself or aid her to operate the transition. ...
... you see, the transition from animal to man is clear to us; the transition from man to supramental being is accomplished (or isn't) through the superman—there may be a few supermen (there are) who will actually make that transition, but that's not actually Page 155 how it works. First, that supramental being has to be born. 1 Now it's becoming plainer and plainer. The other day, I saw that... that little being (symbolically a child) sitting on a big mental head: it was the supramental being sitting, to symbolize its "independence," I could say, over the mind. Things are becoming clearer. But we are just in the transitional period, the most difficult time. Will some reach a similar state—at least similar or at any rate precursor to the supramental?... Such seems to be the present attempt... individual standpoint, it's not exactly pleasant(!), the period is difficult: you are no longer on this side, not yet on the other—just in between. There we stand. Indeed, for passing into the supramental being it isn't necessary to pass though the overmind ... I don't understand. I mean that for contacting or reaching this SUPRA-mental consciousness or being, it is not necessary to pass through ...
... intermediary between the human and the supramental being. This highlights the significance of the Mother’s words spoken in 1958: “When leaving his body and entering into mine he said: ‘You will continue. You will go to the end of the work.’ … Then I have told my body: ‘You will realize that intermediary “more-than-humanity” [surhumanité] between man and the supramental being’, in other words what I call the... ” literally meaning “overmen.” She said: “This was certainly what he expected of us: what he conceived of as the overman, who must be the intermediate being between humanity as it is and the supramental being created in the supramental way … It is quite obvious that intermediary beings are necessary, and that it is these intermediary beings who must find the means to create beings of the Supermind... following years she has gradually realized the archetype of the supramental body by means of her physical body. By these two realizations the appearance of the next step in the evolution, the supramental being, has been brought nearer centuries if not millennia. Ours, humans of goodwill and aspiration, is the task of the intermediaries between the two species, of building the bridge over an enormous ...
... man and the supramental being, or l e surhomme ,’ (the overman). We have been able to follow the progress of this work from the moment in December 1950 when Sri Aurobindo transmitted the Mind of Light into her body. On 16 April 1958 she again gave a progress report: ‘It can be asserted with certainty that there will be an intermediate being between the mental and the supramental being, a kind of overman... happen was the manifestation of the supramental consciousness, its ‘insertion’ in the earthly evolution, which is the precondition for the appearance of a new species on earth, the ‘superman’ or supramental being, and the creation of a divine world, the Kingdom of God on earth. A week later, she said: ‘I think that it will happen the moment there is a sufficient number of consciousnesses which feel... was able to manifest upon Earth. Its starting point may have been very poor, very incomplete, very imperfect, but all the same there was a starting point. Why would the starting point [of the supramental being] not be now?’ 9 When a child remarked that the Mother had said that the event was ‘very near,’ the Mother confirmed: ‘Yes, otherwise we wouldn’t be talking about it. It is obvious that ...
... radical change which establishes a secure and settled new principle, a new creation, a permanent new order of being in the field of terrestrial Nature. The spiritual man has evolved, but not the supramental being who shall thenceforward be the leader of that Nature."10 If we approach the problem rationally, we shall find that the movement of Nature can be viewed in terms of evolution, and even... metaphysical building can be erected upon these shifting quick sands. A line of reasoning can be constructed to question the contention that Nature intends to develop on this earth a supramental being. Sri Aurobindo himself has stated this line of reasoning that can be constructed. That argument can be briefly summarised as follows: (a) Heredity, upon which Science builds its concept... in Matter. To exceed himself, to create into a superman, to put on the Nature and capacities of God would be a contradiction of his self-law, impracticable and impossible. (e) If a supramental being has to appear in the terrestrial creation, it must be a new independent manifestation; but there is no sign of any such intention in the operations of Nature. (f) It may even be argued ...
... ‘Your time is past.’ We want a race without ego, that has a divine Consciousness in place of the ego. That is what we want: the divine Consciousness that will allow the race to develop and the supramental being to be born.” 6 Like every kind of birth in our universe the birth of a new era in the development of the manifestation is a dramatic event, invisibly prepared and in its consequences un... in the presence of particles which had all the colours of the rainbow. In the course of the transformation of her body she will mention this changed Matter more and more often. The body of the supramental being cannot consist of the same substance as ours. Gross Matter is the direct outcome of the Inconscient; therefore a supramentally conscious body can only incarnate in a transformed, supramentalised... pp. 57-58. × See Georges Van Vrekhem: Overman: The Intermediary between the Human and the Supramental Being (Rupa & Co). × Id., pp. 149-50. ...
... the supramental will manifest itself. 24 June 1972 The Truth-Consciousness can manifest only in those who are rid of the ego. Man and the mind are not the last term of creation. A supramental being is in preparation. 25 December 1972 The mind does not know truly; aspire sincerely to the supermind. January 1973 Superhumanity: the aim of our aspirations. Man is the... the "supreme faculties"? It is difficult to reply without seeing the context. Which "supreme faculties" does it refer to? Those of man on the way to becoming superman, or those which the supramental being will possess when he appears on earth? In the first case, they are faculties that develop in man as he opens to the higher mind and overmind and through them receives the light of Truth. These... intuition, foreknowledge, knowledge by identity, and certain powers such as those of healing and of acting upon circumstances to a certain extent. If it refers to the supreme faculties of the supramental being, we cannot say much about them, for all we can say at the moment belongs more to the realm of imagination than to the realm of knowledge, since this being has not yet manifested on earth. ...
... announce the creation of tomorrow. Is that all? I wrote it in French and I put, "The creation of tomorrow, the advent of the supramental being." Because they are likely to call it "superman" if I don't put "supramental being." The advent of the supramental being. We are just in between. No longer this, not yet that—the time that's the most.... ( brief silence ) Page 230 ...
... said to myself (it may be always that way, I don't know, but at that time I noticed it very clearly), I said to myself, "But the psychic being is the one that will materialize and become the supramental being!" I saw it, it was like that. There were distinctive features, but not very pronounced, and it was clearly a being that was neither male Page 245 nor female, that had features of... And there was hair, but... it was something else. Another time maybe I'll see better. But I found it very interesting, because that being seemed to tell me, "You're wondering what the supramental being will be—here it is! Here it is, this is it." And it was there. It was her psychic being. Then one understands. One understands: the psychic being will materialize... and it gives a continuity... complications coming from the vital and the mind, which add their imprints, their tendencies, it was all gone). So I understood: "Ah, that's it, it's this psychic being that is to become the supramental being." I had never bothered to know what it looked like. But when I saw that, I understood. And I see it, I still see it, I have kept the memory. Its hair almost looked red, strangely (it wasn't ...
... said to myself (it may be always that way, I don't know, but at that time I noticed it very clearly), I said to myself, "But the psychic being is the one that will materialize and become the supramental being!" I saw it, it was like that. There were distinctive features, but not very pronounced, and it was clearly a being that was neither male nor female, that had features of both combined... hair, but ... it was something else. Another time maybe I'll see better. But I found it very interesting, because that being seemed to tell me, "You're wondering what the supramental being will be - here it is! Here it is, this is it." And it was there. It was her psychic being. Page 68 Then one understands. One understands: the psychic being will materialize... complications coming from the vital and the mind, which add their imprints, their tendencies, it was all gone). So I understood: "Ah, that's it, it's this psychic being that is to become the supramental being." I had never bothered to know what it looked like. But when I saw that, I understood. And I see it, I still see it, I have kept the memory. Its hair almost looked red, strangely (it ...
... mental man. A small minority has pushed beyond the barriers, opening the doors to occult and spiritual knowledge and preparing the ascent of the evolution beyond mental man into spiritual and supramental being. Sometimes this minority has exercised an enormous influence as in Vedic India, Egypt or, according to tradition, in Atlantis, and determined the civilisation of the race, giving it a strong... its true and complete nature. Along with the mental evolution of man Page 93 there has been going forward the early process of another evolution which prepares the spiritual and supramental being. This has had two lines, one the discovery of the occult forces secret in Nature and of the hidden planes and worlds concealed from us by the world of Matter and the other the discovery of... movement of the Spirit. Such a descent of higher beings as you suggest may be envisaged as a part of the process of the change. But the main part of the change will be the appearance of the supramental being and the organisation of a supramental nature here, as a mental being has appeared and a mental nature organised itself during the last stage of the evolution. I prefer nowadays not to speak ...
... hoping for any change for the better. This is only to illustrate the areas where things have got to be urgently rectified. A supramental being is not required to organise and run the life of what the Mother called 'this small world'. In any case, the supramental being is something far, far off. It is not going to be in our life-time. Are we to wait and watch developments helplessly? It... Madhav-ji, you say that Superman is not needed to steer the Ashram and its people in the right direction. I am tempted to suggest that please do and show us what you say is true. You say that the Supramental being will come only after many many years, when we shall be no more on the face of this world. But I feel that the leader comes only when there is a pressing need and demand in the world for man's ...
... will change and transfigure every aspect of life, and give them "lasting joy, equilibrium, strength, life". 13 VI On 16 April, the Mother had said that between the mental and the supramental being, there would certainly be an intermediate specimen, one who would still be man in his outer appearance but with a consciousness sufficiently developed and transformed to constitute "a new... race, a race of supermen". 14 Six months later, in answer to a question, the Mother said on 8 October, that there could be many intermediate stages between the mental man and the ultimate supramental being: In reality, in this race to the Transformation, the question is to know which of the two will arrive first: the one who wants to transform his body in the image of the divine Truth, or the... VII In two of the Mother's Playground talks, on 12 and 26 November, the discussion was on Sri Aurobindo's statement in The Life Divine: "The spiritual man has evolved, but not the supramental being who shall thence-forward be the leader of that Nature." 22 In the first place, the spiritual awakening itself is not easy of accomplishment. When asked to explain the Mother said on the 26th: ...
... really be there: not in thought or in vision or in any “TV” or whatever, but physiologically and atomically (and in many other ways). Then the mode of action of the supramental being or our next species becomes clear. The supramental being is first and foremost a being who acts, acts supremely and directly, and contagiously, we might say. It is not a sort of armchair super-show (and it must be said that... the other side of the aquatic bowl was not the end of the fish but the beginning of another form of life in Matter. Then, in a distant future, we will begin to see the mode of action of the supramental being: how he will manipulate matter. 58.192 & 32 When a change has to be effected, it is done not by an external and artificial means, but by an inner operation, BY AN OPERATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS ...
... consciousness Page 863 of which there has already been mention. It is a contacting of existence, presences, things, forms, forces, activities, but a contacting of them in the stuff of the supramental being and energy, not in the divisions of matter and through the physical instruments, that creates the supramental sense, saṁjñāna . It is a little difficult to make the nature of the supramental... force of sense knowledge carried in the image. And finally all is lifted up and taken into the supermind and made a part of the infinitely luminous consciousness, knowledge and experience of the supramental being, the Vijnana Purusha. The state of the being after this supramental transformation will be in all its parts of consciousness and knowledge that of an infinite and cosmic consciousness acting... forms of knowledge, as it will also be capable of proceeding directly through these higher forms and making the sense only a means of formation Page 883 and objective expression. The supramental being will transform at the same time and take up into itself the present thinking of the mind transfigured into an immensely larger knowledge by identity, knowledge by total comprehension, knowledge ...
... all harmony proceeds upon seen or given lines and carries with it a constant pulsation and rhythmic recurrence. The supramental thought, organising the harmony of manifested existence of the supramental being, founds it on eternal principles, casts it upon the right lines of the truth that is to be manifested, keeps sounding as characteristic notes the recurrence of the constant elements in the experience... obeys its own law but is still a supple and plastic movement of the infinite, uses its thought and knowledge and a will identical in substance and light with the knowledge to organise in each supramental being his own right manifestation of the one self and spirit. The action of the supramental jñāna so constituted evidently surpasses the action of the mental reason and we have to see what replaces... to know the inner being through the evidence of the outer expression, understand rather Page 859 all the outer expression in the light of the inner being. Even so, completely, the supramental being knows his own inner being and nature. The supermind can too act with equal power and observe with direct experience what is hidden behind the physical order; it can move in other planes than the ...
... ive selves of its consciousness and action. Not, either, the supramental being. For the supramental being is one with the spirit in its original or basic consciousness, in its idea-consciousness it is ideally comprehensive of cosmic things or, if we must speak in terms of space, commensurate with the universe. The supramental being with one action of his Idea-self can regard universal being as his ...
... for they can only come from the One, there being nothing else. An imperturbable equality was named by the Mother as one of the two characteristics that might allow an outward recognition of the supramental being. (The second was an absolute certainty, ‘a cubic certainty,’ of the knowledge.) It is the clarity which nothing can render turbid, by which things can happen according to their truth-content,... projection of the impotently grasping mental consciousness. Unity is the basis; Unity is the stuff of experience; Unity is the aim of the supramental transformation; Unity is the medium in which the supramental being exists. Unity is the Divine. From that we come, in that we live, to that we go. ‘There is nothing but That.’ The Mother was familiar with the Unity-experience in her mental and vital being... of the importance of the mantra for her body. We therefore also add the following: In July 1970 she detected: ‘But it is the psychic being that will materialize itself and become the supramental being! … And this gives a continuity to the evolution.’ 59 We will return later to this very important discovery. ‘It is the psychic being, the representative of the Divine in man, that ...
