... The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 9 The Supramental Vision In the supramental vision there is a direct, full and immediate knowledge of things, in the sense that you see all things at the same time totally, integrally; you see the truth of a thing in all its aspects simultaneously. But as soon as you want to explain or describe it, you are obliged... the entire or total knowledge of a thing, but you cannot express it whole and entire at one stroke. There are no words, no possible modes of expression Page 70 for the supramental vision, so long as we are what we are. We have to use an inferior procedure to express ourselves, and yet we possess at the same time the full knowledge. It is because of the necessity of transferring... supramental substance, a supramental inner organisation, to express the supramental knowledge in a supramental way. Till now we could, in some part of our consciousness, come out wholly into the supramental vision and knowledge, but could not express it from there. We had to come, as I say, one plane lower down to be able to express ourselves. That is how this veil is transparent to the consciousness ...
... functionings of consciousness; thus the entire world of manifestation is seen as a ladder from the highest to the lowest and spread out in the one self-existent Brahman. The integrality of the supramental vision of the ultimate reality is reiterated in all the principal Upanishads. Shwetaswatara Upanishad describes the ultimate reality as "The One, without form and hue; and He, by Yoga of His own might... 7) There are several other similar statements in Upanishads and Bhagavad-Gita in which the individual's liberation from bondage has been described, and there is this agreement that in the supramental vision of Reality, persistence of individuality and the eternity of individual stand affirmed. However, in all the statements of supramental experiences, a distinction is made between the individual... SABCL, Pondicherry, 1971, Vol.12, pp. 231-2. 57 It would be useful to state that there have been in the history of thought and spiritual experience, several major descriptions of the supramental vision of the ultimate reality, and in regard to these descriptions, the same perplexity, bewilderment and some kind of unintelligibility can be found. From among many statements regarding the ultimate ...
... object to the physical eye, that we possess in knowledge; for we have seen. The supramental knowledge or experience by identity carries in it as a result or as a secondary part of itself a supramental vision that needs the support of no image, can concretise what is to the mind abstract and has the character of sight though its object may be the invisible truth of that which has form or the truth... identity, as from the identity to the vision. Thus when the spiritual vision has seen God, Self or Brahman, the soul can next enter into and become one with the Self, God or Brahman. The supramental vision brings with it' a supplementary and completing experience that might be called a spiritual hearing and touch of the truth,—of its essence and through that of its significance,—that is to say ...
... object, between the seer and the seen is the basic attribute of the supramental gnosis but this supramental knowledge or experience by identity carries in it as a secondary part of itself a supramental vision. This vision can come even before there is any identity, as a sort of emanation of light from this secret underlying unity. This vision may at times be detached from the identity as a separate... the thing in itself first, penetrates to its original and eternal essence and nature, and places its processes and properties only as a self-expression of this fundamental nature. Thus the supramental vision would see not merely the thing but all its truths, forces and powers and all the eternities within it. The supramental gnosis has the direct contact, the immediate vision and the undiluted ...
... Supermind in Integral Yoga Part Two Supramental Vision of the Supreme Reality: Indeterminability of the Absolute Let us first begin with the supramental vision of the ultimate reality. In the supramental realization, the ultimate reality is found to be indeterminable; this indeterminability has two senses; in the first sense, the reality ...
