... Mother’s chair and the space around it. The spiritual significance of the palash , the Mother has said, is ‘Beginning of the Supramental Realisation’. Without Ma Saraswati the work of the other goddesses would not be complete. Therefore for the full Supramental realisation this goddess too is needed. That is why Mother Nature beckons her with this offering of palash . And so from age to age by offering... little stream would come cascading down it. On either side were placed beautiful flowers, birds and different types of creatures. The children would run to gather palash (‘Beginning of the Supramental Realisation’) flowers. We girls used to collect genda (‘plasticity’) flowers. Feni is full of flowers. There were endless rows of trees on the way to Birinchi bursting with palash . These flowers were... offering these two varieties of flowers at Ma Saraswati’s feet the youth are marching ahead on the path of Supramental realisation. We girls used to wear a red-bordered light-orange sari and flit around like a swarm of butterflies. Wearing this sari on Saraswati-puja is a must. Books, notebooks, pens and inkpots were laid at the Mother’s feet. In everybody’s heart was the prayer: O Mother, grant ...
... Spirit comes long before the development of Overmind or Supermind; hundreds of sadhaks in all times have had the realisation of the Atman on the higher mental plane, buddheḥ parataḥ , but the supramental realisation was not theirs. One can get partial realisations of the Self or Spirit or the Divine on any plane, mental, vital, physical even, and when one rises above the ordinary mental plane of man... plane or else the overmental plane. That is a thing (at any rate the mental-spiritual) which thousands have done. So it is obviously easier to do than the supramental. Also nobody can have the supramental realisation who has not had the spiritual. It is true that neither can be got in any effective way unless the whole being is turned towards it—unless there is a real and very serious spirit and dynamic... "their goal is not high", "is it such a long process?" I have said that this Yoga was "new" because it aims at the integrality of the Divine in this world and not only beyond it and at a supramental realisation. But how does that justify a superior contempt for the spiritual realisation which is as much the aim of this Yoga as of any other? The Old Lines and This Line Plenty of people, I suppose ...
... us a program, in which He states that our target is Supramental Realisation and Integral Transformation. In the early fifties or late forties, the Mother told me one day—'Pranab, this time there will be no tragedy. I shall do what I have come here for. Nolini, Pavitra, Amrita and all the sadhaks are waiting to see the Supramental Realisation and physical Transformation. I cannot disappoint them... see it during Her epoch. Page 72 Our community will progressively find out ways and means to create favourable circumstances so that the individuals will be able to work for Supramental Realisation and Physical Transformation. And each individual will seriously and sincerely work for the Great Ideal, keeping himself free in his attitude from all diversions that tend to take him away ...
... 157 retold in novel terms and therefore fit for acceptance by those who like novelty but not imperative for acceptance by all. Of course, as we have said, the supramental realisation also is not final. And the Mother's second sentence does not imply its finality. But by the word "past" contraposed to the word "future" it brings the generality of the first sentence... reality from phenomenon, of the Creator from the creation, will be abolished without putting away form and becoming. Thus a radical change will take place which will distinguish the supramental realisation from all others. Hence to say that this realisation is not final is never the same thing as to say that the realisations before the Supermind's advent are not final but part of an endless... remains is the "more perfect" in the sense of more quantity, as it were, of the perfection hidden in the Divine and not the "more perfect" in the sense of a superior quality. After the supramental realisation the Divine cannot be diviner but He can still be various and show design on miraculous design of ordered flawlessness in an eternity of becoming. This fact should also clarify the ...
... still belong by their origin to the older method of generation, but who, by their achievement, are in conscious and active relation with the new world of supramental realisation."² What the Mother calls "the new world of supramental realisation" is something unique in evolutionary history. Perhaps it is not correct to speak of evolution at all in this connection. When the life-world manifested... ng the Over-mind at the brain-level and using on the world the Overmind force from there and not the sheer supramental.¹ But if, as the Mother declares and the Master also implies, the supramental realisation was complete in him except that the Supermind had not yet permeated his body-substance - if the Truth- Consciousness had already descended into his inner mind, inner vital being and even ...
... continue always to make themselves centres, instruments or spokesmen of the forces of the Ignorance which oppose, deny and ridicule its very principle and object. On one side there is the supramental realisation, the overshadowing and descending power of the supramental Divine, the light and force of a far greater Truth than any yet realised on the earth, something therefore beyond what the little... obstruction and blockade against the descent of the divine Truth cannot last for ever. Every one must come down finally on one side or the other, on the side of the Truth or against it. The supramental realisation cannot coexist with the persistence of the lower Ignorance; it is incompatible with continued satisfaction in a double nature. The Lower Vital Not Reasonable The lower vital is not a ...