... shall set right everything which is out of order and gradually __________________ ¹Ibid., pp. 137-43. Page 124 realize this intermediate supermanhood between man and the supramental being or, in other words, what I call the superman.' And this is what I have been doing for the last eight years, and even much more during the past two years, since 1956. Now it is the work of... On 1st January, 1969, Mother had an experience of 'new consciousness', which was later on described by her as the consciousness of the superman, an intermediate between the human and the supramental being. Speaking of this, Mother said: ; On the first, something strange has happened... And I was not j the only one to feel it, several people felt it. It was just after midnight, but... the consciousness ______________________________ ¹ Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 10, 4.1.1969. Page 184 of the superman, that is the intermediary between the human being and the supramental being. It gave the body a kind of assurance, confidence. That experience, it is as if it had stabilised it and if it keeps the true attitude, there is all the support to help it. There are ...
... the help received. 14 And on 15 August, there was a nectarean shower: Man is the creation of yesterday. Sri Aurobindo came to announce the creation of tomorrow: the coming of the Supramental being. Sri Aurobindo came on earth from the Supreme to announce the manifestation of a new race and the new world, the Supramental. Let us prepare for it in all sincerity and eagerness. One... "there will be intermediary beings that will not last very long, like the intermediary beings that were between the chimpanzee and man." The figure she saw could be the prototype of the new supramental being, but, then, was her present body going to change in the manner required, and fuse with the luminous body? Something should happen that had not happened till then! Or would the body succumb to... from her children was "a sincere Yes". No longer mere words and vague promises, "I need the sincere adhesion of your hearts." It was the hour to be heroic. It was out of an egoless race that the supramental being would take his birth. Page 805 Ten days later, wondering how human nature could continue to resist the Divine's will, the Mother remarked, "The depth of human stupidity is incredible ...
... Overmind up to Supermind. The present-day trends towards spiritual growth are the sign that the human race is preparing for the next evolutionary leap — the emergence of the spiritual and supramental being. The structural-hierarchical aspect of Wilber's model of development reflects Sri Aurobindo's concept of the evolutionary gradations of consciousness from Inconscience to the Supreme Consciousness... an indivisible knowledge, while overmind proceeds by union in division and Mind by division taking division as the first fact, for that is the natural process of knowledge. 8 The supramental being, therefore, is not a Nietzschean edition of the human being magnified into a spiritual colossus, but a new evolutionary species as different from the human being as the human being differs from ...
... supramental, the divine life is a life of essential, spontaneous and inherent unity.” 944 According to Sri Aurobindo evolution cannot stop or be stopped in its tracks, and the appearance of the supramental being, the Aurobindonian superman, is inevitable. “The supramental change is a thing decreed and inevitable in the evolution of the earth-consciousness; for its upward ascent is not ended and mind is... is not the last summit.” 945 Yet, as in all appearances of a new, higher species in evolution there will be transitional beings without which the gigantic leap from the human to the supramental being would not be possible. ...
... an operation upon Adam’s bisexual body. This becomes meaningful if one knows that the divine Purusha, the Supramental Being at the origin of creation, is the gnostic Adam who is not bi-sexual but a-sexual. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have stressed time and again that the supramental being is asexual, and that the sexes are a means created by Nature on her lower levels to attain her ends. In this ...
... vision and yogic development. The Mother’s French term surhomme , meaning the intermediary between the human and the supramental being, has until now been wrongly translated as “superman”, the word which in Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s work stands throughout for the supramental being. To end this confusion and to clearly indicate the place the intermediary being occupies in the ongoing evolution beyond ...
... January 1969. The following passages from the Entretiens leave no doubt about this. On 29 May 1957 she talked about the transitional being between the present animal-human and the future supramental being, and she said: ‘Now, at this moment, that state [of the transitional superman] can be realized on earth by those who are ready to receive the supramental Force that is manifesting.’ 8 And she... her audience at the Playground: ‘That was surely what he was expecting of us: what he saw as the overman (le surhomme) who has to be the intermediary being between humankind as it is and the supramental being created in a supramental way, which means that it will not at all belong to the animality anymore and that it will be free of all animal needs.’ And another affirmation: ‘I think … I know ...
... human evolution, collectively and individually; it is also a realizable possibility at the point where humanity has arrived now. As humanity is inevitably to be followed by a higher species, the supramental being, the very first condition for this to happen is that the pioneering individuals first reach the maximum stage of evolution possible at present by realizing their psychic being. 92 This is what... . Above all you must tell your ego: “Your hour is past.” We want a race without ego, that has in place of the ego the Divine Consciousness which will allow the race to develop itself and the supramental being to take birth.’ 36 The Ashram school was intended to provide a complete education in the light and with the help of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. A message of the Mother makes this clear: ...
... movements of supermind are beyond the ordinary human mental conception: it is only when we have already had experience of a higher intermediate consciousness that any terms attempting to describe supramental being could convey a true meaning to our intelligence; for then, having experienced something akin to what is described, we could translate an inadequate language into a figure of what we knew. If the... involved and occult in earth-Nature, but they have no formations on the accessible levels of our subliminal inner consciousness; there is as yet no overmind being or organised overmind nature, no supramental being or organised supermind nature acting either on our surface or in our normal subliminal parts: for these greater powers of consciousness are superconscient to the level of our ignorance. In order ...
... imperfect as well as exclusive moves us always to bring in a human element of error into the very Truth itself and of conflict and mutual negation into the all-comprehending unity, yet to a divine supramental being, by the essential character of the supermind which is a comprehending oneness and infinite totality, they must present themselves as a triple and indeed a triune realisation. If we suppose... memory, sympathy, proper to its Page 168 own being, so must the Truth-consciousness or Supermind effect the relations of soul with soul by forces, faculties, functionings proper to supramental being; otherwise there would be no play of differentiation. What these functionings are, we shall see when we come to consider the psychological conditions of the divine Life; at present we are only ...
... to myself (possibly it is always so, I do not know, but here I noticed it very clearly), I said to myself, "But it is the psychic being, it is that which will materialise itself and become the supramental being!" I saw it, it was so. There were particularities, but these were not well-marked, and it was clearly a being that was neither man nor woman, having the combined characteristics of both. And... complications that were coming from the vital and the mental, adding their impressions and tendencies, all gone. And I understood: "Ah! It is that, it is this psychic being which has to become the supramental being." But I never sought to know what its appearance was like. And when I saw X, I understood. And I see it, I am seeing it still, I have kept the memory. It was as though the hair on the head ...
... and helpless. We send rockets to the moon, but we know nothing of our own hearts. It is a question, says Sri Aurobindo, "of creating a new physical nature which is to be the habitation of the Supramental being in a new evolution." 3 For, in actuality, he says, "the imperfection of Man is not the last word of Nature, but his perfection too is not the last peak of the Spirit." 4 Beyond the mental... thinking and living laboratory in whom and with whose conscious co-operation she wills to work out the superman, the god." 5 Sri Aurobindo has come to tell us how to create this other being, this supramental being, and not only to tell us but actually to create this other being and open the path of the future, to hasten upon earth the rhythm of evolution, the new vibration that will replace the mental ...
... the ultimate process of transformation of Apara Prakriti, the fourfold soul-force is able to formulate all these four forms Page 80 in their fullness and in their integrality; the supramental being, however, goes beyond the integral fourfold personality and is able to utilize these four personalities and manifest without any limitations of personality that the inner Person wills to manifest... yoke of the Divine Master and make the life a free servitude to Him; one is then able to arrive at the self-surrender of the whole being to the Master and to his work in the world. In the supramental being or in the divine superman, these things unite, assist and enter into each other, become one. In the greatest souls, the perfection manifests harmony in which wisdom, heroism, universal love and ...
... human body with special characteristics and structure that distinguish it from the body of the Darwinian Ape, similarly, there would come about, according to Sri Aurobindo, in the evolution of a supramental being the appearance also of a body, which would be appropriate to the operation of the supramental consciousness, having its own distinguishable capacities, form and structure. In the words of Sri... Just as with the evolution of newer species in the past, not only has there been the emergence of new capacities of consciousness but even physiological changes, even so, the evolution of the supramental being will eventually lead to the appearance on the earth of a new divine body. There will be, in other words, the development of the next supramental species. Sri Aurobindo has even described the essential ...
... sadhaks throughout the ages would have been supramental beings and all I have written about the supermind would be so much superfluous rubbish. Anybody who had spiritual experiences would then be a supramental being; the Asram would be chock-full of supramental beings and every other Asram in India also. As for writing about these things, I do not see the utility. I have already two philosophical essays to... may be simply a form answering to the higher consciousness (overmental, intuitive etc.) and I suppose a being could be there working in that consciousness and body. It is not likely to be the supramental being and supramental body—for in that case the whole consciousness, thought, action subjective and objective would begin to be faultlessly true and irresistibly effective. Nobody has reached that stage ...
... shell, the ripened decisive emergence, reversal, turning over of consciousness on itself that constitutes a new stage in the evolution. If it be supposed that her next step is the spiritual and supramental being, the stress of spirituality in the race may be taken as a sign that that is Nature's intention, the sign too of the capacity of man to operate in himself or aid her to operate the transition.... type resembling mental-animal humanity but already with the stamp of the spiritual aspiration on it would be the obvious method of Nature for the evolutionary production of the spiritual and supramental being." The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 841-42 One thing seems obvious, humanity has reached a certain state of general tension—tension in effort, in action, even in daily life—with ...
... are on the threshold of the new transformation, the new emergence as it is called here, and now that we are going to witness the process of transformation between the human mental being and the supramental being, we shall profit by this historical ability of the mind which will follow what happens and take note of it. So, from that point of view also, the phenomenon which is taking place now is absolutely... to all the former transformations; that is, everything that we are trying to understand at present, we shall know for certain when the process is repeated, this time between the mental and the supramental being. You are therefore invited to a very special development of the capacity for observation, so that all this may not take place in a half-dream and you awaken to a new life without even knowing ...
... being between humanity as it is and the supramental being created in the supramental way, that is, no longer belonging to animality at all and delivered from all animal needs. As we are, we have been created in the ordinary animal way, and therefore, even if we transform ourselves, there will remain something of this animal origin. The supramental being as he conceived of it, is not formed in ...
... coatings, rejecting the mere rapidities of the mind which imitate the form of the intuition without being of its true substance. It will be easier to discern rapidly the higher planes of the true supramental being and call down their power to effect the desired transformation and to refer all the lower action to the superior power and light that it may reject and eliminate, purify and transform and select... and eliminate immixtures, busy intuitivising more and still more the whole stuff of mind, and this can only end by itself being enlightened, transformed, lifted up into the full light of the supramental being. Moreover, this new mentality is in each man a development of the present power of his being and, however new and remarkable its developments, its organisation is within a certain range of ...
... would be its general character and principle. This is the whole sense and the inherent law and necessity of the passage from the purely mental and material being and life to the spiritual and supramental being and life, that the liberation, perfection, self-fulfilment for which the being in the Ignorance is seeking can only be reached by passing out of his present nature of Ignorance into a nature of... ingenuity of mental construction can accord or harmonise this complexity; it is only the intuition and self-knowledge of an awakened spirit that can do it. That would be the nature of the evolved supramental being and his existence; his spiritual sight and sense would take up all the forces of the being in a unifying consciousness and bring them into a normality of accorded action: for this accord and concord ...
... of the intuitive mentality,—the suggestive and discriminating intuition, the inspiration and the thought that is of the nature of revelation. Above they correspond to three elevations of the supramental being and consciousness and, as we ascend, the lower first calls down into itself and is then taken up into the higher, so that on each level all the three elevations are reproduced, but always there... them, and therefore he sees them constantly in a false light or in a limited measure. In all these respects the supramental man must proceed from the opposite principle of truth vision. The supramental being sees things from above in large spaces and at the highest from the spaces of the infinite. His view is not limited to the standpoint of the present but can see in the continuities of time or from ...
... phrase includes the transformation of the whole physical mind, vital, material nature - not by imposing Siddhis on them, but by creating a new physical nature which is to be the habitation of the Supramental being in a new evolution. I am not aware that this has been done by any Hathayogic or other process. Mental or vital occult power can only bring Siddhis of the higher plane into the individual life... Supramental beings and all I have written about the Supermind would be so much superfluous stuff, useless and Page 51 otiose. Anybody who had spiritual experiences would then be a Supramental being; the Ashram would be chockfull of Supramental beings and every other Ashram in India also. Spiritual experiences can fix themselves in the inner consciousness and alter it, transform it, if you ...
... humanity cannot realise itself except by passing into supermanhood. The saint, the sage, the seer, the inspired man of action, the creator,—these are his summits of being. Beyond him is the supramental being, the spiritual superman. 54 Our existence in the cosmic order is not an accident, the purposeless freak of a Chance which happened to organise itself into a world or the product of... formula, in the mentalised life and body of man, a spiritual emergence is in process which has not yet reached its full possibility and that possibility is the emergence of the spiritual man or supramental being, then the object of the physical evolution and its significance becomes clear. The evolution of bodies is only a means for the evolution of consciousness and the spiritual formulation will be ...
