... 3 The Hour of God, Vol. 17 53 . THE MIND OF LIGHT E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1953 American Edition of The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth ( See 86) , published under this new title. SABCL: The Supramental Manifestation, Vol. 16 54 . MORE LIGHTS ON YOGA Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Poitdichierry, 1-948 Extracts from letters. In SABCL... and "The Delight of Works" (August 1915). "The Superman" had earlier appeared in the Arya under the title "The Type of the Superman". SABCL: The Supramental Manifestation, Vol. 16 86 . THE SUPRAMENTAL MANIFESTATION UPON EARTH Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1952 The last of Sri Aurobindo's prose writings, reproduced from the quarterly Bulletin... Social and Political Thought: The Human Cycle; The Ideal of Human Unity; War and Self-Determination Volume 16 The Supramental Manifestation AND OTHER WRITINGS: The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth; The Problem of Rebirth; Evolution; The Superman; Ideals and Progress; Heraclitus; Thoughts nand Glimpses; Question of the Month from the ...
... the future tense, but that should not convey the impression that the supramental manifestation is something that is still lying in the womb of distant future and its possible glorious achievements that we have mentioned above are only the golden ineffectual dreams of incorrigible optimists. No, the supramental manifestation upon earth is no longer just a speculative conjecture; it has already... of this supramental manifestation upon earth, the Mother says: "There are many kinds of freedom, mental freedom, vital freedom, spiritual freedom, which are the fruits of successive mastery. But there is quite a new freedom that has become 34. Sri Aurobindo on the Mother, p. 48. 35. Ibid., p. 49. Page 239 possible with the supramental manifestation, the freedom... and its interests, for thought and knowledge, develop into the thinker, the philosopher and scientist and, as a supreme 12. The Life Divine, p. 968. 13.Sri Aurobindo, The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth (1952 ed.), p. 74. 14. The Life Divine, p. 849. Page 232 defiance to the reign of Matter, awake in himself to the hidden Godhead, become the hunter after ...
... the future tense, but that should not carry the impression that the supramental manifestation is something that is still lying in the womb of the distant future and its possible glorious achievements that we have delineated above are but the golden ineffectual dreams of incorrigible optimists. No, the supramental manifestation upon earth is no longer just a speculative conjecture; it has already... freedom, spiritual freedom, which are the fruits of successive mastery. But there is quite a new freedom that has become possible with the supramental manifestation, the freedom of the body. "One of the very first results of the supramental manifestation has been to give to the body a freedom and an autonomy which it had never known. And when I speak of freedom, it is not a matter of... in the cells, it is a freedom of the cells themselves, altogether a new vibration, and the disorders are mended, disorders even antecedent to the supramental manifestation." 2 Now, what will be the impact of this supramental manifestation upon the specific problem that constitutes the central theme of our present discussion? How is it going to liberate the body from its inexorable and ...
... Transformation and the Supramental Words of the Mother - III The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth 29 February 1956 During the common meditation on Wednesday This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you. I had a form of living gold, bigger than the universe, and I was facing a huge and massive golden... fact, a reality. It is at work here, and one day will come when the most blind, the most unconscious, even the most unwilling shall be obliged to recognise it. I am speaking of a supramental manifestation evident to all, even the most ignorant—as the human manifestation was evident to all when it happened. To all those who aspire Open yourself to the new Force. Let it do in you its... sure of itself, infallible in its movements. To become the builders of a better future in the light of the supramental consciousness. ( Message for the first anniversary of the Supramental Manifestation upon earth) 2 The Golden Day Henceforth the 29th February will be the day of the Lord. 1960 There is a change in Sri Aurobindo's symbol on the medals that you distributed ...
... On The Mother CHAPTER 46 A Glorified, not a Crucified, Body I A few weeks after the supramental manifestation (about which hardly anything was known at the time), a senior Government of India officer met the Mother and asked her when the Supermind was likely to come down and set things right in the world. "You may take it that it is already here... Page 624 Let this place be worthy of its name and manifest the true spirit of Sri , Aurobindo's teaching and message to the world. 6 This was seventeen days before the Supramental Manifestation of 29 February, and on 23 April, the Mother inaugurated from Pondicherry the Mother's School at the Delhi Branch of Sri Aurobindo Ashram: A new Light has appeared upon earth. Let this... and puissant soul supported by an immaculate "glorified body", he will be able to encompass the salvation of the world and establish the Life Divine in our midst. Page 631 The supramental manifestation is a general power, like the power of gravitation for example; not individuals will control this new power, but this new power will use individuals for its own purposes. In the Mother's words ...
... century. But you think that this kind of transformation of the flesh by the spirit can be seen as part of the process of 'supramental manifestation', Page 25 which in my view actually took place in the birth of Jesus. My suggestion is that the supramental manifestation was actually initiated in the birth, death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus, and this has released a power in the... embodied existence. In the vision of the Platonic Archetype and much more in that of the Causal Body, kārana sharīra, in the Upanishads a hint was caught of something that could lead to the Supramental Manifestation. Even the secular search for the elixir vitae and the semi-esoteric quest of the philosopher's stone had some glint of what Sri Aurobindo knew and wanted to establish. But short of the ... 'glorious liberty' comes with what he calls the 'redemption of the body 7 , that is the divinisation of the body as well as the soul. Is not this extremely close to Aurobindo's conception of the Supramental manifestation? I would agree with you that when time and space are transcended, they will become instruments of 'a higher mode of consciousness'. Everything in our present mode of consciousness and existence ...
... a consequence or application. Looking that period up in the writings of the commentators and biographers, one gets an impression as if the years between Sri Aurobindo’s departure and the Supramental Manifestation in 1956 are a kind of void in which nothing important happened in connection with the transformation. It has even been written that the Mother started the yoga of the cells, which meant the... already wrote in The Life Divine. Let us now follow some of the phenomena of the process of transformation in the Mother during the period between Sri Aurobindo’s departure and the Supramental Manifestation in 1956. On 26 February 1951 she ends her Entretien (about the Gnostic consciousness) with the words: ‘I am telling you this tonight because what has been done, what has been realized... exterior ones. I therefore tell you what is the attitude you have to adopt in such circumstances. Those difficulties perhaps will not last for twelve months but for fourteen months.’ 37 The Supramental Manifestation took place exactly fourteen months later, on 29 February 1956! One of the youngsters asked: ‘Will [^1955] be a difficult year for the Ashram or also for India and for the whole Earth ...
... freedom, spiritual freedom—which are the fruits of successive masteries. But a completely new freedom has become possible with the Supramental Manifestation: it is the freedom of the body. Page 111 One of the very first results of the supramental manifestation was to give the body a freedom and an autonomy it has never before known. And when I say freedom, I don't mean some psychological... some other form until the body itself has decided to be cured. But this implies only a defensive power, the power to react against an invading enemy—it is not true freedom. But with the supramental manifestation, something new has taken place in the body: it feels it is its own master, autonomous, with its two feet solidly on the ground, as it were. This gives a physical impression of the whole being... head, and at last you emerge into the Light. Then you see, you know, you decide and you realize—difficulties may still remain, but truly speaking one is above them. Well, as a result of the supramental manifestation, it is THIS experience that came into the body. The body straightened its head up and felt its freedom, its independence. During the flu epidemic, for example, I spent every day in the ...
... the fact of the Supramental Manifestation — one in the Ashram and three outside'? I can very well believe that there was only one person in the Ashram — namely, yourself! But the three outsiders puzzle me. How did they manage to do what hundreds here didn't?" Page 117 The Mother told me: "What I said was not that four people knew it to be the Supramental Manifestation, but that when... Aspects of Sri Aurobindo SOME DIARY-NOTES OF 1956, THE YEAR OF THE SUPRAMENTAL MANIFESTATION ON FEBRUARY- 29 (As February 29, 1988 will mark the eighth anniversary of the great event which took place thirty-two years ago in a leap year, a dip into a sadhak's Diary of 1956 will be of interest.) ... al universes subtly and secretly present along with the physical in a single original self-extension of divine consciousness. March 31 This is the poem I wrote before the Supramental Manifestation was announced. In fact, I wrote it in Bombay. Doors in the ultimate Secrecy cleave wide And out of them dances an immortal dust, A shower of scintillating silences Falling ...
... NOTES 1. Sri Aurobindo, The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth, Centenary Library, Vol. 16, pp. 41-2. 2. For a description of these grades, see Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Centenary Library, Vol. 19, pp. 939-63. 3. Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Centenary Library, Vol. 18, p. 312. 4. Sri Aurobindo, The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth, Centenary Library... Centenary Library, Vol. 19, pp.953-4. 16. Ibid., pp. 917-18. 17. Sri Aurobindo, The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth, Centenary Library, Vol. 16, p. 39. 18. Sri Aurobindo, The Hour of God, Centenary Library, Vol. 17, p. 7. 19. Sri Aurobindo, The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth, Centenary Library, Vol. 16, p. 281. 20. Ibid., p. 50. Page 39 ... '19 Page 37 The descent of the Supermind and the appearance of the superman on the earth would, according to Sri Aurobindo, have immense influence on mankind as a whole. In his Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth, Sri Aurobindo has given us some glimpses into the consequences for humanity of the descent of the Supermind on the earth. As he points out: 'The descent into the earth-life ...
... of 29 February hardly made any noise; the long awaited Supramental manifestation was certainly not proclaimed "by beat of drum". The event passed unnoticed, and according to the Mother scarcely five people - two in the Ashram and three outside - had any unusual experience at the time: "Not that they knew it was the Supramental Manifestation." They nevertheless felt that something of supreme relevance... ultimate descent of the Supermind too to inhabit the earth; Sri Aurobindo's correspondence with his disciples in the thirties was lit up with frequent references to the near possibility of the supramental manifestation; and on 5 December 1950, the Mind of Light, the physical mind receiving the Supramental Light, was realised in the Mother. All through, Savitri, imaging the dynamic and conquering power... the Divine for the satisfaction of one's egoistic desires, and making a total surrender to Him. The latter is the wiser way. On 2 May, 16 one of the questions asked was, well, since the supramental manifestation was "a living fact, a reality", Page 618 where was the new race? The Mother felt provoked and returned this answer: The new race? Wait for something like... a few thousand ...
... volume were published in The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings , volume 16 of the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library. A new, rearranged and slightly enlarged edition was brought out in 1989. The present edition is the first to be published under the title Essays in Philosophy and Yoga. It contains all the contents of The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings as well as... compared the sometimes defective text published in the journal with that of a manuscript draft. PART FIVE: FROM THE BULLETIN OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION (1949 - 1950) The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth These eight essays, Sri Aurobindo's last prose writings, first appeared in the quarterly Bulletin of Physical Education (at present called Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo... of his failing eyesight, Sri Aurobindo dictated them to a secretary. The series was left unfinished on his passing in December 1950. It was published as a book in 1952 under the title The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth (This title was provided or at least approved by the Mother.) The book has been reprinted several times. In 1953 and subsequently it was brought out in the United States under ...
... in his diary that he had heard that four people, one inside the Ashram and three outside, had been aware of the supramental Manifestation, and that he had written to the Mother about this. ‘The Mother told me: “What I said was not that four people knew it to be the supramental Manifestation, but that when the Manifestation took place they had some unusual experiences because of it, even if they didn’t... 11 And then it happened, on 29 February 1956: the manifestation of the Supramental – exactly fourteen months after the Mother’s prediction on the New Year’s Eve of 1955. The Supramental Manifestation ‘The lights had been turned off at the Playground after the reading of some passages from The Synthesis of Yoga and the children’s questions. They all sat on the ground in a semicircle... begin. For this new phase there was no available guidance, neither from Sri Aurobindo nor from the Mother’s own experience. Some insights, guidelines and suggestions can be found in The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, in Savitri, and in the last chapters of The Life Divine and The Synthesis of Yoga – but that only in retrospect. This new phase of the Integral Yoga might be called ‘the ...
... Overmind is not the true Omnipotence. Now we can go back to where we stopped: the Day of the Supramental Manifestation, with which, I said, I had a small vague connection symbolised by my choice of that particular Prayer of the Mother's. I believe the Supramental Manifestation was actually expected in 1938. In that year I left Pondicherry at the end of February for a short spell... 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 29, 1956. On April 24 of that year the Mother declared for the first time... on a back-look that I should have selected a sentence from that particular Prayer — and perhaps the selection was symbolic of some small vague connection I was to have with the Day of the Supramental Manifestation. But I shall come to this point a little later. Let me continue with some of the unforgettable things of the Prosperity meetings. A few statements by the Mother bearing on the ...
... invariably determined its corresponding brand of attitude to life in general and to body and Matter in particular. Some of these views have led to a downright disparagement and 1 The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, p. 43. Page 31 denial of the physical being of man: some others recognise the importance of the body, even at times its essentiality and perfectibility... Let us pass on to a succinct consideration of these benefits, basing ourselves for that purpose mainly on the observations made by Sri Aurobindo himself in his lastly written work The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth. (i) Perfection of the body proper: For the body itself the perfection that can be developed through such activities as sports and physical exercises are those of its... Life and Matter offer to us and respect the conditions and what we may call the technique imposed by the vital and the material energy. We may extend the activity, the 1 The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, pp. 23-24. Page 36 achievement, the perfection attained beyond the initial, even beyond the normal possibilities but still we have to stand on the same base ...