... day, I will deliver—for evidently with such ideas about, an éclaircissement is highly advisable. 29 August 1935 What exactly is the significance of the 24th November? Overmental, supramental realisation or what? You say it was some thing like the descent of Krishna in the material. Some say the descent was in you but you are not matter, are you? Not very clear. Why not? Why can't I be... and transformation. 1 [The disciple concluded:] This is referred to in the Vedas as the birth of the gods in men, devānāṁ janimāni; Sri Aurobindo regards it as indispensable for supramental realisation on earth. It was this that occurred on the 24th November, 1926, and it is only then that Sri Aurobindo started his Ashram, being sure that with the cooperation of the gods the supermind can ...
... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) The Supramental Realisation In order to know what the Supramental Realisation will be like, the first step, the first condition is to know what the supramental consciousness is. All those who have been, in one way or another, in contact with it have had some glimpse of the realisation to be. But those who have not, can ...
... immediately, what the reaction is; if it causes a little prick like this, inside, you may tell yourself, "The surrender is not perfect"—it pricks, it pricks.... "On one side there is the supramental realisation, the overshadowing and descending power of the supramental Divine, the light and force of a far greater Truth than any yet realised on the earth, something therefore beyond what the little... obstruction and blockade against the descent of the divine Truth cannot last for ever. Every one must come down finally on one side or the other, on the side of the Truth or against it. The supramental realisation cannot coexist with the persistence of the lower Ignorance; it is incompatible with continued satisfaction in a double nature." Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga , pp. 1310-11 If ...
... The Four Austerities and the Four Liberations The Four Austerities and the Four Liberations - I To pursue an integral education that leads to the supramental realisation, four austerities are necessary, and with them four liberations. Austerity is usually confused with self-mortification, and when someone speaks of austerities, we think of the discipline... or anything else, in order to concentrate on an exclusive attachment for the Divine Reality. This concentration will culminate in an integral identification and will be instrumental to the supramental realisation upon earth. This leads us quite naturally to the four liberations which will be the concrete forms of this achievement. The liberation of the feelings will be at the same time the liberation ...
... 'is it such a long process?' I have said that this yoga is 'new' because it aims at the Page 96 integrality of the Divine in this world and not only beyond it and at a supramental realisation. But how does that justify a superior contempt for the spiritual realisation which is as much the aim of this yoga as of any other? (Letters on Yoga, p. 97.) * * * As for the... comes long before the development of overmind or supermind; hundreds of sadhaks in all times have had the realisation of the Atman in the higher mental planes, buddheh paratah, but the supramental realisation was not theirs. One can get partial realisations of the Self or Spirit or the Divine on any plane, mental, vital, physical even, and when one rises above the ordinary mental plane of man ...
... this is how an Ashram came up. And in the Mother's guidance and care it went on growing. At that time everyone felt that the Mother and Sri Aurobindo would accomplish their sadhana of supramental realisation and physical transformation. Page 112 In this yoga of Sri Aurobindo, the Guru's inspiration, the Guru's physical presence, the Guru's direct guidance and force are indispensable... should get the Page 114 necessary permission from the government. To go beyond this public trust, private trust so that the work can go on unimpeded. That is to work for the supramental realisation and the physical transformation through yoga-sadhana. Like this we would avoid a lot of unnecessary troubles. I had given another proposal along with this, Dada continued. And that ...
... they were more difficult to bring down and have not stood out in front with so much prominence in the evolution of the earth-spirit. There are among them Presences indispensable for the supramental realisation,—most of all one who is her Personality of that mysterious and powerful ecstasy and Ananda which flows from a supreme divine Love, the Ananda that alone can heal the gulf between the highest... is, as we have already stated above, the highest aspect of the Mother, which we have to adore and approach with the utter love and self-giving of our whole being, if we aspire after the supramental realisation on earth. The highest power of transformation is with the supreme divine Love, which the Mother embodies in this life for the accomplishment of her great mission in the material world. ...
... in its forms, its cults, in a certain set of ideas, and it becomes great only through the spirituality of a few exceptional individuals, whereas true spiritual life, and above all what the supramental realisation will be, is independent of every precise, intellectual form, every limited form of life. It embraces all possibilities and manifestations and makes them the expression, the vehicle of a higher... that, instead of questions and answers, the children and the sadhaks should have a meditation of remembrance of "his ever luminous, living and active consciousness" that was advancing the supramental realisation. She also described his advent as "an eternal birth in the history of the universe". 25 When pressed to explain the phrase, the Mother said on 4 September that the meaning was a little different ...
... The Signature Of Truth THE SUPRAMENTAL REALISATION In order to know what the Supramental Realisation will be like, the first step, the first condition is to know what the supra-mental consciousness is. All those who have been, in one way or another, in contact with it have had some glimpse of the realisation to be. But those who have not, can yet aspire for ...
