... moment on 5 December 1950: the passing of Sri Aurobindo. “He had gathered in his body much supramental Force and as soon as he left … You see, he was lying on his bed, I stood near him, and in a way altogether concrete – so concrete, I felt it so strongly that I thought it could be seen – all the supramental Force that was in him passed from his body into mine. And I felt the friction of the passage.... during the past two years …” This long-term yogic occupation started at the very moment that Sri Aurobindo left his body and charged her with it. What entered into her body, palpably, was all the supramental Force he had accumulated in his – the Force that was the beginning of the formation of overman. 5 Secondly, in the Mother’s Entretiens, her “questions and answers” at the Playground, she sometimes... new species necessitates a newly evolved, higher physical embodiment, “a greater existence”. Sri Aurobindo had started realising such an embodiment in the cells of his body, pulling down the supramental Force into them. When the general cosmic circumstances proved to be such that the supramental transformation leading to the superman was possible only by descending consciously into death, Sri Aurobindo ...
... a, Sri Aurobindo. 6 Also that the Supramental Force is just now coming down. I feel my previous dream of darshan of Sri Aurobindo in a motor car and another dream of Sri Aurobindo signify this manifestation and the coming down of the Force before long. Am I right? The motor car by itself only means a rapid progress. It is true that the Supramental Force is preparing its descent. 20 September... conditions, if the means created by the Mother for the physical and vital contact had not been vitiated by the wrong attitude, the wrong reactions in the Asram atmosphere. It was not the direct supramental Force Page 319 that was acting, but an intermediate and preparatory force that carried in it a modified Light derived from the supramental; but this would have been sufficient for the work... there, the body divinised, matter transformed, there would be no difficulty and no need of the endeavour. I would recall to you what I said in my letter to X 3 that it was not the direct supramental Force which was working up till now but a preparatory Force that carried in it a modified Light derived from the supramental. The direct Force can begin working only when the mind, vital and physical ...
... else I shall! What has the Supermind to do here? Who told you that I was using the supramental Force? I have said all along that it was not the supramental Force that was acting. If you want the supramental Force, you had better go to Jogesh Mama of Chittagong. I hear from Chittagong that the supramental Force is descending in him. I have put down a few comments to throw cold water on all this... seek refuge in the supramentalised Asram against death and sit comfortably there without any intention of doing sadhana. ... The Supramental Force can create the best conditions which the Divine Force can't? Yes. ... But surely the action of the Supramental Force would be different from that of the Divine Force. Yes. ... or would they be fundamentally the same, only different at points... paper? They are not Greek to me, but Amharic. He had also syphilis! I consulted Valle, he advised serum injection... Christ! And yet you attribute the sufferings of these people to the Supramental Force! By the way, what is happening, pray? Supramental descending? P is going fut. Some passing blood, some vomiting blood, another died devoid of blood! It appears that P has recognised that ...
... else I will! What has the Supermind to do here? Who told you that I was using the supramental Force? I have said all along that it was not the supramental Force that was acting. If you want the supra mental Force, you had better go to Jogesh Mama of Chittagong. I hear from Chittagong that the supramental Force is descending in him. I have put down a few comments to throw cold water on all this... because of my mental reservations. As for the Force, I shall write some other time. I have told you that it is not always efficacious, but works under conditions like all forces; it is only the supramental Force that works absolutely, because it creates its own conditions. But the Force I am using is a Force that has to work under the present world conditions. It is not the less a Force for that. I have... soul's aspiration. It is like that in X ; it is so in many others here. The Divine Force does not act now in an omnipotent ease regardless of conditions—it might do that if it were the pure supramental Force in its native action; but that is not yet. Here conditions have been created and it acts under those conditions. You speak of the Force acting in the case of the illnesses you have treated. No ...
... Supramental, for she had said in March 1951: ‘It may very well happen that at a given moment the supramental Force manifests, that it is conscious here, that it acts on Matter, but that those who don’t consciously participate in its vibration are incapable of perceiving it. People say: “When the supramental force manifests, we shall know it quite well. It will be seen.” Not necessarily. They will not feel... this, not once but perhaps hundreds of times, who have talked about it, thought of it, hoped for it, wanted it – there are people who have come here for that, with the intention of receiving the supramental Force and being transformed into supermen; that was their aim, wasn’t it? – how is it that all of you were so alien to this Force that you didn’t even feel it when it came? Can you solve this problem... before; one gets the feeling of being late or of being left behind. Things change quickly.’ 28 7 February 1957. ‘It will soon be a year since, one Wednesday, the manifestation of the supramental Force took place. Since then it has been working very actively, even though very few people are aware of it! … Of course, it is not working only in the Ashram. This Force is at work in the whole world ...
... 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. In point of fact, the supramental Force had come down into him long ago." The meaning of the... is evidently, as she explained to Monsieur Roger Anger one day and later to me on 25 November 1970, that Sri Aurobindo's embodied being had experienced the Supermind's descent but that the Supramental Force had not entered sufficiently and permanently his physical substance so as to start supramentalising it. She told Roger that because the physical supramentalisation had not been there ... Yet the insistence is upon holding on and facing the test, the hard discipline of enduring the more and more difficult conditions under which the body lived in its attempt to assimilate the Supramental Force, Consciousness and Light directly into its cells. The next occasion on which we hear of something less than certainty is, paradoxically, in the very talk of 24 March 1972 telling us ...
... général), the Yoga of the Earth. ‘It is the miracle of the whole Earth.’ 35 This too was a line of development which had been discernible years ago. The Mother had already said in 1957 about the supramental Force: ‘It is active in the whole world, and at all places where there is a receptivity that Force is at work.’ 36 A year later she had talked about ‘the new substance that is spreading and active... once you have made the decisive step.’ 38 Sri Aurobindo had already mentioned the future general spreading of the Supramental, for instance in a letter from 1936: ‘Your idea that [the supramental Force] may spread and happen elsewhere is not without foundation; for, when once something is there in the earth-atmosphere that was not there before, it begins to work on many sides in an unforeseen... express and manifest it.’ 40 ‘I know that there are people in the whole world,’ the Mother said in 1972, and she meant people who, at least in a part of their being, were receptive to the supramental Force and influenced by its workings. Moreover, had not Sri Aurobindo written: ‘A number of souls have been sent to see to it that it is for now,’ and: ‘Some psychic beings have come here who are ready ...
... What has the Supermind to do here? Page 85 Who told you that I was using the supramental Force? I have said all along that it was not the supramental Force that was acting. If you want the supramental Force, you had better go to X of Chittagong. I hear from Chittagong that the Supramental Force is descending in him, (In the medical report I wrote Achancha r instead of Achancha... Amharic. MYSELF: The gentleman had also syphilis. I consulted Vallé, he advised serum injection. SRI AUROBINDO: Christ! And yet, you attribute the sufferings of these people to the supramental Force! MYSELF: By the way, what is happening? Supramental descending? P is going phut. All thought that he was doing serious sadhana; as a result Purushottam descended into him and he was... nature made the disease. MYSELF: Please read T's report tonight. I am absolutely staggered at her sudden voracious appetite. Finished one cabbage in the evening! Have you pumped some Supramental Force into her stomach or what? SRI AUROBINDO: I have of course put pressure for no fever and a good appetite, but did not expect any supramental effects in the latter direction. MYSELF: ...
... hours, we have to turn to the Mother herself. “He had accumulated in his body much supramental Force, and as soon as he left … You see, he was lying on his bed, I stood by his side, and in a way altogether concrete – concrete with such a strong sensation as to make one think that it could be seen – all this supramental Force which was in him passed from his body into mine. And I felt the friction of the... ” The Mind of Light On the last day before Sri Aurobindo left his body the Mother said: “Each time I enter the room, I see him pulling down the Supramental Light.” And later: “All the supramental force he had accumulated in his body, he passed on to me and I received it.” 15 In his memoir A Call from Pondicherry , Dr. Prabhat Sanyal wrote: “She stood there, near the feet of Sri Aurobindo... ies between the two species, of building the bridge over an enormous evolutionary gap. In this we are not alone. If we can tune ourselves to them, we are helped by four powerful aids: the Supramental Force, active since 1956; the Consciousness of the Overman, active since 1 January 1969 27 ; Sri Aurobindo’s presence; and the Mother’s presence. For Sri Aurobindo’s and the Mother’s Work of building ...
... a new Force. 26 June 1954 The Supramental Force is ready for manifestation, let us get ready also and it will manifest. 7 July 1954 When the Supramental manifests, an unequalled joy spreads over the earth. 8 July 1954 Page 91 Drop all fear, all strife, all quarrels, open your eyes and your hearts—the Supramental Force is there. 9 July 1954 With patience... patience, strength, courage and a calm and indomitable energy we shall prepare ourselves to receive the Supramental Force. 10 July 1954 New words are needed to express new ideas, new forms are necessary to manifest new forces. 1 August 1954 We must never forget that we are here to serve the Supramental Truth and Light and to prepare its manifestation in ourselves and upon the earth... 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 peace. 11 October 1954 We aspire to be liberated from all ignorance, liberated from our ego so that we may open wide the ...
... for otherwise it is not complete. So I withdrew from that world and set to work here again.¹ * * * Mother discovered that the repetition of the Mantra was very effective in fixing the Supramental Force in the physical. In the physical, there are several distinguishable elements: the gross physical, the subtle physical, the physical mind and the cellular mind. The gross physical is what we see... applying the highest consciousness to it, that of a perfect serenity. And I saw especially that this consciousness has been missioned to transform the earth through the Supermind and by the supramental Force, avoiding all catastrophes as far as possible: the Work is to be done as luminously and harmoniously as the earth would allow, even by going at a slower pace if need be. That was the idea. And... previously.' Page 139 It's not... it is far, very far from being the final change, there's lot more to be done. But we may say that it's the conscious and total presence of the supramental Force in the body. (silence) When I got up today, I was going over all this to myself, and my first instinct was not to speak of it, to observe and see what would happen; but then I received ...
... when the supramental Force begins to act directly, and this it does not do if the nature is not ready. For there is too great a disparity between the power of the supreme Force and the capacity of the ordinary nature; the inferior nature would either be unable to bear or, bearing, unable to respond and receive or, receiving, unable to assimilate. Till Nature is ready, the supramental Force has to act... swiftness becomes possible. Still, an involved rapidity of the evolutionary course swallowing up the stages can only come in when the power of the conscious Spirit has prepared the field and the supramental Force has begun to use its direct influence. All Nature's transformations do indeed wear the appearance of a miracle, but it is a miracle with a method: her largest strides are taken over an assured... occult truth behind its negations which only the Supermind with its reconciliation of contraries in the original Reality can take up and so discover the pragmatic solution of the enigma. Only the supramental Force can entirely overcome this difficulty of the fundamental Nescience; for with it enters an opposite and luminous imperative Necessity which underlies all things and is the original and final s ...
... conditions necessary for spiritualization, 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 overmen. 37 Sri Aurobindo has made this promise, 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 into him long ago; he knew it... February 1956. This date marks the exact end of the old world order and the beginning of the new. “This is becoming more and more true from day to day, from hour to hour: the feeling that this [supramental] Force, when it is directed by what we call ‘the Divine’, that it can , it truly can – you understand? It has the power to make Matter move. It can produce a material event, and it can efface the... Supermind descended into the earth-atmosphere. Its descent meant the certitude of the coming of the supramental species. A new world was born. The Mother often mentioned the action of the new supramental Force in the world. This action became quite obvious in the 1960s, the decade of which the importance has been continually growing in the historians’ estimation, so much so that according to some of ...
... the intention of receiving the Supramental Force and to transform themselves into supermen. But then, how is it that all of you were so foreign to that Force that, when it came, you did not even feel it?’ 43 Because only like can know or recognize like. As early as in 1950 she herself had said: ‘It is very well possible that at a certain Moment the Supramental Force manifests itself, that it will... bodily transformation, only at the end of 1958, the year when she in her turn withdrew. Considering the facts and the nature of the Mother this cannot but be a misjudgment. On the one hand, the supramental Force realized in the physical by Sri Aurobindo, the Mind of Light, had during his confrontation with death been transmitted to the Mother, so concretely that she had felt it as a friction every time... an intensity of life, of aspiration, of will-to-progress of which habitually one is not conscious.’ 9 July. ‘Drop all fear, all strife, all quarrels, open your eyes and your hearts — the Supramental Force is there.’ 31 3 November. ‘Every part of the being has its own aspiration, which has the character of the part that is aspiring. There is even a physical aspiration … The cells of the body ...
... is a life like the one I live." ...And so, it may very well happen that at a given moment the supramental Force manifests, that it is conscious here, that it acts on Matter, but those who do not consciously participate in its vibration are incapable of perceiving it. People say, "When the supramental force manifests, we shall know it quite well. It will be seen"—not necessarily. They will not feel it... exact measure of it, who has that? I'm not alluding to anyone in particular, each one can look into himself. And this, this condensation here is only a far-off reflection of the supramental force. So when this supramental force will be installed here definitively, how long will it take for people to perceive that it is there?... And that it changes everything, do you understand? And when I say that the ...
