... everywhere, if we dig deep enough. It is "the well of honey covered by the rock." ( Rig Veda II.24.4) Page 223 Chapter 15 The Supramental Consciousness It is quite difficult to define the supramental consciousness in mental terms, for it is nonmental by definition, and it defies all our three-dimensional laws and perspectives. The word itself may mislead us, because... of the three tenses immediately removes all the unpredictability of existence. But this is applying to the supramental consciousness characteristics and reactions that belong uniquely to the mind. The way of perceiving and experiencing the world is different. The supramental consciousness is not anxiously turned toward the future as we habitually are. Everything is exposed before its eyes, but it... is through the descent of a consciousness which is not the puppet of these forces but is greater than they are and can force them either to change or disappear. It was toward this new, supramental consciousness that Sri Aurobindo was progressing in the midst of his revolutionary work. ... We may find when all the rest has failed Hid in ourselves the key of perfect change. 113 ...
... and realization of a supramental consciousness and the knowledge of the Ultimate Reality as Sachchidananda (Existence - Consciousness - Bliss), which has been so authoritatively expounded in the Upanishadic Vedanta. There was, according to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, a great attempt to scale the heights of the supermind and even an effort to connect the supramental consciousness with the material body... where the supramental consciousness could come down in the human instrument, and, as a result, the consciousness of the human body could attain wideness and universality. There was, however, according to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, arrestation in the Vedic experiment and, therefore, the possibility and inevitability of the penetration and permeation of the supramental consciousness in the human... evolutionary intention of the supramental consciousness to penetrate through the blockade between the descending supermind and the physical consciousness in the human body and (ii) consequently, the development of new methods (which included or incorporated also the methods of the past systems of yoga) by means of which the blockade could be removed and the supramental consciousness could be made to permeate ...
... SABCL, 1971, Vol. 18, pp.582-3) The process by which the ignorance arises in the unfolding of the supramental consciousness can be traced to the action of Tapas, the power of concentration, which can be total, global, multiple and even exclusive. And in the action of the supramental consciousness, Tapas can act in all manners of concentration, including a concentration of separative or exclusive... behold. The Purusha, He am I." (Verses 15.16) Once again, it will be seen that these two verses speak of the face of Truth as covered with a brilliant golden lid, even as the face of the supramental consciousness is covered with the overmental consciousness, which can be compared to a brilliant golden lid. These verses also indicate the yogic effort of the Seer to cross the overmind so that he can... ess. It can also be seen that it is in the illumining Sun that the scattered rays of light of lower levels of consciousness are drawn together in the supreme supramental light, since the supramental consciousness is totally comprehensive. Finally, it is in the supramental light that the Supreme, the Purusha, the One without the second, is beheld. In the inner sense of the Veda, Surya or the Sun ...
... we have mentioned. Her account runs: Sri Aurobindo had given me charge of the outer work because he wanted to withdraw into concentration in order to hasten the manifestation of the supramental consciousness and he had announced to the few people who were there that he was entrusting to me the work of helping and guiding them, that I would remain in contact with him, naturally, and that through... Mother recounts the process of "a very brilliant creation", she begins by saying of Sri Aurobindo: "...he wanted to withdraw into concentration in order to hasten the manifestation of the supramental consciousness...." This ¹. The Mother, SABCL, Vol. 25, p. 23. Page 9 strongly suggests that on 24 November itself Sri Aurobindo was aware of what he had to do beyond the... namely, to manifest the Supermind which had remained still unmanifested. To seclude himself and concentrate for the purpose of hastening its manifestation means that something other than the supramental consciousness was known to have been manifested. Hence at least on the 24th the crucial distinction was seen. Taken straightforwardly the Mother's words can bear only this gloss. But one might urge ...
... that purpose, supramental consciousness must not only descend in the physical consciousness, but it must also be fixed in the physical consciousness. On the other hand, the physical Page 83 substance itself must undergo the necessary change so as to be able to receive the supramental consciousness and to manifest it. But even this fixing of the supramental consciousness in the physical... 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 Aurobindo: "There must be an emergent supramental Consciousness- Page 73 Force liberated and active within the terrestrial whole and an organized supramental ins... shown that the highest consciousness, the highest supramental consciousness can alone by the inflow of light and awareness brought down from its highest planes that can penetrate successfully the hard rock bottom of the inconscience and bring about the needed integration of Spirit and Matter. Then only would it be possible for the supramental consciousness not merely to dwell in the cellular consciousness ...
... understood that this new [supramental] Consciousness which has been born does not seek to reject her but wants to embrace her entirely. She understood that this new spirituality does not turn away from life, does not recoil in fear before the formidable amplitude of her workings, but wants on the contrary to integrate all its facets. She understood that the supramental Consciousness is here not to diminish... gradually, in stages, but all the same there is a moment when it begins to happen. So perhaps we have reached that moment.’ 7 The ‘it’ that was to 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,... evolutionary step possible by which one day a divinized species will be present on Earth in a material body. It was now certain that the Kingdom of God would be established upon Earth. The supramental Consciousness is the Unity-Consciousness, the Truth-Consciousness, the Divine Consciousness. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have often compared the Manifestation as a whole to the two hemispheres of a globe: ...
... Inconscient.” 12 He will in the end have to descend, in 1950, into death voluntarily in order to tackle the problem at the root of things in Death’s own den. Six years later, in 1956, the supramental Consciousness established itself in the earth-atmosphere. The turning point was reached, and the historians lost their bearings to further interpret what was happening on the planet. Said Sri Aurobindo:... materially but in their consciousness – to be disciples of Sri Aurobindo, and who have tried to live his teaching. Among all of them, and more pronouncedly since the manifestation of the supramental Consciousness and Force, there has awakened the necessity for a true communal life, which would not be based only on purely material circumstances, but which would represent a deeper truth and be the beginning... beginning of what Sri Aurobindo calls a supramental or gnostic community. “He has of course said that, to this end, the individuals constituting this collectivity should themselves have the supramental consciousness. But even without attaining an individual perfection – even while still being very far from it – there was at the same time an inner effort to create this ‘collective individuality’, so to ...
... ’ (15 October 1961) Be it noted that Sri Aurobindo has told explicitly and repeatedly: “My will is for now,” but that every time he was talking about the descent, the establishment of the Supramental Consciousness on Earth, which would indeed take place in 1956. As we have seen elsewhere, he refused pertinently to be drawn into utterances about the working of the Supermind, consequently also about the... finish his job. Asserting that the result of the physical transformation has been postponed is equal to wiping out all important intermediary stages, for instance the establishment of the Supramental Consciousness in the Earth-atmosphere in 1956 and that of the Overman Consciousness in 1969 — a fact that, just like the necessity of the appearance on Earth of transitory beings, never crops up in the... of the Lord so that I may perform as much preparatory work as possible. But [the transformation of this body] is not at all the goal … The problem that keeps me occupied is to build that supramental Consciousness in a way that that may be the being. It is that Consciousness that must become the being … Therefore all the consciousness that is in the cells must become grouped, organized, and form an ...
... interchanges and mutualities of their energies are freely organized and their actuality always possible." 27 Beyond the Overmind is the plenary supramental consciousness. If Overmental consciousness is global in character, the supramental consciousness is integral. The Overmental consciousness is compared by Sri Aurobindo to a Sun and its system shining out in an original darkness of Space and illumining... experience of existence. But outside that sphere or expanse of experience the original darkness would still be there. In the supramental consciousness, there is, on the other hand, a plenitude of light, and if it so wills, it can illumine everything integrally. The supramental consciousness is Truth-Consciousness, since it is at once the self-awareness of the Infinite and Eternal and a power of self-determination... the ego, enter into the cosmic consciousness, realize the self, acquire a spiritualized and universalised mind and heart, life-force, physical consciousness. Then only the passage into the supramental consciousness begins to become possible, and even then there is a difficult ascent to make each stage of which is a separate arduous achievement." 25 Overmind The ascent to the supermind ...
... spirituality does not stand apart from life, does not timorously recoil before the awesome richness of her movement, but on the contrary wants to integrate all her facets. She understood that the supramental consciousness is not there to diminish her but to make her complete. Then, from the supreme Reality came this command: 'Awaken, O Nature, to the joy of collaboration.' And suddenly, all Nature rushed... losing anything of the Joy of Nature that was rushing forth in a movement of grateful recognition like an overwhelming flood. She accepted, she saw— with all eternity before her—that this supramental consciousness would fulfill her more perfectly and impart a still greater force to her movement and more richness, more possibilities to her play. And suddenly, as if resounding from every corner of... Consciousness.' ². This entire experience and Mother's insistence that it all happened 'without moving', unlike the experience of the ascent of the Kundalini, suggests that it is the supramental consciousness concealed in the depths of the cells, that somehow emerges and travers6s all the layers until the junction is made with the most material body-consciousness. ³. Later, Mother added: ...
... research. The first part of this research consisted of scaling to the supreme heights of the supramental consciousness; the second part consisted of connecting the supramental consciousness with the earth-consciousness and of effecting the descent of the supermind on various levels that link the supramental consciousness with earth-consciousness and of bringing about the decisive descent of the supermind in... development, is transcended and the supramental consciousness is attained. page - 115 But this aim also includes the manifestation of the Spirit in Matter, and Sri Aurobindo, in his unprecedented labour of research had to cross the formidable barrier of the view that one could always ascend into higher states of consciousness, including the supramental consciousness, but earthly existence can never... could manifest those highest levels of consciousness. The constant message of the past efforts was that one was required to leave the physical body in order to become permanently fixed in the supramental consciousness. That message has been constantly repeating itself in the declaration that the divine-consciousness and the earth-consciousness are poles apart, and however much one may try, earth-consciousness ...
... object of the yoga is to bring down the supramental consciousness on earth, to fix it there, to create a new race with the principle of the supramental consciousness governing the inner and outer individual and collective life. That force accepted by individual after individual according to their preparation would establish the supramental consciousness in the physical world and so create a... being and cosmic forces and be in union with the Divine on all the planes up to the overmind. Thirdly, to come into contact with the transcendent Divine beyond the overmind through the supramental consciousness, supramentalise the consciousness and the nature and make oneself an instrument for the realisation of the dynamic Divine Truth and its transforming descent into the earth-nature. (Letters... in doing so Page 80 one finds one's true individual self which is not the limited, vain and selfish human ego but a portion of the Divine) and, secondly, to bring down the supramental consciousness on earth to transform mind, life and body. All else can be only a result of these two aims, not the primary object of the yoga. (Letters on Yoga, p. 503.) * * * To find the Divine ...
... December 1957. At that time she was in the final stages of her realization of the overman, a being with a supramental consciousness in a human body; this realization was, as we have seen, accomplished in the course of 1958. The overman consciousness is an aspect of the supramental consciousness, which has been present in the Earth-atmosphere since 1956. What the Mother had realized in 1958, now, on... keep me busy very much. For the problem on which I am working consists in building the supramental consciousness in a way that this becomes the being. It is this consciousness which has to become the being. This is what is important, and the rest remains to be seen … To this end, all the [supramental] consciousness which is in these cells has to assemble, to organize itself and to form a conscious being... body continued. We remember that this transfer meant the change of an organ or body part from its old, normal way of functioning to a way of functioning directly determined by the divine or supramental consciousness. The Mother was far advanced on the way, much farther than we are able to imagine. What was most visibly perceptible was the ‘transfer’ in the external functions, for example eating. As ...
... she talked about “the work of physical transformation, that is the most difficult of all things”. 7 On 26 February, less than two months later, she spoke about the “gnostic”, i.e. the supramental consciousness, and concluded her talk with the words: “I am telling you that this evening because what has been done, what has been realised by one can be realised by the others. It is enough that one body... text of hers, a direct address to the Divine, noted down in her handwriting: “My Lord, what Thou has wanted me to do I have done. The gates of the Supramental have been thrown open and the Supramental Consciousness, Light and Force are flooding the earth. “But as yet those who are around me are little aware of it – no radical change has taken place in their consciousness and it is only because they... and commented upon in that Playground not far from the sea. It was after all the place where the Mother was physically present when she performed the cosmic act of opening the gates for the Supramental Consciousness, so that it could pervade the Earth. “There is no illness, there is no [physical] disorder that is able to resist the discovery of this secret [the power of getting rid of the ego] and ...
... Real-Idea To the supramental consciousness, the world is not a play of cosmic Imagination, a fantasia of the Infinite imposed on the blank indeterminable of his own eternal pure existence. It is imperishably aware that the entire manifestation of the universe is, in its first movement, the manifestation of Sachchidananda through its own powers of the supramental consciousness, — the powers of co... knowledge; revelation and inspiration are, according to the Vedic seers, direct operations of inherent Knowledge describable as truth-vision and truth-audition. Truth-consciousness or supramental consciousness is an intermediate formulation which refers back to a term above it and forward to another below it. Above the Supermind is the Unitarian or indivisible consciousness of pure Sachchi-dananda... secondary apprehension of unity and infinity. Supermind occupies the position of a link between these two. The higher term above it is the Sachchidananda consciousness and the term below the supramental consciousness is that of the mental consciousness. The supermind may thus be described with a greater precision as the comprehensive and creative consciousness, which by its power of pervading and com ...
... interchanges and mutualities of their energies are freely organised and their actuality always, possible.¹ Beyond the Overmind is the plenary supramental consciousness. If Overmental consciousness is global in character, the supramental consciousness is integral. The Overmental consciousness is compared by Sri Aurobindo to a sun and its system shining out in an original darkness of Space, and ... experience of existence. But outside that sphere or expanse of experience the original darkness would still be there. In the supramental consciousness, there is, on the other hand, a plenitude of light, and if it so wills, it can illumine everything integrally. The supramental consciousness is also termed by Sri Aurobindo as Truth-Consciousness, since it is at once the self-awareness of the Infinite and Eternal... the being, and each part has to get the Truth in it from the psychic or above. What is above the mental consciousness is the superconscient, which has also several grades leading up to the supramental consciousness and supreme integral Divine. It is the Truth acting from the psychic and descending from the superconscient which will more and more harmonise the action of the different parts of our being ...
... their actuality always possible." 51 Overmind and Supermind : Towards Supramental Transformation Beyond the Overmind is the plenary Supramental consciousness. If Overmental consciousness is global in character, the Supramental consciousness is integral. The Overmental consciousness is compared by Sri Aurobindo to a sun and its system shining out in an original darkness of Space and... But outside that sphere Page 57 or expanse of experience the original darkness would still be there. In the supramental consciousness there is, on the other hand, a plenitude of light, and if it so wills, it can illumine everything integrally. The supramental consciousness is the Truth-Consciousness; it is at once the self-awareness of the Infinite and Eternal and a power of self-determination... vast Will which contains and relates all energies in itself as its own energies. It holds back this, advances that other, but according to its own preconceiving Idea-Will." 53 The supramental consciousness is founded, according to Page 58 Sri Aurobindo, upon the supreme consciousness of the timeless Infinite but has too the secret of the deployment of the Infinite Energy in time ...
... changes and mutualities of their energies are freely organised and their actuality always possible.'14 Beyond the Overmind is the plenary supramental consciousness. If Overmental consciousness is global in character, the Page 69 supramental consciousness is integral. The Overmental consciousness is compared by Sri Aurobindo to a sun and its system shining out in an original darkness of Space... experience of existence. But outside that sphere or expanse of experience the original darkness would still be there. In the supramental consciousness there is, on the other hand, a plenitude of light, and if it so wills, it can illumine everything integrally. The supramental consciousness is also termed by Sri Aurobindo as Truth-Consciousness, since it is at once the self-awareness of the Infinite and Eternal... the being, and each part has to get the Truth in it from the psychic or above. What is above the mental consciousness is the superconscient, which has also several grades leading up to the supramental consciousness and supreme integral Divine. It is-the Truth acting from the psychic and descending from the superconscient which will harmonise more and more the action of the different parts of the our ...
... spirit and a participation of our whole manifested and inner being in its change and elevation, the evolution, the transformation can take place by a comparatively swift conscious change; the supramental Consciousness-Force from above and the evolving Consciousness-Force from behind the veil acting on the awakened awareness and will of the mental human being would accomplish by their united power the ... descend into him, assuming him into it—a greater light of Consciousness and a greater action of Force: his natural existence would be the instrumentation of a superior Power, an overmental and supramental Consciousness-Force, the power of the original Divine Shakti. All the processes of the evolution would be felt as the action of a supreme and universal Consciousness, a supreme and universal Force working... supramental light and power into the nature. This would continue until the point was reached at which overmind would begin itself to be transformed Page 989 into supermind; the supramental consciousness and force would take up the transformation directly into its own hands, reveal to the terrestrial mind, life, bodily being their own spiritual truth and divinity and, finally, pour into the ...
... attempted the manifestation of the highest Supramental Consciousness in the body, and although they succeeded in widening and universalizing body consciousness, they came to the conclusion that one cannot enter into the Supramental consciousness fully in the physical body. There is also a mention in the Upanishads43 that if one enters into the Supramental Consciousness fully, one cannot return from there... he devoted his entire life. In 1914, The Mother (Mirra Alfassa) (18781973) met Sri Aurobindo, and collaborated with him in his work for bringing down the supramental consciousness on earth. And the mission of manifesting supramental consciousness in physical consciousness was accomplished. The accounts of their research are to be found in 'Record of Yoga' by Sri Aurobindo (2 volumes) and Mother's ...
... momentous stage was reached. An irreversible stage was reached. The whole work, the real work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, was to open up the consciousness of the cells by fixing the supramental consciousness in the body-consciousness. This work was done; the rest was a secondary consequence. As Mother said: 'It must be "worked out" as one says, it has to be realised in all details, but the change... centuries, but it is over.' Mother said that it might take centuries to 'work out' in all its details; Sri Aurobindo had said that it would take at least three hundred years. But the supramental consciousness imparts to the evolutionary movement an unimaginable acceleration to the process of transformation. It does not stop anywhere, it moves on as rapidly as possible towards the point where the... own words some of these resistances and discoveries. Page 199 Let us begin with Mother's experience of 19th November, 1969, where she gives us the essential equations of the supramental consciousness as experienced by her body-consciousness. 19 November 1969 This morning at about eight o'clock, I would have been able to tell you a number of things.... Because there was ...
... the psychic being, of the spiritual being in its multisidedness and integrality, and of the supramental consciousness and power in its plenitude. The discoveries made by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother in regard to these three realms of psychic consciousness, spiritual consciousness and supramental consciousness confirmed in many ways what was already discovered and applied in the past traditions of religion... transformation of the inconscience by the supramental consciousness is entirely new and unprecedented. The result of this vast and difficult endeavour is the effect it has produced in the evolutionary process itself and in breaking the limitations of the evolutionary boundaries of mental consciousness and in establishing and fixing the supramental consciousness as a new grade of evolution in the physical... not enough, it is only a beginning; spiritualization and the descent of the higher consciousness in not enough, it is only a middle term; the ultimate achievement needs the action of the supramental Consciousness and Force. Something less than that may very well be considered enough by the individual, but it is not enough for the earth-consciousness to take the definitive stride forward it must take ...
... consciousness or of the mind of the cells, and they have pointed out that it is only when that obscure mentality which covers and operates in the cells is penetrated by the supramental consciousness, and it is only when supramental consciousness is made operative directly in the cells of the body that the supramental transformation can become accomplished. For, according to them, it is only in the cellular... s are necessary because the aim of total transformation implies detailed working in every nook and corner of our nature so that the psychic consciousness, spiritual consciousness and the supramental consciousness can effectuate, gradually and systematically, by the power of contagion, their influence and their descent in all parts of the being right up to the inconscient. The integral yoga of Sri Aurobindo... permanently established on account of the fact that the pure cell, liberated from the coating of the different layers of the mind, can receive securely and permanently the operation of the supramental consciousness. How this discovery was made Page 34 and what were the stages of this discovery and the consequences of this discovery are to be found in the form of a detailed account of the ...
... nor is it the object of the Yoga to create an individual superman here and there.) The object of the Yoga is to bring down the supramental consciousness Page 657 on earth, to fix it there, to create a new race with the principle of the supramental consciousness governing the inner and outer individual and collective life. Therefore the existence of the Asram, whatever difficulties it created... general earth consciousness) so as to make the descent of the supramental Force possible. That Force accepted by individual after individual according to their preparation would establish the supramental consciousness in the physical world and so create a nucleus for its own expansion. (8) This world was originally intended to be an evolution out of ignorance in matter to knowledge through struggle... some it may be sufficient, for we are not asking everybody to become supramental." Do you mean everybody in this Asram? Yes. Only it does not mean that anybody here is debarred from the supramental consciousness or the physical transformation—if he wants it. It is not a question of possibility, but of the need and aspiration in the nature. 21 September 1934 Page 665 Realisations by ...
... conflict, yet there must be a right relation, an equation to which all arrives but which is missed by our blindness of ego, our attempt to affirm the ego and not the Self one in all. The supramental consciousness has that truth of relation in itself as its natural right and privilege, since it is the supermind that determines the cosmic relations and the relations of the individual with the universe... satisfied totality in essence of being and a satisfied totality in the dynamic movement of being, the sense of the relations of that totality accompanying each step, is indeed the very mark of a supramental consciousness and distinguishes it from the disintegrated, ignorantly successive steps of our consciousness in the Ignorance. The gnostic existence and delight of existence is a universal and total being... upon light in a self executing harmony of truth-being. There will be an unfolding, not as a delivery of light out of darkness, but as a delivery of light out of itself; for if an evolving supramental Consciousness holds back part of its contents of self-awareness behind in itself, it does this not as a step or by an act of Ignorance, but as the movement of a deliberate bringing out of its timeless knowledge ...
... capable of being sufficient to itself in a certain way, still feels itself more richly fulfilled by the thought and word that give it a body of expression. Finally, a fourth action of the supramental consciousness completes the various possibilities of the supramental knowledge. This still farther accentuates the objectivity of the thing known, puts it away from the station of experiencing consciousness... certain change, not merely of the poise or level of our regarding conscious self or even of its law and character, but also of the whole substance of our conscious being. Till that is done, the supramental consciousness manifests above the mental and psychical atmosphere of being—in which the physical has already become a subordinate and to a large extent a dependent method of our self's expression,—and it... transformed, swallowed up as it were into the greater energy and sense of being, mahān, bṛhat , of which it is a derivation and projection, do we have the perfected, entire and constant supramental consciousness. The substance, the conscious ether of being in which the mental or psychic consciousness and sense live and see and feel and experience is something subtler, freer, more plastic than that ...
... no longer there—there was nothing but that any more! That alone was there, and everything, everything has changed—appearance, meaning, etc. That must be the supramental consciousness: I believe that this is the supramental consciousness. Page 203 But one could conceive very well that for a consciousness wide and quick enough, if I may say so, capable of seeing not merely a bit of the... telling you, it is... a vastness without limits and a light... a light without movement, and at the same time an ease... an ease not recognised as such. Now I am convinced that it is that, the supramental consciousness. And necessarily, necessarily that must change the appearances gradually. ( Long silence ) There are no words that can explain the magnificence of the Grace, how the whole is combined... the all, at the same time. ( Long silence ) ( Mother finishes recopying her note. ) There, now I am writing today's date. Page 206 It is the 19th. 19 November 1969, supramental consciousness. ( Silence ) The first descent of the supramental force was a 29, and this is a 19... The 9 is something to note there.... So many things there are which we do not know! ( Silence ...
... PART THREE Role of the Higher Faculties Faculties of Vastness of Light, Revelation, Inspiration, Intuition and Discrimination The attainment of Surya Savitri, the supramental consciousness which is creative of the worlds, and which is the power of the manifestations of the highest triple world is a culminating victory of the Angirasa Rishis and of the Vedic system of yoga. The... the prominent affirmations, we shall have some more details of the culminating points of the Vedic yoga and the methods and stages of this yoga. Attainment of the light of the Sun, the supramental consciousness and power, attainment of the Beatitude, and the achievement of immortality, —these are the interdependent attainments which are chanted by the Rishis in the Veda. Example of Rishi... is associated in the Veda with the attainment of immortality. But what is immortality? In the first Mandala of Rig Veda, in the 71 st sukta, Parashara speaks of the path to the great supramental consciousness, which is called the great heaven as distinguished from heaven or dyauh, signifying the realm of mental consciousness: "Our fathers broke open the firm and strong places by their words, ...
... Ignorance, since the Many and the All are inherent in the Supreme Oneness, and they manifest through the dynamic power of the Supreme and they are all comprehended in the manifestation of the supramental consciousness. Again, in this view of the Ignorance, multiplicity and infinity and eternity of space and time are not unaccounted and mysteriously projected on the Spaceless and Timeless Reality. In... universal and the transcendental do not contradict or abridge the overarching unity and the transcendental oneness. But it is true that there is, at a certain stage, in the functioning of the supramental consciousness and action in its third poise, particularly in its acutest operation, — the operation of the consciousness that can properly be called Mind (since Mind is, according to Sri Aurobindo, the... reality, nothing can be separated and divided from the original Oneness; but Ignorance is not the parent of differentiations themselves, since they are inherent in the original oneness, and the supramental consciousness is creative of the rich play of unity and differentiations, as can be seen in Sri Aurobindo's description of the triple status of the supermind to which we have referred earlier. The ...
... first step is to arrive at the loftiest peaks of supramental consciousness; next is the gradual descent of the supermind right up to the level of the physical consciousness and physical substance and into sub-conscience and the inconscience. The third step would be that of transformation of the inconscience and fixing of the supramental consciousness page - 127 into the material substance.... animal world." 72 According to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, this transformation can be effected only if the lowest bottom rock of the Inconcience can permanently be reversed, so that the supramental consciousness which is concealed in the heart of the inconcience is manifested. None of the powers of the mind or even of the Overmind can, according to the yogic experience of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother... the life and body, even into the darkness of our subconscience; last, ... there must take place as a crowning movement the ascent into the Supennind and the trans- forming descent of the supramental Consciousness into our entire being and nature." 73 Integral Yoga: Supermind and Humanity The most significant thing about the "Synthesis of Yoga" is that it is indispensably connected ...
... of what they had called immortality; the Rishis had described immortality as a state of the widening or universalisation of the physical consciousness as a result of the visitations of the supramental consciousness in the physical body. From the scientific point of view of yoga, it can be said that the discovery or rediscovery of the supermind by Sri Aurobindo could take place only if the supermind has... Aurobindo's discovery of the supermind was not only a revisiting of the supramental realms of consciousness and power; he also found that the road to farther consequences of the visitations of supramental consciousness in the physical body were blocked; he also found that the Divine Will working in the evolutionary process required the necessity of removing that obstacle; as a result, Sri Aurobindo introduced... introduced a new objective in his integral yoga and developed new methods in conjunction with some of the methods Page 96 which were developed in the past in order that the supramental consciousness could manifest in physical consciousness with that kind of permanence in the evolutionary process that we find in regard to the permanence of Life in Matter and Mind in Life in the evolutionary ...
... light of the psychic being, and, secondly, through the soul and the ensouled mind and life and body, to open out into the supramental consciousness and let it come down here below and work and achieve. The soul or the true being in man uplifted in the supramental consciousness and at the same time coming forward to possess a divinised mind and life and body as an instrument and channel of its s... Power diverging from and even competing with other Powers of being. In the Overmind commences the play of divergent possibilities—the simple, direct, united and absolute certainties of the supramental consciousness retire, as it were, a step behind and begin to work themselves out through the interaction first of separately individualised and then of contrary and contradictory forces. In the Overmind... and a consequent purification and illumination and regeneration of the latter. Fin ally, when the psychic being is in full self-possession and power, it can be the vehicle of the direct supramental consciousness—which will then be able to act freely and absolutely for the entire transformation of the external nature, its transfiguration into a perfect body of the Truth-consciousness—in a word, its ...
... Aurobindo had realised the supramental consciousness. Mother answered: "No, not yet." The supramental consciousness came down into them from time to time but it was not yet established. "But we have caught the tail of it." I was very disheartened. But I consoled myself thinking Page 342 that even if they have not established the supramental consciousness in them they are at least... youth I made a mistake. However, I only gained something through it. It is thanks to that mistake that I was brought to the divine path. I imagined that Sri Aurobindo had realised the supramental consciousness in his sadhana, that he was totally transformed. He had no more illness, death could not touch him, no bond of the mortal world had any hold on him. Consequently, if I surrendered myself ...
... of the overman is less than the supramental Consciousness. The latter having been established in the atmosphere of the earth in 1956, it would make no sense for a lesser consciousness to become active in the ongoing process of supramentalisation. The Consciousness of the overman is an aspect of the supramental Consciousness: it is the supramental Consciousness that emanates itself in a certain... way in order to accomplish a certain task, namely the formation of the overman. Two facts make this very clear. Firstly, the consciousness of the intermediary being that is overman is a supramental consciousness, called by Sri Aurobindo “the Mind of Light”. The fact that he defined it as the lowest degree of the Supermind does not diminish its importance. Any degree of the Supermind is supramental; ...
... moment. If gross matter is not capable of being used as a permanent coating of the soul in the present phase of its evolution, then it certainly is not capable of being the covering of the supramental consciousness, to form the body that has, to some extent, been described above. This means that the crux of the process of supramental transformation lies in matter; the supramental world has to become... composition’. Sri Aurobindo, in this context, had used the word ‘permeation.’ The presence of this supramental substance was not neutral or inactive. Supramental substance is charged with supramental consciousness. Reading about the wonders of gross matter as discovered by the physicists in this century, one can to some degree imagine how much more wonderful the ‘physics’ of supramental matter must... a construction of the consciousness proper to our species, the mental consciousness. If we can break out of our consciousness, then we step out to other, more spacious rooms, or into the supramental consciousness outside all rooms. For one who possesses the Unity-Consciousness, falling back into our mental prison is the same as plunging into suffocation, darkness, death, hell. These metaphors are not ...
... transformation, nor is it the object of the Yoga to create an individual superman here and there.) The object of the Yoga is to bring down the supramental consciousness on earth, to fix it there, to create a new race with the principle of the supramental consciousness governing the inner and outer individual and collective life. Therefore the existence of the Asram, whatever difficulties it created for ourselves... general earth consciousness) so as to make the descent of the supramental Force possible. That Force accepted by individual after individual according to their preparation would establish the supramental consciousness in the physical world and so create a nucleus for its own expansion. As far as I can see, once the supramental is established in Matter, the transformation will be possible under much... them or a descent of their consciousness or influence for a supramental change. It is quite impossible to ascend to the real Ananda plane (except in a profound trance), until after the supramental consciousness has been entered, realised and possessed; but it is quite possible and normal to feel some form of Ananda consciousness on any level. This consciousness wherever it is felt is a derivation ...
... creatures and by that charity a better right and a greater strength to help it upon its way. In the end where the human closes and the divine commences, where the mental disappears into the supramental consciousness and the finite precipitates itself into the infinite, all evil disappears into a transcendent divine Good which becomes universal on every plane of consciousness that it touches. This,... Our inner nature is the progressive expression of the eternal Spirit and too complex a power to be tied down by a single dominant mental or Page 202 moral principle. Only the supramental consciousness can reveal to its differing and conflicting forces their spiritual truth and harmonise their divergences. The later religions endeavour to fix the type of a supreme truth of conduct, erect... individual's consciousness and the transcriptions of an eternal Truth powerful to transform mind, life and body. And because it is thus real, effective, imperative, the generalisation of the supramental consciousness and the spiritual life is the sole force that can lead to individual and collective perfection in earth's highest creatures. Only by our coming into constant touch with the divine Consciousness ...