... It is only if there is a strong insincerity somewhere, a hankering after something else—power, ambition, etc.—which counterbalances the inner call that the logic is no longer applicable. Supramental realisation is another matter: I am speaking now of the realisation of the Divine, of the contact with the Divine, through whatever lever, heart or mind, or both. In your case it is likely to come through... to doubt and question ] is "natural considering the times" and the occidental mentality prevalent everywhere. It is also probably necessary that this should be faced and overcome before any supramental realisation is possible in the earth-consciousness—for it is the attitude of the physical mind to spiritual things and as it is in the physical that the resistance has to be overcome before the mind can ...
... [surhommes] those who, because of their origin, still belong to the old method of generation but who, because of their accomplishment, are in conscious and active contact with the new world of supramental realisation. “It seems – it is even certain – that the very substance that will constitute this intermediate world, which is already being built, is richer, more powerful, more luminous, more durable... [surhommes] those who, because of their origin, still belong to the old method of generation but who, because of their accomplishment, are in conscious and active contact with the new world of supramental realisation. The Entretien continues: “There is a subtlety of vibration which renders global, universal perception spontaneous and natural. The sense of division, of separation, vanishes quite naturally ...
... leaving one's body and returning to the supreme origin. Now that is no longer true. It is precisely this state of perfect harmony, beyond all attacks, that will become possible with the supramental realisation. It is that which will be realised for all who are destined for the supramental transformation. The adverse forces know quite well that in the supramental world they will automatically disappear:... new reversal of this kind. Thus even our spiritual life—which is such a total reversal in relation to ordinary life—is and appears to be, in relation to the supramental consciousness, the supramental realisation, something so totally different that the values of the two are almost opposite. One can put it in this way (but this is very imprecise, more than diminished—deformed): it is as if our entire ...
... or else the overmental plane. That is a thing (at any rate the mental spiritual) which thousands have done. So it is obviously easier to do than the supramental. Also nobody can have the supramental realisation who has not had the spiritual. So far your opponent is right. K said that one must see what one is aspiring for. With the movements and consciousness externalised, where is the sense of... and achieve the spiritual and not talk big about the greater thing still much beyond us. A rational attitude. I feel that your reply is too conciliatory; otherwise, I don't see why the supramental realisation should be looked upon as a secondary thing or a by-product especially as you also say that the divinisation of the body cannot be done without it. Not secondary or by-product at all, but ...
... known as the Flame of the Forest. But the spiritual significance of it is far deeper than we can discern even from its poetic nomenclature. The Mother sees palāsha as the Beginning of the Supramental Realisation. That Yama should be linked up with it, enjoying the drink of immortality under its rich branches in the happy company of our forefathers and other gods, only indicates the centrality of his ...
... significance of the flower of this tree, not the botanical Butea Frondosa, not even the very poetic and appealing Flame of the Forest, but what the Mother sees as the Beginning of the Supramental Realisation. Satyavan asks Savitri to take the path turning towards the north at the group of palāśa trees, north, uttara, conveying again not only the northern Page 132 but also the ...
... of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s Work was the building up of a global unity, a world-union. According to them, the unification (in diversity) of humanity was an essential requisite for the supramental realisation. The following quotations will speak more eloquently than any comment can do. “Mankind upon earth is one foremost self-expression of the universal Being in His cosmic self-unfolding; ...
... critical time. What the Asuric Force that has succeeded in taking the appearance of Sri Aurobindo will create is a new religion or thought, perhaps cruel and merciless, in the name of the Supramental Realisation.” When the transcript of this talk was read to the Mother on one of the following days, she commented: “The fight is within the body. This can’t go on. They must be defeated or this body is ...
... what Sri Aurobindo says. But tell me, what has changed? I don’t doubt the possibility of a total change, but nothing has completely changed, has it? If you apply the word “change” to the supramental realisation, then certainly it has not taken place in a concrete way upon earth. But before that happens, a number of changes have to take place, many progressive changes, and these are the ones I am talking ...
... their results and issues had to be found. The concluding sentence leaves absolutely no doubt that when Sri Aurobindo wrote of all the major spiritual realisations and the special supramental realisation he was not acting the speculative philosopher; he was only putting into philosophical terms the body of a direct and concrete experience that was his already in 1914 when the Arya began ...
... material plane. It is only the Supermind that can overcome this difficulty. Supermind is not organised in the lower planes as the others are. It is only a veiled influence. Otherwise the supramental realisation would be easy. Supermind and Overmind Supermind is not merely a step higher than Overmind—it is beyond the line, that is, a different consciousness and power beyond the mental limit. ...
... we can see that even in the play of the forces and in spite of their distortions the Cosmic Will is working towards the eventual realisation of the Will of the Transcendent Divine. The supramental realisation is the Will of the Transcendent Divine which we have to work out. The circumstances under which we have to work it out are those of an inferior consciousness in which things can be distorted ...