... He said it himself: it happened when he was in possession or in conscious command of the supramental Force and Power and when he put it on a particular spot for a particular purpose. It was irrevocable, inevitable: the effect was absolute. Page 71 That can be called a miracle. The supramental force he would put in a person's mind was able to... Take the example of someone ill, even... you a question.... I haven't quite understood what you meant by "miracles in the Mind." What are they? "Sri Aurobindo performed miracles in the Mind," you said. That was when he brought the supramental Force into the mental consciousness. He would bring into the mental consciousness (the mental consciousness that governs all material movements 1 ) a supramental formation, or power, or force, that... × In the following conversation, Mother gave a very recent example of someone cured by the supramental force acting in the material mind: "After three warnings which he didn't heed, A. [a Paris disciple], one morning, found himself half-paralyzed. And the next day, it started spreading to the other side ...
... is not my turn! (Laughter) Oh, how very convenient! ( Laughing ) So now whose turn is it? Yours? Page 206 Your question? Here it is written: "...it is only the very highest supramental Force descending from above and opening from below that can victoriously handle the physical Nature and annihilate its difficulties." I don't understand the last part. Which words exactly don't... highest force which can overcome the difficulties of matter. That's what it means. All the resistances and difficulties of the physical world can be overcome only by the highest force—the highest supramental force. Do you understand now? Yes. Page 207 ( To another child ) Nothing? ( To another ) You? Mother, it is said: "Reject the false notion that the divine Power will do and is... "opening the passage from below", but in English the word "passage" is not there. Yes. Who has the English? I. Read it, read your English! "... and it is only the very highest supramental Force descending from above and opening from below that can victoriously handle the physical nature and annihilate its difficulties." Opening from below? ( Long silence ) This can mean allowing ...
... being, the constant effort of the being, the constant preoccupation of the being. If for five minutes in the day you happen to remember that there is something in the universe like the supramental Force, and that, after all, "it would be nice if it manifested in me", and Page 204 then all the rest of the time you are thinking of something else and are busy with other things, there... fails. That can't be done in a few days. Moreover, I believe that I had taken my precautions in this matter and that, when I announced that it had been granted to the earth to receive the supramental Force in order to manifest it, this did not mean that the manifestation would be instantaneously apparent, and that everybody would suddenly find himself transported to a peak of light and of possibilities... complained that its advent has not made things easier, and that even, in some cases, they have become more difficult. I am very sorry, but I can do nothing about it. For it is not the fault of the supramental Force, the fault lies in the way in which it was received. I know instances in which truly the aspiration was sincere and the collaboration complete, Page 205 and in which many things that ...
... capacities, of an earthly and material life in which man can express values of a higher order from the mental and intellectual point of view—one can go beyond that state, open oneself to the supramental force which is now acting on earth and enter a transitional zone where the two influences meet and interpenetrate, where the consciousness is still mental and intellectual in its functioning, but s... imbued with the supramental strength and force to become the instrument of a higher truth. At present this state can be realised on earth by those who have prepared themselves to receive the supramental force which is manifesting. And in that state, in that state of consciousness, the body can benefit from a much better condition than the one it was in before. It can be put into direct contact with... knows instinctively, or intuitively, what is to be done and that it can do it. As I say, this state can now be realised by all those who take the trouble of preparing themselves to receive the supramental force, to assimilate it and obey it. Of course, there is a higher state than this, the state Sri Aurobindo speaks of as the ideal to be fulfilled: the divine life in a divine body. But he himself ...
... Mother let the period of twelve days run its full course, for herself everything was decided and determined in the first three days. Sri Aurobindo had physically entered into her with all the supramental force he had accumulated in his cells. She now was MOTHERSRIAUROBINDO 92 and in the coming years she would often tell bow intimately both their personalities had melted into each other and how concretely... received its definitive seal at the time of their second meeting in 1920, was like a mighty river in the landscape of Matter — a river that would branch out into a broadening delta of increasing supramental Force in the earth-atmosphere, and that finally would flow into the ocean of the supramental Presence in the living mother-body of our symbolical planet. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, being the double-poled... matter, called the ‘mental physical’ in Sri Aurobindo’s terminology. How far the transformation of the mental-physical in his own body had progressed was demonstrated by the transmission of the supramental force it contained into the Mother’s body each time she came into the presence of Sri Aurobindo’s body after his ‘death’, and also by the ‘miraculous’ conservation of his body in a climate conducive ...
... me if it will for my presumption, – I go on till I conquer or perish. This is the spirit in which I seek the Supermind, no hunting for greatness for myself or others. ¹ 10-2-1935 The supramental Force is descending, but it has not yet taken possession of the body or of matter – there is still much resistance to that. It is supramentalised Overmind Force that has already touched, and this may... of those who cannot? Well, it is for ¹ Ibid., p. 158. ² Ibid., p. 137. ³ Ibid., p. 167. Page 280 them I am putting forth all my efforts to bring down the supramental Force within a measurable time ¹ I don't know that I have called myself a Superman. But certainly I have risen above the ordinary human mind, otherwise I would not think of trying to bring down... when you cannot feel it.4 As for the Force, I shall write some other time. I have told you that it is not always efficacious, but works under conditions like all forces; it is only the supramental Force that works absolutely, because it creates its own conditions. But the Force I am using is a Force that has to work under the present world conditions. It is not the less a Force for that. I have ...
... to a peak higher than the ones reached before. On 24 January 1961 38 she experienced the full presence of the supramental Force in her body. During the experience the connection between the supramental and our material world was established. In fact she experienced the supramental Force as a supramental body, ‘a much greater and powerful being’ in her gross material body. This was the very first time... dare to do. When the suffering and the digging into new lower layers of the subconscious were over, the Mother recovered her strength and progressed towards a new height: the first time the supramental force penetrated directly into her material body , without passing through the intermediary mental or vital sheaths. It was an overwhelming experience in which the red and golden supramental light ...
... obstacles. How far this involves a change of the chemical constitution of the body I cannot say. It seems to me still that whatever preparatory changes there may be, it is only the action of the supramental Force that can confirm and complete them. If the consciousness cannot determine the physical action and reaction in the present body, if it needs a different basis, then that means this different... these can be pulled up to the overmental standard, there is no overmental perfection, always the body consciousness brings in flaws and limitations. To perfect the overmind one has to call in the supramental force and it is only when the overmind has been partially supramentalised that the body begins to be more and more over mental. I do not see any way of avoiding this process, though it is what makes... real principle of it without the Supramental. Even Science believes that one day death may be conquered by physical means and its reasonings are perfectly sound. There is no reason why the Supramental Force should not do it. Forms on earth do not last (they do in other planes) because these forms are too rigid to grow expressing the progress of the spirit. If they become plastic enough to do that ...
... of the Divine in manifestation. 14 November 1933 "... it is only the very highest supramental Force descending from above and opening from below that can victoriously handle the physical Nature and annihilate its difficulties ..." [ p. 2 ]. "Opening from below" means this—that the supramental force descending awakes a response from below in the earth consciousness so that it is possible... 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 to be found anywhere in the Upanishads or Vedas? What is there in this Force which can deal with Matter, and why ...
... Shunyam. Page 486 But then how is it that you wasted so much Force on Y to no avail? Is it that you did not use the supramental Force, which alone can work irresistibly without the necessity of adapting itself to existing conditions? Certainly, supramental Force was not the force used in that case, it was mental-spiritual. In such cases the object of the Force has always the right to say... conscious of its mass and intensity and in the same way of that of other perhaps opposing forces; all these things are possible and usual by the development of Yoga. It is not, unless it is supramental Force, a Power that acts without conditions and limits. The conditions and limits under which Yoga or sadhana has to be worked out are not arbitrary or capricious; they arise from the nature of things ...
... his own for not doing it. But then how is it that you spent so much Force on P but to no avail? Is it that you did not use the supramental Force, which alone can work irresistibly without the necessity of adapting itself to existing conditions? Certainly, supramental Force was not the force used in that case, it was mental-spiritual. In such cases the object of the Force has always the right to say... omnipotence. The fact that P was not changed by the mental-spiritual force put on him proves that. It does not prove it for a moment. It simply proves that the omnipotent unconditioned supramental force was not put out there any more than it was when Christ was put on the cross or when after healing thousands he failed to heal in a certain district (I forget the name) because people had no faith ...
... how far Sri Aurobindo had succeeded in transforming His body by the Supramental Force. Yes, Mother; we wonder about it, but we do not really know. But how can you know with your little mind? No, none can understand what it is, unless one has experienced something. But I tell you, He had amassed considerably the Supramental Force in His body. What a formidable work…. You remember, don’t you, that... that when He left His body, the body remained glorious for almost five days. Perfectly luminous, even though He had poured all His Supramental Force into me. He gave me everything, everything, before He left. But His body still radiated with the Supramental Splendour…. You know, at that moment, during the last few minutes, I was standing near His bed and I could literally see the Supramental Light ...
... is the total and sincere surrender to the divine Being, divine consciousness and power, that is required as the condition under which the highest supramental Force can descend, and as Sri Aurobindo states: "... it is only the very highest supramental Force descending from above and opening from below that can victoriously handle the physical Nature and annihilate its difficulties____" 61 Integral... organized supramental instrumentation of the Spirit in the life and the body, — for the body-consciousness also must become sufficiently awake to be a fit instrument of the workings of the new supramental Force and its new order. ...On this basis the principle of a divine life in terrestrial Nature would be manifested; even the world of ignorance and inconscience might discover its own submerged secret ...
... 425-6, 571 calls on her time 460-1, 489 self-portrait and portrait of Sri Aurobindo 465, 700, 734 paints 'Emerging Godhead' or Golden Purusha 694 decline in Sri Aurobindo's health 490-1 supramental Force passing from Sri Aurobindo into her 492, 807 hymn of gratitude to him 503-5, 518 Playground classes 505ff range and soul-quality of her discourses 505ff, 518ff begins Wednesday classes... Manifestation 615-21, 812 the new stage of evolution 666 its progress 667-8 'child prodigies' 620-1 (cf 567, 746) cure for corruption 622 Radha-consciousness 628 meeting evil by supramental Force 630-2 film Rani Rasmani 634 Page 913 words and acts 636, 771 atmosphere created by one's actions 642 (cf 5) materialism, science and spirituality 643 containing the ego 644-7... his aura 202-3 (cf 84) his Work: no mere experiment 332 Page 919 his sovereign peace 336 and mayavada 336 Savitri 389-90, 393 transfers from his body to hers the supramental Force 491-2, 494, 807 the Mind of Light 503 his body charged with supramental light 494 significance of his passing 503-4, 799, 807 continuing his work 537, 799, 807 'belongs to the future' ...
... the followers of the Integral Yoga. And the inspiration and guidance received should ultimately be not of any of the lower spiritual planes,—there is a regular hierarchy of them—but of the very supramental Force, the highest vijñāna śakti. Let us take another example. Let us suppose that a sâdhaka is working in an office. It is not enough for him to dedicate his work to the Divine, and do it as... (witness) and anumantā (sanctioner) of the movements of his nature, but also as their bhartā (upholder) and bhoktā (enjoyer). The soul of the sâdhaka of the Integral Yoga calls in the Mother's supramental Force and collaborates with it in the work of the purification and transformation of its nature. This collaboration, this participation, this fusion of the two wills—the Will of the Divine and the dynamic... Page 312 helps not only liberation of the individual purusa, but also of prakrti , which would not be possible except by the direct working of the Mother's vijñānaśakti. or supramental Force. Sri Aurobindo makes this point very clear in one of his letters: "In the liberated state it is not the inner Purusha only that remains detached—the inner Purusha is always detached, only ...
... cal processes? A new composition and a new activity of various organs will be the proper basis for a Supramental action—if at all there is to be one. What I did not understand is why the Supramental Force should not act at all on the present basis of the body. That it cannot act fully without changing many things is obvious. You are evading the question of the physiological and chemical side... obstacles. How far this involves a change of the chemical constitution of the body I cannot say. It seems to me still that whatever preparatory changes there may be, it is only the action of the supramental Force that can confirm and complete them. 21 November 1935 The Conquest of Death In one of your talks in the early days you seem to have acclaimed yourself as immortal except under three ...
... when the supramental Force begins to act directly, and this it does not do if the nature is not ready. For there is too great a disparity between the power of the supreme Force and the capacity of the ordinary nature; the inferior nature would either be unable to bear or, bearing, unable to respond and receive or, receiving, unable to assimilate. Till Nature is ready, the supramental Force has to act ...
... can conquer them totally in that very domain . To put it otherwise, a spiritual force which would be capable of transforming both the consciousness and the material world. This force is the supramental force. What is necessary is to be receptive to its action on the physical plane, and not to run away into a distant Nirvana leaving the enemy with full power over what one abandons. It is neither... neither sacrifice nor renunciation nor weakness which can bring the victory. It is only Delight, a delight which is strength, endurance, supreme courage. The delight brought by the supramental force. It is much more difficult than giving everything up and running away, it demands an infinitely greater heroism—but that is the only way to conquer. Nothing else? I have some questions here, but now it is ...
