... respectively Saramā, Saraswatī, Daksinā and Ilā by the Vedic Rishis. "The range of knowledge covered by the supramental thought, experience and vision will be commensurate with all that is open to the human consciousness, not only on the earth but on all planes."¹ The supramental thought will embrace from a dominating altitude of consciousness the entire stream of Time, past, present and future ...
... Synthesis of Yoga 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... it possesses and there will be the same action of the supramental knowledge by identity, the supramental vision, the supramental thought and supramental word, separately or in a united movement. Page 839 This then will be the general character of the supramental thought and knowledge and these its main powers and action. It remains to consider its particular instrumentation, the change... the consciousness are to the supermind a lesser form and, if not filled with the spiritual awareness, thought becomes in fact a diminution of knowledge. For it would be, supposing it to be a supramental thought, only a partial manifestation of a greater knowledge existing in the self but not at the time present to the immediately active consciousness. In the highest ranges of the infinite there need ...
... knower, the knowledge and the known, j ñā t ā , j ñā nam, j ñ eyam, thought - and by that we mean of course the supramental thought - plays indeed an important role. For, the 81. The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 462. 82. Ibid., p. 950. Page 174 supramental thought, as Sri Aurobindo has indicated, has three elevations of its intensity: (i) one of direct thought vision; (ii)... consciousness are to the supermind a lesser form and, if not filled with the spiritual awareness, thought becomes in fact a diminution of knowledge. For it would be, supposing it to be a supramental thought, only a partial manifestation of a greater knowledge existing in the self but not at the time present to the immediately active consciousness. In the highest ranges of the infinite there need... preparatory of the revelatory idea-sight; (iii) a third or representative vision. To have a clear grasp of the nature of these levels, let us refer to the words of Sri Aurobindo: "The supramental thought is a form of the knowledge by identity and a development, in the idea, of the truth presented to the supramental vision. The identity and the vision give the truth in its essence, its body ...
... movement of the supramental thought and consciousness brings with it an action which corresponds to that of the habitual or mechanical mentality but is yet of a very different character. The thing that is created is the self-determination of a harmony and all harmony proceeds upon seen or given lines and carries with it a constant pulsation and rhythmic recurrence. The supramental thought, organising the... being. The mental activity that can be most readily organised is, as has been already indicated, that of pure ideative knowledge. This is transformed on the higher level to the true jñāna , supramental thought, supramental vision, the supramental knowledge by identity. The essential action of this supramental knowledge has Page 841 been described in the preceding chapter. It is necessary... it contacts and assimilates it to its own principle. The spiritual assimilation is practicable because all is referred to the largeness of the self and its free vision above. The order of the supramental thought and will is constantly receiving new light and power from above and has no difficulty in accepting it into its movement; it is, as is proper to an order of the Infinite, even in its stability ...
... 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 not the action of certain physical organs, but the contact of consciousness with its objects, saṁjñāna... action of sense is a spiritual action and pure sense is itself a power of the spirit. The spiritual sense is capable of knowing in its own characteristic way, which is other than that of supramental thought or of the intelligence or spiritual comprehension, vijñāna , or knowledge by identity, all things whatsoever, things material and what is to us immaterial, all forms and that which is formless... is luminous with a revealing light that carries in it the secret of the thing it experiences and can therefore be a starting-point and basis of all the rest of the supramental knowledge,—the supramental thought, spiritual intelligence and comprehension, conscious identity,—and on its highest plane or at its fullest intensity of action it opens into or contains and at once liberates these things. It ...
... through the robe, not at it, and you may see some hint of her form. There can be a thought-body of Truth, but that is the spontaneous supramental Thought and Word that leap fully formed out of the Light, not any difficult mental counterfeit and patchwork. The supramental Thought is not a means of arriving at Truth, for Truth in the supermind is self-found or self-existent, but a way of expressing her. It ...