... trees." Exalt this realisation to a profounder Self than physical Nature and we have the elements of the Yogic knowledge. But all this experience is only the vestibule to that suprasensuous, supramental realisation of the Transcendent who is beyond all His aspects, and the final summit of knowledge can only be attained by entering into the superconscient and there merging all other experience into a supernal ...
... mental illumination and the vital urge to possession and self-giving, but leading beyond to the supramental unity which transcends and fulfils them; in the founding of human life upon the supramental realisation of conscious unity with the One and with all in our being and in all its members humanity must seek its final good and salvation. And this is what we have described as the fourth status of ...
... prepares for the direct contact. If we are to do work only as a preparation and then become motionless meditative ascetics, then all my spiritual teaching is false and there is no use for supramental realisation or anything else that has not been done in the past. The including of the outer consciousness in the transformation is of supreme importance in this Yoga—meditation cannot do it. Meditation ...
... the true Light and Force, then things will become easy and straight—it is the only way to get to the realisation. 3) It is a mistake to think that this method will not lead you to the supramental realisation. It is the only way to advance towards the supramental change. 4) It is because you become doubtful and begin to follow after other ways and other (lower) experiences that you get again ...
... This does not mean that one should allow several different influences at the same time; for that only brings confusion. Those who take this Yoga must follow only the path which leads to the supramental realisation and accept no other influence than that of myself and the Mother, otherwise they will not go in a straight line to the goal but are likely to be confused or divided, to wander into circuits ...
... little importance; doubt is the very nature of the ignorant physical mind. But yours have very evidently risen because you have taken a turn away from the path to the Page 391 supramental realisation along which the Mother was helping you and admitted another occult influence. This is shown by the nature of your doubts where you question her knowledge of certain common experiences of Yoga ...
... harmony in a sufficiently transformed Nature for still greater things to come in without perturbation of the Nature. 29 March 1933 "There are among them Presences indispensable for the supramental realisation,—most of all one who is her Personality of that mysterious and powerful ecstasy and Ananda which flows from a supreme divine Love, the Ananda that alone can heal the gulf between the highest ...
... anybody wants it he can use it for the time being. The relation of Guru and disciple is only one of many relations which one can have with the Divine, and in this Yoga which aims at a supramental realisation, it is not usual to give it this Page 192 name; rather, the Divine is regarded as the Source, the living Sun of Light and Knowledge and Consciousness and spiritual realisation and ...
... but they were more difficult to bring down and have not stood out in front with so much prominence in the evolution of the earth-spirit. There are among them Presences indispensable for the supramental realisation,—most of all one who is her Personality of that Page 72 mysterious and powerful ecstasy and Ananda which flows from a supreme divine Love, the Ananda that alone can heal the gulf ...
... very difficult stage" "their goal is not high" "Is it such a long process?" I have said that this Yoga was "new" because it aims at a change in this world and not only beyond it and at a supramental realisation. But how does that justify a superior contempt for the spiritual realisation which is as much the aim of this Yoga as of any other? Page 302 What I fail to comprehend is how they ...
... are similar. Laws are for the mind's convenience, but the process of Page 161 the supramental manifestation is different, we may even say it is the reverse of the mind. In the supramental realisation, each thing will carry in itself a truth which will manifest at each instant without being bound by what has been or what will follow. That elaborate linking of the past with the present, which ...
... find that no two cases are similar. Laws are for the mind's convenience, but the process of the supramental manifestation is different, we may even say it is the reverse of the mind. In the supramental realisation, each thing will carry in itself a truth which will manifest at each instant without being bound by what has been or what will follow. That elaborate linking of the past with the present, which ...
... in its forms, its cults, in a certain set of ideas, and it becomes great only through the spirituality of a few exceptional individuals, whereas true spiritual life, and above all what the supramental realisation will be, is independent of every precise, intellectual form, every limited form of life. It embraces all possibilities and manifestations and makes them the expression, the vehicle of a higher ...
... but they were more difficult to bring down and have not stood out in front with so much prominence in the evolution of the earth-spirit. There are among them Presences indispensable for the supramental realisation,—most of all one who is her Personality of that mysterious and powerful ecstasy and Ananda which flows from a supreme divine Love, the Ananda that alone can heal the gulf between the highest ...
... so. I was seeing, I saw that in such a concrete way. Apart from those Page 72 who are fit to prepare the transformation and the supramental realisation, and whose number is necessarily very restricted, there must develop more and more, in the midst of the ordinary human mass, a superior humanity which has towards the supramental being of the ...