... × The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth , 71 × Entretiens 57-58, 356 × The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth , 67 ... in the school she had started. These articles, Sri Aurobindo’s last prose writings, appeared in the quarterly during 1949 and 1950, and were later published as a book with the title The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth. ‘What we have called specifically the Mind of Light’, Sri Aurobindo writes there, ‘is indeed the last of a series of descending planes of consciousness in which the Supermind... realization, clearly shown by the fact that it had to be transmitted to the Mother in order that she might carry on with the Work from the point reached by him. K.D. Sethna rightly calls The Supramental Manifestation a sequel to The Life Divine. Though this series of articles leaves many questions unanswered, it is not only important for its presentation and definition of the Mind of Light, but also ...
... Talukdar, to whom Sri Aurobindo gave some glimpses of his gigantic yogic effort in his correspondence with them. The important series of articles written for the Bulletin and later named The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth remains largely unappreciated even today. And one reads seldom about the intimations by the Mother about her work of physical transformation, which was, after all, her avataric... the Mother there is written “overmen,” the English translators have used each and every time the term “supermen,” unaware of significance of the Mother’s words and of the contents of The Supramental Manifestation . The Mother gave her Entretiens in French, for those talks were actually French classes for the students of the Ashram School. What Sri Aurobindo had called “a new humanity,” the Mother... the occult depths at the roots of existence. 11 What this yogic, or rather avataric, master-act actually meant, we cannot even guess. But its result was that only six years later the Supramental Manifestation took place, and the evolutionary progress was guaranteed forever. After a lifetime of unprecedented spiritual effort for humanity, Sri Aurobindo had seen that the result of his and the Mother’s ...
... consciousness he called ‘the Mind of Light,’ and it is to this Mind of Light that he dedicates a major part of The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth. (This title was not coined by him and does not cover the general contents of the articles. Towards the Supramental Manifestation upon Earth might have been more to the point.) ‘We have supposed not only the descent of the supermind upon the... of eight articles Sri Aurobindo wrote for the Bulletin, at the request of the Mother, appeared in it from February 1949 to November 1950. In 1952 they were published under the title The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth and have been reprinted several times. They are extremely important because here, for the first time, Sri Aurobindo writes extensively about the necessity of a transitional being... and the Mother’s experience, he must have realized this transitional state in his own body. (His mind and vital had been supramentalized a long time previously.) Not only did this make The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth a sequel to The Life Divine, it also proved to be an explanation of a crucial experience which was soon to happen to the Mother, and of the yogic work she was going to base upon ...
... Only a movement of light. Then gushed out air the world had never breathed before. How the whole thing happened is a great surprise to me; but a greater surprise is the Supramental Manifestation that took place unexpectedly later in February 1956. My second poem is also about the Manifestation and was published in Mother India, April 1956; it runs as follows: O Power... very significant Event to take place. Somehow my Prelude caught it and somehow Amal was responsible for making me write it; I look at it again in sheer amazement. In connection with Supramental Manifestation I recollect Amal's story. It was on 29th February 1956 that he had to go to Bombay for some work; but he was hesitant to do so as it was expected that something important would take place... panels of the compartment. He could not make out anything from that vision. After his return to the Ashram he asked the Mother about it. She replied: "I had promised to inform you about the Supramental Manifestation whenever it would occur. I came to do it." One more incident apropos of the Manifestation. This was much before 1956, during the time of Sri Aurobindo. Dilip Kumar Roy noted that the ...
... of the essay on "Sri Aurobindo and Modern Psychology". 11. Letters on Yoga (SABCL, Vol. 24), p. 1609. 12. The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings (SABCL, Vol. 16), p. 16. 13. The Life Divine (SABCL, Vol. 18), p. 550. 14. The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings (SABCL, Vol. 16), pp. 10-11. 15. The Life Divine (SABCL, Vol. 18), p. 186. 16. Ibid., p... (SABCL, Vol. 24), p. 1606. 25. Letters on Yoga (SABCL, Vol. 22), p. 354. 26. The Life Divine (SABCL, Vol. 18), p. 557. Page 47 27. Ibid., p. 557. 28. The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings (SABCL, Vol. 16), p. 261. 29. The Life Divine (SABCL, Vol. 18), pp. 425-26. 30. Letters on Yoga (SABCL, Vol. 23), pp. 1020-21. 31. Letters on Yoga (SABCL ...
... body. In a conversation in May of that year, she said that she had been working on this since the moment of Sri Aurobindo’s departure, eight years before, and still more intensely after the supramental manifestation. When on 8 October a child asked her: ‘Mother, will there not be any intermediary states between man and overman [le surhomme]?’ the Mother answered: ‘There will probably be many.’ But then... 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, among other things, in the supramental manifestation in 1956. But now something completely new happened: the Mother met Sri Aurobindo not in a psychic, mental or vital part of her personality, but physically, in the world of supramental Matter... stupendous Love, only Love. Each pulsation of the Love was carrying the universe further in the manifestation. ‘And there was the certitude that what is to be done is done and that the Supramental Manifestation is realized. ‘Everything was personal, nothing was individual. 98 ‘This was going on and on and on and on. ‘The certitude that what is to be done is done. ‘All the results ...
... disbanding the Ashram after the Supramental Manifestation. She looked forward not only to the Ashram's continuation as a focal point of her work but also to the continuation of the Centre of Education - and this she did even when envisaging the possibility of her own departure, as can be seen from a passage in her Collected Works. (3)The Supramental Manifestation was in the subtle-physical of... to a friend. Here it is, dated 7.3.1982: You have declared yourself in full accord with the statement that the Ashram was for the Mother a mere scaffolding for bringing about the Supramental Manifestation of 29 February 1956 and that therefore it is now useless, especially as it has a fair number of faults like any non-Yogic institution. I believe there are several reasons why the ...
... restless physical mind. These are the preliminary conditions for the manifestation. Wisdom in the physical mind: a first step towards the supramental manifestation upon earth. ( Message for the fourth anniversary of the Supramental Manifestation upon earth ) It is only when the Supramental manifests in the body-mind that its presence can be permanent. 29 February 1972 Page 108... the physical appearance, it is to this higher Reality that you must turn. The physical being cannot become truly expressive of the Eternal Reality until it is completely transformed by the supramental manifestation. And until then, it is by passing through it that you must find the Truth. Sweet Mother, what are the "supreme faculties"? It is difficult to reply without seeing the context. Which ...
... supermanhood." 75 Supramental Supermanhood : A New step in Evolution Distinction between Nietzschean Superman and Divine Superman When Sri Aurobindo and the Mother speak of the supramental manifestation as a result of triple transformation and of the emergence of supermanhood, they make it clear that the supramental supermanhood must not be confused with past and present ideas of supermanhood... Knowledge and it would be a more beautiful and glorious manifestation with more vistas ever unfolding themselves and more intensive in all ways than any evolution could be in the ignorance. The supramental manifestation of life would be more full and fruitful and its interest more vivid than the creative interest of the Ignorance; it will be a greater and happier constant miracle. As Sri Aurobindo points... manifest at an early or later stage of the march of humanity; in spite of the problems and hurdles of Page 88 the contemporary crisis, humanity will survive and arrive at the supramental manifestation at its crest of evolution and in due course of time, it will spread in larger and larger circles of humanity. 77 Page 89 ...
... and Meditations of the Mother, March 23, 1914. Page 376 "the highest manifestation" and "the highest and purest light," which evidently means what Sri Aurobindo calls the supramental manifestation or the supramental light, which is the goal of earthly evolution. She knows that the manifestation she is heralding, initiating and incarnating will be something surpassing all that has taken... universal force that are still sealed to it.”¹ This unsealing of the sealed fountains of Force and linking the earth to them—is it not the central secret of Sri Aurobindo's work of the supramental manifestation ? In fact, the more we reflect upon the ideal the Mother had been endeavouring to realise in her life before her meeting with Sri Aurobindo, the more we are struck by the identity... "The Mother comes in order to bring down the Supramental and it is the descent which makes full manifestation here possible.”¹ Born to collaborate with Sri Aurobindo in the work of the supramental manifestation and the establishment of the Divine Life on earth, the Mother had the most decisive physical confirmation of her inner certitude when she first met Sri Aurobindo at Pondicherry on the 29th ...
... to an amusing incident. From the time I settled here, I kept hearing about the Supramental manifestation from the elderly sadhaks. They talked about this all the time. There was a sort of repressed excitement in their conversations. We younger ones were not at all bothered by this: “When would the Supramental manifestation take place? How would it take place?” Such questions never cropped up in our minds... and I would sit on a cement bench in our Nanteuil house under the huge Ashwattha tree and chat about all sorts of things. One day Gauri asked me: “Do you understand anything about this Supramental manifestation that the elderly keep talking about? What is it?” “That is not our concern,” I replied. “It is not possible for us to move even a little bit. We needn’t go so far ahead in a single life ...
... realisation - or news of the actual realisation - of the Mind of Light upon the earth must be viewed as the prelude to the coming supramental manifestation, for, if Mind of Light comes (or has come) indeed, can Supermind be far behind?** * When The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth was published in New York by E.P. Dutton & Company in 1953, it was given the title The Mind of Light. ... be called. The Life Divine was published in 1939-40, but when Sri Aurobindo contributed a series of articles in 1949-50 to the Bulletin of Physical Education (since collected as The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, 1952) he mentioned a new concept, a newly realised Page 438 power of consciousness, which he called Mind of Light. This was obviously the result of some striking ...
... 571) 'No child of mine can be a zero' 605 stages 'The Spiritual Destiny of the Earth' 606 not a poet: 'content with doing' 607 distributes her saris to sadhikas 613 experiences the Supramental Manifestation 614-20 changes her way of working: restricts interviews 622 message to the Soviet gymnasts 623 sees Vinoba Bhave 623-4 visits Ananta's island 624 opens the Delhi Branch and the Mother's... two Wars 566 collaboration between occultism and spirituality 591-2 money and Karmayoga 600-1, 683-4 power of 'integral immobility' 613, 735 mystic truth at heart of Reality 614, 650 Supramental Manifestation 615-21, 812 the new stage of evolution 666 its progress 667-8 'child prodigies' 620-1 (cf 567, 746) cure for corruption 622 Radha-consciousness 628 meeting evil by supramental... 375, 385, 525, 529, 600 Yoga and Its Objects 326 Hymns to the Mystic Fire 327 Letters on Yoga 372 Lights on Yoga 372, 385 Bases of Yoga 372-3, 385 The Riddle of This World 385 The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth 466-8, 621, 633 On Yoga 525 Thoughts and Aphorisms 664, 688, 710ff Thoughts and Glimpses 629, 633 The Hour of God 706-7 Poems: The Rishi 52 A God's Labour 94, ...
... that which is received not from below, from the * These articles were published as The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth in 1952, and in America as The Mind of Light in 1953. In the Birth Centenary Library edition of 1972, they form part I of Volume 16, The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings. Page 719 depths of inconscience, but from above, from the... descending into Sri Aurobindo, but it couldn't be settled for good in the earth-consciousness, especially in the physical or the physical mind. In the series of articles included in The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, Sri Aurobindo introduced, as we have seen earlier, the "realm between" - the Mind of Light - a limited or delegated power of the Supermind; and we have the Mother's word - ...
... A Centenary Tribute Theories of Evolution and Sri Aurobindo's Concept of Supramental Manifestation THE process of evolution was detected in ancient times. Both in India and in Greece, there were important ideas of evolution. In modern times, the theory of evolution is mainly the work of Linnaeus (1707-78), Buffon (1707-88), Erasmus... to manifest God?" 2 Indeed, Sri Aurobindo made an experiment upon his entire integral being, using it as an evolutional laboratory, so as to evolve 1. Sri Aurobindo: The Supramental Manifestation , SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 41-42. 2. Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine , SABCL, Vol. 18, pp. 3-4. Page 282 and manifest higher and higher grades of consciousness reaching up... be met without the evolutionary saltation or mutation. There are, according to them, only two alternatives before mankind today; either a revolutionary and evolutionary ascent towards the supramental manifestation on the earth or the abyss. An account of the momentous experiments undertaken by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother cannot truly be given; they can only be glimpsed from the records they ...
... learned in the previous chapter about “the new humanity” to be endowed with the Mind of Light, this new definition of the Mind of Light comes as a surprise. For as far as we know, in The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth Sri Aurobindo never even mentioned the physical mind, surely not in this context. The Mind of Light, he wrote, was “the last in a series of descending planes of consciousness in... eye, are common illnesses or “physical disorders”. It certainly was no coincidence that, on 10 April 1957, she began to read to the Playground audience her own French translation of The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth. (For Sri Aurobindo and the Mother there was no such thing as a coincidence: in the unity of Brahman all is connected with all.) In the following Entretiens, she returns time... the confirmation of that event and its effects. The talk is worth being quoted in full, but we have to restrict ourselves to some extracts. Having read part of the second chapter of The Supramental Manifestation upon the Earth, the Mother says: “It is rather difficult to free oneself from the old habits of being in order to be able to conceive freely of a new life, of a new world. And, naturally ...