... Page 98 Supramental knowledge: an infallible vision of all problems. Supramental consciousness: gloriously awake and powerful, it is luminous, sure of itself, infallible in its movements. To become the builders of a better future in the light of the supramental consciousness. ( Message for the first anniversary of the Supramental Manifestation upon earth) 2 ... "Bulletin" (page 2), You have said: "Last year when I announced to you the manifestation of the supramental consciousness and light and force, I should have added that it was an event forerunner of the birth of a new world." This means that the new world was born after the supramental consciousness manifested. You have fixed the 29th February 1956 as the date of the supramental manifestation. ...
... nothing left BUT THAT, you understand! There was nothing left but that, and everything, everything had changed—in appearance, in meaning, in... That must be the supramental consciousness, I think that's what the supramental consciousness is. But one can very well conceive that for a consciousness vast enough and rapid enough, if I may say so, capable of seeing not just a bit of the trajectory... it was... a limitless immensity and a light... a motionless light, and at the same time a well-being... without even the appreciation of a well-being. Now I am convinced that's what the supramental consciousness is. And necessarily, necessarily, it must little by little change appearances. ( long silence ) There are no words that can express the magnificence of the Grace: how everything is... of the point and of the whole at the same time. ( long silence Mother completes the copy of her note ) There, I'll write today's date. Today is the 19th. 19 November 1969 : supramental consciousness. The first descent of the supramental Force 2 was on a 29th. And this is on a 19th. The figure 9 has something to do with all this.... There are so many things we don't know! ( silence ...
... should prepare ourselves to fulfil that role that we shall find the relevance of Sri Aurobindo. It is only then that we shall find ourselves truly equipped to study Sri Aurobindo and the supramental consciousness that he has discovered and brought down on the earth. The journey to which Sri Aurobindo invites us involves a most difficult endeavour. Even when the goal becomes clearer, the paths... of its development. For the world is not an illusion and a meaningless unreality but evolving manifestation of the self-existent and conscious being through the comprehensive determining supramental consciousness. This is the argument which Sri Aurobindo presents in the very first chapter of The Life Divine. Let us refer to this argument that he presents, since the rest of the book can, in a certain... subconscience; last, there must supervene the supramental transmutation, — there must take place as a crowning movement the ascent into the Supermind and the transforming descent of the Supramental Consciousness into our entire being and nature. 13 For a fuller understanding of the synthesis of Yoga, we need to study three big volumes containing Sri Aurobindo's Page 36 letters ...
... found the self-manifestation of the Infinite." 13 Yogic Experiences during Mind's passage towards Supermind If we ask as to how we can come to know the Absolute and its Supramental consciousness and power, the answer is that yoga makes possible our passage from our consciousness to the Supermind and to the Absolute. In the yogic passage from the level of the mind towards the supramental... prerogative. Again, there are three important varieties of yogic experience on the basis of which the rival philosophies of Vedanta have come to be formulated; these are found to be, in the supramental consciousness, reflections that are obtained during the transition from the mind to the supermind; these reflections correspond to the three statuses of the supermind. The first status of the supermind... status of the individual in the state of ignorance from which the individual is striving to liberate himself. Thus there has been this problem of how and why the individual has lapsed from the supramental consciousness and, how and why there is this vast phenomenon of Inconscience and how and why the inconscient undergoes the evolutionary process at the summit of which the humanity stands today in the grip ...
... integrally and emerges into a better species by the radical change of his consciousness, and that is possible only when he realises the Supramental Consciousness. That is why the Mother and Sri Aurobindo worked throughout their life to establish the Supramental Consciousness in the earth's atmosphere. Once the Mother told me that however you fight with darkness you can not move it. But just light... try to do through a rational set-up, as regards our organisations and plannings, it will produce no result unless we acquire the Supramental Consciousness. My question is—Is the majority of the people in the Ashram trying to work for the Supramental Consciousness seriously and sincerely? How many of us have a clear picture of our real problems and the method for dealing with them? Only the ...
... a few essential things. 1) It is not possible for you to become my "Avatar"; I have told you that the very idea is absurd and meaningless. 2) It is possible for you to manifest the supramental consciousness in this life. But it is not possible by the means you are now trying. It cannot be done by falling at my feet. It cannot be done in a moment. It cannot be done by fasting. It cannot be done... 3) If you throw away your body, you will not be my "Avatar" either in this life or in any other. On the contrary, you will destroy your chances for a hundred lives to come. 4) The supramental consciousness can only be manifested if you follow exactly my written instructions. These are (1) You must eat well and regularly every day, sleep well every night and build up a strong body. The supermind... and follow in their plain sense my written instructions. You must learn to give them a greater value than to the ideas you get from within by your sadhana. If you refuse to do this, the supramental consciousness will refuse to remain in you. (4) You must learn to resume natural relations with people in the physical world—with those around you, with your friends and your people. 5) I have told ...
... the overmental race.’ 10 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 ... scientific positivists: he is a forward, inward and upward looking transitory being; the human-human, who will embody one or more spiritual gradations between the mental and the supramental consciousness; the human-human is a future being that will originate from the animal-human through the influence of the presence of the Supermind on Earth and that will be fully satisfied with its higher... higher, complete humanness; the overman , who will still be born from the sexual union of his progenitors, but who will be in possession of the Mind of Light which is a supramental consciousness, even when for the most part veiled; the overman is an intermediary being and will probably appear in many variants; the supramental being, who will embody in the refined form of matter a being ...
... subtle, you know, and as soon as you try to formulate them, they elude you—formulation deforms. What I mean is that it's not necessarily in trance, in another world, that one gets the supramental consciousness.... No. It's something the Rishis realized with eyes wide open, in day to-day life, if I understand rightly. I don't know how they did it.... But I myself have never had it... instead of the ordinary consciousness. Did they ever do it?... I don't know. The Veda simply recounts what the forefathers have done . But who are these forefathers? But surely this supramental consciousness is something to be found in the body? 8 Page 384 When one has these experiences, like the ones I've had in the subtle physical, for example, the body is certainly in trance—but... × Mother does not reply directly to this question (although she would probably have answered in the affirmative, since the point is indeed to LIVE this supramental consciousness), but she does reply directly to what is BEHIND Satprem's question—that is, this fundamental, deep-rooted assumption that physical life is the sole, concrete reality. ...
... manifestation. Page 313 This state of things must change for the supramental consciousness to reign on earth. But although the supramental consciousness has been at work on earth for more than a year, 1 has anything changed in this miserable condition? 28 February 1970 Since the supramental consciousness is at work on earth, won't these miserable conditions change in spite of ...
... Spirit and Matter, the boundaries of which, it is claimed, are constantly breaking so as to bring about on the earth a new species, the very nature of which will have inherent powers of the supramental consciousness, just as the human species is imbued with spontaneous powers of the development of the mind and various ranges of mental consciousness. Spirituality and Knowledge Spirituality... y process which has so far reached a critical stage where it is possible for the individual to develop knowledge and will that can be consciously applied for purposes of the evolution of supramental consciousness in matter by means of which the individual will be able to realize not only the integral Reality integrally but will also be able to fulfill itself in its role of Leadership of evolution... realization of the integral reality by the methods of the integral yoga that we find in Sri Aurobindo can be seen corroborated and confirmed by the description of the integral reality and supramental consciousness that we find in the records of the synthesis of yoga in the Veda, Upanishads and the Gita, and in the Tantra. But Sri Aurobindo and the Mother go farther and determine a new integral aim of ...
... ancient records of yoga as also in those of Sri Aurobindo. These two movements are, first the movement of the ascent of yoga so as to rise up to the supramental consciousness and secondly, the movement of the descent in yoga by which the supramental consciousness can be brought down so as to transform lower levels of consciousness, including the physical consciousness. In fact, in pursuance of these double... supermind. It is impossible to include in the scope of this book even an indication of this vast literature concerning the 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 ...
... earth as its central field. It was in the course of this work that Sri Aurobindo declared that the Supramental is the Truth and that its advent on the earth is inevitable. To bring down the Supramental consciousness and power on the earth has been the central work of Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo has explained the nature of this work, the nature of the Supermind, the necessity of its descent, the... subconscience; last, there must supervene the supramental transmutation, there must take place as the crowning movement the ascent into the Supermind and the transforming descent of the supramental Consciousness into our entire being and nature.'22 This would also mean a complete synthesis of divine knowledge, divine love and divine action, leading to an integral perfection of all the members... with the human progress. Not personal salvation, but the leading of the entire humanity to the surpassing of its limitations for a collective new order and harmony and unity, to fix the supramental consciousness in the earth-consciousness, to lead the evolutionary species of man to a new species, to lead man to the divine superman,- this wide, Page 15 world-embracing and world-affirming ...
... to the supramental consciousness a mystery or an inexplicable phenomenon but a fact of direct knowledge and execution. The phenomenon is not mysterious, it is the Reality itself which is to our limited mind a Mystery. It is this mystery which Reason has to accept, not the unaccountability of the phenomenon of the Infinite creating teeming finites ad infinitum. To the supramental consciousness the Supreme... spiritual experiences are in fact not opposed to each other but are complementary aspects of the Supreme Infinite Being; they are not illusory but real determinations of the Infinite; in the supramental consciousness these aspects meet and fuse into each other. The supermind sees these Page 175 truths of the Infinite, and for the creation and as a basis of creation puts them forth. But this ...
... consciousness and because of the operation of exclusive concentration of consciousness that there can come about the process of involution of the supramental consciousness in the Inconscience and of the evolution of that supramental consciousness out of the Inconscience. Two Aspects of Evolution: Cosmic and Individual According to Sri Aurobindo, evolution has two aspects: there is... be preparing himself to exceed himself. It appears that man's chief business is to enlarge his partial being into a complete being, his partial consciousness into an integral spiritual and supramental consciousness. At the same time, he is obliged to achieve mastery over his environment, but also world-union and world-harmony. He has to realize his individuality but also to enlarge himself into a ...
... positive or a negative nature. On the contrary, the physical change itself can only be brought about by a descent of the greater supramental consciousness into the cells of the body." (Letters on Yoga) Yes, it should be carefully noted, it is the 'supramental consciousness' — understood not in the sense of any and every spiritual consciousness above the plane of mind but in the specific sense... transfiguration: the Page 309 very substantial stuff of the body, although still remaining material, will be of an altogether different sort. For, corresponding to the supramental consciousness of the gnostic being there exists what Sri Aurobindo calls "supramental substance". This supramental substance alone can confer on the physical body the status of a worthy mansion for the ...
... light of the psychic being, and, secondly, through the soul and the ensouled mind and life and body, to open out into the supramental consciousness and let it come down here below and work and achieve. The soul or the true being in man uplifted in the supramental consciousness and at the same time coming forward to possess a divinsed mind and life and body as an instrument and channel of its s... purification and illumination and regeneration of the latter. Page 22 Finally, when the psychic being is in full self-possession and power, it can be the vehicle of the direct supramental consciousness— which will then be able to act freely and absolutely for the entire transformation of the external nature, its transfiguration into a perfect body of the Truth-consciousness—in a word, its ...
... light of the psychic being, and, secondly, through the soul and the ensouled mind and life and body, to open out into the supramental consciousness and let it come down here below and work and achieve. The soul or the true being in man uplifted in the supramental consciousness and at the same time coming forward to possess a divinised mind and life and body as an instrument and channel of its se... Power diverging from and even competing with other Powers of being. In the Overmind commences the play of divergent possibilities – the simple, direct, united and absolute certainties of the supramental consciousness retire, as it were, a step behind and begin to work themselves out through the interaction first of separately individualised and then of contrary and contradictory forces. In the Overmind ...
... the possibility of discovery and possession of all the planes of consciousness. The culmination or the fulfilment of this second movement is not his arriving at the House of the Spirit, the Supramental-Consciousness, but to aspire and to bring down that Truth-Consciousness to earth, so that there is a new creation and the earthly life gets transformed into a divine life. He is a protagonist of not only... achieves not only "an individual victory" over the "structured visions of the cosmic Self' 6 but also an universal realisation so that a new path is laid for all who aspire to ascend into the Supramental Consciousness. In his ascent of consciousness he observes that the universe is built in a hierarchical fashion with mounting levels of consciousness. He moves from the dark and dense consciousness... for the New Creation. Savitri is the daughter of the supreme God; she is the Divine Word, meaning the Creative Power. And, specifically here in Savitri, she is the Word of the Supramental Consciousness, as the baby that is to be bom is the Supramental World. So, Savitri in union with Satyavan brings forth the New World. She has chosen this earth for transformation, not any other planet ...
... Mother—a transformation supramentalising the body, turning the body totally divine— could be achieved only if either an Avatar of the Supermind was physically present amongst us or else the Supramental Consciousness which manifested on a universal scale on February 29,1956, and the Superman Consciousness which came at the end of 1969, became the ruling power in the earth's evolutionary history, 2 a natural... without striking on the central road. So a different mode of operation was adopted. The Gurus came down to the level of the physical mind and worked from there, calling the descent of the Supramental Consciousness into that level. At the same time they started digging the Subconscient and the Inconscient. And, all the while, they insisted that the inmost soul, the true Psyche, should lead the Yogic... and keeping the force of death at bay it would be unreasonable to limit the present possibilities of the Aurobindonian Yoga. They forget the difference between the immortality founded in a Supramental Consciousness with its divine "causal body" and the immortality due to a medically induced suspension of degenerative processes in the gross body. The suspension could never be one-hundred-percent proof ...
... Divine and its aspect of consciousness, secret in Matter, begins to emerge in Life, finds something more of itself in Mind and finds its true self in a spiritual consciousness and finally a supramental consciousness through which we become aware of the Reality, enter into it and unite ourselves with it. This is what we call evolution which is an evolution of consciousness and an evolution of the Spirit... possible—so it was only when mind descended that the latent mind in Matter awoke and could be organised. The supramental descent must create the same kind of opening from below so that a supramental consciousness can be organised in the material. 20 April 1933 " ... it is only the very highest supramental Force ... that can victoriously handle the physical Nature ..." [ p. 2 ]. Is this idea... also, "It is only the bringing down of the supramental Light, Power and Bliss ..." [pp. 70-72]. These passages indicate that it is possible for the Jiva to rise up into and bring down the supramental consciousness. But in the Arya you define the supermind as the truth-will of Sachchidananda. How could any human being except one who has come for the divine manifestation reach or bring down the supermind ...
... such a turning-point in the world's history. Just as Nature has already created upon earth a mental being, man, so too there is now a concentrated activity in this mentality to bring forth a supramental consciousness and individuality. Certain beings who, I might say, are in the secret of the gods, are aware of the importance of this moment in the life of the world, and they have taken birth on earth... to his capacity. We have here the unique privilege of being at the very centre of this radiating light, at the fount of this force of transformation. Sri Aurobindo, incarnating the supramental consciousness in a human body, has not only revealed to us the nature of the path to follow and the way to follow it in order to reach the goal, but has also by his own personal realisation given us the... of stone. A diamond reveals all its beauty only when it is artistically cut. It is the same for you. If you want your physical being to be a perfect instrument for the manifestation of the supramental consciousness, you must cultivate it, sharpen it, refine it, give it what it lacks, perfect what it already possesses. That is why you go to school, my children, whether you are big or small, for one can ...
... must manifest on earth and in man. Only the appearance of a new force and light and power accompanying the descent of the supramental consciousness into this world can raise man out of the anguish and pain and misery in which he is submerged. For only the supramental consciousness bringing down upon earth a higher poise and a purer and truer light can achieve the great miracle of transformation. Nature... transition that certainly seems long to the brief human consciousness, but which is infinitesimal for the eternal consciousness. And this period will come to an end with the appearance of the supramental consciousness. The contradictions will then be replaced by harmonies and the oppositions by syntheses. This new creation, the appearance of a superhuman race, has already been the object of much speculation ...
... fact and a possibility for everyone, the supramental consciousness or 'Grace-Light' as Swami Ramalingam called it." Satprem Ah, what made him indignant is the mixing of the two, "Grace-Light" and "supramental light".... I didn't say it was the same thing. Anyway, it doesn't matter.... It would have been better not to put "supramental consciousness," because they don't understand.... It doesn't... regarding certain translations of poems of Swami Ramalingam by his disciple T., you answered him through Satprem in such a way that he was led to equate Ramalingam's 'Grace-Light' and the supramental Consciousness.... Yes, I wouldn't have done that.... So he's furious! But you see, to my mind, when I asked you if over the ages there had been experiences of this sort, I had in mind experiences ...
... passing experience or a final one—that I don't know. We'll see. And yet with a supramental consciousness, it should be impossible to get cancer, for example. Yes, but that means... it means the material substance is transformed. No, I meant simply the consciousness: if someone has the supramental consciousness, that consciousness should be able to protect the body sufficiently, shouldn't it... 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 transformation to be genuine, the ...
... , each a boundless finite. For there all is in each and each is in all radically and integrally,...." 90 Thus supramental integrality is not a fixed quantity, but there is in the supramental consciousness a possibility of constant progression, but this progression would not be from Ignorance to Knowledge but from Knowledge to Knowledge. In Sri Aurobindo's words: "...its very nature is knowledge:... radically turned to earthly life. In this yoga all life is accepted; but there is a supreme qualification in this acceptance. All life is accepted but all life is transformed by the highest supramental consciousness. The aim is to work for the establishment of supermind as a grade in physical life, in the same way as life is established in matter and mind is established in material life by the evolutionary... subconscience; last, there must supervene the supramental transmutation,—there must take place as the crowning movement the ascent into the Supermind and the transforming descent of the supramental Consciousness into our entire being and nature." 92 It is this process of triple transformation that is described in detail in Sri Aurobindo's 'The Life Divine', 'The Synthesis Page 67 ...
... The most distinctive thesis of the Integral Yoga is that supramental consciousness can, by its descent in Matter transform earthly life into divine life. In other words, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have discovered the method by which supramental descent on the earth can be brought about and even Matter can manifest supramental consciousness. Sri Aurobindo has, while describing supermind, referred... the Vedic description of truth-consciousness as an apt description of the supermind. Both in the Vedas and the Upanishads, we have the evidence that the ancient Rishis had discovered the supramental consciousness, but there is no evidence that they could bring about the descent of the supermind in Matter. A systematic and philosophic exposition of the supermind is to be found for the first time in ...
... and make the total transformation possible. The Mother has assured us that this Divine Force and Consciousness, this Supramental Consciousness has come down onto the earth. It is at work in man. The Supramental itself will descend into man and the Supramental Consciousness will by itself work out the transformation of human life as and when it wishes. The whole earth is the instrument of... centres of being, the centroids of consciousness as it were. Sri Aurobindo's Yoga is the sadhana of Integral Transformation whereby this body will become the Divine Body and the Divine or Supramental Consciousness will illuminate and take root in this very physical consciousness. The mind of man acts today only within the confines of the unconscious, ignorant world. But as this mind becomes in ...
... are no artificial means to compensate for the lack of power. Here, not one in a million times is authority the expression of something true. Everything is colossally stupid. How true! Supramental consciousness gives form to matter; it fashions matter by sending out the corresponding vibration, as, today, we fashion thoughts with the word. But now, how do we get there ! What is the process? ... don't actually go out of matter? No, no! It's a new state IN matter? Yes, yes, exactly. But then, it's governed by something other than the sun — I don't know what. Probably the supramental consciousness. 70.129 You understand, I feel as if I am plunged into a world that I do not know, of struggling with laws I do not know, in order to work out a change I do not know either — what's the... new reality. There was a MOMENT. There was a moment when the mental being was able to manifest on earth. There will come a time when the human consciousness is in the required state for a supramental consciousness to be able to enter this human consciousness and manifest. It does not stretch out like a rubber band, you see: there is a time when it happens — it can be done in a flash. Everything will ...
... Supramentalisation would fatten into a volume, but is it not possible just to indicate why the one is called partial transformation and the other complete transformation? Also in what way the supramental consciousness-force is not identical with the spiritual. If spiritual and supramental were the same thing, then all the sages and devotees and Yogis and sadhaks throughout the ages would have been ... not enough, it is only a beginning; spiritualisation and the descent of the higher consciousness is not enough, it is only a middle term; the ultimate achievement needs the action of the supramental consciousness and Force. Something less than that may very well be considered enough by the individual, but it is not enough for the earth consciousness to take the definitive stride forward it must take ...
... himself the Avatar but the Divine, having realised the Divine on earth? "A far greater Truth" has nothing to do with Avatarhood or anything of the kind. I meant by it the descent of the supramental Consciousness upon earth; all truths below the supramental (even that of the highest spiritual on the mental plane, which is the highest that has yet manifested) are either partial or relative or otherwise... fixed there. To bring it down is the aim of our Yoga. 25 April 1930 In spite of his very deep respect for Sri Aurobindo, X holds the view that the earth did previously attain to the Supramental Consciousness. We reject any such suggestion. Write to them that it is better not to enter into sterile intellectual discussions. The intellectual mind cannot even realise what the supermind is; what ...
... but to obey her will or force is less habitual for it. 31 January 1935 I still can't understand why you should bother to follow us doctors. The Divine can very easily act from the supramental consciousness directly; you don't really need a diagnosis given by ordinary men! If things were like that, why the deuce should we have Doctors or a dispensary at all? And what would have been the use... are as necessary for this as X for the building or others for their work. Another thing—why should a mental formation obstruct the supramental? Who told you we are acting from supramental consciousness? We are not and cannot until the confounded quarrel with Matter is settled. 1 February 1935 Page 499 What is this "confounded quarrel with Matter" you mention? Does this refer ...
... lives harmoniously. And it is perhaps also like a promise of what almost the whole of humanity will become under the influence of the new creation. It appeared to me that it was what the supramental consciousness could make of humanity. There was even a comparison with what humanity has made of the animal species. It is extremely mixed, naturally, but things have been perfected, bettered, utilised... It was very charming, it was as though I lived in it. The contradictions had disappeared. It was as though I lived in this perfection. And it was almost like the ideal conceived by the supramental consciousness, of a humanity become as perfect as it can be. And it was very good. And this brings a great repose. The tension, the friction, all Page 26 that disappeared, and the impatience ...
... A: It is a vibration of disharmony. Yes, in truth it is the transition from the ordinary mental Page 445 consciousness to the supramental consciousness. The mental consciousness is panic-stricken in the presence of the supramental consciousness. I have the feeling—I shall tell you, this is how it comes to me—that at every moment one could die, the vibration is so different. And so it ...
... Divine and its aspect of consciousness, secret in Matter, begins to emerge in Life, finds something more of itself in Mind and finds its true self in a spiritual consciousness and finally a supramental consciousness through which we become aware of the Reality, enter into it and unite ourselves with it. This is what we call evolution which is an evolution of consciousness and an evolution of the Spirit... vital, the being dominated by 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 ...
... the Truth If the idea of the Truth that we have found in the very opening hymn of the Veda really carries in itself the contents we have supposed and amounts to the conception of a supramental consciousness which is the condition of the state of immortality or beatitude and if this be the leading conception of the Vedic Rishis, we are bound to find it recurring throughout the hymns as a centre... especially in the ninth book, a collection of more than a hundred hymns addressed to the deity Soma, the intoxication of the Ananda, the divine delight of being, inflowing upon the mind from the supramental consciousness through the ṛtam or Truth. If we accept these interpretations we can easily translate the hymn into its psychological significance. Indra and Vayu awaken in consciousness ( cetathaḥ ) ...
... principle of mind and the life of a mental being, so too a body must be developed with new powers, activities or degrees of a divine action expressive of a truth-conscious being and proper to a supramental consciousness and manifesting a conscious spirit. While the capacity for taking up and sublimating all the activities of the earth-life capable of being spiritualised must be there, a transcendence of the... limits within which it must remain to be consistent with life upon earth and without carrying that life beyond the earthly sphere or pushing it towards the supra-terrestrial existence? The supramental consciousness is not a fixed quantity but a power which passes to higher and higher levels of possibility until it reaches supreme consummations of spiritual existence fulfilling supermind as supermind ...
... quite natural, easy, Page 72 indisputable to the supramental consciousness or, generally, to the consciousness of the upper hemisphere. It can be seen and felt as knowledge in all the spiritual planes, but the completely indivisible knowledge, the full dynamics of it can only be realised through the supramental consciousness itself on its own plane or by its descent here. (7) The description ...
... to the physical or other senses, but to the supermind this is not indispensable. It may be instead an inner image or simply the idea of the object. The simple will to know may bring to the supramental consciousness the needed knowledge—or, it may be, the will to be known or communicate itself of the object of knowledge. The elaborate process of analytical observation and synthetical construction adopted... as a fundamental expression of the being and power of the self, and the whole and particulars as a consequent manifestation of this power and its active expression. In the fullness of the supramental consciousness and cognition this is the constant order. All perception of unity, similarity, difference, kind, uniqueness arrived at by the supramental reason is consonant with and depends on this order ...
... history of the earth became so divinely disturbing that she wondered whether it was the Will of the Supreme that she should continue her arduous task. After all, she had already made the Supramental Consciousness, Light and Force a secret splendour in the earth's evolution. Need she wait upon the earth still further? Page 109 A few years earlier she had stated about her body's future:... "I was like that, I had become like that." And shortly afterwards, in the Bulletin of February 1973, p. 85, she announced: "I have had for a moment (the body) — just a few seconds — the supramental consciousness. It was so wonderful." There we have the Mother on the verge of fulfilling Sri Aurobindo's Yoga. But the last step of precipitating the new body into the old was not taken. The Mother appears ...
... little one seizes of a divine Mandate seems to be the uttermost that the human consciousness as it is at its best seems able to accomplish. Only by a growth into a greater superhuman and supramental consciousness whose very nature is to be attuned to the Divine can we achieve the true and supreme Karma Yoga. This transformation is only possible after certain steps of a divine ascent have been mastered... mind to a Truth-consciousness with a larger dynamic light in it that is ever free by its inherent knowledge and illumined power from these pettinesses and this egoistic darkness. For in this supramental consciousness is the Truth and there we meet it and its Master. The supermind is the primal creative and organic instrument of the Supreme Will, the Will that is free from error because eternal, one and ...
... striving for... (that's what Sri Aurobindo meant) for indifference. Interesting! It makes me understand why he said that it was I who could attempt the transition between human consciousness and supramental consciousness. He said that. He said it to me and he says it here (it's written among Nirod's things). Now I understand why.... Ah, I understand! ( silence ) Yes, I understand. Well? The... hand) can change enough to adapt or not—and to tell the truth, I am not worried about it, it's not a problem that preoccupies me too much; the problem I am preoccupied with is building that supramental consciousness So IT becomes the being. It's that consciousness which must become the being. That's what's important. As for the rest, we'll see (it's the same as worrying over a change of clothing). But ...
... 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 a part of earth-life — but as a result... it were, swallowed up into Sri-Aurobindo's body and nullified and exhausted there. Hence this body, semi-divinised and marked for total transformation, had to be given up and in return the Supramental Consciousness poured forth unresisted. Because of that pouring forth, Sri Aurobindo's body, as it lay in view of a devoted public, was seen not only by the Mother but also by a number of disciples as filled ...
... possibilities without delay. As she herself relates: ‘Sri Aurobindo had put me in charge of the external work because he wanted to withdraw in concentration to hasten the manifestation of the supramental Consciousness, and he had announced to the ones who were there [on 24 November 1926] that he confided to me the task of helping and guiding them; that I would remain in contact with him, of course; and... on those fantastic months. He said in answer to a question by A.B. Purani: ‘At the time you speak of we were in the vital.’ By this he meant that he and the Mother by then had brought the Supramental Consciousness down into the vital. ‘[It was] the brilliant period of the Ashram. People were having brilliant experiences, big push, energy, etc. If our Yoga had taken that line, we could have ended by ...
... material envelope in a gesture of supreme self-sacrifice for the fulfilment of the collective destiny of the race, the Mother announced: "Sri Aurobindo incarnated in a human body the supramental consciousness and has not only revealed to us the nature of the path to follow and the method of following it so as to arrive at the goal, but has also by his own personal realisation given us the example;... upon Earth, pp. 69-70. Page 417 substantial stuff of the body, although still remaining material, will be of an altogether different sort. For corresponding to the supramental consciousness of the gnostic being there exists what Sri Aurobindo has called "supramental substance". This supramental substance alone can confer on the body the status of a worthy mansion of the s ...
... plane—and then to the body, it isn't easy. These two conditions are first, the power to expand, to widen almost indefinitely, enabling you to widen to the dimensions of the supramental consciousness—which is total. The supramental consciousness is the consciousness of the Supreme in his totality. By "totality," I mean the Supreme in his aspect of Manifestation. Naturally, from a higher point of view, from the ...
... signs. I know them through personal experience, for they are two things that can ONLY come with the supramental consciousness; without it, one cannot possess them—no yogic effort, no discipline, no tapasya can give them to you, while they come almost automatically with the supramental consciousness. The first sign is perfect equality as Sri Aurobindo has described it (you must know it, there's a ...
... because it lives harmoniously. And it may also be like a promise of what almost the totality of humanity will become under the influence of the new creation: as I saw it, it was what the supramental consciousness can do with humanity. There was even a comparison with what humanity has done with animal kind (something extremely mixed, of course, but there have been improvements, betterments, more complete... was very charming, it was as though I were living in it. Contradictions had disappeared. As though I lived in that perfection. And it was almost like the ideal conceived by the supramental Page 307 consciousness of a humanity that had become as perfect as it can be. It was very good. And it brings a great sense of rest. Tension, friction, all that disappears—impatience, too. All that ...
... beings out of the present-day humanity who fulfil the conditions of the necessary spiritualisation would be capable of transforming their body with the help of the Supramental Force, the Supramental Consciousness and the Supramental Light and would no longer be animal men but become supermen. This promise he based on the knowledge he had that the Supramental Force was about to break upon earth.... the ordinary outer point of view. The Avatar of the Supermind cannot be said to be compelled to any course by a necessity of Nature. Whatever course is adopted is freely accepted: the Supramental Consciousness belong to the Transcendence and is above all cosmic conditions even when it elects to work under them. What determines its future is its own transcendent Knowledge and Will. A moment must ...
... higher power will come down and work. It is not difficult to realise Supramental Consciousness but it is very difficult to make it active. Therefore several great souls after realising this consciousness worked through mind and reduced it to mental terms. Therefore they could not experience the working of the Supramental Consciousness in its true nature. This new process has not yet been attempted by ...
... earth as its central field. It was in the course of this work that Sri Aurobindo declared that the Supramental is the Truth and that its advent on the earth is inevitable. To bring down the supramental consciousness and power on the earth has been the central work of Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo has explained the nature of this work, the nature of the Supermind, the necessity of its descent, the... the Supramental upon earth is no more a promise but a living fact, a reality." Page 141 In 1958, the Mother entered into a new phase of Yoga, which aimed at fixing the supramental consciousness in the cells of the body so as to establish, in the world, the conditions of the emergence of the next species, the supramental species that would manifest the Supermind in the supramental ...
... enter into the cosmic consciousness, realise the self, acquire a Spiritualised and universalised mind and heart, life-force, physical consciousness. "Then only the passage into the supramental consciousness begins to become possible..." (The Synthesis of Yoga, pp. 267-68 Paragraphing ours.) (3) "This can be done only by the triple transformation... there must first be the psychic change... subconscience; "last, there must supervene the supramental transmutation, — there must take place as the crowning movement the ascent into the Supermind and the transforming descent of the supramental Consciousness into our entire being and nature." (The Life Divine, p. 891. Paragraphing ours.) From the three long passages from Sri Aurobindo' s writings quoted above it becomes abundantly clear ...
... cannot be brought about by physical means either of a positive or a negative nature. On the contrary, the physical change itself can only be brought about by a descent of the greater supramental consciousness into the cells of the body." 3 We should note that Sri Aurobindo is no speculative philosopher. He is not satisfied merely with painting in rainbow colours a gleaming picture... inner being and consciousness of man is bound to have its effect and repercussion on his physical being and system as well. The ascent of the individual from the physical-mental to the supramental consciousness must inevitably open out the possibility of a corresponding ascension in the grades of substance acting as the outermost vehicle, v ā hana, of the transformed embodied being. "The conquest ...
