... shore of the supramental world and a first group of people who were destined to become the future inhabitants of this supramental world were to go ashore. Everything had been arranged for this first disembarkation. Several very tall beings were posted on the jetty. They were not human beings, they had never been human before, nor were they permanent inhabitants of the supramental world. They had been... as they are, who decide not to manifest physically, then their relation with the beings of the [future] terrestrial supramental world will be a relation of friends, of co-workers, of equals; for the highest divine essence will have manifested in the beings of the new supramental world on earth. ‘When the physical substance will be supramentalised, to incarnate on earth will no longer be a condition... subjective contact with the supramental world, whereas on 3 February [^1958] I walked in it concretely — as concretely as I once walked in Paris — in a world that exists in itself, outside all subjectivity. It is as if a bridge is being built between the two worlds. This is the experience as I have dictated it immediately afterwards. [The Mother reads:] ‘The supramental world exists permanently and ...
... immense ship, the symbol of the transit site where human-men were being prepared for the supramental life: a sort of training ship for the supramental world. And all those who were ready, who fulfilled the required conditions, were about to disembark in the supramental world. On the shore of this world stood tall beings, supramental beings; they were to review the young apprentices from the ship to determine... we know nothing about it at all; we do not have adequate eyes. All we know is that something is in the process of happening. When I returned [from the supramental world], along with the memory of the experience, I knew that the supramental world is permanent, that my presence there is permanent, and only A MISSING LINK IS NEEDED TO ALLOW THE JUNCTION WITH THE CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SUBSTANCE, and... Part One: The Supramental Descent Mother or The New Species - II 5. The Supramental World If we were an explorer returning from some faraway continent and had to describe the marvels we had encountered, forests unlike any others, winged beings, metals with strange properties, it would be easy enough. But it is not the case. The future world is right here ...
... the shore of the supramental world and a first group of people who were destined to become the future inhabitants of this supramental world were to disembark. Everything had been arranged for this first landing. At the wharf several very tall beings were posted. They were not human beings, they had never been men before. Nor were they the permanent inhabitants of the supramental world. They had been... subjective contact with the supramental world, whereas on the third of February I moved in it concretely, as concretely as I once used to walk in Paris, in a world that exists in itself , outside all subjectivity. It is like a bridge being thrown between the two worlds. Here is the experience as I dictated it immediately afterwards: ( Silence ) The supramental world exists permanently and I... 19 February 1958 Mother reads her comments upon an experience she had on February 3 : Between the beings of the supramental world and men, almost the same separation exists as between men and animals. Some time ago I had the experience of identification with animal life, and it is a fact that animals do not understand us; ...
... remain in their world as they are, if they decide not to manifest physically, their relation with the beings of a supramental world on earth will be a relation of friends, of collaborators, of equals, for the highest divine essence will be manifested in the beings of the new supramental world on earth. When the physical substance is supramentalised, to incarnate on earth will no longer be a cause of i... splendid beings – the “brilliances” – all greater than the gods. We may suppose that the supramental world ready to contact the material one was the nearest and therefore the lowest in that hierarchy, but supramental it was nonetheless. The problem therefore now consisted in the connection of that supramental world with the material world, for the kind and density of both substances is so different. ... that I had an individual subjective contact with the supramental world, whereas on the 3rd of February I moved in it concretely, as concretely as I once used to walk in Paris, in a world that exists in itself, outside all subjectivity … Here is the experience as I dictated it immediately afterwards.” The Mother reads 47 : “The supramental world exists permanently and I am there permanently in a ...
... shore of the supramental world, and a first batch of people destined to become the future inhabitants of the supramental world were about to disembark. Everything was arranged for this first landing. A certain number of very tall beings were posted on the wharf. They were not human beings and never before had they been men. Nor were they permanent inhabitants of the supramental world. They had been... a radical experience in which she went strolling in a concrete way in an objective supramental world—a world that exists in itself, beyond all subjectivity. In the evening class of the 19th February, 1958, the record of this experience was read out by her as follows: Between the beings of the supramental world and men, there exists approximately the same gap as between men and animals. Sometime... contact with the supramental world, whereas on February 3, I went strolling there in a concrete way— as concretely as I used to go strolling in Paris in times past—in a world that EXISTS IN ITSELF, beyond all subjectivity. It is like a bridge being built between the two worlds. This is the experience as I dictated it immediately thereafter: (silence) The supramental world exists in ...
... shore of the supramental world, and a first batch of people destined to become the future inhabitants of the supramental world were about to disembark. Everything was arranged for this first landing. A certain number of very tall beings were posted on the wharf. They were not human beings and never before had they been men. Nor were they permanent inhabitants of the supramental world. They had been... contact with the supramental world, whereas on February 3, I went strolling there in a concrete way—as concretely as I used to go strolling in Paris in times past—in a world that EXISTS IN ITSELF, beyond all subjectivity. It is like a bridge being built between the two worlds. This is the experience as I dictated it immediately thereafter: ( silence ) The supramental world exists in a permanent... Agenda 1951-1960 February 3, 1958 ( The following experience was later read out to the Wednesday class on 2.19.58 ) Between the beings of the supramental world and men, there exists approximately the same gap as between men and animals. Sometime ago, I had the experience of identification with animal life, and it is a fact that animals do not understand ...
... shore of the supramental world and a first group of people who were destined to become the future inhabitants of the supramental world were to go ashore. Everything had been arranged for this first disembarkation. Several very tall beings were posted on the jetty. They were not human beings – they had never been humans before – nor were they permanent inhabitants of the supramental world. They had been... that sovereign peace. I saw once again that the values which govern this supramental world have nothing to do with our values here below, even the values of the wisest, even those values which we consider most divine at the time we live constantly in the divine Presence. They are altogether different.’ 46 The supramental world was very much present, below at the core of the black Inconscient, above... Mother has ever given. Here, a few passages will have to suffice. She was commenting on a passage from Sri Aurobindo’s The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth and said: ‘That other world [the supramental world in the making on Earth] is necessarily an absolutely new experience. One would have to go back to the time when there was a transition from the animal to the human creation to find a similar ...
... when we try to look at the supramental world." 24 As if to reinforce her tentative conclusions, on the 3rd afternoon the Mother walked into the supramental world, "a world that exists in itself, and her action was like building a bridge between the two worlds. Although it was only a dream, it had a concreteness of its own, and she found that the supramental world was a permanent reality, and... disciples against picturing the supermind and supramental conditions in mental categories. In detailing her dream of the supramental world - of the intermediate zone or connecting bridge symbolised by the boat, and of the kind of people who seemed to qualify for the supramental world - the Mother also warned people against visualising the perfected world, the Next Future, as a mere extension of the present... On The Mother CHAPTER 48 Supramental World I While the Playground talks were part of the very oxygen of life in the Ashram during the nineteen-fifties, there were other events that claimed the attention of sadhaks and visitors alike. From the visible to the inward, from the men, women and children who lived in the Ashram and the sadhaks running ...
... of the quality of our soul. The means at our disposal are exactly in proportion to our power of "radiation," as it were. In other words, a real world—for once. That is why Mother said that the supramental world would be the perfect hierarchic manifestation, spontaneous, essentially true—and without coercion of any kind—where each one will be conscious of his own perfection. 3 What coercion? One... children. As a paradise in which everyone will do the same thing in the same way? Everyone becomes a harp-playing angel?... That would be a dreadful world! 5 No one needs to look alike in the supramental world, and no one needs to do better than his neighbor, or to have more than his neighbor! Each one is his own model and has the perfect and complete joy of expressing what he is—being himself is his... for later, always for afterwards, ((sometime," farther, over there. The artifice devours the artifice. The process swallows itself up. The most essential difference between our world and the supramental world (and it is only after having consciously gone there with the consciousness that usually operates here that I became aware of the enormous difference, as it were) is that everything here, except ...
... misunderstand this: the Mother had access to the supramental world or worlds in many ways through her mental and vital. We have seen an example of this in her story of the supramental ship. This, however, was an experience of the body, the supramental Power had taken possession of her body, the result of which was that the Mother got access to the supramental world by means of the body consciousness. There... Mother uses the term, besides the two above definitions, for the supramental world on the verge of manifesting on the Earth. This is of course a ‘subtle’ world to the gross physical perception, but it differs radically from the levels of existence referred to by definitions 1 and 2. As we will see further on, in the supramental world, which is a Truth-world, matter is indeed more concrete, of a higher... There she found Sri Aurobindo present in a supramental body — in the body that during his lifetime he had built up with his supramentalized consciousness. She was surprised to discover that the supramental world was not far from the physical world and that it was waiting, fully developed, to manifest in earthly matter. Certainly, since his departure Sri Aurobindo had always been together with her, ...
... burning fever. This happened in the night of 24-25 July 1959 5 with a surprising consequence: suddenly the Mother found herself in the presence of Sri Aurobindo, in his ‘dwelling’ in the supramental world. This does not mean that the Mother had not met Sri Aurobindo before. In fact, his presence by her side had been constant, as his action in the world had equally been continuous and had resulted... y, but physically, in the world of supramental Matter which, for the first time, had extended to her material body. As we know, the Supramental is a Unity-Consciousness, which means that the supramental world is a unity-world in which everything is present to everything else and participates in its being. Sri Aurobindo could be there because he had supramentalized his inner being, consisting of the... being aware of it. After death we carry with us what we are inwardly. It may be assumed that people who are in part supramentalized are fully mature souls, sufficiently developed to dwell in the supramental world(s), and that the former human beings now with Sri Aurobindo, and ready to come down with him as the first supermen on a supramentalized Earth, are of this kind. Now that Sri Aurobindo was ...
... Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have always considered those ideas and experiences as hypothetical, as they had to go on marching forward into the unknown. For the supramental world as a typal world is very different from a supramental world being inserted by a process of transformation in an evolutionary manifestation located on a lower level of existence. Yet, the Pioneers have given some indications... course of his ideals and had we had the privilege of his company, we too would have asked questions and tried to get an answer from the very source itself. What the Supermind was in itself in the supramental world, Sri Aurobindo knew without any doubt, for it was the revelation of the Supermind which had made his avataric task clear to him. As ‘traveller of the worlds,’ who wrote down a few of his experiences... covering of the supramental consciousness, to form the body that has, to some extent, been described above. This means that the crux of the process of supramental transformation lies in matter; the supramental world has to become possible in matter, which at present still is gross matter. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were supramentalized in their mental and vital, but their enormous problem was the supra ...