... consciousness bring with them many forms and means of a direct knowledge. The supramental knowledge or experience by identity carries in it as a result or as a secondary part of itself a supramental vision that needs the support of no image, can concretise what is to the mind abstract and has the character of sight though its Page 832 object may be the invisible truth of that which... becomes intuitivised and supramentalised, these powers are purified and corrected by the more luminous action of the supermind and become themselves forms of a supramental and a true seeing. The supramental vision, it may be noted, brings with it a supplementary and completing experience that might be called a spiritual hearing and touch of the truth,—of its essence and through that of its significance... one with that which has thus grown near to us through knowledge. 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 and its parts in a single view: the thought translates this direct consciousness and immediate power of the truth into id ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4 The Supramental Vision IN the supramental vision there is a direct, full and immediate knowledge of things, in the sense that you see all things at the same time totally, integrally; you see the truth of a thing in all its aspects simultaneously. But as soon as you want to explain or describe it, you... all at the same time, you have the entire or total knowledge of a thing, but you cannot express it whole and entire at one stroke. There are no words, no possible modes of expression for the supramental vision, so long as we are what we are. We have to use an inferior procedure to express ourselves, and yet we possess at the same time the full knowledge. It is because of the necessity of transferring... supramental substance, a supramental inner organisation, to express the supramental knowledge in a supramental way. Till now we could, in some part of our consciousness, come out wholly into the supramental vision and knowledge, but could not express it from there. We had to come, as I say, one plane lower down to be able to express ourselves. That is how this veil is transparent to the consciousness ...
... present experience of the world in the Supramental Vision—the perception of the universe as a dream. Only, in Nirvana the dream is an unsubstantial pageant emerging from nowhere, existing in a void and dissolving into Nothing, leaving not a rack behind. The seer and the seen in Nirvana are negated and dissolved in the original Void. But in the Supramental Vision, the soul is recovered and made one with... soul. Page 92 All phenomenon are the self-deployings of the one Noumenon. All was one single immense reality, All its innumerable phenomenon. 9 The Supramental Vision "not only recognises eternal Spirit as the inhabitant of this bodily mansion, the wearer of this mutable robe, but accepts Matter of which it is made, as a fit and noble material out of which ...
... Aurobindo and Mother tried to describe their experience, their remarks would echo one another in English and in French: Another language would be needed, une autre langue. The Supramental Vision The supramental vision is a global vision. The mind dissects little fragments and opposes them to one another. The overmind connects everything with a single beam, but its beam terminates in a single point... , like Savitri. It would then scarcely be appropriate to imprison her in a curriculum vitae. Let us say simply that she was born in Paris on February 21, 1878, and that she, too, had the supramental vision. It is not surprising, then, that with such consciousness she knew of Sri Aurobindo's existence long before meeting him physically and coming to join him in Pondicherry. Between the ages of ...
... even when it seems to cover..." Page 193 And so? What is it you don't understand? This garb that is transparent and... This is an image. It is somewhat like this. In the supramental vision one has a direct and total and immediate knowledge of things, in the sense that one sees everything at the same time, complete in itself, total. The truth of a thing in all its aspects at the... l inner organisation, in order to be able to express the supramental knowledge in a supramental way. So far we are... half way; we can, somewhere in our consciousness, rise entirely into the supramental vision and knowledge, but we cannot express it. We have to come down again one plane in order to express ourselves. So, this veil which is transparent even when it seems to cover, is transparent ...
... 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 however to see also... process of the thought in the supermind must also be of that character. All its fundamental ideation is a rendering of the spiritual knowledge that acts by identity with all being and of the supramental vision. It moves therefore primarily among the eternal, the essential and the universal truths of self and being and consciousness and infinite power and delight of being (not excluding all that seems ...
... object, between the seer and the seen, is the basic attribute of the supramental gnosis but this supramental knowledge or experience by identity carries in it as a secondary part of itself a supramental vision. This vision can come even Page 71 before there is any identity, as a sort of emanation of light from this secret underlying unity. This vision may at times be detached from... sees the thing in itself first, penetrates to its original and eternal essence and nature, and places its processes and properties only as a self-expression of this fundamental nature. Thus the supramental vision would see not merely the thing but all its truths, forces and powers and all the eternities within it. The supramental gnosis has the direct contact, the im-iwediate vision and the ...