... and the tardy responses of the physical being surmounted, even the inconscient and unregenerate parts illumined and transmuted into their divine counterparts. Not only this: the supramental consciousness and light and force, once directly active in the field of earth-evolution, will in due course invade and take up the very substance of the body, transfigure its 'function and action', liberate... Divine, p. 988. 3 4 5 Ibid., p. 986. Page 18 guided by the Truth-Will of the indwelling Spirit. Man's physical body will thus be turned by the power of the Supramental Consciousness into an entirely conscious, "a true and fit and perfectly responsive instrument of the Spirit". 1 As a result of this Gnostic evolution, a supreme power of self-protection will ...
... contrary, is in full possession of that consciousness of which these are faint beginnings and distant echoes. The Superman will be born when man has risen above his mind and emerged into the supramental consciousness. One thing needs to be pointed out here: it is that man is expected to consciously transcend himself and deliver this supermanhood, for it is to be a conscious process, a labour of the... consciousness. Even the family, the first unit of collective formation in humanity that has attained a fulfilled status, is yet capable of a remodelling, a transmutation in the higher supramental consciousness. The family instead of being built upon blood-relationship may surely have a different foundation in soul- kinship, in affinity of consciousness, comradeship in life-work. It means a total ...
... inevitable solution – if solution it is at all – of the enigma. The first condition, however, to arrive at the crucial or synthetic state of consciousness (which is, in fact, the basic supramental consciousness, as Sri Aurobindo calls it) is the realisation that the world, that is to say, physical consciousness does not exist by itself. By itself, it is nothing. As the Prayer says, "it knows nothing... itself it is a void, non-existence: it becomes so however only to find that it is real, supremely real when it is suffused with its true substance, when it is the embodiment or vehicle of the supramental consciousness. ¹ The Mother: Prayers and Meditations, 19 May 1914 Page 289 ...
... consciousness were unlikely to prove easily amenable to physical perception or measurement. When the children asked her about it, the Mother said: Like knows like, it is only the Supramental Consciousness in an individual that can perceive the Supermind which is acting in the terrestrial atmosphere. 19 And the gates having been forced open, the rushing of the Light upon the earth was... be necessarily limited to the Ashram but would embrace all who have declared themselves... to be disciples of Sri Aurobindo and have tried to live his teaching". The manifestation of the Supramental consciousness in 1956 made it all the more necessary that a collective individuality should be striven for, centrally in the Ashram at Pondicherry, but also sending out creepers of influence and vibrations ...
... kind of certainty in the body that if even for a few seconds [it] were to lose contact... with the Supreme, it would instantly die. Only the Supreme keeps it alive.' 1967 May 4 The supramental consciousness enters 'a phase of realising power'. Gives a special Darshan, and a message quoting Sri Aurobindo: 'Earth-life is the self-chosen habitation of a great Divinity and his aeonic will is to change... can in order not to be an obstruction to the Divine Force which passes through.... Page 866 - Nov 8 Her physical consciousness experiences 'just for a few seconds - the supramental consciousness.... It is like the harmonisation of contraries. An activity, yes, total, tremendous, and a perfect peace.... The action is a material action.' - Dec 30 'Things have taken an extreme ...
... body and make the total transformation possible. The Mother has assured us that this Divine Force and Consciousness, this Supramental Consciousness has come down onto the earth. It is at work in man. The Supramental itself will descend into man and Supramental Consciousness will by itself work out the transformation of human life as and when it wishes. The whole earth is the instrument of the ...
... to manifest its multiplicity. If humanity and earth-nature are to Page 31 change decisively, a 'rending' of the 'veil' is necessary, for then the Supermind or the supramental consciousness would operate here, even as Mind of the mental consciousness is already operating. Neither the denial of matter through asceticism nor the denial of the Spirit through materialism or hedonism... Similarly, the theory of the 'Mental Ambience' put forward as a speculative possibility by Viscount Samuel in his modern Utopia, An Unknown Island, has a remote resemblance to the Aurobindonian supramental consciousness. But the British philosopher had no personal spiritual experience of anything like the Ambience, though he conceded, in the course of a letter, that while he had no doubt merely put it forward ...
... supports the evolution through the Overmind leading it towards his Ananda. 2 Equally significant was the fact that now the way stood open for the evocation and establishment of the Supramental Consciousness itself on the earth. To realise this possibility, it became necessary for Sri Aurobindo to withdraw into seclusion. II But Sri Aurobindo's retirement was not to mean a diminution... "Why did you retire?", Sri Aurobindo answered that, if he had to do what the Mother was doing, he could hardly have found time for his own work of hastening the manifestation of the supramental consciousness. It was practically a division of labour, and the Mother herself explained that in 1926, Sri Aurobindo had announced to the few people who were there that he was entrusting to me ...
... "This does not seem possible to me," says the Mother; a comparative transformation, yes, but not a total transformation! Through complete inner detachment, or the annulment of the ego, a supramental consciousness may be won, which will then act upon the world, the collectivity and their undesirable vibrations so as to change and transform them, at least to some extent. Certainly, it will be a difficult... had visioned this truth, and who saw man as but a "transitional being", but "with the possibility of acquiring" a higher consciousness. Sri Aurobindo had tried to establish in himself this supramental consciousness, and to "help those gathered around him to realise it". The children of the Ashram, still plastic enough for being moulded into and shaped as the pioneers of the coming race, were exposed ...
... the ultimate sense and destiny of the human birth are found in the ṛtam jyotiḥ or Truth-Light of the Supermind. If an ascent to a higher consciousness is a new birth, an ascent to the supramental consciousness is a birth into the Supernature, parā prakrti. The ascent has two stages, initial and final. At the initial stage, the most developed part of the consciousness of the Yogi rises... and Mind have evolved, so in due and inevitable course, the Supermind too must evolve and become the foundation and governing principle of the human consciousness. We shall live in the supramental consciousness and work with the supramental force, even as we now live in the mental consciousness and work with the mental force. The revolutionary nature of the transition from the mind to the Supermind ...
... Grace” was blooming. I watched this with great interest. The Mother then changed the flowers to the “Supramental Psychological Perfection”, again as long as they were in season, with the “Supramental Consciousness” in the center. Then the dish would come back with flowers of “Perfect Radiating Purity”, “Purity in Action” and so on. The central flowers could change to the “Supramental Sun” or anything... possible to Auroville. I went every Tuesday. At the first meeting with Mother she explained that she wanted to choose a hibiscus flower for each of the twelve gardens. The first day she chose “Supramental Consciousness” for the Garden of Consciousness. “It is so luminous,” she remarked. Richard Eggenberger (named Narad by the Mother) helped me in bringing the flowers. The work on the flowers began with great ...
... higher power will come down and work. It is not difficult to realise supramental consciousness but it is very difficult to make it active. Therefore several great souls after realising this consciousness worked through mind and reduced it to mental terms. Therefore they could not experience the working of the supramental consciousness in its true nature. This new process has not yet been attempted by ...
... Divine and its aspect of consciousness, secret in Matter, begins to emerge in Life, finds something more of itself in Mind and finds its true self in a Spiritual Consciousness and finally a Supramental Consciousness through which we become aware of the Reality, enter into it and unite ourselves with it. This is what we call evolution which is an evolution of Consciousness and an evolution of the Spirit... vital, the being dominated by 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 ...
... lives harmoniously. And this is perhaps also like a promise of what nearly the whole of humanity will become under the influence of the new creation. It looked to me that this was what the supramental consciousness could make of humanity … It would be something that would have the power to eliminate all errors, all deformations, all the ugliness of the mental life, and [that] then [would be] a very happy... human harmony. It was very pleasant. It was as if I lived in it. The contradictions had disappeared. It was as if I lived in that perfection. And it was almost like the ideal conceived by the supramental Consciousness of a humanity become as perfect as it can be. And it was very good.” 10 Sri Aurobindo too wrote about this “true humanity”, even in his series of articles on overman: “The result of ...
... back as an experience.’ 2 The New Man is among us. 3 — Nolini Kanta Gupta Sri Aurobindo wrote in The Synthesis of Yoga: ‘It is impossible to rise into [the gnostic or supramental consciousness] at Once; if that could be done, it would mean a sudden and violent overshooting, a breaking or slipping through the gates of the Sun … without any possibility of return. We have to form as... establish permanently upon the Earth the foundations of a new evolution — one might say to bring into the earth-atmosphere the ‘archetype’ of the possibilities and forms of the new evolution. The Supramental Consciousness, the main goal of the Work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, had come into the earth-atmosphere in 1956. The Mother had been forming the archetype of the ‘overman’ ( surhomme) and the overhuman ...
... that the supramental Consciousness is not there to diminish her but to complete her. Then, from the supreme Reality came the following order: “Wake up, o Nature, to the joy of collaboration!” And the whole of Nature, in an immense impulse of joy, rushed up to answer: “I agree, I collaborate” … She accepted. She saw, with all eternity in front of her, that this supramental Consciousness was going ...
... speed with which Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s realizations have been effected, taking into consideration the difficulty of their aims. In the span of a human lifetime they realized the supramental Consciousness in their own Mind and Vital. Only six years after Sri Aurobindo’s conscious, ‘strategic’ descent into death, the Supramental manifested into the Earth-atmosphere, whereby a new evolution of... development from his origin as a primate has taken about four million years according to recent scientific estimates. No doubt the presence of the new element in the Earth-atmosphere, the supramental Consciousness and Force, will enormously speed up the transformational process. When, in their often hilarious correspondence, Nirodbaran wrote to Sri Aurobindo: ‘We hear your Supermind is very near – not ...
... bringing about their divinisation is, to my mind, bunkum and a wasteful sidetracking of our energies which should be concentrated on psychic and spiritual unfolding and calling, if possible, the Supramental Consciousness into our inner being and letting it have a general influence on the outer being. 1 know that some people believe that they are undergoing the Supramental change in their bodies. A professor... the entire purpose of his mission would be foiled, for his work is universal and every type of human being is needed for such a work Just as he and the Mother were not content to embody the Supramental Consciousness in themselves but wanted it embodied in others as well, so too they did not envisage a limited circle of disciples: they were set on creating a new race out of the stuff which all humanity ...
... process by which it has arrived at its present level and by which, presumably, with whatever modifications, its final development, its passage from our still dominant mental ignorance to a supramental consciousness and an integral knowledge, will be governed and made effective. For we find that cosmic Nature is constant in its general law of action, since that depends on a Truth of things which is invariable... are not that, a secret Consciousness greater than Life Consciousness or Mind Consciousness, an Energy more essential than the material Energy. Since it is greater than Mind, it must be a supramental Consciousness-Force; since it is a power of essential substance other than Matter, it must be the power of that which is the supreme essence and substance of all things, a power of the Spirit. There is ...
... by another. As for the Supramental, it is by definition a consciousness above the Overmind in which all aspects are infused in the integral Divine. But none is bound to seek after the Supramental consciousness if his tendency is elsewhere. The manifestation is complex and there are beings in it who belong to various levels. If a soul wishes to plunge into the Divine through Nirvana or seeks spiritual... Knowledge is there in the earth-plane. Speculations about the Supramental Descent It is not perhaps very useful to forecast by the mind what will be the precise results of the descent of a supramental consciousness into a world in which up to now the mental intelligence has been the highest evolutionary product and leading power. For the supermind is a consciousness which will work in a very different ...
... ation severe attacks on the body will still be possible ] lies in the premiss laid down in the beginning that even after supramentalisation difficulties and attacks will continue. In the supramental consciousness such attacks are not possible—the coexistence of the supramental and the lower darkness in the same being and body is not possible. It is precisely for that reason that the supramentalisation... supramental descent would automatically make everybody immortal. The supramental descent can only make the best conditions for anybody who can open to it then or thereafter attaining to the supramental consciousness and its Page 312 consequences. But it would not dispense with the necessity of sadhana. If it did, the logical consequence would be that the whole earth, men, dogs and worms, would ...
... life, body also—but then it is something stable, supporting by its presence the lower Prakriti, but not transforming it. The supermind alone can transform the lower nature. In the supramental consciousness, there are no problems—the problem is created by the division set up by the Mind. The Supramental sees the Truth as a single whole and every thing falls into its place in that whole. The ... the supra cosmic apart from the manifestation, there is no place for problems or solutions. If one lives in the transcendence and the cosmic view at the same time, that can only be by the supramental consciousness in the supreme Sachchidananda consciousness—so why should the question arise? Why should there be a difference between the supreme Sachchidananda version of the cosmos and the Supermind's ...
... debouch into a vaster dominion; it must proceed in the end through a totality of integrated knowledge, emotion, will of dynamic action, perfection of the being and the entire nature. In the supramental consciousness, on the level of the supramental existence this integration becomes consummate; Page 279 there knowledge, will, emotion, the perfection of the self and the dynamic nature rise... dissolve the ego, enter into the cosmic consciousness, realise the self, acquire a spiritualised and universalised mind and heart, life-force, physical consciousness. Then only the passage into supramental consciousness begins to become possible, and even then there is a difficult ascent to make each stage of which is a separate arduous achievement. Yoga is a rapid and concentrated conscious evolution of ...
... being and cosmic forces and be in union with the Divine on all the planes up to the Overmind. Thirdly, to come into contact with the transcendent Divine, beyond the Overmind, through the supramental consciousness, supramentalise the consciousness and the nature and make oneself an instrument for the realisation of the dynamic Divine Truth and its transforming descent into the earth-nature. A Yoga... separative ego (incidentally, in doing so one finds one's true individual self which is not the limited, vain and selfish human ego but a portion of the Divine) and, secondly, to bring down the supramental consciousness on earth to transform mind, life and body. All else can be only a result of these two aims, not the primary object of the Yoga. The extreme difficulty of these two aims has never been concealed ...
... Adwaita (Mayavada) is your way of advance. This Yoga accepts the value of cosmic existence and holds it to be a reality; its object is to enter into a higher Truth-Consciousness or Divine Supramental Consciousness in which action and creation are the expression not of ignorance and imperfection, but of the Truth, the Light, the Divine Ananda. Page 447 But for that, surrender of the mortal... mortal mind, life and body to that Higher Consciousness is indispensable, since it is too difficult for the mortal human being to pass by its own effort beyond mind to a supramental consciousness in which the dynamism is no longer mental but of quite another power. Only those who can accept the call to such a change should enter into this Yoga. The Shankara knowledge is, as your Guru pointed out ...
... is more than probable that (not more than probable, certain), that it will happen again in the same way. There will come a time when a human consciousness is in the required state for a supramental consciousness to be able to enter this human consciousness and manifest. But it is possible that before this becomes a new race like the human race, it may take very, very long. And it will be done ... attitude of the superman towards man? What is the attitude of man towards the animal? No, let us hope that he is a little more kind! ( Laughter ) But you must not delude yourself. For the supramental consciousness man is truly stupid. Yes, even with all his perfections, all his realisations, all that, even with all his accomplishments, well, he seems terribly stupid. Only, that's no reason for il ...
... nature―not at all that things will happen only in a particular way and not otherwise. In fact, anything, everything that is ready to receive even a particle or a particular aspect of the supramental consciousness and light must automatically receive it. And the effects of this consciousness and light will be innumerable, for they will certainly be adapted to the possibilities, the capacity of each... innumerable, infinitely varied, not necessarily following a precise line which is the same for all. Page 177 That is impossible. For it is contrary to the very nature of the supramental consciousness. The very quality of the atmosphere has changed. The consequences are bound to be infinitely varied, but perceptible. That is to say, it will be possible to distinguish the consequences ...
... also like a promise of what almost the whole of humanity will become under the influence of the new creation. It Page 71 appeared to me that it was what the supramental consciousness could make of humanity. There was even a comparison with what humanity has made of the animal species. It is extremely mixed, naturally, but things have been perfected, bettered, utilised... It was very charming, it was as though I lived in it. The contradictions had disappeared. It was as though I lived in this perfection. And it was almost like the ideal conceived by the supramental consciousness, of a humanity become as perfect as it can be. And it was very good. And this brings a great repose. The tension, the friction, all that disappeared, and the impatience. All that had completely ...
... away from life, does not recoil in fear before the formidable amplitude of her movement, but wants on the contrary to integrate all its facets. She understood Page 247 that the supramental consciousness is here not to diminish but to complete her. Then from the supreme Reality came this order, "Awake, O Nature, to the joy of collaboration." And the whole of Nature suddenly rushed forward... breaking, without losing anything, the mighty flood of this Joy of Nature which rushed forward as in a movement of gratitude. She accepted, she saw with all eternity before her that this supramental consciousness was going to fulfil her more perfectly, give a still greater strength to her movement, a greater amplitude, more possibilities to her play. And suddenly I heard, as if they came from all ...
... don't mean materially but in their consciousness—to be disciples of Sri Aurobindo and have tried to live his teaching. Among all of them, and more strongly since the manifestation of the supramental Consciousness and Force, there has awakened the necessity for a true communal life, Page 173 which would not be based only on purely material circumstances but would represent a deeper truth... beginning of what Sri Aurobindo calls a supramental or gnostic community.... He has said, of course, that, for this, the individuals constituting this collectivity should themselves have this supramental consciousness; but even without attaining an individual perfection—even while very far from it—there was at the same time an inner effort to create this "collective individuality", so to speak. The need ...
... is not easy. The two conditions are: first, a power of expansion, of widening, that is unlimited, so to say, so that you can widen yourself to the dimension of the supramental consciousness, which is total. The supramental consciousness is the consciousness of the Supreme in His totality when—I say "His totality", I mean the Supreme in His aspect of Manifestation. Naturally, from the higher point of ...
... life than to pass from a certain psychic emotion in life—something that is like a reflection, a luminous emanation of the divine Presence in matter—to the supramental consciousness; it is much easier to pass from that into the supramental consciousness than to pass from the highest intellectual speculation to any supramental vibration. Perhaps it is the word that misleads us! Perhaps it is because we call ...
... consciousness is habitually associated with the experience of the unreality of the world as we know it, Sri Aurobindo tells us that this perception of the world's unreality need not exist for the supramental consciousness: only Falsehood is unreal , not the world. And this is most interesting—the world has its own reality, independent of Falsehood. I suppose this will be the first effect of the Supermind—perhaps... will be regulated by the laws of consciousness. × When the veil of falsehood has gone: the supramental consciousness. × Questioned later about the meaning of this sentence, Mother laughed, 'I said that from ...
... 78 personal contact with the Supramental Light and Consciousness, are capable of feeling the difference in the earth atmosphere. But for this... only like can know like. Only the Supramental Consciousness in an individual can perceive the Supramental acting in the earth atmosphere. Those who, for whatever reason, have developed this perception can see it. But those who are not even remotely... here—there were about a hundred and fifty more people than usual 1 —simply because they want to 'benefit.' But this may be exactly why they have not benefited from it! Because This [the supramental consciousness] has not come to make people benefit in any way whatsoever! They ask if their inner difficulties will be easier to overcome. I would repeat the same thing. What reason and what right ...
... utter a word, poof! It all clouds over. It's useless. But physically, for instance, you see this object [Satprem picks up a paperweight]. Now, I see it in a certain way—but you, with a supramental consciousness?... I just see through it, that's all. But that's nothing! Page 368 What do you mean, you see through it? Well, I mean I can see the luminous vibration behind it. But... the paperweight] what people call a "clairvoyant" vision? No, no! It's supramental vision? Yes. A clairvoyant wouldn't see it that way. No. It is the infiltration of the supramental consciousness. Which makes you see something else through objects or through people.... No, it has nothing to do with all the visions I've had. But that Vision.... I know it well, and it's not ...
... spirituality does not stand apart from life, does not timorously recoil before the awesome richness of her movement, but on the contrary wants to integrate all her facets. She understood that the supramental consciousness is not there to diminish her but to make her complete. Then, from the supreme Reality came this command: 'Awaken, O Nature, to the joy of collaboration.' And suddenly, all Nature rushed... losing anything of the Joy of Nature that was rushing forth in a movement of grateful recognition like an overwhelming flood. She accepted, she saw—with all eternity before her—that this supramental consciousness would fulfill her more perfectly and impart a still greater force to her movement and more richness, more possibilities to her play. And suddenly, as if resounding from every corner of ...
... in good health, yet I have a constant impression of being ill. The truth is, it's the transition from the ordinary mental consciousness to the supramental consciousness. The mental consciousness panics in the presence of the supramental consciousness. The vibration is so different I feel one could die every minute. Only when I am very tranquil.... The old consciousness (which isn't at all a mental ...
... is that things are beginning to rise. ( Then, regarding the forthcoming "Notes on the Way" in which Mother speaks of her experience of the supramental Consciousness-the conversation of November 19. ) What I said about the supramental consciousness, is it clear? I think it's very clear! Because when I spoke to you, I wasn't in it, it was only a memory. But it's clear, I could read ...
... life than to go from a certain psychic emotion in life—something that is like a reflection, a luminous emanation of the divine Presence in matter—to the supramental consciousness; it is much easier to go from that into the supramental consciousness than to go from the highest intellectual speculation to any supramental vibration. Perhaps it is the word that misleads us! Perhaps it is because we call ...
... about all. Is this today's news? I don't know, Mother. Because mine is today's latest news. They're rather pessimistic. But what do you say? I say that it must be the supramental consciousness—not Page 261 "consciousness": the supramental SUBSTANCE. And those who are ready will thus have their new body. That's my most... optimistic explanation. Did you actually... gesture of choking ). Result: I take nearly an hour to absorb what would normally take five minutes. ( silence ) So you think these solar eruptions are some kind of precipitation of the supramental consciousness on earth? Of the SUBSTANCE. The consciousness came long ago, but the thing is.... Because, for example, this body has the same needs it used to have; that's the way it is built: it needs ...
... means either of a positive or a negative nature. On the contrary, the physical change itself can only be brought about by a descent of the greater supramental consciousness into the cells of the body." 1 Yes, it is the. 'supramental consciousness' alone — understood not in the sense of any and every spiritual consciousness above the plane of Mind but in the specific sense in which Sri Aurobindo ...
... either of a positive or a negative nature. On the contrary, the physical change itself can only be brought about by a descent of the greater supramental consciousness into the cells of the body." 5 (italic ours.) Yes, it is the 'supramental consciousness' - understood not in the sense of any and every spiritual consciousness above the plane of Mind but in the specific sense in which Sri Aurobindo ...
... individual and for the race.* VII There is a distinction between psychic consciousness and spiritual consciousness, as there is a distinction between spiritual consciousness and supramental consciousness. As the Mother pointed out: The psychic life is immortal life, endless time, limitless space, ever-progressive change, unbroken continuity in the universe of forms. The spiritual c... time and space. To become conscious of psychic being and to live a psychic life, you must abolish all egoism; but to live a spiritual life, you must no longer have an ego. As far as the supramental consciousness is concerned, the Mother pointed out that: The supramental education will result no longer in a progressive form of human nature and an increasing development of its latent faculties ...
... domains of the psychic consciousness, spiritual consciousness and of supramental consciousness, — all of which are above the physical, subtle-physical, vital and mental domains of existence. In strict terms, the field which makes yoga distinctive is its field of psychic consciousness, spiritual consciousness and supramental consciousness. It is true, however, that yogic quest is often prefaced by an entry ...
... much medicine. Perhaps it is better not to give medicines except Lithiné. I still can't understand why you should bother to follow us doctors. The Divine can very easily act from the supramental consciousness directly; you don't really need a diagnosis given by ordinary men! If things were like that, why the deuce should we have Doctors or a dispensary at all? And what would have been the use... to do the whole business of the inside and outside off our own bat. You are as necessary for this as Chandulal for the building or others for their work. Who told you we are acting from supramental consciousness? We aren't and can't until the confounded quarrel with Matter is settled. If we doctors are important as mediums, you must tell me what our attitude should be in conducting a case. ...
... is himself a transitional being, not the final end and summit of evolution. In the next step, man will develop a new and higher spiritual consciousness which Sri Aurobindo has called the Supramental consciousness. In The Life Divine he writes: 'As the impulse towards Mind ranges from the more sensitive reactions of Life in the metal and the plant up to its full organisation in man, so in man himself... 'sarvam khalvidam brahma', verily, all this that is is the Brahman. And still there is a third and final step: to rise beyond the individual and the universal to the Transcendent through the Supramental consciousness and to bring down the powers of the Supramental into mind, life and body for a total and perfect transformation. We need not go into details here. In his Synthesis of Yoga and other writings ...
... ... That was what Sri Aurobindo meant—an indifference. Oh! it's strange. Now I realise why he said that I was the one who could attempt to effect the transition between the human and the supramental consciousness. He said so. He told me, and he says it, it is, recorded in Nirod's thing. And I understand why ... Ah! I understand. Yes, I understand. April 26, 1972 I am hearing—through... understanding was very flexible—very flexible. While listening to the things he said, I felt, that I had understood very little of what he meant. And now that I am more and more in touch with the supramental Consciousness, I can see that it is extremely flexible—flexible and complex—and that it is our narrow human consciousness that sees things ... ( Mother draws little squares in the air ) fixed and definite ...
... . That was what Sri Aurobindo meant - an indifference. Oh! it’s strange. Now I realise why he said that I was the one who could attempt to effect the transition between the human and the supramental consciousness. He said so. He told me, and he says it, it is recorded in Nirod’s thing. And I understand why... Ah! I understand. Yes, I understand. 26 April 1972 I am hearing - through Nirod... - very flexible. While listening to the things he said, I felt that I had understood very little of what he meant. And now that Page 141 I am more and more in touch with the supramental Consciousness, I can see that it is extremely flexible - flexible and complex - and that it is our narrow human consciousness that sees things... (Mother draws little squares in the air) fixed and definite ...
... It is a new experience, a new life which has begun, with possibilities which go on and on and extend towards the truth of existence. The why and the how do not exist in the domain of the Supramental Consciousness because the principles of division and ignorance have no place there. It is above the dualities of the mental substance and the mental movements. It is ever luminous with the full knowledge... cannot be compared! In the old cells, that is to say those in which the past still persists, there is only a faint glow, a spark of the Divine, whereas in the cells that are charged with the Supramental Consciousness, there is the perception of the Ananda of the soul, the soul of Matter which is awakening after thousands of years from its torpor of inconscience. It is so living, so real, so concrete in ...
... contrary, is in full possession of that consciousness of which these are faint beginnings and distant echoes. The Superman will be born when man has risen above his mind and emerged into the supramental consciousness. One thing needs to be pointed out here: it is that man is expected to consciously transcend himself and deliver this supermanhood, for it is to be a conscious process, a labour of the... consciousness. Even the family, the first unit of collective formation in humanity that has attained a fulfilled status, is yet capable of a remodelling, a transmutation in the higher supramental consciousness. The family instead of being built upon blood-relationship may surely have a different foundation in soul-kinship, in affinity of consciousness, comradeship in life-work. It means a total ...
... Knowledge." 39 The supreme Master of the Work can be integrally realized, according to Sri Aurobindo, only when we cross the Page 49 border of the highest Mind into a larger supramental consciousness, where the divine Truth is the nature and not a stranger. The Master of the Work is revealed there in the imperishable integral truth of his being and his powers and his workings. Only there... view of mind, I am He, the Purushottama." 46 The path of the Divine Love leads the seeker to the out flowings of the Ananda Brahman, — to joy, beauty, love, peace, and delight. In the supramental consciousness, however, the Ananda Brahman reveals its integrality and Brahman is realized as the integral Supreme, where the Supreme Inactive Brahman, the Divine Master of Work and the Ananda Brahman stand ...
... inevitable solution—if solution it is at all—of the enigma. The first condition, however, to arrive at the crucial or synthetic state of consciousness (which is, in fact, the basic supramental consciousness, as Sri Aurobindo calls it) is the realisation that the world, that is to say, physical consciousness does not exist by itself. By itself, it is nothing. As the Prayer says, "it knows nothing... it is a void, non-existence: it becomes so however only to find that it is real, supremely real when it is suffused with its true substance, when it is the embodiment or vehicle of the supramental consciousness. Page 110 ...
... principle of mind and the life of a mental being, so too a body must be developed with new powers, activities or degrees of a divine action expressive of a truth-conscious being and proper to a supramental consciousness and manifesting a conscious spirit. While the capacity for taking up and sublimating all the activities of the earth-life capable of being spiritualised must be there, a transcendence of the... limits within which it must remain to be consistent with life upon earth and without carrying that life beyond the earthly sphere or pushing it towards the supraterrestrial existence? The supramental consciousness is not a fixed quantity but a power which passes to higher and higher levels of possibility until it reaches supreme consummations of spiritual existence fulfilling: supermind as supermind ...
... intermediate stage called the Overmind. The ascent from mind to the Supermind cannot be sudden. Sri Aurobindo found in his Yogic experience that the mind cannot ascend directly to the Supramental consciousness. It is, too big, too long a jump. To get into Supermind directly from mind would be too sudden and too much of a change for man to manage, to bear. And he found that there is the necessary... highest rung in the evolutionary ladder of the Spirit, the Supermind is the plane of definite determination working out the Divine will and knowledge. Overmind is a delegate of the Supramental consciousness, —it is delegate of the Supermind to the Ignorance,—to Mind and a delegate of Ignorance to the Higher Consciousness. "It is by projection of this Luminous overmind corona that the diffusion ...
... them. 1.3.1970 The future chosen by You for me is going to be different from all my ideas! Ideas see always only one or at the most, some several sides of things. The supramental consciousness has a total view of life that animates and directs the special action which the body is destined to accomplish. 3.3.1970 Page 129 Perhaps there is an intensity of aspiration... anxious for the result? is it not still the ego? 18.6.1970 Sometimes, with Your remembrance there is a thrill in the body. It means that your body is sensitive to the supramental consciousness and that it can become more and more receptive to it. 20.6.1970 The straight aspiration towards the Divine, without care for personal progress, is such a pure flame! It ...
... is sheer folly to think of effecting the supramental transformation of one's nature by one's own mental strength and power. Page 421 The third condition is the descent of the supramental consciousness into the nature of the aspirant. "The ascent is the first step, but it is a means for the descent of the new consciousness attained by the ascent that is the stamp and seal of the sâdhanâ... as far down as the subconscient and inconscient ² levels of our manifold being, illumine their darkness, and make them plastic and responsive to its transmuting action. This descent of the supramental consciousness is the most distinctive feature of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo, and bears in itself all the incalculable possibilities of the Life Divine in humanity. The fourth condition, which ...
... in this world from Matter into Life and Life into Mind. For just as Life-consciousness is beyond the imprisoned material being and unattainable by it through its own instruments, so this supramental consciousness is beyond the divided and dividing nature of Mind and unattainable by it through its own instruments. But as Matter is constantly prepared for the manifestation of Life until Life is able ...
... much stress on pranayama? ... Does it follow Anahata Nad and Jyoti? You can tell him that it has nothing to do with the things he speaks of. It is a Yoga whose aim is to bring down a supramental consciousness and its Light, Power, Peace, Knowledge and Ananda for the transformation of the mind, life and body consciousness into an instrument of the Divine Consciousness. It does not follow any of ...
... just the present impermanent exterior nature which has absolutely nothing to do with the several other formations behind which, as behind the present one, the true being stands. Only the supramental consciousness holds these births as if strung on one single thread and that alone can give the real knowledge of them all. Page 149 ...
... what 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 ...
... is it already there? Is it good to call it down for all? The Higher Consciousness is there already—it depends on the sadhak how much (or little) he receives of it and in what way. The supramental consciousness is not yet down in the material, but it is no use calling that for all,—hardly anyone could receive it at present. But up to just below that all is there. It is a question of receiving, not ...