... conditions necessary for 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. 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 ...
... ’ 5 Again the most severe ordeal (‘I was in a mess!’) went hand in hand with the greatest ecstasy, both experienced in the Matter of the body. Her body was literally steeped into the supramental Force – which is not something abstract, but as concrete as a red hot fire. The first time something similar happened, in 1959, she thought that her body would burst. This shows what an enormous progress... yogic master act she ‘locked it away’ in order to prevent it from following Sri Aurobindo and leaving the body. The door of her psychic being was opened again in 1959, ‘very prudently,’ when the supramental Force for the first time penetrated fully into her body and put her physically into connection with the ‘dwelling’ of Sri Aurobindo. Since then, again, there was no reference to her psychic being – ...
... swiftness becomes possible.... An involved rapidity of the evolutionary course swallowing up the stages can ... come in when the power of the conscious spirit has prepared the field and the supramental Force has begun to use its direct influence." 1 Now, such a stage in terrestrial evolution has already arrived. For, since 1956, Supermind or the Truth-Consciousness of Sachchidananda has... for an extreme or precipitate rejection of food-need for a still untransformed body but rather to establish a union of the entire being, including the body cells, with the vibration of the supramental force that is actually manifesting in the earth atmosphere. When this union is established, one becomes "free not only from all attachment, from all desire and preoccupation for food but even from ...
... into what happened at that climactic moment. ‘He had accumulated in his body much supramental Force, and as soon as he left … You see, he was lying on his bed, I stood by his side, and in a way altogether concrete – concrete with such a strong sensation as to make one think that it could be seen – all this supramental Force which was in him passed from his body into mine. And I felt the friction of the ...
... by applying the highest consciousness to it, that of a perfect serenity. And I saw especially that this consciousness has been missioned to transform the earth through the Supermind and by the supramental Force, avoiding all catastrophes as far as possible: the Work is to be done as luminously and harmoniously as the earth would allow, even by going at a slower pace if need be. That was the idea. And... the change has been accomplished. It's not... it is far, very far from being the final change, there's a lot more to be done. But we may say that it's the conscious and total presence of the supramental Force in the body. ( silence ) When I got up today, I was going over all this to myself, and my first instinct was not to speak of it, to observe and see what would happen; but then I received ...
... event of December 5, 1950. She said: "You see, when he left his body, he gave his whole supramental force to me. It came to me most concretely." Then she touched the skin and flesh of her left arm to convey the sense of the concreteness, as if even flesh and skin had felt that supramental force. She added: "His force passed from his body into mine. Its passage was like a wind blowing ...
... position now, Mother." "You see, when he left his body, he gave his whole supramental force to me. It came to me most concretely." Then she touched the skin and flesh of her left arm to convey the sense of the concreteness, as if even flesh and skin had felt that supramental force. She added: "His force passed from his body into mine. Its passage was like a wind blowing ...
... the Supermind descending into Sri Aurobindo. What he could not do at that time was to fix it here." An article in February 1968 by the Editor has understood this to mean that in 1938 the Supramental Force, which had already settled in Sri Aurobindo's inner being, made its first appearance in his body but could not yet be fixed down in it, so as to make it stay there. Could one know from you... The Supermind was established in Sri Aurobindo but it had not transformed his body. To put it precisely, he did not have a supramentalised body and that is why he could undergo death. The Supramental Force was there up to the subtle-physical, and when he left his body this Force made a halo of light around it, visible for some days. 1970 *Mother India, December 1974. Page 173 ...
... kavih prasavid bhadram dwipade catuspade. Thereafter, the supramental force takes possession of the lower existence, and it manifests light in all faculties and potentialities. These faculties and potentialities are symbolized by various gods, and therefore all these gods reach the vastness of the divinity by the strength of the supramental force. Even the physical or earthly consciousness is developed ...
... by the end. They think that-they are ready to express in their life what they call the supramental Force or Consciousness, and Page 201 they want to infuse this in their actions, their movements, their daily life. But the trouble is that they don't at all know what the supramental Force or Consciousness is and that first of all it is necessary to take the reverse path, the ...
... nature and, at the same time or subsequent to it, a luminous awakening from with in evoked in the very bosom of the body-consciousness itself. Now, it so happens that it is only the supramental Force, the original and final self-determining Truth-Force of the self-existent Infinite, that possesses the necessary potency to entirely overcome the iron hold of the basal Inconscience . For only... evolutionary nature is found ready and receptive, there will occur 'a supramental inflow from above, the descent of agnostic being into the nature', and, secondly, 'an emergence of the concealed supramental force from below'. "...the influx and Page 303 the unveiling between them will remove... the nature of the Ignorance. The rule of the Inconscient will disappear; for the Inconscience ...
... is no reason why it should not manifest in the sadhaks. At 'pranam' time, after returning from the Mother, K felt an immense pressure on the head. Does this mean that a direct Supramental Force has started working and that our nature is now trying to accommodate itself to that action? Direct Supermind Force is not possible at this stage. It is only when the whole being down... down to the physical has accepted and assimilated the higher consciousness that it can come. I understand that the transformation of the lower nature is not possible without the Supramental Force coming down and preparing the vessel for the com-plete perfection. Am I right? Complete perfection is another matter. What must first be done is the fullness of the higher consciousness ...
... plaster. Thereafter takes the salute standing in front of the map during march pasts by P.E.D. groups. - Dec 5 Sri Aurobindo leaves ,1 his body: 'He had gathered in his body a great amount of supramental force and as soon as he left... [it] passed from his body into mine. And I felt the friction of the passage... it was a material sensation.' 'As soon as Sri Aurobindo withdrew from his body,, what... glorified body that will save the world.' Later explains: 'It is neither sacrifice nor renunciation nor weakness' but 'a Delight which is strength, endurance, supreme courage... brought by the supramental force' which can conquer Evil 'in its own domain' - the material world. - Jun 5 'For me, for what I am trying to do, action in silence is always much more important.... The force expresses itself ...
... Supermind and ensure its manifestation even in the densest Matter. During the twenties and thirties, there were occasional hints of the opening up possibilities, and in 1938 the Mother saw the Supramental force emerging into the outermost physical of Sri Aurobindo but without getting fixed there. 24 At the time Sri Aurobindo withdrew from his body on 5 December 1950, there was the emergence and the force... The coming of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother was thus not in vain, and their Presence and Power of Action are manifest still. And the Mother's birth centenary must mean a fresh mobilisation of supramental force and its effective action for taking mankind in a big leap towards this Next Future prophesied in Savitri: "A divine force shall flow through tissue and cell And take the charge of breath ...
... asked many years later, on 20 December 1972, about that fateful hour of Sri Aurobindo's passing, she answered thus: He had gathered in his body a great amount of supramental force and as soon as he left.. .all this supramental force which was in him passed from his body into mine. And I felt the friction of the passage.... It was an extraordinary experience. For a long time, a long time like that ...
... said and written many times in the lights of Her later experiences that many things have changed, the conditions of the earth consciousness have been constantly under the direct action of the Supramental Force, and that new avenues of approach to the Supermind have been opened up. We have, therefore, to open all ourself— psychically, mentally, vitally and physically—to Her redeeming and transforming... Divine. And with the psychic realised by you, I was praying that you might begin the long ascent to the Supermind, opening yourself at the same time to the transforming action of the descending supramental Force. 2.10.65 * * * I am glad to be assured that you are "doing all" you can to eliminate "the deterrent effect of the mental ego in progress towards the higher consciousness". Indeed ...
... in them, know the secret of progress in .this Yoga; for the tremendous difficulty, of not only purifying and liberating, but of converting and transforming the entire being by a descent of the supramental force, cannot be overcome by the unaided strength of any human being. To open to the Mother is to let her infinite Force enter into us and work in the light of its infallible, if to us inscrutable,... calm and stable basis of that self-knowledge. Sri Aurobindo's teaching on this point coincides with that of the Gitâ, save for the utmost stress he lays on an absolute reliance on the Mother's supramental Force, and the practice of quiet detachment and rejection to which he gives an original turn of considerable value. "The first condition for getting rid of desire is...to become conscious with ...
... 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 need not paralyse our aspiration with... movements and all their results. And all its movements will be the unfaltering movements of the divine Will fulfilling itself in the terms of human life. The body too, transformed by the supramental force, will be released forever from the obscure hold of the Subconscient and the Inconscient, and, based on Light, filled with Light, and moved by Light, become a flexible means of divine action ...
... does it still make sense to look forward to the coming of a new species? Will this be materially possible? In the view of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, it is precisely the presence of the Supramental Force that will save the planet, just as all great disturbances, recent and contemporary, have been caused by its preparation and descent. In the first place: “The Earth will not perish”, asserted the... would then only be apparent, for, according to them, the Light behind and within is already there. “This is the problem that is put to us now: with the addition, with the new help of the [supramental] Force that has descended, that is manifesting, that is working, why shouldn’t one take up this enormous game [of Nature] to make it more beautiful, more harmonious, more true? It only needs brains ...
... call le surhomme. And it is that what I have been doing in the last eight years.’ 6 In May 1957 she said: ‘One can go beyond this state [of the ordinary humanity], open oneself to the supramental Force which is now active upon the Earth, and enter into a zone of transition where both influences meet and penetrate each other, where the consciousness is still mental and intellectual in its fu... penetrated by the supramental Power and Force to be able of being the instrument of a higher truth. At the present moment this state can be realized upon earth by those who are ready to receive the supramental Force that is manifesting.’ 7 September 1957: ‘It is evident that intermediary beings are needed, that it is these intermediary beings who have to find the means to create the beings of the ...
... a new rhythm in the nature. It can bring down too a higher and yet higher force and range of the higher nature until, if that be the aim of the sadhana, it becomes possible to bring down the supramental force and existence. All this is prepared, assisted, farthered by the work of the psychic being in the heart centre; the more it is open, in front, active, the quicker, safer, easier the working of... indulgence given to the formation I speak of; that finally dismissed, the difficulty would disappear. Progress might be slow first, but progress would come; it would quicken a you and, with the supramental force here, there would as for others the full speed and certitude. Page 144 October 24, 1934 I enclose Barada Babu's postcard—whom you remember. He is a remarkable yogi—very sincere ...
... conditions, if the means created by the Mother for the physical and vital contact had not been vitiated by the wrong attitude, the wrong reactions in the Ashram atmosphere. It was not the direct supramental Force that was acting, but an intermediate and preparatory force that carried in it a modified Light derived from the Supramental; but this would have been sufficient for the work of opening the way... conscious of its mass and intensity and in the same way of that of other perhaps opposing forces;—all these things are possible and usual by the development of Yoga. It is not, unless it is supramental Force, a Power that acts without conditions and limits. The conditions and limits under which Yoga or sadhana has to be worked out are not arbitrary or capricious; they arise from the nature of things ...
... matter must be changed into refined, supramentalized matter.) Which means that the world as it is and the beings of the world as they are would be dissolved by a sudden contact with the unveiled supramental Force — for instance by the appearance of a supramental body; they would be dissolved as if by magic, they would simply vanish! ‘The supramental Power is dangerous … It is so powerful and so formidable... that this Vibration of Truth, if it would impose itself, would mean the destruction of all that — which means of themselves, of what they think is themselves.’ 30 She was familiar with the supramental Force from experience and had feared more than once that it would destroy her body. On such occasion she uttered each time her astonishment at the way everything was regulated with such a great accuracy ...
... earth consciousness in the human being as represented by the members of the Asram and others (with also a certain working in the 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... Consciousness down into the earth-consciousness and establish it there as a constant realised force, just as mind and life have been established and embodied in Matter, so to establish and embody the Supramental Force. It would not be possible to change all that [ ordinary life on earth ] in a moment—we have always said that the whole of humanity will not change the moment there is the Descent. But what ...
... supramental creation. The Sun of the Word, expressing and arranging the supramental creation The Sun of Love, Bliss and Beauty, vivifying and harmonising the supramental creation. The Sun of supramental Force (Source of Life) dynamising the supramental creation. The Sun of supramental Life-Radiances, (Power-Rays) canalising the dynamis and pouring it into forms. The Sun of Supramental Form-Energy... 4) The Sun of supramental Love, Beauty and Bliss, releasing the Soul of the Knowledge-Power to vivify and harmonise the supramental creation. Descent into the Heart-Lotus 5) The Sun of Supramental Force dynamised as a power and source of life to support the supramental creation Descent into the navel centre 6) The Sun of Life-Radiances (Power-Rays) distributing the dynamis and pouring it ...
... They want to begin by the end. They think that they are ready to express in their life what they call the supramental Force or Consciousness, and they want to infuse this in their actions, their movements, their daily life. But the trouble is that they don't at all know what the supramental Force or Consciousness is and that first of all it is necessary to take the reverse path, the way of interiorisation ...
... what he was doing at that time? He had gathered in his body a great amount of supramental force and as soon as he left... You see, he was lying on his bed, I stood by his side, and in a way altogether concrete—concrete with such a strong sensation as to make one think that it could be seen—all this supramental force which was in him passed from his body into mine. And I felt the friction of the passage ...