... eyes, the pupation, the transformation took place, in the cells of that material body, into a supramental body existing in a supramental world. The world of mental man is a world of darkness and ignorance, comparable to the crawling-world of the caterpillar; the supramental world is the flying-world of the colourful, winged and light butterfly, imperceptible to beings of the crawling-world and beyond... of our physical state would not be able to stand it. An intermediary is necessary. Of this I am absolutely convinced by the experiences I have had. Two times it was a veritable seizure by the supramental world [of her physical body], and both times it was as if the body — and I mean the physical body — was going to be completely torn apart by what one could almost call the opposite of its condition... in the blink of an eye, be turned into a radiant divine body was an example of what Sri Aurobindo had called ‘crude downright statements of a miraculous kind.’ Surely, the coming about of the supramental world as a whole can be considered a miracle, but then a miracle of the kind by which the terrestrial substance of gravel and rock has become alive and started running about in the armadillo, flying ...
... interest you specially? According to what we know about occultism, it is the science which shows us things that are invisible to us, the invisible world, the invisible forces... But in the supramental world all this will be known. What do you understand by occultism? The knowledge of the invisible world and invisible forces. And so—I don't quite understand. In the supermind one will no... has to do everything! There will be differences and classifications all the same, and special functions according to people and their individual tastes. I don't see why you should deprive the supramental world particularly of occult activity more than of any other. How do you conceive of the supramental life? As a paradise in which everyone will do the same thing in the same way?... The old conception... one has the direct perception of them, one has the power to act on them, and one makes some higher will intervene in the play of these forces in order to obtain a required result. In the supramental world one will have these powers spontaneously. Spontaneously!... But everybody practises occultism without knowing that he does. Everybody has this power spontaneously but doesn't know he has it ...
... atmosphere was full of joy, calm, order. Everything went in an orderly way and in silence … “This immense ship had just reached the shore of the supramental world and a first group of people, who were destined to become the future inhabitants of the supramental world, were to go ashore. Everything had been arranged for this first disembarkation. … I was in charge of the whole enterprise from the beginning... time, was “the moment.” The Ship from the New World On 3 February 1958, the Mother had an experience which she deemed sufficiently important to dictate it immediately afterwards. “The supramental world exists permanently and I am there permanently in a supramental body. I had proof of it this very day, when my earth-consciousness went there and remained there consciously between two and three... o’clock in the afternoon. Now I know that what was lacking for the two worlds to join in a constant and conscious relation is an intermediate zone between the physical world as it is and the supramental world as it is. This zone is to be built both in the individual consciousness and in the objective world, and it is being built … “I was on a huge ship which was a symbolic representation of the ...
... attacks that will become possible with the supramental realization. It is what all those who are destined for the supramental transformation will realize. The hostile forces know it well; in the supramental world, they will automatically disappear. Having no more utility, they will be dissolved without our having to do anything, simply through the presence of the supramental force. So now they are being... communication between them; they overlap, as it were, without being connected. In the experience of February 3 , I saw certain people from here (and from elsewhere) who already belong to the supramental world in a part of their being, but there is no connection, no link. But now the hour has come in universal history for this link to be built. What is the relationship between this experience of... Where I was cast was clearly into the origin of the supramental creation—all this warm gold, this tremendous living power, this sovereign peace. And once again I saw that the values governing the supramental world have nothing to do with our values here, even the values of our highest wisdom, even those we consider the most divine when we live constantly in a divine Presence: it is utterly different. ...
... the sense of sin and virtue. It reminds me of a passage from one of your experiences which struck me very much at the time. In that experience you went to the supramental world: you saw a "ship" landing on the shore of the supramental world and people being put through certain tests—some people were rejected, others were kept. There's a striking passage in your description, and it bears a relation... body simply gets winded. It bears up under the tension of vital energy, but eventually it gets winded, tired out, and needs rest. Given the world's present set-up, this is "normal"—but if the supramental world were to be realized, it shouldn't remain normal. Clearly, a considerable change has to take place in the physical substance. That will probably be the essential difference between the bodies fashioned... the disembarkation, you say: "The criterion or the judgment [for passing the tests] was based EXCLUSIVELY on the substance constituting the people—whether they belonged completely to the supramental world or not, whether they were made of Page 31 this very special substance. The criterion adopted was neither moral nor psychological. It is likely that their bodily substance was the result ...
... descend more deeply into the caves of existence, guided by the Light of which they had become the bearers. The supramental world had approached very near to the Earth. Its Light and Power were definitively established on Earth by the Manifestation in 1956. For the beings of the supramental world to embody on the magic planet which is our Earth, it was necessary that her gross matter should be refined or... eight; she was now eighty. ‘Being young means never to accept something as irrevocable.’ These are her words. Where had she come by now? As we have seen, the bridge between the already existing supramental world and this, our world, had to be built. The ship from the New World played an important role in the construction. ‘This was the significance of the experience of 3 February 1958: the establishing... them: they overlap each other, by way of speaking, without being connected. In the experience of 3 February I have seen certain persons from here and from elsewhere who belong already to that supramental world in part of their being, but there is no connection, no junction. The time has come at this very moment in universal history in which the link must be established.’ 2 That happened in her ...
... 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: having no more use, they will be dissolved without the need to do anything, simply through the presence of the supramental force. That is why they rush about... the two. They overlap each other without being joined together. In the experience of February third, I saw some of those from here and Page 366 elsewhere who already belong to the supramental world in one part of their being; but there is no connection, no junction. The moment has come just now in the history of the universe when that link must be established. The experience of November... indeed projected into the very origin of the supramental creation: all that warm gold, that living tremendous power, that sovereign peace. I saw once again that the values which govern in this supramental world have nothing to do with our values here below, even the values of the wisest, even those values which we consider most divine at the time we live constantly in the divine Presence. It is altogether ...
... into death with all his conscious powers. This means that he exists in a supramentalised vital and mental body somewhere in a corresponding supramental world. The Mother often referred to “Sri Aurobindo’s abode” in “the subtle physical”, i.e. in a supramental world 57 where she and many of the followers still among the living went to visit him, and where some of the disciples who had left their body... is no misunderstanding. Because when one speaks of ‘the Divine’, people immediately think of a ‘God’, and that spoils everything. It is not that. No, it is not that: it is the descent of the supramental world, which is not merely something of the imagination. It is an absolutely material Power, but it has no need of material things. A world that wants to incarnate within the world.” 51 In 1954 ...
... of the Avatar was accomplished: six years of intense Integral Yoga representing six hundred or six thousand years of unassisted supramental evolution. The pillars of the bridge connecting the supramental world and our gross material world were put in place. Normally at this point the Work of the Avatar would have come to an end. But it was decided that the Mother would remain on Earth to accelerate... time. It is impossible.’ 36 For hours on end, while the people around her thought she was on the verge of death, she was present in magnificent landscapes and cities of the future. (The supramental world is waiting close nearby to manifest in Matter.) ‘During several hours the landscapes were marvelous, of a perfect harmony. Also for a long time visions of the interior of immense temples, of living... one begins thinking.’ 38 She was in everything with her body consciousness, which must have been more and more supramentalized as otherwise it would not have been able to participate in a supramental world. She had also noted: ‘Mighty and long-lasting penetration of the supramental forces into the body, everywhere simultaneously.’ 39 And she explained that: ‘Penetration into the body, yes ...
... and her body will become the body of the earth. We have seen (cf. ‘The Ship from the Supramental World’) that the supramental world was there, ready to permeate the gross material world and take its place. The more the Mother’s cells became supramentalised, the more she belonged physically to the supramental world too, which means that for years she belonged physically to two worlds, the gross material ...
... supramental creation, without passing through the process of ordinary Nature, and it is through them that the truly supramental beings will take birth, the ones who must necessarily live in a supramental world. But then how would the contact be made between these beings and the ordinary world? How is one to conceive of the transformation of Nature, a transformation sufficient to bring about the supramental... to make use of Page 384 this notion of space, I mean the space on the terrestrial globe? 1 Is it possible to find a spot where one could create the embryo or seed of the future supramental world? The plan came in all the details, but it is a plan which in its spirit and consciousness does not at all conform to what is possible on earth at present; yet in its most material manifestation... the supramental creation. It is not difficult to conceive that in the solitude of the Himalayas or in the solitude of a virgin forest an individual would begin to create around him his little supramental world. It is easy to conceive. But the same thing would be necessary: he would have to have reached such a perfection that his power would act automatically to prevent intrusion, so that automatically ...
... between the appearance and what lies within. Thus, a man with a divine power deep within him may, on the outer plane, find himself in the situation of a slave. It's preposterous! Whereas in the supramental world, the will acts directly upon the substance, and the substance is obedient to this will. When you want to clothe yourself, the substance you are living in immediately assumes the form of clothing... . The absurdity here consists of all the artificial means that have to be used. Any imbecile has more power if he has more means by which to acquire the necessary artifice. Whereas in the supramental world, the more one is conscious and in contact with the truth of things, the more authority has the will over the substance. The authority is a true authority. If you want clothes, you have to have... understood a lot of things, and I came back from there with a decisive force. Now I know that our way of seeing things here, our petty moral values, have nothing to do with the values of the supramental world. ...
... discover the secret of direct, supramental creation, bypassing the process of ordinary Nature. Then through them the true supramental beings will be born, who will necessarily have to live in a supramental world. But how would contact be made between these beings and the ordinary world? How to conceive of a transformation of nature sufficient to enable this supramental creation to take place on earth... There is still this problem: is it possible to make use of the notion of space—I mean space on the planet earth? 5 Is it possible to find a place where the embryo or seed of the future supramental world might be created? What I myself have seen... was a plan that came complete in all details, but that doesn't at all conform in spirit and consciousness with what is possible on earth now (although... of the coming supramental creation. It isn't difficult to conceive of an individual in the solitude of the Himalayas or in a virgin forest beginning to create around himself his miniature supramental world—this is easy to imagine. But the Page 271 same thing would be necessary: he would need to have attained such perfection that his power would act automatically to prevent any outside ...