... Mind is an instrument of the Ignorance, this can only be effected by a change of consciousness, a transition from a foundation in Ignorance to a foundation in Knowledge, from the mental to a supramental consciousness, a supramental instrumentation of Nature. Sri Aurobindo The Life Divine - II: Man and the Evolution With regard to the evolution upwards, it is more correct to speak of the psychic ...
... supramental descent would automatically make everybody immortal. The supramental descent can only make the best conditions for anybody who can open to it then or thereafter attaining to the supramental consciousness and its consequences. But it would not dispense with the necessity of sadhana. If it did, the logical consequence would be that the whole earth, men, dogs and worms, would suddenly wake up ...
... an inner self-development by which each Page 549 one who follows it can in time discover the one Self in all and evolve a higher consciousness than the mental, a spiritual and supramental consciousness which will transform and divinise human nature. February 1934 Page 550 ...
... the action you want to accomplish, and free yourself from all blind determinism, allowing nothing else to intervene in your life's course than the highest Will, the truest Knowledge, the Supramental Consciousness. Page 160 ...
... with it, that power of involved reasoning that reaches its conclusion by a bound and does not need the ordinary steps of the logical mind. Overmind: The Overmind is a delegate of the Supramental Consciousness, its delegate to the cosmic Ignorance. The Supramental is the total Truth-Consciousness; the Overmind draws down the truths separately and gives them a separate identity. subliminal ...
... represent, each of them, an aspect of its glories. No doubt, the Supermind has also acted in the history of the world but always through the Overmind. It is the direct descent of the Supramental Consciousness and Power that alone can utterly re-create life in terms of the Spirit. For, in the Overmind there is already the play of possibilities which marks the beginning of this lower triple world ...
... years. There is still this problem: is it possible to make use of the notion of space - I mean on the planet earth?** Is it possible * 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 ...
... and represent, each of them, an aspect of its glories. No doubt, the Supermind has also acted in the history of the world but always through the Overmind. It is the direct descent of the Supramental Consciousness and Power that alone can utterly re-create life in terms of the Spirit. For, in the Overmind there is already the play of possibilities which marks the beginning of this lower triple world ...
... atmosphere took place. If things go on advancing at this speed, it seems more than possible, almost evident, that what Sri Aurobindo wrote in a letter is a prophetic announcement: The supramental consciousness will enter a phase of realising power in 1967. 1 Page 315 × "4-5-67 is the year of complete ...
... but of many other incomprehensible mad men, the luminous mad: they have wanted to cross the border too quickly and the rest has not followed. When one looks at the world of men from the supramental consciousness, the predominant feature is a feeling of strangeness, of artificiality—of a world that is absurd because it is artificial. This world is false because its material appearance does not at all ...
... direct personal contact with the supramental Light and Consciousness are able to feel the difference in the earth-atmosphere. But for that... Only the like can know the like, only the supramental Consciousness in an individual can perceive this Supermind acting in the earth-atmosphere. Those who, for some reason or other, have developed this perception, can see it. But those who are not even conscious ...
... think I remember rightly, in 1926. 2 Sri Aurobindo had given me charge of the outer work because he wanted to withdraw into concentration in order to hasten the manifestation of the supramental consciousness and he had announced to the few people who were there that he Page 148 was entrusting to me the work of helping and guiding them, that I would remain in contact with him, naturally ...
... it may be as vast as the Earth or even the universe. But you cannot live without practising occultism, only you don't know it. So the only difference you can make is that when one has the supramental consciousness one will know it. That is all. So, your question automatically vanishes. When you think—I have explained this to you I don't know how many times—when you think, you are practising occultism ...
... old world. So, in fact, it is there, inside, in its very depths, hidden, invisible, imperceptible, unexpressed, but it is there, in its essence. Still, unless from the supreme heights the supramental consciousness and force and light manifest directly in the world, as it happened a year and a half ago, this Supermind which in principle is at the very bedrock of the material world as it is, would never ...
... not that joy of progress. The joy of progress imagines that even if you have realised the goal you have put before you—take the goal we have in view: if we realise the supramental life, the supramental consciousness—well, this joy of progress says, "Oh! but this will be only a stage in the eternity of time. After this there will be something else, and then after that another and yet another, and always ...
... will take time; it is an integral transformation which cannot be achieved in a moment. It will even take quite a long time. But when it is accomplished, when the consciousness has become a supramental consciousness, then action will no longer be determined at every Page 111 moment by a mental choice or be dependent on the physical capacity: the entire body will spontaneously, integrally, ...
... our subconscience; last, there must supervene the supramental transmutation,—there must take place as the crowning movement the ascent into the Supermind and the transforming descent of the supramental Consciousness into our entire being and nature. " The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 890-91 What is the role of the spirit? One might say that it is both the conscious intermediary between ...
... that has to be gone through on the way. Once equanimity is established there can be established too another kind of faith, supported by it, which can be made dynamic with something from the supramental consciousness and can overcome the present circumstances and determine what will happen and help to bring down the Realisation of the Will of the Transcendent Divine. The faith that goes ...
... like that. All things are , and for us it is as though we see them projected on the screen, they come one after another. It is somewhat like that. Yes, Sri Aurobindo said that in the supramental consciousness the past, the present and the future existed side by side, as though on a single map of consciousness. 1 Yes, it is so. It is so. But for me, it is an experience. It is not a thing ...
... representatives of the new race. Here, in the Ashram, you are in the most favourable conditions with regard to the environment, the influence, the teaching and the example, to awaken in you this supramental consciousness and to grow according to its law. Page 116 Now, all depends on your will and your sincerity. If you have the will no more to belong to ordinary humanity, no more to be merely evolved ...
... until there is the full Light. To give up restraint would be to give free play to the vital and that would mean leave for all kinds of forces to enter in. So long as there is not the supramental consciousness controlling and penetrating everything, in all the being from the overmind downwards, there is an ambiguous play of forces, and each force, however divine in origin, may be used by the Powers ...
... Sachchidananda. The personal and the impersonal become irrevocably one, so that to posit one as against the other appears as an act of ignorance. This tendency of unification is the basis of the supramental consciousness and experience; for cosmic or creative purposes the supermind can put forward one aspect prominently where that is needed, but it is aware of all the rest behind it or contained in it and ...
... descend the ladder as well as ascend it higher than the ordinary Jivas (Jivakoti) who, once having ascended, have not the strength to descend again for divine work. The full truth lies in the supramental consciousness and the power to work from there on life and matter. Page 441 There is no real contradiction; the two passages 1 indicate in the Gita's system two different movements of ...
... One thing must be said—that an incarnation is not the object of this Yoga; it is only a condition or means towards the object. The one and only aim we have before us is to bring down the supramental consciousness and the supramental Truth into the world; the Truth and nothing but the Truth is our aim, and if we cannot embody this Truth, a hundred incarnations do not matter. But to bring down the true ...
... Page 266 and interfered and either prevented the experience or else stood in the way of its being pure and complete. The silence of the mind does not of itself bring in the supramental consciousness; there are many states or planes or levels of consciousness between the human mind and the Supermind. The silence opens the mind and the rest of the being to greater things, sometimes to the ...
... divine or spiritual love, the perception of one's own psychic being, the discovery of one's own true mental being, true vital being, true physical being, the realisation of the overmind or the supramental consciousness, the clear perception of the relation of all these things to our present inferior nature and their action on it to change that lower nature. The list of course might be infinitely longer. ...
... it in the past of the earth, such as that which brought about the appearance of the conscious life of the animal; there must surely be another in its future in which a higher spiritual and supramental consciousness shall emerge and be turned upon the works of the mind. But at present it is this which is at work; a self-conscious soul in mind, mental being, manomaya puruṣa , struggles to arrive at some ...
... depending on them at first, but yet turning in the scale of its ascent to overtop and master them. Mind too might only be an inferior scale and formulation derived from a much greater and supramental consciousness, and that consciousness too with its greater light and will a characteristic originating power of spiritual being, the power which secret in all things, in mind, in life, in matter, in the ...
... Consciousness-Force when thrown outward to realise itself in concrete harmonies of formation; Love is an intense self-expression of the soul of Ananda, and Light is what always accompanies the Supramental Consciousness and its most essential power. The Divine: One in All The Divine is everywhere and in all—but this is a world of Ignorance in which each one is separated from the Divine within him by ...
... consciousness which veils its presence. What we have to do is to awake Matter to the spiritual consciousness concealed in it. 5) What we aim at bringing down into the material world is the supramental consciousness, light and energy, because it is this alone that can truly transform it. If there is at any time a growth of unconsciousness and inertia, it is because of the resistance of the ordinary ...
... doing sadhana and by her giving me the flower called Supramental Future. Both these things gave me hope, especially the latter, for I have been wondering whether I would realise up to the supramental consciousness. These days many forces have been pulling me in different directions; in this way I don't arrive at the Truth or at the organisation of my being. Now and then I get experiences, ...
... a radical and transforming change in the principles and forms of his 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 ...
... of any night, when they came to the Sun as to a lover and circled round him, not returning again and again in his front as a precursor of his periodical visitations. That shall be when the supramental consciousness shines out fulfilled in the mentality and we shall possess the year-long day enjoyed by the gods on the summit of the eternal mountain. Then shall be the dawning of the "best" or highest, ...
... and equally impossible to regenerate radically the Will-in-Life without bringing down the infallible light and unconquerable power that belong to the spiritual and supramental levels. The Supramental Consciousness is not only a Knowledge, a Bliss, an intimate Love and Oneness, it is also a Will, a principle of Power and Force, and it cannot descend till the element of Will, of Power, of Force in this ...
... mind is an instrument of the Ignorance, this can only be effected by a change of consciousness, a transition from a foundation in Ignorance to a foundation in Knowledge, from the mental to a supramental consciousness, a supramental instrumentation of Nature. Page 877 There is no conclusive validity in the reasoning that because this is a world of Ignorance, such a transformation can only be ...
... Rig Veda. The superconscient Mind of which we speak might rather be called an Overmind and inhabits in the hierarchical order of the powers of the Spirit, a zone directly dependent on the supramental consciousness. × Mind is here used in its widest sense including the operation of an Overmind power which ...
... the new formation and perfection, siddhi . At the same time there is the disclosure above the mind of the source of the intuitive action and a more and more organised functioning of a true supramental consciousness acting not in the mind but on its own higher plane. This draws up into itself in the end the intuitive mentality it has created as its representative and assumes the charge of the whole activity ...
... . A little like that. All things ARE, but for us, we see them projected on a screen, as it were: one comes after another. It's a little like that. Yes, Sri Aurobindo said that in the supramental consciousness, past, present and future exist side by side on a single map of knowledge. 1 Yes, that's it. That's right. But for me it is an experience. Not something I "think" (I don't think), ...
... of India's own scriptures, in no religion either of East or West, in the depth of no mystical experience available to his insight into inner achievements did he find direct traces of the Supramental Consciousness Page 32 and Force. So when you write of the "body and soul of Jesus" undergoing "at the resurrection... a supramental transformation", you make me very uneasy. Of ...
... had the aspiration to share in the new age of earth-life which such a realisation would inaugurate. He also strove for a general descent charging the earth's atmosphere, as it were, with a supramental consciousness ready to enter all who would be prepared for it, so that in the long run this Page 208 consciousness might be accessible to the race just as the mental, in various degrees ...
... formulas are only fragmentary representations of Truth or pointers or abstract schemas and images, not her very self and reality. Either a deeper inner soul-vision or a higher overmental or supramental consciousness is needed to discover Truth in her very face and body. Page 288 Then only can both ends of the riddle be firmly seized and connected together, the whole of existence seen in one ...
... have to revise it. I could see it, if you like? But I dare not ask her! I don't know if she would give it to me. 3 Soon afterwards What you said last time [on the supramental Consciousness] might be used for "Notes on the Way"? ( Mother opens her eyes wide ) I don't know... I don't know. I've just learned that others are beginning to feel. Do you know Dr. V? He was the ...
... Mother’s Agenda 1969 December 6, 1969 ( Satprem reads out to Mother the conversation on the supramental Consciousness, which he proposes to publish in the next Bulletin. ) I know many people who will read it with... but it's not enough. Not enough, how do you mean? Page 464 I mean there are lots of people who won't understand a word ...
... and finally manifesting Him consciously. To this we must dedicate ourselves, it is our true raison d'être. And our first step towards this sublime realization is the manifestation of the supramental consciousness." ...
... and try to make a synthesis of them all. Otherwise, whatever is the quality of your intellect, you are hopelessly narrow and limited. This applies to everybody who has not realised the supramental consciousness and crossed to the upper hemisphere. You will all work together harmoniously and happily, forgetting your differences, and each one thinking only of doing his own work as well as he can ...
... again be a new reversal. This is why even our spiritual life, which is such a total reversal compared to ordinary life, seems something still so ... so totally different when compared to this supramental consciousness that the values are almost opposite. It can be expressed in this way (but it's quite approximate, more than diminished or deformed): it's as if our entire spiritual life were made of silver ...
... November Mother’s Agenda 1972-1973 November 8, 1972 For a moment—just a few seconds—I had the supramental consciousness. It was so marvelous, mon petit!... I understood that if we were to taste that now, we would no longer want to exist differently. We are in the process of... ( gesture of kneading dough ) of changing ...
... under those circumstances. × Mother replied, "All depends on the world's receptivity to the supramental consciousness." We publish in the Addendum an account of the Dalai Lama's questions and Mother's answers. × ...
... of the whole being and nature, an integration, must also be part of the process, if the evolution is to be effective. The end of the evolutionary process would be to manifest the supramental consciousness-force in the material body. "The Supermind", according to Sri Aurobindo, "is in its very essence a truth-consciousness, a consciousness always free from the Ignorance which is the foundation ...
... of Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga is nor only to bring about the integration of the human being which is the aim of psychotherapy but also to hasten immeasurably the realisation of the supramental consciousness. Sri Aurobindo's challenge to psychologists is that they recognise this fourth or the spiritual dimension in man, because one must know the whole before one can know the part and the ...
... of an invisible person brings a transformation symbolised by the circulation of the fluid in each atom of his body culminating in his entire being getting permeated by the golden fluid of Supramental Consciousness, “The rapture of things eternal filled his limbs.” Later he even transcends all the bodily experiences and through only “Light” he ultimately experiences the transformation into the formless ...
... Magnificent Mystic Darshan 1984-07-13 In this experience, Champaklal already finds himself with the Mother in the new world (“Futuristic place”) which received the light of the Supramental Consciousness (“golden light”) and from where Sri Aurobindo also could be seen in his, new supramentalised body. A number of persons come, offer their salutations to Sri Aurobindo and disappear, signifying ...
... death: 1. violent surprise or accident; 2. the action of old age; 3. his own choice, when finding it not possible to accomplish his [avataric] endeavour this time, i.e. establishing the supramental Consciousness on Earth, or if something would prove him that it was impossible. What happened in 1950, however, was a fourth possibility not foreseeable in 1924: that he would have to descend into death ...
... not a new evolutionary step or gradation in the lower hemisphere of being. The aim this time is a transition from the lower to the higher hemisphere, from the mental consciousness to the supramental consciousness, from our divisive, partial, impotent consciousness to a global, omnipotent, divine Unity-consciousness. All our misery and impotence derives from our divided consciousness; the new being ...
... consciousness, or ‘the mind’ for short. The mind is an instrument of knowledge able to see only from a certain standpoint and never from all possible standpoints at the same time like the supramental Consciousness of Unity; therefore it can only perceive aspects, aspects that are parts, flakes or chips of the One Reality. This is why Sri Aurobindo called the human so often ‘the mental being’, halfway ...
... acquisition by some advanced human beings of the Truth-Consciousness or Supermind in its most “diluted” aspect. “There is a further limitation or change of characteristic action [of the supramental consciousness] at each step downwards from Overmind to Intuition, from Intuition to Illumined Mind, from Illumined Mind to what I have called the Higher Mind: the Mind of Light is a transitional passage ...
... fulfilled.” 75 However, the previous pages should have made clear that the realisation of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s endeavour would be difficult and complex – and unforeseeable. Yes, the Supramental Consciousness would descend, but later than expected and after some daunting obstacles and dramatic developments. ...
... than human must be called supra-mental. As the mental consciousness has been incorporated into life on Earth from its pre-existent involutionary level in the cosmic manifestation, so the supramental consciousness will incorporate from the supramental level or Supermind, which is the creative divine Consciousness. As Sri Aurobindo and the Mother said, the difference between the human and the superhuman ...
... cosmic being and cosmic forces and be in union with the Divine in all the planes up to the overmind. Thirdly, to come into contact with the transcendent Divine beyond the overmind, through the Supramental consciousness, supramentalize the consciousness and the nature; and make oneself instrument for the realization of the dynamic Divine Truth and its transforming descent into the earth-nature. Sri Aurobindo ...
... not?) that all suffering must be a make-believe, a may a, since we like it so much? — ergo, why not welcome it sportingly, taking it all as a joke? That is why I often wonder whether the Supramental consciousness of your ideal stratospheres can ever feel at home in this our world of mental humans! For I can tell you that we — common mortals, constituted as we are — resist nothing as stubbornly as suffering ...
... secondary to this principal object of our life which is to discover the divine Reality in us in place of the Ego. A new orient tation of our life from the ignorant mental to spiritual and supramental consciousness is the call of the Spirit in us and to ignore this call is to invite certain defeat, death and disaster both for men and nations. It is the heightening, widening and deepening of the ignorant ...
... be prepared to give it a fair chance by our individual and collective collaboration for the common goal. If another 2 to 3 hundred years lapse before the manifestation of this gnostic or supramental consciousness, we have nothing to worry. Mind and mental principle have operated for millions of years without being able to check the downward trend of human consciousness. But the supreme truth consciousness ...
... about it. The only thing that matters is keeping up the complete, total, constant — yes, constant — union with the Force, the Light, the Truth, the Power and the unspeakable Delight of the supramental consciousness." 2 1 The Life Divine, p. 932. 2 The Mother, Bulletin, Vol. IX, No. 3, p. 145. Page 319 So, the proper attitude for a Sadhaka should be not ...
... by the Vedic Rishis to bring down to earth. Like the Page 31 mental consciousness and Power which has been in operation on earth shaping a race of mental beings, this supramental consciousness has to be brought down to earth to shape a race of spiritual or gnostic beings and it his is what he has done by sacrificing his own life for the future of humanity. This will naturally ...
... of human beings is not the last term of the evolutionary progression of consciousness. It will exceed Mind as mind has exceeded the life consciousness of animals and culminate in supramental consciousness—its ultimate goal in terrestrial life. From a world of ignorance, sorrow and suffering, full of strife and discord, we shall enter a new world of peace, harmony, bliss and love. The Divine ...
... overtly operative power in Life and Matter. This would mean the appearance in the evolution of a gnostic being or Purusha and a gnostic Prakriti, a gnostic Nature. There must be an emergent supramental Consciousness-Force liberated and active within the terrestrial whole 1 The Life Divine, p. 917. 2 Ibid., p. 962. (Italics ours) 3 The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 454 ...
... self-truth of things, not by thought but by identity, a knowledge of the self by the self and in the self, ā tmani ā tm ā nam ā tman ā : such, then, is the method of cognition of the supramental consciousness. Now, what is the place or role of thought in the supramental gnosis? Evidently, thought here is merely a derivative movement, not the determining noetic force; an instrument for ...
... by saying, “If things continue to move at this speed, it is more than possible, it is almost evident, that what Sri Aurobindo wrote in a letter is becoming a prophetic announcement: ‘The supramental consciousness will enter into a phase of realising power in 1967.’” Neither You nor Sri Aurobindo have spoken of governments or politics. If You have some time, read this conversation. It is marvellous ...
... about his death: (i) violent surprise and accident; (ii) the action of old age; (iii) his own choice, when finding it not possible to accomplish his endeavour this time, i.e. establishing the supramental Consciousness on Earth, or if something would prove to him that it was not possible. What happened in 1950 was a fourth possibility not foreseeable in 1924: that he would have to descend into death voluntarily ...
... Mother herself narrates the events as follows: ‘Sri Aurobindo had put me in charge of the outer work because he wanted to withdraw in concentration in order to hasten the manifestation of the supramental Consciousness, and he had announced to the few people who were there that he was entrusting to me the work of helping and guiding them, that I would remain in contact with him as a matter of course, and ...
... imperious, irresistible in its comprehensive sweetness . Consciousness: Consciousness One with the Divine Consciousness: Smiling and happy, it no longer knows any shadows . Supramental consciousness: Gloriously awake and powerful—luminous, sure of itself and infallible in its movements! The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth Bliss: ...
... it suffused the whole earth's atmosphere. This descending Consciousness was afterwards identified by me as being an intermediate level between the present mental consciousness and the Supramental Consciousness. This descending Consciousness is that of the Superman, which is still that of man but with a very enlarged range and power, but not transformed into the gnostic being. This consciousness ...
... opens up, there will again be a new reversal of this kind. Thus even our spiritual life—which is such a total reversal in relation to ordinary life—is and appears to be, in relation to the supramental consciousness, the supramental realisation, something so totally different that the values of the two are almost opposite. One can put it in this way (but this is very imprecise, more than diminishe ...
... usually associated with the experience of the unreality of the world as we know it, whereas Sri Aurobindo says that this perception of the unreality of the world is not necessary to live in the supramental consciousness—it is only the unreality of Falsehood, not the unreality of the world. That is to say, the world has a reality of its own, independent of Falsehood. I suppose that is the first effect of ...
... and it would not be good. Sri Aurobindo does not mention here the consciousness that is higher than either of the two consciousnesses in question (material and immaterial), that is, the supramental consciousness which contains all the other consciousnesses in itself and can thus know everything on all planes of being. This is the consciousness we should aspire for, this is the consciousness which ...
... by the mental aberrations of the civilised? As always Sri Aurobindo's words are prophetic. For only when humanity is cured of its mental aberrations will it be able to manifest the supramental consciousness and recover the natural health which the mind has lost for it. 14 March 1970 ...
... that they are a kind of transcription (one might say "intellectual", but it is not that, it is a mentalised higher mind, that is to say, it is accessible to thought) of the experience of the supramental consciousness that I had, in which this difference of good and evil and all that, appears as childishness, and Sri Aurobindo expresses it in the aphorisms in a way accessible to the intellect. Only... those ...
... I shall persist until death or until victory. 8 September 1954 My Lord, what Thou hast wanted me to do I have done. The gates of the Supramental have been thrown open and the Supramental Consciousness, Light and Force are flooding the earth. But as yet those who are around me are little aware of it―no radical change has taken place in their consciousness and it is only because they trust ...
... This entire experience and Mother's insistence that it all happened 'without moving,' unlike the experience of the ascent of the Kundalini, suggests that it is the supramental consciousness concealed in the depths of the cells, that somehow emerges and traverses all the layers until the junction is made with the most material body-consciousness. ...
... And this descent of the superman consciousness... Did I tell you I had afterwards identified it? When you spoke last time, you had identified it. Yes, but I spoke of "supramental consciousness." Later, you said, "Maybe the superman?" Yes, that's it. It's the descent of the superman consciousness. I had the assurance of it afterwards. It was on the 1st of January after ...
... last August and September, the Mother refers to the 'exclusion of the mind and vital.' Why do they have to be eliminated for a rapid and effective transformation of the body? Doesn't the supramental consciousness act on them too?" Certainly it acts! It's ALREADY been acting, for a long time. It's because the body is used (was used) to obeying the vital and especially the mind, so it's to change ...
... tight), it turned around and stuck its thorn into my finger! I had another example, a very amusing one. You know that I keep hibiscus flowers there, under the lamp; I had kept two flowers, "Supramental Consciousness," and another, pale pink, "Supramental Beauty," there, under the lamp. Then someone sent me a "Power," a hibiscus this big, all white, with a dark red center—a marvel! Big as this. I put it ...
... present body was no longer needed. Undoubtedly, both she and Sri Aurobindo had been working for the supramentalisation of their individual bodies and not just for the manifestation of a general supramental consciousness, light, force, etc. and that too in the earth's subtle-physical layer. Could she have felt or intuited that the full individual work would not be accomplished by her in this life of hers? ...
... The Aurobindonian movement keeps in view a Divine Consciousness which holds the original models of mind, life-force and body, an ideal or archetypal mentality, vitality and physicality - a Supramental Consciousness which is not only a manifested Perfection beyond the mind-level but also a hidden Perfection in the very depths of Matter, gradually releasing by an evolutionary process life-force and mind ...
... and acting together. It was a state in which the mind is ignorant. Usually I see X's head filled with light. However, we must remember that this light is a very different thing from the Supramental Consciousness. There is a big gulf between the two, no matter how brilliant the light may be from the great mental planes above the human but below the Supermind." Of course the light proper ...
... our varied self-awareness into the poise of our true soul - "the psychic being" in our Yoga's terminology. Along with the movement towards this poise, there has to be the aspiration for the Supramental Consciousness to make that poise the fount of its transcendent all-divinising radiation here below. That is indeed a far prospect, but it is also far from being impossible if we set ourselves sincerely ...
... emanation, spreading his Light; and he will continue to do it until the Inconscience is no longer inconscient, until Darkness disappears from the world — and the whole creation awakens to the Supramental Consciousness. "And it is remarkable that this wonderful Being strongly resembles the one whom I saw in vision one day, the Being who is at the other extremity, at the confines of form and the ...
... one aim of his Yoga is an inner self-development by which each one who follows it can in time discover the One Self in all and evolve a higher consciousness than the mental, a spiritual and supramental consciousness which will transform and divinize human nature. Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice (On Himself, SABCL Vol. 26, pp. 95-97) Page 160 ...
... concentrate on his inner life and work. During his forty years there, he developed a new spiritual path, the Integral Yoga, whose ultimate aim is the transformation of life by the power of a supramental consciousness. In 1926, with the help of the Mother, he founded the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. His vision of life is presented in numerous works of prose and poetry, among which the best known are The Life ...
... oneness behind the play of variation. Quintessentially, it is the same consciousness, although it may seem to divide itself into two: the two complementary halves of the once cosmic or supramental consciousness. Aswapati is the Forerunner, Savitri is the Avatar; and they are both necessary for Page 309 the manifestation, and the dual act of redemption and new creation. ...
... Vol. 5, p. 575: "The Life Heavens". Page 134 The first step towards this victory was the permanent establishment, in the Mother's most outward self, of that phase of the supramental consciousness which he had called the Mind of Light. And that establishment was a prelude to the progressive illumination, which she subsequently described, of the subtle consciousness within the very cells ...
... of any night, when they came to the Sun as to a lover and circled round him, not returning again and again in his front as a precursor of his periodical visitations. That shall be when the supramental consciousness shines out fulfilled in the mentality and we shall possess the year-long day enjoyed by the gods on the summit of the eternal mountain. Then shall be the dawning of the 'best' or highest, ...
... not enough, it is only a beginning; spiritualisation and the descent of the higher consciousness is not enough, it is only a middle term; the ultimate achievement needs the action of the supramental Consciousness and Force. Something less than that may very well be considered enough by the individual, but it is not enough for the earth-consciousness to take the definitive stride forward it must ...
... the being dominated by 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.... 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 ...
... world. He was looking for a power that will enable him to do this as he was journeying through the various worlds. Now at the end of his journey, he realises, that such a power, namely the Supramental Consciousness, is not yet manifest in this cosmic formula. From where shall he bring it down? It can only be brought down from the Transcendental world. So after the Yoga of the Individual Divine of ...
... its head there is the supramental Truth-Consciousness manifested in an. individual or a small group of individuals who will be the representatives of the new race, the incarnation of the supramental consciousness upon earth. During the last lesson we learnt how to detach ourselves from our thoughts so as to be able to observe them like an attentive spectator. Today we must learn how to watch ...
... universe and beyond. Take upon yourself always all the necessities of progress and dissolve them in the ecstasy of unity. Then you will be divine. 13 November 1957 (About the Gnostic supramental consciousness) What gives the sense of a great simplicity; for it is always when one goes down that the complications begin. One speaks a great deal about this teaching but one does not follow it ...
... the life one could have led — whether in one direction or the other. In your case there is something more. As your soul remains very closely linked with my being, as the contact with the supramental consciousness grows more and more total and constant, it acts very strongly on your soul like an almost irresistible attraction. This is what happened in 58.. To conclude, "an easy and pleasant life" ...
... side of his being, the intellectual side, that of knowledge, the Seer. My Lord, what Thou hast wanted me to do I' have done. The gates of the Supramental have been thrown open and the Supramental Consciousness, Light and Force are flooding the earth. But as yet those who are around me are little aware of it—no radical change has taken place in their consciousness and it is only because they trust ...
... universe—and beyond. Take upon yourself always all the necessities of progress and dissolve them in the ecstasy of Unity. Then you will be divine. 13.11.57 ( about the gnostic supramental consciousness ) What gives the sense of a great simplicity; for ft is always when one goes down that the complications begin. One speaks a great deal about this teaching but one does not follow it ...
... enough, it is only a beginning; spiritualisation and the descent of the higher consciousness is not enough, it is only a middle term; the ultimate achievement needs the action of the supramental Consciousness and Force. Something less than that may very well be considered enough by the individual, but it is not enough for the earth-consciousness to take the definitive stride forward it must take ...
... of the whole being and nature, an integration, must be also part of the process, if the evolution is to be effective.' The end of the evolutionary process would be to manifest the supramental consciousness-force in material body. Man is a transitional being, and the spiritual man is the sign of the new evolution. The intention of Nature in the evolution of the spiritual man is not merely to ...
... only the full emergence of the light and power of the spirit and the consequent replacement or transformation and uplifting of our insufficient mental and vital nature by a spiritual and supramental consciousness, force and action that can effect the needed evolutionary miracle. If it is said that this insistence on a radical change of nature seems to put off all the hope of humanity to a distant ...
... manifestation of the Supramental upon earth is no more a promise but a living fact, a reality." Page 16 In 1958, the Mother entered into a new phase of Yoga, which aimed at fixing the supramental consciousness in the cells of the body so as to establish in the world, the conditions of the emergence of the next species, the supramental species that would manifest the Supermind in the supramental ...
... processes of endurance, when the powers of Varuna, Mitra, Aryaman and Bhaga (powers of wideness, harmony, upward aspiration and enjoyment) are synthesized, one attains to constant dwelling in the supramental consciousness and will, in rita-chitta, and one is stabilized in immortality. Example of the Yoga of Angirasa Rishis 30 But in order to present a more adequate description of the Vedic ...
... next step in the evolution on the earth. According to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, what is aimed at by the evolutionary force in the human species is the accomplishment of fixing of the supramental consciousness in the physical being and not merely of attainment of the universalisation or vastness of the physical being. In this connection, the following statements of the Mother, in an answer to a ...
... when one ascends to supramental cognition. In the Upanishads. intuition is the main instrument of knowledge, but there is also recognition and affirmation, of the reconciliation by means of supramental consciousness. In the Isha Upanishad, for example, which is a great document of synthesis; presents some riddles on account of intuitions in regard to the distinction between knowledge and ignorance and ...
... spiritual consciousness, on the other hand, means .to live the infinite and eternal, to throw oneself outside all creation beyond time and space. And there is still a higher ingredient, supramental consciousness, which reconciles the transcendental tendency of the spiritual and the immanence of the psychic as also the powers and perfections of the mental, the vital and the physical. Page 28 ...
... parts of the being (Rig Veda, 1.71.3), and the state of immortality consisted of the attainment of the universalisation of the physical consciousness as a result of the visitation of the supramental consciousness (Rig Veda, Page 49 1.72.9). In the later developments of the Indian yoga, the word immortality appears to indicate a state of consciousness in which one realises one's identity ...
... realm of the transcendental Spirit which, in its universal aspect, provides an entry into cosmic consciousness and increasing unity of diversity which culminates in what is called in Yoga, supramental consciousness or consciousness of vijnānamaya. Again, it is true, as William James points out, mystical states are transient. But in Yoga proper, this transiency can e gradually removed, and higher ...