... if they feel like it—but they must know that this creed and this worship have nothing to do with the teaching of Sri Page 387 Aurobindo and no connection whatsoever with the Supramental Realisation. October 1964 ( The disciple wrote of a devotee who was willing to lend money to the Ashram at a high rate of interest. ) I am quite against borrowing money even at a reasonable ...
... certainly continue to worship them if they feel like it—but they must know that this creed and this worship has nothing to do with the teaching of Sri Aurobindo and no connection whatever with the Supramental Realisation. 1964 Even the gods have to make their surrender to the Supreme if the Divine creation is to be realised upon earth. What is the origin, significance and purpose of festivals ...
... opportunity to ask you to deliver about the Supermind as you had promised. I hope you remember it; if not, the question was: What is exactly the significance of 24th November? Overmental, supramental realisation or what? You say that it was something like the descent of Krishna in the material. Some say that the descent took place in you. But you are not matter, are you? Not very clear. Why not ...
... the Presence can only be a beginning, but by entering into the superconscious and by merging all other experience into a supernal unity with the Ineffable Yoga promises that suprasensuous, supramental realisation of the Transcendent who is beyond all its aspects and the final summit of yogic knowledge which is also the source of all Divine delight and Divine living. William James , in the ...
... them!—exactly the same thing. I was very much interested. In this correspondence, he told Nirod in a letter 1 (he said it several times): "I may take a fancy to leave my body before the supramental realisation ..." He said that a few years before he died. He had felt it. ( Silence ) But he spoke of a transformation that would come before the advent of the first supramental being. 2 And ...
... - exactly the same thing. I was very much interested. In this correspondence, he told Nirod in a letter 1 (he said it several times): "I may take a fancy to leave my body before the supramental realisation..." He said that a few years before he died. He had felt it. (Silence) Page 139 But he spoke of a transformation that would come before the advent of the first supramental ...
... aspiration is to reach what is beyond, what Sri Aurobindo calls the supramental Reality, then there comes in a difference, a difference in the goal as well as in the way. For the way to the supramental realisation is essentially the way of surrender. It is a question of temperament perhaps. And if one has the temperament, the disposition, the path of surrender is infinitely more easy: three-fourths of ...
... aspiration is to reach what is beyond, what Sri Aurobindo calls the supramental Reality, then there comes in a difference, a difference in. the goal as well as in the way. For the way to the supramental realisation is essentially the way of surrender. It is a question of temperament perhaps. And if One has the temperament, the disposition, the path of surrender is infinitely more easy: three-fourths of ...
... here these lower intuitions); there the ten hundred rays of light stand together; that is One." " rtena rtam apihitam dhruvam...das'a s'atdsaha tasthus tad ekam." 44 Integral and Supramental Realisation of the Infinite Sri Aurobindo points out that the impersonal is a truth; the personal too, is a truth; they are the same truth seen from Page 54 two sides of our psy ...
... in Her physical body. But after Her Mahasamadhi the situation has to be viewed from a different angle. It is my firm conviction that in the present Ashram set- up, only a man having Supramental Realisation can handle effectively all our Ashram problems, and help us to march towards our goal of Integral Transformation. Any other efforts, done in a human way, will only add to the confusion already ...
... tween the individual Divine and its universal source."¹ This is the truth of Dualism or Dvaitavâda. Now, all these three experiences are genuine and perfectly valid, and an integral supramental realisation would regard them as indispensable strains of its developing harmonies. It is only the human mind with its inveterate habit of exclusive emphasis, trenchant divisions, and rigid definitions ...
... difficult to bring down; and yet, however difficult, "her Personality of that mysterious and powerful ecstasy and Ananda which flows from a supreme divine Love," had to be brought down if the supramental realisation was ever to take place, for that power of Ananda alone could "heal the gulf between the highest heights of the supramental spirit and the lowest abysses of Matter". 25 One of those present ...
... distributed saris, handkerchiefs and frocks. It was a day of universal, if subdued, rejoicing and thanksgiving. Eight days later, 29 February, was the first leap-year anniversary of the supramental realisation. On that day the Mother made public the details of what had happened during the Playground meditation on Wednesday, 29 February 1956; how that evening the Divine was present among the congregation ...
... total and eternal love. In the integral yoga of Sri Aurobindo, the two combine with the yoga of works and the yoga of self-perfection to make a homogeneous whole, culminating in the yoga of supramental realisation. 5 February 1960 * * * Sweet Mother, I have not understood the passage Sri Aurobindo has quoted from the Upanishads: “As the spokes of a wheel in its nave, so in the Life-energy ...
... to renounce anything you are not on this path; for, so long as you are not thoroughly disgusted with things as they are, and have to make an effort to reject them, you are not ready for the supramental realisation. If the constructions of the Over mind — the world which it has built and the existing order which it supports — still satisfy you, you cannot hope to partake of that realisation. Only when ...