... was born on 29 February 1956, or is it different? Since You have spoken of it as the "world of delight" it cannot be merely the Delight or Ananda of the Supramental World already born. Does it mean that, after the manifestation of the Supramental World, now one more new world is "waiting at our gates for our call" to manifest on earth? It has always been waiting, since the beginning of the creation... world the world of Ananda which, in the hierarchical gradation of the planes of existence, is situated above the world of Supermind? If so, does it mean that after six years of its birth the Supramental World is Page 177 now sufficiently well-established on earth to make the manifestation of a still higher world possible? Not necessarily. The above question arises because, according ...
... inconscience. The self-oblivion of the Inconscience cannot and does not abolish the supramental world, which is imperishable; that is not cognized by the Inconscience, but the supermind cognizes it, stands behind it, it is even involved in it. That is the reason why the Vedic Rishis, even while attaining the supramental world were aware of the world in which we live, and they declared it to be a mingled... Sun of Knowledge finishes his journey and unyokes his horses, where the thousand rays of consciousness stand together so that there is That One, the supreme form of the Divine Being. 20 This supramental world, which is imperishable, does not get abolished or attenuated, simply because there is Page 23 in one of its poises a movement in which a certain operation of consciousness separates ...
... definition is the Truth-Consciousness, Page 98 Truth in possession of itself and fulfilling itself by its own power. In a supramental world imperfection and disharmony are bound to disappear. But what we propose just now is not to make the earth a supramental world but to being down the supramental as a power and established consciousness in the midst of the rest to let it work there and fulfil... development. The Divine, as the Gita says, has nothing to gain and nothing that it has not, yet it puts forth its power of action in the manifestation. It is the earth-consciousness, not the supramental world that has to gain by the descent of the supramental principle that is sufficient reason for it to descend. The supramental worlds remain as they are and are in no way affected by the descent ...
... discover the secret of direct, supra-mental creation, by-passing the process of ordinary Nature. Then through them the true supramental beings will be born, who will necessarily have to live in a supramental world. But how would contact be made between these beings and the ordinary world? How to conceive of a transformation of nature sufficient to enable this supramental creation to take place on earth... said that from the other side! It was spoken from a dimension where the notion of space is no longer so concrete." Page 9 to find a place where the embryo or seed of the future supramental world might be created? What I myself have seen... was a plan that came complete in all details, but that doesn't at all conform in spirit and consciousness with what is possible on earth now (although... of the coming supramental creation. It isn't difficult to conceive of an individual in the solitude of the Himalayas or in a virgin forest beginning to create around himself his miniature supramental world — this is easy to imagine. But the same thing would be necessary: he would need to have attained such perfection that his power would act automatically to prevent any outside intrusion. ...
... intermediate zone between the physical world as it is and the supramental world as it is …” She saw this intermediate zone as “a huge ship, as large as a city, which was a symbolic representation of the place where this work is going on.” On board of this ship were people “destined to become the future inhabitants of the supramental world. They were trained for their task and ready to go ashore.” ... Purusha, the archetype of what humanity is to become]. The Mother herself gave us a glimpse of Mahashakti, the cosmic Mother, when she narrated one of her experiences on 3 February 1958. “The supramental world exists permanently and I am there permanently in a supramental body. I had proof of it this very day, when my earth-consciousness went there and remained there consciously between two and three ...
... microscopes, for what looks if not the Mind? One day in a remote corner of India, a being opened up the passage to the Power, or Shakti, or Consciousness-Force, in his body, and he opened up the supramental world and the supramental perception of Matter—the same "something," but seen differently. The same Power, but lived differently. the forerunners, establish a contact with the new Force that is to... perception for seventeen more years, as if to accustom human eyes and human substance to it. She was clearing the passage. Exactly the same extraordinary vibration which I recognized when the supramental world descended. It comes in and vibrates like a pulsation in the cells. 17 Very few were to recognize it on that evening of February 29 at the Playground. To recognize it, the physical consciousness... concentrated pace of evolutionary swiftness becomes possible. 22 The acceleration is quite breathtaking. But why now? Why at this particular point in time?. One would think that this new supramental world would have been born more peacefully and decently in the midst of refined humans, in the Renaissance, say, or perhaps during Pericles' time? In any case, during an age when men had a certain. ...
... slumberous coasts of mom, Or the gold desert of the sunlight crossed Traversing great wastes of splendour and of fire. 39 It has been so far that 'gold' is the quintessence of the supramental world and also symbolic of the sun in all the planes of consciousness. Therefore when Satyavan laments that he has crossed gold deserts and great wastes of splendour, does it imply that this splendour... How hast thou seen beyond the topaz walls The gleaming sisters of the divine gate? 102 Topaz is the symbol of supramental manifestation. Her vision beyond the topaz walls, in the supramental world, is the crowing glory. Savitri is the Sun-Word and she alone can penetrate beyond the topaz walls. We can refer again to the line discussed earlier as we can see an interesting parallel: ...
... Part I — Recollections and Diary Notes Champaklal Speaks Premature Supramental World 1958-02-15 Mother wrote in her diary: “Last night I had a vision of what the supramental world would be like if the people were not sufficiently prepared. The confusion that now exists on earth is nothing in comparison with what may happen. Just imagine any strong will ...
... makes the Unity-Consciousness in the cell concrete and active. The psychic being covers itself with the supramentalized substance, in other words it forms a supramental body which exists in the supramental world of the true physical, just like it earlier formed a material-vital-mental body (adhara) in the material-vital-mental world. This is not something we can ‘understand’ 92 , but we can conceive... like now nor the elimination as it is now … But how will the [physical] body itself change? I don’t know.’ Considering all this, it is evident that the Mother had a supramental body in the supramental world which was ready to be manifested upon Earth. The problem was how the supramental ‘archetype’ she had build up would manifest in gross matter. It was indispensable that the gross matter would ...
... that the harmony not be disturbed, then it suffices, one could say poetically, to apply “a drop of the Lord” on the spot and it becomes all right.’ 24 The bridge between our world and the supramental world was still in the making, which means that the Mother’s unheard of way of existing in two worlds at the same time, without a link in between, continued. ‘Transitional beings are always in unstable... Yoga, which is the most difficult undertaking imaginable for a human being? As recently as in 1961 the Mother had written: ‘Is it possible to find a spot where the embryo or seed of the future supramental world could be created? The plan had come in all its details, but it is a plan which, in its spirit and consciousness, does not conform at all to what is possible on Earth at the moment; and yet, in ...
... Supramental by its very definition is Truth Consciousness, Truth in possession of itself and fulfilling itself by its own power. In a supramental world imperfection and disharmony are bound to disappear. But what we propose just now is not to make the earth a supramental world but to bring down the Supramental as a power and established consciousness in the midst of the rest—to let it work there and fulfil ...
... But those who have not, can yet aspire for that realisation, just as they can aspire to get the supramental knowledge. True knowledge means awareness by identity: once you get in touch with the supramental world, you can say something about its descent, but not before. What you can say before is that there will be a new creation upon earth; this you say through faith, since the exact character of it escapes... to the ladder there is a new creation upon earth.... The step which is being added now Sri Aurobindo has called the Supramental; as a result of it, the consciousness will be able to enter the supramental world and yet retain its personal form, Page 178 its individualisation and then come down to establish here a new creation. Certainly this is not the last, for there are farther ranges of ...
... are not really so. It was very clear that everything depended on the capacity of things, on their ability to express the supramental world or to be in relation with it." What is this supramental standpoint like? What is this capacity or this aptitude to ex the supramental world or to be in relation with it? I have already spoken a little about that in connection with Page 111 the ...
... certain state of repetition of my mantra, which acts directly on the body's cells. And then the same phenomenon is reproduced—exactly the same extraordinary vibration which I recognized when the supramental world descended. It comes in and vibrates like a pulsation in the cells. But as I told you, now my japa is different. It is as if I were taking the whole world to lift it up; no longer is it a c... concentration on the body, but rather a taking of the whole world—the entire world—sometimes in its details, sometimes as a whole, but constantly, constantly—to establish the Contact ( with the supramental world ). But what you are speaking of, this sort of sound-mill, this milling of words interminably repeating the same thing, I've suddenly caught it two or three times (not very often and with long ...
... birth of a new world, we invite all those who want to have a place in it to prepare themselves sincerely for it. 15 August 1957 Page 97 Last night I had a vision of what the supramental world would be like if people were not sufficiently prepared. The confusion that now exists on earth is nothing in comparison with what might happen. Just imagine an extremely powerful will with the... some faithful feelings. To celebrate the manifestation of the eternal Consciousness can be done at every moment of the universal history. But to celebrate the advent of a new world, the supramental world, is a marvellous and exceptional privilege. 21 February 1958 By whatever name it is called, the Supramental is a truth and a fact and its reign is certain. 27 March 1959 ...
... "When we begin living the spiritual life, a reversal of consciousness takes place which for us is the proof that we have entered the spiritual life; well, yet another one occurs when we enter the supramental world. "And in fact each time a new world opens up, there will perhaps be a new reversal of this kind. "It's as if our entire spiritual life were made of silver, whereas the supramental life is... life Page 104 here were a silvery vibration, not cold but simply a light, a light that goes right to the summit, an absolutely pure light—pure and intense—but in the other, in the supramental world, there is a richness and a power that makes all the difference. This whole spiritual life of the psychic being and of all our present consciousness, which seems so warm, so full, so wonderful ...
... they do decide not to manifest themselves physically, their relation with the other beings of the supramental world on earth will be a relation of friends, of collaborators, of equal to equal, because the highest divine essence will have manifested in the beings of the new supramental world on earth. "When the physical substance will be supramentalised, to be born on earth in a body ...
... the Upanishad, so in Sri Aurobindo, the Supermind is a link between the Supreme Sachchidananda and the lower world of Ignorance, the world of Matter, Life and Mind. Supramental world is the world of Vedic swar, the supramental world is a world corresponding to the Upanishadlic vijnana: and one can rise into higher worlds of Ananda, Chit and Sat. But even then, as Sri Aurobindo points out, "the ...
... being torn apart …and it was always Sri Aurobindo who was there to guide me. Since He left His body so many years ago, He has been working in the subtle physical to prepare the descent of the Supramental world. He has arranged everything so that this work of transformation is accomplished upon earth. And now I realise that without His help, how miserably the work of transformation would have languished... He had accumulated in Himself. It was extraordinary — the level He had reached with diverse and unknown realisations. And a single decision: that the work for hastening the descent of the Supramental world would be done faster if He left the body in order to work more effectively in the subtle physical. And at once He left His body behind and launched Himself to conquer this domain of the subtle ...