... Spirit and Matter, the boundaries of which, it is claimed, are constantly breaking so as to bring about on the earth a new species, the very nature of which will have inherent powers of the supramental consciousness, just as the human species is imbued with spontaneous powers of the development of the mind and various ranges of mental consciousness. Spirituality and Knowledge Spirituality ...
... and authority of the Spirit. V There is a distinction between psychic consciousness and spiritual consciousness, as there is a distinction between spiritual consciousness and supramental consciousness. As the Mother pointed out: Page 146 ...the psychic life is immortal life, endless time, limitless space, ever-progressive change, unbroken continuity in the universe of forms ...
... integrality of the supramental gnosis, and the descent of the Gnostic Light would effectuate a complete transformation of the Ignorance and even penetration into the Inconscience; even the supramental consciousness could come to be fixed in the physical consciousness. As Sri Aurobindo points out, a supramental change of the whole substance of the being can take place when the involved Supermind in Nature ...
... from the state of sainthood or ethical perfection. To be transformed is to be totally transmuted in every part of the being so that every part of the being is able to manifest Gnostic or supramental consciousness. In most of the systems of yoga, the aim is to arrive at the liberation of the soul from Nature, but there is no deliberate aim to liberate Nature itself from its own limitations. In the ...
... control and the right use of physical things would be a part of the realized life of the Spirit in the manifestation in earth-nature." 9 That spirituality and the manifestation of the supramental consciousness on the earth could provide solutions to the problems of humanity may be questioned; it may be argued that whatever has been achieved so far in the course of nature's evolution of the spiritual ...
... Transformation -08_Part Six.htm Part Six Yoga of Self-Perfection The yoga of self-perfection has, as its aim, perfect manifestation of the perfect supramental consciousness and power through the perfected individual vehicles for the upliftment of the entire humanity so that the supramental manifestation on the earth can facilitate more and more rapidly and more ...
... proclaimed to be universal, have come to be combated by other exclusive religions with similar claims; and no social harmony can be achieved in that state of conflict. The true spiritual and supramental consciousness takes into account the truth of all that is manifesting in this imperfect but evolving world and supports each truth in its proper place and harmonises it with all the rest. This seems to ...
... not?) that all suffering must be a make-believe, a mdya, since we like it so much? — ergo, why not welcome it sportingly, taking it all as a joke? That is why I often wonder whether the Supramental consciousness of your ideal stratospheres can ever truly enter into the world of fact of us, mental humans! For I can tell you that we - common mortals, constituted as we are - resist nothing as stubbornly ...
... Aurobindo's] Yoga is an inner self-development by which each one who follows it can in time discover the One Self in all and evolve a higher consciousness than the mental, a spiritual and supramental consciousness which will transform and divinise human nature." (Ibid.) Referring specifically to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram at Pondicherry we can thus say in words adapted from Sri Aurobindo that ...
... material envelope, this animal encasing of humanity and is vigorously transforming, demolishing and building, preparing the new structure. The embodiment of the supramental, the supramental consciousness in its supramental body is indeed even now rather a far-off event. But the beginning of a supramen-talised humanity, a section of it as the spearhead is quite a possibility in a comparatively ...
... four are the powers of the supreme Ishwari that have come forward to guide and effectuate the destiny of the hour. They are the supreme effective Powers, they are from – what is called – the Supramental Consciousness. But they have sent down into the still lower regions nearer to the human consciousness, more easily available to it, other forms and figures of the divine Personality. They are chiefly the ...
... mean to say this : take a piece of glass : it is found by experiment that certain substances in certain proportions are necessary to 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 ...
... transformation of each part of the being. To change them is not enough. It is not a mere change I want. I want a complete transformation, and nothing less. To make the New Consciousness — the Supramental Consciousness — come down into the being and everywhere in the body, to transform each part. It is this that I want, to transform all this. (indicating the body) 1. 'Transformation' ...
... mean?" asked Rohit. "It means a great deal. But this much I can tell you which I am sure you will follow, that this descent rendered possible what I am trying to do, to bring down the Supramental Consciousness. It was the descent of the Overmind Consciousness, and it made the coming of the Supermind possible. Therefore this day is called the Day of Realisation, the Siddhi Day." "But didn't you ...
... in this material envelope, this animal encasing of humanity and is vigorously transforming, demolishing and building, preparing the new structure. The embodiment of the supramental, the supramental consciousness in its supramental body is indeed even now rather a far-off event. But the beginning of a supramentalised humanity, a section of it as the spearhead is quite a possibility in a comparatively ...
... of the lower nature and conciousness. But this again becomes not only possible but inevitable when this new consciousness contacts openly and directly its master and overlord, the supreme Supramental Consciousness, which is the true reality pressing down always upon the lower creation, rejecting whatever has to be thrown out, sifting and screening the mixture, sublimating, subsuming all that has to ...
... also oneness behind the play of variation. Quintessentially, it is the same consciousness, although it may seem to divide itself into two: the two complementary halves of the one cosmic or supramental consciousness. Aswapathy is the Forerunner, Savitri is the avatar; and they Page 684 are both necessary for the manifestation, and the dual act of redemption and new creation. ...
... there was every hope that the Abyss would be avoided and a new world established, the world of the Next Future. In one of his letters, Sri Aurobindo had announced many years earlier: "The supramental consciousness will enter into a phase of realising power in 1967." When the Mother was reminded about this and related predictions, she said on 15 May: "Since a few months the children born, amongst our ...
... , and bring about the desired transformation? What is wanting still? The consenting Voice of Supreme Grace? The chiming of the instrumentation of Time? The uncompleted explosion of the Supramental consciousness? Mirra writes again, after a few days: "Spare me this calvary of earthly consciousness; let me merge in Thy supreme unity." Well, if she cannot change the Earth and Man, she might ...
... calm"; to be jerked out of it was "hell". And then she must call the Divine again and nestle within his arms. 25 On 8 November, the Mother revealed that she had had a few seconds of the supramental consciousness. It seemed to signify "an utmost activity in complete peace... like the harmonisation of contraries". Tremendous and total activity and perfect peace at once! On 20 December, the disciple ...
... In 1958 the Mother said, "If things go on advancing at this speed, it seems more than possible, almost evident, that what Sri Aurobindo wrote in a letter is a prophetic announcement: The supramental consciousness will enter a phase of realising power in 1967. " 1 Have things advanced at the required speed? Yes. 2.1.1967 May I try to make my nights conscious? I pray for guidance ...
... a radical and transforming change in the principles and forms of his 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 ...
... centers of being, the centroids of consciousness as it were. Sri Aurobindo's Yoga is the sadhana of Integral Transformation whereby this body will become the Divine Body and the Divine or Supramental Consciousness will illuminate and take root in this very practical consciousness. The mind of man acts today only within the confines of the unconscious, ignorant world. But as this mind becomes ...
... even if the Mind does remain recalcitrant, could it not be that, because of the evolutionary thrust and in spite of ourselves, this consciousness in Matter, this truly divine and exact and supramental consciousness, would begin to thrust its antennae irresistibly outward, as the caterpillar is irresistibly transformed into a butterfly in spite of all caterpillar laws and principles? For, once again, ...
... What are the conditions to be fulfilled to be able to see the supramental light? To be in conscious contact with it. The supramental vision develops quite naturally with the supramental Consciousness. 11.9.1969 I hope that it is the Grace that makes me want to go in speed. The Grace responds always to a sincere aspiration and favours its realisation even when .the appearances ...
... perfect consciousness that wanted to express itself. It was this experience that had given her for hours the taste of an uncommon glory, which was really the poise, power and illumination of supramental consciousness. And there was Grace too: who could explain the magnificence of Grace? It surpassed all comprehension, and that was why when Grace came to them, stupid people pushed it away. For her ...
... but human misery remains lamentably the same." 14 What then? It is obvious that there can be no lasting solution of human problems unless man transcends the mental and attains the supramental consciousness. In life, one has to learn to differentiate between the higher spiritual law which is eternal and the lower code of man-made moral and social laws that are the prisoners of transience ...
... are of capital importance today, partly for the light they throw on the theory and practice of Integral Yoga, partly for their revealing hints on Sri Aurobindo's endeavour to bring the supramental consciousness into the everyday experience of man and the earth, and partly as readings in the yogic case-histories of several of the disciples. To no small extent, these issues were interlinked, for ...
... Will, and the liberation from "the law of material cause and effect... so that nothing is allowed to intervene in the course of one's life but the highest will, the truest knowledge, the supramental consciousness". 20 Having covered in On Education the whole gamut from the physical to the spiritual which would finally lead to the supramental, when the Mother wrote the three essays on "The ...
... indicated, by the descent of the supramental Force which will unloose all the knots of the ego and steep the whole being in a living sense of the Infinite. In the luminous amplitude of the supramental consciousness, the ego, including the physical ego, will attain a painless Nirvana. Let us illustrate what the Mother means by the offering of all actions. She says, "Live constantly in the presence ...
... representatives of the new race. Here, in the Ashram, you are in the most favourable conditions with regard to the environment, the influence, the teaching and the example, to awaken in you this supramental consciousness and to grow according to its law. "Now all depends on your will and your sincerity. If you have the will no more to belong to ordinary humanity, no more to be merely evolved animals; ...
... in the stirless silence of ecstatic contemplation. Page 1 Life must become a sparkling flood of Light and its jarring discords pass into the inalienable harmony of the supramental consciousness reigning over earth. It goes without saying that this triple aim of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga and philosophy is a revolutionary departure and is absolutely original to his spiritual genius ...
... Here, in the Ashram, you are in the most favourable conditions with regard to the environment, the influence, Page 72 the teaching and the example, to awaken in you this supramental consciousness and to grow according to its law. "Now, all depends on your will and your sincerity. If you have the will no more to belong to ordinary humanity, no more to be merely evolved animals; ...
... Divine lives, in the unfading glory of infinite knowledge and power and creative delight of an immortal existence. The ascent to the Supermind will be followed by a descent of the supramental Consciousness-Force into the nature of man and the latter's transformation into the divine nature or Para Prakriti. When the transformation is complete,—it is only the supramental Force that can radically ...
... don't really go out of Matter?" No, not at all! "Is it a new state IN Matter, then?" Yes. Yes, yes, exactly. And ruled by something other than the sun—I don't know what.... Probably the Supramental consciousness. 18 "Sometimes I wonder how it is possible...." She was right there at the border, precariously, between life and death: caterpillar and butterfly... together. She was trying to make ...
... precise in Mother's experience is a certain fluidity of Matter. It is always the same Vibration of fantastic speed, yet motionless at the same time (everything is decidedly contradictory in the supramental consciousness, or rather all opposites are together simultaneously), which filters through the meshes of the web and is endowed with very strange properties; it cures illnesses as if they did not exist ...
... representatives of the new race. Here, in the Ashram, you are in the most favourable condition with regard to the environment, the influence, the teaching and the example, to awaken in you this supramental consciousness and to grow according to its law. Now, all depends on your will and your sincerity. If you have the will no more to belong to ordinary humanity, no more to be merely evolved animals; ...
... human Mind and Reason trying to escape from a difficulty which is of its own creation, its own Page 183 self-imposed illusion or Maya and does not exist for the true and perfect supramental consciousness of the luminous Spirit. There is no incompatibility between the Eternal and existence in Time. Time and the Timeless are the same Eternity in a self-contained status and a self-developing ...
... seems to be rather nervous than mental. In any case there would, at first sight, appear to be no warrant in reason for attributing a Sense of the sense to that which is not embodied, to a supramental consciousness which has no need of any such instrumentation. But this is not the last word about sense; this is only its outward appearance behind which we must penetrate. What, not in its functioning ...
... and the processes, means, transitions, transformations will be innumerable in nature. In fact, anything, everything that is ready to receive even a particle or a particular aspect of the supramental consciousness and light must automatically receive it. And the effects of this consciousness and light will be innumerable, for they will certainly be adapted to the possibilities, the capacity of each ...
... truth. The psychic (symbolised by the children) should, then, become active and lead along the path indicated by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. One may then reach the highest consciousness—the supramental consciousness or one can get a glimpse of it. However, “Only a little the God-light can stay”. It is very difficult to hold permanently that state of consciousness (the Mother's Temple where Sri Aurobindo ...
... the incredible experiences of Aswapati which become the foundation for the Divine to descend, to come as the power of grace to transform mortality. Aswapati realises that such a power, the supramental consciousness, is not yet manifest in the cosmic formula and unless that comes here, there cannot be the genuine fulfilment of this creation. He is now ready for the Yoga of the Transcendental to establish ...
... for in as much as the stuft of the Divine to express itself in this world. Sri Aurobindo's mission in his lifetime was to make this vehicle as perfect as possible so that the Divine, the Supramental Consciousness-Force may descend upon the earth. A great all-ruling consciousness is there And Mind unwitting serves a higher Power. 38 The unfelt Self within who is the guide, The ...
... full cosmic sense that was Sri Aurobindo's. And further, although Blake's "spiritual aim was a widening of consciousness," there is no evidence in his poetry that he had a vision of the supramental Consciousness. The world of Romantic poets is a psychic world, deeper than it was Chaucer's or even Shakespear's, a realisation of the psychic life deeper than the merely emotional. Sri Aurobindo's ...
... and at its head there is the supramental Truth-Consciousness manifested in an individual or a small group of individuals who will be representatives of the new race, the incarnation of the supramental consciousness upon earth. During the last lesson we learnt how to detach ourselves from our thoughts so as to be able to observe them like an attentive spectator. Today we must learn how to watch ...
... knowledge, the seer. 1) Exhibited now in the Sri Aurobindo Library. My Lord, what Thou hast wanted me to do I have done. The gates of the Supramental have been thrown open and the Supramental Consciousness, Light and Force are flooding the earth. But as yet those who are around me are little aware of it — no radical change has taken place in their consciousness and it is only because they ...
... Divine and its aspect of consciousness, secret in Matter, begins to emerge in Life, finds something more of itself in Mind and finds its true self in a spiritual consciousness and finally a supramental Consciousness through which we become aware of the Reality, enter into it and unite ourselves with it. This is what we call evolution which is an evolution of Consciousness and an evolution of the Spirit ...
... separative ego (incidentally, in doing so one finds one's true individual self which is not the limited, vain and selfish human ego but a portion of the Divine) and, secondly, to bring down the supramental consciousness on earth to transform mind, life and body. All else can be only a result of these two aims, not the primary object of the yoga. 161 Page 145 We regard the world ...
... should descend to help her children on earth in the fight against the forces of Inconscience and bring to Page 98 birth a new race of men embodying here the higher Supramental Consciousness. But in the current Indian conception, even though the Avatar is the Divine descended into the earth-consciousness, he is not supposed to participate in human imperfections. He comes down ...
... it, that power of involved reasoning that reaches its conclusion by a bound and does not need the ordinary steps of the logical mind. Overmind: The Overmind is a delegate of the Supramental Consciousness, its delegate to the cosmic Ignorance. The Supra-mental is the total Truth-Consciousness; the Overmind draws down the truths separately and gives them a separate identity. guṇa ...
... half-veiled and indirect supramental light and power into the nature. This would continue until the point was reached at which Overmind would begin itself to be transformed into Supermind; the supramental consciousness and force would take up the transformation directly into its own hands, reveal to the terrestrial mind, life, bodily being their own spiritual truth and divinity and, finally, pour into ...
... work. Here is the account in her own words: Sri Aurobindo had given me charge of the outer work because he wanted to withdraw into concentration in order to hasten the manifestation of the supramental consciousness. … Suddenly, immediately, things took a certain shape: a very brilliant creation was worked out in extraordinary detail, with marvellous experiences, contacts with divine beings, and all kinds ...
... will come because the "architect of immortality” cannot possibly fail as the omnipotent leader of human destiny has been urging us onward sleeplessly to fulfill man with the crown of Supramental consciousness on the glorious heights where: "The Spirit shall look out through Matter's gaze, And Matter shall reveal the Spirit's face." Savitri XI.I.709 Shankar Bandyopadhyay ...
... to the Mother a consciousness higher than the human rational mind has recently been established in the atmosphere of the Earth and is active here. She called it, after Sri Aurobindo, the supramental consciousness and said that it would embody first in the overman and then as the superman. This does not mean that the rational mind is of no use any longer. For a long time to come it will remain the highest ...
... their blessings. Sri Aurobindo fell heavily in his apartment and broke his right thigh. This happened at a time that, after years of continuous effort, the descent into matter of the higher, supramental Consciousness was expected. Now the circumstances of Sri Aurobindo’s life changed drastically. Where before only the Mother and the faithful Champaklal had been regular visitors to his rooms, now doctors ...
... barred the way of Progress. This act was the ultimate condition of the descent of a greater, a divine Consciousness on Earth. Only six years after his voluntary descent into death (1950) the Supramental Consciousness manifested in the earth atmosphere (1956). 33 Coda Years before he performed the yogic Master Act of consciously descending into death to purify and change the occult foundations ...
... had to be brought into the cells, where it would awaken the ever present but hidden Unity-Consciousness. The cells had to be as much, in the same measure, to the same extent filled with the supramental Consciousness as the higher ‘psychological’ levels. In one word, the cells had to be divinized. In the body of the Mother, in that agglomerate of cells, the process of the divinization of the cells ...
... accomplished. A new evolution, the evolution of a divine species, could begin. ‘My Lord, what Thou hast wanted me to do I have done. The gates of the Supramental have been thrown open and the Supramental Consciousness, Light and Force are flooding the earth. But as yet those who are around me are little aware of it — no radical change has taken place in their consciousness and it is only because they trust ...
... divine or spiritual love, the perception of one's own psychic being, the discovery of one's own true mental being, true vital being, true physical being, the realisation of the overmind or the supramental consciousness, the clear perception of the relation of all these things to our present inferior nature and their action on it to change that lower nature. The list, of course, might be infinitely longer ...
... meaning to these prosaic words. One should also bear in mind that both Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were involved in this work. On 11 April 1935 Sri Aurobindo wrote: ‘I presume it [the Supramental Consciousness] will come anyhow, but it is badly delayed because, if I am all the time occupied with dramas, hysterics, tragic-comic correspondence (quarrels, chronicles, lamentations), how can I have time ...
... representatives of the new race. Here, in the Ashram, you are in the most favourable conditions with regard to the environment, the influence, the teaching and the example, to awaken in you this supramental consciousness and to grow according to its law.’ 38 Who would teach these ‘children of the Future’? The Mother herself taught them, but it goes without saying that she could not do everything. ...
... them. In some letters of the 'thirties Sri Aurobindo refers to the frequent jump by several sadhaks, all Indian, to the conclusion that they have Page 140 reached the Supramental Consciousness when they have just got an inkling of the "overhead" ranges. Thus he says: 'You were quite right in what you wrote about the supermind — people here do indeed use the 'big word' much too ...
... with the Aurobindonian and one may have several experiences of the latter before the liberation aimed at by the former is reached. Sri Aurobindo aims at dynamising in our lives the Supramental Consciousness because he has seen that only in the Supermind there awaits the divine original of not only our mental and vital powers but also of our bodily existence. This Page 235 would ...
... this too will take place first in the subtle-physical layer of the earth? And when it does, the manifested Supermind will triumphantly appear in the gross-physical along with the involved supramental consciousness emerging there. Then shall be seen on a grand scale - here, there, everywhere - in a most literal and ultra-Miltonic sense "the human face divine." Writing to me about my eighty-fifth ...
... April 1972, p.73. 3 Ibid., August 1972, p. 75. Page 63 that." And shortly afterwards she announced: 1 "I have had for a moment (the body)—just a few seconds—the supramental consciousness. It was so wonderful." We must surmise that in the wake of all these experiences and in the course of a tremendous subsequent trial of the body (from May 21 to November 17, 1973) she learned ...
... take place. And it is significant that the prevision at the close of 1972 has been preceded by the revelation on November 8 of the same year: "I have had for a moment-just a few seconds—the supramental consciousness." 2 Yes, the Supermind that had been pressing for years to exteriorise itself is here said to have briefly done the exteriorisa-tion in a part of the Mother's bodily being. The significance ...
... consciously. It is to that that we should consecrate ourselves, that is our true reason for existence. And the very first step towards this sublime realisation is the manifestation of the Supramental Consciousness . To realise and manifest the Divine in our life is the way, not to become animals, living like cats and dogs. Exactly the opposite. The majority of the population at Auroville is an ...
... there is supposed to be a perpetual incompatibility between the transcendent and the cosmic states of the Divine—as also between the Personal and the Impersonal, the One and the Many. The supramental consciousness, on the other hand, does not raise these problems, for there the way of experience of the mental Ignorance is abolished and the basis of all things is an indefeasible unity—whatever expression ...
... anniversary of her arrival in Pondicherry. It was a quotation from Sri Aurobindo: It is not perhaps very useful to forecast by the mind what will be the precise results of the descent of a supramental consciousness into a world in which up to now the mental intelligence has been the highest evolutionary product and leading power. For the supermind is a consciousness which will work in a very different ...
... representatives of the new race. Here, in the Ashram, you are in the most favourable conditions with regard to the environment, the influence, the teaching and the example, to awaken in you this supramental consciousness and to grow according to its law. Now, all depends on your will and your sincerity. If you have the will no more to belong to ordinary humanity, no more to be merely evolved animals; ...
... Centenary I came across a booklet, Auroville : The Cradle of a New Man , in which the Mother has stated as follows: Last year when I announced to you the manifestation of the Supramental Consciousness and Light and Force, I should have added that it was an event forerunner of the birth of a new world. But at that time, the new world was so much engulfed in the ancient that even now there ...
... The Spirit of Auroville The second anniversary of the manifestation of the Supramental Consciousness Light and Force took place in 1964. The Mother distributed this message to people on that day: All earth shall be the Spirit’s manifest home, || 155.45 || That very year the movement for the New Town began. It was to be an extension of the Sri ...
... movement of the self-manifestation a descent into an apparent material inconscience, an awakening of the individual out of the Inconscience and an evolution of his being into the spiritual and supramental consciousness and power of the Reality, into his own universal and transcendent Self and source of existence. It is on this foundation that we have to base our conception of a truth in our terrestrial being ...
... "useful" to humanity there is no need of Yoga; everyone who leads the human life is useful to humanity in one way or another. Yoga is directed towards God, not towards man. If a divine supramental consciousness and power can be brought down and established in the material world, that obviously would mean an immense change for the earth including humanity and its life. But the effect on humanity would ...
... of the nature. If that can be overcome, then old spiritual ideas will not form an obstacle. It is not intended to supramentalise humanity at large, but to establish the principle of the supramental consciousness in the earth-evolution. If that is done, all that is needed will be evolved by the supramental Power itself. It is not therefore important that the mission should be widespread. What is important ...
... that has to be gone through on the way. Once equanimity is established there can be established too another kind of faith, supported by it, which can be made dynamic with something from the supramental consciousness and can overcome the present circumstances and determine what will happen and help to bring down the realisation of the Will of the Transcendent Divine. The faith that goes to the Cosmic ...
... continued initiation of past energy, prārabdha , or else an action chaotic, unregulated, uncoordinated, a confused precipitate from an energy which has no longer a conscious centre. The supramental consciousness on the other hand is founded upon the supreme consciousness of the timeless Infinite, but has too the secret of the deployment of the infinite Energy in time. It can either take its station ...
... therefore in that degree as a recipient and to a certain extent an obstructor and qualifier in transmission of the power and light that comes from above. There is a disparateness between the supramental consciousness in which the Purusha now stands, thinks and wills and the mental, vital and physical consciousness through which he has to effectuate its light and knowledge. He lives and sees with an ideal ...
... and uplifted by a supramental transformation which lifts it to the summit of the ascending endeavour. Even as between the other divided and opposed terms of manifested Being, so also a supramental consciousness-energy could alone establish a perfect harmony between these two terms—apparently opposite only because of the Ignorance—of spirit status and world dynamism in our embodied existence. In the ...
... least we may tread. Moreover it is possible for Mind to rise beyond itself into certain heights or planes of consciousness which receive into themselves some modified light or power of the supramental consciousness and know that by an illumination, intuition or a direct contact or experience, Page 131 although to live in it and see and act from it is a victory that has not yet been made humanly ...
... our subconscience; last, there must supervene the supramental transmutation,—there must take place as the crowning movement the ascent into the supermind and the transforming descent of the supramental Consciousness into our entire being and nature. At the beginning the soul in Nature, the psychic entity, whose unfolding is the first step towards a spiritual change, is an entirely veiled part of us ...
... jyotiṣmatī tamas tiraḥ; tām asme rāsāthām iṣam. (I.46.6) They carry man in their ship to the other shore beyond the thoughts and states of the human mind, that is to say, to the supramental consciousness,— nāvā matīnāṁ pārāya (I.46.7). Suryā, daughter of the Sun, Lord of the Truth, mounts their car as their bride. In the present hymn the Ashwins are invoked, as swift-moving lords of bliss ...
... fullnesses. SUKTA 2 The joy of existence is called on to flow in a rapid, intense and abundant flood of delight beyond the limits of the sensational being and reveal or mount into the supramental consciousness which will then be manifest with all its divine powers. This Page 326 comes by the abundance of the pure delight pouring into the luminous mind and awakening all its energies. ...
... consciousness will be exceeded, the superconscient made conscient and the subconscient or inconscient which is the inevitable shadow of the superconscient filled with the true spiritual and supramental consciousness. The Trance, Dream and Waking States (all imperfect at present and either touched with obscurity or limited) become each completely conscious and the walls, gaps or reversals of consciousness ...
... change and transformation of the whole being and of every part of the nature. Our being is a nexus of the human mental-vital-physical nature of Ignorance, it is transmuted into a spiritual and supramental consciousness: it becomes a divine unity in a harmony of the infinite and universal and integrated will, love, bliss and knowledge. Page 358 The Infinite Reality presents itself to our limited ...
... above the ordinary human buddhi , the higher mind, the illumined mind, Page 270 the intuition, the overmind—finally when one has achieved the overmind one opens directly to the supramental consciousness. The cosmic consciousness has many levels—the cosmic physical, the cosmic vital, the cosmic Mind, and above the higher planes of cosmic Mind there is the Intuition and above that the ...
... consciousness in which men now live. Red is the colour of the physical; the red diamond is the Mother's consciousness in the physical. In the experience the disc of the sun indicates the supramental consciousness with the Divine Being in it (the supramental Divine who can bridge by his light the gulf between the higher and the lower consciousness and unify them). But the smoky appearance, the veil ...
... ion cannot be brought about by physical means either of a positive or a negative nature. On the contrary, the physical change itself can only be brought about by a descent of the greater supramental consciousness into the cells of the body. Till then at least the body and its supporting energies have to be maintained in part by the ordinary means, food, sleep, etc. Food has to be taken in the right ...
... course that does not happen in a day (except in rare cases). The descent repeats itself until it is strong enough to hold the whole body. Page 495 What will happen when the supramental consciousness takes hold of the body fully, can be decided only by the descent itself—there must be no premature attempt to do it or decide it with the Mind, before the Descent is an accomplished reality—for ...
... forms; what is Truth will always remain; the Truth alone matters. 17 November 1932 Does the supramental victory mean the victory of the Hindu religion and culture over others? Will the supramental consciousness come into the body of a man whether or not he subordinates himself to Hinduism? The Asram has nothing to do with Hindu religion or culture or any religion or nationality. The Truth of ...
... not enough, it is only a beginning; spiritualisation and the descent of the higher consciousness is not enough, it is only a middle term; the ultimate achievement needs the action of the supramental Consciousness and Force. Something less than that may very well be considered enough by the individual, but it is not enough for the earth-consciousness to take the definitive stride forward it must take ...
... experience, is also essential in the path of the integral Yoga. Page 375 The Importance of Descent in the Yoga I meant by it [ the phrase "a far greater Truth" ] the descent of the supramental Consciousness upon earth; all truths below the supramental (even that of the highest spiritual on the mental plane, which is the highest that has yet manifested) are either partial or relative or otherwise ...
... Matter, what is the lack of clarity in the statement of a descent into the material? 15 September 1935 Some say November 24th is a day of victory. By that some mean that the Supermind (supramental consciousness) descended into the physical consciousness of Sri Aurobindo. Others say it was the coming down of Krishna into the physical consciousness. If it was the descent of Krishna, does that mean ...
... The Supramental Realisation In order to know what the Supramental Realisation will be like, the first step, the first condition is to know what the supramental consciousness is. All those who have been, in one way or another, in contact with it have had some glimpse of the realisation to be. But those who have not, can yet aspire for that realisation, just as ...
... thing that matters is the constant, total, complete contact—constant, Page 119 yes, constant—with the Force, the Light, the Truth, the Power, and that ineffable delight of the supramental consciousness. That is sincerity. All the rest is an imitation, it is almost a part one plays for oneself. Perfect purity is to be , to be ever more and more, in a self-perfecting becoming. One must ...
... humanity is moving, the future realisation of the world, that last "spiritual revolution" Sri Aurobindo speaks about, which will open a new age, that is, the supramental revolution. In the supramental consciousness all these things are no longer contradictory or exclusive. They all become complementary. It is only the mental form which divides. What this mental form represents should be united to what ...
... if someone does not feel, does not have this personal aspiration to perfect himself, the personal aspiration to enter into contact with the Divine, the personal aspiration to realise the supramental consciousness, well, he says as you were just saying, Page 331 "Then what's the use of doing anything? The only thing is to remain quiet." Well, as long as it is like that, and as long as you ...
... The Riddle of This World A Far Greater Truth I meant by it the descent of the supramental consciousness upon earth; all truths below the supramental (even that of the highest spiritual on the mental plane, which is the highest that has yet manifested) are either partial or relative or otherwise deficient and unable to transform the earthly life; they ...
... with it, that power of involved reasoning that reaches its conclusion by a bound and does not need the ordinary steps of the logical mind. Overmind: The Overmind is a delegate of the Supramental Consciousness, its delegate to the cosmic Ignorance. The Supramental is the total Truth-Consciousness; the Overmind draws down the truths separately and gives them a separate identity. Guruvada —the ...
... your new mental construction.... I am sorry to have to disappoint you but this is absolutely impossible. And if you want to understand what I have written, well, make an effort to have a supramental consciousness. That is all I have to say to you. And beware of the mania of wanting to replace an old dogma by a new one and saying, "Oh! All that was false, but now we are going to work out a fine ...
... th Seminar: 28 November 1971 Sri Aurobindo's call to the youth. 30 What is Sri Aurobindo's call to the youth? To become the builders of a better future in the light of the Supramental consciousness. 27 November 1971 Twenty-Fifth Seminar: 27 February 1972 How to be worthy of Sri Aurobindo's Centenary? 31 On the 1st of January this year You said: "A special help has ...
... of last August and September, the Mother spoke of the exclusion of the mind and the vital. Why must they be eliminated for a rapid and effective transformation of the body? Does not the supramental consciousness act upon them also?" Certainly it acts, it has already acted for a long time. It is because the body is accustomed—was accustomed—to obeying the vital and particularly the mind, and ...
... 8 January 1969 Did I tell you that I have identified this consciousness? When you spoke last time, you had identified it. Yes, but I had said "the supramental consciousness". Afterwards you had said "perhaps the superman". Yes, it is that. It is the descent of the superman consciousness. I had the assurance later on. It was the first of January after ...
... Notes on the Way 8 November 1972 I have had for a moment—just a few seconds—the supramental consciousness. It was so wonderful, my child!... I have understood that if we were made to taste of that now, we would not wish to live otherwise. And we are in the course of ( gesture of kneading ) changing laboriously. And the change, the process of the ...
... action to be accomplished and free oneself from all blind determinism, so that nothing is allowed to intervene in the course of one's life but the highest will, the truest knowledge, the supramental consciousness. Bulletin, August 1953 Page 71 ...