... something, but that’s only because they have the capacity of inner vision. 18 The new way of being would only be visible to someone who himself or herself had the supramental vision. 19 And yet that so-called “inner vision” or supramental vision is a material vision, since Mother saw material facts: I MATERIALLY see all sorts of things, which aren't visible to others. But it's materially. A funny state ...
... or, if there is any other, it is that of which intuition is only a sharp edge, an intense projected ray,—the final enlightenment must come from the suprarational Truth-consciousness, from a supramental vision and knowledge. But the being and action of the Infinite must not be therefore regarded as if it were a magic void of all reason; there is, on the contrary, a greater reason in all the operations ...
... being and then enjoyment follows. Is it possible to see the world by supramental sight as we see with our eyes and is there in man something like the third eye of Shiva? Yes, but the supramental vision is not of the same kind as the mental or sensational vision. The being that stands back sees all the forces working in the world. This has been attempted by many in the past and has been acquired ...
... yoga alone regards it as a thing created by the Divine for a progressive manifestation and takes the fulfilment of the life and the body for its object.” 3 Although the evolutionary and supramental vision of Sri Aurobindo is well known, his radical attitude towards Reality, including material reality, is sometimes forgotten or diluted in ways more in line with traditional views. The following ...
... the triple ghṛtam is the triple clarity of the liberated sensation finding its secret of delight, of the thought-mind attaining to light and intuition and of the truth itself, the ultimate supramental vision. This is clear from the second half of the verse in which it is said, "One Indra produced, one Surya, one the gods fashioned by natural development out of Vena"; for Indra is the Master of the ...
... To be able to see the problem as it is, it is absolutely indispensable, as a first step, to get out of the mental consciousness, even out of a mental transcription (in the highest mind) of the supramental vision and truth. A thing cannot be seen as it is, in its truth, except in the supramental consciousness, and if you try to explain, it immediately begins to escape you because you are obliged to give ...
... have to wait. Wait for it to come. ( silence ) But isn't what you're talking about here [Satprem points to the paperweight] what people call a "clairvoyant" vision? No, no! It's supramental vision? Yes. A clairvoyant wouldn't see it that way. No. It is the infiltration of the supramental consciousness. Which makes you see something else through objects or through people ...
... smiles, amused ) Another time, I'll ask you a question on this vision. Now it's too late. If you had asked it, I'd have been happy. Now it's a little late. What question? On the supramental vision, in fact. Oh, yes, that was a problem. All right, all right! × Mother had written: "The central will of ...
... things precise, the mind limits and separates them; and there is evidently a precision that can come from a more accurate vision, without division or separation. That precision will be that of the supramental vision. Along with the precision, there will come the vision of the RELATIONSHIP between all things, without separating them. But that's something being prepared. It comes in a flash, for a minute ...
... that must be the Supreme Vision? PURANI: But at present before the Supreme has a chance there are many others who are already busy with their own idea of the New World. NIRODBARAN: To the supramental vision the Supreme Vision must be known. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, but I haven't yet become the Supermind and no one knows whether the Supermind will descend. 4 NIRODBARAN: How is that? You have ...
... Death, pp. 280-1. (see also Mother's Agenda, Vol. 10, 24.5.1969). ² Mother had told Satprem in 1968: 'But the new way of being wilt be visible only to someone who has himself or herself the supramental vision.... I see all sorts of things MATERIALLY, but which are not visible to the others (Mother looks around the disciple). But it is materially....' (see Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 9, 15.6.1968). ...
... and you will understand that everything else in life is dull, insipid, futile, worthless in comparison with that: the transformation in the Light. Next week, the Mother explains how in the supramental vision "one has a direct and total and immediate knowledge of things", but when one wants to describe this knowledge to others, the Mind of Light becomes the mediator: ...things have to be said ...
... of structure, but in a change of consciousness. The caterpillar and the butterfly look at one and the same world. And when a few start seeing in the other way, then the great contagion of the supramental vision will begin; we will emerge from the mental nightmare, feel differently, breathe differently and we will build our world differently, because we will see it differently. And in the end, Consciousness ...