... appearance of a new, a greater and more developed type, not a continuance with little modifications of the present physical form and its limited possibilities. (Sri Aurobindo, The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, p. 71) We have at last come to the end of our survey. We have endeavoured to study the problem of material alimentation in all its aspects, physiological, ... consequence of the direct and overt intervention of Supermind, many of the organs of the present human body will be 1 Bulletin, Vol. XV, No. 3, p. 49. (Italics ours) 2 The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, p. 60. 3 Ibid., pp. 61-62. (Italics ours) Page 317 automatically changed in their material working and the need of their instrumentation and even... of Inconscience or Ignorance can now be taken in an ncreasing light and power of Knowledge. The first obscure material movement of the evolutionary Force is marked by an 1 The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, p. 70. Page 318 aeonic graduality; the movement of life-progress proceeds slowly but still with a quicker step, it is concentrated into the figure of mi ...
... Intuition, which is like the Intuitive Mind grown massive and widened, lastly the Gnostic Overmind or Over- mind Gnosis bearing some colour of the Supermind and ¹. The Supramental Manifestation on Earth, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 72. ². Ibid., pp. 71..72. Page 26 awaiting the supramental transformation.¹ Speaking of "the descending order of the... higher and ¹. Sri Aurobindo on Himself and on the Mother (1953), p. 434. ². The Life Divine (American Edition, 1949), p. 44. Also, SABCL, Vol. 17, pp. 7, 76. ³. The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 67. 4 . Olid. Page 46 perfect themselves. Both the batches have the common base of the terrestrially human, even though Sri Aurobindo distinguishes... and potent mind-world found its expression and that special superior race was once formed, there never were sheer beings of these planes precipitated directly upon earth ¹. The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 33. ². Bulletin, August 1958, p. 85. Page 50 their own characteristic spirit and substance. For, the ability to bring about a lasting direct ...
... "The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth". It is because humanity's highest welfare is dependent on the development of theme of synthesis of yoga and the research work that is page - 128 involved in the tasks connected with the supramental manifestation in Matter that it invites our imperative attention. Speaking of the consequences for humanity of the supramental manifestation into our... Mutation of the Human Species: The Next Species and The New Divine Body Sri Aurobindo has envisaged the development of the Divine Body, and he has written in his "The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth" on the structure and functioning that the divine body will have, when it will visibly be operating physically on the physical earth in the same way in which the human physical ...
... there was hardly any talk, but silence and gaze. They were perfectly attuned and in the same vibration. As she said: When there was a special force that came down or an opening or a supramental manifestation, we knew it at the same time, in the same way. And we did not even need to speak to each other about it; only for consequences, for the practical results in the work, did we sometimes exchange... In the succeeding issues eight momentous articles of Sri Aurobindo appeared. These articles bring out some of the latest experiences and realisations that Sri Aurobindo had regarding the supramental manifestation on the earth. Of particular significance was his vision of the transformed human body in the chapter entitled: 'The Divine Body'. He declared quite unambiguously: ___________________... native to its own constitution, substance or natural instrumentation for making the far near and annulling distance, ____________________________________________ ¹Sri Aurobindo, The Supramental Manifestation, Centenary Library, Vol. 16, p. 24. ²Aid., p. 34. Page 95 cognizing what is now beyond the body's cognisance, acting where action is now out of its reach or its domain, ...
... 337 The Supramental Manifestation, 15:24 × 338 The Supramental Manifestation, 16:8 × 339 The Supramental Manifestation, 16:29,37 ... .- 1st ed. 1958 The Hour of God .- 1st ed. 1959 Evolution, 'Arya' 1915-1918.- 1st ed. 1920 Heraclitus, 'Arya' Dec. 1916-June 1917.- 1st ed. 1941 Page 321 The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth .- 1st ed. 1952.- 'Bulletin' 1949-1950.- The Problem of Rebirth .- 1st ed. 1952.- 'Arya' Nov. 1915-Jan. 1921 The Human Cycle, 'Arya' Aug. 1916-July 1918.- 1st ed. 1949 ...
... for the first time in the concluding essays in the series originally published in the Mother's Bulletin of Physical Education and later collected in book-form under the title, The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth. The connotation is indeed specific but packed with subtleties, all of which are not expounded in full in the essays before us, and it displays a sort of spectrum-band of more... eye to both the implicit and the explicit and combine with the clues derived from these last writings those available from his major philosophical work, The Life Divine, to which The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth is, in many senses, a sequel. Then we shall be best able to correlate his declarations with the Mother's pronouncement and by their help fill out the significance it reveals... influenced workings is here what Sri Aurobindo terms surface mind or physical mind. The embodied human mental, to which the epithet "physical" is broadly appropriate, is, in The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth, the Mind spoken of as being converted into the Mind of Light and utilised for supramentalisation of bodily vitality and bodily matter. Take the following passage 5 : "In ...
... exaggeration and over-generalisation of the partial and very limited truth contained in the psychoanalytic concept of the unconscious, Sri Aurobindo writes: 7. Sri Aurobindo, The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings , SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 259. 8. Ibid . Page 308 It [the psychoanalysis of Freud] takes up a certain part, the darkest, the most perilous... [natural] Science exceeds that of the common man. 26 24. Sri Aurobindo, The Harmony of Virtue - Early Cultural Writings, SABCL, Vol. 3, p. 367. 25. Sri Aurobindo, The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings , SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 256. 26. Sri Aurobindo, Archives and Research, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Dec. 1982), p. 158. Page 315 Yogic knowledge, affirms Sri Aurobindo... editors of this journal for their kind permission to reproduce this article. 27. Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - Part One, SABCL, Vol. 22, p. 189. 28. Sri Aurobindo, The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 79. Page 316 ...
... × 12 Years , 156 × The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth , 309 × The Human Cycle , 19 ... × The Human Cycle , 18 × The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth , 311 × Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual, 1970 ... × Arya, vol. II, 4 × The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth , 312 × The Foundations of Indian Culture , 81 ...
... series of articles Sri Aurobindo made known something that he had first experienced and realised himself. The import of the series of dictated articles, later on published under the title The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth , cannot be overestimated. But in the Aurobindonian literature it has hardly been taken note of. The Levels Above the Rational Mind (1) “There are powers of the nature... beginning to change, partly belonging to the new kind but still imperfectly achieved and not yet firm in the change.” 50 The Necessity of Transitional Beings The announcement in The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth of the creation of “a new humanity”, of beings or kinds of beings in between the human and the supramental species, was a new development in the supramental Yoga, in the enormously... 536. × K.D. Sethna rightly called this series of articles, afterwards published as The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, “in many senses a sequel to The Life Divine”. See his The Vision and Work of Sri Aurobindo, p. 106. × ...
... the last but not the least, his body itself,—to the unveiled action of the Supermind and allowing them to be integrally moulded and transfigured by that 'greater term 1 The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, pp. 8-9. 2 Ibid., p. 11. 3 The Life Divine, pp. 231-232. Page 370 of the Spirit manifesting in Nature.' For, it should be clearly... itself, of a wholly transfigured divine body , Sri Aurobindo has written in great detail in the penultimate chapter of The Life Divine and, more exhaustively, in his last work The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth. The limited span of the present work does not permit us to discuss in full the nature of this apotheosis of the material body of man, as envisaged in the Yoga-Philosophy... the Sphinx-like problem of death and dissolution of the individual's physical body. For, we have been assured by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother that as a crowning achievement of the Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, there will come about 'the physical conquest of 1 Letters on Yoga, p. 257. 2 3 Ibid., p. 264. 4 Sri Aurobindo on Himself and on the Mother, ...
... alimentation is so very imperative for the viability of physical life that in organisms other than man, that have not yet become 'reflectively' aware of the 1 Sri Aurobindo, The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, p. SO. 2 Cf. sarvāṇi ha vā imāni bhūtānyaharāhaḥ prapatantyannamabhijighṛkṣa-māṇdāni. (Maitri Upanishad, VI. 12) "All creatures are ever on the move in search of... Samhita, 55.6.) ekavāraṁ dvivāraṁ vā bhuñjīta parahaṁsakaḥ: "The Paramahamsa should take a single meal or at the most a double." (Smriti Shastra) 7 Sri Aurobindo, The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, p. 50. 8 Letters on Yoga, p. 1471. Page 227 But if the suggestion of fasting is given an inordinate stress, these advantages prove to be short-lived... " 3 Therefore the injunction is to "reverence food", annamupāssva 4 , for "verily, this food represents the world-sustaining figure of the great godhead Vishnu." 5 1 The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, pp. 50-51. 2 Brihad-Aranyaka Upanishad, 5.12. 3 4 Chhandogya Upanishad, 7.9.1. 5 Maitri Upanishad, VI. 13. Page 229 But ...
... × The Darshan on February 29, 1960, the first anniversary of the Supramental Manifestation. × On this first anniversary of the Supramental Manifestation, Mother distributed medals commemorating the occasion to the disciples filing past. ... experiences. If I were to speak now, it's certain that I would not at all speak as I used to. That's why we must date all these Questions and Answers , at least all which come before the [Supramental] Manifestation of February 1956, so that there will be a clear cut between those before and those after. Only a few days ago, on the morning of the 29th, I had one of those experiences that mark one's ...
... of the Supramental Manifestation—one in the Ashram and three outside.' I can very well believe that there was only one person in the Ashram—namely, yourself! But the three outsiders puzzle me. How did they manage to do what hundreds here didn't?" The Mother told me after her post-lunch visit to her bath-room: "What I said was not that four people knew it was the Supramental Manifestation, but that... worthy. If greater worthiness is the standard, I feel sure I shall not be shown what I want. But one can always hope for Grace. I am referring to what you wrote on February 29, just after the Supramental Manifestation." On finishing her lunch the Mother stopped at the table where I had placed my note. Usually she takes these notes to the bathroom and reads them there. But this one she read, standing ...
... material body of man confronts him with a dual difficulty, psychological and corporeal : psychological, because of its animal origin; 1 The Life Divine, p. 838. 2 The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth (1952), pp. 43, 47. Page 16 and corporeal, because of the particular type of structure and organic instrumentation that imposes its restrictions on the dynamism... given by the physical organs of sense", 3 and our life-force ever bound to its mortal inhibitions? The Seer-Vision of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother assures us 1 2 The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, pp. 45-46. 3 The Life Divine, p. 261. Page 17 that the disabilities of the human body and the animal frailties of man's physical nature will... supramental way of living and being, the body will discard its veil of apparent inconscience, its ignorant laws of mechanical movements and instead be luminously controlled and 1 The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, pp. 68-69. 2 The Life Divine, p. 988. 3 4 5 Ibid., p. 986. Page 18 guided by the Truth-Will of the indwelling Spirit. Man's physical ...
... 1956, during the meditation after her evening class the momentous event which was awaited since long occurred. She described this event in the following text given by her: FIRST SUPRAMENTAL MANIFESTATION (During the common meditation on Wednesday the 29th February 1956) This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you. I had a form... reality. It is at work here, and one day will come when the most blink the most unconscious, even the most unwilling shall be obliged to recognise it.² Explaining the meaning of the Supramental Manifestation, the Mother said in an evening class: What I call a 'descent' is this: first of all, the consciousness climbs in ascent, then you catch the Thing up above and redescend with it. This... the eternal, stupendous Love, only Love: each pulsation of the Love was carrying the universe further in its manifestation. And the certitude that what is to be done is done and the Supramental Manifestation is realized. Everything was Personal, nothing was individual. This was going on and on and on and on.... The certitude that what is to be done is DONE. All the results ...
... in India. Volume 15 — Social and Political Thought: The Human Cycle; The Ideal of Human Unity; War and Self-Determination. Volume 16 — The Supramental Manifestation AND OTHER WRITINGS: The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth; The Problem of Rebirth; Evolution; The Superman; Ideals and Progress; Heraclitus; Thoughts and Glimpses; Questions of the Month from the Arya;... The Synthesis of Yoga and his Thoughts and Glimpses. Volume 9 — Questions and Answers 1957-58 . Oral answers to questions about Sri Aurobindo's Thoughts and Glimpses, The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth and the last six chapters of The Life Divine. Volume 10 — On Thoughts and Aphorisms. Commentaries, oral and written, on Sri Aurobindo's Thoughts and Aphorisms, ...
... its eternal multiplicity. Therefore, the supramental manifestation is the crown of terrestrial evolution, and it is this that is the definite aim of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo. The Creator self-revealed in His supernal splendour in transformed and perfected Page 70 human individualities, is the formula of the supramental manifestation. The foregoing elaboration of the... full and unblemished manifestation of the Divine. Though we have called it the third aim, it is, in Page 69 fact, the sole aim; but because by manifestation we mean the supramental manifestation and no other, we think we are justified in calling the ascent to the Supermind and the descent of the Supermind the first and second aims respectively. But the three together in an indissoluble ...