... Words of the Mother - I Work and Teaching Sri Aurobindo's work is a unique earth-transformation. Sri Aurobindo incarnated in a human body the supramental consciousness and has not only revealed to us the nature of the path to follow and the method of following it so as to arrive at the goal, but has also by his own personal realisation given us the example; ...
... manifesting Him consciously. This is what we should consecrate ourselves to, this is our true reason for existence. And our first step towards this sublime realisation is the manifestation of the supramental Consciousness. To realise and manifest the Divine in our own lives is the way, not to become animals and live like cats and dogs. Just the opposite! The greater part of the population of Auroville ...
... and Finally manifesting Him consciously. To this we must dedicate ourselves, it is our true raison d'etre. And our first step towards this sublime realization is the manifestation of the supramental consciousness." Page 240 time that all that must end. There are people who have just dropped in here and now when I tell them, "All that won't do at all," they answer, "We didn't come ...
... just the present impermanent exterior nature whichhas absolutely nothing to do with the several other formations be hind which, as behind the present one, the true being stands. Only the supramental consciousness holds the se births as if strung on one single thread and that alone can give the real knowledge of them all. Page 80 ...
... Child, 1953. Page 165 Ashram,you are in the most favourable conditions with regard to the environment, the influence, the teaching and the example, to awaken in you this supramental consciousness and to grow according to its law. Now, all depends on your will and your sincerity. If you have the will no more to belong to ordinary humanity, no more to be merely evolved animals: ...
... emanation, spreading his Light; and he will continue to do it until the Inconscience is no longer inconscient, until Darkness disappears from the world—and the whole creation awakens to the Supramental Consciousness. And it is remarkable that this wonderful Being strangely resembles the one whom I saw in vision one day, the Being who is at the other extremity, at the confines of form and the Formless ...
... Shiva; but behind him is the divine gaze from which he came and Shiva himself and Brahma and Vishnu and OM all-exceeding. Will the Avatars still need to take birth on earth once the supramental consciousness is firmly established? This question will be easier to answer when the supermind is manifested in living beings on earth. I had always heard that Sri Aurobindo was "the last Avatar"; ...
... manifesting Him consciously. We must consecrate ourselves to this; it is the true reason for our existence. And our first step towards this sublime realisation is the manifestation of the supramental consciousness. 20 March 1972 To take this step towards the new creation, one must learn to silence the mind and rise above into Consciousness. 2 April 1972 In silence, the consciousness ...
... and farther (and faster and faster) but finally failing back into its own oceanic fishbowl. Yet what would this space-time be for another kind of fishbowl, another kind of consciousness: a supramental consciousness, for example, which can be instantaneously at any point in 'space'—there is no more space! And no more time. There is no more 'trajectory': the trajectory is within itself. The fishbowl is ...
... associated with the experience of the unreality of the world as we know it, whereas Sri Aurobindo says that this perception of the unreality of the world is not necessary in order to live in the supramental consciousness—it is only the unreality of Falsehood, not the unreality of the world. That is to say, the world has a reality of its own, independent of Falsehood. I suppose that is the first effect of ...
... out of the mental consciousness, even out of a mental transcription (in the highest mind) of the supramental vision and truth. A thing cannot be seen as it is, in its truth, except in the supramental consciousness, and if you try to explain, it immediately begins to escape you because you are obliged to give it a mental formulation. As for me, I saw the thing only at the time of this experience, ...
... ible mad Page 144 people, the luminous mad: they have wanted to leap across the border too quickly, and the rest did not follow. When one looks at the world of men from the supramental consciousness, the dominant characteristic is a feeling of oddity, of artificiality—a world that is absurd because it is artificial. This world is false because its material appearance does not at all express ...
... fortifying, intensifying. The first is sweetness, the second is tenderness. And Bliss—what I spontaneously call Bliss—is the synthesis of both. It is found in the very heights of the supramental consciousness, in a diamond light, an uncolored, sparkling light containing all the colors. Joy and Felicity form two sides of a triangle that has Bliss at its apex. Bliss contains coolness and warmth ...
... THAT to be realized. ( silence ) When external difficulties subside, when the body becomes passive and quiet, when it is not constantly demanding attention, then you can LIVE in this supramental consciousness and it does not seem so difficult; you feel it is so victorious in its essence that it will end all difficulties. But for this to come about, you must remain for a while on those higher ...
... very interesting because they gave me certain indications, all kinds of things, but when I saw it all now, I said to myself, 'Good Lord! What a waste of time! Instead, I could be living in a supramental consciousness and seeing things.' So during the night, I made a resolution to change all this too. My nights have to change. I am already changing my days; now my nights have to Page 185 change ...
... a whole domain seemed to open up, a whole field of knowledge from the standpoint of languages, of the Word, of the essential Vibration, that vibration which would be able to reproduce the supramental consciousness. It all came, so clear, so clear, luminous, indisputable—but unfortunately there was no tape recorder! It was about the Word, the primal sound. Sri Aurobindo speaks of it in Savitri : ...
... In 1958 the Mother said, "If things go on advancing at this speed, it seems more than possible, almost evident, that what Sri Aurobindo wrote in a letter is a prophetic announcement: The supramental consciousness will enter a phase of realising power in 1967." 1 Have things advanced at the required speed? Yes. 2 January 1967 May I try to make my nights conscious? I pray for guidance ...
... the life one could have led—whether in one direction or the other. In your case there is something more. As your soul remains very closely linked with my being, as the contact with the supramental consciousness grows more and more total and constant, it acts very strongly on your soul like an almost irresistible attraction. This is what happened in 1958. To conclude, "an easy and pleasant life" ...
... Being. The mind must be silenced and replaced by the Truth-Consciousness—a consciousness of the whole harmonised with a consciousness of detail. The mind must be silent to allow the Supramental Consciousness to take its place. The Truth-Consciousness must pervade all the being, dominate all the movements and quiet the restless physical mind. These are the preliminary conditions for the ...
... actually go out of Matter? No, not at all. It's a new condition IN Matter. Yes. Yes, yes, exactly. And ruled by something other than the sun—I don't know what.... Probably the Supramental consciousness. ( silence ) At mealtimes, for example, sometimes I think I have eaten very fast, and it has taken me more than an hour. Other times, I feel it took a long time—it took just a few minutes ...
... In the psycho-spiritual sense, "Saptāmbhas" and "Bodhi" stand for what Sri Aurobindo 1 calls "the intoxication of the Ananda,... inflowing upon the mind from the supramental consciousness..." "Inflowing" is the word to remember in relation to "Antardhana". This name conventionally means "disappearance, invisibility"; 2 but its components, understood literally, convey an ...
... July 12, 1970 she greatly appreciated the term and the experience it stood for, which corresponded to one of her own experiences. She was even reported as equating the Grace-Light to the supramental consciousness and as saying that a number of individuals, known or unknown, are likely to have brought this consciousness to the earth throughout the ages but that now instead of an individual possibility ...
... (we might say an intellectual clothing, but it's not that, it's from a higher mind, but it's mentalized, that is to say, accessible to thought), a clothing of the experience I had of the supramental Consciousness, in which the difference between good and evil and all that looked like childishness, and Sri Aurobindo expresses it in those Aphorisms in a manner accessible to intelligence. Only... those ...
... understand. That's why apparently there seem to be contradictions, but it's only an appearance. ( silence ) With the passing by—very brief passing by—of the true consciousness, the supramental consciousness, there has been in its wake a certain... it's between an attitude and a vision in the body (the Page 480 physical being), and it no longer sees things in the same way at all, the ...
... consciously active. ( silence Mother gives flowers ) Here, this is for you. You see ( Mother shows two hibiscus flowers ), it's not the same thing: this is "Grace," and this is "Supramental Consciousness"—we have the flower before the consciousness! ( silence ) Today I saw Pondicherry's lieutenant governor (he comes now and then, every two weeks), and other people (a guard of Auroville ...
... Matter's perfect obedience to the Consciousness (the higher Consciousness); to the present experience, it's the divine consciousness, but it's very probably what Sri Aurobindo called the supramental consciousness. Because there must be... ( gesture in gradations ) an indefinite ascent. It's a consciousness in which the sense of ego completely disappears, it does not exist. There isn't "a person" ...
... no one left), and all the supramental force he had concentrated in his body (what was left in his body), he passed on to me. I stood near his bed; he had been declared "dead," but all that supramental consciousness which was there came out of his body, slowly, and directly entered mine. It was so material that I felt the friction of the force everywhere, all over. But it was slightly luminous. That was ...
... you, Mother, I'm really sorry. You see, one "does" in higher regions. Sri Aurobindo insisted, he said you were ready to get the superman's consciousness—not "superman": supramental, the supramental consciousness. And that's what he wanted to give you. He wanted... he insisted that you should be preoccupied with THAT, concentrated on that, because you have the capacity. In this domain the numbers are ...
... don't think. There isn't any "I," or any .... It's almost like an empty shell, yet with that formidable Force... ( vast, powerful gesture, arms outstretched ). ( long silence ) The supramental consciousness must be trying to take possession of it .... This [ the body ] is just like a shell. A shell .... Will it be able to change? I don't know. ( silence ) A constant feeling of... ( vast ...
... comprehension of things was very supple—very supple. Listening to certain things he said, I felt I had understood very little of what he meant. Now that I am more and more in contact with the supramental Consciousness, I see how supple—supple and complex—it is, and how it is our narrow human consciousness that sees things... ( Mother draws little boxes in the air ) fixed, cut and dried. Yes, of course ...
... Krishna are regarded as Avatars. I do not know about other Avatars mentioned by poet Joy dev, because they are not essential for our Yoga which is to transform the mental into the spiritual and supramental consciousness for which Sri Aurobindo came. He is also an Avatar like Sri Ram-Krishna. The Avatars help in the progress in the evolution of consciousness—that is, why there is a progressive gradation ...
... usness and consciousness of right action, (kavikratu). As a result, one is able to attain to the consciousness of vijnānamaya Puruṣa, the consciousness of the Puruṣa that governs Supramental consciousness. This is followed by the highest state of self-realisation, the realisation of the ānaṇdamaya Puruṣa, the description of which is to be found in the eighth chapter of the section titled ...
... consciousness of right action, (kavikratu). As a result, one is able to attain to the consciousness of vijnānamaya Purusa, the consciousness of the Purusa that is appropriate to the Supramental consciousness. This is followed by the highest state of self-realisation, the realisation of the ānaṇdamaya Purusa. And finally, in the Bhṛguvalli, we find a very interesting dialogue between ...
... or cosmic purpose. But fortunately we have Sri Aurobindo's own word for it and our personal experience in its support. In fact his integral Yoga aims at nothing less than bringing down the supramental consciousness and changing the present terrestrial consciousness by its dynamic power and light. We shall also witness Sri Aurobindo's vital interest in India's struggle for freedom, for which he had himself ...
... for France), 57 Supermind, fixing of (in Matter), 133 1920 (Mother returns to Pondiche- Supramental body, vision of, 207, 216-8 rry), 67 Supramental consciousness, 2, 266-7 1926 (Descent of Sri Krishna in Sri Aurobindo's body), 84-5 Supramental creation, 129 1935 (Mathematical formula), 89 Supramental descent, ...
... as its central field. It was in the course of this work that Sri Aurobindo declared that the Supramental is the Truth and that its advent on the earth is inevitable. To bring down the supramental consciousness and power on the earth has been the central work of Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo has explained the nature of this work, the nature of the Supermind, the necessity of its descent, the ...
... brain — almost an epiphenomenon — it can in no way influence a physical happening. So, given the existing physical organization of the human cerebrum, how can there develop in man a greater supramental consciousness and how can it — even if the possibility of its existence is at all admitted — act upon his body to effect therein any transfiguration of structure or of functioning? For, is not the material ...
... already evolved beyond Matter and manifested Life, evolved beyond Life and manifested Mind, so she must now evolve even beyond Mind — which seems as yet her last term — and manifest a supramental consciousness and power of our existence in which "there is no longer an ignorance seeking for knowledge but knowledge self-possessed, inherent in the being, master of its own truths and working them ...
... Page 91 Here, in the Ashram, you are in the most favourable conditions with regard to the environment, the influence, the teaching and the example, to awaken in you this supramental consciousness and to grow according to its law. Now, all depends on your will and your sincerity. If you have the will no more to belong to ordinary humanity, no more to be merely evolved animals; ...
... Skill Integral Personality Fundamental Experiences of the Yogi Experiences of the Witness Self, Cosmic Consciousness, Silent Self, Nirvana, Personal Divine, Supramental Consciousness and Power Yoga in the Veda, Upanishads, the Bhagavadgita, the Yoga Sutra, Yoga and Yogic Research; New Paths of Yoga Yoga and Knowledge of Sciences and Arts, ...
... earth as its central field. It was in the course of this work that Sri Aurobindo declared that the Supramental is the Truth and that its advent on the earth is inevitable. To bring down the supramental consciousness and power on the Page 28 earth has been the central work of Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo has explained the nature of this work, the nature of the Supermind, the necessity ...
... realm of the transcendental Spirits which, in its universal aspects, provides an entry into cosmic consciousness and increasing unity of diversity which culminates in what is called in Yoga, supramental consciousness or consciousness of Vijnānamaya. Again, it is true. as William James points out, mystical states are transient. But in Yoga proper, this transiency can be gradually removed, and higher states ...
... earth as its central field. It was in the course of this work that Sri Aurobindo declared that the Supramental is the Truth and that its advent on the earth is inevitable. To bring down the supramental consciousness and power on the earth has been the central work of Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo has explained the nature of this work, the nature of the Supermind, the necessity of its descent, the process ...
... depths of all things, "the well of honey covered by the rock". 18 This discovery is an important clue, and this is confirmed by Sri Aurobindo, when he points out that when we realize the supramental consciousness, we find that among its innumerable powers and innumerable possibilities of its manifestation, it has also a power of plunging the consciousness into a trance of self-involution, a self-oblivion ...
... Divine, Vol.18, SABCL, pp. 146-9) This book may be regarded as an introduction to the theme of the infinity of the One, its varied experiences and the unity of these experiences in the supramental consciousness. Kireet Joshi HOME ...
... surmised that what science demands for its ultimate proof of utter objectivity of knowledge, and what spirituality ought to demand for its ultimate victory on the earth, can be fulfilled only if supramental consciousness can be demonstratively seen and touched in supramental physical body. Let us refer to that conversation of the Mother of May 24,1962: Satprem read out the following from Sri Aurobindo's ...
... progression that leads to the emergence of the next species. In 13 volumes of 'Mother's Agenda', we find an evolutionary graph traced by the Mother between 1951 and 1973 of the descent of the Supramental Consciousness in how the problems of matter and life can be confronted and solved so as to bring about the mutation of human species. During this process, the problem of the law of physical death ...
... supramental descent would automatically make everybody immortal. The supramental descent can only make the best conditions for anybody who can open to it then or thereafter attaining to the supramental consciousness and its consequences. But it would not dispense with the necessity of sadhana. If it did, the logical consequence would be that the whole earth, men, dogs, and worms, would suddenly wake up ...
... "Is there anything really to say about her?" It is always the man who counts with us and the woman who helps the man from behind passes into oblivion. Moreover, the spell of Sri Aurobindo's supramental consciousness under which we had been living led us to forget that before he became the superman he had come on earth a human being like us and had a wife whose name was Mrinalini. We have been dwelling ...
... or traversed the skies, the stars and the suns, or directed a concentration of the consciousness towards all that is gathered by this Eternal Look, I have sent a state, a substance of the Supramental Consciousness, that which does not perish but works incessantly to change the contents of these elements to the New Consciousness. This look is filled with Love, Light, Grace and Divine Compassion. Voilà ...
... superconscient overmind and supermind cease to be superconscient. You once said: "In the true consciousness things appear differently from what they do now." Were you referring to the supramental consciousness? In any true consciousness, intuition or spiritual or overmental or supramental. Something in me, when I have made a mistake, goes on shouting. "Why have you done this ...
... 68 possession of that consciousness of which these are faint beginnings and distant echoes. The Superman will be born when man has risen above his mind and emerged into the supramental consciousness. One thing needs to be pointed out here: it is that man is expected to consciously transcend himself and deliver this supermanhood, for it is to be a conscious process, a labour ...
... s. Even the family, the first unit of collective formation in humanity that has attained a fulfilled status, is yet capable of a remodelling, a transmutation in the higher supramental consciousness. The family instead of being built upon blood-relationship may surely have a different foundation in soul-kinship, in affinity of consciousness, comradeship in life-work. It means a total ...
... the main gradations or steps in the growth of consciousness: (1) unconsciousness, (2) consciousness, (3) active consciousness, (4) inner consciousness, (5) environmental consciousness, (6) Supramental consciousness, (7) Supreme or Transcendental consciousness. These correspond Page 282 to the seven layers of our being, sapta-kosa, the seven worlds or the seven oceans; these are ...
... to be universal, have come to be combated by other exclusive religions with similar claims; and no social harmony can be achieved in that state of conflict. The true spiritual and supramental consciousness takes into account the truth of all that is manifesting in this imperfect but evolving world and supports each truth in its proper place and harmonises it with all the rest. This seems to ...
... realization of the integral reality by the methods of the integral yoga that we find in Sri Aurobindo can be seen corroborated and confirmed by the description of the integral reality and supramental consciousness that we find in the records of the synthesis of yoga in the Veda, Upanishads and the Gita, and in the Tantra. But Sri Aurobindo and the Mother go farther and determine a new integral aim ...
... y process which has so far reached a critical stage where it is possible for the individual to develop knowledge and will that can be consciously applied for purposes of the evolution of supramental consciousness in matter by means of which the individual will be able to realize not only the integral Reality integrally but will also be able to fulfill itself in its role of Leadership of evolution and ...
... Aurobindo points out that even in the overmental plane of consciousness, the unity and integrality of the Object of realization is not effected and that one has to rise still higher to the supramental consciousness. Penultimate Experiences According to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the exclusive paths of yoga do lead us to the experiences or realizations of the ultimate reality, but each ...
... activities. There is nobody now we can turn to and confide in as regards our woes, both inner and outer, and seek for guidance. Mother's main work upon earth was to bring down the Supramental Consciousness in the material world so that physical transformation or the divinisation of the body could take place. She has done it and we can see everywhere man's urge for this change and which, therefore ...
... world of flux,—and the Truth-Consciouness which is attainable by man, which is a potential capacity— the highest to which man can attain. The problem is how to make a permanent ascent to the supramental consciousness. The door has opened occasionally, some Light has come down and the door has closed again. Light has come down and worked here and maintained the world. Even now when the world is not open ...
... understanding should descend to help her children Page 33 on earth in the fight against the forces of Inconscience and bring to birth a new race of men embodying here the higher Supramental Consciousness But in the current Indian conception even though the Avatār is the Divine descended into the earth-consciousness he is not supposed to participate in human imperfections. He comes down ...
... harmony, knowledge and will, Page 198 indivisible and harmonized in human life, individual and collective ? For that one has to reach the highest state. One has to open to the Supramental Consciousness or Truth-Consciousness and allow it to descend here and govern and mould life. We think, or most of us think, that we will have to do the whole job, as if the Truth-Consciousness was impotent; ...
... the Divine lives, in the unfading glory of infinite knowledge and power and creative delight of an immortal existence. The ascent to the Supermind will be followed by a descent of the supramental Consciousness-Force into the nature of man and the latter's transformation into the divine nature or Page 370 Para Prakriti. When the transformation is complete—it is only the supramental ...
... women and children of all ages and having its various establishments where to mould them into a new spiritual consciousness according to Sri Aurobindo's vision. When, after bringing down the Supramental Consciousness, he left his body in 1950, the Mother "continued to live in order to do his work which is : By serving Truth and enlightening mankind to hasten the rule of Divine's Love upon the earth." ...
... great extension in the power of the human consciousness, far beyond the present power that men have, and the higher mental power a few have. At first only a handful of people will embody this supramental consciousness, but there will be radiating influences which will gradually encompass all earthly life. While this was the possibility that Sri Aurobindo saw—a possibility that seemed to him ...
... alright. But the body says, 'I have pain – I am suffering.' It has that power of Ignorant idea from the Inconscient. After completing the work in the Inconscient, the higher ranges of the Supramental consciousness would be brought down. Disciple : There is a proposal for introducing a course in Indian Philosophy as a subject in the University. Sri Aurobindo : There is no objection to ...
... as the constant point of reference; for, its aim is not to secure a mental state which might reflect the Infinite but to rise above the mind. Besides, it adds the process of Descent of the Supramental consciousness, into Page 94 human nature which necessitates a complete transformation of the ignorant human nature into the divine : it transforms the aparā prakrti into the parā ...
... Still more remarkable are the hard! tapped powers of Mind. When some of the powers i the Spirit are awakened in man or when man's nature undergoes a transformation by the descent of the Supramental Consciousness, then not only would unknown spiritual powers become active but the very physical consciousness o man would undergo such a change that a far greater degree of immunity from diseases would ...
... the truth, I am not worried about it, it's not a problem that preoccupies me too much.... And I stared at Mother without understanding. The problem I am preoccupied with is building that supramental consciousness so IT becomes the being. It's that consciousness which must become the being. That's what's important. As for the rest, we'll see (it's the same as worrying over a change of clothing). I ...
... 's sake, but as preparatory to a larger achievement, comprising all humanity and earth-consciousness; its aim is to bring down the hitherto unrecognised or unmobilised power of supramental consciousness and to make it act directly in human and terrestrial existence; in its method, it is "as total and integral as the aim set before it, viz., the total and integral change of the c ...
... In 1958 the Mother said, "If things go on advancing at this speed, it seems more than possible, almost evident, that what Sri Aurobindo wrote in a letter is a prophetic announcement: The supramental consciousness will enter a phase of realising power in 1967." Have things advanced at the required speed? In reply Mother wrote a big Yes. The letter was in French. Nolinida read it out ...
... Living in The Presence To round off... Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have left us the assurance of the new Supramental consciousness. To receive it, one needs to develop a surrender that is complete through one-pointed sadhana. This Ashram was created for the realisation of this Truth, for its manifestation. I did not come here from my early childhood, no doubt ...
... body's choice: its only prayer 798, 807 her birthday as everyone's 804 bears 'a frightful pressure' 804-5 vision of her changed body: 'younger than most of you' 805 experiences supramental consciousness 807 'I have the feeling... I am That 816 releases Sri Aurobindo memorial stamp 717 declaration after attack on Ashram 723-4 launches Auroville 725-6, 839 inaugurates it 760-3 ...
... process of being - transformed into the new. The Supermind, the key to transformation, "in principle is at the very bedrock of the material world as it is"; and the manifestation of the supramental consciousness from above (which had occurred almost eighteen months earlier), must now progressively bring the imprisoned Supermind to the surface in order to accelerate the pace of transformation. The ...
... 16 April 1958: This new realisation is proceeding with what one might call a lightning speed. 10 Page 667 It was generally thought that Sri Aurobindo's prophecy that "the supramental consciousness will enter a phase of realising power in 1967" might be fulfilled, after all. On 14 May, the Mother testified that the supramental substance that was spreading and acting in the world ...
... will again be a new reversal. This is why even our spiritual life, which is such a total reversal compared to ordinary life, seems something still so totally different when compared to this supramental consciousness that the values are almost opposite.... It's as if our entire spiritual life were made of silver, whereas the supramental life is made of gold—as if our entire spiritual life here were a vibration ...
... that the season has come and that all the flowers are there, on the beautiful tree – they are indeed there, except for those who dawdle in winter when spring is breaking out all over. The supramental consciousness, the supramental rhythm, is actually an extraordinarily swift rhythm – the present earth seems immobile and stagnant compared to that rhythm – and maybe that simple “acceleration” is what ...
... existence. And this direct working of the Truth-Force will eliminate from the body all causes of decay and wasting away, and establish in it a serene stability of health and power. "The supramental consciousness is not a fixed quantity but a power which passes to higher and higher levels of possibility until it reaches supreme consummations of spiritual existence fulfilling supermind as supermind ...
... and this man prepares his coup d'etat and that one revises the 229th page of a book—and everything is connected. Without logic... or with an inconceivable logic. Marvelous. That is how the supramental consciousness sees, or rather how it lives. An innumerable and compact marvel... that moves with this object you drop inadvertently, with the little scorpion that comes to your doorstep, or the white hibiscus ...
... to release it from its doped slavery to Matter, enlighten its native grossness by bringing down into it more and more of the higher light, and finally open it to the direct influx of the Supramental Consciousness, so that, liberated and illumined, it can sense and contact the Divine everywhere, in all men and creatures and things, and express His Light and Bliss, and fulfil His Will and purpose in ...
... manifesting Him consciously. We must consecrate ourselves to this; it is the true reason for our existence. And our first step towards this sublime realisation is the manifestation of the supramental consciousness. 20 March 1972 * * * To take this step towards the new creation, one must learn to silence the mind and rise above into the Consciousness. 2 April 1972 * * * In silence, ...
... of being and action and feeling, but supramental and illimitable, not subject to a given set of reactions, but embracing and taking a free and sovereign and compelling delight of all that is possible in the truth of the infinite consciousness and existence. Version B It is necessary in order to understand the phenomena of the supramental time consciousness to realise very firmly certain truths... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter XXVI The Supramental Time Consciousness Version A The supermind in its supreme status is the truth-consciousness of the Infinite, the inherent light and power of self-knowledge and all-knowledge of the Supreme who is the self of all, the living eternal truth of all that is and of whom all objects... is itself, not a limited mental consciousness like ours but supramental and illimitable, not bound by this or that condition, but determining out of an infinite truth of self-existence its own conditions, nor by this or that relation or step and sequence, but capable of all possible relations and steps and sequences. It is a power or force inherent in that consciousness which spontaneously, sovereignly ...
... The Synthesis of Yoga was left incomplete when the Arya ceased publication in January 1921. Before abandoning the work, Sri Aurobindo wrote part of a chapter entitled "The Supramental Time Consciousness", which was meant to follow the last published chapter of "The Yoga of Self-Perfection". He never completed this chapter and never published the portion that he had written. A letter... up first, in chapters I to IX. Chapters XI to XVIII correspond to the śānti and samata chatusthaya , the first two of the seven. Chapters XIX to XXV, and the incomplete chapter "The Supramental Time Consciousness", correspond to the first two elements of the third or vijnāna chatusthaya . By breaking off at this point, Sri Aurobindo left untreated the rest of the third and all of the fourth c... first time Sri Aurobindo's scattered revisions in the Introduction and substantial revision of chapters XV - XVII of Part II. It is the first edition of the book to include the text of "The Supramental Time Consciousness", the incomplete chapter Sri Aurobindo wrote for Part IV before setting aside "The Yoga of Self-Perfection". Page 918 ...
... Mother uncovered Sri Aurobindo's Visions and Hers of the New World expressing the Supramental Light, Consciousness, Force and Delight. She disclosed their effect on the cells of the body. She took only the theme of Savitri as the starting-point and, when the right time came, spoke about the action of the New Consciousness which had been manifesting since the beginning of the year 1969. ...
... key-concepts like "the supramental Truth-Consciousness". I find him peppering his "Epilogue" with the adjective "supramental" six times, 4 aware — as his quotation-marks show — that it is a special term of Sri Aurobindo's but using it as if it signified nothing more than "above the mind". Sri Aurobindo focuses in it what he specifically calls "Supermind" or "Truth-Consciousness" and distinguishes it... the idea of the higher planes and the supramental Truth-Consciousness..." 5 Similarly, not understanding what precisely Sri Aurobindo intends by the word "transformation" 6 in spite of his making it quite clear what he does not mean and what he means by it, Nair objects to his adding that the Gita overlooks "the bringing down of the supramental Truth-Consciousness as the means of the complete transformation... (sadharmya) to God, accepting deity who incessantly works for the world as his own soteriological model and working in the same manner. This I would regard as the highest perception, mental or supramental." Now we know how far-removed Nair is from the Aurobindonian universe of discourse and how little he has cared to penetrate the deliverances of the Master of the Integral Yoga. His own insensitivity ...
... ordinary human consciousness into the divine and supramental. The consciousness is like a ladder: at each great epoch there has been one great being capable of adding one more step to the ladder and reaching a place where the ordinary consciousness had never been. It is possible to Page 117 attain a high level and get completely out of the material consciousness; but then one... added now Sri Aurobindo has called the Supramental; as a result of it, the consciousness will be able to enter the supramental world and yet retain its personal form, its individualisation and then come down to establish here a new creation. Certainly this is not the last, for there are farther ranges of being; but now we are at work to bring down the supramental, to effect a reorganisation of the world... The Signature Of Truth THE SUPRAMENTAL REALISATION In order to know what the Supramental Realisation will be like, the first step, the first condition is to know what the supra-mental consciousness is. All those who have been, in one way or another, in contact with it have had some glimpse of the realisation to be. But those who have not, can yet aspire for ...
... physical consciousness are wedded to the high supramental which was till now separated from them and the life-force blazing in its works with the heat of the divine Sun is harmonised with the play of the sun-ray of the divine knowledge.] अभ्यवस्थाः प्र जायन्ते प्र वव्रेर्वव्रिश्चिकेत । उपस्थे मातुर्वि चष्टे ॥१॥ 1) State upon state is born, covering upon covering opens to consciousness of knowledge;... × Aditi, the infinite consciousness. Mother of all things. × With the all-embracing vision of the supramental infinite consciousness. × ... Aditi. × The all-creating and self-sufficing Supermind high and remote and separated in our consciousness from the mental and physical planes; yet it is really there behind their action and reaction upon each other and in the liberated state of man the separation is abolished. ...
... a power of self-determination inherent in that self-awareness; the first is its foundation and status, the second is its power of being, the dynamis of its self-existence." 3 The supramental Truth-Consciousness is the conscious power that manifests the timeless eternity and Spaceless infinity of the Supreme Sat-Chit-Ananda in Time-Eternity and Space-Infinity. The Supreme is not a rigid Indeterminable... called creation is in reality a self-manifestation of the Spaceless and Timeless Reality by its own power that is inherent in it as the self-awareness of the Infinite and Eternal. That power is the supramental power having in it endless powers of being and energy. Supermind is not merely what we can infer, but it is a principle of active Will and Knowledge that can be realized in experience. As Sri... Introduction The new synthesis of the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother has come to be known as the Integral Yoga 1 . This yoga has, as its first basis, the Vedantic realization of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss (Sachchidananda) as the ultimate reality and the ultimate foundation of the universe and all that is in the universe. However, the world that we see is the world of divided mentality which ...
... divine Seer-Will is the Purohit, that power which is placed in front of our consciousness to act for the human being; replacing the fallible human will this divine force as soon as it is kindled conducts the sacrifice; he leads it in its journey through the stages by which the sacrificer rises to the supramental divine consciousness; he is its vanguard and front-fighter in the battle of the divine with... brings the divine powers into the physical consciousness of man by his flaming force in the revealedWord, manifests & forms them there and offers to them the whole activity of the being as a sacrifice of the lower human to the higher divine. The result of this progressive action is the divine delight or ecstasy, the Ananda of the infinite & divine Consciousness, brought into man, there established, held... most ordains the ecstasy. Agni (अग् and अज्) is the brilliant, the strong, the preeminent, he who moves, leads, drives, acts. He is the Flame, at once Heat and Light, Force and self-possessing Consciousness in the Force, Will with perfect revealing and intuitive knowledge in the will and its acts,—the Seer-Will of the one & infinite Divine Conscious-Existence at work in the universe. The Rishi, ...