... . For the inner and inherent law of the one and whole, which is necessarily a harmony, governs the outer and processive laws of the parts or forms which appear to be in collision; and to the supramental vision this greater and profounder truth of harmony is always present. That which is an apparent discord to the mind because it considers each thing separately in itself, is an element of the general ...
... total denial of the aim set before the instrumental being, it is so only in appearance and afterwards it will appear in its right place in the economy of his action,—a Page 726 fuller supramental vision may even see at once or beforehand its necessity and its true relation to the eventual result to which it seems so contrary and even perhaps its definite prohibition. Or, if—while the light is ...
... to identify it in oneness with the self within him. By such meditation the mind may be brought to a favourable state of predisposition in which, by the rending or withdrawing of the veil, the supramental vision may flood the mentality and change entirely all our seeing. And upon that change of seeing, as it becomes more and more potent and insistent and occupies all our consciousness, there will supervene ...
... 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 and its parts in a single view: the thought translates this direct consciousness and immediate power of the truth into ...
... crystal clear vision Sri Aurobindo had, where everything is in its place, where contradictions no longer exist—they never soared to that height. This was the thing, this really crystalline, perfect supramental vision, even from the standpoint of understanding and knowledge. They never went that far. ( Soon afterwards ) Each element, let us say each individual element (even though it is not exactly ...
... and separates; and evidently there is a precision that can come from a more exact vision, without division and without separation. And it is that precision which will be the precision of the supramental vision. With the precision will come, at the same time, the vision of the relation of all things to one another, without separating them. But that is something in preparation. It comes as a flash ...
... less difficult, you understand, so it takes more or less time. It's like elements lagging behind. But the new way of being would only be visible to someone who himself or herself had the supramental vision.... I MATERIALLY see all sorts of things, which aren't visible to others ( Mother looks around Satprem ). But it's materially. A funny state. Do we have time to translate? One piece, maybe ...
... you a question on that vision of the subtle Page 199 physical—that material vision which you have with open eyes. I'd like to know what it corresponds to: does it correspond to a supramental vision, or is it the vision a skilled clairvoyant, for instance, might have? I don't think so. ( long silence ) As soon as I speak about something, it goes away. So when I speak too early, ...
... tour of religions, with all the statues and monuments. The explanations could be read out by some guide or other, but they would be prepared by someone with a slightly higher vision (oh, not a supramental vision, just a slightly higher one), and who would show human creeds and how men have shed blood in the name of "God." The most bloodthirsty god is the most popular, I think. All the slaughters, ...
... not it, it's something else. It is... a diamondlike, live force—live, living. And that's all-powerful. But extremely fleeting—it immediately gets covered over by a heap of things, like visions, supramental vision, understanding, discernment—all this has become a constant mass, you understand. From the standpoint of sensitivity or sensation (I don't know what to call it), when the body rests and enters ...
... at all. Even if one knows, it is not necessary always to air one's knowledge. February 10, 1935 (...) these mental conceptions—since all such conceptions are suspect from your Supramental vision. But do you seriously want me to swallow this mountainous absurdity that any man can be made a Krishna or a Sri Aurobindo, any woman a Mother, any Venkataraman a Tyagaraj, any Harin a Tansen ...
... omnipresent Person, the Mystery, translucent in highest consciousness to its own spirit, but to a lesser consciousness veiled in its own exceeding light and impenetrable forever." 42 In the supramental vision of the supreme reality, differentiations of names and forms, differentiations among individuals and differentiations between the individual and the universal and the transcendental do not contradict ...
... interpretation supposes a relation between the Truth behind and the conceptive Page 11 phenomenon in front, a relation which is not merely that of antimony and opposition. The supramental vision of the world that Sri Aurobindo presents goes farther in idealism; here the manifesting and conceptive Supermind or Supramental Idea is not mental in character; it is neither an abstract idea ...