... 2 Prayers and Meditations March —17, 1914 3 Prayers and Meditations March —23, 1914 Page 58 light," which evidently means what Sri Aurobindo calls the supramental manifestation or the supramental light, which is the goal of earthly evolution. She knows that the manifestation she is heralding, initiating and incarnating will be something surpassing all that has... universal force that are still sealed to it." 1 This unsealing of the sealed fountains of Force and linking the earth to them—is it not the central secret of Sri Aurobindo's work of the supramental manifestation? In fact, the more we reflect upon the ideal the Mother had been endeavouring to realise in her life before her meeting with Sri Aurobindo, the more we are struck by the identity... Mother comes in order to bring down the Supramental and it is the descent which makes full manifestation here possible." 2 Born to collaborate with Sri Aurobindo in the work of the supramental manifestation and the establishment of the Divine Life on earth, the Mother had the most decisive physical confirmation of her inner certitude when she first met Sri Aurobindo at Pondicherry on the 29th ...
... s Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo . At times his reports were very positive, to be followed by renewed obstacles and “tremendous resistance” soon after. But in spite of everything the supramental manifestation was expected in 1938, when in a direct attack by the hostile forces Sri Aurobindo fell and broke his right thigh. 1938 was also the year of the infamous conference at Munich, where Hitler... death, but not for reprogramming the course of the terrestrial evolution. Before leaving his body Sri Aurobindo wrote, at the Mother’s request, the important series of articles titled The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth . In these articles he expounded the situation at that time of his Work, of the Integral Yoga, explaining the role of the “Mind of Light,” and the necessity of a range of intermediary ...
... Actually, the latter would be a consequence of the former. The functioning of the cells had to be refined, as well as the functioning of the organs. This too Sri Aurobindo foresaw in The Supramental Manifestation: “There would have to be a change in the operative processes of the material organs themselves and, it may well be, in their very constitution and their importance; they could not be allowed... further in its manifestation. It was the formidable pulsations of the eternal stupendous Love, only Love … “And there was the certitude that what was to be one is done 22 and that the Supramental Manifestation is realised. “Everything was personal, nothing was individual. 23 “This was going on, and on, and on, and on. “The certitude that what was to be done is done …” 24 The ...
... the visible presence of the supramental species upon the Earth? In 1956, the Mother’s estimation was still in the range of millions of years. ‘I have told you that before the results of the supramental manifestation will be visible and tangible, able to be perceived by one and all, millions of years may go by.’ 14 Later on her guess was in the range of thousands of years, and still later of something... × The Synthesis of Yoga , 646 × The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth , 21 × L’Agenda de Mère I, 160 ...
... × Letters on Yoga , 162 × The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth , 291 × Entretiens 56, 268 ... × L’Agenda de Mère II, 417 × The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth , 344 × The Human Cycle , 35 ...
... confirmation could only stem from her own experience. (‘The only thing I can speak of is my own experience.’ 9 ) On 25 September of the same year, she comments on a passage from The Supramental Manifestation in which Sri Aurobindo writes about the ‘overman’ according to his novel definition. The Mother tells her audience at the Playground: ‘That was surely what he was expecting of us: what he... some part or other of her work, her reply is always the same: “But why? Why? Don’t you find this amusing?”’ 17 No, the Mother did not find it amusing. The laying of the foundations of the supramental manifestation had to be done now, within a given period of time. Some months before the Mother had already talked about the ‘macabre whimsy of Nature’. ‘She sees the whole, she sees the connections. ...
... was fully interested. It was present there [Rijuta’s psychic being], very quietly, and it said to me: “You are trying to find out how it will be? Well, look, this is it.”’ 5 In The Supramental Manifestation, Sri Aurobindo had written about the evolutionary continuity: ‘The necessary forms and instrumentations of Matter must remain since it is in a world of Matter that the divine life has to... × Notes sur le chemin , 267 × The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth , 39 × Mother India , March 1975 ...
... 1972 was held the fourth celebration of the Golden Day, the day of the Supramental Manifestation. The Mother's message for the day was: It is only when the Supramental manifests in the body-mind that its presence can be permanent . The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: Messages for the Supramental Manifestation upon Earth The work at the Matrimandir seemed quickened. By the ...
... ways of these forces to see what has happened. Finally it may be only an attack, not possession or influence; the person then is separate, is not overcome, resists. 24 August 1936 The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth Before coming to the main point I may as well clear out one Page 137 matter not unconnected with it, my articles or messages, as they have been called, in the Bulletin... the first aim of the Yoga...." Bases of Yoga, p. 1. × The eight essays making up The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth were first published in the Bulletin of Physical Education in 1949 and 1950.—Ed. ...
... the body too undergoes a transformation, unless its action and functioning attain to a supreme capacity and the perfection which is possible to it or which can be made possible. " The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 5 Mother, how can the functioning of the body "attain to a supreme capacity"? Precisely by transformation. This implies a total transformation. Sri Aurobindo... always find it considerably difficult not to be engulfed in the obscurity of a human thought which understands nothing. That's all. All the same, we shall succeed. I chose this book, The Supramental Manifestation , in order to have the opportunity of putting you into contact with a truth expressed in an almost combative form, in order to fight against this old division, this total lack of understanding ...
... will take up not only the whole characteristic experience which we recognise already as constituting the spiritual life but also all which we now exclude from that category...." The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 47 So, what are you asking? What is excluded? What do we exclude!... It depends on the person. But what are you asking, really? I don't see what we are... within their natural boundaries of which the mind in its imperfection was not capable, an immense change of human life, even if it did not extend to transformation would be inevitable." The Supramental Manifestation , SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 47-49 ...
... ion down to the roots of inconscient Matter? 29th February 1956 has been declared by You as the beginning of the supramental manifestation. So your answer may be referring to its complete manifestation. Will You please clarify this point? I am speaking of a supramental manifestation evident to all, even the most ignorant—as the human manifestation has been evident to all when it happened. 26 ...
... mentions? What could that be? I don't know what that condensation of the blood is.... But there is one thing I haven't heard you mention and which Sri Aurobindo often refers to (in the Supramental Manifestation, for instance), that's the transformation of organs through the chakras, through the energy of the centers of consciousness. You very rarely mention the chakras or the role of the chakras... But, Mother, what I'd like to understand, it's that since you withdrew to this room [in 1962] for the body's transformation, you've never mentioned the role of the chakras, while in the Supramental Manifestation, Sri Aurobindo seems to attach to them a decisive importance in the body's transformation. He frequently refers to them, as if they were a key element. ( after a silence ) What I am ...
... bliss of some supraterrestrial heaven or in an eternal dissolution in Brahman or in Nirvana. And in the nature of things this spiritual evasion and escape must represent 1 The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, pp. 60-61. 2 3 The Life Divine, p. 833. Page 27 the only true end of the cycle of individual existence. Indeed, throughout the ages,... harmonise all 1 The Life Divine, p. 23. 2 Savitri, Book X, Canto II, p. 609. 3 Ibid., pp. 609-10. 4 The Life Divine, p. 23. 5 The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth, p. 61. Page 29 partial and segmented views of existence and at the same time transcend them. We shall endeavour to meet the arguments leading to these ...
... limitation of the earth-nature will be able to prevail against its omniscient light and omnipotent force, for "light and bliss and beauty and a perfection of the spontaneous 1 2 The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, pp. 30-31. (Italics ours) Page 21 right action of all the being are there as native powers of the supramental truth-consciousness and these will in their... conscious . Up till the advent of man the organic evolution had been effected through the automatic operation of Nature without the conscious participation of the organisms 1 The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, p. 36. 2 Ibid., pp. 32-33. Page 22 involved, in the form of the latter's self-aware will or seeking, aspiration or endeavour. But in man the living ...
... scientific methodology which is described in The Synthesis of Yoga. If the concern of The Life Divine is to prove to the intellect of modern humanity the possibility and inevitability of the supramental manifestation on the earth, The Synthesis of Yoga shows to the mind, heart and spirit of humanity those methods by which the individual and collectivity can arrive at that manifestation. A significant... philosophy and yoga of supramental transformation come to us as the needed light and guidance. At the same time, we may note what Sri Aurobindo has stated about the first step towards the supramental manifestation. In this context, we may cite the following remarks that Sri Aurobindo had made in his Letters on Yoga: The whole of humanity cannot be changed at once. What has to be done is to ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4 The Supramental Manifestation and World Change I HAVE been asked what difference the presence of the Supermind will make, in what way will it change the trend of events and how, since the Supramental manifestation, life has to be reviewed. I am asked to give practical examples. I do not know what this means ...
... Aurobindo's The Synthesis of Yoga and his Thoughts and Glimpses. Vol.9 Questions and Answers 1957-58. Oral answers to questions about Sri Aurobindo's Thoughts and Glimpses, The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth and the last six chapters of The Life Divine. Vol.10 On Thoughts and Aphorisms. Commentaries, oral and written, on Sri Aurobindo's Thoughts and Aphorisms; given during... Works. The more important volumes in the context of the present work are: Vol. 5 Collected Poems Vol. 12 The Upanishads Vol. 13 Essays on the Gita Vol. 16 The Supramental Manifestation Vol. 17 The Hour of God Vols. 18-19 The Life Divine Vols. 20-21 The Synthesis of Yoga Vols. 22-24 Letters on Yoga Vol.25 The Mother Vol. 26 On Himself ...
... fettered action of the supreme Will-Force in the human body, and a falling into disuse of some of the physiological processes which, however indispensable they may appear ¹ The Supramental Manifestation by Sri Aurobindo. Page 457 today, will have outlived their utility and been replaced by those of a far greater, because supramental, effectivity. The body, filled with the... sheaths and its transfiguration into their luminous substance. Radiant with a creative consciousness, vibrant with an inexhaustible force, poised in a fathomless peace, and ¹ The Supramental Manifestation by Sri Aurobindo. Page 458 steeped in happiness and harmony, the supramentalised body will reveal the beauty and glory of the Divine in the material world, wiping away ...
... this higher Reality that you must turn through the physical appearance. The physical being can become truly expressive of the eternal Reality only when it is completely transformed by the Supramental manifestation. And until then, it is through it that you must find the Truth. 22 September 1959 * * * Sweet Mother, Is it possible to have control over oneself during sleep? For example... down upon earth in an uninterrupted flow. Written in the leap year 1956, this statement was first publicly distributed as the message for 29 February 1960, the first “anniversary” of the Supramental Manifestation upon earth. 29 February 1956 This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you. I had a form of living gold, bigger than the universe, and ...
... fulfil the conditions are on the way to this transformation. The conditions Sri Aurobindo gives in detail in The Synthesis of Yoga and in still greater detail in his last articles on the Supramental Manifestation. 2 So now it is only a question of realisation. Page 322 Now, if someone wants to ask me a question on the subject.... The method of these realisations, formerly, used... chapters of The Life Divine and the first part of The Synthesis of Yoga . × See The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth , SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 1-74 . × "It is then by a transformation of life in its ...
... October Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 9 October 1957 Mother reads the last pages of The Supramental Manifestation . " Even in the material world which seems to us a world of ignorance, a world of the workings of a blind and inconscient Force starting from inconscience and proceeding through Ignorance and... emergence of Supermind. The secret truth that emerges in Supermind has been there all the time, but now it manifests itself and the truth in things and the meaning of our existence." The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 73-74 In fact this was not finished. It stopped short there. There were others to come.... ( Silence ) So, we are going to finish without questions? ...
... for the contribution it can make towards the bringing about of unity and a more harmonious world order towards which we look as our hope for humanity's future. " Page 80 The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 2-4 1 Sweet Mother, during our tournaments there are many who play in a very bad spirit. They try to hurt others in order to win. And we have noticed that... This "Message" of 30 December 1948 was given for the first issue of the Bulletin of Physical Education of the Ashram (February 1949). It forms the introduction of The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth , which contains eight articles originally written by Sri Aurobindo for the Bulletin . × ...
... actions of the will.” 51 This was the cosmic Mother during a phase of the ongoing supramentalization of the manifestation. She also described herself on that all-important moment of the supramental manifestation, 29 February 1956. Late on that day she noted down: “This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you [her audience at the Playground and perhaps the... 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 referred to, was the role Shri Krishna played in Sri Aurobindo’s avataric realization ...
... Aurobindo and the Mother. What Sri Aurobindo had seen and partially worked out is here being worked out further by the Mother. The Agenda is the sequel to The Synthesis of Yoga and The Supramental Manifestation ; it is the development of what was outlined in Sri Aurobindo’s writings and in the Entretiens. This document also provides us with an extremely interesting and often revealing light on... stupendous Love, only Love. Each pulsation of the Love was carrying the universe further in its manifestation. ‘And there was the certitude that what is to be done is done and that the Supramental Manifestation is realised. ‘Everything was personal [experienced by her divine Personality], nothing was individual. ‘This was going on and on and on and on. ‘The certitude that what is to be done ...
... philosophique, had to be discontinued because Paul Richard was called up for military service. All of Sri Aurobindo’s important works, with the exception of his poetry, Savitri , and The Supramental Manifestation, have been serialised in the Arya. At the present time, eighty years after their first appearance, they still have not been accorded a generally recognized place in the cultural heritage... of the century. In The Synthesis of Yoga Sri Aurobindo describes in detail the synthetic yogic method, worked out by him in the course of the previous years to reach the threshold of a supramental manifestation. The Secret of the Veda gives a reinterpretation of the Vedas, which no longer seems to be a kind of very old folkloristic sayings but are the most meaningful revelations ever received by ...