... in order to facilitate the advent of the Supramental. A consciousness luminous without obscurity, turned towards the supramental light and full of a supramentalised plasticity are the conditions for the manifestation of the supramental light upon earth. We must never forget that our goal is to manifest the Supramental Reality. 25 May 1954 The Force is there waiting to be manifested... August 1954 So much obscurity has fallen upon earth that only the supramental manifestation can dissolve it. 26 August 1954 Let us advance always, without stopping, towards an always more complete manifestation, an always more complete and higher consciousness. 31 August 1954 Page 92 The supramental force has the power to transform even the darkest hate into luminous... liberated from all ignorance, liberated from our ego so that we may open wide the doors of the Supramental's glorious manifestation. 23 October 1954 All our life, all our work must be a constant aspiration towards the supramental perfection. 24 October 1954 The serene and immobile consciousness watches at the boundaries of the world as a Sphinx of eternity and yet to some it gives out ...
... to the Supramental conciousness which is the Truth-conciousness of the Spirit or the Atman. Mind is only an intermediate stage of conciousness rising out of the total inconscience and ending with the Supramental conciousness which is the final emergence of the Truth-conscious spirit from its involution in Matter. This in a nut-shell is the whole history of the evolution of consciousness which is... into being ending with the appearance of Man. But what really is worth noticing in this evolution is the evolution of conciousness from the in-conscient Matter to the manifestation of the Supramental Truth-consciousness in man which is the final aim and end of this terrestrial Life. Page 74 ... gradations, levels and degrees are found in consciousness which is the nature of the Sat-Ghat-Ananda (the Divine) connecting the one with the other. The Spirit which is all consciousness chose to be all Unconsciousness or Inconscient for the delight of the play or Lila of Self-discovery in its extreme opposites. Thus, Substance (Sat) becomes Matter ; Chit (Consciousness) becomes Unconsciousness in extreme ...
... " (The Life Divine, p. 1062) But whatever may have happened in the past, the Mother and Sri Aurobindo have undertaken this difficult task. For that they have brought down the Supramental Truth-Consciousness with its absolute potency into the earth nature and this will surely overcome the apparently insuperable difficulty of transformation and help to establish a perfect spiritual society here... exposed to the influences coming from all others and if he is not vigilant and strong enough to detect and nullify any adverse influence trying to overpower him, he will surely be lowered down in his consciousness, and willy-nilly he will start copying others in their unspiritual tendencies, forgetting in the process his own original aspiration. And this has been the tragic fate of many promising sadhaks... To be the common man they think the best, To live as others live is their delight." (Savitri, Book XI Canto 1, p. 689) This risk of progressive fall in consciousness over the years and the readiness to lead a routine existence confronts many a sadhak in the Ashram. And this is not the morbid imagination of a pessimist mind; it is very much true to fact and cannot ...
... from That which is beyond it." 2 In this incessant ascending gradation through which our consciousness rises towards the supramental Truth-Consciousness, four principal ascents may be distinguished. These gradations may be broadly described as 'a series of sublimations of the consciousness' through what Sri Aurobindo has termed Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuition and Overmind; "there... state. But we cannot but take note of the fact of spiritual experience certified by most seekers of the Truth that an immense hiatus seems to exist between the supramental Truth-Consciousness and the Mind-Consciousness we normally know of. And unless this seemingly unbridgeable gulf intervening between the two is satisfactorily bridged, we have to forego our dream. ...to plant... Beyond the plane of the Intuitive Mind is a superconscient cosmic Mind, a principle of global knowledge which carries in it 'a delegated light from the supramental gnosis.' The Overmind is in direct contact with the Supramental Truth-Consciousness and represents the 'highest possible status-dynamis' of the Spirit in the spiritual-mind range. 'The cosmic empire of the Overmind' 3 represents 'the ...
... something of that ineffable grandeur of the higher planes of consciousness. In his book Letters On Yoga Sri Aurobindo discusses the spiritual value of gold: Gold indicates at its most intense something from the supramental, otherwise overmind truth or intuitive truth deriving ultimately from the supramental Truth-Consciousness. (SABCL, Vol. 23, p. 959) In Savitri gold, as... Sri Aurobindo" Sethna addresses his spiritual masters as 'wisdom-packed messengers twixt the deep gold and the grey of the out-gaze'. Here 'deep gold', in all probability, refers to the supramental Truth-consciousness. 'Out-gaze' seems to be a word coined by the poet or is it simply a contraction of the phrase 'outward gaze'? Is there a realm beyond the gold? Human imagination, deprived of the... as a metaphor, has been used effectively to establish the presence of the spiritual element in earth-consciousness. Probably this influence permeates Sethna's poetry as well in an implicit manner. Some of his poems in The Secret Splendour offer us a glimpse of the glittering preciousness: I had not bargained to behold A rhythm of cerulean gold Nor with an aching mouth impress ...
... beautiful, more harmonious, happier than the world we live in now, this would perhaps be an undeniable proof. And if we take it a little farther, if, as Sri Aurobindo promises us, the supramental force, consciousness and light transform this world and create a new race, then, just as the apes and animals—if they could speak—could not deny the existence of man, so too man would not be able to deny the... power over other people and things—which for the ordinary consciousness is "objective". For instance, if a person who has attained the state of consciousness I am speaking about, had the power of communicating it to others, it would be partially—only partially—a proof of the reality of his experiences; but further, if the state of consciousness in which he is—for instance, a state of perfect harmony—could... in order to be able to survive; and power is protection—not an artificial power, external and false, but the true strength, the triumphant Will. It is therefore not impossible to think that the supramental action, even before being an action of harmonisation, illumination, joy and beauty, might be an action of power, to serve as a protection. Naturally, for this action of power to be truly effective ...
... realised in the foreseeable future. For, Sri Aurobindo has assured us, Nature is ready and has taken the evolutionary decision and along with it, according to the Mother's declaration, the supramental Truth-Consciousness - the complete power of the Spirit -has descended into the earth-atmosphere and is very much active there. As a result all the difficulties encountered on the Path will be progressively... our still occult, because unevolved, whole being. A nature of unity will then bring inevitably its life-result of unity, mutuality, harmony. An inner life awakened to a full consciousness and to a full power of consciousness will bear its inevitable fruit in all who have it, self-knowledge, a perfected existence, the joy of a satisfied being, the happiness Page 55 of a fulfilled nature... number of Ashramites should seriously endeavour to grow within and live from within, know their real selves and build up their relationships with their comrades on the basis of the inner unity of consciousness. But this is a solution to which it may be objected that it puts off the consummation of an ideal human grouping to a remote future; for it presupposes that no machinery invented by man's ...
... × The two shining horses of Indra identical probably with the two cows of light of the first verse; they are the two vision-powers of the supramental Truth-Consciousness, righthand and left-hand, probably direct truth-discernment and intuition. As cows symbolising light of knowledge they yoke themselves to the material mind, the wain; as horses symbolising... × The seer by this self-fulfilment on the higher plane is born, as it were, into many realms of consciousness and from each of these there go up its words that express the impulses in it which seek a divine fulfilment. The Mind-Soul answers to these and gives assent, it supplies to the word of expression ...
... Life or Matter necessitates a fall from Knowledge. It has been shown indeed that division of consciousness is the basis of the Ignorance, a division of individual consciousness from the cosmic and the transcendent of which yet it is an intimate part, in essence inseparable, a division of Mind from the supramental Truth of which it should be a subordinate action, of Life from the original Force of which... problem which must be immediately considered; it is the gulf created between Mind as we know it and the supramental Truth-Consciousness of which we have found Mind in its origin to be a subordinate process. For this gulf is considerable and, if there are no gradations between the two levels of consciousness, a transition from one to the other, either in the descending involution of Spirit into Matter or... be no such immense hiatus as seems to exist between supramental Truth-Consciousness and the Mind in the Ignorance. But if such intervening gradations exist, it is clear that they must be superconscient to human mind which does not seem to have in its normal state any entry into these higher grades of being. Man is limited in his consciousness by mind and even by a given range or scale of mind: what ...
... so chose, a more leisurely passage of one supramental state or condition of things to something beyond but still supramental from level to divine level, a building zip of divine gradations, a free growth to the supreme Supermind or beyond it to yet undreamed levels of being, consciousness and Ananda. The supramental knowledge, the truth-consciousness of the Supermind is in itself one and total:... evolve, otherwise there could be no emergence. The manifestation of a supramental truth-consciousness is therefore the capital reality that will make the divine life possible. It is when all the movements of thought, impulse and action are governed and directed by a self-existent and luminously automatic truth-consciousness and our whole nature comes to be constituted by it and made of its stuff... knowledge to greater knowledge, from consciousness to greater consciousness, from being to greater being. There is then no longer any necessity for the slow pace of the ordinary evolution; there can be rapid conversion, quick transformation after transformation, what would seem to our normal present mind, a succession of miracles. An evolution on the supramental levels could well be of that nature; ...
... a more leisurely passage of one supramental state or condition of things to something beyond but still supramental, from level to divine level, a building up of Page 561 divine gradations, a free growth to the supreme Supermind or beyond it to yet undreamed levels of being, consciousness and Ananda. The supramental knowledge, the truth-consciousness of the Supermind is in itself one... evolve, otherwise there could be no emergence. The manifestation of a supramental truth-consciousness is therefore the capital reality that will make the divine life possible. It is when all the movements of thought, impulse and action are governed and directed by a self-existent and luminously automatic truth-consciousness and our whole nature comes to be constituted by it and made of its stuff... knowledge to greater knowledge, from consciousness to greater consciousness, from being to greater being. There is then no longer any necessity for the slow pace of the ordinary evolution; there can be rapid conversion, quick transformation after transformation, what would seem to our normal present mind a succession of miracles. An evolution on the supramental levels could well be of that nature; ...
... present make-up are only a fraction of what could be, but if they became complete and dominant would be truly able to bring about with the help of the light and force of the soul and the supramental truth- consciousness the necessary physical transformation and its consequences. This might be found in the system of Chakras revealed by Tantric knowledge and accepted in the systems of Yoga, conscious centres... evolutionary ascent towards the supramental manifestation on the earth or abyss. Page 56 An account of the momentous experiments undertaken by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother cannot truly be given; they can only be glimpsed from the records they have left. Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, Letters on Yoga, The Mother, The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, ... and The Mother's own account of the supramental action on the earth, recorded by Satprem (born 1924) and published in 13 volumes as L 'Agenda de Mere, give us some indications of both the secret and the fulfilment of their momentous experiments. Indeed, if the human body were a functioning of Matter, and if Matter were merely chemical and nothing more, then it is obvious that any divinization ...
... intuitive truth deriving ultimately from the supramental Truth-Consciousness. Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: Colours Supramental is simply the direct self-existent Truth-Consciousness and the direct self-effective Truth-Power. Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I: The Supermind or Supramental The supramental is the Truth-Consciousness and what it brings in its descent is the... state of consciousness or a plane. Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: Water and Bodies of Water When the water is so symbolic it is a big expanse of water; a river or a pond are not enough to symbolise a plane. Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: Water and Bodies of Water Gold : Knowledge of the divine Truth; indicates at its most intense something from the supramental, otherwise... the full truth of life, the full truth of consciousness in Matter. Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II: Bhakti Yoga and Vaishnavism It is Truth that conquers and not falsehood; by Truth was stretched out the path of the journey of the gods, by which the sages winning their desire ascend there where Truth has its Supreme abode. Sri Aurobindo, Kena and Other Upanishads: Mundaka Upanishad ...
... present make-up are only a fraction of what could be, but if they became complete and dominant would be truly able to bring about with the help of the light and force of the soul and the supramental truth-consciousness the necessary physical transformation and its consequences. This might be found in the system of Chakras revealed by Tantric knowledge and accepted in the systems of Yoga, conscious centres... checked and incomplete. A total transformation of the body would demand a sufficient change of the most material part of the organism, its constitution, its processes and its set-up of nature." The Supramental Manifestation , SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 34-35 ... they make the movements of ordinary life consciously, not mechanically. An attentive eye will perhaps notice a little difference but the greatest difference lies in the will they put into it, the consciousness they put into it. Walking to go somewhere and walking as an exercise is not the same thing. It is the conscious will in all these things which is important, it is that which brings about the progress ...
... universal scale had taken place in what the Mother had then called the earth's subtle atmosphere. At that time the Supramental Light, Consciousness and Force had come. The experience of April 12 seems to have speeded up the future evolution of the world by bringing in the Supramental Love whose presence would keep impelling the earth towards a divine destiny in spite of all obstacles and apparent setbacks... like an impossibility, because of the contradiction... But then it came: "You have accepted that the world should know the Supramental Truth... and it will be expressed totally, integrally." Yes, yes... And the thing is done. (Long Silence) The individual consciousness came back, just the sense Page 167 of a limitation, limitation of pain; without that no individual. 1... pulsations of the eternal stupendous Love, only Love: each pulsation of the Love was carrying the universal further in its manifestation. And the certitude that what is to be done is done and the Supramental Manifestation is realised. Everything was personal, nothing was individual. This was going on, and on, and on, and on. The certitude that what is to be done is done. All the ...
... 196-200, 219 sports see physical culture Sri Aurobindo 47, 51-2, 60-1, 93, 97, 102, 117, 119 134, 141, 183, 251 superman, supramental see consciousness T To be a true Aurovilian 206-12 Tower of Babel 37, 52 town plan 16-25, 142-53 ... Pavilion/Shrine see Matrimandir music 103, 107-8, 111-5 Page 254 N Nehru 13 new consciousness see consciousness . O Olympic Games 18 organization 25, 31-2, 51, 53, 60, 86-8, 191, 231 Orissa 92 ... accommodation 49-50 administration see organization admissions 29, 43-50, 195-6, 217-8, 246-50 The Adventure of Consciousness 103-4, 189 aim see concept airport 24, 29 alcohol 79-81 America see U.S.A. ...
... scale of consciousness, the movement becomes more and more rapid, and that when the Spirit or the Supermind intervenes, it can go much faster. Therefore we may hope that in a few centuries, the first supramental race will appear. But even that is rather disconcerting for some people, for they think it contradicts what Sri Aurobindo has always promised: that the time has come for the supramental tran... must not confuse a supramental transformation with the appearing of a new race. What Sri Aurobindo promised and what naturally interests us, we who are here now, is that the time has come when some beings among the élite of humanity, who fulfil the conditions necessary for spiritualisation, will be able to transform their bodies with the help of the supramental Force, Consciousness and Light, so as... as no longer to be animal-men but become supermen. This promise Sri Aurobindo has made and he based it on the knowledge he had that the supramental Force was on the point of manifesting on the earth. In fact it had descended in him long ago, he knew it and knew what its effects were. And now that it has manifested universally, I could say, generally, the certainty of the possibility of transformation ...
... self-knowledge, by a change of our present half-enlightened mental consciousness into a spiritual and supramental Truth-consciousness or All-knowledge, All-power, All-bliss. A change of consciousness alone can bring about a change of human nature—from the ignorant separative .consciousness of the mind to the illumined Unitarian consciousness of the Spirit. If the phenomena of life have to be seriously... us to various by-paths and tangles which only delay the journey and ultimate arrival at the goal. The only rational and supra-rational solution of the problems of life therefore is a change of Consciousness followed by a change of Nature. There is no other way. Page 71 ...
... over whose shaping they have presided for almost fifty years, where their divine bodies remain interred in permanence, ceaselessly emanating their regenerating influence, and where the supramental Truth-Consciousness is inalienably active to bring about the desired earthly transformation? Page 86 Against all deceptive appearances to the contrary, we the disciples residing in the Ashram... Sri Aurobindo has envisioned a day when a collectivity or group would be formed of those who would have reached the supramental perfection. Then indeed some divine creation could take shape here upon earth: "A new earth could descend that would be a new heaven, a world of supramental light could be created here amidst the Page 90 receding darkness of this terrestrial ignorance." (The... Aurobindo left his body the Mother gave us this assuring message: "Lord, this morning Thou hast given me the assurance that Thou wouldst stay with us until Thy work is achieved, not only as a consciousness which guides and illumines but also as a dynamic Presence in action. In unmistakable terms Thou hast promised that all of Thyself would remain here and not leave the earth atmosphere until earth ...
... physical and vital life, attached to the mental movement, or even fixed in the ranges of the mental plane that are touched by the spiritual lustres. But beyond is the unwalled wideness of a supramental infinite consciousness and there all temporary structures cease. It is not possible to enter utterly into the spiritual truth of the Eternal and Infinite if we have not the faith and courage to trust ourselves... middle the mental, higher emotional and psychic rule that feels after greater interests, aspirations, experiences, at the summits first a deeper psychic and spiritual state and then a supramental eternal consciousness in which all our aspirations and seekings Page 208 discover their own intimate significance. In the bodily life first desire and need and then the practical good of the individual... process. In the spiritual life, or when a higher power than Mind has manifested and taken possession of the nature, these limited motive-forces recede, dwindle, tend to disappear. The spiritual or supramental Self, the Divine Being, the supreme and immanent Reality, must be alone the Lord within us and shape freely our final development according to the highest, widest, most integral expression possible ...
... until a supramental Truth-Consciousness is reached by which the appearances of things are put in their place and their essence revealed and that in them which derives straight from the spiritual essence. In the meanwhile our only safety is to find a guiding law of spiritual experience―or else to liberate a light within that can lead us on the way until that greater direct Truth-Consciousness is reached... impression, it is not something true which carries its truth in itself. Sweet Mother, what is this "imperious law", this "spiritual and supramental law"? It is the truth of each being. Each being carries in himself his own spiritual law, his supramental law. It is not the same for everyone, it is not one single identical law. For each one it is the truth of his being, that is to Page 140... mixed with ignorance, at times false lights, that is, no knowledge at all: simply ideas, conceptions, ways of seeing, ways of feeling―all these things considered as knowledge by the ordinary human consciousness. Sri Aurobindo speaks even of physical needs, the needs of the body, which are generally considered as imperative and which have their own truth; he says that even that can be only quite ...
... been hinted at by some that the Ashram may have acted as a scaffolding for the accomplishment of the real mission of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, the descent and establishment of the supramental Truth-Consciousness into the earth atmosphere, and once that mission was adequately fulfilled, the Ashram lost its functional utility for their purpose and may now be passing into the phase of being pulled... -where the other still persists all-powerful and entirely dominating the ordinary consciousness, but where the new one is quietly slipping in, still very modest, unnoticed -unnoticed to the extent that outwardly it doesn't disturb Page 15 anything very much, for the time being, and that in the consciousness of most people it is even altogether imperceptible. And yet it is working, growing... "There has never been, at any time, a mental plan, a fixed programme or an organisation decided beforehand. The whole thing has taken birth, grown and developed as a living being by a movement of consciousness (Chit-Tapas) constantly maintained, increased and fortified. As the Conscious-Force descends in matter and radiates, it seeks for fit instruments to express and manifest it." (The Mother, p. 226) ...
... or interchanges with others, any such relation or inter- change immediately ties down the soul to the lower consciousness and its lower nature, prevents the true and full union with the Divine and hampers both the ascent to the supramental Truth-consciousness and the descent of the supramental Iśwarī Śakti. Still worse would it be if this interchange took the form of a sexual relation or a sexual... farther—it will bring about a radical conversion of the very basic principles of its working. A complete immunity from disease and decay, and even from death, will be the eventual result of the supramental transformation of the physical being. The physical being is the facade of the self-manifesting Spirit, and, as such, its purification and transformation are of the utmost importance in the ... Mother's Light and Force. It will mean, in practice, the projection of a part of our most developed consciousness, and an infusion of its will and aspiration into the physical nature. The result may not be very encouraging at the beginning, for, the physical nature may repel the advances of the higher consciousness and refuse to be disturbed in its complacent darkness. But a quiet persistence is sure to prevail ...
... cosmic Mind in direct contact with the supramental Truth-Consciousness, an original intensity determinant of all movements below it and all mental energies—not Mind as we know it, but an Overmind that covers as with the wide wings of some creative Oversoul this whole lower hemisphere of Knowledge-Ignorance, links it with that greater Truth-Consciousness while yet at the same time with its brilliant... experience or of the consciousness involved in it—or of a part of that consciousness—and this does not seem to me to be intellectual in its character. It has another light, another power in it, a sense within the sense. It is very clearly so with those thoughts that come without the need of words to embody them, thoughts that are of the nature of a direct seeing in the consciousness, even a kind of intimate... obstacle and a passage in our seeking of the spiritual law of our existence, its highest aim, its secret Reality. 48 Thus, whereas Eckhart regards the consciousness beyond the ordinary mind as a realm of no-mind and a consciousness without thought, Sri Aurobindo distinguishes various superconscient levels of spiritual mind above the ordinary mind and speaks of Higher Thought originating from ...
... beyond the spiritualised consciousness to the Spirit and partake of Its creative integral vision. The natural poise of the Supreme Spirit is the Supramental Truth-Consciousness, Rita-Chit, where all contraries are reconciled and realised as complementaries so necessary for the fulfilment of the complex destinies of the many-sided manifestation. To raise oneself to the Supramental is to realise immediately... Supermind is contacted in two ways: by the method of vertical ascent of consciousness crossing the Overmental Cosmic or global awareness—the last peak climbed by Thoughts—or by the lateral inward penetration of consciousness leading to the identification with the Divine behind the Psychic Being who lifts the blazing lamp of Supramental Knowledge from within to the completely consecrated devotee; teṣamahaṁ... or very rarely indeed Supramental. But the Purusha so formed however great and unique and full of Light and Plenitude of the Higher and sometimes even the Highest Truth-Consciousness remains an isolated miracle of creation, a Siddha or Perfect Man in a world of imperfect beings. For, even the formation of one Gnostic Individual does not solve the problem of earth-consciousness. But Savitri has offered ...
... spiritual consciousness down on the earth. The golden cup is I suppose the Truth consciousness. Violet is indeed the colour or light of Divine Compassion, so also of Krishna's grace. Page 128 Golden Light Golden Light is the light of the divine Truth descending from above. The golden light is the light of the Divine Truth which comes out from the supramental sunlight and... keeping their own characteristic shade as an element. Gold-Green Light Gold-green: gold indicates at its most intense something from the supramental, otherwise overmind truth or intuitive truth deriving ultimately from the supramental Truth consciousness. Green has much to do with the vital and indicates here, I think, the emotional forces in their outpouring. The play of the emotional forces in... golden red it means the same modified supramental-physical Light—the Light of divine Truth in the physical. "Red gold" is rather the light of the Truth in the physical. Orange or red gold is supposed by the way to be the light of the supramental in the physical. Orange Light Orange is the true light manifested in the physical consciousness and being. Orange is the colour ...
... upholding a real self-creation or manifestation in its self-existent infinite. Overmind, then, gives us no final and positive solution; it is in a supramental cognition beyond it that we are left to seek for an answer. A Supramental Truth-consciousness is at once the self-awareness of the Infinite and Eternal and a power of self-determination inherent in that self-awareness; the first is its foundation... meeting of their powers; the original Determinant or determinants, if it or they exist, are veiled from us by our ignorance. But to the supramental Truth-Consciousness these imperatives would be apparent, would be the very stuff of its seeing and experience: in the supramental creative process the imperatives, the nexus of possibilities, the resultant actualities would be a single whole, an indivisible movement;... sole supracosmic self-awareness, but even in the cosmos itself to an integral self-knowledge and all-knowledge. It might be objected that the supramental cognition is, after all, not the final truth of things. Beyond the supramental plane of consciousness which is an intermediate step from overmind and mind to the complete experience of Sachchidananda, are the greatest heights of the manifested Spirit: ...
... judgement of the buddhi, and a thrill and glow to the movements of the physical being. The choice of thought and action must lie with the buddhi, and later on in the sâdhanâ, with the supramental Truth-Consciousness, possessing and perfecting the whole nature, but never with the emotional being. THE TWO BASIC MOVEMENTS IN PURIFICATION The entire process of the purification of the... of the subconscient, and could never rise again. For, the darkness is great there below, its forces are blind and subtle and dangerous, and the temptations of power almost irresistible. It is the supramental Light of the Mother alone that can protect and pilot us in those obscure seas of our own being. ¹On Yoga-11 by Sri Aurobindo. Page 261 ... true psychic consciousness,. Page 251 which alone can enable us to detach ourselves from the lower nature and its desires, but a mere detachment from conscious desires is not enough, there must also be a probing and penetration of the depths, and a vigilant observation of the subtle action of the essential craving of the citta. In proportion as the psychic consciousness or the consciousness ...
... forms and expresses itself in them, and the knowledge corresponding to the truth thus expressed reigns as a supramental Truth-consciousness 1 organising real ideas in a perfect harmony before they are cast into the mental-vital-material mould. Mind, Life and Body are an inferior consciousness and a partial expression which strives to arrive in the mould of a various evolution at that superior expression... mentality; it would be the supramental Truth. An infinite Mind constituted in the terms of mentality as we know it could only create an infinite chaos, a vast clash of chance, accident, vicissitude wandering towards an indeterminate end after which it would be always tentatively groping and aspiring. An infinite, omniscient, omnipotent Mind would not be mind at all, but supramental knowledge. Mind, as... of its power and consciousness and of its delight of being. But such completeness is not possible in the individual consciousness concentrated within the limits of the individual formation; absolute completeness is not feasible in the finite because it is alien to the self-conception of the finite. Therefore the only final goal possible is the emergence of the infinite consciousness in the individual; ...
... waiting at our gates for our call to come down upon earth..." Will you please explain this? Hasn't it already come down? It is not the world of delight that has come down, but only the supramental Light, Consciousness and Force. 26 April 1961 Page 253 Sweet Mother, How can one most effectively call this wonderful world of delight? An absolute sincerity in the aspiration... Sweet Mother, Does an outer life of evil deeds and a base consciousness have an effect on the psychic being? Is there a possibility of its degradation? A base and evil life can only have the effect of separating the outer being more and more completely from the psychic being, which retires into the depths of the higher consciousness and sometimes even cuts off all relation with the body, which... ns might like to suggest and who seek in what Sri Aurobindo has written an excuse for their excesses. The divine embraces are embraces of soul and of consciousness, and they can be reproduced among human beings only by a widening of the consciousness, understanding and feelings—a widening that enables you to understand everything and love everything, without preference or exclusiveness. 26 November ...
... Lord's silence. Lamb-Amal is sitting on that paw which has a wrist-watch above it, symbolising Lion-Sri Aurobindo's time-manifestation. I see that the golden Lion is clothed in green, the supramental Truth-Consciousness putting its presence into the vital world. The white Lamb - symbol of the psychicised purified being which I seek to reflect - is wearing a chequered red coat, the sign of the physical... but also his environment will be subject to the Divine Will set active fully in the universe of time and space. The physical sun is a symbol of the highest supramental creative and transformative Light: when that Sun of the Truth-Consciousness which is apostrophised in the Rigveda and the Upanishads and which the descent of the Supermind a la Page 84 Sri Aurobindo is meant to make... de Chardin. Teilhard spoke of the evolution of a collective being in the far future, a super-organism with a super-consciousness compassing the whole world. But, under the influence of orthodox Christian theology, he envisaged a world-end when the souls sharing the super-consciousness will break away from matter and pass into a non-spatial non-temporal dimension. The Omega Point postulated by the Anthropic ...
... Vital Plane"; "Knowledge by Unity with the Divine - The Divine Will in the World"; "True Humility - Supramental Plasticity - Spiritual Rebirth"; and "The Supramental Realisation". "Chance", says the Mother, "can only be the opposite of order and harmony"; and when the Supramental Truth-Consciousness alone comes to prevail, chance will have no place at all. In our lower nature, the supreme Truth is... from below and a supreme Grace from above that answers. 32 Avatar after avatar has added rung upon rung to the Ladder of consciousness, and the step that is being added now is the Supramental. But the whole aim of the Integral Yoga is both to reach the Supramental and join this summit to the bottom, thereby bringing about a total change and transfiguration of human and terrestrial life. ... divine consciousness. But how exactly is one to know that one has in fact risen to the higher consciousness? Doubtless it will be an exhilarating but ineffable state of poise and peace and power, but it is not possible for the mere mind, to measure or formulate its nature. And yet the experience will be unmistakable: The true test is the direct experience of the Divine Consciousness in whatever ...
... Upanishad expresses when it says that the heavens attained by the mind Purusha are those to which man is lifted by the rays of the sun, the diffused, separated, though intense beams of the supramental truth-consciousness, and from these it has to return to the earthly existence. But the illuminates who renouncing earth-life go beyond through the gateways of the sun, do not return hither. The mental being... triple mental, vital and physical body provides almost the Page 472 whole range of our capacity and cannot suffice for that greater consciousness; the vessel has not been built to contain a greater godhead or to house the splendours of this supramental force and knowledge. This limitation is true only so long as man remains closed within the boundaries of the mental Maya. If he rises into... than any mental joy and knowledge; for he could receive more fully and without our incompetent mind's deforming and falsifying mixture the inspirations and intuitions that are the arrows of the supramental Light and form his perfected mental existence in the mould and power of that vaster splendour. He could then realise too the self or Spirit in a much larger and more luminous and Page 471 ...
... saving us from wars are impossible until what Sri Aurobindo calls the Truth-conscious Super-mind has been attained and brought down into all our self and all our activity. In the supramental Truth-consciousness lie the basic unity and harmony and egoless infallible compassion by which the ideal altruism that would be our saviour can be born. I am afraid Prof. K goes off the rails also... things is the lack of the divine consciousness in the inward and outward man. Without the divine consciousness in toto there will always be the poor, the naked, the sick, the stricken, no matter how much we go feeding, clothing, healing and sharing a tear with them. Over and above practising generosity and charity we must try to impart the divine consciousness, and how can we do this unless... Aurobindonian "descent of the divine consciousness." From high above the mere mind the hidden glories and powers and beatitudes of the Supreme have to come down and make us their moulds. When the Spirit's sky falls, the larks of light will be in our hands. But till then we shall not save ourselves from destruction. There is a flaw in our consciousness and out of this flaw derive all our vice ...
... super-conscient cosmic Mind in direct contact with the Supramental Truth-Consciousness, and original intensity determinant of all mental energies,—not Mind as we know but an Overmind that covers as with the wide wings of not some creative Oversoul this whole lower hemisphere of" knowledge-ignorance, links it with that greater Truth-Consciousness while yet at the same time with its brilliant golden Lid... its secret Reality." It " connects and divides the supreme Knowledge and the cosmic Ignorance."¹ "The Overmind is not strictly a transcendental consciousness that epithet would more accurately apply to the supramental and the Sachchidanand Consciousness though it looks up to the Transcendental and may receive something from it and though it does transcend the ordinary human mind and in its full and... APPENDIX I AESTHESIS- HIGHER THAN MENTAL Aesthetic enjoyment and perception of beauty are generally limited by man's present consciousness, that is to say, by the mental, the vital and the physical fields of consciousness. Man has believed in the sovereignty of Reason, but he has found that even at best Reason is only an "enlightener and a minister", it is not the master ...
... last, from a supramental Truth-consciousness and its divine force of supernature. Thus are made possible the final steps when the veil of Nature is withdrawn and the seeker is face to face with the Master of all existence and his activities are merged in the action of a supreme Energy which is pure, true, perfect and blissful for ever. Thus can he utterly renounce to the supramental Shakti his works... complete renunciation of his works to the Supreme Will. By degrees his mind of an imperfect human intelligence will be replaced by a spiritual and illumined mind and that can in the end enter into the supramental Truth-Light; he will then no longer act from his nature of the Ignorance with its three modes of confused and imperfect activity, but from a diviner nature of spiritual calm, light, power and bliss... ego is to remain in us for a while, it is only a form of it which knows itself to be a form and is ready to disappear as soon as a true centre of consciousness is manifested or built in us. That true centre is a luminous formulation of the one Consciousness and a pure channel and instrument of the one Existence. A support for the individual manifestation and action of the universal Force, it gradually ...