... we shall try to justify on metaphysical as well as on scientific grounds the sublime prospect of the transfiguration of the body with all that it implies, and indicate, in the light of the Supramental Vision vouchsafed by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, how far and in what way the insistent problems of food and sleep, fatigue and inertia, sex and sensuality, animal impulses and appetites, diseases ...
... future evolution of the race. We shall try to justify, on metaphysical as well as on scientific grounds, this glorious prospect of physical transformation and indicate in the light of the Supramental vision vouchsafed by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, how far and in what way, the insistent problems of food and sleep, fatigue and inertia, disease and decay, sex and sensuality, and finally the s ...
... light when he wants so — it never hides itself. 9.9.1969 What are the conditions to be fulfilled to be able to see the supramental light? To be in conscious contact with it. The supramental vision develops quite naturally with the supramental Consciousness. 11.9.1969 I hope that it is the Grace that makes me want to go in speed. The Grace responds always to a sincere ...
... and therefore falsifies things in part - by a clarity of vision, another kind of vision that does not diminish. Through limiting and separating the mind achieves its kind of precision; the supramental vision will achieve the higher precision of the relation of all things to one another without the need to separate them first. 21 Two months later, the Mother referred to an experience of the night ...
... and world-transformation. The Mother had always a deep feeling for Shakyamuni and admired the nobility of his life and the radiant purity of his teachings. But she had also won her way to the Supramental Vision, and she therefore felt the need to offer the necessary correctives to the old teaching in the light of Sri Aurobindo's and her own insights and realisations. Page 648 ...
... suffers all." IX.II.591 × The last chapter of the Synthesis of Yoga : "Towards the Supramental Time Vision." × In Savitri , the King represents the human aspiration to discover the Earth's secret... That comes through the still self from the Supreme. ( III.III.332 ) Well, this is certainly a beautiful choice! That's it, there's no doubt. When he wakes up from that state, he has a vision of the universal Mother, and receives his mission. This is very good, a very good indication. It's captivating, Savitri! I believe it's his Message—all the rest is preparation, while Savitri ...
... returns to Pondiche- Supramental body, vision of, 207, 216-8 rry), 67 Supramental consciousness, 2, 266-7 1926 (Descent of Sri Krishna in Sri Aurobindo's body), 84-5 Supramental creation, 129 1935 (Mathematical formula), 89 Supramental descent, 89-90, 92 1938 (Fractured right leg), 91 Supramental gnosis, 247, 271 1947... 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260,261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267,268, 269, 270, 271, 272 Supramental transformation, 3, 76, 81 Sri Aurobindo's abode in the subtle physical, discovery of, 131-2 Supramental world, 119 Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2, 74, 87-8 Supramental yoga, 68 Sri Aurobindo, Nobel Prize to, 109 Supreme, 75, 103-4, 137, l67, 201, ... 1947 (Independence of India), 1-2, 93 Supramental manifestation, 88, 111-3 1950 (Left the body), 101 Supramental nature, 73 Sri Aurobindo, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41,42, 45, 48, 49, 50, 51, 56, 57, 60, 64,67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76,77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86,87, 88, 89, 90 ...
... nce of the second birth. Experience of Silence or of nirvana. Experience of the Cosmic Consciousness. Integral experience of the simultaneous Silence and Dynamism. Supramental time-vision. Change and transformation of human nature. Aids for the Development of the Yogic Consciousness and experience Page 59 A brief study of the following... poetry, dance, art and craft. Elementary powers of perception. Necessity and methods of development of these powers, particularly in relation to: Refined vision and audition, appreciation of art and music. Inner yogic visions and voices. Sympathetic feeling and understanding, experience of cooperation, harmony, mutuality and oneness. Page 55 Elementary... language and understanding, outer man and inner man. Training of the senses and their powers: Knowledge of the senses: five senses of knowledge, five senses of action. Exercises of vision and hearing: art and music as instruments. Exercises of concentration in sense activities. Inner senses: capacities to see the invisible and to hear the inaudible. Page 42 ...