... Supramental ‘has the knowledge of the One, but it is able to draw out of the One its hidden multitudes; it manifests the Many, but does not lose itself in their differentiations.’ 19 The Supramental, being the directly manifested Godhead and therefore possessing the intrinsic unity of the Godhead, is present everywhere and in everything, even now, in the paper on which these words are printed and... divine being which has no name as yet, though it is sometimes called ‘superman’. Out of the mental being, whether it knows it or not, whether it consciously wants it or not, evolves NOW the supramental being. The Pioneers have already formed the archetype of the new species in themselves and prepared the Earth for its appearance, as we shall see further on in this book. The future on the threshold ...
... The supramental being is the divine being of the future; it will no longer be embodied in the manner of the present animal-human procreation. The process by which it will acquire a body of supramentalized substance is not yet known. The fact that the Subconscient will no longer hold the Earth in its grip will undoubtedly result in new evolutionary processes and mechanisms. The supramental being, as ...
... same, let us not forget that before another three centuries have passed, some unpredictable, very fundamental and apparently miraculous changes will take place leading up to the appearance of a supramental being whose presence we, ordinary mortals, could not even endure. For the Supermind is at work and so is the Overman Consciousness. No doubt, the future has always been unpredictable to the human being... being, unable to “even see the step ahead.” 26 The characteristics of the radical events ahead, however, should be identifiable as the conditions necessary for the appearance of the supramental being: world-unity in diversity; supercession of the ego in individuals, communities, religions, peoples and nations; fulfilment of the highest capabilities of the human being leading towards the realisation ...
... Mother, and of the yogic work she was going to base upon it in the coming years. Let us therefore have a closer look at it. Firstly, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have stated clearly that the supramental being will be a new creation on Earth which cannot be brought forth by the human being as it is now. The reason is that however advanced or developed a human being may be, it will always carry in its... way we are, we have been created in the ordinary way, the animal way,’ said the Mother, ‘and consequently, even if we transform ourselves, there will remain something of this animal origin. The supramental being as he [Sri Aurobindo] conceived of it, is not at all formed in the ordinary animal way, but directly, through a process that for the moment still seems occult to us.’ 25 The necessity ...
... things, doesn't at all agree with what you write in this letter." And he gave me an example. He said, "Look at this little R. 2 They imagine they are creating a supramental being—that's obviously not the way to create a supramental being, but at least they could try to create a nice little being...." So their method is like this: they take the child, little R., and while he listens to music, they ...
... conception that the creation must be done away with because they don't take the creation beyond the human creation—it's impossible for man, but possible for the supramental being. And that will be the essential difference of the supramental being: being able, without losing a limited form, to unite his consciousness with the supreme Consciousness. But it's impossible for man. That I know. As I said ...
... l race, they will say, "That's all very well, but it's only the beginning. Now, the entire earth has to become a supramental manifestation." Just as from mental man the supramental being was born, so also from the supramental being will be born the powers that will transform the earth.... Do you see it?! It's interesting. ( silence ) It's something I've already been shown, I have already been ...
... realization, whose number is necessarily very limited, there should be increasingly developed, in the midst of the ordinary human mass, a higher humanity that had towards the future or promised supramental being the same attitude as animality, for instance, has towards man. What is needed, besides those who work for the transformation and are ready for it, is a higher or intermediate humanity that would... giving here: "For a group such as the Ashram, for instance, in order for it to function really well, members of that higher humanity would have to be formed who had towards the future or promised supramental being the same attitude as animality (like the dog, for instance) has towards man. For the Ashram to function well, there should be people who had found in themselves or in their life this harmony with ...
... physical and vital planes. Mirra acts directly on the psychic and on the emotional vital and physical being through the illumined psychic consciousness while the illumined intuitions of the supramental being give her the necessary knowledge to act on the right lines and at the right moment. Her force representing the Shakti element is directly psychic, vital, physical and her spiritual knowledge... first visible results become apparent to all." The general reference is to what in the same talk she has termed "the Superman" who must serve as a link "between humanity as it is and the supramental being created in the supramental way" — that is, created not by the animal mode of birth to which all of us, including the Mother, have owed our bodies, but by a direct "materialisation", an occult ...
... Integral Yoga: "Supermind." In the days of his monthly periodical Arya (1914-1921) he took all the ranges of spiritual dynamism above the mind as different statuses of the Supermind, the Supramental being a continuous climb "overhead" from light to greater and more dynamic light of Perfection. The terms "super" and "supra" were used in the literal connotation of "above" - except that they would... Page 69 8) The Mother saying that Sri Aurobindo told her of at least 300 years being required for transformation. No proof from Sri Aurobindo's pen so far! 9) Supramental being. Superman, Superhuman being, distinguished variously by the Mother PLUS Superman consciousness (latest). Then what about Sri Aurobindo writing in The Life Divine about various types ...
... developing and formulating, by overcoming the Ignorance, the supramental being and even the bliss being. It is these states of the Purusha which are described in the Taittiriya Upanishad as annamaya purusa, the physical being, prānamaya purusa, the vital being, manomaya purusa, the mental being, vijanānamaya purusa, the supramental being, and ānandamaya purusa, the bliss being. It is the individual ...
... sense are all made of the stuff of oneness and its dynamic action invariably proceeds upon that secure basis. Supermind being a unitarian, integralising and harmonic consciousness, the supramental being, in contrast with the present mental being, will succeed in founding all his living, whether Page 223 individual or collective, on an innate sense and effective realisation... others, that the total universal movement is one and indivisible and he who is presiding over this cosmic Manifestation is also One and indivisible. To quote from Sri Aurobindo: "The supramental being in his cosmic consciousness seeing and feeling all as himself would act in that sense; he would act in a universal awareness and a harmony of his individual self with the total self, of his ...
... and free him totally from this bond of paternal love. Your father will not return any more as a human being. He will come down straight as a supramental being upon the earth.” As soon as the Mother uttered that father would come down as a supramental being upon the earth we cried out joyfully. Hearing our cries of joy Champaklal-ji came running to the door. He also had a smile on his face. Then ...
... and powerless. We send rockets to the moon but we know nothing of our own hearts. "It is a question," says Sri Aurobindo, "of creating a new physical nature which is to be the habitation of the Supramental being in a new evolution." 2 For, indeed, he says, "the imperfection of Man is not the last word of Nature, but his perfection too is not the last peak of the Spirit." 3 Beyond mental man,... and living laboratory in whom and with whose conscious cooperation she wills to work out the superman, the god." 4 Sri Aurobindo has come to tell us how to create this other being, this supramental being, and not only to tell us but actually to create this other being. He has come to open the path of the future, to hasten upon earth the rhythm of evolution, the new vibration which will replace ...
... to be eternally subject to limitation and ignorance. But if on the contrary it is immortal and infinite Spirit which has veiled itself inMatter and is emerging, the development of a liberated supramental being who shall impose in Mind, Life and Matter a higher law than that of limitation and division, is the inevitable conclusion from the nature of cosmic existence. There is no reason why such a ...
... highest order above it, and become even an extension and annexe of the truth-consciousness, a part and province of the divine life. It is obvious that if the Supermind is there and an order of supramental being is established as the leading principle in earth-nature, as mind is now the leading principle, but with a sureness, a complete government of the earthly existence, a capacity of transformation ...
... of mind with its self-formed solid bed of sanskaras, waves of which are constantly flowing through him, rising & breaking there & leaving their marks in the sands of his mental, infra-mental & supramental being. Even if we realise all beings as Narayan and one Self, there is a difficulty in realising all things as God & self. The Inhabitant is the Atman, good—but the name & form? We can realise that ...
... second is the Lord of all this dual action who is beyond it; He is the truth of Brahman and not in any way a falsehood or misrepresentation, but the truth of it as attained by us in our eternal supramental being; in Him are the absolutes of all that here we experience in partial figures. The Unknowable is beyond our grasp because though it is the same Reality, yet it exceeds even our highest term of eternal ...
... body through the forehead centre — extremely powerful having undisturbed samata, calm, conviction, keen sight and knowledge". This was the consciousness of true Purusha in you aware of his own supramental being and it is this which must become your normal consciousness and the basis of the supramental development. In order that it may so become, the mind has to be made calm and strong, the emotional ...
... Letters on Yoga, p. 616 This ś raddhā — the English word faith is inadequate to express it — is in reality an influence from the supreme Spirit and its light a message from our supramental being which is calling the lower nature to rise out of its petty present to a great self-becoming and self-exceeding. And that which receives the influence and answers to the call is not so much the ...
... the life-self, thence to the mental being realised in the fully developed man and thence into the perfect consciousness which is beyond the mental, into the Supramental Consciousness and the Supramental Being, the Truth-Consciousness 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; ...
... type resembling mental-animal humanity but already with the stamp of the spiritual aspiration on it would be the obvious method of Nature for the evolutionary production of the spiritual and supramental being.” 5 This, now, is the privileged moment of the bursting of the shell, of the ripened decisive emergence, of the great reversal in consciousness; it is the moment of the appearance of the overman ...
... by their Work, contain any truth. Man is “the mental being” par excellence, as one finds repeated time and again in their books. If man has to be surpassed by the overman and afterwards by the supramental being, then reason, the mental being’s main means of consciousness, must be surpassed – something painfully traumatic and profoundly puzzling to a being that relies on reason as its principal means ...
... surhommes, ” literally meaning “overmen.” “This was certainly what he expected of us: what he conceived of as the overman, who must be the intermediate being between humanity as it is and the supramental being created in the supramental way … It is quite obvious that intermediary beings are necessary, and that it is these intermediary beings who must find the means to create beings of the Supermind ...
... l and Divine, and in the minuteness of a person, an organ, a cell, an atom – often on both levels at the same time. And there was that third, horrific level: the Subconscient. For the new supramental being to be capable of embodiment, gross Matter had to change and become sufficiently subtle to serve as the substance for that embodiment. But we know that the base of Matter is the Subconscient and ...
... the Earth. Working out his mission, He went gone as far as possible, and maybe farther than originally expected, to hasten the first result of that manifestation: the formation of the visible supramental being upon the Earth. That at a certain moment his own terrestrial instrument, exhausted and worn out by the Work, would have to be discarded was always held to be the normal way of things by the Avatar ...
... Mother - I: Aims and Principles In this connection the Mother has revealed: You know that Sri Aurobindo is teaching us that man is not the last term of the evolution and that a supramental being is in preparation. Between the man of yesterday and the new being that is to come, there is a number of men who will develop intuitive capacities and will serve as a kind of bridge between the ...
... the Page 733 full emergence of the law of the spirit; its power of supermind or gnosis must have entered into Matter and it must evolve in Matter. It must change the mental into the supramental being, make the inconscient in us conscious, spiritualise our material substance, erect its law of gnostic consciousness in our whole evolutionary being and nature. This must be the culminating emergence ...
... consciousness concealed here in the evolution, the line of rebirth cannot stop even there; it cannot cease in its ascent before the mental has been replaced by the supramental nature and an embodied supramental being becomes the leader of terrestrial existence. This then is the rational and philosophical foundation for a belief in rebirth; it is an inevitable logical conclusion if there exists at the same ...
... ce; the knowledge of our greater and inner existence behind the surface; the knowledge of our mind, life and body in its true relation to the self within and the superconscient spiritual and supramental being above them; the knowledge, finally, of the true harmony and true use of our thought, will and action and a change of all our nature into a conscious expression of the truth of the Spirit, the ...
... phrase includes the transformation of the whole physical mind, vital, material nature—not by imposing siddhis on them, but by creating a new physical nature which is to be the habitation of the supramental being in a new evolution. I am not aware that this has been done by any Hathayogic or other process. Mental or vital occult power can only bring siddhis of the higher plane into the individual life—like ...
... existence, a part of the Divine. Become aware of that and put all your mental, vital and physical nature in relation to it, in order that they may become purified, harmonised, divinised, and the supramental being and nature may descend and be manifested in you—for until this is done, this conscious linking and relation with the psychic centre, there can be no supramental descent. The Words "Soul" and ...
... —not as an Page 886 abnormal power, but as its normal way of time knowledge. This unified and infinite time consciousness and this vision and knowledge are the possession of the supramental being in its own supreme region of light and are complete only on the highest levels of the supramental nature. But in the ascent of the human consciousness through the uplifting and transmuting ev ...
... of the mind and life is a stumbling about in search of right force, right Tapas which can wholly be attained in its true and complete light and direction only by oneness with the spiritual and supramental being. The supramental nature on the contrary is just, harmonious and one, will and knowledge there only light of the spirit and power of the spirit, the power effecting the light, the light ...
... becomes more fully our own self and nature. And also, on the other, the lower side of existence which it might seem would then be not only beneath but quite alien to us, even when we live in the supramental being and even when the whole nature has been formed into its mould, that need not cut us off from the knowledge and feeling of others who live in the ordinary nature. The lower or more limited may ...