... cared about: that it become an independent being⎯that is, independent of the body⎯and capable of being simultaneously conscious of our old material world and of the world of true Matter, the supramental world. What did that mean? If this old piece of clothing is, after all, the site of the ultimate transformation, the site where the Screen falls away, the bridge to true Matter, what is the role of... body regarding the old body? What is it that will open the door to the other Matter, if not old Matter itself? What is it that will transfuse the other substance, if not the old substance? The supramental world will not drop from heaven or break old Matter’s doors open without something consenting to the process on this side . One body is needed to receive it, a place for it to come in, doesn’t it ...
... Mother or The New Species - II 8: The Triple End Mother was reaching the turning point. There is no doubt that She saw better than we do the supramental world, the supramental Power, so formidable, the incredible supramental creation, but it was for her as great a mystery as it is for us: how does one get there, how does one connect with it? In our... When we begin living the spiritual life, a reversal of consciousness takes place which for us is the proof that we have entered the spiritual life; well, yet another occurs when we enter the supramental world. And probably each time a new world opens up, there will again be a new reversal. This is why even our spiritual life, which is such a total reversal compared to ordinary life, seems something ...
... you know what the flower which we have called "Successful Future" signifies when given to you? It signifies the hope - nay, even the promise - that you will participate in the descent of the supramental world. For that descent will be the successful con- summation of our work, a descent of which the full glory has not yet been or else the whole face of life would have been different. The Mother... not such faith the very hope and conviction that the will of Sri Aurobindo is bound to be done, that his work of transformation cannot but end in a supreme victory and that what he calls the supramental world will be brought down on earth and realised by us here and now? The Mother To change the earthly life ...Savitri answered to the radiant God: "... the one task for which our lives ...
... But those who have not, can yet aspire for that realisation, just as they can aspire to get the supramental knowledge. True knowledge means awareness by identity: once you get in touch with the supramental world, you can say something about its descent, but not before. What you can say before is that there will be a new creation upon earth; this you say through faith, since the exact character of it escapes... to the ladder there is a new creation upon earth.... The step which is being added now Sri Aurobindo has called the Supramental; as a result of it, the consciousness will be able to enter the supramental world and yet retain its personal form, its individualisation and then come down to establish here a new creation. Certainly this is not the last, for there are farther ranges of being; but now we are ...
... history. Certain prophets in the past have had this apocalyptic vision but, as usual, things were mixed, and they did not have together with their vision of the apocalypse the vision of the supramental world which will come to raise up the part of humanity which consents and to transform this physical world. So, to give hope Page 300 to those who have been born into it, into this perverted... those who have faith in the sacrifice of the Divine in Matter will be automatically saved, in another world—by faith alone, without understanding, without intelligence. They have not seen the supramental world nor that the great Sacrifice of the Divine in Matter is the sacrifice of involution which must culminate in the total revelation of the Divine in Matter itself. Page 301 ...
... you have a special question to ask I shall answer it. Listen: "The supramental world has to be formed or created in us by the Divine Will as the result of a constant expansion and self-perfecting." 1 That is to say, to hope to receive, use and form in oneself a supramental being, and consequently a supramental world, there must first of all be an expansion of consciousness and a constant ...
... is an Overmind creation. And it is not success that we want; we want to establish the Supermind on earth. One must know how to renounce immediate success in order to create the new world, the supramental world in its integrality." With my inner consciousness I understood immediately: a few hours later the creation was gone... and from that moment we started anew on other bases. Well, I announced... physically, their relation with the beings of a supramental earth will be a relation of friends, collaborators, equals, for the highest divine essence will be manifested in the beings of the new supramental world on earth. When the physical substance is supramentalised, to incarnate on earth will no longer be a cause of inferiority, quite the contrary. It will give a plenitude which cannot be obtained ...
... ability. (1) "How far limited in their workings are the Avatars who have brought down the Supramental World into this lower triple universe?" I suppose you mean Avatars who came with the mission of establishing the Supermind in mind, life and matter on the earth. For, surely the Supramental World has not yet been brought down. Some Light, Force and Consciousness of it manifested in the sub ...
... formula “mothersriaurobindo is my refuge”. 62 All this is of crucial importance because the mission of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother was to effect the transition of our human world to a new, supramental world, to “the life divine.” The supramental being will be a-sexual, sexuality having been a means of Nature to render the evolution of life possible. This is the reason why the Avatar of the Supermind... century wars), most of which we are ignorant of, as we are ignorant of the totality of their being and action. Their all-important mission as the last Avatar was to lay the foundations of a new, supramental world, in which “evolution itself will evolve.” (In 1956, after the supramental manifestation, the Mother cried out, almost chanted: “A new world is born, born, born!”) Most important, and rarely ...
... time. 1 – The Mother Meanwhile the transformation process in the Mother’s body, which was representative of the Earth, went on. The connection, the bridge, the link between the supramental world and our material world was being established in her. Her body was no longer a personal body belonging to somebody known and seen as being the Mother; this, she said, was only an appearance kept... religious sense. The Matrimandir, in the centre of Auroville, will be a golden globe, with a diameter of about thirty metres, which arises from the Earth. The symbolism is simple: the golden, supramental world is breaking out of Matter as we know it, out of the Earth as it is now; the New World is being born. If the Matrimandir was only this, the monumental construction would be destined from its ...
... avoid misunderstandings’ — the Mother has never liked this term very much — ‘for as soon as one speaks of “Divine” people think of a God and that spoils everything … It is the descent of the supramental world, which is not something purely imaginary: it is an absolutely material Power but which has no need of material means. A world which wants to incarnate into the [material] world.’ 24 Sri... the near future (in ‘three hundred years’), when gross matter will be sufficiently transformed, they or others of their kind will receive into themselves the descending great beings from the supramental world, and thus become the first incorporated supramental beings on planet Earth and in the cosmos; for then the Earth has no bounds for them any more, they being by definition cosmic and divine. These ...
... the Mother, appealed to me very much: The Next Step The Supramental world exists permanently and I am there permanently in a Supramental body. Now, I know that what is lacking for the two worlds to unite in a constant and conscious relation is an intermediate zone between the physical world as it is and the Supramental world as it is. It is this zone that remains to be built, simultaneously ...
... universal history. Certain prophets in the past had this apocalyptic vision, but as usual things became mixed, and along with their vision of the apocalypse they did not have the vision of the supramental world that will come to uplift the consenting part of humanity and transform this physical world. However, to give hope to those born into this perverted part of the human consciousness, redemption... taught: those who have faith in the sacrifice of the Divine in Matter will automatically be saved, in another world—faith alone, without understanding, without intelligence. They never saw the supramental world, nor did they see that the great Sacrifice of the Divine in Matter is that of an involution which will lead to the total revelation of the Divine in Matter itself. Page 170 ...
... very definition is the Truth-Consciousness, Truth in possession of itself and fulfilling itself by its own power. In a supramental world imperfection and disharmony are bound to disappear. But what we propose just now is not to make the earth Page 241 a supramental world but to bring down the supramental as a power and established consciousness in the midst of the rest—to let it work there ...
... and which I had wished to publish in Mother India: "The will of Sri Aurobindo is bound to be done... His work of transformation cannot but end in a supreme victory. And what he calls the Supramental world will be brought down on earth and realised by us here and now." After Amrita had read out the Page 208 quotation to her she did not say "Yes" but wanted to know where it... Supramental way." (15-1-1965) I believe she wanted us not to be too sanguine about the great realisation. We must abstain from seeing it as in the very near future, much more imagining the supramental world as already taking shape amongst us. A proper sense of the time needed for so radical a "divine event" is surely the Mother's intention. But, if her statement is to be tied in with the one a ...
... an Overmind creation. And it is not success that we want; we want to establish the Supermind on earth. One must know how to renounce immediate success in order to create the new world, the supramental world in its integrality." With my inner consciousness I understood immediately: a few hours later the creation was gone...and from ¹. Collected Works of The Mother (CWM), Vol. 9, pp.... d in the manifestation. In the world of Chit, Consciousness-force becomes prominent and determines everything. In the world of Ananda, Bliss is the determinant. Then there is the Supramental world, with the four Maha-Shaktis, aspects of the Divine Mother: Maheshwari, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati. Below the Supermind and behind the universe of Mind, Life and Matter is the ...
... supramental by its very definition is Truth-Consciousness, Truth in possession of itself and fulfilling itself by its own power. In a supramental world imperfection and disharmony are bound to disappear. But what we propose just now is not to make the earth a supramental world but to bring down the supramental as a power and established consciousness in the midst of the rest—to let it work there Page ...
... never has anyone had the experience of the Supramental world. It is for the first time that I have traced the route. Therefore, nowhere will you find the necessary help, the process to follow, how to overcome, how to face in order to surmount the difficulties, how one must stand in front of this dazzling light and the crushing force of the Supramental world, how one must be pure and without desires ...
... revealed the esoteric meaning of the Vedic Riks which conceal. behind their symbols deeper truths of the supramental world. Sri Aurobindo self says that while doing Yoga, he had knowledge of the Vedic gods before he actually read the Rigveda. This knowledge and his vision of the supramental world helped him into the truths of the Veda. Their revelation at this great hour when these truths are going ...
... of the eternal stairs The mighty kingdoms of the deathless Flame Aspired to reach the Being's absolutes. ( Ibid .) These kingdoms, of which the highest is the Gnostic or supramental world, manifest the truth of the Real: They keep God's natural breath of mightiness, His bare spontaneous swift intensities... ( Ibid .) 3. Sri Aurobindo, Letters, on Poetry ...
... the first dream (2.9.1976), the black lid of the external earth nature is transformed by its Supramental, golden flame and bliss. It appears that the children participating in it belong to the Supramental world. “Regarding the vision near the bed (23.11.1976), I believe that it is the transformation of the nervous sheath. “In the third—I think it shows that this whole cosmos is His creation, He ...
... supreme God; she is the Divine Word, meaning the Creative Power. And, specifically here in Savitri, she is the Word of the Supramental Consciousness, as the baby that is to be bom is the Supramental World. So, Savitri in union with Satyavan brings forth the New World. She has chosen this earth for transformation, not any other planet. Even though Satyavan had to die within a year, Savitri ...