... adhesion to falsehood and confusion. You don't understand the way of my working. You can as well say, "You have the supramental force, why don't you use it and finish all this muddle?" But it is not like this that the work can be done. The world is not ready for the supramental force and if it is used without preparing the base, things will shatter completely. I have to prepare the base and then bring ...
... that is unacceptable. I did not quite understand what you meant by saying Page 158 that Sri Aurobindo performed miracles in the mind. I mean that he used to introduce the supramental force into the mental consciousness. Into the mental consciousness, the mental consciousness that governs all material movements, he would introduce a supramental formation or power or force which ... where he liked—then he would apply this Will, for example, to some disorder, either physical or vital or, of course, mental—he would apply this force of greater harmony, of greater order, this supramental force, and focus it there, and it would act immediately. And it was an order: it created an order, a harmony greater than the natural harmony. That is, if it was a case of healing, for example, the ...
... realized in the manifestation. In line with this idea of things 'in their place,' another question comes to me: with the descent of the Supermind, what exactly are the very first things that the supramental force will want to or is trying to dislodge? The first things it will dislodge? Yes, individually and cosmically, so that everything is in its place. Will it dislodge anything?... If we... it's like a movie. All right, then. What did you want to ask? I think you've already answered! No, I don't remember; I went off—wandering. I asked you about your Force, or the supramental Force; what initial action is it taking now? Ah yes. Is it putting things in their places? In my experience, it is; and it has come to the point where the more concentrated the Force, the ...
... There was a special atmosphere. ( silence ) I remembered something Sri Aurobindo told me sometime during the last months; he told me, "When the supramental Force" (which he was constantly calling down, of course), "when the supramental Force is there and for as long as it is present, you get a sense of all-powerfulness—an unconditioned all-powerfulness: an ALL-powerfulness." But he said, " It ...
... you, when Sri Aurobindo left, for hours he passed on to me the whole supramental force and consciousness he had concentrated in his body. It was immediately after he left. I felt he had called me; I stood there, near his bed, looking at him, and... I saw it, you understand: he passed on to me the force, the whole supramental force he had concentrated in his body, and I felt him everywhere enter like ...
... there between the work you are doing now and what he was doing at the time? He had accumulated a great deal of supramental force in his body, and as soon as he left he.... He was on his bed, you see, Page 326 and I was standing beside him, and all the supramental force that was in him passed quite concretely from his body into mine—so concretely that I thought it was visible. I could ...
... must occur a dynamic descent of the higher consciousness into our physical nature and a luminous awakening evoked therein in the very body-consciousness itself. Now, it is only the supramental Force, the original and final self-determining Truth-Force of the self-existent Infinite' that has got the potency to overcome entirely the iron hold of the fundamental Nescience. For only the Supermind... When the evolutionary Nature is found ready and receptive, there will be "a supramental inflow from above, the descent of a gnostic being into the nature, and an emergence of the concealed supramental force from below; the influx and the unveiling between them will remove ...the nature of the Ignorance. The rule of the Inconscient will disappear: for the Inconscience will be changed by the outburst ...
... resume the daily correspondence and eight hours' Darshan again. DR. MANILAL: Would it not be possible to cure everything in the wink of an eye by the Supramental Force? (Laughter) SRI AUROBINDO: It will have to be the supreme Supramental Force. I am not a Tirthankar. DR. MANILAL: In Jainism (laughter by all) a story is told of a Yogi curing his leprosy with his own saliva. SRI AUROBINDO: ...
... come about a dynamic descent of the higher consciousness into our physical nature and a luminous awakening evoked in the very bosom of body-consciousness itself. Now, it is only the supramental Force, the 'original and final self-determining Truth-Force of the self-existent Infinite' that has got the necessary potency to entirely overcome the iron hold of the basal Inconscience. For only... inflow from above, the descent of a gnostic being into the 10. The Life Divine, p. 962. 11. Ibid., p. 917. Page 231 nature, and an emergence of the concealed supramental force from below; the influx and the unveiling between them will remove... the nature of the Ignorance. The rule of the Inconscient will disappear: for its Inconscience will be changed by the outburst ...
... longer the same grace as before, but he is not in the Asram and his lapse hurts only himself and his wife. The last portion of your remark 173 is rather cryptic. "This force" means the Supramental Force? What the devil! I was speaking of the sex force. Is it descending, then? The sex force? By God it is, descending and ascending too. What did you mean by giving them "a reaction"... don't know what you mean by descending. It is not a high force from above that it should descend—It is a force from below or around. Judging by the degree of vehemency, shall I say that the Supramental Force is vehemently coming down in this form? Or it is at least some Divine Force, giving a last kick at the Sex Force? The Divine Force has nothing to do with it. It is the sex and other lower ...
... s down into the earth-consciousness and establish it there as a constant realised force. Just as mind and life have been established and embodied in Matter, so to establish and embody the supramental Force. (Letters on Yoga, p. 13.) * * * It would not be possible to change all that in a moment we have always said that the whole of humanity will not change the moment there is the... influenced as life has been Page 100 influenced by the development of mind on earth. (Letters on Yoga, p. 16.) * * * Nothing permanent can be done without the real supramental Force. But the result of its descent would be that in human life intuition would become a greater and more developed force than it now is and the other intermediate powers between mind and supermind ...
... And Sri Aurobindo answered: It is, in fact, to ensure an easier path to others hereafter that we have borne that burden ... it is for them I am putting forth all my efforts to bring down the supramental Force within a measurable time. 24 It was not taking place in small books, or even in big ones, neat and gilt-edged; it had to, He wanted it to enter universal Matter and tomorrow’s man to breathe... 1933 No, the supramental has not descended into my body or into Matter—it is only at the point where such a descent has become not only possible but inevitable. 57 Sept. 1934 The supramental Force is descending, but it has not yet taken possession of the body or of matter. 58 Feb.1935 Let all men jeer at me if they will or all Hell fall upon me if it will for my presumption,—I ...
... vibration, so swift and instantaneous, that it seems solidified, immobile, yet moving unbelievably fast in place – a “powdering of warm gold,” says Mother. That is what Sri Aurobindo called the supramental Force. It would almost seem as if it became “supramental,” or acquired supramental qualities, as it descends into matter (that is to say, as we consent to let it go through, as the resistances fall... fashions matter by the truth of matter. All the nerves, tissues, cells that we have demechanized, purified, freed from their congestion of unconsciousness will become free channels for the supramental Force and will flood our body with the lights of the Spirit, with the Joy of the Spirit, with the immortal nectar – until the day this golden Influx is sufficiently concentrated and individualized ...
... result of this or that harmony amid the discords of our nature but the fount of harmony and able to create whatever harmony it will. That is a luminous spiritual and in its native action a direct supramental force of knowledge, jyotiḥ , not our modified and derivative mental light, prakāśa . That is the light and bliss Page 466 of widest self-existence, spontaneous self-knowledge, intimate ...
... earth consciousness in the human being as represented by the members of the Asram and others (with also a certain working in the 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 ...
... good, when one has the power. It is an unlimited power, this, in the sense that if one has made a mistake and done something serious, if one has the power to bring this truth-consciousness, this supramental force, and let it act, it is an occasion for a tremendous progress. ( Silence ) Which means that one should never feel discouraged; or even if one has made mistakes many a time, one must keep the will ...
... come. It is possible by opening to a greater divine consciousness to rise to this power of light and bliss, discover one's true self, remain in constant union with the Divine and bring down the supramental Force for the transformation of mind and life and body. To realise this possibility has been the dynamic aim of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga. Page 10 ...
... already been considerably .transformed. It is therefore quite unreasonable to try to judge the presence of the supramental through physical appearances. The physical is the last to change and the supramental force can be at work in a being long before something of it becomes perceptible in the life of the body. In brief, one can say that the supramental education will result not merely in a pr ...
... Supramental Manifestation upon Earth … this material world as it actually, visibly is, is so powerful, so absolutely real for the ordinary consciousness, that it has engulfed, as it were, this supramental force and consciousness when it manifested, and a long preparation is necessary before its presence can be even glimpsed, felt, perceived in some way or other. And this is the work it is doing now. ...
... something more 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 ...
... hundreds of times, who have spoken about it yourselves, Page 130 thought of it, hoped for it, wanted it―there are people who came here for that, with the intention of receiving the supramental Force and being transformed into supermen―that was their aim, wasn't it?... But how is it that all of you were so unfamiliar with this Force that when it came you didn't even feel it? Can you solve ...
... mirror in which you can see yourself better than you did before, and you are a little troubled because it is not always very pretty? But what can I do? And this person concludes: "Doesn't the supramental Force work here in spite of all the obstacles the unregenerate human nature puts up against it?" Truly, I hope it does! for otherwise, nothing could be done, the world would never be regenerated. But ...
... present. But as I told you two weeks ago, this material world as it actually, visibly is, is so powerful, so absolutely real for the ordinary consciousness, that it has engulfed, as it were, this supramental force and consciousness when it manifested, and Page 158 a long preparation is necessary before its presence can be even glimpsed, felt, perceived in some way or other. And this is the work ...
... them, you have a movement of consciousness spreading above them all and uniting with all, like this ( gesture ). It is a movement which spreads horizontally. But if you want to unite with the supramental Force which wants to come down, you have the feeling of gathering all your aspiration and making it rise up in a vertical ascent to the higher forces which have to descend. It is just a question of ...
... time. However... 29 May 1965 × When the disciple asked Mother whether this "something" was in fact the supramental force, she answered: "I would rather not give it a name, because people will make a dogma out of it. That is what happened when what is called 'the first supramental manifestation' occurred in 1956 ...
... Page 204 Sri Aurobindo came upon the earth to announce the manifestation of the supramental world and not merely did he announce this manifestation but embodied also in part the supramental force and showed by example what one must do to prepare oneself for manifesting it. The best thing we can do is to study all that he has told us and endeavour to follow his example and prepare ourselves ...
... other darknesses come upon them. The sunlit path is not altogether a fable. But you will ask what of those who cannot? Well, it is for them I am putting forth all my efforts to bring down the supramental Force within a measurable time. I know that it will descend but I am seeking its near descent and, with whatever dark obstruction of the earth-nature or furious inroads of the Asuric forces seeking ...
... conscious of its mass and intensity and in the same way of that of other perhaps opposing forces; all these things are possible and usual by the development of Yoga. It is not, unless it is supramental Force, a Power that acts without conditions and limits. The conditions and limits under which Yoga or sadhana has to be worked out are not arbitrary or capricious; they arise from the nature of things ...
... Force, its active dynamism; Power is the capacity born of the Force; Strength is energy consolidated and stored in the Adhar. The Divine Force can act on any plane—it is not limited to the Supramental Force. The Supramental is only one aspect of the power of the Divine. The Supreme cannot create through the Transcendent because the Transcendent is the Supreme. It is through the Cosmic Shakti ...
... conditions, if the means created by the Mother for the physical and vital contact had not been vitiated by the wrong attitude, the wrong reactions in the Asram atmosphere. It was not the direct supramental Force that was acting, but an intermediate and preparatory force that carried in it a modified Light derived from the supramental; but this would have been sufficient for the work of opening the way ...
... towards this change. All Yoga implies the carrying of that control to a very high pitch. But afterwards the mind must itself give place to the spirit, to the spiritual force, the supermind and the supramental force. And finally the body must develop a perfect power to hold whatever force is brought into it by the spirit and to contain its action without spilling and wasting it or itself getting cracked. ...
... 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 the knowledge-self beyond the highest mental stature, if ...
... being in its transmutation. In other respects the process will be identical,—a supramental inflow from above, the descent of a gnostic being into the nature, and an emergence of the concealed supramental force from below; the influx and the unveiling between them will remove what is left of the nature of the Ignorance. The rule of the Inconscient will disappear: for the Inconscience will be changed ...
... Asura? Oh, yes, infinitely greater. That's what eludes me. Infinitely greater. And he didn't leave the work, you understand; he has never left me, never left the work. The amount of supramental force he had accumulated in his body he passed on to me—and I received it. The rest went into the subtle physical, where he has done the whole work. And he said, "I will take on a body again only when ...
... power of the Supreme that might transform the human being in all his parts. There came a point when it was seen that under the conditions adopted the Gurus would have to let their bodies go. The supramental Force is still active, but without its double physical centre at present. How the work is to be continued from behind the scene is now the problem for our Gurus. A word on the topics with which ...
... success in overcoming all obstacles: Page 183 that is, of going right up to the body's total transformation, which will fulfil the Integral Yoga. The central reason is that the Supramental Force which alone can effect the fulfilment cannot be brought into suffi-cient action without an Avatar of the Supermind being in our midst. Certainly we can go a long way — even in bodily changes ...
... know it well; in the supramental world, they will automatically disappear. Having no more utility, they will be dissolved without our having to do anything, simply through the presence of the supramental force. So now they are being unleashed with a fury in a negation of everything, everything. The link between the two worlds has not yet been built, but it is in the process of being built; this was ...