... real to the consciousness is the truth of infinite being, a thing abstract to Page 908 our present sense and intelligence to which only phenomena are concrete and real, but to the supramental being always and absolutely and intimately present and real. This indeed is that which to its knowledge, sense, vision, idea, feeling is most concretely real and the phenomena which are now so close ...
... radical change which establishes a secure and settled new principle, a new creation, a permanent new order of being in the field of terrestrial Nature. The spiritual man has evolved, but not the supramental being who shall thenceforward be the leader of that Nature. This is because the principle of spirituality has yet to affirm itself in its own complete right and sovereignty; it has been up till now ...
... her by service, by bhakti, by aspiration; then the Mother by her light and force works in him so that the sadhana is done. It is a mistake also to have the ambition to be a big Purna Yogi or a supramental being and ask oneself how far have I got towards that. The right attitude is to be devoted and given to the Mother and to wish to be whatever she wants you to be. The rest is for the Mother to decide ...
... body through the forehead centre—extremely powerful, having undisturbed samata, calm conviction, keen sight and knowledge." This was the consciousness of the true Purusha in you aware of his own supramental being and it is this which must become your normal consciousness and the basis of the supramental development. In order that it may so become, the mind has to be made calm and strong, the emotional ...
... transformation of the whole physical mind, vital, material nature—not by imposing siddhis on them, but by Page 108 creating a new physical nature which is to be the habitation of the supramental being in a new evolution. I am not aware that this has been done by any Hathayogic or other process. Mental or vital occult power can only bring siddhis of the higher plane into the individual life—like ...
... as I said, it was not always for the greatest joy of those he dealt with, but still it certainly changed their conditions of life considerably. Well, in the same way, it is probable that the supramental being, whatever it might be, will considerably change the life of the earth. In our heart and our thought we hope that all the evils the earth suffers from will be at least ameliorated if not cured ...
... ion which could take a certain number of years, probably a considerable number, and would produce a being who would no longer be a "man" in the animal sense of the word, but would not be the supramental being formed fully outside all animality, for its present origin is necessarily an animal one. So, a transmutation may take place, a transformation that's enough to liberate the being from this origin ...
... ideal with the spiritual truth of which it is a luminous shadow and help to uplift into or towards a greater and higher existence.... It is obvious that if the Supermind is there and an order of supramental being is established as the leading principle in earth-nature, as mind is now the leading principle, but with a sureness, a complete government of the earthly existence, a capacity of transformation ...
... supramental realisation, and whose number is necessarily very restricted, there must develop more and more, in the midst of the ordinary human mass, a superior humanity which has towards the supramental being of the future or in the making the same attitude as animality, for example, has towards man. There must be, besides those who work for the transformation and who are ready for it, a superior humanity ...
... and afterwards it spread out and went about to find people who could receive it. And I knew that it was the consciousness of the superman, that is to say, the intermediary between man and the supramental being. That has given to the body a kind of assurance and confidence. That experience has, as it were, stabilised the body and if it keeps the true attitude, every support is there to help it. ...
... " We want a race that has no ego, that has in place of the ego the Divine Consciousness. It is that which we want: the Divine Consciousness which will allow the race to develop itself and the supramental being to take birth. If you believe that I am here because I am bound—it is not Page 307 true. I am not bound, I am here because my body has been given for the first attempt at transformation ...
... been realised. Sri Aurobindo says that it is possible and even that it will happen, but he lays down one condition: the body must be supramentalised, it must have some of the qualities of the supramental being, which are qualities of plasticity and constant transformation. And when Sri Aurobindo writes that the body is "only an instrument and a shadow," he is speaking of the body as it is now and will ...
... occult processes? The idea is that first of all some beings must reach a certain Page 117 realisation here in the physical world that would give them the power to materialise a supramental being. I told you that once I endowed a vital being with a body, but I would never have been able to... it would have been impossible to make this body material: something is missing, something is ...
... (it's possible that it's always like that, I don't know, but in this case I noticed it very clearly), I thought, "But it is the psychic being which will materialize itself and will become the supramental being!" I saw it, it was like that. There were particular details but they weren't very distinct, and it was clearly a being that was neither man nor woman, having the characteristics of both combined ...
... "being or personality from above" do You mean? I wrote "being from above" in order to avoid being more specific, for there are many possibilities, from a "vibhuti" of an Overmind god to a supramental being or even a direct emanation from the Supreme (an Avatar). Blessings. 29 October 1964 Sweet Mother, May I ask You to give me a copy of Satprem's book, "Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure ...
... intelligence, one is not a man but an animal in human form. Blessings. 30 December 1969 Sweet Mother, In the new race, will our body change form? Between the body of the supramental being and the body of man, there will surely be a difference comparable to that which exists between man and the most advanced ape; but what this difference will be we can hardly know until the new ...
... fact, this was the only thing I asked of my body. I told it, 'Now you shall set right everything which is out of order and gradually realize this intermediate supermanhood between man and the supramental being or, in other words, what I call the superman.' And this is what I have been doing for the last eight years, and even much more during the past two years, since 1956. Now it is the work of each ...
... In the evolution, the individual is far ahead of the earth, but as long as he lives on earth there is a certain interdependence. But the condition of the earth is sure to become such that a supramental being will soon be able to live on it. 9 July 1968 The Buddha said that Nirvana results in the cessation of rebirth. But isn't the Divine always free to send back into the manifestation the ...
... example, to this body. Page 133 I had the impression of a substance that has to undergo a work of adaptation, transformation, utilization, and that would serve as an outer form for the supramental being. My impression is that Sri Aurobindo already has his subtle supramental form. For instance, when he has to move, he doesn't give the impression of being subject to the same laws as we are; ...
... solid. And very agile: he comes and goes, sits down, gets up, always with great majesty. His color is a sort of golden bronze, a color like the coagulation of his supramental gold, of his golden supramental being; as if it were very concentrated and coagulated to fashion his appearance; and it doesn't reflect light: it seems as if lit from within (but it doesn't radiate), and it doesn't cast any shadows ...
... transformation of the whole physical mind, vital, material nature — not by imposing siddhis [= abnormal faculties] on them, but by creating a new physical nature which is to be the habitation of the supramental being in a new evolution." And he continues: "I am not aware that this has been done by any Hathayogic or other process. Mental or vital occult power can only bring siddhis of the higher plane into ...
... "dead," you understand? To human beings, it means they're dead. So in fact, there would have to be a passage. No, no! Because there remains a body you destroy or bury. Yes, but with this supramental being, in fact no "body" remains: he interiorizes (meaning that to humans he becomes "dead"), or exteriorizes, meaning that to human beings he becomes alive—going from one state to the other at will ...
... July 4, 1970 I wondered if we couldn't add to the "Notes" what you said last time about this psychic being that will become the supramental being? What do you say? I say it's important! Yes!... I mean about the effect [on people].... I am afraid everyone will suddenly... have a psychic being! ( general laughter ) Oh, ...
... can assure you of that. ( silence ) That is all I had to say. × Mother later corrected "superman" to "supramental being." ...
... the transformation of the whole physical mind, vital, material nature—not by imposing Siddhis [occult powers] on them, but by creating a new physical nature which is to be the habitation of the supramental being in a new evolution. I am not aware that this has been done by any Hathayogic or other process. Mental or vital occult power can only bring Siddhis of the higher plane into the individual life—like ...
... see, it is bearable due to the mental influence (vital and mental), but that influence is not enough, it has to be transformed. Let me say it in a very down-to-earth way: for example, take a supramental being having the supramental consciousness, if his body gets cancer, it will remain cancer, you follow?... He may not feel anything, but only if he detaches himself from his body; whereas, for the ...
... 1971 ( A note by Mother in English ) We are at a decisive hour in the history of the earth. The earth is preparing for the advent of the supramental Page 349 being, and because of this the old way of living loses its value. One must launch oneself consciously on the path of the future in spite of the new exigencies. The pettinesses tolerable at ...
... will be changed by the outburst of the greater secret Consciousness within it, the hidden Light, into what it always was in reality, a sea of the secret Superconscience". 1 The supramental being, the gnostic soul , the Vijñānamaya Puruṣa, thus appearing in earth-existence will be the first unveiled manifestation of Sachchidananda in the material universe. Not a self-oblivion in ...
... "the ascent of man from the physical to the supramental must open out the possibility of a corresponding ascent in the grades of substance to that ideal or causal body which is proper to our supramental being, and the conquest of the lower principles by supermind and its liberation of them into a divine life and divine mentality must also render possible a conquest of our physical limitations by ...
... in the one what it holds supernally in die other.² But this unified and infinite time consciousness and this vision and knowledge are, according to Sri Aurobindo, the possession of the supramental being in its own supreme region of light and are complete only on the higher levels of the supramental nature. But the human mind developing into Supermind has to pass through several stages and in ...
... she wrote on 21st January 1963, when I sent sketches. It is good, you can proceed with the paintings. In the last picture, I have taken away the stripe as it is not probable that the Supramental Being will use these very human devices. Except for this small detail, all is excellent. For picture thirteen, she wrote: I have removed the trident and the snake as they are not needed ...
... relieved to find that you have not lost your sense of humour by your Supramental transformation, Sir," Sri Aurobindo wrote back: "Where the deuce do you get these ideas? From Dilip? The supramental being the absolute of all good things, must equally be the absolute of humour also. Q.E.D." 29 "From Dilip?" - yes, Sri Aurobindo's query was justifiable. For Dilip Kumar, a close friend of Nirodbaran ...
... line of rebirth cannot stop even when the spiritual-mind planes have been possessed. It cannot cease in its ascent before the mental has been replaced by the supramental nature and an embodied supramental being becomes the leader of the terrestrial existence. This then is the rational and philosophical foundation for the phenomenon of rebirth in earthly life, and this is supported by the spiritual ...
... Mutation of the Human Species Evolution by means of Yogic Transformation: Psychic Transformation, Spiritual Transformation, Supramental Transformation Conditions of the advent of the Supramental Being Yoga and Collective Life: Collective Aspiration: Its Necessity for General Health and Perfection; Formation of the Collective Aspiration at various Psychological levels; ...
... mutation will necessitate and operate whatever mutation is needed for the body. It may, however, be still argued that if an evolutionary culmination in the production of the spiritual and supramental being is intended and man is to be its medium, it will only be a few especially evolved human beings who will form the new type and move towards the new life; that once done the rest of humanity will ...
... the one what it holds supemally in the other." 54 But this unified and infinite time consciousness and this vision and knowledge are, according to Sri Aurobindo, the possession of the supramental being in its own supreme region of light and are complete only on the higher levels of supramental nature. But the human mind developing into supermind has to pass through several stages and in its ...
... before the supramental realisation ..." He said that a few years before he died. He had felt it. ( Silence ) But he spoke of a transformation that would come before the advent of the first supramental being. 2 And that was what he told me. He told me that his body was not capable of bearing this transformation, that mine was more capable—he repeated it. But it is difficult. I told you so the ...
... l realisation..." He said that a few years before he died. He had felt it. (Silence) Page 139 But he spoke of a transformation that would come before the advent of the first supramental being 2 . And that was what he told me. He told me that his body was not capable of bearing this transformation, that mine was more capable - he repeated it. But it is difficult, I told you so ...
... not, as I said, to the great joy of all those with whom he busied himself; but in any case, their conditions of life were changed by this interference. In the same way, it is likely that the supramental being, whatever he may be, when he comes, will change considerably the life upon earth. We cherish this hope in our heart and in our mind that all the ills the earth suffers from will be, if not completely ...
... not, as I said, to the great joy of all those with whom he occupied himself; but in any case, their conditions of life were changed by this intervention. In the same way, it is likely that the supramental being, whatever he might be, when he comes, will change considerably the life upon earth. We cherish this hope in our heart and in our mind that all the ills the earth suffers from will be, if not ...
... in the one what it holds supernally in the other.'17 But this unified and infinite time consciousness and this vision and knowledge are, according to Sri Aurobindo, the possession of the supramental being in its own supreme region of light and are complete only on the higher levels of the supramental nature. But the human mind developing into supermind has to pass through several stages and in ...
... keep the standard. By human contact the animals develop that sense even more. Page 168 Mother came and then after some time departed. Disciple : Is it true that Supramental Being is Bhagawan? Sri Aurobindo : All are Bhagwan, all are Divine. Disciple : That is potential or say, veiled Bhagawan; otherwise we have to accept that world is perfect even as it ...
... change the world. In X's case there was a grand, magnificent being. It brought a change even in the physical for a moment. It came and went. The Asura suggests pride and ruin at any cost. A Supramental being comes down to bring a change, not to make noise. I am trying to bring down the Supramental ; things will happen, conditions for its descent will be created. Then there will be no obscurity ...
... material instruments – I can now only look forward as a subsequent eventuality in a yet distant vista of things. Page 164 To possess securely the Light and the Force of the supramental being, this is the main object to which the power is now turning. But the remnant of the old habits of intellectual thought and mental will come so obstinate in their determination to remain that the ...
... below. 58 The final or culminating assault or heave of the ascending ocean of consciousness is on the supramental citadel itself; Man must now grow into the complete Superman, the supramental being, or the Gnostic being. The induction of the supramental principle and power into the human being must also mean the gradual supramentalisation of man's environment, in other words the transformation ...