... has ineluctably decreed the place you occupy in the world concert, but whatever that place may be, you have the same equal right as everyone else to scale the supreme heights as far as the supramental realisation. 17 May 1957 What you are in the truth of your being is ineluctably decreed and nothing and no one can prevent you from being it; but the path you will take to attain it is left ...
... moment. One may become aware of a rapid change in this or that detail of the transformation, but even this is a rapid result of a long working. 3 September 1937 Ashram Sadhaks and the Supramental Realisation One day, while I was thinking that I would have to fulfil certain conditions before I could be saved from Ignorance, a strong feeling came to me from you that I need not fulfil any ...
... little use in these matters,—but of the consciousness feeling and seeing. Supermind is not organised in the lower planes as the others are. It is only a veiled influence. Otherwise the supramental realisation would be easy. 22 May 1934 As to the Force, you said, "It creates its own activities in the mind or elsewhere." In that case does the mind or any other part on which the Force acts express ...
... towards something for which he is not yet fit. 12 January 1931 Am I fit for Sri Aurobindo's Yoga? Will he take me up? If by my Yoga you mean the integral Yoga leading towards the supramental realisation, you have not at present the capacity for it. All you can do at present is some preparation for it by Bhakti and self-dedication through Karma; if into this preparation you Page 544 ...
... prepares for the direct contact. If we are to do work only as a preparation and then become motionless meditative ascetics, then all my spiritual teaching is false and there is no use for supramental realisation or anything else that has not been done in the past. My own impression is that work is an excellent means as a preparation, but the major experiences and realisations are not likely to ...
... mieux sauter . The supramental is therefore not responsible; on the contrary, it is the descent of the supramental that would end all the difficulty. 12 January 1932 Our object is the supramental realisation and we have to do whatever is necessary for that or towards that under the conditions of each stage. At present the necessity is to prepare the physical consciousness; for that a complete equality ...
... that it is not a need, but a desire. The principle of all sadhana is to fix the will not on desires—even if presented to the mind as needs—but on the realisation only. Our object is the supramental realisation and we have to do whatever is necessary for that or towards that under the conditions of each stage. At present the necessity is to prepare the physical consciousness; for that a complete equality ...
... or else the overmental plane. That is a thing (at any rate the mental-spiritual) which thousands have done. So it is obviously easier to do than the supramental. Also nobody can have the supramental realisation who has not had the spiritual. So far your opponent is right. They say that one must see what one is aspiring for. When our movements and consciousness are as externalised as they are, ...
... it he can use it for the time being. November 1929 The relation of Guru and disciple is only one of many relations which one can have with the Divine, and in this Yoga which aims at a supramental realisation, it is not usual to give it this name; rather, the Divine is regarded as the Source, the living Sun of Light and Knowledge and Consciousness and spiritual realisation and all that one receives ...
... any other object, and concentrating exclusively on the attachment for the Divine Reality. This concentration will culminate in the integral identification and serve as an instrument for the supramental realisation upon earth. This takes us quite naturally to the four liberations which will be the concrete forms of the realisation. The emotional liberation will be at the same time a liberation ...
... to renounce anything you are not on this path; for, so long as you are not thoroughly disgusted with things as they are, and have to make an effort to reject them, you are not ready for the supramental realisation. If the constructions of the Overmind—the world which it has built and the existing order which it supports—still satisfy you, you cannot hope to partake of that realisation. Only when you ...
... to renounce anything you are not on this path; for, so long as you are not thoroughly disgusted with things as they are, and have to make an effort to reject them, you are not ready for the supramental realisation. If the construction of the Overmind— the world which it has built and the existing order which it supports—still satisfy you, you cannot hope to partake of that realisation. Only when you ...
... This new orientation—I mean new in its terrestrial realisation—must replace all the former spiritual orientations and Page 8 open the way to the new realisation which will be a supramental realisation. That is why I told you last week that only Delight, the true divine Delight can bring about the Victory. Naturally, there must be no confusion about what this Delight is, and that is why ...
... race. So we could call supermen those who, in their origin, still belong to the old method of generation but in their achievement are in conscious and active contact with the new world of supramental realisation. It seems—it is even certain—that the very substance which will constitute this intermediate world that is already being built up, is richer, more powerful, more luminous, more resistant ...
... haven't, but if everyone has it equally it will no longer be occultism!... Is that what you meant? Page 188 Yes. Ah!... Well, I am convinced that even in the most perfect supramental realisation there will always be a differentiation between the capacities and functions of each one; but instead of being or not being in one's right place, of doing or not doing what one ought to do ...
... the Cosmic Will is work- Page 48 ing towards the eventual realisation of the Will of the Transcendent Divine. The Supramental Realisation is the Will of the Transcendent Divine which we have to work out. The circumstances under which we have to work it out are those of an inferior consciousness in which things can be distorted ...