... so too you may read everything that has been written on occultism, if you do not practise it yourself, you will never be an occultist. November 1957 Last night I had the vision of what this supramental world could become if men were not sufficiently prepared. The confusion existing at present upon earth is nothing in comparison with what could take place. Imagine that very powerful will has the power ...
... through the Worlds of Night, of Twilight, of Day — all of course in a spiritual sense — and ended by calling down the power of the Highest Worlds of Sachchidananda. I had no idea of what the supramental World could be like at that time, so it could not enter into the scheme." 3 In another letter of the same year: "The poem was originally written from a lower level, a mixture perhaps of the ...
... Replica of card written by the Mother in French and in English. In it she describes what happened during that meditation. Page 63 Heralds of the Supramental World —The Mother The painting was done by Pramode Kumar Chatterjee in February 1956 in Calcutta after a visionary experience. At that time he knew nothing about the supramental ...
... is an Overmind creation. And it is not success that we want; we want to establish the Supermind on earth. One must know how to renounce immediate success in order to create the new world, the supramental world in its integrality.” With my inner consciousness I understood immediately: a few hours later the creation was gone…and from that moment we started anew on other bases. [CWM, Vol. 9, pp. 147-48] ...
... creation of the overmind. And it is not the success that we want: we want to establish the Supermind upon earth. One must know how to renounce immediate success in order to create the new world, the supramental world in its integrality.’ With my inner consciousness I understood at once,” said the Mother. “A few hours later the creation did not exist any more, and from that moment we started upon another foundation ...
... turns evolution into revolution. This is the reason why so few can understand him or even believe in the certainty of his vision of Light. Sri Aurobindo wanted to fix the base of a manifested supramental world for all future time. ‘[He] cast his deeds like bronze to front the years.’ 39 Ever the revolutionary and radical extremist, he wrote that it was his wish that the supramental victory, manifestation ...
... some faithful feelings. ‘To celebrate the manifestation of the eternal Consciousness can be done at every moment of the universal history. ‘But to celebrate the advent of a new world, the supramental world, is a marvellous and exceptional privilege.’ 47 Since then we have to read Sri Aurobindo in a completely different light. For everything he did and wrote was focused on the great future ...
... ‘There is only one Force in the world that can destroy them categorically, without any hope of return, and this is a force belonging to the supreme creative Power. It is a force from beyond the supramental world and therefore not at everybody’s disposal. It is a luminous force, of a dazzling whiteness, so brilliant that ordinary eyes would be blinded if they looked into it. It suffices that a being of ...
... moves through the worlds of Night, of Twilight, of Day—all of course in a spiritual sense—and ended by calling down the power of the Highest Worlds of Sachchidananda. I had no idea of what the supramental World could be like at that time, so it could not enter into the scheme. As for expressing the supramental inspiration, that is a matter of the future. 31 October 1936 Page 277 Here is ...
... development. The Divine, as the Gita says, has nothing to gain and nothing that it has not, yet it puts forth its power of action in the manifestation. It is the earth-consciousness, not the supramental world that has to gain by the descent of the supramental principle—that is sufficient reason for it to descend. The supramental worlds remain as they are and are in no way affected by the descent. ...
... and all manifestations, not bound by any, yet from whom all manifestation proceeds and all universe. (2) The supramental and the supracosmic are not the same. If it were so there could be no supramental world and no descent of the supramental principle into the material world—we would be brought back to the idea that the divine Truth and Reality can only exist beyond and the universe, any universe ...
... vājena vājini , that Agni, the divine Force labouring here in body and mind to uplift the mortal, prays for and attains to the Soma, the wine of the Beatitude, the delightful substance. The supramental world in us, foundation of the Truth, is the foundation of the Dawns. They are the descent upon mortal nature of the light of that immortal Truth, ṛtaṁ jyotis . The Lord of the Dawns, Master of Truth ...
... ut even so you do not understand. The truth is that these experiences can be communicated only in silence. And yet, it has been said (and it is a true fact) that these worlds, like the supramental world, are going to express themselves physically. Then what is going to happen? Will they find new words? New words must be found for them.... It is difficult, for if new words are found, they have ...
... not such faith the very hope and conviction that the will of Sri Aurobindo is bound to be done, that his work of transformation cannot but end in a supreme victory and that what he calls the supramental world will be brought down on earth and realised by us here and now? Page 157 ...
... Do you know what the flower which we have called "Successful Future" signifies when given to you? It signifies the hope—nay, even the promise—that you will participate in the descent of the supramental world. For that descent will be the successful consummation of our Work, a descent of which the full glory has not yet been or else the whole face of life would have been different. By slow degrees ...
... "dreams" turn out to be true —much more true than the human so-called realities! 20.5.1966* Page 7 Is it possible to find a spot where the embryo or seed of the future supramental world could be created? The plan had come in all its details; but it is a plan which, in its spirit and consciousness, does not conform at all to what is possible on earth at the moment; and yet, in ...
... according to His own conception! And there, there is no room for miracles—except that it looks like a miracle. ( Silence ) If, instead of a slow evolution, something belonging to the supramental world appeared suddenly, man, the mental being, could call that a miracle, because it would be the intervention of something which he does not consciously carry within himself and which intervenes in ...
... any more, I mean they're no longer being generated. But everything that's already present in the world has to be exhausted. I can see more rapid methods, but they are essentially part of the supramental world. To change a karma, to stop a karma, to withdraw a certain number of vibrations from circulation, as it were, requires yet another movement, another movement altogether—and that Power isn't ...
... sets all wars in motion, and only by thwarting his plans could the last war be won ... This one does not want to be converted, not at all. He wants neither the physical transformation nor the supramental world, for that would spell his end. Besides, he knows ... We talk to each other; beyond all this, we have our relationship. For after all, you see ( laughing ), I am his mother! One day he told me ...
... would call 'the Great Passage.' Without abandoning the earth they found 'the vast dwelling place,' that 'dwelling place of the gods,' Swar , the original Sun-world that Sri Aurobindo calls the Supramental World : 'Human beings [the Rishis emphasize that they are indeed men] slaying the Coverer have crossed beyond both earth and heaven [matter and mind] and made the wide world their dwelling place' (I ...
... Their attitude is like this: 'We are willing to admit that it is possible, that it is real, but as long as it has not manifested here, we do not quite believe in it.' Are you referring to the supramental world? It applies to everything: every true thing in the world, including all the fairy tale miracles. Things that appear miraculous to the physical consciousness happen in an altogether different ...
... amalgam, if this assemblage is dissolved and can no longer go on, then we shall all go straight, straight as an arrow'—and it was like a marvelous flame—'straight to rejoin Sri Aurobindo in his supramental world, which is right here at our door.' And there was such joy! Such enthusiasm, such joy flooded all the cells! They didn't care at all whether or not they would be dissociated.... 'Oh,' they felt ...
... perception of the essential sound before it becomes a material sound. And I said, 'When this essential sound becomes a material sound, it will give birth to the new expression which will express the supramental world.' I had the experience itself at that moment, it came directly. I spoke in English and Sri Aurobindo was concretely, almost palpably, present. Now it has gone away. ( silence ) Oh, another ...
... some faithful feelings. To celebrate the manifestation of the eternal Consciousness can be done at every moment of the universal history. But to celebrate the advent of a new world, the supramental world, is a marvellous and exceptional privilege. 24 April 1958 There are two complementary aspects of the liberating action of the Divine Grace upon earth among men. These two aspects are equally ...
... an essence of Sri Aurobindo enveloping Abhay Singh. You tell me that I spoke of a bridge: I was alluding to the bridge built by Sri Aurobindo and Mother between the physical world and the supramental world, across which one can walk to avoid having to pass through the intermediate worlds. No doubt Abhay Singh had "set his foot" upon it before leaving the body: I feel that his passage was but a serene ...
... Page 390 may be something physical. But it may also be someone who exists permanently, a permanent form somewhere, with whom we are in constant contact in that world (the overmental or supramental world, or elsewhere), and the feeling "Oh, I know this" springs from within. It may be either of those two things—I don't know which as yet. ( After a silence ) It's more an expression, a type of ...
... January Mother’s Agenda 1972-1973 January 30, 1972 ( Message from Mother: ) Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to announce the manifestation of the supramental world. Not only did he announce this manifestation, but he also partially incarnated the supramental force and gave us the example of what we must do to prepare ourselves for this manifestation. The ...
... supramental to avoid confusion, because as soon as you say "Divine," people start thinking of a "God," and that spoils everything. It isn't like that. Not like that, it is the descent of the supramental world ( Mother slowly lowers her fists ), which is not mere imagination ( pointing above ): it is an ABSOLUTELY material Power. But ( smilingly ) with no need for any material means. A world is trying ...
... into the spiritual consciousness: it is to carry in oneself something of the Spirit which, through the individual soul, can begin to govern the life and be the master of one's existence. In the supramental world it is the Spirit which will become the master of this world in its entirety and of all its manifestations and all its expressions consciously, spontaneously, naturally. Instantly my memory ...
... beautiful, excellent—full of feeling: I actually saw her eyes moist with tears of happiness—because indeed, she was anxiously waiting for the auspicious day to come, the great Dawn of the Supramental World. Then we had a peaceful meditation. After that the Mother looked at me for quite a long time. Then suddenly she spread her arms and took me into them—she kissed my forehead and cheeks. It was ...
... domain in which they live. Just as in the physical world we are of the same materiality as the physical world, so in the vital world, in the mental world, in the overmind world and in the supramental world - and in many others, infinite others - there are beings which have a form whose substance is similar to the one of the world. This means that if you are able to enter consciously into ...
... 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, 234 Sri Aurobindo's work ...
... experience is normally limited to be the world of Matter, Life and Mind; but this is not the entirety of the world. There are higher planes of the world, and Para Prakriti is seen manifest as a supramental world. An important aspect that is explicitly stated in the Gita is that of the higher nature which has manifested as the individual soul (jīva hhūtā). Sri Krishna, Page 94 the teacher ...