... and the vital plane. Mina acts directly on the psychic being and on the emotional vital and physical being through the illumined psychic consciousness, while the illumined intuitions of the supramental being give her the necessary knowledge to act on the right lines and at the right moment. Her force representing the Shakti element is directly psychic, vital, physical and her spiritual knowledge ...
... and the material world to the law of the higher heavens of the Truth: 6 The main object of the Power which moves him, of course, is to "possess securely the Light and the Force of the supramental being"; but progress in that direction is sometimes delayed by the gheraoing "old habits of intellectual thought and mental will" that "crowd round the mind and pour in their suggestions whenever ...
... were developed in the animal body. The Mother then gives free rein to her prophetic imagination, and vividly pictures the kind of life - the untrammeled yet purposeful life - that the supramental being of the future may be expected to live: As the expression of your face changes with your feelings, so the body will change (not the form but within the same form) in accordance with what ...
... about twenty centimetres taller than her physical being and was unsexed as well. It made the Mother understand that it was the psychic being which would materialise itself one day and become the supramental being: The psychic being materialises itself... and that gives continuity to evolution... there is nothing arbitrary, there is a kind of divine logic behind.... 7 If the mind and the vital ...
... collective lower Nature of the mental man has to be transformed and converted into the higher, so that man as a race may take the next higher step in evolution, and live sad. work on earth as a supramental being, a vessel of the Page 204 gnostic Truth and Light and Bliss, instead of struggling and suffering in the dim light of his half-enlightened, egoistic mental consciousness. This divine ...
... In the evolution, the individual is far ahead of the earth, but as long as he lives on earth there is a certain interdependence. But the condition of the earth is sure to become such that a supramental being will soon be able to live on it. 9.7.1968 I have not been able to make total surrender and I do not feel happy, I feel an emptiness. . . Page 50 patiently, unflaggingly ...
... never forget it. 9.3.1970 Can it be said that no realisation can be perfect without the participation of the body-cells? Most certainly, for in the divine plan for earth, the supramental being must succeed the man on earth, and all our effort must tend to prepare its coming. 11.3.1970 There is a descent of light from above like a flow, there is also its stream springing ...
... in Nature. It is made of love and bliss, .and is the very self of an immaculate purity. It comes from the Bliss-self of saccidānanda, as our mind comes from the vijnānamaya puruṣa or the Supramental Being, our life from the cit-tapas, and our body from the sat or the eternal divine Substance. In the beginning of our terrestrial evolution, this soul or psychic entity remains veiled behind the ...
... sense. They feel as if they were thrust forcibly into a new world. 59 It is Matter that finds the key to Matter. The exit from the mineral, vegetal, animal reign. The beginning of the supramental being. The exit from the second web. × Sri Aurobindo, Unpublished Letter ...
... and nature, arising out of the physical an energy of vital being and nature, arising out of the vital an energy of mental being and nature, arising out of the mental an energy of spiritual or supramental being and nature. And each of these forms of energy has a law of its own, lines of its own action, a right to its own manner of operation and existence, because each is fundamental to some necessity ...
... woke up, he was lying on a bed, I was kneeling beside the bed, looking at him, and then at the same time that he was that new body, he was explaining to me what the body of the superman (the supramental being) would be like and it was so vivid that even when I woke up, it remained, still see it. But the details... (what shall I say?) the memory is not so precise as to enable me to explain (I don't ...
... necessary preparation of the material instruments—I can now only look forward as a subsequent eventuality in a yet distant vista of things. To possess securely the Light and the Force of the supramental being, this is the main object to which the Power is now turning. But the remnant of the old habits of intellectual thought and mental will come so obstinate in their determination to remain that the ...
... and vital plane. Mirra acts directly on the psychic being and on the emotional, vital and physical nature through the illumined psychic consciousness, while the illumined intuitions from the supramental being give her the necessary knowledge to act on the right lines and at the right moment. Her force representing the Shakti element is directly psychic, vital, physical and her spiritual knowledge is ...
... —because the earth is the place of evolution. Through the descent and manifestation of the supermind, a new race will be born—a new creation. But what exactly will this new creation be? The supramental being on earth, as man is the mental being, the animal the vital etc. 8 May 1934 When I hear people talking about the supramental descent it makes me somewhat sceptical. They expect that when ...
... out which enables at least a conscious relation between mental and supramental man. It can be asserted with certainty that there will be an intermediate specimen between the mental and the supramental being, a kind of superman who will still have the qualities and in part the nature of man, that is, who will still belong in his most external form to the human being with its animal origin, but will ...
... world has to be formed or created in us by the Divine Will as the result of a constant expansion and self-perfecting." 1 That is to say, to hope to receive, use and form in oneself a supramental being, and consequently a supramental world, there must first of all be an expansion of consciousness and a constant personal progress: not to have sudden flights, a little aspiration, a little effort ...
... born musicians, born artists, and there are people who may work at it all their lives and never come to anything at all. It is the same thing with occultism. If you mean that when one becomes a supramental being, one will have the gift of doing everything, very well, but that doesn't imply that the gift is spontaneous. It is possible that you might have to concentrate on the subject and then learn your ...
... radical change which establishes a secure and settled new principle, a new creation, a permanent new order of being in the field of terrestrial Nature. The spiritual man has evolved, but not the supramental being who shall thenceforward be the leader of that Nature." The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 889-90 Sweet Mother, how can one find the right stage and turn of one's development? ...
... moment it is a paroxysm. Afterwards comes the long way: one must carry on, carry on progressively the work of transformation. And then, the next minute, it is what Sri Aurobindo has called the supramental being. It is as though the passage from the one to the other. But how will all this change? I do not know. Yes, the other day I had a perception, it was so concrete, that the earth was as though ...
... the life-self, thence to the mental being realised in the fully developed man and thence into the perfect consciousness which is beyond the mental, into the Supramental consciousness and the Supramental being, the Truth-Consciousness which is the integral consciousness of the spiritual being. Mind cannot be our last conscious expression because mind is fundamentally Page 396 an ignorance ...
... may be simply a form answering to the higher consciousness (overmental, intuitive etc.) and I suppose a being could be there working in that consciousness and body. It is not likely to be the supramental being and supramental body—for in that case the whole consciousness, thought, action subjective and objective would begin to be faultlessly true and irresistibly effective. Nobody has reached that stage ...
... to Supermind. If it were not so, spiritual experience of that high Page 66 kind would be impossible to mental man, liberation would be impossible; he would first have to become a supramental being. As for the Purusha it is there on all planes; there is a mental Purusha, manomaya , leader of the life and body, as the Upanishad puts it, a vital, a physical Purusha; there is the psychic being ...
... change from the vital animal to mental man made life another thing altogether in basic consciousness, scope, significance, so this change from the materialised mental being to the spiritual and supramental being using but not dominated by matter must take up life and make it another thing altogether than the flawed, imperfect limited human, quite other in its basic consciousness, scope, significance. ...
... bodily workings a higher law than that of the dividing Mind is no longer impossible. On the contrary, it is the natural and inevitable conclusion of the nature of cosmic existence. Such a supramental being would, as we have seen, liberate the mind from the knot of its divided existence and use the individualisation of mind as merely a useful subordinate action of the all-embracing Supermind; and ...
... The ascent of man from the physical to the supramental must open out the possibility of a corresponding ascent in the grades of substance to that ideal or causal body which is proper to our supramental being, and the conquest of the lower principles by supermind and its liberation of them into a divine life and a divine mentality must also render possible a conquest of our physical limitations by ...
... śraddhā needed for the integral Yoga. This śraddhā —the English word faith is inadequate to express it—is in reality an influence from the supreme Spirit and its light a message from our supramental being which is calling the lower nature to rise out of its petty present to a great self-becoming and self-exceeding. And that which receives the influence and answers to the call is not so much the ...
... from the Light above the mind, and will not judge and govern with the intellectual judgment, but wait for enlightenment and direction from a superior plane of vision. As it mounts upward to the supramental being and widens inward to the spiritual largeness, the dynamic nature will be transformed, spiritualised like the emotional and pranic, and grow into a power of the divine nature. There will be plenty ...
... even in the intuitive mind, can perceive the truth only by a brilliant reflection or limited communication and subject to the restrictions and the inferior capacity of the mental vision; but the supramental being sees it by the gnosis itself, from the very centre and outwelling fount of the truth, in its very form and by its own spontaneous and self-illumining process. For the Vijnana is a direct and divine ...
... incoming of conscious experience by the power and in the manner of the divine supramental faculties, this realisation would offer no essential difficulties. But man is a mental and not yet a supramental being. It is by the mind therefore that he has to aim at knowledge and realise his being, with whatever help he can get from the supramental planes. This character of our actually realised being and ...
... I woke up, he was lying down on a bed, I was kneeling beside the bed, looking at him, and while he was that new body, he at the same time explained to me how the superman's body would be (the supramental being). 1 And it was so living that even when I woke up, it remained—I can still see it. But the details... (how can I put it?) the memory doesn't have the precision that enables it to explain (I ...
... unfolds himself before his own consciousness, like someone unreeling an endless film. He projects what is here ( gesture pointing within, at heart level ), in front of him, like that. And since the supramental being would have the capacity to be consciously one with the Divine, he would at once be the seer and the seen. There are just no words to say it. ( silence Sujata enters with a piece of paper ...
... the supramental realization...." 2 He said that a few years before he died. He had sensed it. ( silence ) But he did speak of a transformation preceding the appearance of the first supramental being. That's what he had told me. He told me that his body wasn't capable of withstanding the transformation, that mine was more capable—he says it there too. But it's difficult. As I told you the ...
... in a form, the Supreme Being and so on—the Supreme—we tend to give it a form similar to the human one, but that's our old habit.... I saw that being... So here, are you referring to the supramental being, or to the being intermediary between man and the supramental? You say: "I saw that being (I saw it many years ago): it was clearly a far more harmonious and expressive form than the human ...
... material organization of the world is based on division. And it seems more and more evident that that will be the FIRST thing—the first—which the higher being (which Sri Aurobindo called the "supramental being"), the first thing that being will want to abolish. Now I understand why he said "supramental"; instead of saying "superman" he said "supramental" because superman is... Whereas for that being ...
... MINUSCULE realizations—for you to simply acknowledge, "Yes, indeed, we're on the way..."? For how many... oh, you could practically say centuries will it be like this before the glorious body of a supramental being appears?... Something came yesterday evening (it seemed like mere excitation to me); it was a power of creative imagination attempting to visualize supramental forms, beings that live in other ...
... supramental ("supramental" is a word I don't like too much; I understand why Sri Aurobindo used it, he didn't want "superman"—it's not superman at all). There is a far greater difference between a supramental being and a human being than between a human being and a chimpanzee. Oh, yes! But the difference is not so much external: it's a difference of consciousness. I can sense it, I sense it so vividly ...
... and release him from herself. There is a further intention - not only a revelation of the Spirit but a radical and integral transformation of Nature. The spiritual man has evolved, but not the supramental being who shall thenceforward be the leader of that nature. There is thus something that is not yet accomplished, and there becomes clear to view all that still has to be done; "there is a height still ...
... closer to it. Even the Mother wanted a hew world with a new race “that has no ego, that has in place of the ego the Divine Consciousness,... which will allow the race to develop itself and the supramental being to take birth.” However, the most important thing, that is, the key to Divine Realisation given by the Mother Herself, is lost by them. Very often, the seekers of truth neglect and lose the simplest ...
... All this is of crucial importance because the mission of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother was to effect the transition of our human world to a new, supramental world, to “the life divine.” The supramental being will be a-sexual, sexuality having been a means of Nature to render the evolution of life possible. This is the reason why the Avatar of the Supermind, transcending the evolutionary sexuality ...
... The human being had appeared in evolution because of the descent of Mind, the rational level of the mental consciousness, into the earth-atmosphere. Now the condition for the appearance of the supramental being, the species beyond the human being, was the descent of Supermind. “The ancient dawns of human knowledge have left us their witness to this constant aspiration …” 70 “I am not trying to ...
... of the embodied being. Sri Aurobindo: Essays in Philosophy and Yoga , pp. 536-37 It can be affirmed with certainty that there will be an intermediate specimen between the mental and the supramental being, a kind of overman who will still have the qualities and in part the nature of man, which means that he will still belong in his most external form to the human being of animal origin, but that ...
... being a gratuitous outgrowth somewhere in the universe, the evolution is a process of Consciousness and has an aim, directed or projected by the cosmic Purusha. This Sri Aurobindo called the Supramental Being. Everything in existence is supported by it, guided by it, and will ultimately be fulfilled by it. According to Sri Aurobindo the human is “the mental being” who appeared on earth at a certain ...
... occultly—to create a new body by occult means.... That was the idea: for a few beings to first attain, here in this physical world, a level of realization giving them the power to materialize a supramental being. I once told you I put a body on a vital being 7 —but I couldn't have made that body material; it would have been impossible: something is lacking. Something is lacking. Even if it were made ...