... I've well understood. Because this Power is becoming more and more obvious—this Truth-Power—and naturally human thought, which is childish (it has the same attitude towards Page 310 supramental thought as what we may call animal thought or sentiment has towards human thought or sentiment), has almost a need for superstition ("superstition" is an ugly word for something that's not ugly: it's ...
... future; then at each second, the exact required knowledge falls like a droplet of light in the silence of the consciousness: "This has to be done, that has to be said, or seen, or understood." Supramental Thought is an arrow from the Light, not a bridge to reach it. 283 "In the level of wideness they meet together and know perfectly," says the Rig Veda (VII.76.5). And every time a thought or a vision ...
... intuition. Above it, it begins to become golden with the Supramental Light. Thought is not the giver of knowledge but the mediator between the Inconscient and the Superconscient. It compels the world born from the Inconscient to reach for a Knowledge other than the instinctive vital or merely empirical, for the Knowledge that itself exceeds thought; it calls for that superconscient Knowledge and prepares... receive it. It rises itself into the higher realms and even in disappearing into the Supramental and Ananda levels is transformed into something that will bring down their powers into the silent self which its cessation leaves behind it. Gold-red is the colour of the Supramental in the physical — the poem describes Thought in the stage when it is undergoing transformation and is about to ascend into the... Collected Poems: The Other Earths ============= Sri Aurobindo has stated: "As thought rises in the scale, it ceases to be intellectual, becomes illumined, then intuitive, then overmental and finally disappears seeking the last Beyond. The poem does not express any philosophical thought, however; it is simply a perception of a certain movement, that is all. Pale blue is the colour ...
... transcendence of overmind and ascent into divine gnosis will be left as the last step to the perfect siddhi. [......] supramental movement 3 [......] disregards all apparent disproof [and] adverse circumst[ances.] The automatic perfection of supramental overmind thought is the next siddhi indicated. It will begin with a progressive elimination of all that remains of supramentalised mind in... supermind, and as yet it is only the supramentalised overmind that has become at all normal in the material consciousness; the others are normal only for a time and then there is a relapse to the supramentality and to the supramentalised mind or overmind. This is the trouble. It will soon be overcome. [4] [.....] 1 has become more normal and facile, the first can now disappear. The second ...
... intuition. Above it, it begins to become golden with the supramental Light." "Thought is not the giver of Knowledge but the 'mediator' between the Inconscient and the Superconscient. It compels the world born from the Inconscient to reach for a Knowledge other than the instinctive vital or merely empirical, for the Knowledge that itself exceeds thought; it calls for that superconscient Knowledge and... itself into the higher realms and even in disappearing into the supramental and Ananda levels is transformed Page 364 into something that will bring down their powers into the silent self which its cessation leaves behind it. "Gold-red is the colour of the Supramental in the physical— the poem describes Thought in the stage when it is undergoing transformation and is about to... Eternal who is the All-Beautiful, All-Beloved?" * On Thought the Paraclete Sri Aurobindo has written: "As thought rises in the scale, it ceases to be intellectual, becomes illumined, then intuitive, then overmental and finally disappears seeking the last Beyond. The poem does not express any philosophical thought, however; it is simply a perception of a certain movement, that is ...
... standards and forms of mental cognition are no longer sufficient: it is difficult for mental thought to understand or describe supramental nature. Mental nature and mental thought are based on a consciousness of the finite; supramental nature is in its very grain a consciousness and power of the Infinite. Supramental Nature sees everything from the standpoint of oneness and regards all things, even the... would be the principle of the supramental life. In the other grades of the gnostic being, although a truth of spiritual being and consciousness would fulfil itself, the instrumentation would be of a different order. A Higher-Mental being would act through the truth of thought, the truth of the idea and accomplish that in the life-action: but in the supramental gnosis thought is a derivative movement, it... Veda. (IX. 110. 4; 108. 8.) As we reach in our thought the line at which the evolution of mind into overmind passes over into an evolution of overmind into supermind, we are faced with a difficulty which amounts almost to an impossibility. For we are moved to seek for some precise idea, some clear mental description of the supramental or gnostic existence of which evolutionary Nature in the ...
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