... the three worlds of ordinary experience, the earth, the mid-world and the heaven, prithwi, antariksha and dyauh, the worlds corresponding to our body, life and mind. This fourth world, the supramental world, the Swar was discovered, according to the Vedic legend, as a consequence of the discovery of the seven-headed thought which was born from the Truth. This discovery was made by Ayasya, the companion ...
... will be a great success.... And it is not success we want; we want to establish the Supermind on earth. One must know how to renounce immediate success in order to create the new world, the supramental world in its integrality.' So the Mother discontinued the experiment. There was another factor which influenced the decision. Many of the sadhaks could not bear the pressure of the descents brought ...
... with his proboscis in consequence. It did not approve of his way of dealing with it. Really, Sir, you have caught a magnificent fellow for Supramentalisation, what? Well, sir, in the supramental world all kinds will be needed, I suppose. Then why not a supramental ass? July 24, 1937 I hadn't understood " Psh " in Chand's letter. Got it at the last moment, by intuition, Sir: Paresh ...
... yet which exists; for our means of expression still belong to this mental world and they do not possess supramental power. We do not have the necessary organs. We must become beings of the supramental world, with a 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 ...
... action of the Consciousness Power Page 262 the Chit-Shakti—in the One. The first projection of this self-conscious Power is Satya Loka, the world of Truth-Consciousness, the Supramental world. Then there takes place a graded descent creating various planes of universal existence—like the Overmental, the Mental, the Vital, the Material and the Conscient and the Inconscient. These worlds ...
... moved through the worlds of Night, of Twilight, of Day—all of course in a spiritual sense—and ended by calling down the power of the Highest Worlds of Sachchidananda. I had no idea of what the supramental World could be like at that time, so it could not enter into the scheme...." (Letter 1936) II "The poem was originally written from a lower level, a mixture perhaps of the inner ...
... TRAVELLER OF THE WORLDS' In 1936, Sri Aurobindo wrote to one of his correspondents: "There was no climbing of planes there in the first version... I had no idea of what the supramental World could be like at that time, so it could not enter into the scheme." 37 Taking up the poem later, Sri Aurobindo worked into it the Divina Commedia of the occult worlds with an elaborate and ...
... not very clearly put — or rather you grope your way toward a question you don’t know yourself. So I grope my way myself through your groping! First of all, mind you don’t try to lure the supramental world into the mental trap: within our cage, we are desperately translating a world that has nothing to do with all the instruments of perception of our cage. It is something else, which changes ...
... completely void. For so many years I have fought and striven one-pointedly for only one thing — and this is ended. Twenty-five years ago, in 1956, Mother recounted me her first experience of the Supramental world — for 25 years I have lived every minute of my life for this single Purpose. And now.... I am plunged in utter nothingness with a big question mark. Have I finished my task? It would seem that ...
... they called it "the Great Passage." Without leaving the earth, they found the "vast dwelling place," which is "the gods' own home," Swar , the primeval sun-world which Sri Aurobindo calls the supramental world : "Human beings [the Rishis stress that they are human] slaying the Coverer have crossed beyond both earth and heaven [matter and mind] and made the wide world for their dwelling place" (I.36 ...
... stillness profound, what avenues of spiritscapes burst open! VI 21 February 1960, her eighty-second birthday, the Mother distributed a card with a pair of golden swans heralding the supramental world, a reproduction of an inspired painting done in 1956 by Promode Kumar Chatterji. The Mother also distributed saris, handkerchiefs and frocks. It was a day of universal, if subdued, rejoicing and ...
... its mother and the formation is like a living statue made with a material external to the sculptor. But naturally this is only a very approximate explanation. 11.3.1968 In the supramental world You are in a supramental body in a permanent way. Here we see You in the human body. What relation is there between these two bodies? Very cordial, but not constant in the physical ...
... 9 is a mystic-occult number. Is it true, Mother? Physically, the number 9 is certainly associated with birth. It has been even associated with the appearance on earth of the supramental world. But more than this, for the moment, I cannot say. Mentally, an occult significance has been given to each number. 25.2.1970 Page 128 Deliver me, O Divine Mother ...
... own forms.... The absurdity here is all the artificial means that have to be used: any imbecile has more power if he has more means by which to acquire the necessary artifice. Whereas in the supramental world, the more one is conscious and in contact with the truth of things, the more authority the will has over substance. The authority is a true authority. If you want clothes, you must have the power ...
... see that only the body can know—that's the extraordinary thing! 3 If we knew that mechanism, we would get out of death. We would see Mother, we would see Sri Aurobindo, we would see the supramental world—because it is here, everything is here! It is not on the "other side"—the other side of what? It is double, it is double.... A veil of death over something which is the same. And which changes ...
... laugh at my childishness—and truly, it is very childish. But I was right. I wanted it to be material. I wanted it to be another way of Matter. Without knowing it, I was seeking the supramental world. And She was slowly polishing me, without my noticing anything, except that this Mother seemed so lovable, but I was terribly guarded with that love. She had to become totally helpless, crushed ...
... precisely there. Otherwise why talk of transformation? The first time that Mother went into “Sri Aurobindo’s home” in 1959, I asked her if this “other” world, this true “lining” of the earth was the supramental world. She answered me thus: My feeling is that this life which Sri Aurobindo is living right now is not the full satisfaction of the supramental life for him. In this “other” world, there was infinity ...
... call it “supramental” to avoid confusion, because as soon as you say “Divine,” people start thinking of a God, and that spoils everything. It isn’t like that. Not that, it is the descent of the supramental world, which is not mere imagination: it is an absolutely material Power, but [and Mother smiled] with no need for any material means! A world is trying to be born into this world. 133 It was ...
... ourselves of ignorance and incapacity— then life becomes tremendously interesting and worth living. 27 January 1972 * * * Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to announce the manifestation of the supramental world. And not only did he announce this manifestation but he also embodied in part the supramental force and gave us the example of what we must do to prepare ourselves to manifest it. The best thing ...
... the domain in which they live. Just as in the physical world we are of the same materiality as the physical world, so in the vital world, in the mental world, in the overmind world and in the supramental world―and in many others, infinite others―there are beings which have a form whose substance is similar to the one of that world. This means that if you are able to enter consciously into that world ...
... the world which can destroy them categorically, that is, without any chance of return, and it is a force which belongs to the supreme creative Power. It is a force that comes from beyond the supramental world—it is not at the disposal of everybody. It is a luminous force, of a dazzling whiteness, so brilliant that if ordinary eyes looked at it, they would turn blind. A being of the vital world has ...
... not such faith the very hope and conviction that the will of Sri Aurobindo is bound to be done, that his work of transformation cannot but end in a supreme victory and that what he calls the supramental world will be brought down on earth and realised by us here and now? Page 99 ...
... Do you know what the flower which we have called "Successful Future" signifies when given to you? It signifies the hope—nay, even the promise—that you will participate in the descent of the supramental world. For that descent will be the successful consummation of our work, a descent of which the full glory has not yet been or else the whole face of life would have been different. By slow degrees ...
... will necessarily be created, and the two worlds will gradually enter into relation with each other. Truly speaking this is what is actually happening, and we can say with certainty that the supramental world already exists, but the time has come for it to become the object of the journey of the supreme Consciousness, and then, gradually, a conscious link will be formed between this world and that ...
... manifestation, then there is no longer a possibility of any hierarchy at all. But as soon as one enters the manifestation, there is a hierarchy. That is to say—if we take the realisation of the supramental world—everybody will not be on the same level and made in the same pattern, and with the same capacity and possibility. It's always this illusion, isn't it, of a sort of indefinite repetition of something ...
... life, the spiritual consciousness; it is to carry in oneself something of the spirit which, individually, through the soul, can begin to rule the life and be the master of existence. But in the supramental world, the spirit will be the master of this entire world and all its manifestations, all its expressions, consciously, spontaneously, naturally. In the individual existence, that is what makes all ...
... , not a total descent. For example, Vivekananda is said to have been an incarnation—a Vibhūti —of Shiva; but Shiva himself has clearly expressed his will to come down on earth only with the supramental world. When the earth is ready for the supramental life, he will come. And almost all these beings will manifest—they are waiting for that moment, they do not want any of the present struggle and the ...
... speaks of "the Divine", immediately people think of a "God", and that spoils everything. It is not that. No, it is not that. ( Mother slowly brings down her closed fists ) It is the descent of the supramental world, which is not a purely imaginative thing ( gesture upward ), it is an absolutely material Power. But ( Mother smiles ) it has no need of material means. A world which wants to take a body in ...
... Aurobindo has written on education. Then you will have to find a way to put it into practice. 1972 Page 204 Sri Aurobindo came upon the earth to announce the manifestation of the supramental world and not merely did he announce this manifestation but embodied also in part the supramental force and showed by example what one must do to prepare oneself for manifesting it. The best thing we ...
... body, but the vital and mental sheaths, all the embodied states or forms of the soul. × The supramental world has to be formed or created in us by the Divine Will as the result of a constant expansion and self-perfecting. × ...
... delight, the eternal Ananda; it is full of the joy of its own truth and power, it creates in bliss, creates out of bliss, creates that which is blissful. Therefore the world of the gnosis, the supramental world is the true and the happy creation, ṛtam, bhadram , since all in it shares in the perfect joy that made it. A divine radiance of undeviating knowledge, a divine power of unfaltering will and ...
... between the two. I am beginning to understand. One day, I'll explain. I am beginning to understand. Sri Aurobindo used to say: it is woman that can build a bridge between the old world and the supramental world. Now I understand. Yes, I understand too. Page 170 Then it's all right. We must have patience. ( Mother presses her index finger against Sujata's chest: ) Will you remember ...
... creation of the Overmind. And what we want is not success: we want to establish the Supermind on the Earth. One must be capable of renouncing an immediate success to create the new world, the supramental world in its integrality.” With my inner consciousness I understood immediately — a few hours later, the creation did not exist anymore … And from that moment onwards we have started again on different ...
... inevitable catastrophes there are solutions to the situation, events which seem to be utterly miraculous. … It is no longer like it was: this really is a new world … It is the descent of the supramental world, which is not something purely imaginary: it is an absolutely material Power but which has no need of material means. A world which wants to incarnate into the [existing material] world.” 25 ...
... clue to the change of entire terrestrial life in the principle of "Supermind" or the Supreme truth-consciousness which is leaning down on earth for co-operation for its descent from the supramental world. This is what he and the Mother have brought down to earth which will ultimately change the whole tenor of terrestrial life. The supermen will be men who are identified with the Divine ...