... with a view to seek for general a-temporal laws governing this universe for all time. Now, every phenomenon contains three elements: epistemo-logical, 4.The Mother's Talk, "The Supramental Manifestation and World-Change", Mother India, Dec. 56. 5.J. G. Bennet, The Dimensional Framework of the Natural Sciences. Page 28 ontological and normative, of which function... fulfilment in Sri Aurobindo's Yoga-Philosophy, for to a man of science too, knowledge divorced from power is not something very much covetable. Thus we see that as days pass by, the Supramental Manifestation will make its presence increasingly more manifest even to the outward eye; in fact, this descent has ushered in an age of miracles - miracles, we repeat, to a mind "That sees the empiric ...
... Nature of that which slept or worked in her, involved, it is also the overt realisation of that which she secretly is." (Sri Aurobindo, op. cit., pp. 3-4) Elsewhere, in his book The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings (Ed. 1989, pp. 300-01), Sri Aurobindo makes the above points more specific. He writes: "For what is supermanhood but a certain divine and harmonious absolute of... supplemented by an almost infinite number of new possibilities, and that in such a manner that all the old logic would become illogical in the presence of the new logic." (The Mother's Talk, "The Supramental Manifestation and World-Change", Mother India, December '56) And on this hopeful note does our First Chapter close. xix It is not from below but from above, not from outside but ...
... August 1954 Each new progress in the universal expression means the possibility of a new manifestation. 21 August 1954 So much obscurity has fallen upon earth that only the supramental manifestation can dissolve it. 26 August 1954 Let us advance always, without stopping, towards an always more complete manifestation, an always more complete and higher consciousness. 31... amplitude of all the possibilities of manifestation. 14 December 1954 A new light shall break upon earth, a light of Truth and Harmony. 24 December 1954 Page 93 Supramental manifestation: it will be welcome. How can these questions be answered before the supramental is manifested upon earth? It is only after that manifestation that we may know how it came and how it ...
... ion. If everything depended on only her body, how could anyone else's be meant in the quote you offer of the Mother's declaration to Cham- Page 251 paklal soon after the supramental manifestation on February 29, 1956, that "she was now free to go and to make way for another body to complete the transformation"? You argue that she meant someone else's body; I that she had in view a... the physical return of the Mother in a far future is Utopian: it is self-contradictory. Evolutionary supramentalisation in the course of thousands of years, with the help of the supramental manifestation that has already laid its base in the earth's history through the earth's subtle-physical layer on 29 February 1956, seems now to be the only thing possible. I say "now", meaning ...
... can continue indefinitely...." After the Supramental Manifestation on 29 February 1956 in the subtle-physical layer of the earth her hopes took a still more concrete shape. No doubt, she did not envisage a quick change in general world-conditions and said on 5 September of the same year: "Before the effects of the supramental manifestation become visible and tangible, perceptible to the ...
... results, though data of experience, being at first taken as a working hypothesis, subject to verification. 31 Notes and References 1. Sri Aurobindo, "Materialism" in The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings, Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library (hereafter SABCL), (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1970-75), Vol. 16, pp. 255-56. Page 322 2. Charles T. Tart... Tao of Physics (Berkeley, Calif.: Shambala, 1975). 12. Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine and Human, pp. 337-38. 13. Ibid., p. 291. 14. Sri Aurobindo, "Materialism" in The Supramental Manifestation and other Writings, SABCL Vol. 16, pp. 254-55. 15. Fritjof Capra, Uncommon Wisdom, p. 145. Page 323 16. Hadley Cantril, Adelber Ames, Jr., Albert H. Hastorf and William ...
... ascent towards the supramental manifestation on the earth or abyss. Page 56 An account of the momentous experiments undertaken by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother cannot truly be given; they can only be glimpsed from the records they have left. Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, Letters on Yoga, The Mother, The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, and The ...
... or later stage of the march of humanity. According to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, in spite of the problems and hurdles of the contemporary crisis, humanity will survive and arrive at the supramental manifestation at its crest of evolution and in due course of time, it would spread in larger and larger circle of humanity. This great hope which has been put forward has, as its basis, a colossal effort... out the fabrication of the Divine Body, the proof of which will be found when that task is accomplished; that proof will be clinching even for the one who demands material evidence of the supramental manifestation. Since the fabrication of the Divine Body is a matter of further evolution, there is the need to continue the tasks of research; these tasks of research will ultimately integrate science and ...
... The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, The Ideal of Human Unity, The Human Cycle, The Foundations of Indian Culture, Essays on the Gita, On the Veda, The Upanishads, The Future Poetry, The Supramental Manifestation on the Earth, and the epic Savitri. It is well known that Sri Aurobindo had a thorough western education, and he had a period of agnostic denial. But from the moment he looked... experiences and realisations of Sri Aurobindo that he had had in the pursuit of this aim. One may only refer to his works: The Synthesis of Yoga, The Life Divine, Letters on Yoga, The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, and Savitri. It needs to be stressed that Sri Aurobindo's Yoga is a collective Yoga, a cosmic Yoga. And so, every movement and experience and realisation of him has a ...
... The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, The Ideal of Human Unity, The Human Cycle, The Foundations of Indian Culture, Essays on the Gita, On the Veda, The Upanishads, The Future Poetry, The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, and the epic Savitri. When Sri Aurobindo withdrew in 1926 into his room for concentrating in the required way on the 'Supramental Yoga', the Mother organized and developed... Centre, 2000, Mysore, Vol. 1, p. 300. 72 Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga, SABCL, 1971, Pondicherry, Vol. 22p. 98. 73 Ibid., The Life Divine, Vol. 19, p. 891. 74 Ibid., The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth, Vol. 16, pp. 50-9. Page 143 ...
... the divine way of super manhood." (The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth, Vol. 16, p. 281) An attempt has been made in this book to provide a brief outline of the main steps of the triple transformation, but readers will do well to study the last six chapters of Sri Aurobindo's 'The Life Divine', as also Sri Aurobindo's, 'The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth'. Kireet Joshi ...
... 69 Ibid., pp. 972 - 3. 70 Ibid., p. 989. 71 Vide., Ibid., The Synthesis of Yoga, Vol. 21, chapter XV. 72 Ibid., p. 722. 73 Ibid. 74 Ibid. 75 Ibid., The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth, Vol. 16, p. 281. 76 Ibid., The Life Divine, Vol. 19, pp. 1067 - 8. 77 The fact that Sri Aurobindo discovered the supermind, the peak of the superconscience, and the... perfection. It is this certainty that authorises us to believe that mind and humanity also will tend towards the realisation that will be far beyond our present dreams of perfection." (Ibid, The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth, Vol. 16, p. 65) A study of the accounts of the development of the experimental re- search carried out by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother will enable us to suggest that after ...
... are further possibilities of the human body which have been envisaged in the Integral Yoga. A statement of these further possibilities is to be found in Sri Aurobindo's essays on "The Supramental Manifestation on Earth". A chapter from the book entitled "Perfection of the Body" has been placed in Part IX. Even beyond the perfection of the body, Sri Aurobindo has envisaged the possibility of the... readers who are keen even at this stage to know how Sri Aurobindo and The Mother envisaged and worked for the mutation of the human body may be advised to read Sri Aurobindo's book "-The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth" and thirteen volumes of Mother's Agenda. The readers may also refer in this connection to Satprem's "Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness", "The Mother or The Divine ...
... connotation of the more elastic phrase, Supermind.¹ In his writings, Sri Aurobindo has written at length on the Supermind, but we may give here only one more statement from his book The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth: ² The Supermind is in its very essence a truth-consciousness, a consciousness always free from the Ignorance which is the foundation of our present natural or evolutionary... conquered these summits are evident even if we cast a cursory glance at his record of yoga. Let us take a few examples at random: ____________________________ ¹. Sri Aurobindo, The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, Centenary Library, Vol. 16, pp. 41-2. ² . Sri Aurobindo kept a record of his own practice of Yoga in a series of diaries. The earliest entries in these diaries began in ...
... Thoughts and Aphorisms 1958 The Hour of God 1959 Evolution, 'Arya', 1915 -1918 1921 Heraclitus, 'Arya', December 1916 -June 1917 1941 The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, (Bulletin 1949) 1952 The Problem of Rebirth, 'Arya', November 1915 - January 1921 1952 Page 273 The Human Cycle, 'Arya', August 1916... Upanishads Volume 13 Essays on the Gita Volume 14 The Foundations of Indian Culture Volume 15 Social and Political Thought Volume 16 The Supramental Manifestation Volume 17 The Hour of God Volume 18 The Life Divine, Book One and Book Two, Part One Volume 19 The Life Divine, Book Two, Part Two Volume ...
... e of man the mental being? But Sri Aurobindo is unequivocal and emphatic when he asserts that the divine destiny of the body as envisaged above 1 Sri Aurobindo, The Supramental Manifestation, p. 74. is going to be the natural, logical and inevitable result of our future evolution out of our present human ignorance and imperfection into a far greater consciousness... cognisance of this tremendous event; otherwise it would not be supermind but something which could be very well seized and comprehended by mind. But this does not mean that this supramental Manifestation will have no effect on the visible field of evolution and will remain for ever aloof on the high peaks of mystic halo. Far from it; for it is no static knowledge that Sri Aurobindo and ...
... The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 9 THE SUPRAMENTAL MANIFESTATION AND WORLD-CHANGE I have been asked what difference the presence of the Supermind will make, in what way it will change the trend of events and how, since the Supramental manifestation, life has to be reviewed. I am asked to give practical examples. I do not know what this means, but here ...
... made people remark that the Supermind would descend there first. When Sri Aurobindo was told about it, he commented, "I won't get the Supermind, then?" It is of interest to note that the Supramental Manifestation did take place during a meditation in the Playground on February 29, 1956. I shall now take up a minor but important activity of which the world has not heard much. I mean the Mother's... × A French surgeon. × The Supramental Manifestation : Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication. × La Jeunesse Sportive de l'Ashram de Sri Aurobindo ...
... 1956, she inaugurated from Pondicherry the Mother's School at the Delhi Branch of the Ashram: "A new Light has appeared upon earth. Let this new School opened today be guided by it." The Supramental manifestation had already taken place on 29 February, and Delhi was exhorted to be ready to receive and exemplify it. Then, on 5 December 1957, Sri Aurobindo's relics, which Indira Sen had brought in a... achievement. A new seed, the seed of integral knowledge, was being sown; and the time of sprouting and foliage and flowering would come, and the harvesting too of the New Life, the supramental manifestation upon earth. There was a steady - though not spectacular - growth from year to year, and in 1959 the University Centre was re-named as the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education ...
... Education), in which many of her writings and talks and her (translations of Sri Aurobindo's works are first published. - Feb 21-1950 Nov 24 Sri Aurobindo's last prose writings The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth serialised in the Bulletin. - Dec 1 Presentation of her drama Towards the Future. 'Only one love can satisfy... Divine Love, for that .alone never fails.' 1950... activities are there, but... neither coordinated nor centralised nor unified around the single central truth and consciousness and will'. - Oct 17 'One of the very first results of the supramental manifestation was to give the body a freedom... a direct power... not Something that comes from a higher Will, not a higher consciousness that imposes itself upon the body: it is the body itself awakening ...
... all can and will change. 29 It was perhaps quite natural that some of the sadhaks and disciples should exercise their minds and sensibilities with the intriguing question: whether the supramental manifestation of 29 February 1956 had in any way hastened the possibility of the transmutation of the present human body into the supramental divine body. Sri Aurobindo himself had said in a letter of 6... wide-awake consciousness and the poise of readiness were the need of the hour. On 21 February, the Mother's eighty-sixth birthday, and on 29 February, the second leap-year anniversary of the supramental manifestation, there was Terrace Darshan, and on both days nearly 4000 received the Mother's blessings. The Golden Day was a time of fulfilment for the sadhaks, children and visitors, and in the forenoon ...
... Evolution. These eight articles are his final reaffirmation and renewed assurance—besides being a splendid elaboration of his message of The Life Divine &mdsh;of the Supramental Manifestation upon Earth; they are now in book form entitled The 5ppramental Manifestation upon Earth, April 24: After 4o years Sri Aurobindo allowed himself to be photographed... manifestation of a new world is not proclaimed by beat of drum.' 1956 April 24: Mother's historic declaration that Page 31 the Supramental manifestation was no more a promise but a living fact, a reality. publication of On the Veda, Sri Aurobindo's another major work, comprising all his writings on the Veda that originally ...
... A new seed, the seed of integral knowledge, was being sown; and the time of sprouting and foliage and flowering would come, and the harvesting too — in good time — of the New Life, the supramental manifestation upon the earth and the transfiguration of humanity. IV Having inaugurated the International University Centre on 6 January 1952, the Mother set forth in the Bulletin in... control over the sex instinct. The Mother is explicit and categorical on this question, and asks for total abstinence, rather than mere continence, from those who wish to prepare for the supramental manifestation: Page 541 A decisive choice has to be made between lending the body to Nature's ends in obedience to her demand to perpetuate the race as it is, and preparing this same body ...
... been cleared and a new path carved, a new trail blazed. The descent of the Supermind has made all the difference. Our Yoga is geared to the Supermind. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother stand for supramental manifestation, of which the last few chapters of the Life Divine give some intellectual idea. 24.05.67 * * * I suppose I am clearer now in my mind about the "Common Way" then ever before... the fact, which only a blind fanatic can deny, that His Yoga is for all humanity, and that He has lighted the path for all those who aspire for an integral divine fulfilment in life and a supramental manifestation of God on earth. The realistic, dynamic Advaita of which Sri Aurobindo speaks is not the Advaita of Sankar and Vivekananda. To distinguish it from the other brands, He calls it Purnadvaita ...