... the second birth. 2. Experience of Silence or of nirvana. 3. Experience of the Cosmic Consciousness. 4. Integral experience of the simultaneous Silence and Dynamism. 5. Supramental time-vision. Page 102 6. Change and transformation of human nature. III. Aids for the Development of the Yogic Consciousness and experience A brief study of the following topics:... art and craft. 2. Elementary powers of perception. Necessity and methods of development of these powers, particularly in relation to: (a) Refined vision and audition, appreciation of art and music. (b) Inner yogic visions and voices. (c) Sympathetic feeling and understanding, experience of cooperation, harmony, mutuality and oneness. 3. Elementary powers of action. ... programme. Inspiring passages and interesting essays also should be utilised. Exhibitions play a great role in creating collective atmosphere and also in opening vaster vistas before the children's vision and imagination. The programmes should also include exercises of contemplation, purification and of aesthetic experience. Nobility of character is greatly sustained by the mind which is both ...
... Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter XXV Towards the Supramental Time Vision All being, consciousness, knowledge moves, secretly for our present surface awareness, openly when we rise beyond it to the spiritual and supramental ranges, between two states and powers of existence, that of the timeless Infinite and that of the Infinite deploying... abnormal power, but as its normal way of time knowledge. This unified and infinite time consciousness and this vision and knowledge are the possession of the supramental being in its own supreme region of light and are complete only on the highest levels of the supramental nature. But in the ascent of the human consciousness through the uplifting and transmuting evolutionary—that is to say... constant embarrassed stumbling around a false conception of contradictions and a confronting of eternal opposites. In reality, as we find when we see things with a knowledge founded on the supramental identity and vision and think with the great, profound and flexible logic proper to that knowledge, the two are only coexistent and concurrent status and movement of the same truth of the Infinite. The timeless ...
... 2. Experience of Silence or of nirvana. 3. Experience of the Cosmic Consciousness. 4. Integral experience of the simultaneous Silence and Dynamism. 5. Supramental time-vision. III. Aids for the Development of the Yogic Consciousness and experience: A brief study of the following topics: 1. All life must be accepted, but all life must be ... 2. Elementary powers of perceptions. Necessity and methods of development of these powers, particularly in relation to: (a) Refined vision and audition, appreciation of art and music. (b) Inner yogic visions and voices. (c) Sympathetic feeling and understanding, experience of cooperation, harmony, mutuality and oneness. 3. Elementary powers of action... understanding, outer man and inner man. II. Training of the senses and their powers: 1. Knowledge of the senses: five senses of knowledge, five senses of action. 2. Exercises of vision and hearing: art and music as instruments. 3. Exercises of concentration in sense activities,. 4. Inner senses: capacities to see the invisible and to hear the inaudible. ...
... forward and show yourself. NB: I draw your attention to Adhar Das's verdict that your * Divinisation of the Individual = Emergence of a New Race or Creation of the Supramental Race. Page 411 vision of the new race to be is an extravagant claim in as much as it gives the lie to logic as well as to the lives and experiences of past seers. Well, Sir? Sri Aurobindo: Well... comic to the serious and back again to the comic! And how delectable and unexpected is the subtle dig in the last paragraph as quoted above! (4) The Supramental is grand, aloof, cold and austere? Dilip Kumar: "... I equate your Supramental with something grim and withering like a ruthless Dictator out to do good but with a devastating velocity, riding roughshod over all our cherished ideals... ignorance of what the Supramental can be, and yet in these moods you not only pronounce categorically what it is like, but reject emphatically my experience about it as if of no practical validity or not valid for anybody but myself! "I have not insisted, I have answered only casually because I am not asking you now to be non-human and divine much less to be supramental; but as you are always ...
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