... must be abolished, for they limit the creation to the human level—it is impossible for Page 129 man, but it is possible for the supramental being.And it is this that will make the supramental being essentially different: he will be able, without losing a limited form, to unite his consciousness with the supreme Consciousness. But for man, it is impossible. That I know. As I have said ...
... Let us prepare for it in all sincerity and eagerness. 15 August 1972 Man is the creation of yesterday. Sri Aurobindo came to announce the creation of tomorrow: the coming of the supramental being. 15 August 1972 Page 19 The best homage that we can render to Sri Aurobindo on his centenary is to have a thirst for progress and to open all our being to the Divine Influence ...
... last at will, so it won't be necessary to have oneself replaced because one is going away But what about the intermediary? There often was the question of the intermediary [between man and the supramental being]: "How is it going to take place, how?..." The old animal way... ( Mother shakes her head ), although Y. is in favor of its continuation! But then, the other day, mon petit, for several hours ...
... hours, and then it spread out and went to find all those who could receive it. And at the same time I knew it was the consciousness of the superman, that is, the intermediary between man and the supramental being. It has given the body a sort of assurance, a sort of trust. That experience has made it steady, as it were, and if it keeps the true attitude, all the support is there to help it. A certain ...
... the conditions of the substance are such that a local and momentary manifestation, as an example, is not impossible, but the transformation that would make possible the new Manifestation of the supramental being—and not just as an isolated case, but with its place and role in earth life—does not appear to be immediate. That was the impression. And there was no anguish to know or anything of the sort ...
... a paroxysm at a certain point. Afterwards comes the long path: one must go on and on with the PROGRESSIVE work of transformation. Then, the next minute, there is what Sri Aurobindo called the supramental being. It's like the transition from the one towards the other. Page 206 But how will all this change? I don't know. Yes, the other day, I had a perception (I don't have the gift of ...
... the phenomena of the universe are seen and conceived of in relation to these two legs, these two wings or this rocketship—they are creations of our present-day biped biology. But for a being (a supramental being, of the future biology) containing everything within himself, who is immediately everywhere, without distance, where is "speed"? ... The only "speed of light" is biped. Speed increases and time ...
... meet, the pioneer must cleanse the mental, vital, and material middle ground. When the junction is made, not merely mentally and vitally but materially, Spirit will emerge in Matter, in a total supramental being and supramental body, and... All earth shall be the Spirit's manifest home. 1 This cleansing of the middle ground is the whole story of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother... "I had been dredging ...
... still have the memory of having seen a sort of form with a quite special—but MATERIAL—light and quality, and which... Yes, maybe it is ( Mother looks silently )... maybe that is the form of the supramental being?... It was very young, but with such power! A power, almost a muscular power (but there were no "muscles"), and there was a charge: he literally charged down on people and things, and everything ...
... body through the forehead centre—extremely powerful having undisturbed samata, calm, conviction, keen sight and knowledge”. This was the consciousness of true Purusha in you aware of his own supramental being and it is this which must become your normal consciousness and the basis of the supramental development. In order that it may so become, the mind has to be made calm and strong, the emotional ...
... would have been supramental beings and all I have written about the supermind would be so much superfluous stuff, useless and otiose. Anybody who had spiritual experiences would then be a supramental being; the Ashram would be chock-full of supramental beings and every other Ashram in India also. Spiritual experiences can fix themselves in the inner consciousness and alter it, transform it, if ...
... life-self, thence to the mental being realised in the fully developed man and thence into the perfect consciousness which is beyond the mental, into the supramental Consciousness and the supramental being.... 8 The Outer Being The three major divisions in the outer being consist of the mind (the mental), the life-self (the vital) and the body (the physical). Each of these parts ...
... and release him from herself. There is a further intention—not only a revelation of the Spirit but a radical and integral transformation of Nature. The spiritual man has evolved, but not the supramental being who shall thenceforward be the leader of that nature. There is thus something that is not yet accomplished, and there becomes clear to view the much that has still to be done; 'there is a height ...
... fruitful; it would mean a greater and happier life for the entire earth. It is, indeed, realized that the task involved in the transmutation of man into the divine supermanhood or into a supramental being is the most difficult task that can be conceived. It has been pointed out that this would mean getting nearer to our inner self and discovering the force of the soul that presides over the powers ...
... yogic experiences concerning the ascent to and the descent of the supramental consciousness into the human instrument that can enable the evolutionary nature in the human instrument so that the supramental being could be created as a first unveiled manifestation of the truth of the Self and Spirit in the material universe. All this could be a part of another book in the future. See also a Synoptic ...
... is needed for the body.38 Only a Few can evolve beyond Human Level It may, however, be still argued that if an evolutionary culmination in the production of the spiritual and supramental being is intended, and if man is to be its medium, it will only be a few especially evolved human beings who will form the new type and move towards the new life; that once done, the rest of humanity ...
... other degrees above it would be there formed and accessible by which the embodied mental being, Page 71 as it became ready, could climb into the gnosis and change into an embodied supramental being. Page 72 ...
... for their basic and primary goal in life (i) to seek liberation from Ignorance, self-fulfilment and perfection; (ii) to ascend from the present purely mental and material being to the spiritual-supramental being and life; (iii) to outgrow the state of ignorance and half-knowledge and acquire instead a nature of self-knowledge and world-knowledge. Sri Aurobindo assures us that this greater nature ...
... Supermind preparing to descend - as if no such action was possible from the planes below the Supramental. Obviously - but it is so nice to think that at the first leap one is becoming a supramental being! When some people here feel a higher pressure they pronounce it to be of the Supermind! That is also so nice and self-flattering an idea. Page 209 ...
... has no ego, that has in place of the ego the Divine Page 171 Consciousness. It is that which we want: the Divine Consciousness which will allow the race to develop itself and the supramental being to take birth. If you believe that I am here because I am bound - it is not true. I am not bound, I am here because my body has been given for the first attempt at transformation. Sri Aurobindo ...
... give the best glass. Sri Aurobindo : If the supramental consciousness were perfected in the physical there would be no need of experiment. Disciple : Do you mean to say that a supramental being could be a better electrician without study and training in electricity ? Sri Aurobindo : Why not ? Do you think that the Supermind is inferior to the mind ? There is a doubt at the back ...
... (which I am following) the work is rendered easy and quick. One blow from the Supreme Force and the thing is done ! 15-8-1925 ( 4.30 p.m. ) Our Yoga aims at the discovery of the Supramental being, the Supramental world, and the Supramental nature, and their manifestations in life. But we must guard ourselves against certain general mistakes which are likely to arise. People think that ...
... thing, the Divine everywhere.' - Jul 1 Sees the psychic being of a disciple who has come to see her. Realises that 'it is the psychic being... which will materialise itself and become the supramental being'. 1970 Dec- 1971 Jan Suffers from a kind of paralysis for a month and half, during which her physical sight and hearing are 'thrown into the background to make room for identification by ...
... highest order above it and become even an extension and annexe of the truth-consciousness, a part and province . of the divine life. It is obvious that if the Supermind is there and an order of supramental being is established as the leading principle in earth-nature, as mind is now the leading principle, but with a sureness, a complete government of the earthly existence, a capacity of transformation ...
... will have the key to all prior transformations, in other words, everything we are now trying to understand will be known in relevant terms once the process has recurred from the mental to the supramental being. 26 And to the rebellious children sitting on the playground—I being one of them—She declared a little banteringly and with an underlying touch of humor: You are therefore invited to develop ...
... inner being, through the psychic being, it came directly upon the body"! On 8 January she said that it was the descent of the superman consciousness, the intermediary between man and the supramental being. On the 18th, she described it as "a mighty power"; and in those touched by it there would enter "a precision and a certitude" in their way of thinking. And on 15 February, she gave more details: ...
... this calcification, this agglutination, and we cannot help but think that what we call “Matter” is not the original fact, but a hardening. “Matter” is a hardened habit. And it seems that the supramental being follows the same process of formation or ingraining as all other bodies, but without the hardening. The original substance agglutinates itself around the small pure vibration of the cells, slowly ...
... subjection of Matter and the body and the material world to the law of the higher heavens of the Truth". The ultimate aim, of course, was to "possess securely the Light and the Force of the supramental being", but progress was hampered by the gheraoing old habits of intellectual thought. But it was only a question of time, Sri Aurobindo concluded; the siege would "diminish in force and be finally ...
... 10 JUNE 1940 SATYENDRA: Will there be any hierarchy among the supramental beings? SRI AUROBINDO: Supramental beings? In the Overhead, there is a hierarchy: Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuition and so on. PURANI: That includes the Overmind. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, among the supramental beings too there is a hierarchy, in the sense of a gradation of consciousness towards the... the Sachchidananda. NIRODBARAN: Sisir was saying you have written in the last volume of The Life Divine that the supramental beings will retire into islets. SRI AUROBINDO (laughing): I meant by islets, living in collective groups. NIRODBARAN: I also said the same thing to him. SATYENDRA: Like individual isolation, it will be a collective isolation. That is still my difficulty—why should... touched. (After a while) These huge migrations are quite unprecedented in history. Two million Belgians have gone to Paris. NIRODBARAN: They can be put in the army. SRI AUROBINDO: That is what is being done. NIRODBARAN: If the British Government had started training in India, India would have played a great part at present. The commander-in-chief speaks of one hundred thousand soldiers. SRI ...
... mind capable of living in the truth, capable of being truth-conscious and manifesting in its life a direct in place of an indirect knowledge. Its mentality would be an instrument of the Light and no longer of the Ignorance. At its highest it would be capable of passing into the supermind and from the new race would be recruited the race of supramental beings who would appear as the leaders of the evolution... instrumentality of the supermind, a part of it or a projection from it, a stepping beyond humanity into the superhumanity of the supramental principle. Above all, its possession would enable the human being to rise beyond the normalities of his present thinking, feeling and being into those highest powers of the mind in its self-exceedings which intervene between our mentality and supermind and can be regarded... Physical Education (1949-1950) From the Bulletin of Physical Education (1949-1950) The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Mind of Light A new humanity means for us the appearance, the development of a type or race of mental beings whose principle of mentality would be no longer a mind in the Ignorance seeking for knowledge ...
... comparison with us, human beings, who are truly bewildered whenever we come in contact with such entities. And Supermind and supramental beings are yet beyond. So you realise the distance to be covered. But there is a kind of Grace that comes to your help. If a scientist had again to go over all the experiments that have been done, all that others have found in the past in his line in order... dazed even at this level. There are beings of the vital world who, whenever they appear to man, are taken by him for the supreme godhead. You may call it a disguise, but it is a very successful disguise, for people who see it most often get thoroughly convinced that what they see is indeed God himself. And yet such a god is only a vital being. Even so, the beings of the Over mind are stupendous in ... upon that, you rise up to still higher ranges. You may pertinently ask, however, why we have not started with overmental beings; we should have had here, say, Vivekanandas only and not ordinary frail human creatures. You think the work would have been easier? Such beings, on the contrary, would have been less manageable and malleable. Page 300 For what is ...
... comparison Page 4 with us, human beings, who are truly bewildered whenever we come in contact with such entities. And Supermind and supramental beings are yet beyond. So you realise the distance to be covered. But there is a kind of Grace that comes to your help. If the scientist had again to go over all the experiments that have been done, all what others have found in the... even at this level. There are beings of the vital who, whenever they appear to man, are taken by him for the supreme godhead. You may call it a disguise, but it is a very successful disguise, for people who see it most often get thoroughly convinced that what they see is indeed God himself. And yet such a god is only a vital being. Even so, the beings of the Overmind are stupendous in comparison... you rise up to still higher ranges. You may pertinently ask, however, why we have not started with overmental beings, we should have had here, say, Vivekanandas only and not ordinary frail human creatures. You think the work would have been easier? Such beings, on the contrary, would have been less manageable and malleable. For what is most difficult is to convince someone who has ...
... capable of living in the truth, capable of being truth conscious and manifesting in its life a direct in place of an indirect knowledge. Its mentality would be an instrument of the Light and no longer of the Ignorance. At its highest it would be capable of passing into the supermind .and from the new race would be recruited the race of supramental beings who would appear as the leaders of the evolution... instrumentality of the supermind, a part of it or a projection from it, a stepping beyond humanity into the superhumanity of the supramental principle. Above all, its possession would enable the human being to rise beyond the normalities of his present thinking, feeling and being into those highest powers of the mind in its self-exceedings which intervene "between our mentality and supermind and can... of all types and forms of its being which are the visible, indicative and efficient embodiments of its essential nature. There appear in the evolutionary process organised forms and activities of Matter, the types of life and the living beings, the types of mind and the thinking beings, the luminosities and greatnesses of the spiritual principle and the spiritual beings whose nature, character, personality ...
... a few moments of laughter, She told me: “There was a person who had advanced a lot on this path of sadhana. I was describing to him the supramental beings, how they would be and what kind of life they would lead. When I told him once that supramental beings would not require food, they would be freed from the necessity of eating. He then had a vision of wonderful delicacies before him. “‘Oh,... Moments Eternal Learning French from the Mother I had the privilege of being in class with the Mother all by myself. You cannot imagine my nervousness during these classes. At that time I did not know much French nor did I have any practice of it. I just did not feel like opening my mouth because I felt it would be greatly embarrassing. But with a gentle... singing quite clearly. What an amazingly melodious voice She had! I had never imagined that someone could look so beautiful while singing. In rapt enchantment I went on gazing at the Mother. My inner being was filled with an unearthly experience… This class with the Mother started in a strange way. The Mother had asked four or five of us to go to a lady for our French classes. We used to go to her ...