... think of me will mean to think of Sri Aurobindo inevitably, when to see one will mean inevitably to see the other, like one and the same Person – then you will know that you begin to open to the supramental force and consciousness.” 61 And at one time she unified in writing both their names in the mantric formula “mothersriaurobindo is my refuge”. 62 All this is of crucial importance because ...
... independence was a matter of great urgency, as well in the then prevailing world situation as for India’s future unity. Sri Aurobindo has stressed several times that he did not use the omnipotent supramental force for his work, for the simple reason that the world would not be able to stand it. He said he used the overmental force, which allows a struggle of the cosmic ideas and powers, each pursuing its ...
... will mean to think of Sri Aurobindo inevitably, when to see one will mean inevitably to see the other, like one and the same Person . — then you will know that you begin to be open to the supramental force and consciousness." CWM13:33 9. Pranabda : "I used to have lunch with Mother... After our meal Mother used to serve Sri Aurobindo." Once he took some children for a boat ride & could ...
... The sunlit path is not altogether a fable. Page 34 But you will ask what of those who cannot? Well, it is for them I am putting forth all my efforts to bring down the supramental Force within a reasonable time. I know that it will descend but I am seeking its near descent and, with whatever dark obstruction of the earth-nature or furious inroads of the Asuric forces seeking ...
... s as vast as hers, and more powerful, why should not the same thing be done in a better way? "That is the problem which is now set before us. With the addition, the new help of the supramental force which is now at work, why should not one take up the tremendous game of making it more beautiful, more harmonious, more true — in a word, more divine ? "It is sufficient if there are ...
... Page 139 trinsic and automatic, its will and knowledge identical and the result commensurate: its nature is a self-achieving Truth-consciousness.... 1 Only the supramental Force can entirely overcome [the] difficulty of the fundamental Nescience; for with it enters an opposite and luminous imperative Necessity which underlies all things and is the original and final ...
... 27 January 1972 Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to announce the manifestation of the supramental world. And not only did he announce this manifestation but he also embodied in part the supramental force and gave us the example of what we must do to prepare ourselves for this manifestation. The best thing we can do is to study all he has told us, strive to follow his example and prepare ourselves ...
... know quite well that in the supramental world they will automatically disappear: having no more use, they will be dissolved without the need to do anything, simply through the presence of the supramental force. That is why they rush about in a rage, negating everything, everything. But the link between the two worlds has not yet been built—it is in the course of being built. That was the meaning ...
... to manifest. Equilibrium is the essential law of this creation and this is why perfection can be realised in the manifestation. In this connection what are the very first things that the Supramental Force intends to drive out, or is trying to drive out, so that everything may be in its place, individually and cosmically? Drive out? But will it "drive out" anything? If we accept Sri Aurobindo's ...
... 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 ) I have already had the experience, partially, that when one ...
... 2 January 1972 Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to announce the manifestation of the supramental world and not merely did he announce this manifestation but embodied also in part the supramental force and showed by example what one must do to prepare oneself for manifesting it. The best thing we can do is to study all that he has told us and endeavour to follow his example and prepare ourselves ...
... of me will mean to think of Sri Aurobindo inevitably, when to see one will mean inevitably to see the other, like one and the same Person ,—then you will know that you begin to be open to the supramental force and consciousness. 4 March 1958 Page 32 Page 33 ...
... two coexist, but it is still not THAT ( gesture, hands clasped together, pointing upwards ). ( silence ) What problems come up! If there were a plague or cholera, for example, would the supramental Force in the cells, the supramental realization, be able to restore order out of the disorder that allows the epidemic to be? I don't mean on an individual level—individually, if you are in a certain ...
... Night of July 24-25, 1959 Note written by Mother in French regarding a crucial experience to which She will later refer a number of times. First penetration of the supramental force into the body. Sri Aurobindo alive in a concrete and permanent subtle physical body. Page 325 ...
... days. That was... Even my body, though it's used to being in contact with the forces, was wonderstruck. It was miraculous. The concrete action of this Force, which Sri Aurobindo called the "supramental force," its first contact and first aspect is an aspect of Truth. 2 As Sri Aurobindo said, Truth had to manifest first, before the Power of Love. In comparison with the course life used to follow ...
... the flower smiled. It opened out, it was happy, and it smiled. "It smiled at me," he said. I don't know if it's our perception that progresses, or if really, as Sri Aurobindo said, "When the supramental Force comes on the earth, there will be a response EVERYWHERE." It seems to me to be that, because these flowers are so, so vibrant, full of life. In the morning I always arrange them (it's a work that ...
... nucleus near the Great Lake. × When Satprem asked Mother whether this "something" was indeed the supramental Force, Mother answered this: "I'd rather not name it, because they will make a dogma out of it. It [this "something"] is what happened when what we called 'the first supramental manifestation' took ...
... conditions, if the means created by the Mother for the physical and vital contact had not been vitiated by the wrong attitude, the wrong reactions in the Ashram atmosphere. It was not the direct supramental Force that was acting, but an intermediate and preparatory force that carried in it a modified Light derived from the Supramental, but this would have been sufficient for the work of opening the way ...
... notions as if they were mine. As for the Force, I shall write some other time. I have told you that it is not always efficacious, but works under conditions like all forces; it is only the supramental Force that works absolutely, because it creates its own conditions. But the Force I am using is a Force that has to work under the present world conditions. It is not the less a Force for that. I have ...
... It is at work here, and one day will come when the most blind, the most unconscious, even the most unwilling shall be obliged to recognise it.' It has been affirmed that the supramental force has now come to a stage of decisive action on events and people, and that it is Sri Aurobindo Himself who is in Action that is omnipotent and irresistible. Let us conclude with the Mother's ...
... only the Supermind with its reconciliation of contraries in the original Reality can take up and so discover the pragmatic solution of the enigma. In the words of Sri Aurobindo: "Only the supramental Force can entirely overcome this difficulty of the fundamental Nescience; for with it enters an opposite and luminous imperative Necessity which underlies all things and is the original and final s ...
... Tapleyan,* though that is better than none). Laugh and be fat - then dance to keep the fat down — that is a sounder programme. 66 (48)NB: You have finished the prospective action of the Supramental Force by two "yes"s and one "no". Evidently you are shy about it, or time is shy. Sri Aurobindo: Time and I both are shy, good reason why. (Nishikanto says rhyme is quite common in Bengali prose ...
... swiftness becomes possible.... An involved rapidity of the evolutionary course swallowing up the stages can ... come in when the power of the conscious spirit has prepared the field and the supramental Force has begun to use its direct influence." 2 Now, this process of supramental transformation of the inner being and consciousness of man is bound to have its effect and repercussion on ...
... has Vasudeva to do with it?" 64 (21)"Great Muggins, man! What a mess you have made of my explanation!" 65 (22)"Christ! And yet you attribute the sufferings of these people to the Supramental Force!" 66 (23)"You say, work and realisation cannot go together? Hurrah for the Himalayas! 67 (24)"But, man alive, what is the metre?" 68 "Man alive, send them hopping off for ...
... the material basis. A last transition from Overmind to Supermind and a descent of Supermind must Page 80 therefore intervene at this stage of evolutionary Nature.¹ Only the Supramental Force can, according to Sri Aurobindo, entirely overcome the difficulty of the resistance of the Inconscience. Only the luminous Supermind and its sovereign imperative can descend into the Inconscience ...
... one with the Divine on the mental plane. The Supermind is necessary for manifesting the Divine on earth. You have said in your book The Mother: "It is only the very highest supramental Force descending from above and opening from below that can victoriously handle the physical nature." What do you imply by "opening from below"? Is not "below" still unconscious of the Divine? ...
... period which he passed in complete silence. Nobody except the Mother had any idea what he was occupied with. This period was perhaps the most mysterious part of his life. Was he drawing down the Supramental Force or concentrating on a critical phase of the War or perhaps on some individual case needing some special attention? All we were told was that he had a special work to do and had to be left alone ...
... been considerably transformed. It would be therefore quite unreasonable to try to judge the presence of the supramental by physical appearances. The physical is the last to change and the supramental force can be at work in a being long before something of it becomes perceptible in the life of the body. In brief, one can say that the supramental education will result not merely in a progressively ...
... cure of the case by his Force. To say a few words about the success of a case by the Divine Force or its failure — Sri Aurobindo has never maintained that the Force is infallible. Only the Supramental Force is a "dead cert". But it is extremely difficult to bring it down. Short of that, everything is a play of possibility where many factors count: the doctor, the patient, the environment. The Force ...
... one has felt before. Unbelievable! You will see, wait with patience…. But do you read the Bulletins sometimes? I give there my recent experiences, of what I am doing on my body, where the Supramental Force is working incessantly to transform it. These are moments lived, states of consciousness which unify my whole being, its movements, and its sensations in one single aspiration, infusing the Light ...
... power. It is charged — charged dynamically with a force and a light that overflows; it is this that envelops the whole atmosphere. All around, it is His presence. It endures because it is the Supramental force and shows no sign of diminishing. It cannot. It is this that the people absorb when they pass around the Samadhi. Without knowing it, they are bathed by His love and they do not even realise ...
... knowledge. (Laughter) NIRODBARAN: Nolini Sen says they are feeling a more and more intense force, peace, etc. at Calcutta in their meditation. So intense that some people wonder if it isn't the supramental force that is descending. SRI AUROBINDO (laughing): No! It is the spiritual force. NIRODBARAN: Even the children feel it. SRI AUROBINDO: Then it must be supramental. (Laughter) The supramental ...
... of the integral Yoga was to replace the physical determinism that seemed to be so irresistible by a new freedom and puissance resulting from the infusion into the very cells of the body by the Supramental force. It was perhaps easier to make boys and girls growing up in the Ashram atmosphere open themselves to the possibility of such an infusion, and a consequent inner awakening, than it would be for ...
... What was the difference between Sri Aurobindo's condition then (in 1950) and the Mother's now (in 1972)? All that she could say was that Sri Aurobindo had gathered in his body "a great amount of supramental force and as soon as he left", that force passed from his body into hers. She could not be more specific in mental categories, but certainly Sri Aurobindo's power for action was now greater than when ...
... stopped." She remained standing at the foot of his bed, her hair unbound: “Her look was so fierce that I could not face those eyes," said the surgeon. I was standing beside Him, and all the supramental force that was in Him passed quite concretely from his body into mine—so concretely that I thought it was visible. And I felt the friction of the forces passing through the pores of my skin.... Then ...
... that their vision is opening to supraphysical realities, it is not a phantasy. The colours or lights you see are forces from various planes and each colour indicates a special force. The supramental Force is descending, but it has not yet taken possession of the body or of matter - there is still much resistance to that. It is supramentalised Overmind Force that has already touched, and this ...
... properly nor fully used by the sadhaks for progress in their yoga; the Force itself fell short of the supramental, and hence lacked the ultimate infallibility or invincibility. "It is only the supramental Force that works absolutely," Sri Aurobindo wrote in 1935, "because it creates its own conditions." 18 But the Force the Mother and Sri Aurobindo were using in the thirties, while it was strong enough ...
... Integral Yoga starts with this wide synthesis of the Gitâ, leavened and lit up by bhakti , but takes particular care from the very start to put it into the hands of the Mother and gear it to Her supramental Force, so that it may steadily progress towards the splendours of a divine Perfection. The supreme Mother will reveal to our vision and transformed consciousness the Face and Body of the supreme Divine ...
... divine perfectioning of the human being. The supramental Light penetrates into the subconscient and the inconscient and illumines them and liberates the supramental principle latent in them. The supramental Force is the supreme, authentic Force of the Divine, capable of grappling with all the obscure resistance of Matter and conquering and compelling it to be an outlet of the divine ¹ The Life ...
... and the Divine made the sole master of it. But the final victory and the absolute divine possession of the whole physical being will come, as we have already 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 ...
... splendour of the Supermind. With her will united with the Will of the Divine, her unbarred vision contemplating the future more clearly than we can contemplate the immediate present, and her supramental Force creating the principles and conditions of the Truth-life upon earth, the Mother has been silently proceeding with her work, unmindful of the praise or blame of the world. What has been achieved ...
... also the union of our subconscient and inconscient parts with the Divine, which is possible only by the illumination and transformation of those nether regions by the direct action of the Supramental Force. It is a tremendous work, entailing a descent into the Subconscient and the Inconscient and a raising up of the dark elements which seethe or sleep there, so that they may be either destroyed ...
... in consequence, be definitively freed from the dark density, inertia and insensibility which are its heritage from its inconscient origin. Physical transformation by means of the authentic supramental Force is, therefore, the crux of the mission of Sri Aurobindo's life, and it presages a future for humanity which is too glorious even for the widest and keenest mind of the modern man to conceive ...
... should, in consequence, be definitively freed from the dark density, inertia and insensibility which are its heritage from its inconscient origin. Physical transformation by means of the authentic supramental Force is, therefore, the crux of the mission of Sri Aurobindo's life, and it presages a future for humanity which is too glorious even for the widest and keenest mind of the modern man to conceive. ...