... disappeared. It must first of all be realised in some. Quite so. I was seeing, I saw that in such a concrete way. Apart from those who are fit to prepare the transformation and the supramental realisation, and whose number is necessarily very restricted, there must develop more and more, in the midst of the ordinary human mass, a superior humanity which has towards the supramental being of the ...
... has ineluctably decreed the place you occupy in the world concert, but whatever that place may be, you have the same equal right as everyone else to scale the supreme heights as far as the supramental realisation. 17 May 1957 4) What you are in the truth of your being is ineluctably decreed and nothing and no one can prevent you from being it; but the path you will take to attain it is left ...
... may be neutral or it may imply interchange of forces. When the interchange is that of spiritual or spiritualised forces, then it has its meaning and it is that that will justify it in the supramental realisation. But till then, it is better to be circumspect. Page 541 Celibacy Celibacy means first "not marrying"—it can be extended to not having sexual (physical) relations with any woman ...
... between the intellect and the Overmind. These can be very stimulating and satisfying up to a certain point and are good for those who want some spiritual realisation on these planes; but the supramental realisation is something much more difficult and exacting in its conditions and the most difficult of all is to bring it down on to the physical level. Getting Rid of Desire The satisfaction of the ...
... Purified Understanding The description of the status of knowledge to which we aspire, determines the means of knowledge which we shall use. That status of knowledge may be summed up as a supramental realisation which is prepared by mental representations through various mental principles in us and once attained again reflects itself more perfectly in all the members of the being. It is a re-seeing ...
... stage', 'their goal is not high', 'Is it such a long process?' I have said that this Yoga is 'new' because it aims at the integrality of the Divine in this world and not only beyond it and at a supramental realisation. But how does that justify a superior contempt for the spiritual realisation which is as much the aim of this Yoga as of any other?" 8 At the same time, however, an earlier letter (18 ...
... merged in the Divine in the cosmic consciousness. Third is the supramental transformation in which all becomes supramentalised in the divine gnostic consciousness. ‘Nobody can have the supramental realisation who has not had the spiritual. ‘The psychic is the first of two transformations necessary — if you have the psychic transformation it facilitates immensely the other, i.e., the transformation ...
... critical time. What the Asuric force that has succeeded in taking the appearance of Sri Aurobindo will create, is a new religion or thought, perhaps cruel and merciless, in the name of the Supramental Realisation. But everybody must know that it is not true, that it is not Sri Aurobindo’s teaching, not the truth of his teaching. The truth of Sri Aurobindo is a truth of love and light and mercy. He is ...
... letters to a disciple in answer to his queries which have been collected and published in what is known as Sri Aurobindo's, "The Mother". It contains all the practical guidance needed for supramental realisation on the part of the spiritual seekers. His Yoga is called the yoga of Transformation or the Integral yoga and the way to it is perfect and unreserved surrender to the Divine Mother who Page ...
... critical time. What the Asuric Force that has succeeded in taking the appearance of Sri Aurobindo will create is a new religion or thought, perhaps cruel and merciless, in the name of the Supramental Realisation. But everybody must know that it is not true, it is not Sri Aurobindo's teaching, not the truth of his teaching. The truth of Sri Aurobindo is a truth of love and light and mercy. He is good ...
... Transformation and the Supramental Words of the Mother - III The Supramental Realisation: the establishment of the supramental Truth upon earth. In the supramental Truth all falsehoods will be dissolved. The supramental is not only Truth itself, but also the very negation of falsehood. The supramental will never come down, settle and manifest ...
... total and eternal love. In the integral yoga of Sri Aurobindo, the two combine with the yoga of works and the yoga of self-perfection to make a homogeneous whole, culminating in the yoga of supramental realisation. 5 February 1960 Sweet Mother, What are the "supreme faculties"? It is difficult to reply without having the context. Which "supreme faculties" are being referred to here ...
... critical time. What the Asuric Force that has succeeded in taking the appearance of Sri Aurobindo will create, is a new religion or thought, perhaps cruel and merciless, in the name of the Supramental Realisation. But everybody must know that it is not true, it is not Sri Aurobindo's teaching, not the truth of his teaching. The truth of Sri Aurobindo is a truth of love and light and mercy. He is good ...
... statement is correct. It is 'natural considering the times' and the occidental mentality prevalent everywhere. It is also probably necessary that this should be faced and overcome before any supramental realisation is possible in the earth-consciousness—for it is the attitude of the physical mind to spiritual things and as it is in the physical that the resistance has to be overcome before the mind can ...
... significance of the flower of this tree, not the botanical Butea Frondosa , not even the very poetic and appealing Flame of the Forest , but what the Mother sees as the Beginning of the Supramental Realisation . Satyavan asks Savitri to take the path turning towards the north at the group of palāśa trees, north, uttara , conveying again not only the northern but also the upward direction, superior ...