... × Vishnu Parana, VI.L28-30 × The Supramental Manifestation, 16:27 × Entretiens, 6.26.1957 ... × Mothers Agenda I, 9.20.1960; III, 7.25.1962 × The Supramental Manifestation, 16:70-64 × Purani, Evening Talks, 1.7.1939. ...
... The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Perfection of the Body The perfection of the body, as great a perfection as we can bring about by the means at our disposal, must be the ultimate aim of physical culture. Perfection is the true aim of all culture, the spiritual and psychic, the mental, the vital and it must be ...
... The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Supermind and the Life Divine A divine life upon earth, the ideal we have placed before us, can only come about by a spiritual change of our being and a radical and fundamental change, an evolution or revolution of our nature. The embodied being upon earth would have to rise ...
... The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Message I take the opportunity of the publication of this issue of the "Bulletin d'Éducation Physique" of the Ashram to give my blessings to the Journal and the Association—J.S.A.S.A. (Jeunesse Sportive de l'Ashram de Sri Aurobindo). In doing so I would like to dwell for a while ...
... The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Mind of Light A new humanity means for us the appearance, the development of a type or race of mental beings whose principle of mentality would be no longer a mind in the Ignorance seeking for knowledge but even in its knowledge bound to the Ignorance, a seeker after Light but ...
... may I publish it in Mother India ? “4th May 1967 (4-5-67): the Supramental will start working on earth, but the working may start even a little earlier. “I observe this day as the Supramental Manifestation day thus: this is the day of India’s New Year, Earth’s New Year and the whole Universe’s New Year and all these three strangely coincide, which may change the face of the whole Universe.” ...
... p. 239. 18. On Yoga, I: The Synthesis of Yoga (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo International University Centre Collection, Vol. IV, 1955), p. 1003. 19. Ibid. 20. The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1952), p. 59. 21. The Jerusalem Bible, The New Testament, p. 320. 22. Ibid., p. 347. 23. Ibid., p. 342. 24. Ibid ...
... I wondered how polite, humble and sincere is he! A man free from ego is our dear Amal-da. He has received much of The Mother's and the Master's Grace that on the evening of the Supramental Manifestation upon earth in 1956 during the Playground meditation, he saw The Mother in his train compartment while he was travelling to Bombay. She had come there to inform him about the great descent ...
... posited by Sri Aurobindo, there are very helpful guides for the aspirants. While the tattva (philosophy) of man's transformation is brought to us by works like The Life Divine and The Supramental Manifestation, the hita (way) is outlined in The Synthesis of Yoga. Here 'synthesis' is not to be an "undiscriminating combination" of existing methods of Yoga. Sri Aurobindo says in this volume ...
... following question: O human image of the deathless word, 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 ...
... will make all that is seen "a revelation of the glory of quality and idea and form and colour." The very physical eye will seem them "to carry in itself a spirit and a 140 The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol.16, p. 40. 141 The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 473. Page 178 consciousness which sees not only the physical aspect of object but the soul ...
... Aurobindo. The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20. pp. 350, 351. × Sri Aurobindo, The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings. SABCL. Vol. 16. pp. 428, 429. × Sri Aurobindo, The Upanishads ...
... (One who is) perpetually in the state of liberation. × Sri Aurobindo, The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings. SABCL. Vol. 16. p. 41 I. × Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga ...
... February 1949. The eight essays that Sri Aurobindo wrote on the subject, the last of prose writings, were serialised there in 1949-50 and reprinted in book-form 1952 under the title The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth . In 1959. quarterly was renamed Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education . ...
... l 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 manifestation in the subtle-physical of the earth which, as declared by the Mother, occurred on the last day of that month. When he showed the painting to the Mother in 1958 she wrote the caption ...
... — receiving again out of the "Inconscient" the light that it had drawn back into its secrecies and now releases once more for a new day and another march of the great journey. The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings, pp. 258-63 [To a disciple] Your practice of psycho-analysis was a mistake. It has, for the time at least, made the work of purification more complicated ...
... Page 160 by our ignorance. Even an incomplete statement made by the Supermind is a truth leading to a further truth, its incomplete action a step towards completeness. The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings, pp. 41-42 The Infinite, we may say, organises by the power of its self-knowledge the law of its own manifestation of being in the universe, not only the material ...
... the material universe. It is there in the body, has made it and its emergence in our consciousness is the secret aim of evolution and the key to the mystery of our existence. The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings, pp. 10-11 Page 32 ...
... Yogi of a high order with remarkable spiritual achievements to his credit. I may quote here a poem of his, marking the intuition he had, much before the event of 29 February 1956, of the supramental manifestation in the subtle-physical of the earth: Standing on the last horizon I saw a golden gate opening. It had no bolts, no hinges— Only a huge lid that looked like ...
... Archives and Research, vol. 7 no. 1, pp. 116-17. × Sri Aurobindo: The Superman , in The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth , SABCL, p. 226. × Sri Aurobindo: Savitri , p. 153. ...
... knowledge remained limited and often deformed within the context of their cosmic vision, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother completed it in an unconditional revalidation of the Earth, as part of the supramental manifestation, and the evolution of Life on it. Such an interpretation of the origin of Life on planet Earth and explanation of the evolution of Life is, of course, totally unacceptable, not to say absurd ...
... aim of the war was precisely to bring their yogic realization to a halt. They had no choice but to fight the Asura, for otherwise they were not sure that they would be able to effect the supramental manifestation before the Earth had been completely subjected by the hostile forces or destroyed by them. It may be supposed that the Mother and Sri Aurobindo also directly intervened in the Battle of ...
... have followed his advance in the previous years and we have seen that he, ‘riding on his Einsteinian formula’, was progressing rapidly. According to several witnesses the Great Event of the Supramental Manifestation could have taken place at any moment in 1938. Sri Aurobindo himself announced at the time: ‘[The Supramental] is coming down against tremendous resistance.’ 10 K.D. Sethna is more c ...
... something momentous had taken place. The material embodiment of the supramental species on Earth had become a certainty. ‘There was the certitude that what is to be done is done and that the supramental Manifestation is realized,’ the Mother said the day after her epoch-making experience. ‘It is the denial of all the spiritual assurances of the past [which say]: “If you want to live fully conscious of ...
... × Id., p. 383. × Sri Aurobindo, The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth , SABCL 16 p. 5. × The Mother, On Thoughts and Aphorisms , CWM 10 p. 30. ...
... From the numerous instances possible to cite relating to various people I may quote one or two connected with my own self. I have already written elsewhere of how on the night of the Supramental Manifestation on February 29,1956 the Mother appeared to me in the railway compartment in which I was travelling from Madras to Bombay after leaving Pondicherry the same morning. She told me afterwards ...
... also said that Krishna's work is being done in the Ashram - not, of course, a mere repetition of this Avatar's earthly activity but a carrying forward of his multiform Overmind drive to a supramental manifestation. That is why so much importance has been accorded to the spiritual event of November 24,1926 which has been called by Sri Aurobindo the descent of the Krishna Consciousness, the mightily luminous ...
... physical supramentalisation though it can be inferred from certain statements of theirs that if their yoga had been an isolated one they would have finished it long ago. After the supramental manifestation on February 29, 1956 in the earth's subtle-physical layer, the Supermind has become an active factor in the earth's evolutionary process. Slowly it will press into the gross-physical layer ...
... away would remain until his work was done. The Mother used the words "earth's atmosphere" for the subtle-physical plane. You may remember that she employed the same words in speaking of the Supramental Manifestation on earth. The subtle-physical plane is the earth's inner counterpart which may be said to mediate between the gross physical and the vital, the plane of the life-force. Once the Supermind ...
... will be able to prevent it. I even question the possibility of such a war. The most dangerous time, according to the Mother, for a world-wide conflagration was before what she has called the Supramental Manifestation in the earth's subtle-physical layer came about on the 29th February 1956. After this manifestation the history of the world underwent a change and the direction was set for a grand progression ...
... aware of so much that is necessary to realise in order to be worthy of your affectionate praise. Suddenly my mind went back to a greater challenge in a somewhat different way. When the Supramental Manifestation in the subtle-physical layer of the earth, which the Mother named the earth's "atmosphere", took place on February 29, 1956, there were two effects. On the one side all that was turned towards ...
... earth's being in December 1950." And at the time of Sri Aurobindo's passing, the Mind of Light (as admitted by her) got realised in the Mother, and paved the way for the supramental manifestation of 29 February 1956. While some of the selections are thus addressed specially to close students of Sri Aurobindo, the volume as a whole must appeal to a wider audience. A mere ...
... by a disciple: The core of a deathless Sun is now the brain And each grey cell bursts to omniscient gold. The next consequence of Sri Aurobindo's sacrifice was the Supramental Manifestation which occurred on February 29,1956: the Supermind made an initial entry into the subtle layer of the whole earth-plane and became a permanent part of the earth's future evolution: now inevitably ...
... of this book we have been following the process of the new worldwide miracle, the greatest of all miracles, and we remember that Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have always stressed that the supramental manifestation, however miraculous, follows certain lines of development which are the continuation of the general evolutionary process. The belief that the Mother suddenly would be supramentalized physically ...
... House. We greeted one another. They were on a business trip. Apart from that they wanted to purchase a wonderful gift to offer to the Mother on the golden occasion—the 1st recurrence of the Supramental Manifestation, which would fall on 29 February, 1960. Mr. Bahety gave me a packet from the Mother and apprised me of all news concerning the Ashram. Though the Mother had withdrawn from outer activities ...
... will. The devotees of the Mother liked the folder I showed them. It was a great joy to receive yet another folder from the Mother on 29th February—the first recurrence of the date of the Supramental Manifestation in the leap year 1956. ...
... every other. It is quite natural that the higher the Ananda to come down, the more difficult may be the beginning, the drier the deserts that have to be crossed on the way. Certainly, the supramental manifestation does not bring peace, purity, force, power of knowledge only; these give the necessary conditions for the final realisation, are part of it, but Love, Beauty and Ananda are the essence of ...
... of fact, the inner journey, the inner development, the essential vibration is not affected—not at all. One aspires with all his heart for Nirvana, another aspires with all his will for the supramental manifestation, and in both of them the vibratory Page 215 result is almost the same. And it is a whole mass of vibrations which is prepared more and more to... to receive what must be. There ...
... and if the mind could apply itself to all the circumstances it would find that no two cases are similar. Laws are for the mind's convenience, but the process of Page 161 the supramental manifestation is different, we may even say it is the reverse of the mind. In the supramental realisation, each thing will carry in itself a truth which will manifest at each instant without being bound ...
... (Mother looks at a piece of paper) * Written in the leap year 1956, this statement was first publicly distributed as the message for 29 February I960, the first "anniversary" of the Supramental Manifestation upon earth. Page 7 "Calling Antonin Raymond".* The architect for the construction. Then there was also "making ready temporary quarters for [an American film maker]". But ...
... There are only cases, and if the mind could apply itself to all the circumstances it would find that no two cases are similar. Laws are for the mind's convenience, but the process of the supramental manifestation is different, we may even say it is the reverse of the mind. In the supramental realisation, each thing will carry in itself a truth which will manifest at each instant without being bound ...
... 128. Ibid., 26. 167 -168 141. Partially in On Himself, 26. 172 129. Ibid., 26 .168- 169 142. Ibid., 26 .416 130. Leiters on Yoga, 22.424 -425 143. The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, 16.73 13 1. Champaklal Speaks ( 1976), p.66 144. Mother's Agenda Vo l. 8, p. 173 132. On Him self, 26 .169-170 133 . Ibid., 26.401 -402 ...
... what did you want to ask? Because it is now―tomorrow is the day the two thousand five hundred years will be over―does this correspond to the new thing? What new thing? The new Supramental Manifestation. Oh! Listen, this seems to me just the kind of discovery one makes when one wants something sensational. There are always many ways of interpreting texts, and one does it according ...
... of the truly divine material body which must one day emerge in a progressive evolution to a totally transformed existence both of the life and form in a divinised earth-nature." The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 32-33 Mother, is this method of direct transmutation without passing through birth possible now, since now the Supermind is on earth? Is it possible? You ...
... the spirit. Here the lower perfection will not disappear; it will remain but will be enlarged and transformed by the higher perfection which only the power of the spirit can give." The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 5-8 Sweet Mother, here Sri Aurobindo speaks of "the higher perfection" and "the lower perfection"... The higher perfection is the spiritual perfection, integral ...
... place and make a new coordinated world arise out of the present chaos. That's all. Page 143 × The Supramental Manifestation , SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 33-36 . ...
... spirit's supreme light and power and creative joy must have manifested on the summit of the individual consciousness and sent down their fiat into the body.... " Page 106 The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 15-16 Mother, will the transformation of the body come after the transformation of the mind and vital, or will it follow spontaneously? Usually this kind ...