... come. It is possible by opening to a greater Divine Consciousness to rise to this power of light and bliss, discover one's true Self, remain in constant union with the Divine and bring down the supramental Force for the transformation of mind and life and body. To realise this possibility has been the dynamic aim of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga. Page 9 Extracts from Sri Aurobindo's Message ...
... the manifestation of the supramental Divine in the material world. The individuality of the Mother, though in full possession of Her transcendence and universality, is the living medium of the supramental Force and Light put out in front for the supramental creation and fulfilment in man- kind. The key to the highest spiritual achievement of the modem age is, therefore, in the hands of the Mother, and ...
... With her will united with the Will of the Page 73 Divine, her unbarred vision contemplating the future more clearly than we can contemplate the immediate present, and her supramental Force creating the principles and conditions of the Truth-life upon earth, the Mother has been silently proceeding with her work, unmindful of the praise or blame of the world. What has been achieved ...
... 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 transform human nature—the whole being of man will be ready for a "perfect manifestation of the Divine in life, which is the ultimate end of evolution. This evolutionary aspect ...
... possible but inevitable; I am speaking, ¹ Sri Aurobindo, On Himself , pp. 143-44. ² Ibid., p. 153. Page 224 of course, of my experience."¹ And again in 1934: "The supramental Force is descending, but it has not yet taken possession of the body or of matter – there is still much resistance to that. It is supramentalised Overmind Force that has already touched, and this may ...
... A detailed note from Roger about security measures in Auroville was approved. * * * 23.11.71 A letter from outside was read in which there was a mention of pulling the supramental Force. Mother made it clear that pulling is not advisable. What is needed is aspiration; aspiration that is self-giving. (Mother makes a gesture by hands of self- offering) If one starts pulling ...
... power of consciousness, and if brought down, it would sensitise and make perfect the instruments of mind, life and body. There could thus be no sublimer objective than the endeavour to bring the supramental force into the earth consciousness, and all temporary limitations, all necessary exclusions, would be permissible if they were meant only to advance this aim. Sri Aurobindo said in November 1926, as ...
... Sun of Supramental Love, Beauty, and Bliss, releasing the Soul of the Knowledge-Power to vivify and harmonize the supramental creation. Descent into the Heart-Lotus. 5.The Sun of Supramental Force dynamited as a power and source of life to support the supramental creation. Descent into the Navel Centre. 6.The Sun of Life-Radiances (Power-Rays) distributing the dynamis and pouring ...
... and it i$ from there that she supports all these thousand actions, actions even in the lower difficult hemisphere. But for the decisive change to take place she has to project herself as the supramental Force. Indeed, it is in that form that she will come down to doing the work. Thus while the supreme Adya Shakti will always remain in the Transcendent, it is Savitri with the transformative power who ...
... Chakra, the centre between the eyes) 3.The Sun of Supramental Word (Descent into Throat) 4.The Sun of Supramenetal Love, Beauty, Bliss (Descent into the Heart-Lotus) 5.The Sun of Supramental Force (Descent into the Navel) 6.The Sun of Life-Radiances (Descent into the Penultimate Centre) 7.The Sun of Supramental Substance-Energy (Descent into the Muladhara) 38 One is naturally ...
... must ask for the supramental grace. I did. It came down. I was surprised. Yes, it did come down. The obstacle was removed. The work was going on. I was told that it is the supramental force working, working step by step from above down to the vital-physical centre. But as my higher parts are also weak, I asked for the work to be done directly in the vital-physical, not gradually ...
... takes some time to be apparent. In 1972 the Mother said that there was “a golden Force” exerting pressure on the Earth, so heavily that catastrophes seemed inevitable. But as this was the supramental Force, harmonious and all-powerful, time and again a solution cropped up in circumstances that seemed miraculous, she added. 7 This is what, at present, is causing our world to spin so wildly and ...
... the transformation of his body at the time had progressed very far. This is why after he left it, it remained unaffected during 111 hours in the tropics, in an aura of light. And it was the supramental force the cells contained which was transmitted to the body of the Mother. He had arranged everything so that the continuation of his Work would not be disrupted. ‘He cast his deeds in bronze to ...
... present animal-human and the future supramental being, and she said: ‘Now, at this moment, that state [of the transitional superman] can be realized on earth by those who are ready to receive the supramental Force that is manifesting.’ 8 And she repeats this. Such an unconditional confirmation could only stem from her own experience. (‘The only thing I can speak of is my own experience.’ 9 ) ...
... (Correspondence with Gautam Chawalla) Gautam Chawalla's Correspondence with The Mother 15 September 1966 To what extent is the supramental force effective upon earth? Exactly in proportion to the goodwill and receptivity of each one. 15 September 1966 ...
... – he was actually doing everything. I was active, but with absolutely no responsibility. I never felt responsible for a single minute – he took the full responsibility.’ 2 True, the supramental force gathered in his cells, the Mind of Light, had entered into her – which means that Sri Aurobindo had entered into her, for on that level the part equals the whole. After his passing, she would ...
... to receive two a day sometimes - and he kept himself informed of what was going on in the world. It was from physical relationship that he had drawn back: his body was being worked upon by the Supramental Force and it needed to be aloof as much as possible from even the intrusion of eyes with their curiosity and their claims. Apropos of your experience of anaesthesia by ether as well as pentothal ...
... individual. What we have to do is to keep the firm faith that the Divine's servitor will never be without the Divine's Grace, but we must not prejudge how this Grace will show itself. Until the Supramental Force which Sri Aurobindo has invoked is in full sway, there is bound to be the play of untoward possibilities getting realised. However, our confidence should remain intact that whatever the look of ...
... is that the time has come when some beings among the elite 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 no longer to be animal-men but become supermen." Note the phrases: "Sri Aurobindo promised"—"We who are here now"—"The time has come"—"will be able to transform ...
... reached the stage when even the aches come only as a form of Ananda and, besides, if any non-delightful ache came in the stomach I could at once dismiss it, for that much at least of the semi-supramental force I have developed in me), this item must be put down to a subconscient dream-maker - whether transfer- ring the pain from your stomach to mine or creating it in vacuo is open to debate." ...
... following passage on 30.1.72: Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to announce the manifestation of the supra-mental world and not merely did he announce this manifestation but embodied also in part the supramental force and showed by example what one must do to prepare oneself for manifesting it. The last thing we can do is to study all that he has told us and endeavour to follow his example and prepare our-selves ...
... already there, the body divinized, matter transformed, there would be no difficulty and no need of the endeavour. I would recall to you what I said in my letter to D. that it was not the direct Supramental Force which was working uptill now but a preparatory force that carried in it a modified light derived from the Supramental. The direct Force can begin working only when the mind, vital and physical ...
... ... It is neither sacrifice nor renunciation nor weakness which can bring the victory. It is only Delight, a delight which is strength, endurance, supreme courage. The delight brought by the supramental force. It is much more difficult than giving up everything and running away, it asks for an infinitely greater heroism—but that is the only means of conquering. The Mother, Questions and Answers ...
... supramentalised and it is not necessary—but mind itself will be influenced as life has been influenced by the development of mind on earth. Nothing permanent can be done without the real Supramental Force. But the result of its descent would be that in human life intuition would become a greater and more developed force than it now is and the other intermediate powers between Mind and Supermind ...
... is in front and influencing the whole action (and even then vigilance and a constant assent are necessary) or else, later on in the ultimate stages of the Yoga when a direct or almost direct supramental force is taking up the consciousness; but this stage is very far away as yet. Under other conditions this attitude is likely to lead to stagnation and inertia. (See The Mother , Part I.) It is only ...
... is however only a partial indication of the presence of the supermind, and if we take this presence and power in its widest Page 793 character, we shall see that it is a concealed supramental force with a self-conscient knowledge in it which informs the whole action of material energy. It is that which determines what we call law of nature, maintains the action of each thing according to ...
... a new rhythm in the nature. It can bring down too a higher and yet higher force and range of the higher Nature until, if that be the aim of the sadhana, it becomes possible to bring down the supramental force and existence. All this is prepared, assisted, farthered by the work of the psychic being in the heart centre; the more it is open, in front, active, the quicker, safer, easier the working of ...
... Falsehood, it would defeat its own purpose. These are the conditions of the Light and Truth, the sole conditions under which the highest Force will descend; and it is only the very highest supramental Force descending from above and opening from below that can victoriously handle the physical Nature and annihilate its difficulties ... There must be a total and sincere surrender; there must be an ...
... omnipotence. The fact that X was not changed by the mental-spiritual force put on him proves that. It does not prove it for a moment. It simply proves that the omnipotent unconditioned supramental force was not put out there—any more than it was when Christ was put on the cross Page 403 or when after healing thousands he failed to heal in a certain district (I forget the name) because ...
... proper balance between rest and labour. A complete freedom from fatigue is possible, but that comes only when there is a complete transformation of the law of the body by the full descent of a supramental Force into the earth-nature. ...
... don't know if it will take us very far, but still it will make a good change. All these last few weeks the subject was always progress: how to progress, what hindered progress, how to use the supramental Force, etc. This is going on, I have a whole packet still! But we may change the subject for once. Someone has asked me a question about death: what happens after death and how one takes a new body ...
... artist or writer of genius—who has fully mastered his instrument, who can use it to produce works that express the utmost human possibility, if you add to this a spiritual consciousness, the supramental force, then you will have something truly divine. Page 94 And this is precisely the key to the effort Sri Aurobindo wanted us to make. And your body, if you draw from it all the possibilities ...
... time. It was in order not to encourage this stupidity. But for other reasons it was necessary to do it and so I did. So long as this foolishness is not uprooted from human consciousness, the supramental force will always find it considerably difficult not to be engulfed in the obscurity of a human thought which understands nothing. That's all. All the same, we shall succeed. I chose this book, ...
... more true inner realisation, towards this constant , imperative preoccupation with the union of the whole being, including the bodily cells, with the vibration of the divine forces, with the supramental force which is manifesting, so that this may be the true life: not only the purpose of life, but the essence of life, not only an imperative need of life, but all its joy and all its raison d'être ...
... going to ask questions today? Sweet Mother, how can we make the body immune to every attack? Well, Sri Aurobindo has written it later, hasn't he? He says that only the descent of the supramental Force can make the body immune to every attack. He says that otherwise it is only momentary and that it doesn't always work. He says that it can be practically immune but not absolutely so; and to be ...
... and can have equally good results. And so, now, for our special case, I shall tell you what I am trying to do.... It will soon be a year since, one Wednesday, we had the manifestation of the supramental force. Since then, it has been working very actively, even while very few people are aware of it! but still I thought the time had come for—how to put it?—for us to help it a little in its work by making ...
... Falsehood, it would defeat its own purpose. These are the conditions of the Light and Truth, the sole conditions under which the highest Force will descend; and it is only the very highest supramental Force descending from above and opening from below that can victoriously handle the physical Nature and annihilate its difficulties.... There must be a total and sincere surrender; there must be an ...
... Page 151 ( Silence ) I do not know why, for the last few moments I have been telling myself insistently: people who will not know how things have really occurred will say, when this supramental force will have entered the earth atmosphere, will have entered into them, they will say: "Ah well, it is we who have done all that!" ( Mother laughs ) Yes, probably. It is we, it is our fine ...
... already been considerably transformed. It is therefore quite unreasonable to try to recognise the presence of the supramental by physical appearances. For these will be the last to change and the supramental force can be at work in an individual long before anything of it becomes perceptible in his bodily life. To sum up, one can say that the supramental education will result no longer in a progressive ...
... from the ordinary mental consciousness to a supramental and divine consciousness, and when the ascent is completed, to return to the material world and infuse it with the Page 98 supramental force and consciousness that have been won, so that this earth may be gradually transformed into a supramental and divine world. The integral Yoga is especially intended for those who have realised ...
... it's just like a "Grace-Light". That pleased me very much. It's just like that. You know, it's a light that has several degrees, and in the most material it's slightly... this must be the supramental force because it is slightly golden, slightly pink (you know this light), but very very pale. There's one (gesture indicating another, higher layer) that is white like milk, opaque - it is very strong ...
... down—you are enriched with a new vibration, but then everything Page 332 resumes its course. So you must widen yourself in order to learn to bear unflinchingly the intensities of the supramental force, to go forward always, always with the ascending movement of the divine Truth, without falling backwards into the decrepitude of the body. That is what Sri Aurobindo means when he speaks of ...
... is based upon Sri Aurobindo's aphorism: "Sin is that which was once in its place, persisting now it is out of place; there is no other sinfulness." What are the very first things that the Supramental Force intends to drive out, or is trying to drive out, so that everything may be in its place, individually and cosmically? Drive out? But will it "drive out" anything? If we accept Sri Aurobindo's ...
... Mother speaking from what could be called Her origin—it was from that level—and the thing took thirty-five years to come down on Earth. When I had the experience that the time had come for the supramental Force to descend on Earth, I followed the effects of that descent, I followed the effects and the consequences in my consciousness. But to ordinary eyes it was something like what happened with India's ...
