... action. The first well-organised action of the supermind in the ascending order is the supramental reason, not a higher logical intellect, but a directly luminous organisation of intimately subjective and intimately objective knowledge, the higher buddhi , the logical or rather the logos Vijnana. The supramental reason does all the work of the reasoning intelligence and does much more, but with a greater... limiting mental reason must make itself plastic and flexible, open itself to its source, receive the light from above, exceed itself and pass by an euthanasia of transformation into the body of the supramental reason. Meanwhile it is given power and leading for an organisation of thought and action on the characteristically human scale intermediate between the subconscient power of the spirit organising the... object's content, action, significance. Therefore observation, memory, judgment too mean each a different thing in the supermind from what it is in the process of the mental intelligence. The supramental reason observes all that the intelligence observes—and much more; it makes, that is to say, the thing to be known the field of a perceptual action, in a certain way objective, that causes to emerge ...
... supramentality and the mental transmitting instruments, the mind channel, the heart, the sense, the nervous and the physical being. The supramental reason can do the first and a fairly ample, though not the entire work of this transformation. The supramental reason is of the nature of a spiritual, direct, self-luminous, self-acting will and intelligence, not mental, mānasa buddhi , but supramental... dominate if not yet wholly to occupy the various mental activities, that a farther step becomes possible, the lifting of the centre and level of action above the mind and the predominance of the supramental reason. The first character of this change is a complete reversal, a turning over, one might almost say, upside down of the whole activity. At present we live in the mind and mostly in the physical... formative of them now except by a subtle influence, because it provides them or at least surrounds them with a mental stuff or a mental setting and framework and atmosphere. When however the supramental reason develops, Page 818 the Purusha rises above the mental elevation and now looks down on the whole action of mind, life, sense, body from quite another light and atmosphere, sees and ...
... representation of the supermind and that is the divine power of which the mental action is a sort of fallen representative. This representative supermind has a lower action in what I have called the supramental reason, nearest to the mental and into which the mental can most easily be taken up, and a higher action in the integral supermind that sees all things in the unity and infinity of the divine consciousness... the spontaneous expression of the spirit. As soon as we arise above mind to the supermind, this initial harmony will be replaced by a greater and a more integral unity. The thoughts of the supramental reason meet together and understand each other and fall into a natural arrangement even when they have started from quite opposite quarters. The movements of will that are in conflict in the mind, come ...
... belongs less to the second than the fourth [chatusthaya]. 1 22 April 1927 First experience of entire gnostic intuition and supramental reason with supramental observation and a supramental recipient in the physical nature. Intuition and supramental reason (all the grades except supreme supermind) are being steadily founded in a first integral movement. Supreme supermind has also commenced ...
... pour into them the overmind movements. The process is very intricate, has many stages, is not of a simple, single, definite character. 13 April 1932 Is Overmind the same as what you call "supramental reason" in the Arya? No,—although there is a supramentalised overmind which is not very different from it, but overmind has always something relative in its knowledge. 18 March 1933 In the ...
... of all reason; there is a logic in it, because there are relations and connections infallibly seen and executed. But this logic is not of the mind or of the intellect, it is a spiritual and supramental reason that is operative here in this cosmos. In fact, what is magic to our finite reason is nothing but the logic of the Infinite. 13 Now, there have been in the field of thought three main ...
... regarded as if it were a magic void of all reason; there is, on the contrary, a greater reason in all the operations of the Infinite, but it is not a mental or intellectual, it is a spiritual and supramental reason: there is a logic in it, because there are relations and connections infallibly seen and executed; what is magic to our finite reason is the logic of the Infinite. It is a greater reason, a greater ...
... supermind itself when it descends into the mental level and works in the lesser substance of mentality, though in its own manner and body of power and light, and it persists even in the action of the supramental reason. It is only the higher supramental Shakti Page 888 acting on its own ranges whose will and knowledge work always in a boundless light or with a free capacity of illimitable extension ...
... "overnight". It was a logical inference from your desire to become a great sadhak overnight. In this remarkable correspondence I am not using intuition—I am proceeding strictly by mental (not supramental) reason and logic. A "great sadhak" in the supramental Yoga means a supramental—or ought to according to all rules of logic. Being an ass myself I quite realise that to cross the "asses' bridge" ...
... regarded as if it were a magic void of all reason; there is, on the contrary, a greater reason in all the operations of the Infinite, but it is not a mental or intellectual, it is a spiritual and supramental reason: there is a logic in it, because there are relations and connections infallibly seen and executed; what is magic to our finite reason is the logic of the infinite." 33 Now we pass ...
... "overnight". It was a logical inference from your desire to become a great sadhak overnight. In this remarkable correspondence I am not using the intuition — I am proceeding strictly by mental (not supramental) reason and logic. A "great sadhak" in the supramental Yoga means a supramental - or ought to according to all rules of logic. NB: But, really, Sir, I never expected you to take my "overnight" as ...
... 345- 47; see also Purusha; Prakriti Rajas, 108, 110-15 passim changed into tapas, 118 Ramakrishna, 229 Realisation, meaning of, 171 spiritual and supramental, 171 Reason, and spiritual truths, see Intellect, and spiritual truths Rejection, and suppression, 65-66 Rig Veda, 29, 31 Sachchidananda, 140, 161-66, 260, 325,... 179-80, 181-84, 191 See also Mind and spiritual truths under mind Intuition, 87, 353 Intuition (Plane of Intuition), 142, 149-53 fourfold power of, 152 and reason, 150 Ishwara, 98 See also Divine, the; God jāgrat, 206 See also Waking-State James, William, 361, 370 Jivatma(n), 84, 85, 86, 135, 379, 380, 386 in ...
... is not to the supramental consciousness a mystery or an inexplicable phenomenon but a fact of direct knowledge and execution. The phenomenon is not mysterious, it is the Reality itself which is to our limited mind a Mystery. It is this mystery which Reason has to accept, not the unaccountability of the phenomenon of the Infinite creating teeming finites ad infinitum. To the supramental consciousness... uniting them with their corresponding higher terms. Thus the spiritual knowledge can be heightened into the supramental; the reason can be converted into a form of the self-luminous intuitional knowledge; and our physical senses too can be so converted as to the physical means of supramental knowledge. Page 179 ... For if the reason operating on sense-perception and sense-data disturbs the simple certainty of the percept, it also arrives by liberating itself from the occupation with sense-data at the metaphysical knowledge which gives us the certainty of the concepts of pure reason. These concepts are found to be the very stuff of the pure reason and therefore are undeniable for it; pure reason exists by them ...
... object of the supramental transformation. Reason, science and commercialisation have now focussed humanity on Matter to a degree unknown at any time in the history of humanity. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were of course aware of the blatant spiritual shortcomings of a materialistic humanity, but they also appreciated its merits – no doubt because Matter is the level where the supramental transformation... of the supramental being with those put at our disposal by the advanced technology of our day. But the portent of the latter becomes very clear if we compare the physical capacities and the horizon of awareness of “ancient man” with those of the supramental being: then the fact that we, at present, live in a kind of intermediate world between what man has been for millennia and the supramental being... bound to its age, subject to illness and death, and not unjustly felt by some as a prison. The supramental body will be a body of light, with lightness as one of its characteristics, being able to go where it wishes in an instant and to be at two or more places simultaneously. It will have a supramental, i.e. divine consciousness, even more powerful than the cosmic consciousness; it will contain everything ...
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