... is unreal for us (I mean to say for the human being in general). We say that there are "concrete" things and things that are not so; yet this Puissance, this Power that is not material , becomes more concretely powerful upon earth than earthly material things. Yes, it is that. This is the protection and the means of defence for supramental beings. It will be a thing which is not material in appearance... consciousness—Sri Aurobindo himself called it "supramental"; we can call it supramental so that there might not be any misunderstanding, because when one speaks of "the Divine", immediately people think of a "God", and that spoils everything. It is not that. No, it is not that. ( Mother slowly brings down her closed fists ) It is the descent of the supramental world, which is not a purely imaginative thing... and must make "manifestable" (if one may so put it) this Divine All-Power. I have come to this conclusion. I have looked, I have observed and I have seen that what we call "supramental", lacking a better word, this Supramental makes the creation more sensitive to the higher Power; we call that "divine" because we... It is divine in relation to what we are, but... It is something ( gesture of descent ...
... like a colouring. It is these beings, according to the traditions, who will discover the secret of direct supramental creation, without passing through the process of ordinary Nature, and it is through them that the truly supramental beings will take birth, the ones who must necessarily live in a supramental world. But then how would the contact be made between these beings and the ordinary world? How... example, how could there be a little supramental creation, a nucleus of supramental action and radiation upon earth? Is it possible? One can conceive very well of a nucleus of superhuman creation and of supermen, that is to say, men who were men and who through evolution and transformation (in the true sense of the word) have succeeded in manifesting the supramental forces; but their origin is human and... midst of others or in isolation. I do not know. But there may be an analogy with the future case of the supramental creation. It is not difficult to conceive that in the solitude of the Himalayas or in the solitude of a virgin forest an individual would begin to create around him his little supramental world. It is easy to conceive. But the same thing would be necessary: he would have to have reached such ...
... is invisible or imperceptible is unreal to us (I mean to human beings in general); we say that some things are "concrete" and others are not. But this Power, this Might, which is NOT MATERIAL, is becoming more concretely effective on earth than earthly material things. That's it. Page 177 And that is how the supramental beings will protect and defend themselves. In its appearance it won't... consciousness—what personally I call divine consciousness. Sri Aurobindo called it "supramental," so we can call it supramental to avoid confusion, because as soon as you say "Divine," people start thinking of a "God," and that spoils everything. It isn't like that. Not like that, it is the descent of the supramental world ( Mother slowly lowers her fists ), which is not mere imagination ( pointing... t, it's all the same. The whole scale of values changes. The vision of the world is as though changed. ( silence ) This gives an idea of the change brought about in the world by the supramental Descent. Things that were insignificant are becoming quite categorical: a small mistake becomes categorical in its consequences while a little sincerity, a true little aspiration becomes miraculous ...
... for ushering in the manifestation of what he terms the Supermind — the Truth-Consciousness beyond the level of Mind — thus preparing the dawn of a new world and the appearance of a new race of supramental beings. Therefore, though man in his ordinary state is depicted here as a creature who is more or less entirely moved and moulded by forces beyond his ken and control, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have... it is said to see the world in oneself, — and to be in a way identified with it. To see all things in the self and the self in all things — to be aware of one being everywhere, aware directly of the different planes, their forces, their beings - that is universalisation. " 3 "It [consciousness] begins to know inwardly and directly and not merely by external observation and contact the forces... remarks: "The apparent freedom and self-assertion of our personal being to which we are so profoundly attached, conceal a most pitiable subjection to a thousand suggestions, impulsions, forces which we have made extraneous to our little person. Our ego, boasting of freedom, is at every moment the slave, toy and puppet of countless beings, powers, forces, influences in universal Nature." 5 However ...
... creation, by-passing the process of ordinary Nature. Then through them the true supramental beings will be born, who will necessarily have to live in a supramental world. But how would contact be made between these beings and the ordinary world? How to conceive of a transformation of nature sufficient to enable this supramental creation to take place on earth? I don't know. Of course, we know... transformation (in the true sense of the word) have succeeded in manifesting the supramental forces; yet since their origin is human, there is inevitably a contact; even if everything is transformed, even if their organs are transformed into centers of force, a sort of human coloration still remains. These are the beings who, according to tradition, will discover the secret of direct, supra-mental creation... When the veil of falsehood has gone: the supramental consciousness. ** Questioned later about the meaning of this sentence, Mother laughed, "I said that from the other side! It was spoken from a dimension where the notion of space is no longer so concrete." Page 9 to find a place where the embryo or seed of the future supramental world might be created? What I myself ...
... we, you know, we have the aspiration to become supramental beings instead of remaining human beings, well, it was something absolutely similar: it was a cat doing yoga—exactly—to become a man. It was perhaps because its mother had in it a movement, a Page 99 formation, an emanation of consciousness which had belonged to a human being; it is probably that which had left a kind of nostalgia... matter who came and called it, it did not move. Well, this cat always had a great aspiration, a kind of aspiration to become a human being; and in fact, when it left its body it entered a human body. Only it was a very tiny part of the consciousness, you see, of the human being; it was like the opposite movement from that of the woman with the other cat. But this one was a cat which leaped over many births... the development of a cat and of a human being... It happens... I think these are exceptional cases, but still it happens. In these cases is the psychic conscious? The aspiration is conscious, yes, conscious. The aspiration was very conscious in it, very conscious. It is not a formed psychic as when the psychic becomes a completely independent being, it is not that; but it is an aspiration ...
... took several lifetimes can be done in a few years or even perhaps in a few months; but you have to do it. When we all have supramental bodies and when within ourselves we are in the supramental consciousness, we shall perhaps be able to manufacture little supramental beings who will not need to pass through these experiences! But it is only "when", it is not so at present. ( Laughter ) One must... way of being, your character. In the first case one's outer being remains the same, nothing changes, and usually it destroys all possibility of action, one can no longer do anything, one remains seated... In the second case, it changes everything, your character, your way of being, your way of acting, all your actions and even your surroundings, and finally all your existence, your total being: this... that 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 ...
... stages of human evolution, he is reffered to the last six chapters of The Life Divine, in which Sri Aurobindo deals with the triple transformation (psychic, spiritual, supramental) and the advent of a race of supramental beings. The compilation The Future Evolution of Man is a selection of quotations from Sri Aurobindo on the subject. 5.Sri Aurobindo. SABCL vol. 15. p. 210. 6. Ibid. ...
... for you? That is supreme laziness. NIRODBARAN: I don't say that. I say that if at present in spite of my efforts I don't get satisfactory results and my progress is slow amd tardy, the Supramental Force, being the Highest Force, will help me to overcome my troubles in comparatively less time. That is what you wrote to me on the action of the Supermind. SRI AUROBINDO: So you will wait for the... Government used to send him to places that were difficult to organise. So he has acquired a bad name as being strict and disciplinary. SRI AUROBINDO: He has a clear mind and seems to be an intellectual. NIRODBARAN: He was one of the three most brilliant students of his year, the first being Satyen Bose. He says there are only two people who understand Einstein's relativity theory. SRI AUROBINDO: ...
... intend to talk, it doesn't like to, but something obliges it to. That's the only difficult thing. Words are so inadequate! I have been asked that, too: how will they communicate, the wholly supramental beings (I mean, without the mixture of this material origin), how will they communicate? Simply like this? ( gesture of inner exchange ) Talking takes such an effort. And it's not a "thought ... but something so even, and which feels so sweet, you know, and with a TREMENDOUS power in the smallest things. For several days there was (I told you the other day) the vision of cruelty in human beings, and a very active work to make it disappear from the manifestation. That's part of the general work, with such a concrete power ( Mother clenches her fist ) for it to disappear. It began with visions... merge into something ... an immensity—immensity, infinitude, and, I might say, "multiplicity," but the words are poor), anyway it was a totality taken up in the consciousness—a totality of ways of being and vibrations—and as if presented to the Supreme Consciousness so it may be transformed, so it may cease to exist. That's how it began. Then, once that was done, it was as if concretized, co ...
... liberation of the soul or realization of immutable spirit; but they can even be uplifted by supramental transformation from their limitations and rendered into their supernal equivalence of the Divine Page 84 supramental nature. As Sri Aurobindo points out: "Tamas in the spiritual being becomes a divine calm, which is not an inertia and incapacity of action, but a perfect power... greater infinite energy. The third element of perfection is, according to Sri Aurobindo, the evolution of the mental into the supramental Gnostic being which would progressively take up all the terms of intelligence, will, sense-mind, heart, the vital and sensational being and translate them by a luminous and harmonizing conversion into a unity of the truth, power and delight of a living existence... of the law of the body. Finally, the sixth element is that of the perfect action and enjoyment of being on the supramental Gnostic basis. And this integrality of perfection would mark the status of the siddha or perfected soul who will live in union with the Purushottama in the fullness of spiritual being, consciousness and bliss of Sachchidananda or eternal Brahman. In the words of Sri Aurobindo: ...
... eternal, infinite, absolute is superconscient to mind; mind and its ego cannot remain awake in that greater consciousness, they must disappear. But if we can change or evolve from mental into supramental beings, then the superconscient becomes our normal consciousness. We can then hope to wake in That and not fall asleep in it, to grow into it and not abolish ourselves in it, to last in identity and... the spiritual Nature that awaits us when we climb beyond mind, is the victory after which he reaches. To make mind and heart and life and body conscious, changed and luminous moulds of this supramental Spirit, instruments of its light and power and works, vessels of its bliss and radiance, is the glory he assigns to his transfigured human members. On one side a darkened mind and life, ignorant... harmonised fulfilment. The mind labours through the centuries but human nature remains faithful to its imperfections and man's life amid its changes always the same. Beyond mind on spiritual and supramental levels dwells the Presence, the Truth, the Power, the Bliss that can alone deliver us from these illusions, display the Light of which our ideals are tarnished disguises and impose the harmony that ...
... living, his ways of action and the whole build and tenor of his life. It would certainly open to man the access to the supramental consciousness and the supramental life; for we must suppose that it is by such a transformation that a race of supramental beings would be created, even as the human race itself has arisen by a less radical but still a considerable uplifting and enlargement of consciousness... the change made would be far-reaching, even enormous: it would not only establish the Supermind and a supramental race of beings upon the earth, it could bring about an uplifting and transforming change in mind itself and, as an inevitable consequence, in the consciousness of man, the mental being, and would equally bring about a radical and transforming change in the principles and forms of his living... Supermind, a natural agent of Supermind and capable of bringing down the supramental influence into the lower reaches of being, a creator in the light, a discoverer in the depths, an illuminant in the darkness, helping perhaps to penetrate even the Inconscient with the rays of a secret Superconscience. There would be a new mental being not only capable of standing enlightened in the radiance of the Supermind ...
... living, his ways of action and the whole build and tenor of his life. It would certainly open to man the access to the supramental consciousness and the supramental life, for we must suppose (hat it is by such a transformation that a race of supramental Page 183 beings would be created, even as the human race itself has arisen by a less radical but still a considerable uplifting and enlargement... the change made would be far reaching, even enormous: it would not only establish the Supermind and a supramental race of beings upon the earth, it could bring about an uplifting and transforming change in mind itself and as an inevitable consequence in the consciousness of man, the mental being and would equally bring about a radical and transforming change in the principles and forms of his living... natural agent of Supermind and capable of bringing down the supramental influence into the lower reaches of being, a creator in the light, a discoverer in the depths, an illuminant in Page 194 the darkness, helping perhaps to penetrate even the Inconscient with the rays of a secret Superconscience. There would be a new mental being not only capable of standing enlightened in the radiance ...
... Buddhism, Islam or Christianity. All these -isms are now back in great numbers. But Sri Aurobindo and the Mother do not want to found a religion; they want to establish a new race, a new race of Supramental beings, out of this human material. And I believe that many of you will, one day, belong to this new race. That is their mission and that is what they are doing day and night, night and day. You may ...
... of human coloration still remains. These are the beings who, according to tradition, will discover the secret of direct, supramental creation, bypassing the process of ordinary Nature. Then through them the true supramental beings will be born, who will necessarily have to live in a supramental world. But how would contact be made between these beings and the ordinary world? How to conceive of a tr... like, for instance, to have a small supramental creation as a nucleus of action and influence radiating upon earth (to limit it to the earth)? Is it possible? It's easy to conceive of a superhuman nucleus—a creation of supermen, that is, of men who by virtue of evolution and transformation (in the true sense of the word) have succeeded in manifesting the supramental forces; yet since their origin is... place in a collective milieu or in isolation? I don't know. It may be analogous to the case of the coming supramental creation. It isn't difficult to conceive of an individual in the solitude of the Himalayas or in a virgin forest beginning to create around himself his miniature supramental world—this is easy to imagine. But the Page 271 same thing would be necessary: he would need to ...