... "sweetness of heaven-sense", what in Savitri is called "the Paradise of the Life-Gods", a sudden reminder rises from the earthly depths which he has abandoned. The reminder is at once of the Supramental Truth-Consciousness and of the seeming abyss in which man's evolution has been set. It is "Earth's outcry to the limitless Sublime". The last part of it runs: "I, Earth, have a deeper power than Heaven;... the Master and the Mother lived and their "material envelopes", sanctified by the lives led in them, are preserved. But the Master and the Mother were essentially realities of consciousness and it is with our consciousness that fundamentally we have to be in contact with them. Just as on darshan days people came to Pondicherry from all over the earth, so too some physical touch with the resting-place... of this preparation is to hark to Sri Aurobindo's summons to change not only the inner being but also the outer. The day-to-day person in us has to live in the light of the soul. A consecrated consciousness should be ours with a sense of the Divine from within us coming forth, through all thinking and feeling and speaking and doing, to meet the Divine who is everywhere around and above and below — ...
... writing to Sahana on 14.11.1933: "It is quite impossible for the Supramental to take up the body before there has been the full supramental change in the mind and the vital." And what has the Mother to say? "Before you take up the work of physical transformation, which is of all things the most difficult, you must have your consciousness firmly, solidly established in the Truth." (Bulletin, Vol. XV... revolution, as it were in the present Page 320 lifetime - but only by a process of spiritual evolution through life after life. It is postponed and not cancelled, because the Supramental Light, Consciousness and Force manifested in the subtle-physical layer of the earth on February 29, 1956 and became secretly an active evolutionary factor in earth's history. With their manifestation the Mother... Yoga of Supramental Descent and Transformation." If it was not fulfilled in the Mother, it cannot be fulfilled in any of us. In Nirodbaran's Correspondence (October 7, 1937, Vol. 2, p. 704), we also get a glimpse of two fundamental themes: (1) the central achievement in the supramental Yoga, (2) the ultimate result of it. Sri Aurobindo writes: "What is vital is the supramental change ...
... her own withdrawal from embodiment, who can usher within calculable time the New World in the realisation of which one may aspire to participate? As the Mother established the Supramental Light, Consciousness and Force on a universal scale in the earth's subtle-physical layer in 1956, the evolution of the New World in the future by the Supermind's entrance into the gross-material is certain ...
... According to me, things being what they were, she considered it spiritually advantageous for the Ashram to lose her bodily presence. Besides, she had brought about the manifestation of the Supramental Light, Consciousness and Force in the earth's "atmosphere" as she put it, so that by an evolutionary process the Supermind was certain to create the Superman in the course of the ages. Once, referring to this... until Mirra surrendered herself to me - totally, down to every cell of her body." Here was revealed to him in fullness what he later made the central motive-power for us of his Integral Yoga of Supramental Transformation - the utter self-giving possible to the inmost soul - the psychic being - the foundational state without which a divinised earth-life cannot be built up. A date basic to the existence... comes to a soul-keen focus. I am afraid all that I have said apropos of that half-hour's intense blue will be regarded by the pragmatic modem mind as a riot of fancy. But the truly poetic consciousness, no less than the mystical, knows our world to be the meeting-point of various hidden planes of being, and through certain configurations of earthly elements they peer out at us and by means of ...
... the Truth and the Beauty and the Love and the Ananda is verily the whole aim of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga. But when Truth comes, can the rest be far behind? Truth - Page 721 the supramental Truth-Consciousness - is already here, it has been here for years. And so - "Salute to the Advent of the Truth." III During her conversation on 12 January 1965, the Mother said that there had... to sensitise the most material consciousness, which needed repeated whippings to change its tamas into sensibility, and to awaken in it the conviction that "behind all its difficulties there is a Grace, behind all its failures there is the Victory, behind all its pains, its sufferings, its contradictions, there is Ananda". When the Power that is Truth-Consciousness comes down, under its tremendous... but a conglomerate that keeps together just so long as there is a will behind to keep that so? A few days before 7 October, in a decentralised state of her physical consciousness, there was an intervention of a universal consciousness which made the cells of her body "understand or feel" the problems arising out of the wear and tear on the body and the external difficulties, but the cells "did not ...
... worlds of infinite existence, consciousness, force and bliss over which the Mother stands as the unveiled eternal Power. All beings there live and move in an ineffable completeness and unalterable oneness, because she carries them Page 15 safe in her arms for ever. Nearer to us are the worlds of a perfect supramental creation in which the Mother is the supramental Mahashakti, a Power of divine... all the elemental lines of the supramental Truth-consciousness and Truth-force are strung together and the harp of life is fitted for the rhythms of the Eternal. If you desire this transformation, put yourself in the hands of the Mother and her Powers without cavil or resistance and let her do unhindered her work within you. Three things you must have, consciousness, plasticity, unreserved surrender... a form far beyond it. The Divine Consciousness and Force are there and do at each moment the thing that is needed in the conditions of the labour, take always the step that is decreed and shape in the midst of imperfection the perfection that is to come. But only when the supermind has descended in you can she deal directly as the supramental Shakti with supramental natures. If you follow your mind ...
... the Supramental is not without similar attractions. The Life Divine is a call to a spiritual adventure, to a spiritual exploration. It initiates a vision of "heights of consciousness which have even been glimpsed and visited but which have yet to be discovered and mapped in their completeness". "The highest of these peaks of which the elevated plateaus of consciousness, the Supramental, lies... Reality. Supermind brings to birth this Unknown Power. Lest People should think that power is the only aspect of the Truth, I will give what Mother has to say on this problem. "Is the supramental truth-consciousness only power, only knowledge and illumination ? it is much more. Listen to the voice of the maternal Divine Love : "Oh beloved children, sorrowful and ignorant, and thou of rebellious... The progress lies in moving from this ego-centricity into universal consciousness, in this very ego realizing itself as the universal consciousness. When it realizes the universal consciousness the world does not change but the significance of all experience completely changes. When a man lives in the cosmic consciousness the sun does not begin to rise in the west. The accidents, difficulties ...
... impersonal omnipresent Person, the Mystery translucent in highest consciousness to its own spirit, but to a lesser consciousness veiled in its own exceeding light and impenetrable for ever. These things are to the dimensional mind irreconcilable opposites, but to the constant vision and experience of the supramental Truth-consciousness they are so simply and inevitably the intrinsic nature of each other... Absolute, a consciousness other than our ordinary consciousness of ideas and forms and things, a Knowledge that is not what we call knowledge but something self-existent, everlasting, infinite. And although it may or even necessarily must, since man is a mental creature, start from our ordinary instruments of knowledge, yet it must as necessarily go beyond them and use supra-sensuous and supramental means... egoistic consciousness, in the mind's candle-lit darkness, in the bondage. Our present limited consciousness can only be a field of preparation, it can consummate nothing; for all that it manifests is marred through and through by an ego-ridden ignorance and error. The true and divine self-fulfilment of Brahman in the manifestation is only possible on the foundation of the Brahman-consciousness and therefore ...
... the Divine. As I looked at the door, I knew and willed, in a single movement of consciousness, that "the time has come", and lifting with both hands a mighty golden hammer I struck one blow, one single blow on the door and the door was shattered to pieces. Then the supramental Light and Force and Consciousness rushed down upon earth in an uninterrupted flow. 9 The words the time has come... spiritualisation, will be able to transform their bodies with the help of the supramental Force, Consciousness and Light, so as no longer to be animal-men but become supermen. 18 As for the manner in which this is to be done, it is explained in Sri Aurobindo's The Synthesis of Yoga and especially in The Supramental Manifestation. Even so, it is unwise to be dogmatic about the paths or the ... and tapasya, and was now in its white radiance of progressive efflorescence. A few days later, on 5 April, the Mother told Sethna explaining that, what had come down was the supramental Light, Force and Consciousness and not the Ananda; and since the event concerned the whole universe, and not individuals, it would be appropriate to call the phenomenon a manifestation rather than a descent. A ...
... here, for we can possess them in their full independent reality. A fourth principle of supramental truth-consciousness is associated with them; manifesting unity in infinite multiplicity, it is the characteristic power of self-determination of the Infinite. This quadruple power of the supreme existence, consciousness and delight constitutes an upper hemisphere of manifestation based on the Spirit's eternal... 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 that is the significance of the plan and order of the terrestrial evolution;... the light of a larger knowledge; it must transform its own more ignorant, imperfect and conflicting powers and values into the divinely effective potencies and harmonious values of the supramental truth-consciousness. All the powers of the lower hemisphere with their structures of the Ignorance can find their true selves only by a transformation in the light that descends to us from the higher hemisphere ...
... infallibly attain its goal of perfect manifestation of the Godhead by continuous development...; and this manifestation, when complete, must include, not only the expansion of human consciousness to the awesome level of the supramental, but the impassibility, elevation, and immortality of the human body." Bruteau sums up: "If we are to hold all that we know of reality, and all that we can surmise, invent, or... fulfilled humanity it will constitute — glorious though it might be — would be far indeed from that complete divinisation of mind, life and body, which Sri Aurobindo names "Supramental Transformation". Even the cosmic consciousness, the realisation of the All, the God Ahead joining with the God Above — even Omega figured as an infinite divine reality would not be able to effectuate that transformation;... still deeper aspect of Divine Existence — what Sri Aurobindo, employing the ancient Indian terminology, would call the Bliss-state, the Ananda-aspect, of the Absolute, which is behind the supramental Truth-consciousness, the Vijnana-aspect. Behind the Bliss-state there will be something else — and so on, as it should be when we are dealing with the Absolute and His manifestation. For, to use Meredith's ...
... Reality and the vital being as the self and spirit; in the third essay he penetrated to Mind and the mental being; only afterwards could he get beyond the superficial subjective through the supramental Truth-Consciousness to the eternal, the blissful, the ever creative Reality of which these are the sheaths. Page 249 But humanity may not be as persistent or as plastic as the son of Varuna, the ...
... that you are a person and power formed by her out of herself, put out from her for the play and yet always safe in her, being of her being, consciousness of her consciousness, force of her force, ananda of her Ananda. When this condition is entire and her supramental energies can freely move you, then you will be perfect in divine works; knowledge, will, action will become sure, simple, luminous, spontaneous... and not only for a stillness and passivity through which the consciousness may pass out of the mind into some kind of trance or absorbed union with the Eternal. Each faculty of the mind—imagination, perception, reasoning; discrimination, penetration, judgement, must be directly intuivised, and finally linked to and worked by the Supramental Light. Mind, the alienated, and diminished Page 110 ... delegate of the Supermind, must be transformed into a luminous and powerful vehicle of the supramental Truth-Consciousness, and an efficient organiser and active agent for the establishment and consolidation of the Life Divine on earth. THE SURRENDER OF THE VITAL (PRANA) The surrender of the vital or prāṇa means, first and foremost, the surrender of all desires. At the very ...
... than strikingly different from other bodies. Clearly, it was a body holding a consciousness immeasurably greater than any in Page 26 the world. But it was a body too which Sri Aurobindo, some months before leaving his own body, had charged with a mighty mission: "You have to fulfil our Yoga of Supramental Descent and Transformation." The Mother has herself given a more distinct depth... repetition of this Avatar's earthly activity but a carrying forward of his multiform Overmind drive to a supramental manifestation. That is why so much importance has been accorded to the spiritual event of November 24,1926 which has been called by Sri Aurobindo the descent of the Krishna Consciousness, the mightily luminous Overmind-divinity, into his physical being. This descent opened the way to the... Specific worship of them is definitely ruled out for a follower of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The Mother has also said in connection with February 29,1956, marking the manifestation of the supramental Light, Consciousness and Force in the subtle-physical layer of the earth that the age-old reign of the Gods is over. We do not rule out their further activity in the world; but it is by a push from the past ...
... superconscient cosmic Mind in direct contact with the Supramental Truth-Consciousness, an original intensity determinant of all mental energies,—not Mind as we know it, but an Over- mind that covers as with the wide wings of some creative Oversoul this whole lower hemisphere of knowledge-ignorance, links it with that greater Truth-Consciousness while yet at the same time with its brilliant golden lid... aesthetic content in Zens. of Phidias, a greater content of consciousness and therefore Ananda to express and fill in the essential principle of beauty, even though the essence of beauty may be realised perhaps with equal aesthetic perfection by either artist in either theme." The creations of art do not all proceed from one plane of consciousness; different artists create from different levels, from... secret Reality." It "connects and divides the supreme Knowledge and the cosmic Ignorance." Page 90 Such an ascent of consciousness, it is often feared, would mean renunciation of, or at least indifference to, life. That such an ascent to a higher consciousness must mean a negative condition is a current but mistaken idea. On the contrary, such a rise brings out an intensification of the ...
... Aurobindonian will shake hands with you and say "Right-O!" According to Sri Aurobindo it is a spiritual and supramental Gnostic consciousness that has originally emanated the physical world as one particular infinity of its multi-infinitied substance and force, knows it with complete identity both static and dynamic and is working out divine possibilities in what it has emanated as apparently... he does not accept the mental consciousness in any form as the world-creator. Wrong if you mean that he does not accept consciousness at all as the creator of the world. Mind, to Sri Aurobindo, is not a synonym of consciousness: it is just one degree. Are you ascribing anti-mentalism to him by yourself employing the word "mind" broadly to signify consciousness and thinking he assumes for... creativity and our will, even so the cosmic mind must feel in its consciousness of matter and radiation as its own mental stuff an inherent absence of fullness and finality. If we assert that there is no such absence we are talking of a status of consciousness to which it is illicit to apply the name "mind". An infinite consciousness, omniscient and omnipotent, limiting itself freely and without ...
... experiment of the new Consciousness in their bodies and in their lives—this Consciousness of the terrestrial body's material oneness. How is it materialized in a collective life? How will human bodies bear the infiltration of this true Vibration, let themselves be molded by it, and thus organize their lives according to norms that are no longer "human" or mental, but supramental and suprahuman? In a... build a symbolic center around Sri Aurobindo's symbol, like an enormous lotus bud ("Aurobindo" means lotus) rising from the earth, from the mud of the earth into which the true consciousness, the supramental Truth-Consciousness, must infiltrate. It is what Mother called with her delightful sense of humor "the Tower of Babel in reverse." They united and divided in the construction, so now, they come... is at each instant piercing the crust of appearances for those who know how not to look in the "usual way." An enormous veil of habit eclipses to us the stupendous change. The infiltration of the supramental Power into Mother's body, the little twinkling of iridescent, multicolored light is repeated in the earth's body, as if at each second there were a Vibration of Truth coupled with each vibration ...
... 'Illumined Mind', 'Intuitive Page 23 Mind', and 'Overmind'.² The Supermind is an eternal reality of the divine Being and divine Nature. In the words of Sri Aurobindo, 'A Supramental Truth-Consciousness is at once the self-awareness of the Infinite and Eternal and a power of self-determination inherent in that self-awareness, the first is its foundation and status, the second is its power... Only, each creates in his own way; he sees all but sees all from his own view-point. There is not the absolute supramental harmony and certitude. These, inadequately expressed, are some of the differences. I speak, of course, of these planes in themselves — when acting in the human consciousness they are necessarily much diminished in their working by having to depend on the human instrumentation of mind... is a self-achieving Truth-Consciousness and if its limits itself or its working, it is by choice and intention, not by compulsion; in the limits it chooses its action and the results of its action are harmonious and inevitable. .. . The whole radical change in the evolution from a basis of Ignorance to a basis of Knowledge can only come by the intervention of the supramental power and its direct action ...
... last, from a supramental Truth-Consciousness and its divine force of supernature. Thus are made possible the final steps when the veil of Nature is withdrawn and the seeker is face to face with the Master of all existence and his activities are merged in the action of a supreme Energy which is pure, true, perfect and blissful for ever. Thus can he utterly renounce to the supramental Shakti his works... upholding a real self-creation or manifestation in its self-existent infinite. Overmind, then, gives us no final and positive solution; it is in a supramental cognition beyond it that we are left to seek for an answer. A supramental Truth-Consciousness is at once the self-awareness of the Infinite and Eternal and a power of self-determination inherent in that self-awareness; the first is its foundation... meeting of their powers; the original Determinant or determinants, if it or they exist, are veiled from us by our ignorance. But to the supramental Truth-Consciousness these imperatives would be apparent, would be the very stuff of its seeing and experience: in the supramental creative process the Page 189 imperatives, the nexus of possibilities, the resultant actualities would be a single whole ...
... confined solely to the outer existence of man but primarily as a qualitative transmutation of his consciousness, leading in the end to the appearance of a new supramental species upon earth. In reality, the earthly manifestation is ever progressive, of which the key-note is the evolution of consciousness with all that it implies; and if evolution is a fact, the present man cannot be its last term, nor... ascension of sight, and this process continues till we reach the highest height and the greatest 'sight', par ā d ṛ k, the all-embracing, all-relating and all-unifying vision of the supramental infinite consciousness. Well, since the seeing knowledge, as we have ventured to state, is always more authentic, more compelling and more satisfying than a mere thinking conceptual knowledge, an ev... organisation which will shape and mould the indwelling consciousness; the order will be reversed and it is the new manifesting consciousness which will be the determinant and mould the material substance and its structure. Surely this appears to be too presumptuous a statement to be accepted easily! — Matter is a function of Consciousness and not the other way round! But is not the whole of modern ...
... evolution of the whole consciousness... can be compared to a tide or a mounting flux, the leading fringe of which touches the higher degrees of a cliff or hill while the rest is still 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... or self-lost obscurity; truth of law and act and knowledge expressive of that harmonious truth of being.. . 22 The link-principle is therefore described as Truth-consciousness or even as supramental Truth-consciousness, and it operates between the unitarian and indivisible Sachchidananda above and the analytic and dividing Mind or mental activity below. This mediating Supermind is both the... cannot (or will not) shed the limitations of his present mentality and grow into the Truth-Consciousness of the Supramental status, he will have to be written off as a failure and the future will lie, perhaps, with another race. But the indications are that Man himself may be able, either to attain the supramental status himself, or at least to make his mind, life and body a responsive field of exper ...
... of the lower hemisphere of Existence and not with a gradual change which perhaps might have led to a Nietzschean superman. This new species would possess a supramental, divine consciousness of the higher hemisphere, and accordingly a supramental, divine body. In a new act of the drama of the world The united Two began a greater age. 3 — Savitri They knew that their reunification — which... l pronouncements: ‘The Mother’s consciousness and mine are the same, the one Divine Consciousness in two, because that is necessary for the play.’ 18 ‘The Mother and I are one but in two bodies.’ 19 ‘The Mother and myself stand for the same Power in two forms.’ 20 The Mother from her side said: ‘Sri Aurobindo and I are always one and the same consciousness, one and the same person.’ 21 ... keeping one sexual gender, the one of its choice, once it has acquired or is acquiring its maturity. As it is intrinsically sexless, however, in the species beyond man it will manifest in a sexless supramental body. The sexes are a phenomenon of the lower hemisphere of Existence from the gods down to the lower vital creatures. ‘The concept that has come from below,’ as the Mother said, has therefore ...
... two-paragraphed "The Supramental is a truth..." From the issue of April 24, it has been resolved, the new version alone will appear as our motto. April 5,1956 I asked the Mother to tell me more precisely about the Great Event of February 29. I Page 98 India. "Has the whole Supermind descended?" The Mother answered: "The Supramental Light, Consciousness and Force have come... the fact of the Supramental Manifestation—one in the Ashram and three outside.' I can very well believe that there was only one person in the Ashram—namely, yourself! But the three outsiders puzzle me. How did they manage to do what hundreds here didn't?" The Mother told me after her post-lunch visit to her bath-room: "What I said was not that four people knew it was the Supramental Manifestation... come. But the Supramental Ananda has not yet come. You speak of a descent. But I speak of a manifestation. Descent is something that occurs in relation to an individual with the kind of psychological structure he has. You can refer to planes below and planes above in reference to this structure. Where the universe is concerned, there is no meaning in the term 'descent'. There is only manifestation." ...
... if you go deep into silence, you can reach a level of consciousness on which it is not impossible for you to receive answers to all your questions. And if there is one who is consciously open to the plenary truth of the supermind, in constant contact with it, he can certainly answer any question that is worth an answer from the supramental Light. 3 When this passage came up for elucidation... become a conscious participant and a dynamic agent in the working out of a Higher Destiny. 23 VI In Sri Aurobindo's Yoga, the aim is to exceed the mental consciousness and attain in the overhead levels up to the supramental. This does not mean that mind, reason, intellect are entirely useless, or necessarily inimical to Yoga. Everything in its own place, confining itself to its own proper... this is the breeding-ground of diseases. To rest in the Divine is the only infallible remedy. It may also be added that, ultimately, only when man is established permanently in the supramental Truth-Consciousness that his body will be automatically protected from all inner disharmony and attacks from outside. IX Another question is the place for individual initiative in a world under ...
... cosmic Mind in direct contact with the Supramental Truth- Consciousness, an original intensity determinant of all movements below it and all mental energies,—not Mind as we know it, but an Overmind that covers as with the wide wings of some creative Over- soul this whole lower hemisphere of Knowledge-Ignorance, links it with that greater Truth-Consciousness while yet at the same time with its brilliant... It "connects and divides the supreme Knowledge and the cosmic Ignorance". — Life Divine. "The Overmind is not strictly a transcendental consciousness— that epithet would more accurately apply to the supramental and the Sachchidananda Consciousness—though it looks up to the transcendental and may receive something from it and though it does transcend the ordinary human mind and in its full and... Psychic, the Spiritual, the Supramental. Ashwapathy's yoga may be called the yoga of Ascent mainly, and that of the Vision of Reality in its triple States: the Individual, the Universal, the Transcendent. He ascends from the mind to planes above and reaches the Transcendent; whereas Savitri awakens the Soul in her and brings down the infinite power of the Divine Consciousness in herself and in her nature ...
... the human consciousness. She would change herself, and from that leverage she would change the world. She would lose herself in the Divine, and she would strive to establish here a new Heaven and a new Earth inhabited and governed by the supramental Truth-Consciousness. But she knows too that so radical - so revolutionary - a change in the human mentality or the earth-consciousness is not easy... often said that he and the Mother had a single consciousness functioning as an apparent duality only for the sake of convenience. The filiations between their terrestrial histories had been infinite and intimate, and whenever she spoke, she was conveying the Aurobindonian message as well: the message of the inevitability of the coming supramental change. On 6 May, the talk turned on the p... effective expression.. V Part of the discussion on 20 May 23 revolves round the question of Transformation. Identification with the Divine Consciousness is one thing, the transformation of the human body into a supramental one is a very different thing. In a moment of luminous transcendence, the flame of one's ardent aspiration may successfully lose itself in the Divine Flame ...
... conversion into the supramental light of the Divine Gnosis. For there in the supramental Light is the seat of a divine Truth-consciousness that has native in it, as no other consciousness below it can have, the power to organise the works of a Truth which is no longer tarnished by the shadow of the cosmic Inconscience and Ignorance. There to reach and thence to bring down a supramental dynamism that can... truth can only be accepted when it has been raised to the spiritual level, tested in the supreme Truth-consciousness and extricated from the soil and error of the Ignorance. In sum, it may be safely affirmed that no solution offered can be anything but provisional until a Supramental Truth-consciousness is reached by which the appearances of things are put in their place and their essence revealed and... of the supramental Gnosis. It is this that the evolution of consciousness in the world carries prefigured but latent in its seed and in the straining tense intention of its process; nor can that process, that evolution cease till it has evolved the instruments of a perfect in place of its now imperfect manifestation of the Spirit. If knowledge is the widest power of the consciousness and its ...
... , in which all is in contact with the Divine through the psychic consciousness. Next is the spiritual transformation in which all is merged in the Divine in the cosmic consciousness. Third is the supramental transformation in which all becomes supramentalised in the divine gnostic consciousness. ‘Nobody can have the supramental realisation who has not had the spiritual. ‘The psychic is the... was happening exactly on that level. That was where the ultimate Victory had to be won, where the supramental Unity-Consciousness had to replace the infinite inframental division. Let this not be misunderstood: the consciousness of the cells had to be transformed into the divine Unity-Consciousness. In other words the cells had to be divinized! It was on this level that she underwent also the terrors... composite. Deep within there is the Unity-Consciousness, the reason why the cell is able to vibrate on the rhythms and movements of the whole. Its surface-consciousness, on the contrary, is its evolutionary consciousness, gradually increased by each evolutionary saltus, which each time is experienced as a calamity. (The supramental turn about will perhaps also be experienced as a catastrophe by us.) The ...
... sapphire more frequently. About the significance of gold he explains to us that Gold indicates at its most intense something from the supramental, otherwise overmind truth or intuitive truth deriving ultimately from the supramental Truth-Consciousness. 16 When Sri Aurobindo encrusts the lines of Savitri with rare gems and metals he opens out their semiotic value. The following line... As I looked at the door, I knew and willed, in a single movement of consciousness, that " the time has come ", and lifting with both hands a mighty golden hammer I struck one blow, one single blow on the door and the door was shattered to pieces. Then the supramental Light and Force and Consciousness rushed down upon earth in an uninterrupted flow. 104 Overview ... to discard our mortal state. The Truth-Consciousness symbolised by "gold" and the pure element "fire" as Tapas, spiritual will, promise to bring down celestial grace and to destroy the dross in man's subconscient nature. The term "sun-gold" recurs prominently, probably because Sri Aurobindo wants to draw attention to the presence of the supramental light. It may be argued that Sri Aurobindo ...
... ritam, bhrihat). Page 14 This is the supramental Truth-Consciousness (Rita-Chit), the highest cosmic consciousness. It is that by which reality expresses itself, and in which expression, even the Idea- Expression, is the concrete body of the Truth itself. It may therefore be described as the Real-Idea. Attainment of the truth-consciousness, Rita-Chit, implies a process of finding and... Sri Aurobindo points out, it becomes clear that the principal ideas of the Vedic Rishis around which the entirety of the Vedic thought in its spiritual aspects is grouped are those of Truth-Consciousness, supramental and divine, the invocation of the gods as powers of the Truth to raise man out of the falsehoods of the mortal mind, the attainment in and by this Truth of an immortal state of perfect good... both to be mastered. The Supramental Light is wideness but not empty Page 13 of contents or relations. Hence, the necessity of the union of Varuna and Mitra. But even this is not enough. In all human endeavour, there is the stress and strain of effort. There is a struggle, and it is through struggle, through intense effort, that the narrowness of consciousness is overpassed, the conflicts ...
... Sri Aurobindo's supramental Yoga. Page 410 V The grounding on Unity, the turning of the whole being into an engine of Power to serve the ends of Purusha or Krishna, the mere ego being now eliminated: a progressive heightening of the power of consciousness through the influx of the higher knowledge till the mental becomes the Supramental Truth-Consciousness, the grand lever... earth consciousness: The entire consciousness immersed in divine contemplation.... And the consciousness knew that its global body was thus moving in the arms of the universal Being, and it gave itself, it abandoned itself to It in an ecstasy of peaceful bliss. Then it felt that its body was absorbed in the body of the universe and one with it; the consciousness became the consciousness of the... This is a remarkable analysis and a momentous confession. From cosmic consciousness or the consciousness of Unity (which, although it may be all right for personal felicity, will be "an escape instead of a victory"), the next stage would be to see the Unity as a creative duality of Two-in-One: Pure Existence and Power of Consciousness, or Krishna and Kali. The true Yogi turns himself into a pure engine ...
... possible, the Goal that is promised to our effort. If we can enlarge our consciousness sufficiently, we see that even the apparent defeats are marvellous steps towards the final Victory. As we went on, the Mother uncovered Sri Aurobindo's vision and hers of the New World, expressing the Supramental Light, Consciousness, Force and Delight. She disclosed their effect on the 15 Ibid., ... the New Consciousness which had been manifesting since the beginning of the year 1969. On 21st March 1969, after our Savitri work, the Mother said: Child, do you know, from the beginning of this year the New Consciousness has been coming down upon earth, which tells everything—what to do and what not to do—to people who are conscious and want to change. This Consciousness is gradually... Page 3 Bonjour To my dear little child To my sweet Huta I have received your nice letter. Yes, we are going towards a painting that will be able to express the supramental truth of things. My love and blessings and the Presence of the Divine Grace are always with you The Mother That same evening she explained to me: I want you to do something new ...
... purity, truth-consciousness and Ananda of the supramental Divine. In this Yoga, therefore, there can be no place for vital relations or interchanges with others; any such relation or interchange immediately ties down the soul to the lower consciousness and its lower nature, prevents the true and full union with the Divine and hampers both the ascent to the supramental Truth consciousness and the descent... otherwise the vital consciousness remains a turbid mixture, the turbidity affecting the purity of the spiritualised mind and seriously hindering the upward turn of the forces of the body. This Yoga demands a full Page 502 ascension of the whole lower or ordinary consciousness to join the spiritual above it and a full descent of the spiritual (eventually of the supramental) into the mind, life... straight towards spiritual downfall and throw into the atmosphere forces that would block the supramental descent, bringing instead the descent of adverse vital powers to disseminate disturbance and disaster. This deviation must be absolutely thrown away, should it try to occur and expunged from the consciousness, if the Truth is to be brought down and the work is to be done. It is an error too to imagine ...
... liberates him into the wide spaces of infinite being and prepares him to perceive all the infinities of the. Supreme Light. The consciousness of man is broken by the mighty invasion of Varuna, and Varuna is fulfilled in man, who ceases to be mere mental and consents to be supramental. But this is-not enough. Mitra, the lord of Harmony is also to be fulfilled. The seeker must learn the secret of relations... marks the victory of the Aryan seeker. He is now in the very home of the gods (swe dame). This is the home of the Truth, the Right and the Vast (satyam, ritam brihat). This is the supramental Truth-Consciousness (Sat-Chit). It is that by which reality expresses itself, and in which expression, even the Idea-Expression, is the concrete body of the Truth itself. It may therefore be described... Rishis/ the human consciousness is delivered from the crookedness of the ignorant mental action. The actions of truth are direct and straight and the law of this directness and straightness is the Rita. There is no groping in the Truth-consciousness, and there is no attempt at inventing devices for initiating and accomplishing any action. Thus, when the Truth-consciousness is achieved, there ...
... the War is not the supramental but the Overmind force, and that when it acts in the material world is so inextricably mixed up in the tangle of the lower world forces that its results, however strong or however adequate to the immediate object, must necessarily be partial. 30 A global consciousness, even when it is rather less than the Supramental Truth-Consciousness, carries with it knowledge... good in the earth-consciousness, especially in the physical or the physical mind. In the series of articles included in The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, Sri Aurobindo introduced, as we have seen earlier, the "realm between" - the Mind of Light - a limited or delegated power of the Supermind; and we have the Mother's word - reinforced by the experience of the Supramental radiance from ... first physical base for the demonstration of the Supramental possibility — if that could advance Page 743 the date of the total descent of the Supramental light, or ensure the near descent — well, the sacrifice was worth making. Since, after all, even without his physical presence, he would be here, one with the Mother's consciousness and power, he could also accelerate, witness and ...
... remain vitally and physically ln the untransformed individual human consciousness, in unchanged contact with it, satisfy its demands, and yet be immune under all circumstances and in all conditions against strain and struggle and illness. If I want to divinise the human consciousness, to bring down the supramental, the Truth-Consciousness, the Light, the Force into the physical to transform it, to create... this life as an Elusion or a passing phase; the supramental Yoga alone regards it as a thing created by the Divine for a progressive Manifestation and takes the fulfilment of the life and the body for its object. The supramental is simply the Truth-consciousness and what it brings in its descent is the full truth of life, the full truth of consciousness in Matter. One Page 157 has indeed... being more indicative, light more dynamic. Colour incandescent becomes light. Gold-green: gold indicates at its most intense something from the supramental, otherwise overmind truth or intuitive truth drawing ultimately from the supramental truth-consciousness. Green has much to do with the vital and indicates here, I think, the emotional forces in their outpouring. The play of the emotional forces in ...
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