... if the supramental principle came down it would not be in order to reproduce Heaven here under celestial conditions but to "create a new Heaven and a new earth" in the earth-consciousness itself, completing and transmuting but not abolishing the earth order. It is evident that the creative process here could be greatly modified and transmuted by the appearance of the supramental principle. What would... Divine. Your statement about the supramental evolution is correct except that it does not follow that humanity as a whole will become supramental. What is more likely to happen is that the supramental principle will be established in the evolution by the descent just as the mental principle was established by the appearance of thinking Mind and Man in earthly life. There will be a race of supramental... energy in its self-organisation and operation here. There is not much profit in mental and intellectual speculations about what precisely the results would be of the introduction of a supramental principle and a supramental organisation and order in the earth-consciousness and the earth-life. In all probability the speculations would be quite beside the mark or, even where they hit on some broad ...
... Your statement about the supramental evolution is correct except that it does not follow that humanity as a whole will become supramental. What is more likely to happen is that the supramental principle will be established in the evolution by the descent just as the mental principle was established by the appearance of thinking Mind and Man in earthly life. There will be a race of supramental... entirety — for that [the transformation of the Cosmic Mind, Life and Matter] is not our business. It is ourselves that we have to transform and change the earth-consciousness by bringing in the supramental principle into the evolution there. Once there it will necessarily have a powerful influence in the whole earth-life as mind has had through the evolution of men, but much greater. (Letters on Yoga... gain and nothing that it has not, yet it puts forth its power of action in the manifestation. It is the earth-consciousness, not the supramental world that has to gain by the descent of the supramental principle that is sufficient reason for it to descend. The supramental worlds remain as they are and are in no way affected by the descent. (Letters on Yoga, p. 16.) * * * This transformation ...
... their entirety [ will cosmic Mind, Life and Matter be transformed ]—for that is not our business. It is ourselves that we have to transform and change the earth consciousness by bringing in the supramental principle into the evolution there. Once there it will necessarily have a powerful influence on the whole earth-life—as mind has had through the evolution of men, but much greater. Page 290 ... gain and nothing that it has not, yet it puts forth its power of action in the manifestation. It is the earth-consciousness, not the supramental world that has to gain by the descent of the supramental principle—that is sufficient reason for it to descend. The supramental worlds remain as they are and are in no way affected by the descent. It [ the descent of the Supermind ] would not necessarily ...
... the Supermind can thus descend without losing its full power of action.... The Truth-Consciousness, finding evolutionary Nature ready, has to descend into her and enable her to liberate the supramental principle within her; so must be created the supramental and spiritual being as the first unveiled manifestation of the truth of the Self and Spirit in the material universe. 54 The so-called... of the ascending ocean of consciousness is on the supramental citadel itself; Man must now grow into the complete Superman, the supramental being, or the Gnostic being. The induction of the supramental principle and power into the human being must also mean the gradual supramentalisation of man's environment, in other words the transformation of nature into supernature. The "gnostic being" would be ...
... ensure a luminous unity in the common life of gnostic beings, so also it would be sufficient to ensure a dominating harmony and reconciliation between the two types of life. The influence of the supramental principle on earth would fall upon the life of the Ignorance and impose harmony on it within its limits. It is conceivable that the gnostic life would be separate, but it would surely admit within its... likely to do so on lines of a completer harmonisation of which the human collectivity is not yet capable. Here also, however, the mind can only forecast probabilities and possibilities; the supramental principle in Supernature would itself determine according to the truth of things the balance of a new world-order. A gnostic Supernature transcends all the values of our normal ignorant Nature; our ...
... .For then it was dangerous. Now not to speak of them may be dangerous, for I am pulling down the supramental into the physical... (which) means the coming of the supramental Purusha, the supramental Principle and also supramental beings and personalities. It can be delayed no longer..." ¹ The "supramental beings and personalities" appear to be identical with the "Gods" whose world was sought to... "Even, the highest manifestations of a mind of Light would be an instrumentality of the supermind, a part of it or a projection from it, a stepping beyond humanity into the superhumanity of the supramental principle." 4 The word "recruited" indicates that "the race of supramental beings" would grow by enlisting and including members of the "new humanity" ready to rise higher and ¹. Sri Aurobindo ...
... Even, the highest manifestations of a mind of Light would be an instrumentality of the supermind, a part of it or a projection from it, a stepping beyond humanity into the superhumanity of the supramental principle. Above all, its possession would enable the human being to rise beyond the normalities of his present thinking, feeling and being into those highest powers of the mind in its self-exceedings ...
... principle already conscient and not merely contained inconsciently in the very stuff of things. But this is the natural conclusion—even apart from spiritual experience—from the nature of the supramental principle. For it is at its highest an eternal knowledge, will, bliss and conscious being and it is more reasonable to conclude that it is eternally conscious, though we are not conscious of it, and the ...