... made me understand many experiences I had after that Page 257 experience of the body's ascent [January 24, 1961] (the ascent of the body-consciousness, followed by the descent of the supramental force into the body); immediately afterwards, everything (how to put it?)... outwardly, according to ordinary consciousness, I fell ill; but it's stupid to speak this way—I did not fall ill! All possible ...
... this, not once but perhaps hundreds of times, who have spoken of it yourselves, thought about it, hoped for it, wanted it (there are some people who have come here only for this, to receive the Supramental Force and to be transformed into supermen, this has been their goal...) then how is it that you were ALL such strangers to this Force that when it came, you did not even feel it?! Can you solve that ...
... Japa : the continuous repetition of a mantra. Mother's mantra is a song of the cells, the sole material or physical process used by her for awakening the cells and stabilizing the Supramental Force in her body. × Later, Mother specified: 'These are elements in the material substance entirely ...
... Mother’s Agenda 1961 January 31, 1961 ( Concerning the experience related on January 24 , of the supramental Force reorganizing the activity of each center of consciousness. The experience ended in a deep trance: 'I slipped into trance...' ) I neglected to mention something very important. At the moment of my coming ...
... concerned with them in that way. It was completely new—not new in principle but completely new in action. Page 48 The experiences are multiplying. A sound that can bring in the supramental Force? Yes. While speaking, you see, I went back to the origin of sound (Sri Aurobindo describes it very clearly in Savitri : the origin of sound, the moment when what we called 'the Word' becomes ...
... perhaps three or four weeks, so that pins it down ( Mother holds up an old desk-calendar page on which she had written: ) Page 140 Night of July 24-25, '59 : first penetration of the supramental force into the body. Sri Aurobindo alive in a concrete and permanent subtle physical body. I told you about that experience of meeting Sri Aurobindo (the true Sri Aurobindo) in the subtle physical ...
... were petrifactive springs). There was a reason. 3 And I saw for Sri Aurobindo (although he hadn't yet started this systematic transformation; but still, he was constantly pulling the supramental force down into his body), even in his case, it took five days to show the first slight sign of decomposition. I would have kept his body longer, but the government always meddles in other people's ...
... time that the Supramental has come down as a general force of transformation for the whole earth. It is a new starting-point in the terrestrial creation. But it may be that once before the supramental force has manifested partially and momentarily in an individual as a promise and an example. 26 October 1964 In 1956 You said: "The supramental Light, Consciousness and Force have manifested ...
... by lower nature. I expect you to tell me that, for us, nothing is "impossible". Both statements are true. (1) So long as matter remains what it is, it cannot be made immune. But (2) the supramental force is expected to transform the material body also (in the long run) and when that is done then everything becomes possible or rather nothing is impossible. Blessings. 26 August 1961 ...
... understand them, this "something new" that comes is turned by ordinary people into a "miracle". This is precisely what we want to do by bringing down into the physical and material world the supramental force and consciousness. At first it works by diffusion, not directly. Its working is more or less veiled, more veiled and distorted as it descends into the physical world, until it becomes almost ...
... afterwards, regarding another note: "But It may have manifested partially and momentarily in an individual, as a promise and an example." This was an answer to someone who asked me whether the supramental Force had manifested on earth previously. ( Before leaving, Satprem informs Mother that he has received a letter from the Vellore hospital asking him when he would come for new tests: ) So ...
... ( Mother remains silent ) ( A month later, a disciple sent Mother the following letter, in English, on the same subject: ) "...At present the working is going on with direct Supramental Force. Its immediate action on the world of selfishness, strife and disharmony is not encouraging. We see everywhere clashes; the world is going on in the old way as usual, perhaps worse. One is reminded ...
... maybe the superman. ( silence ) I don't know why, for a moment I have been thinking insistently: people who won't know how things actually happened will say, Page 20 once this supramental force has entered the earth's atmosphere and penetrated them, they will say, "Well, WE are the ones who did this!" ( Mother laughs ) Yes, probably! It's we, it's our fine humanity that has.. ...
... 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 ) I had already had, partially, the experience ...
... with a great goodwill to serve. And everywhere, everywhere in the world, the signs of a CONSCIOUS goodwill awakening. That's what Sri Aurobindo once said to me. What he saw was that the supramental Force would have sufficient influence on the various governments of the earth, of the nations, to allow hope for a harmony. If that's how it is, it's something. We'll see. But even so, I didn't ...
... continuous. Naturally, I was lying on my bed.... ( silence ) When Sri Aurobindo left, I was standing near his bed (later on, when he was alone, when there was 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 ...
... exactly like that, it's exactly like a Grace-Light. I liked that a lot. It's exactly that. You see, it's a light with several degrees, and in the most material it's slightly... it must be the supramental force, because it's slightly golden, slightly pinkish (you know that light), but very, very pale. One of them ( gesture pointing to another, higher layer ) is white like milk, opaque—it's very strong ...
... the trouble to find him." ( Questions and Answers , 8.13.1958 ) And again this: "For many, spiritual life is meditation. As long as that nonsense is not uprooted from human consciousness, the supramental force will always find it very difficult not to be swallowed up in the obscurity of an uncomprehending human mind." ( Questions and Answers , 4.17.1957 ) And if you know how to read Sri Aurobindo and ...
... Message from Mother: ) Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to announce the manifestation of the supramental world. Not only did he announce this manifestation, but he also partially incarnated the supramental force and gave us the example of what we must do to prepare ourselves for this manifestation. The best way for us is to study everything he told us, strive to follow his example and prepare ourselves ...
... everything for you? That is supreme laziness. NIRODBARAN: I don't say that. I say that if at present in spite of my efforts I don't get satisfactory results and my progress is slow amd tardy, the Supramental Force, being the Highest Force, will help me to overcome my troubles in comparatively less time. That is what you wrote to me on the action of the Supermind. SRI AUROBINDO: So you will wait for the ...
... s down into the earth- consciousness and establish it there as a constant realised force. Just as mind and life have been established and embodied in Matter, so to establish and embody the supramental Force. It would not be possible to change all that in a moment - we have always said that the whole of humanity will not change the moment there is the Descent. But what can be done is to establish ...
... s down into the earth-consciousness and establish it there as a constant realised force, just as mind and life have been established and embodied in Matter, so as to establish and embody the supramental Force.' Yet such explanations and clarifications touch merely the surface of his sadhana of this period. Sri Aurobindo seldom wrote of the experiences he was going through and in any case these would ...
... and if it is more advantageous. Now, in our special case, I will tell you what I am trying to do. It is now nearly one year that we had one Wednesday the Manifestation of the Supramental Force. Since that moment the Power is working very actively, even if very few people are able to perceive it; and I think that the time has come now to help it as much as we can by making an effort ...
... easier for you and if it is more advantageous. Now, in our special case, I will tell you what I am trying to do. It is now nearly one year that we had one Wednesday the Manifestation of the Supramental Force. Since that moment the Power is working very actively, even if very few people are able to perceive it; and I think that the time has come now to help it as much as we can by making an effort ...
... the confusion already existing and are bound to end in abject failure. Page 64. It is better to wait with patience and see how things develop. the Mother has told us that the Supramental Force works quietly, in a most normal and natural way. In the meantime, let each of us execute our responsibilities as sincerely and as well as possible, aspiring for the Mother's Guidance ...
... disciple. He replied : "As for the Force, I shall write to you some other time. I have told you that it is not always efficacious, but works under conditions like all forces; it is only the Supramental force that works absolutely, because it creates its own conditions. But the Force that I am using is a Force that has to work under the present conditions. It is not the less a Force for that..." ...
... the individual through every action of life done as an oblation to the Divine, and the bringing down of the Light-Force of the Vijnanamaya Purusha into the physical being. The Vijnanashakti or supramental Force descends and suffuses the physical being and awakens and activates the divine consciousness that is submerged in it. Purification can be done by the enlightened human intelligence, but it is only ...
... 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 Force that can radically transform human nature—the whole being of man will be ready for a perfect manifestation of the Divine in life, which is the ultimate end of evolution. This evolutionary aspect ...
... or withdrawal from it, but by a complete conquest and mastery. It is not enough to be unegoistic and disinterested in our use of money, we have to be docile and po werful instruments of the supramental Force, the Mother's Creative Shakti, which alone knows how best to use the money-power for the establishment and fulfilment of the Life Divine on earth. The God-directed supramental use is the only ...
... supramental that he was able to realise but a middle power between the Mind and the Supermind, which he called the Overmind. This was his realisation or siddhi on 24 November 1926. "It is only the supramental Force that works absolutely", he wrote in 1935, "because it creates its own conditions. But the Force I am using is a Force that Page 22 has to work under the present world ...
... principle of it without the supramental. Even Science believes that one day death may be conquered by physical means and its reasonings are perfectly sound. There is no reason why the supramental Force should not do it. Forms on earth do not last (they do in other planes) because these forms are too rigid to grow expressing the progress of the spirit. If they become plastic enough to do that ...
... country had ever endured, and the undoing of all the work that had been done for her liberation. 7 What Sri Aurobindo was directing in support of the Allies was an overmental, not a supramental force; it was not infallible, for much depended also on the receptivity of the instrument, the nature of the field of action and the Asuric concentration at any particular point of time and place ...
... same plane as the one where the adverse forces are ruling that one must have a greater power than theirs, a power which can conquer them totally in that very domain.... This force is the supramental force. 17 In the message, there is a reference to "the victory". But a victory only follows a struggle. The supreme struggle is joined now, and it must conclude with the definitive victory, the ...
... obstinate and impenetrable. The Mother was in fact confronting the solidity of the organised mental inconscience of mankind making a last-ditch desperate stand against penetration and conquest by the supramental force and light: Now it is an inconscience organised in its refusal to change! So I wrote, "most hard and rigid and narrow" - the idea is of something which presses you, presses you - "most stifling" ...
... ...the time has come when some beings among the élite of humanity, who fulfill the conditions necessary for 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 ...
... unity of all existence, and Sri Aurobindo gives it the largest possible extension, both in theory and practice, in order that it may eventually move untrammelled in the infinite rhythms of the supramental" Force. Holding up before humanity the sublime ideal of an Page 293 integrated realisation of all the three kinds of liberation sāyujya, sāmīpya and sārūpya or sādharmya, ¹ Sri ...
... impede its spiritual evolution. From the cells of the physical body to the summits of our mental being, all, without exception, must be divinely converted and rendered perfectly plastic to the supramental Force of the divine Mother. "So long as one element of the being, one movement of the thought is still subjected to outside influences, not solely under Thine, it cannot be said that the ...
... human nature by a synthetic self- discipline through knowledge, love and works in a growing attitude of self-surrender; and, next, the transformation of them all by the descent of the authentic supramental Force and a raising of the whole integrated nature into the Supernature. We shall now proceed to consider the elaborate work of the purification of human nature as it is done in the Integral Yoga ...
... includes also the union of our subconscient and inconscient parts with the Divine, which is possible only by the illumination and transformation of those nether regions by the direct action of the Supramental Force. It is a tremendous work, entailing a descent into the Subconscient and the Inconscient and a raising up of the dark elements which seethe or sleep there, so that they may be either destroyed ...
... is that it is tremendously free. Once the fishbowl is shattered, there is a tremendous invasion of the very energies that constitute matter and the worlds. What Sri Aurobindo called the “supramental force.” 62.126 A power so tremendous, so FREE, so independent of all circumstances, all reactions, all events. Something else.... Something else! 64.73 A power that can crush everything and ...
... everything moved within the same maleficent, microscopic rhythm. As if all of Matter were grating at once, so to speak. There are little disorders, there are big disorders. The second time the supramental Force came to take hold of her body, in 1961, Mother noted: All possible difficulties rose up en masse—it had to happen, and it surely happened to Sri Aurobindo, too. How well I understood! How well ...
... recurrences — so caution is best until this is no longer so. For the same reason you have to be careful about food. There is just now an acute struggle between the supra mentalising (not supramental) Force and the Asuric powers in the material and violent attacks on the body have been felt by many. It is better not to give a loophole in the shape of a physical cause — such as pullao —attractive ...
... individual through every action of life done as an oblation to the Divine, and the bringing down of the Light-Force of the Vijnanamaya Purusha into the physical being. The Vijnanashakti or supramental Force descends and suffuses the physical being and awakens and activates the divine consciousness that is submerged in it. Purification can be done by the enlightened human intelligence, but it is ...
... Force of Spirit, the native Light and Law of Truth must come down and effectuate this long and complex work, which will be the crowning achievement of human evolution. Vijñāna śakti or the supramental Force» as Sri Aurobindo calls it, is the supreme Page 413 creative Force of the Divine, and it is only this Force with its Truth-Light that can new-create what it has created, new-mould ...
... January 1972 * * * Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to announce the manifestation of the supramental world. And not only did he announce this manifestation but he also embodied in part the supramental force and gave us the example of what we must do to prepare ourselves to manifest it. The best thing we can do is to study all he has told us, try to follow his example and prepare ourselves for the ...