... possibility. The person who practises the Integral Yoga can have no personal intentions. And the yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother is integral because a transformation of the existing world into a supramental world demands the transformation of all its parts; the transformation cannot be complete as long as one part remains behind. All those parts are present, in various degrees, in every human being. The ...
... creation of the Overmind. And it is not success that we want, we want to establish the Supermind upon Earth. One must know how to renounce immediate success in order to create the new world, the supramental world in its integrality.” With my inner consciousness I understood at once: a few hours later the creation didn’t exist any more, and from that moment we started anew on other foundations.’ 21 ...
... into the spiritual consciousness; it is to carry in oneself something of the Spirit which, through the individual soul, can begin to govern the life and be the master of one's existence. In the supramental world it is the Spirit which will become the master of this world in its entirety and of all its manifestations and all its expressions consciously, spontaneously, naturally. The Mother, Questions ...
... by Pramodkumar. It depicted two golden swans gliding in a vast sky. Underneath the picture the Mother had inscribed: "Les annonciateurs du monde Supramental." ("The announcers of the Supramental world") On the right she had written: To My dear little child Huta With my love and blessings ...
... would produce such an abrupt change that our physical constitutions would be unable to support it—an intermediary is needed. The experiences I've had make me absolutely convinced of it; twice the supramental world took veritable possession of me and both times it was as if the body—truly the physical body—was going to completely disintegrate, due to... what you could almost call the opposition of the two ...
... January 12, 1962 ( Note from Mother to Satprem concerning his question of January 9 , on the capacities required to gain access to the supramental world: ) Capacity for indefinite expansion of consciousness on all planes including the material. Limitless plasticity, to be able to follow the movement of becoming. Perfect equality ...
... ourselves of ignorance and incapacity—then life becomes tremendously interesting and worth living. 27 January 1972 Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to announce the manifestation of the supramental world. And not only did he announce this manifestation but he also embodied in part the supramental force and gave us the example of what we must do to prepare ourselves for this manifestation. The ...
... way. In truth, a lot can be done—it's man's ignorance that gets him in trouble. Page 424 × With the Supramental World. × Original English. × ...
... Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960 February 15, 1958 Last night, I had the vision of what this supramental world could become if men were not sufficiently prepared. The confusion existing at present upon earth is nothing in comparison to what could take place. Imagine that every powerful will has the power to transform matter as it likes! If the sense of collective ...
... The stronger and more sincere our faith, the more powerful and effective will be the help received. 2 January 1972 Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to announce the manifestation of the supramental world and not merely did he announce this manifestation but embodied also in part the supramental force and showed by example what one must do to prepare oneself for manifesting it. The best thing we ...
... would suffice. I will have to look at this in my body since that is where it is happening, where things are being prepared. This other world you speak of, this world of Truth, is it the supramental world? My feeling is that this life which Sri Aurobindo is living right now is not the full satisfaction of the supramental life for him. In this other world, there was infinity, majesty, perfect ...
... "possible" not according to human conception but according to His own conception! Then there is no room for the miracle, except for a pretend miracle. ( silence ) If what belongs to the supramental world materialized abruptly, rather than through a slow evolution... that would be something which man, as a mental being, even if his mentality, his mental domain, were brought to perfection, could ...
... and it goes away in the space of a minute or two. So why shouldn't it heal others! Maybe because nobody would be ill anymore! ( Mother laughs ) In fact, that's right. We speak of the supramental world, but it's simply a world in which truth would be true. That's all, it's simple. Quite so. ( Soon afterwards, Satprem sorts old conversations: ) Are they old ones? From 1964. ...
... incarnation ( a vibhuti ) of Shiva's; but Shiva himself... I have had a very close relationship with him and he Page 18 clearly expressed the will to come down on earth only with the supramental world. When the earth is ready for supramental life, he will come. And almost all those beings will manifest—they are waiting for that moment, they do not want the present struggle and darkness. ...
... in 1956. The recurrence of the number 6 rather than any other in this hastened process should be noted. According to the Mother, 12 represents the New Perfection which will be the Supramental World on earth: her own Lotus-symbol has 12 petals in its outermost ring. But 6 is a repeating figure in the numerological set-up of Sri Aurobindo's work. Even his symbol is a 6-pointed star. Pa ...
... moved through the worlds of Night, of Twilight, of Day—all of course in a spiritual sense—and ended by calling down the power of the Highest Worlds of Sachchidananda. I had no idea of what the supramental World could be like at that time, so it could not enter into the scheme. As for expressing the supramental inspiration, that is a matter of the future." 60 Then, in 1948, he writes to Dilip Kumar ...
... Earth, and Part II: Beyond — with four Books in Part I and three Books and an Epilogue in Part II. 2 all this was years before the Mother finally arrived in 1920 for permanent stay, and the Supramental world does not enter into its scheme. As was his habit, Sri Aurobindo no doubt returned to the poem from time to time; but it was only in the early thirties that the work of revision was taken up ...
... moved through the worlds of Night, of Twilight, of Day—all of course in a spiritual sense—and ended by calling down the power of the Highest Worlds of Sachchidananda. I had no idea of what the supramental World could be like at that time, so it could not enter into the scheme. As for expressing the supramental inspiration, that is a matter of the future.” In July 1948, in a letter to Dilip Kumar Roy ...
... beautiful, excellent—full of feeling. I actually saw her eyes moist with tears of happiness—because indeed she was anxiously waiting for the auspicious day to come: the great Dawn of the Supramental World. Then with a smile she put a garland of jasmines around my neck— this was a reward to me. In my birthday card she wrote: With my blessings for your whole being to become conscious ...
... the Veda. SABCL, Vol. 10, pp. 119-20. Page 57 thoughts they brought to birth the Dawn," 64 or we "have crossed over to the other shore of this darkness!" 65 The supramental world is the foundation of the Truth, and it is the foundation of the Dawns: Dawn bom in heaven opens out things by the Troth, she comes manifesting the greatness. Dawn comes divine repelling ...
... everything that has been written on occultism, if you do not practise it yourself, you will never be an occultist. Nov. 1957 1958-02-15 Last night I had the vision of what this supramental world could become if men were not sufficiently prepared. The confusion existing at present upon earth is nothing in comparison with what could take place. Imagine that very powerful will has the power ...
... soul behind. They perceived or conceived of a series of worlds, particularly of the mind and the overmind, and even of a supramaterial world. The Vedic gods had their permanent dwelling in the supramental world. As Sri Aurobindo would say, "The gods of the Rig Veda are not material Nature powers but great world deities with complex functions material, mental and spiritual. The same Agni who burns here ...
... thorny a subject to tackle without leisure and space. MYSELF: Really, Sir, you have caught a magnificent fellow for Supramentalisation, what? SRI AUROBINDO: Well, sir, in the Supramental world all kinds will be needed, I suppose. Then why not a supramental ass? Page 27 1938 Chand sent a wire: Why silent? great struggle, protection. MYSELF: Guru, I don't ...
... ended by Page 417 calling down the power of the Highest Worlds of Sachchidananda"; and Sri Aurobindo has also admitted that at that time he had no idea of what the supramental World would be like. 112 Quite obviously, this early version of Savitri was written not long after Urvasie (1896) and Love and Death (1899), the two early narrative poems ('epyllions' ...
... circumstance" of our evolution. Duality is the device of manifesting the Infinite Page 203 in ignorance through imperfect instruments. For instance, in the Supermind and Supramental world all these things – suffering and duality etc. – do not enter at all because there is no possibility of them. What is suffering? Suffering means that the consciousness is not able to bear the ...
... work is rendered easy and quick. One blow from the Supreme Force and the thing is done ! 15-8-1925 ( 4.30 p.m. ) Our Yoga aims at the discovery of the Supramental being, the Supramental world, and the Supramental nature, and their manifestations in life. But we must guard ourselves against certain general mistakes which are likely to arise. People think that certain powers such ...
... here. It is not quite correct, for indeed He used to spend night after night replying to a heap of letters instead of doing His work of uplifting the world and preparing it for the advent of the Supramental world. He used to take pains to follow their progress and occupy Himself with matters concerning the sadhaks. And yet He had arranged things in such a way that the sadhaks could communicate directly ...
... and which yet exists; for our means of expression still belong to this mental world and they do not possess supramental power. We do not have the necessary organs. We must become beings of the supramental world, with a 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 ...
... through the Worlds of Night, of Twilight, of Day — all of course in a spiritual sense — and ended by calling down the power of the Highest Worlds of Sachchidananda. I had no idea of what the supramental World could be like at that time, so it could not enter into the scheme." In another letter of the same year: "The poem was originally written from a lower level, a mixture perhaps of the inner mind ...
... What is absurd here , says the Mother, is all the artificial devices we must use. Any idiot has more power provided he has the means of acquiring the necessary devices. But in a true world, a supramental world, the more conscious and in harmony with the truth of things you are, the more your will has authority over substance; substance responds to the will. There, authority is a true authority. If you ...
... Earth, and Part II: Beyond - with four Books in Part I and three Books and an Epilogue in Part II. 2 All this was years before the Mother finally arrived in 1920 for permanent stay, and the Supramental world does not enter into its scheme. Page 653 As was his habit, Sri Aurobindo mo doubt returned to the poem from time to time, but it was only in the early thirties that the work of ...
... a formless limitless Vast vibrating with the seeds of a new world.' - Nov 26 Takes her last Wednesday class at the Playground. Describes the role of the spirit in the present and in the supramental world, and the nature of the soul. - Dec 5 Says in her last Friday class at the Playground, 'To put into practice the little you know... is the most powerful means of advancing... the moment you ...
... tion and world-transformation. Verily, Sri Aurobindo's and the Mother's is a Yoga of revolutionary change defying the known limits and daring the Unknown and confidently pressing towards the supramental world of the Next Future. III Sri Aurobindo and the Mother - the incarnate Lord and the divine Shakti - were nevertheless, when seen from our human end, willing actors in the terrestrial drama ...
... 9:141 29. MO 9:173-74 47. Readings in Dhammapada 1. MO 3:Pub Note (cf Note, 1989 ed.) 2. MO 9:196 3. Dhammapada : Pref 4. MO 9:197 5. MO 3:187 48. Supramental World 1. MO 15:171 2. Light- 48 3. Light- 48 4. MO 9:210 5. MO 9:100 6. MO 9:100-02 7. Champaklal :l34 8. Champaklal :184 9. Champaklal :l34 ...