... . Once this was done the mission of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother could be said to have been Page 225 fulfilled so far as the evolution of man as a race was concerned .'The supramental principle was made a part of the earth's future history. Not with full strength even in the subtle-physical but with a gradual potency would the new entrant in the cosmic field operate, for, as the Mother ...
... × The first question of the correspondent concerned "the results of the manifestation of a new supramental principle in the earth-consciousness". See Sri Aurobindo's letters beginning "There is not much profit" and "As I have said" on pages 280-84 .—Ed. ...
... itself in the earth-life. That is how a new principle in the evolution must necessarily work. There is no proposal to transform the whole earth consciousness—it is simply to introduce the supramental principle there which will transform those who can receive and embody it. The Earth, the Earth Consciousness and the Supramental Creation The earth is the place of evolution in which all these [ ...
... yet from whom all manifestation proceeds and all universe. (2) The supramental and the supracosmic are not the same. If it were so there could be no supramental world and no descent of the supramental principle into the material world—we would be brought back to the idea that the divine Truth and Reality can only exist beyond and the universe, any universe can only be a half-truth or an illusion of ...
... only partial or insecure; an overmind or intuitive instrumentation of Nature could be developed, but it would be a luminous formation imposed on a fundamental and environmental Inconscience. A supramental principle and its cosmic operation once established permanently on its own basis, the intervening powers of Overmind and spiritual Mind could found themselves securely upon it and reach their own perfection; ...
... form of manifestation on a complete and completely effective self-knowledge. The Truth-consciousness, finding evolutionary Nature ready, has to descend into her and enable her to liberate the supramental principle within her; so must be created the supramental and spiritual being as the first unveiled manifestation of the truth of the Self and Spirit in the material universe. Page 952 ...
... sunlike, the march of the Dawn, illuminating all the regions of our being on which falls its light; for there is always needed the precursory mental illumination before the Truth itself, the supramental principle, can take possession of this lower existence. "The creator, the supremely desirable, manifests all heaven and shines pervadingly following (after or according to) the movement forward of the ...
... merely an individual event: the Supermind has sprung forth into the universal play.' Page 83 Yes, yes, yes! I indeed said all that. I acknowledge it. And so? It is said, 'The supramental principle is at work ...' But I have just explained the whole thing to you! ( Mother laughs ) It's incredible! What I call a 'descent' is this: first of all, the consciousness climbs in ascent ...
... phase of active realisation. For the divine Supermind entered into earth-nature almost three decades ago (in the year 1956, to be precise) and is now dynamically operative to liberate the supramental principle involved within it. As a consequence of this supramental manifestation and its subsequent action, something of capital importance has happened in a particular individual body, that ...
... a speculative conjecture; it has already entered the phase of active realisation. For the divine supermind has descended into earth-nature and is now dynamically operative to liberate the supramental principle involved within her. As a consequence of this supramental descent and its subsequent action, something of capital importance has happened in a particular individual body, that unmistakably ...
... characterized by the principle of unity. In the words of Sri Aurobindo: "The Truth-Consciousness, finding evolutionary Nature ready, has to descend into her and enables her to liberate the supramental principle within her; so must be created the supramental and spiritual being as the first unveiled manifestation of the truth of the Self and Spirit in the material universe." 56 It is then by ...
... psychological discipline of Yoga can be used to that end by opening all the parts of the being to a conversion or transformation through the descent and working of the higher still concealed supramental principle. This however cannot be done at once or in a short time or by any rapid or miraculous transformation. Many steps have to be taken by the seeker before the supramental descent is possible ...
... goes on so slowly, will it not be years before the earth consciousness is wholly transformed? There is no proposal to transform the whole earth consciousness—it is simply to introduce the supramental principle there which will transform those who can receive and embody it. 16 December 1936 Page 285 Descent and the Supramental Yoga Was there not anything like descents of peace in ...
... manifestation. And it is more than an individual event: the Supermind has emerged into the universal play." Yes, yes, yes. In fact I said all this, I acknowledge it. So? They say, "The supramental principle is at work..." But I have just explained all this to you at length ( Mother laughs ), this is terrible! What I call a "descent" is this: first the consciousness rises in an ascent, you ...
... are not known usually unless they come in some concentrated state of vision of themselves. The Mother nowadays seldom has these states because the whole concentration is on bringing down the supramental principle here. When that work is done then these things may come. The Mother only speaks to people about their past births when she sees definitely some scene or memory of their past in concentration; ...
... assumes a different aspect when in the working out of this purpose it separates itself more and more from the supramental light, from the immediate power and supporting illumination of the supramental principle. It is as it departs more and more in this direction from its own highest truth that it becomes a creator or parent of ignorance and is or seems to be the highest power in a world of ignorance; ...