... fuller, greater powers belonging to the supramental planes which are the very powers of the Divine in his spiritual and supramentally ideative being. These cannot be acquired at all securely or integrally by personal effort, but can only come from above, or else can become natural to the man if and when he ascends beyond mind and lives in the spiritual being, power, consciousness and ideation. They... egoism and its passions and desires in the human being are conquered and quieted into perfect cessation. The object is to create a moral calm, a void of the passions, and so prepare for the death of egoism in the rajasic human being. The niyamas are equally a discipline of the mind by regular practices of which the highest is meditation on the divine Being, and their object is to create a sattwic calm... itself the control of the mind and moral being only puts our normal consciousness into the right preliminary condition; it cannot bring about that evolution or manifestation of the higher psychic being which is necessary for the greater aims of Yoga. In order to bring about this manifestation the present nodus of the vital and physical body with the mental being has to be loosened and the way made clear ...
... ng Power—the Supramental Power—upon earth and She announced its accomplishment in 1956. Sri Aurobindo had wanted his disciples to become the race of Superman, the Intermediary Race, which would find the means and 1 Ibid., November 1966, p. 61. Page 51 discover the secret of direct supramental creation, the advent of supramental beings formed in a supramental way (the type... by Sri Aurobindo saying that for the supramental to manifest upon earth the physical mind must receive it and manifest it—and it is just the physical mind, that is to say, the body mind, the only thing that remains in me now... It is on the way to being converted in a very rapid and interesting manner. This physical mind is being developed under the supramental Influence. And it is just what Sri ... naturally led to the transformation of Her most external being. Before She left Her body the Mother told us that She had already lived for a while in a new subtle body (sexless, etc.). Whether it was a supramental body or a body in transition She did not clarify, but since its origin was not human it might as well have been the supramental. She had also told us that mostly among the children will ...
... Yet if we could only understand the workings of the next being somewhat more clearly, it would perhaps help us to create him. This is really the great grace of Mother and Sri Aurobindo: to help us see into our own future. The forest is immense, or seems immense, and we do not know when we will get to the other end, in this complete, supramental Amazon, but knowing what we can expect at the end may help... of February 3, 1958, aboard the "supramental ship," which is a pictorial representation of the next Matter, true Matter, conscious Matter—just what the Mind veils from us—there were some very interesting details that bear repeating. There was ONE SINGLE substance in all things 1 —whether for the objects aboard the ship, the ship itself, or even the tall beings on the shore. And actually, even ... other words, a real world—for once. That is why Mother said that the supramental world would be the perfect hierarchic manifestation, spontaneous, essentially true—and without coercion of any kind—where each one will be conscious of his own perfection. 3 What coercion? One is one's own coercion, and the spontaneous urge of each being, then, would not be to acquire false external means, false powers ...
... immense ship, the symbol of the transit site where human-men were being prepared for the supramental life: a sort of training ship for the supramental world. And all those who were ready, who fulfilled the required conditions, were about to disembark in the supramental world. On the shore of this world stood tall beings, supramental beings; they were to review the young apprentices from the ship to determine... Part One: The Supramental Descent Mother or The New Species - II 5. The Supramental World If we were an explorer returning from some faraway continent and had to describe the marvels we had encountered, forests unlike any others, winged beings, metals with strange properties, it would be easy enough. But it is not the case. The future world is right here... really like a question of oxygen, or rather of bodily substance. The next substance seems to be a singular discovery. And, not only the beings onshore, but the ship itself, the entire ship's substance, were made of that same supramental substance: The supramental substance nearest to the physical world, the first to manifest. The light was a mixture of gold and red creating a uniform substance of ...
... a supercaterpillar. Are we going to improve penicillin for tomorrow's butterflies? Or the banking system for the savings of supramental beings? But a few have to have the courage to work out the transition. Tomorrow begins today. The transformation is right now, it is being done. One is in it or one is not, this is not meant for our improved little progeny. It is here: a veil to be gone through.... the rest being transformed, or at least a minimum number of elements? A lone butterfly among caterpillars? Is the body of the world, too, undergoing a crisis of disintegration in order to arrive at the new state? When the body of the world is ready, the new butterfly will open its wings. The invasion of the Real. We must prepare ourselves, 3 Mother said. The Supramental Power ... its very pressure has produced this acute state. 8 The infusion of the Supramental Power into the terrestrial body seems to follow exactly the pattern of its infiltration into the individual body. At first, you feel that everything is going to explode under the pressure of that "bubbling porridge of the Supramental," as Mother would say in the beginning. In actual fact, what is most remarkable ...
... energy. Page 49 The third element of perfection is, according Sri Aurobindo, the evolution of the mental into the supramental gnostic being which would progressively take up all the terms of intelligence, will, sense mind, heart, the vital and sensational being and translate them by a luminous and harmonising conversion into a unity of the truth, power and delight of a living existence... Tantrathe aim of the supramental manifestation on earth is sought to be realised. Sri Aurobindo equates the Vedic truth-consciousness with the supermind, with the Gitā's concept of parāprakriti and with the supreme Shakti of Tantra, and builds up a path of ascent to the supermind and of descent of the supermind right up to the mental, vital and physical parts of the being, the climax of which... with the supreme divine, unity Page 48 with the universal Self, and a supramental life action from this transcendent origin and through this universality, but still with the individual as the soul-channel and natural instrument, — constitute the essence of the integral divine perfection of the human being. In the Integral Yoga, what is called moksha or liberation from the ego and the ...
... greater infinite energy. The third element of perfection is, according Sri Aurobindo, the evolution of the mental into the supramental gnostic being which would progressively take up all the terms of intelligence, will, sense-mind, heart, the vital and sensational being and translate them by a luminous and harmonising conversion into a unity of the truth, power and delight of a living existence... the supramental manifestation on earth is sought to be realised. Page 296 Sri Aurobindo equates the Vedic "truth-consciousness "with the supermind, with the Gita's concept of paraprakriti and with the supreme Shakti of Tantra, and builds up a path to the ascent to the supermind and of the descent of the supermind right up to the mental, vital and physical parts of the being, the... elements,- a union with the supreme divine, unity with the universal Self, and a supramental life - action from this transcendent origin and through this universality, but still with the individual as the soul-channel and natural instrument, — constitute the essence of the integral divine perfection of the human being. In the Integral Yoga, what is called moksha or liberation from the ego and the ...
... elevated, and on the other hand because the material embodiment on the earth of divine beings, like the future supramental beings, would bring the dominance they are now exerting here to an end. (We will meet with a example of this in one of the following chapters.) Far below the Asuras are the rakshasas , beings of the lower vital and often a kind of ogres, especially in the occult way. To satisfy... return, and this is a force belonging to the supreme creative Power. It is a force from beyond the supramental world and therefore not at everybody’s disposal. It is a luminous force, of a dazzling whiteness, so brilliant that ordinary eyes would be blinded if they looked into it. It suffices that a being of the vital world be touched by this light to make it dissolve instantly — it liquefies, like the... varnish; it was the product of a dimension, or of dimensions, without which the human being is not fully human. And poetry, to him, was not an irrational fancy of characters who cannot manage reality: it was a direct contact with the ‘overhead’ regions between our ordinary mental consciousness and the Supramental. To Sri Aurobindo, writing poetry was not a fanciful flight of the imagination, but a ...
... centre of consciousness rather than indirectly through his mental and vital being. But the problem was to fix it there, a permanent light in what we may pinpoint as the physical mind, so that an immediate and settled action of the Supramental Consciousness instead of a come-and-go of it might develop in the material being. Only in 1950 — when 12 years again had elapsed — this kind of action became... defined the Mind of Light as the physical mind receiving the Supramental Light. Thus we may say that the "change" which occurred in Sri Aurobindo's life in 1950 established permanently the Supermind, as a starting-point, in the most external being of his companion in Yoga, the Mother. Q: Sri Aurobindo has called his Yoga the Supramental Yoga. What exactly is it and why precisely is it needed? ... power of the Infinite and the Eternal, so far unmanifested, which he names Supermind. Hence his 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 ...
... perhaps the time that is to come. The time of the physicians of consciousness. A change of position on a terrestrial scale. Because, having the key to the consciousness of Matter, the beings of the supramental species will have the power to model Matter directly, by emitting the corresponding vibration in their own Matter: they will act from Matter to Matter in the same way that today we communicate... consciousness. It was why Mother said: The foremost realization for man is understanding—understanding things. For the Supermind, realization means Power, the creative Willpower. 25 Like the beings of the supramental boat that modified their corporeal appearance or their means of transportation by the simple deployment of their will. The position of the consciousness must change and go from the mental... pain” or “ I called you.” Like that. 41 But these vibrations that Mother “moulded,” it is precisely the beginning of the new manipulation of Matter: it will be like that, eventually, that the supramental beings will mould all of Matter to their will. It is a state in which Matter is moulded. And if it appeared to us negligible to look at the small twisted hurts and scratches or the small cancers that ...
... contact. And Sri Aurobindo insists on this, he says that it's absolutely impossible to have the transformation (not the contact, but the supramental transformation) without becoming universalized—that is the first condition. You cannot become supramental before being universal. And to be universal means to accept everything, be everything, become everything—really to accept everything. And as for all... several times I thought how unfortunate it was that I had never studied or pursued certain ancient Indian disciplines. Because, for example, when Sri Aurobindo and I were working to bring down the supramental forces, a descent from the mental plane to the vital plane, he was always telling me that everything I did (when we 'meditated' together, when we worked)—all my movements, all my gestures, all my... this way. In truth, a lot can be done—it's man's ignorance that gets him in trouble. Page 424 × With the Supramental World. × Original English. × ...
... planes? it would be superfluous and otiose. The vital plane is a field where things can be done which for some reason or other can't be done now on the physical. Please don't write supramentally. If being supramental, you can't write intelligibly, is there any earthly use of that? Certainly. Your inner self will understand and rejoice while the outer stares and wobbles. N.B. There are of course... Sir? You are cryptic because you are becoming more and more supramental! [21.8.36]. For the Supramental's sake, don't be that yet. I have many things to know... Well, but haven't I told you that the supermental can't be under-stood by the intellect? So necessarily or at least logically, if I become supramental and speak supramentally, I must sound unintelligible to everybody. Q.E.D. It is not a... question; let it be an occasion for a big reply, what? My dear sir, what is this extravagant ambition for bigness? With fifty letters a day raining on me in a "non-correspondence" period, a supramental brevity is all of which I am capable. You very often say "it is a meeting in the vital plane". Yesterday you said "an activity of the vital plane"—what does it mean? Are all happenings there ...
... Principle, and also supramental beings and personalities. It can be delayed no longer.... From the highest standpoint the supramental descent has been decided and nobody can resist it. From the standpoint of the conditions in which we are working, we have to see the obstacles... it is an advantage to be aware of the difficulties and thus he prepared to deal with them." Page 546 ... below Supermind - and indicated that it might come down first, preparing the ground, as it were, for the climactic supramental descent: It is possible that there may be a great complexity in manifestation - one can manifest different godheads in different parts of the being.... There should be no ego if there is to be a divine manifestation. ... I spoke about the world of the Gods because... the Supramental * A roughly equivalent version appears in V. Chidanandam's 'Sri Aurobindo at Evening Talk' (Mother India, July 197O, p. 333): "I did not speak of many of these things before, for then it was dangerous. Now not to speak anything may be dangerous, for I am pulling down the supramental into the physical... [which] means the coming of the supramental Purusha, the supramental Principle ...
... in death: some beings are alive to a greater or lesser degree, or if we want to put it negatively, some beings are dead to a greater or lesser degree. But for those who know, oh, for those who know that this material form can manifest a supramental light, well, those who don't have the supramental light in them are already a little dead. That's how it is. 4 To put the supramental light into the... Sri Aurobindo insists on this, He says that it's absolutely impossible to have the supra-mental transformation without becoming universalized—that is the first condition. You cannot become supramental before being universal. And to be universal means to accept everything, be everything, become everything—really to accept everything. And as for all those who are shut up in a system, even if it belongs... what Sri Aurobindo did by leaving his body is somewhat equivalent, although far more total and complete and absolute—because He had that experience, He had that, He had it; I saw him, I saw him supramental on his bed, sitting on his bed. He has written: I am not doing it individually, for myself but for the whole earth. And it was exactly the same thing for me—but oh, that experience! Nothing counted ...
... force of what is contained in the Inconscience and the necessity in Nature to bring it into manifestation. Supermind appearing manifests the Spirit's self-knowledge and whole knowledge in a supramental living being and must bring about by the same law, by an inherent necessity and inevitability, the dynamic manifestation here of the divine Existence, Consciousness and Delight of existence. It is this... 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 hemisphere of an eternal self-knowledge. All these three lower powers of being build upon the Inconscient and seem to be originated and... nature-being, is indeed a product of the universal Energy, but is at the same time a nature-personality of the soul, an expressive formation of the inner being and person, and this soul is not a perishable cell or a dissoluble portion of the cosmic Spirit, but has its original immortal reality in the Transcendence. It is a fact that the cosmic Being expresses itself through the individual being, but ...
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