... acquire the greater power to draw down those means from above rather than draw them up or pull Page 117 then in form the environment around, all about it and below it." The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp 28-29 The description Sri Aurobindo gives here of the possibility of a prolonged fast while maintaining all activities, is a description of his own experience ...
... spiritual revolution of which Sri Aurobindo speaks. And this is what he wanted us to realise. He has traced its broad outline in the very book we shall start reading next Wednesday: The Supramental Manifestation . And the first sentence I read today remains the key of the Page 78 entire problem not only for the individual but also for the collectivity: "All would change if man could ...
... of the material universe. It is there in the body, has made it and its emergence in our consciousness is the secret aim of evolution and the key to the mystery of our existence." The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 9-11 Mother, are sports competitions essential to our progress? From the point of view of moral education they are rather essential, for if one can take ...
... advanced portion of it, would depend upon the intention in the evolution itself, on the intention in whatever cosmic or transcendent Will is guiding the movements of the universe. " The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 60 Page 182 Is this intention unknown? Do you know it? Do you? It is self-evident that evolution has a goal and therefore cannot stop short now ...
... through space, the sun has the royal ecstasy of its blazing splendours and its eternal motion. O thou self-conscious instrument, take thou too the delight of thy own appointed workings." The Supramental Manifestation , SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 288 ...
... "To be in full union with the Divine is the final aim." × "The Divine Body", The Supramental Manifestation SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 20-40 . ...
... disorder is a sure sign of a nature which rejects its psychic being and wants nothing to do with it. 21.10.1972 * Cleanliness is the first indispensable step towards the supramental manifestation. 21.1.1973* * An absolute cleanliness is indispensable in this country and climate to avoid illness. Great precautions must be taken. 1971* Page 54 ...
... humanity would be touched [by the Supramental influence] or only a part of it ready for the change would depend on what was intended or possible in the continued order of the universe." The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 56 What is meant by "what was intended or possible"? The two things are different. So far you have said that if humanity changes, if it wants to participate in ...
... Sportsmanship . × Message to the Jeunesse Sportive de l'Ashram de Sri Aurobindo; see The Supramental Manifestation , Cent. Vol. 16, pp. 1-4 . × Message to the Soviet Gymnasts who gave demonstrations at ...
... in force and light, not in darkness and weakness. Continence is therefore the rule for all those who aspire for progress. But especially for those who want to prepare themselves for the supramental manifestation, this continence must be replaced by a total abstinence, achieved not by coercion and suppression but by a kind of inner alchemy, as a result of which the energies that are normally used in ...
... means that he is on the same level as the student. One must know how to keep smiling... always. A: That is very important. Very, very, very important. B reads a paragraph from The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth by Sri Aurobindo "The Supermind is in its very essence a truth-consciousness, a consciousness always free from the Ignorance which is the foundation of our present natural ...
... letter may have been dictated by Sri Aurobindo. × "The Divine Body", now published in The Supramental Manifestation , SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 20-40 . × A spoken comment of the Mother which was noted from memory ...
... × Mother had asked Sri Aurobindo to write something for the Ashram 'Bulletin.' It was later published as The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth. × The third section, 'The Yoga of Self-Perfection,' which was never completed ...
... wanted him to go, it would have been an orderly departure, in total harmony and with a total will, whereas this illness is a means of disorder. Is this experience of May 1 related to the Supramental Manifestation of 1956? Is it a supramental experience? It is the result of the descent of the supramental substance into Matter. Only this substance—what it has put into physical Matter—could have made ...
... adverse forces have risen in protest. 1 But Thy Grace is winning the victory. × In fact, following the 'Supramental Manifestation' of February 29, 1956 , all of Mother's physical difficulties increased, as though all the obscurities in the physical consciousness were surging forth beneath the pressure of the new light ...
... final wording is correct, but from the point of view of the 'historical' unfolding, it is interesting to observe the passage. It was exactly the same phenomenon for the experience of the Supramental Manifestation. Both these things, the experience of November 7 and of the Supramental, occurred in the same way, identically: I WAS the experience, and nothing else. Nothing but the experience at the time ...
... March 1962, when Mother very nearly did not return to her body. × Second anniversary of the supramental Manifestation. ...
... in which he says that the first point to be acquired is prolongation of life at will—it isn't directly immortality: it is prolongation of life at will. He wrote it in the articles on The Supramental Manifestation . Page 78 × The Human Cycle , Cent. Ed. XV.252 . ...
... The red lotus is the symbol of the Avatar and the offering of the red lotus is meant to suggest the full consecration to Page 39 the Avatar; the yellow background represents the supramental manifestation. 8 November 1933 What is symbolised by the waterfall in the picture you have given me? Is it not the current of your serene peace and of your divine force which constantly floods ...
... Messages Words of the Mother - III Messages for the Supramental Manifestation upon Earth The Golden Day Henceforth the 29th February will be the day of the Lord. 1960 29 February 1956 During the common meditation on Wednesday This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you. I had a form of living ...
... the inner advance, the inner development, and the essential vibration aren't affected—not in the least. One aspires with all his heart to Nirvana, the other aspires with all his will to the supramental manifestation, and Page 97 in both cases the vibratory result is about the same. And it's a whole mass of vibrations which prepares itself more and more to... to receive what must be. There ...
... hope: it's a sort of sensation. Something may happen next February—we'll see. × Second anniversary of the supramental Manifestation. ...
... evening of the 29th, Mother appeared at the balcony. × For the third anniversary of the Supramental Manifestation. × There may be a parallel here with the "something that would have created havoc" Mother ...
... came out of here [ gesture to the heart ] and said to the Lord), "Well, we will wait another four years." Four years, that means 1968. Sri Aurobindo said there would be a beginning of supramental manifestation in '67; so perhaps in '68 the two experiences will meet. It's possible. The photo is clear. An expression of yours that I didn't know. That you didn't know... Page 81 ...
... been experiences of this sort, I had in mind experiences of individuals who had individually made contact with the supra-mental light or the supramental level.... One of the forms of the supramental manifestation.... It doesn't matter. Read on. "Did you really mean that Ramalingam was in DIRECT contact with the Supramental?... Why not!... Read on, then. "...and that he was in contact ...
... both the Gurus are disembodied. There has to be a postponement. At least one of the Gurus will have to return to carry further the project of evolving man into superman. Indeed, with the Supramental Manifestation on 29 February 1956 in the earth's subtle-physical layer a fact, the advent of supramentalisation of even the gross physical is certain — but in a long process of evolution. The immediate ...
... finally abrogated and with it the 1 The Life Divine, p. 196. 2 Nolini Kanta Gupta, op. cit., p. 87. 3 The Life Divine, p. 215. 4 Sri Aurobindo, The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, p. 12. Page 218 physiological compulsion for sleep. But there remains a final hurdle, the occult-spiritual necessity of sleep, but that too will ...
... happen in this world sooner or later. But it has two aspects, a descent from above, an ascent from below, a self-revelation of the Spirit, an evolution in Nature. (Sri Aurobindo, The Supramental Manifestation, p. 80) As the psychic change has to call in the spiritual to complete it, so the first spiritual change has to call in the supramental transformation to complete it.... This ...
... re-establish at the summit of evolution of life the phenomenon we see at its base, the power to draw from all around it the means of sustenance and self-renewal. (Sri Aurobindo, The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, p. 52) It is evident that spontaneous motion or locomotion, breathing, eating are only processes of life and not life itself; they are means for the generation or release ...
... hunger is only the outermost fringe and a physical symbol 1 Consult for necessary details: A. B. Purani, Life of Sri Aurobindo, pp. 141-43. 2 3 4 5 Sri Aurobindo, The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, pp. 51-53. Page 237 as it were of a much more profound and widely operative universal principle of Hunger and Thirst. What, then, is the metaphysics ...
... Nature brushes aside all our preconceived notions of plausibility and proceeds to conquer ever-new terrains of achievement. 4 However, a valid question 1 Sri Aurobindo, The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, p. 52. (Italics ours) 2 Cf. "Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey". (Sri Aurobindo ...
... all about it and below it. But until something like this is achieved or made possible we have to go back to food and the established material forces of Nature. (Sri Aurobindo, The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, p. 52) "Do you think I get all this energy from my frugal meals? Of course not, one can draw infinite energy from the universe when needed!" 1 ...
... would sustain not only the vital parts of our physicality but its constituent matter with no need of aid for sustenance from any outside substance of Matter." (Sri Aurobindo, The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, pp. 50-51) "The material universe is only the facade of an immense building which has other structures behind it, and it is only if one knows the whole that one can ...
... the means and processes which Life and Matter offer to us and respect the conditions and what we may call the technique imposed by the vital and the material energy." (Sri Aurobindo, The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, P. 13). 1 "This experimental era of revitalization stemmed from the accounts of the physiologist, Charles Edward Brown-Sequard, who in 1889, at the age of 70, injected ...
... be a valuable year but is still far off. During the hospital work, I feel myself submerged in Inconscience. No remembrance of the Mother at all It does not matter. This is not the supramental manifestation—it is simply a little game on the way. Do you work on those people also and can your Force be invoked in aid of that suffering populace? What people? Which suffering populace? Mother ...
... like his others, was then read out to the Mother in front of Sri Aurobindo. She exclaimed, "Magnificent!" Sri Aurobindo simply smiled. All of them have appeared in book-form called The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth . About some of the articles by others which were being read out to him, he asked, "Have you not read them before?" "No!" I replied. He repeated, "Are you sure?" "How could I ...
... Government of India is taking a significant part as a modest recognition of Sri Aurobindo's greatness, is going to be observed all over India and in many parts of the world. Meanwhile the Supramental Manifestation has taken place and the Ashram in consequence has come to be regarded by the world as a spiritual institution from which a new Light is radiating upon earth. Politically, India is gaining ...
... 1935 (Mathematical formula), 89 Supramental descent, 89-90, 92 1938 (Fractured right leg), 91 Supramental gnosis, 247, 271 1947 (Independence of India), 1-2, 93 Supramental manifestation, 88, 111-3 1950 (Left the body), 101 Supramental nature, 73 Sri Aurobindo, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 37, 38 ...
... Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, The Ideal of Human Unity, The Human Cycle, The Foundations of Indian Culture, Essays on the Gita, On the Veda, The Upanishads, The Future Poetry, The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, and the epic Savitri. When Sri Aurobindo withdrew in 1926 into his room for concentrating in the required way on the 'Supramental Yoga', Mother organized and developed ...
... incessant line of progression and the divine body reflect or reproduce here in a divine life on the earth something of this higher greatness and glory of the self-manifesting Spirit." (The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings, 1989, p. 40) Of course, it is the consciousness within which has first to change; for, our means and ways of knowledge and action must necessarily be according ...
... future. "* IV According to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, one aspect of education that is normally neglected but which needs to be ________________________ "Sri Aurobindo: The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, Centenary Edition, Vol. 16, p. 2-4. Page 77 emphasised is what they call "vital education". Vital education aims at the training of the life-force in three directions: ...
... radical experiments at his Ashram, a new mode of education as also a new aim that would bring back the Vedic ideals of self-perfection and would even prepare for the bolder and newer goal of supramental manifestation on the earth. In his great book A National System of Education, as also in his Synthesis of Yoga , he demonstrated that Page 144 all life is education and all life is Yoga. ...
... The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, The Ideal of Human Unity, The Human Cycle, The Foundations of Indian Culture, Essays on the Gita, On the Veda, The Upanishads, The Future Poetry, The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, and the epic Savitri. Sri Aurobindo was a supreme poet, and his most famous poetical work, Savitri, presents a new kind of poetry, which has been termed as overhead poetry ...
... and nature." 92 It is this process of triple transformation that is described in detail in Sri Aurobindo's 'The Life Divine', 'The Synthesis Page 67 of Yoga', 'The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth', and in his many thousand letters. An account of the highest efforts of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and of the accomplishment of the task is given in thirteen volumes of 'Mother's ...
... relevant fund of knowledge gathered in the past, provide us the real kernel of the new synthesis of yoga, which Sri Aurobindo has expounded in 'The Life Divine', 'The Synthesis of Yoga', 'The Supramental Manifestation upon the Earth', 'Savitri', and this has been recorded as worked out in detail by the Mother in thirteen volumes of 'Mother's Agenda'. Page 88 ...
... The Synthesis of Yoga, Vol.21, p.583. 86 Ibid. p.586. 87 Ibid. p.587. 88 Ibid. The Life Divine, Vol.18, p. 148. 89 Ibid. p. 149. 90 Ibid. p.320. 91 Ibid. The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth, Vol.16, p.41-2. 92 Ibid. The Life Divine, Vol.19, p.891. 93 The Mother was born in Paris on 21st February, 1878. She had spiritual experiences from childhood, but ...
... 48-50, 87, 92, 94, 95, 97-102; consciousness 2, 15, 66, 69, 70, 71, 86, 99, 102; Nature 29; power 30, 36; superconscient 59; the advent of 38; transformation 15, 36 (The) Supramental Manifestation on the Earth 3, 15, 38 supra-physical things 57 supreme reality 11, 43 tamas 29 Tantra 21, 48, 87 Tantric (the) 91,95 Tantric Yoga 47 thought-mind ...