... insufficient light: it sees, knows, puts its hand immediately on things of self and things of Nature. We have passed into Mind but Mind has still not broken its inherent connection with the supramental principle. Still there is an increasing self-limitation which begins even with Overmind: Overmind is separated by only a luminous border from the full light and power of the supramental Truth and ...
... impulses, perverted too though a little less grossly in our ideative seekings, minimised even in the comparative purity and intensity of the highest intuitive ranges of our mental nature. The supramental principle is secretly lodged in all existence. It is there even in the grossest materiality, it preserves and governs the lower worlds by its hidden power and law; but that power veils itself and that ...
... or interpenetrate. In either case the gnostic principle might be expected, if not at once, yet finally to dominate the whole. The higher spiritual-mental degrees would be in touch with the supramental principle now overtly supporting them and holding them together and would be delivered from the once enveloping hold of the Ignorance and Inconscience. As manifestations of the truth of being, though ...
... the same... we have not yet crossed over the borders of the truth-conscious into ignorance.... We have passed into Mind but Mind has still not broken its inherent connection with the Supramental principle.... In the order of the evolutionary descent we stand in the Mind of Light on that border and a step downward can carry us beyond it into the beginnings of an ignorance which still bears ...
... towards the revelation of "a new world" for all mankind. So we have to look at the vision and work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother under two aspects. One is the general manifestation of the Supramental principle in terrestrial history, urging evolution to pass from Man to Superman in the broad span of centuries. Such a goal has been essentially accomplished. No wonder that the Mother, not too long after ...
... Even, the highest manifestations of a mind of Light would be an instrumentality of the Supermind, a part of or a projection from it, a stepping beyond humanity into the superhumanity of the supramental principle. Above all, its possession would enable the human being to rise beyond into those highest powers of the mind in its self-exceedings which intervene between our mentality and Supermind and can ...
... Even, the highest manifestations of a mind of Light would be an instrumentality of the supermind, a part of or a projection from it, a stepping beyond humanity into the superhumanity of the supramental principle. Above all, its possession would enable the human being to rise beyond into those highest powers of the mind in its self-exceedings which intervene between our mentality and supermind, and can ...
... divine and dynamic life upon earth becomes a realised fact of existence. The involved Supermind has to emerge to meet the descending Supermind. As a matter of fact, even now, the supramental principle is here secretly lodged in all existence, even behind the grossest materiality. It is the Supermind that is sustaining and governing this manifested lower worlds by its self-concealed power ...
... psychological discipline of Yoga can be used to that end by opening all the parts of the being to a conversion of transformation through the descent and working of the higher still concealed supramental principle. This, however, cannot be done at once or in a short time or by any rapid or miraculous transformation. Many steps have to be taken by the seeker before the supramental descent is possible ...
... place when the involved Supermind in Nature would emerge to meet and join with the supramental light and power descending from Super-nature. Sri Aurobindo goes farther and states that when the supramental principle is established permanently on the earth, the intervening powers of Overmind and Spiritual mind would be able to found themselves securely upon it and reach their own perfection. They would become ...
... the principle of Life barely colonized the material crust of the world; the mental principle narrowly colonized its immediate past, the mental subconscient and Life's old profligacies; the Supramental principle confronts not only the mental and vital subconscients, but an even more remote past, the physical subconscient and the inconscient. The higher one rises, the farther one is pulled down. Evolution ...
... assumes a different aspect when in the working out of this purpose it separates itself more and more from the supramental light, from the immediate power and supporting illumination of the supramental principle. It is as it departs more and more in this direction from its own highest truth that it becomes a creator or parent of ignorance and is or seems to be the highest power in a "world of ignorance ...
... insufficient light: it sees, knows, puts its hand immediately on things of self and things of Nature. We have passed into Mind but Mind has still not broken its inherent connection with 'the supramental principle. Still there is an increasing self-limitation which begins even with Overmind: Overmind is separated by only a luminous border on the full light and power of the supramental Truth and it ...
... transformation, and consummate the 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 ...
... imperative demand of the logic of physical transformation and divine life. Besides, the aim of the Integral Yoga being the supra- mental fulfilment of the Divine in man, the infusion of the supramental principle into Matter and the eventual conversion of the material life into the supramental life, are a work of such immense and intricate difficulties that even the most mighty and daring human effort ...
... before, for then it was dangerous. Now not to speak anything may be dangerous, for I am pulling down the supramental into the physical... [which] means the coming of the supramental Purusha, the supramental Principle, and also supramental beings and personalities. It can be delayed no longer.... From the highest standpoint the supramental descent has been decided and nobody can resist it. From the ...
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