... supramental work, may from a point of view be regarded and studied as an epitome of the unimaginable labour of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. This they undertook for hewing out the path of supramental realisation, for divinising man and heavenising the earth. In particular it epitomises the holocaust of the Mother in her gigantic work of breaking the rocks of the inconscient world, for laying the ...
... acquires its significance in the marvellous intent of this world's creation. The common name of the supalāsha tree is the Flame of the Forest which the Mother sees as the Beginning of the Supramental Realisation . It is this true Yama enjoying the ambrosial drink underneath it who gives the boon to Savitri, indicating the beginning of the supramental realization in the terrestrial process. But the ...
... or else the overmental plane. That is a thing (at any rate the mental-spiritual) which thousands have done. So it is obviously easier to do than the supramental. Also nobody can have the supramental realisation who has not had the spiritual.... ...There are different statuses (avasthā) of the Divine Consciousness. There are also different statuses of transformation. First is the psychic ...
... a strong insincerity somewhere, a hankering after something else—power, ambition, etc.— Page 87 which counterbalances the inner call that the logic is no longer applicable. Supramental realisation is another matter: I am speaking now of the realisation of the Divine, of the contact with the Divine, through whatever lever, heart or mind or both. In your case it is likely to come through ...
... highest degree of earnestness. These are: seekers who are wedded to scientific knowledge and scientific method and the seekers who are wedded to the methodical quest of psychic, spiritual and supramental realisation. There are today an increasing number of scientists who have begun to open themselves, without abandoning their scientific rigour of quest, to the insights and illuminations that come to them ...
... Savitri, Book X, Canto IV, p. 660. 2 The Life Divine, p. 278. 3 Sri Aurobindo, On Yoga II, p. 261. 4 Ibid., pp. 261, 264. Page 133 supramental realisation if, instead of departing into the Transcendence, it would simultaneously live in the transcendence of the supreme Sachchidananda and possess its world-view too. But even these supreme ...
... (3) Love for the Divine means an exclusive attachment to the divine Reality. This concentration finds its culmination in an integral identification and is instrumental to the supramental realisation upon earth. Love alone is capable of putting an end to the suffering of the world. Only the ineffable delight of Love in its essence can wipe out of the universe the burning pain ...
... hearing Mother say to me one day: "Pranab, this time there will be no tragedy. We will certainly complete our work. Pavitra, Nolini and all these old sadhaks are waiting to witness the supramental realisation. I can't dishearten them." Then on 5th December 1950, for some reason, Sri Aurobindo left his body. I was quite upset, but by then I had made my determination firm. Now that I was on ...
... some spiritual realisation first, and hence it will take a long. time. SRI AUROBINDO: Not necessarily. Obviously if one has to wait for spiritual realisation, especially the highest or supramental realisation, it will take time. Spiritual experience is enough for the purpose and that is not difficult to have. I told Motilal, "Spirituality must be the basis; otherwise your success will be your failure ...
... things. (3) Love for the Divine means an exclusive attachment to the divine Reality. This concentration finds its culmination in an integral identification and is instrumental to the supramental realisation upon earth. Love alone is capable of putting an end to the suffering of the world. Only the ineffable delight of Love in its essence can wipe out of the universe the burning pain ...
... critical time' - for with the help of those who 'have taken only the side of power and force' that Asura will create 'a new religion or thought, perhaps cruel and merciless, in the name of the Supramental Realisation'. - Apr 12 'Suddenly in the night... the Supreme Love was manifesting through big pulsations, and each pulsation was... carrying the universe further in its manifestation. And there was ...
... and 'Time - Fearlessness on the Vital Plane"; "Knowledge by Unity with the Divine - The Divine Will in the World"; "True Humility - Supramental Plasticity - Spiritual Rebirth"; and "The Supramental Realisation". "Chance", says the Mother, "can only be the opposite of order and harmony"; and when the Supramental Truth-Consciousness alone comes to prevail, chance will have no place at all. In our ...
... to the Mother is realised and practised in every tiny detail of one's life. Secondly, the Gita has left the goal as a supreme mystery, and not dwelt upon it. It doesn't speak of the supramental realisation which is the apex of our present endeavour. It doesn't envisage any integral tranformation, including the transformation of the physical. It holds up the ideal of living in the Divine, but ...
... the old Yogas—its newness is in its aim, standpoint and the totality of its method." His Yoga, he said, "aims at the integrality of the Divine in this world and not only beyond it and at a supramental realisation." Elsewhere, he elucidated the point saying that his Yoga was a Yoga of transformation of the being, not "a Yoga of the attainment of the inner Self or the Divine, though that attainment is ...
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