... Chapter XXIV The Supramental Sense All the instruments, all the activities of the mind have their corresponding powers in the action of the supramental energy and are there exalted and transfigured, but have there a reverse order of priority and necessary importance. As there is a supramental thought and essential consciousness, so too there is a supramental sense. Sense is fundamentally... contacting of them in the stuff of the supramental being and energy, not in the divisions of matter and through the physical instruments, that creates the supramental sense, saṁjñāna . It is a little difficult to make the nature of the supramental sense understood to a mentality not yet familiar with it by enlarged experience, because our idea of sense action is governed by the limiting experience of... Divine. This supramental sense has the direct feeling and experience, not only of forms, but of forces and of the energy and the quality in things and of a divine substance and presence which is within them and round them and into which they open and expand themselves in their secret subtle self and elements, extending themselves in oneness into the illimitable. Nothing to the supramental sense is really ...
... all the felt, seen, directly experienced substance and power and energy and movement, play, penetration, vibration, form, nearness, pressure, substantial interchange of the Infinite." ² The supramental sense sees no object as an isolated unit, cut off from others; it sees the All, the One, in all objects—it embraces the Infinite in each finite thing. It can know all things by a direct sensation... vision a revelation of the soul of the thing seen and of the universal spirit that is expressing itself in this objective form of its conscious being."¹ It is, in short, an infusion of the supramental sense, the ¹ The Synthesis of Yoga by Sri Aurobindo. Page 456 sanjñāna , into the physical sense, resulting in the latter's total transformation and perfection. The ...
... is; the separatist optical illusion we usually live in dissipates; the stick is no longer broken, and everything is related to everything else. The world is not as we see it: Nothing to the supramental sense is really finite: it is founded on a feeling of all in each and of each in all: its sense definition... creates no walls of limitation; it is an oceanic and ethereal sense in which all particular ...
... Lord, the Brahman; they must be drawn to leave the workings of ordinary mind and find the superconscient Mind, to leave the workings of ordinary speech and sense and find the Page 93 supramental Sense and original Word, to leave the apparent workings of mundane Life and find the transcendent Life. Besides the gods, there is our self, the spirit within who supports all this action of the ...
... supremely divine transfiguration. Now what will be the results of this supramentalisation of sight? Sri Aurobindo has dealt with this question quite in detail in the chapter . entitled The Supramental Sense in his book The Synthesis of Yoga. What follows below is an abridged adapatation of his observations. The lifting of the level of consciousness from the mind to the supermind and the ...
... supremely divine transfiguration. Now what will be the results of this supramentalisation of sight? Sri Aurobindo has dealt with this question quite in detail in the chapter entitled "The Supramental Sense" in his book The Synthesis of Yoga. What follows below is an abridged adaptation of his observations: "The lifting of the level of consciousness from the mind to the supermind and ...
... Chapter XXII The Supramental Thought and Knowledge The transition from mind to supermind is not only the substitution of a greater instrument of thought and knowledge, but a change and conversion of the whole consciousness. There is evolved not only a supramental thought, but a supramental will, sense, feeling, a supramental substitute for all the activities that are... mind a sense of sure definiteness, security and completeness in its knowledge and its use of knowledge. Nothing of this is at all true of the supramental knowledge. The supermind knows most completely and securely not by thought but by identity, by a pure awareness of the self-truth Page 831 of things in the self and by the self, ātmani ātmānam ātmanā . I get the supramental knowledge... mind's power of image if it wishes to make itself more concretely felt and seen by the soul sense and soul vision. The supramental thought on the contrary presents always the idea as a luminous substance of being, luminous stuff of consciousness taking significative thought form and it therefore creates no such sense of a gulf between the idea and the real as we are liable to feel in the mind, but is itself ...
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