... there took place..." What?... "The first descent of the supramental forces into the Inconscient"? ( Mother shakes her head ) It was: Light-Force and Power. And it wasn't into the Inconscient, it was into the earth atmosphere. Light-Consciousness-Power? "Consciousness" is part of the totality, it will come later. Supramental Light-Force-Power? Yes. And is the word "descent" right... ( A little later, regarding the extraordinary clutter on Mother's table: ) ...That's why I have so many things on my table. Someone gives me something, and there is in it a good thought, a force, something that puts me in contact with the person, so I leave it there on my table, to keep up the contact. All these things generally represent the contact with someone. So I keep it there (and of ...
... supreme creative Light-Force, the cit-tapas of the Supermind or vijñāna, that can act here in its full power, without suffering any diminution or dilution, and effect a radical and integral conversion and transformation. The Creator alone can refashion, remould and transmute into its own substance and force what it has created. The descent of the Supramental Truth-Force is, therefore, indispensable... to the action of the Supermind upon them. They seem, as it were, to recognise their Creator, and readily submit to its benignly transforming force. The supramental Light-Force descends into the subconscient and ¹ "So long as there is not the supramental change down to the subconscient, complete and full, the lower nature has always a hold on some part of the being". The Life Divine. ... e" in this world, that is to say, it cannot Page 434 bring down the omnipotent Consciousness-Force of the Transcendent and make it directly operative in this field of ignorance and inconscience.¹ But the supramental Will is the authentic Will of the Supreme, and its Force carries in it the fiat and fire of the Absolute. It commands an infinite power of free self-determination. It ...
... On this evening, during the meditation which followed this conversation, there took place what Mother has called "the first Manifestation of the Supramental Light-Force in the earth-atmosphere". " The law of sacrifice is the common divine action that was thrown out into the world in its beginning as a symbol of the solidarity of the universe. It is by... power descends to limit and correct and gradually to eliminate the errors of an egoistic and self-divided creation. This descent, this sacrifice of the Purusha, the Divine Soul submitting itself to Force and Matter so that it may inform and illuminate them, is the seed of redemption of this world of Inconscience and Ignorance. For 'with sacrifice as their companion,' says the Gita, 'the All-Father created ...
... 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... which is irreversible, and which none the less must be remedied, there is no other alternative for man but to tap the potentialities and capacities of a higher mental and Page 12 supramental range. This would mean an evolutionary step to transgress the limits of the human species leading eventually to an evolutionary mutation. There is, indeed, the possibility that the human mind... light of the spirit, must welter in a universalized confusion and discord out of which it is impossible to build a greater harmonic life. On the contrary, given the potencies of the universal force provided by science, there would be increasing hungers and calls for life satisfaction of individuals, classes and nations, a rich fungus of political and social and economic nostrums and notions, a ...
... 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 ... Reality and release him from herself. There is a further intention—not only a revelation of the Spirit but a radical and integral transformation of Nature. The spiritual man has evolved, but not the supramental being who shall thenceforward be the leader of that nature. There is thus something that is not yet accomplished, and there becomes clear to view the much that has still to be done; 'there is... different paths, reach the same goal. Given a new situation, the 'urge' (élan vital), common to all members, leads them to meet it by a new method. According to Bergson, it is the inner urge, or life force, or an upward drive, that incites the whole species in a definite direction. The striving of the organism is the creative effort to which evolution is due. Page 49 The biological ...
... The final perfection will come when the Divine and His śakti will be revealed behind the action of the soul- force and raise all the working of the instruments into the fullness and glory of the supramental Power. Earth has not seen, man has not yet conceived of this supramental perfection—it is unimaginably vast and glorious, it is the infinite perfection of the Divine Himself. All parts of... will become conscious and radiant particles of matter, centres of a luminous force expressing itself in the scheme of material 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... fettered action of the supreme Will-Force in the human body, and a falling into disuse of some of the physiological processes which, however indispensable they may appear ¹ The Supramental Manifestation by Sri Aurobindo. Page 457 today, will have outlived their utility and been replaced by those of a far greater, because supramental, effectivity. The body, filled with ...
... 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 omniscient... will Page 24 awaken everywhere in you by constant openness to the Wisdom and Light, the Force, the Harmony and Beauty, the Perfection that come flowing down from above. Even the body will awake and unite at last its consciousness subliminal no longer to the supramental superconscious Force, feel all her powers permeating from above and below and around it and thrill to a supreme Love and... 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, it will ...
... 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... powers in our actual and present make-up are only a fraction of what could be, but if they became complete and dominant would be truly able to bring about with the help of the light and force of the soul and the supramental truth-consciousness the necessary physical transformation and its consequences. This might be found in the system of Chakras revealed by Tantric knowledge and accepted in the systems... A Centenary Tribute Theories of Evolution and Sri Aurobindo's Concept of Supramental Manifestation THE process of evolution was detected in ancient times. Both in India and in Greece, there were important ideas of evolution. In modern times, the theory of evolution is mainly the work of Linnaeus (1707-78), Buffon (1707-88), Erasmus ...
... universal, there will be no further clouding of its vision, no further confusion of its movements. The supramental manifestation has created a favourable climate for the radical self-diminution - self-annulment - of the ego, and all that is now needed is to permit the supramental Light and Force and Consciousness to act upon our human instruments: "it is better to let things be done than to talk about... the indispensable ādhār or receptacle for the supramental Light, Force and Consciousness. The Superconscient which has created the miracle of this phenomenal world is in the physical too (though only in the drowse of involution), and man's dynamic and integral well-being can very well be the means of both coaxing the descent of the higher Force and facilitating the emergence of the veiled Supe... nature". As to how this aim of integral or divine perfection is to be achieved, Sri Aurobindo says: These three elements, a union with the supreme Divine, unity with the universal Self, and a supramental life action from this transcendent origin and through this universality, but still with the individual as the soul-channel and natural instrument, constitute the essence of the Integral divine perfection ...
... The other is the supramental physical Force. I am reading your Intuitive Mind. Can you not release that manuscript in the meantime? Which blessed manuscript? I have a hundred! I don't recall anything about Intuitive Mind. May 14, 1935 I spoke of the manuscript (typed letter) on Avatar, on which you have written a lot, you said [6.3.35]. But if it is among hundreds of manuscripts... because his spiritual knowledge was from the heart only and intense but limited. Or can we ever imagine that a supramental X will have the same mental range and altitude as the supramental Sri Aurobindo? Absurd! Mental and supramental are two different things. How does the supramental come in here? You may say that it is after all the realisation that is important and all three had that; n... and appeal to the supramental. It seems another victory has been won by you? Some people saw a red-crimson light around the Mother a few days back. What does it signify? ??? Great Heavens? which? who? But there is nothing new in that. It was coming down before Nov. 34, but afterwards all the damned mud arose and it stopped. But there are red crimson lights. One is supramental Divine Love. The ...
... what way the supramental consciousness-force is not identical with the spiritual. If spiritual and supramental were the same thing, then all the sages and devotees and Yogis and sadhaks throughout the ages would have been supramental beings and all I have written about the supermind would be so much superfluous rubbish. Anybody who had spiritual experiences would then be a supramental being; the... 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 at... misunderstand certain words used by Dr. Sircar in his lectures: "supermind" or "supramental", "psychic", "ascent and descent" etc. I think such terms should be defined precisely when used. The words supermind and supramental were first used by me, but since then people have taken up and are using the word supramental for anything above mind. Psychic is ordinarily used in the sense of anything relating ...
... 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... there shines a ray of hope which the Master annunciates succinctly as our being must move eternally through Time. With the ascending of the spiritual effort and the descending within of the supramental, man regains his lost identity in the world. He comes to the realisation that his transient existence, his imminent mortality and the passing away of the world are fragments of Eternity. In vain... Satyavan and the rest of the mankind, we are all nomads in this world. It is the Consciousness-Force that makes us aware of our present predicament. The solution to the riddle of life lies within us like a spark. The Divine Spark enkindles and brings forth light only if we are able to use the Consciousness-Force. In the present state of affairs man is plagued by ignorance, division, duality and bondage ...
... Inconscience can not evolve consciousness nor an inanimate Force evolve life. There must be, therefore, since Mind and Life also 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... fact of the involution of consciousness and force in the form and activity of material substance. For it proceeds by an awakening of the involved consciousness and force and its ascent from principle to principle, from grade to grade, from power to power of the secret Spirit, but this is not a free transference to a higher status. The law of action, the force of action of each grade or power in its emergence... of the 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 ...
... urgency of the Mother's question: Are you ready? The supramental Light, Force and Consciousness were now abroad, they were like a flood of opportunity, and their tides were eager to carry one onwards to the far goals of realisation, and one needed to heed Sri Aurobindo's warning: But thrice woe to them who are strong and ready, yet waste the force or misuse the moment; for them is irreparable loss... wrote with persuasive force: Won't you let the Lord be stronger than the horoscope? For the supreme Lord there is no horoscope which is absolute. Have faith in the Lord's mercy and all can and will change. 29 It was perhaps quite natural that some of the sadhaks and disciples should exercise their minds and sensibilities with the intriguing question: whether the supramental manifestation of 29... his body may descend the glory that will replace him. His aspiration is earth's call to the supramental creator. If earth calls and the Supreme answers, the hour can be even now for that immense and glorious transformation. 15 The hour can be even now - the Hour of God! the Hour of the Supramental Transformation! VI For some years past, it had become the custom to issue calendars ...
... mire of the subconscious", and he hinted at the same resistance in a letter to Nirod: "It (the Supramental Light) was coming down before November, 1934, but afterwards all the mud arose and it stopped. But there are red crimson lights. One is Supramental Divine Love, the other Supramental Physical Force." Somewhat at sea, I asked him what was his drift. He sent me only four lines of an unpublished... la melee, and therefore unperturbed, buttressed probably by the Supramental! Inevitably, equipped as Page 43 you are with a temperament such as yours — so aloof from what Russell loves to call the 'hard world of fact'!" To that he promptly replied: "But what strange ideas again! — that I was born with a Supramental temperament and that I know nothing of hard realities! Good God... sensible (?) men like us. This time, I imagine, Gurudev wrote without a smile of irony. "Dilip," he repeated, "it is certainly the force hostile to Yoga and the divine realisation upon earth that is acting upon you at the present moment. It is the force (one force and not many) which is here in the Ashram and has been going about from one to another. With some as with B, V and P, it has succeeded; ...
... a movement unknown to history and humanity. It led to an unwearied collaboration in their mission of raising man from the troubled twilight of his mind into the infinite splendour of the Supramental Light-Force. The age-old propensity to ascetic withdrawal from the world of action was stripped of its customary mask, exposed to the light of an integral spirituality and tossed into the limbo of the... Life was affirmed and accepted as the field of divine Manifestation, and a deadly grapple with the entrenched powers of the Ignorance and the Inconscience began its fateful career. The Supramental Light-Force that alone can overthrow the sovereignty of darkness and suffering and death with which earthly life is ever afflicted, was brought down and set to fashion the future and realise the divine... crowd round the mind and pour in their suggestions whenever it tries to remain open only to the supramental Light and the Command, so that the Knowledge and the Will reach the mind in a confused, distorted and often misleading form. It is, however, only a question of time: the siege will diminish in force and be finally dispelled. 23-3-1916 After the Congress of 1914 Sri Aurobindo ...
... the inconscience. Just before November 1934, when there was the possibility of the Supramental Light coming down to the physical, all the subconscient mud arose to put it off - yet Sri Aurobindo also added consolingly: "But there are red crimson lights. One is Supramental Love, the other is Supramental Physical Force."45 The commandment of the integral Yoga is that, not the mind alone, not the heart... 'The Supramental Evolution', Integral Yoga and the Other Paths', 'The Purpose of Avatarhood', 'The Foundations of the Sadhana', Sadhana through Work, Meditation, Love and Devotion, and similar topics; and Tome Two comprises letters on the Transformation of the Mind, the Vital, the Physical, the Subconscient and the Inconscient, and on the Triple Transformation, Psychic, Spiritual and Supramental. The... and yet, should the physical base - the adhara - be unequal to the force of the descent, there might be terrible reactions. According to the ancient legend, Bhagiratha brought the Ganga down from Heaven, but the force of the impact on the earth would have been so great that Shiva himself had to be requested to contain the Force. In a condition of trance or samādhi, the body is laid asleep, in ...
... into Matter, is the aim of the supramental yoga , which we will discuss later. There are many degrees of development of the consciousness-force, from the seeker or aspirant just awakening to his inner need, to the yogi; even among yogis there are many degrees – that is where the true hierarchy begins. There remains a final equivalence. Not only is consciousness force, not only is consciousness being... discipline, means literally "that which produces heat"). The supramental power is a heat of this kind, only infinitely more intense, within the cells of the body. It is the heat released by the awakening of the Consciousness-Force in Matter: It's as if our spiritual life were made of silver , explains the Mother, while the supramental life is made of gold; as if the whole spiritual life here were... increasingly conscious surrender to the Force above. We have already suggested what the consciousness of the supramental being might be like, but it is worth repeating with Sri Aurobindo that supermanhood is not man climbed to his own natural zenith, not a superior degree of human greatness, knowledge, power, intelligence, will, character, genius, dramatic force, saintliness, love, purity or perfection ...
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