... really knowing why, the true Vibration, the supramental Vibration or Power, emerged from behind the veil of mud. All we know is that the experience seemed to come more and more often. Twice the supramental world took veritable possession of me and both times it was as if the body—truly the physical body—was going to completely disintegrate, due to... what you could almost call the opposition of the two ...
... there is still a "missing link," a veil. What is extraordinarily interesting in the mysterious geography we have begun to explore gropingly is that Mother found that supramental "place," that supramental world, on the other side (or at the bottom) of the mental inconscient. Although it looks like nothing, this is a stupendous discovery—an un-covering, really. Because it means that all this, this new ...
... open, the whole universe is right here, instantly. The whole universe in a body, you could say. Not only that, but true Matter emerges, the lights of the cell emerge, the world of truth, the supramental world emerges and, through one body, begins to infiltrate the WHOLE body. And Mother added, Its only when a modest work of this kind, a work of "local" transformation, so to speak, is completed and ...
... together—except those who wish otherwise and will continue to believe in death and will indeed die? The Apocalypse is perhaps just that. But the people who wrote the Apocalypse did not know of the supramental world. They did not know that particular Matter, which they located in some remote heaven, thus ridiculing the very meaning of the earth. The Apocalypse will be really for those who stay on this side ...
... great success .... And it is not success that we want; we want to establish the Supermind on earth. One must know how to renounce immediate success in order to create the new world, the supramental world in its integrality.'' 17 With her inner consciousness, the Mother at once saw that Sri Aurobindo was right. She returned to her room, concentrated for a few hours and willed the ...
... usly accomplishing the utterance of Being and the naming and thanking of the Holy (as Heidegger might have put it). Sri Aurobindo sees the Mother as she is poised between the higher supramental world and our lower phenomenal world: The Mother as the Mahashakti of this triple world of the Ignorance stands in an intermediate plane between the supramental Light, the Truth life, the Truth ...
... practise the four austerities and realise the four liberations. In other words, she wanted the children to shape themselves in the fullness of time into the "flaming pioneers" of Tomorrow's supramental world. Page 545 ...
... of evolution. Sri Aurobindo, using a technical, neutral term, has called the sun-world ‘the Supramental’, because it is far above the mental consciousness, even above its highest reaches. The Supramental — itself a resplendent prism of worlds — is essentially a principle of Unity, to us unimaginable. For in our world everything is divided, separated into I and you, he and she, in things on a cosmic... only be Ananda in all the worlds throughout the scale of manifestation. In the manifestation of Brahman, logically speaking, the presence of suffering, need, fear or any feeling of incompleteness is an impossibility, and death can only be a meaningful and joyful metamorphosis. In the scale of manifestation there are material, vital, mental and supramental worlds, and worlds with beings partaking of... be remembered that God is not only ‘higher’ but also deeper, more inward, and it is from the ‘inside’ that, by his supramental creation, he keeps up our darkened world. But indeed, how is it that our world has been ‘darkened’? How is it that we are living in such a troublesome world of division, separation and ignorance? Because the golden sunrays of the Consciousness of Unity have been filtered ...
... into wider or higher ranges of consciousness. By passing away into these ranges he may put away from him the terrestrial being. There is even, it was supposed in ancient times, a transition to supramental worlds from which a return to earthly consciousness was either not possible or not obligatory. But the definite and sure finality of this kind of liberation depends on the elevation of the mental being... inadequacy, confused action, due to the mechanically unequal interplay of the three modes or gunas of Nature. To transcend it he has in the universality too to rise to the supramental and spiritual, to be one with the supramental soul of cosmos, the universal spirit. He arrives at the larger light and order of a higher principle in himself and the universe which is the characteristic action of the divine... intuition is an inner awareness of something which he more essentially is, something as high above mind as mind is above the physical life and body. This inner awareness is his intuition of his supramental and spiritual being. The mental Purusha can at any time involve himself again in the superficial action from which he has drawn back, live for a while entirely identified with the mechanism of ...
... progenitors, but who will be in possession of the Mind of Light which is a supramental consciousness, even when for the most part veiled; the overman is an intermediary being and will probably appear in many variants; the supramental being, who will embody in the refined form of matter a being from the supramental worlds, materialized in a hitherto unknown way according to an occult procedure... try and imagine what these words mean) and how he stopped the publication of the Arya in January 1921 because the Supramental was descending in his vital being. The Mother, inwardly one with him, participated in his progress: ‘All progress Sri Aurobindo made, I made too.’ When the world of the cosmic forces in the person of the God Shri Krishna gave its assent for the new creation by agreeing to descend... Aurobindo’s body), Sri Aurobindo withdrew into his apartment. His only aim from then onwards was to bring the Supramental into the lowest gradation of existence, into terrestrial matter that is, and to establish it permanently on the Earth. The result of such an establishment would be a new world-order, the Kingdom of God on Earth. We have got some idea of the ‘Herculean labour’ (Sri Aurobindo’s term) ...
... some entities belonging to what we call the world of the Gods (or as the Catholics Page 17 say, the world of the Saints, though it is not quite the same). The beings she saw she called archangels. These beings belong to the intermediate world between the higher mind and the supramental, the world that Sri Aurobindo calls the Overmind. It is the world of the creators, the "Formateurs". The... dreams may have had this experience that, even while dreaming, you knew it was a dream; you knew that it was an experience that did not belong to the material world. When once you know, you can act there in the same way as in the material world; even in the dreaming, you can exercise your conscious will and change the whole course of your dream-experience. And as you become more and more conscious... chance; it requires a long training. How is it that in dreams one meets and knows people whom one meets and knows afterwards in the outer world? It is because of the affinities that draw certain people together, affinities in the mental or the vital world. People often meet in these planes before they meet upon earth. They may join there, speak to each other and have all the relations you can ...
... more subtle substance of the mental worlds. If our mental body is sufficiently developed we can roam about in it through mental dream worlds, and after death we spend some time in it, after having left the vital worlds by discarding our vital body. Then there still is a more subtle sheath, sometimes called the ‘causal body’, in which we may enter the supramental worlds once that body has completely been... evolutionary impulse in it, its soul has called for the manifestation on Earth of a higher consciousness in a new material form; this higher consciousness, in this case the supramental Unity-consciousness, has answered from its own typal world where it is already a part of the infinite Self-manifestation; and to render the transition possible, something the human species is not able to accomplish by itself... spiritual worlds as an unreal fiction. And this is why, after centuries of contradictory accounts and descriptions by those who claimed to have access to these worlds, humankind has resolutely put both feet on the solid ground of matter and declared this to be its true domain. Still, humans know little of the spiritual worlds. They sometimes sense them so intensely that their familiar world is turned ...
... harrowing questions crop up. What about the expectation that Sri Aurobindo and the Mother would stay on Earth forever? (They have never said so.) What about the appearance of the immortal supramental beings and the New World? (What Sri Aurobindo and the Mother said about the transitional being was not taken into consideration till the present day.) Would Sri Aurobindo and/or the Mother come back, preferably... human being, unable to “even see the step ahead.” 26 The characteristics of the radical events ahead, however, should be identifiable as the conditions necessary for the appearance of the supramental being: world-unity in diversity; supercession of the ego in individuals, communities, religions, peoples and nations; fulfilment of the highest capabilities of the human being leading towards the realisation... human being, and his followers number seven or eight hundred million. When will there be a concrete result of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s Yoga, in other words, when will the first signs of a supramental transformation be perceptible to ordinary humans? This question was considered of secondary importance during Sri Aurobindo’s lifetime. What counted then – “the one thing needful” – was the descent ...
... simply to put an end to his life, following the normal process of transiting to the other worlds by shedding successively the material, vital and mental body-sheaths. His master act was a confrontation with death in full consciousness and while keeping the vital and mental sheaths, which, as we know, were supramentally transformed. (The Mother described him later on as being in possession of this supra... supramentalized body when she gained access to his dwelling in a certain region of the Supramental worlds.) He did not subject himself to death, he confronted it by entering into it with his supernal consciousness ablaze. An indication of his voluntary intent was the rapidity with which he let the illness develop from a ‘mild infection’ to a fatal condition. A still stronger indication was his surfacing... they succeed, there is no reason why domination of the whole world should not follow by steps until they are ready to deal with America.’ 56 98 These outer circumstances, however, must have developed simultaneously with a profound inner reason, which nobody knows, for confronting death. What we do know is that the Supramental was on the verge of manifesting in 1938. We know also that, as ...
... the state of the mental to that of the supramental Purusha must bring with it to be complete a transformation of all the parts of the nature and all its activities. The whole mind is not merely made into a passive channel of the supramental activities, a channel of their down-flow into the life and body and of their outflow or communication with the outward world, the material existence,—that is only... of consciousness, beginning with the psychical and other belts attached to and dependent on the earth plane and proceeding through the true independent vital and psychical worlds to the worlds of the gods and the highest supramental and spiritual planes of existence. And these are in fact always acting upon our subliminal selves unknown to our waking mind and with considerable effect on our life and... can be aware of all things in whatever world, on whatever plane, in whatever formation of universal consciousness. It can be aware of the things of the material universe even in the trance of samadhi, aware of them as they are or appear to the physical sense, even as it is of other states of experience, of the pure vital, the mental, the psychical, the supramental presentation of things. It can in the ...
... said that the successful future means the supramental change of the world, when the Divine will stand manifest — unveiled in its total perfection. Then she told us: "I do not mean to say that the whole world will at once feel its presence or be transformed; but I do mean that a part of humanity will know and participate in its descent — say, this little world of ours here. From there the transfiguring... Book: As if a torch held by a power of God, The radiant world of the everlasting Truth Glimmered like a faint star bordering the night Above the golden Overmind's shimmering ridge. There is a night between the Overmind and the Supramental Truth-world, and so vast, so deep is it that the Supermind appears above the Overmind as no more... The Lord has willed and Thou dost execute: A new light shall break upon the earth, A new world shall be born. The things that were promised shall be fulfilled. Page 74 These words look forward to the Supramental Manifestation for which Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were working. As you know, the Manifestation at last took place on February ...
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