... importance. Fortunately, again, the aspiration to move upward seems to be gathering the force of burning fire, and both in the East and in the West, experiences of the new realms of spiritual and supramental manifestation seem to be breaking a new ground. Therefore, even though the path is difficult and obstacles are formidable, we need not fear to aspire and to work for the triumph of the Divine Will in securing ...
... The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, The Ideal of Human Unity, The Human Cycle, The Foundations of Indian Culture, Essays on the Gita, On the Veda, The Upanishads, The Future Poetry, The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, and the epic Savitri. When Sri Aurobindo withdrew in 1926 into his room for concentrating in the required way on the 'Supramental Yoga', Mother organised and developed his ...
... and spirituality can be expected to be realized. This book invites the readers to study the original works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, and particularly, Sri Aurobindo's book 'The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth' and 13 Volumes of 'Mother's Agenda.' Kireet Joshi ...
... for his own body and not as a terrestrial event. And also because they were still far from this Supramental substance about which, moreover, they were totally ignorant. But now that the Supramental Manifestation has taken place on earth and that the process of the transformation of the body — with all that is being worked out — can be done, one becomes the master of life, as one wants and be what ...
... divine body. There will be, in other words, the development of the next supramental species. Sri Aurobindo has even described the essential features of the divine body in his book ' The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth'. And the Mother's own experimental research in the physical transformation confirms the formation of the divine body of the new species, at least, in its subtle state. But the ...
... accomplished beings, happened to meet each other on March 29, 1914, when the Mother came to Pondicherry from France. Both recognized that they had page - 123 to accomplish the task of supramental manifestation jointly. This was a momentous moment in the history of evolution on the earth. In the following statement of the Mother dated May 19, 1959, we can see a brief account of the hurricane movement ...
... the readers to reflect seriously on this question and lead them to study original works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, particularly, 'The Life Divine’, 'The Synthesis of Yoga’, 'The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth’, and 13 volumes of 'Mother's Agenda’. Kireet Joshi ...
... "Our Ideal", Arya , Vol. II, No. 1 (15 August 19.1S), pp. 1-9. (Of the portions given here, all except the first and last are published, in a slightly revised form, in Sri Aurobindo, The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings [Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1971], p. 308 and pp. 313-14.) Page 157 go to play football at five o'clock. The Mother used to prepare cocoa ...
... the Mind of Light, to which no reference had been made in The Life Divine or The Synthesis of Yoga, and the whole demonstration resounded like a diapason of the inevitability of the Supramental Manifestation on the earth. On 7 July 1949,. the Mother had told Sri Aurobindo: "I am writing the practical side of your writings." 7 But of course, with the Mother, the boundary that divided the practical ...
... iniquities to a degree unimaginable before. In 1917, Sri Aurobindo had said in the passage cited above that the spiritual revolution awaited its hour. But by 1970, things had moved forward: the supramental manifestation of 1956, followed by the descent of the superman consciousness in 1969 "working energetically to prepare the earth for the new creation". 2 And yet, while a power may be working energetically ...
... this burst of revelation has still to be fully assimilated and actually lived and experienced, and allowed to temper and transfigure the whole quality of their life. Since the day of the supramental manifestation on 29 February 1956, four years almost had elapsed already, and another 29 February was ahead. This, then, was the time for the Mother's children to intensify their aspirations and redouble ...
... Nature to undergo change. But since Sri Aurobindo wrote The Life Divine, there had been some progress - the realisation of the Mind of Light in the Mother, for instance - and, after the supramental manifestation of February 1956, things started moving indeed. As the Mother confided two years later on 16 April 1958: This new realisation is proceeding with what one might call a lightning speed ...
... world-awareness invade and possess each other, and find their meaning and fulfilment in the Divine. Another year that was almost an overflow of the fourth leap-year anniversary of the Supramental Manifestation was also to witness the continuation of the centenary celebrations. This New Year, 1973, was greeted with meditation and music as usual, and there was the New Year message to ponder in order ...
... was going on between these two beings?—silence and a gaze. We were in marvelous accord, in an identical vibration.... Whenever there was a special force descending, or an opening, or a supramental manifestation, we would know it at the same time, in the same manner. And we didn’t even need to talk about it; we would sometimes exchange a word or two concerning the consequences, the practical effects ...
... current needed for the performance of our routine animal functions. But once the centers are opened, there are no such limits to the development of the body, as Sri Aurobindo notes in The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth: new powers as well as new and universal—or at any rate worldwide—means of communication would then emerge in this little body henceforth connected through its centers to all the ...
... universe further in its manifestation. This was going on and on and on and on.... The heavens are ringing with chants of Victory. And the certitude that what is to be done Is DONE and the Supramental Manifestation IS REALIZED... 13 At that instant, it was done. The work of Sri Aurobindo and Mother was accomplished, as if this one pure contact with That, in an earthly body, had made the Work be ...
... Alone with Mother. Through a curtain which one should destroy, or exorcise perhaps. × The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth, 16:15 sqq. × Thoughts & Aphorisms, 28.11.58 ...
... × Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 3, 27.11.62 × The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, 16,2,17 × Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 8, 30.9.67 ...
... existence. In the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo this response of the Supreme is the most momentous element, and without it no amount of human. endeavour can achieve the great objective of supramental manifestation. CALM AND EQUALITY The second strand of the foundation is calm and equality. No Yoga can be based on the quicksand of a restless nature, subject to the assaults of blind ...
... nothing therefore mental, vital or physical is final or can even find its own integral truth and harmony nor all these together their reconciliation until they are taken up and transformed in a supramental manifestation. For this supermind or gnosis is the entire organising will and knowledge of the spiritual, it is the Truth Consciousness, the Truth Force, the organic instrumentation of divine Law, the ...
... hostile nature that was a possibility of God's being. If it started from the Inconscience, it could not be a perfect manifestation from the beginning. You say [ p. 641 ] that in a supramental manifestation matter would not have been necessary. I suppose you meant that the darkness of matter was not necessary. It would have been not matter but supramental substance. You say that permission ...
... I did not understand this passage from the text: "Continence is therefore the rule for all those who aspire for progress. But especially for those who want to prepare themselves for the supramental manifestation, this continence must be replaced by a total abstinence, achieved not by coercion and suppression but by a kind of inner alchemy, as a result of which the energies that are normally used in ...
... be into force and light, not into obscurity and weakness. Continence therefore is the rule for all who aspire for progress. But especially for those who want to prepare themselves for the supramental manifestation, this continence must be replaced by total abstinence, gained not by coercion and suppression but by a kind of inner alchemy through which the energies usually used in the act of procreation ...
... is at work here, and one day will come when the most blind, the most unconscious, even the most unwilling shall be obliged to recognise it. The Mother Words of the Mother - III: The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth … this material world as it actually, visibly is, is so powerful, so absolutely real for the ordinary consciousness, that it has engulfed, as it were, this supramental force ...
... the remedy for keeping this joy. But Mother, what is the significance of the message you give every Darshan? For example, today you gave the picture of the flower that symbolises the supramental manifestation. 2 Yes, as I have just told you, this is spread in thousands of copies all over the world. It is an externalisation of the thing, it is a way of spreading the influence, spreading ...
... things on earth in this way, as in what I have just read to you. And then another question, which I thought I had already answered, for I told you immediately that before the effects of the supramental manifestation become visible and tangible, perceptible to everybody, perhaps thousands of years may go Page 290 by; but still I suppose these ideas are disturbing for the human consciousness ...
... they will close their door with their own egoism. That's all. Page 134 × Mother announced the Supramental Manifestation of February 29 in two messages published in the Bulletin of April 1956: "Lord, Thou hast willed and I execute, A new light breaks upon the earth, A new world is born. The things that ...
... transformation, the appearance of a new, a greater and more developed type, not a continuance with little modifications of the present physical form and its limited possibilities." The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 38-39 It is quite difficult to free oneself from old habits of being and to be able to freely conceive of a new life, a new world. And naturally, the liberation ...
... which inconscience, ignorance and error claim no place. It proceeds from knowledge to knowledge; we have not yet crossed over the borders of the truth-conscious into ignorance. " The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 70-71 Sweet Mother, I did not understand this passage: "In the Mind of Light when it becomes full-orbed this character of the Truth reveals itself though in ...
... incomplete. A total transformation of the body would demand a sufficient change of the most material part of the organism, its constitution, its processes and its set-up of nature." The Supramental Manifestation , SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 34-35 ...
... the divine life. It is indeed so that life and mind involved in Matter have realised themselves here; for only what is involved can evolve, otherwise there could be no emergence. " The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 43 Sweet Mother, what is the involved supermind? It is the same as the uninvolved one! It is the same thing when Sri Aurobindo says that if the Divine were ...
... be capable of passing into the supermind and from the new race would be recruited the race of supramental beings who would appear as the leaders of the evolution in earth-nature. " The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 67 This was certainly what he expected of us, what he conceived of as the superman who must be the intermediate being between humanity as it is and the supramental ...
... others went higher and could reach and live on superior strata of a semi-divine existence. It is not to be supposed that all humanity would rise in a block into the supermind...." The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 20-22 It is precisely about this progressive transformation that I am going to speak to you this evening.... I have often been asked this question, "Why, after ...
... "something" was in fact the supramental force, she answered: "I would rather not give it a name, because people will make a dogma out of it. That is what happened when what is called 'the first supramental manifestation' occurred in 1956. I tried my best to prevent it from being made into a dogma. But if I say, 'On such a date, such a thing happened', it will be written in big letters and if anyone says anything ...
... 26 February 1972 This talk begins with Mother's comments on the message to be distributed on February 29 , the Golden Day, anniversary of the descent of the Supramental Manifestation upon earth in 1956. "It is only when the Supramental manifests in the body-mind that its presence can be permanent." This message is a saying of Sri Aurobindo's—they have made out ...
... The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth Essays in Philosophy and Yoga The Divine Body A divine life in a divine body is the formula of the ideal that we envisage. But what will be the divine body? What will be the nature of this body, its structure, the principle of its activity, the perfection that distinguishes it from the limited and imperfect ...
... having a deep feeling that Sri Aurobindo and the Mother are the same though we see them in different bodies. Is my feeling right? Yes. 25 April 1933 In the centre of the flower "The Supramental manifestation upon earth", I saw both the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. I saw only their faces and they were in the same figure and at the same time. What does this signify? It is our joint or united presence ...
... The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Supermind and Humanity What then would be the consequence for humanity of the descent of Supermind into our earthly existence, its consequence for this race born into a world of ignorance and inconscience but capable of an upward evolution of its consciousness and an ascent into ...
... The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Supermind in the Evolution A new humanity would then be a race of mental beings on the earth and in the earthly body, but delivered from its present conditions in the reign of the cosmic Ignorance so far as to be possessed of a perfected mind, a mind of light which could even ...
... The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Supermind and Mind of Light The essential character of Supermind is a Truth-consciousness which knows by its own inherent right of nature, by its own light: it has not to arrive at knowledge but possesses it. It may indeed, especially in its evolutionary action, keep knowledge ...
... unmanifest, from matter into life, from life into Page 754 mind, from the mind into the spirit. It is this that must be the method of our growth from a mental into a spiritual and supramental manifestation, out of a still half-animal humanity into a divine being and a divine living. There must be achieved a new spiritual height, wideness, depth, subtlety, intensity of our consciousness, of its ...
... but Ananda is the spiritual Page 1025 matrix from which it manifests and the maintaining source into which it carries back the soul in its return to the status of the Spirit. A supramental manifestation in its ascent would have as a next sequence and culmination of self-result a manifestation of the Bliss of the Brahman: the evolution of the being of gnosis would be followed by an evolution ...
... powers of the Ignorance attempted a desperate obstruction again and again. But Sri Aurobindo's sacrifice had already delivered the first of the finishing strokes to them. And with the Supramental Manifestation on February 29, 1956, when the Supermind's Light, Consciousness and Force became part of the earth's atmosphere, as it were - an agency subtly yet directly at work on a universal scale ...
... going through the whole experience of dying - this is decided according to the need of the hour. Sri Aurobindo decided upon death in the fullest meaning. And when for the purposes of the supramental manifestation death is accepted it would not be a mere withdrawal, but an acceptance of natural factors of disease so that a real fight with them may take place and by the sacrifice of one body, in which ...
... a figure of the perfect that He is in His Truth-Consciousness, His plane of creative archetypes which joins the eternal to the temporal. That is why Sri Aurobindo has said that the supramental manifestation is in the very logic of earthly things and is the final sense of the developing terrestrial nature. As such it will be intrinsically sustained, permanent - matter itself crystallising ...
... wrote to me of your experience in the train on the night of the 29th February. Well, I had come to inform you. Don't you remember that many years ago, when you went to Bombay and the Supramental Manifestation was expected here, I promised you that I would let you know at once? I came to you now in fulfilment of my promise." I was absolutely overwhelmed. The promise had been kept after ...
... don't throw all caution to the winds?" Strictly speaking, what Sri Aurobindo, taking up the terminology used by the sadhak, called "a general descent" has been named by the Mother "the Supramental Manifestation" when the event at which she had hinted occurred at last — after nearly 18 years' delay — on February 29, 1956. Elucidating it indirectly on March 29 of the same year the Mother made a change ...
... September 21, 1963 ( During the conversation, Mother envisages the possibility of reading out a message, if any comes to her, on the occasion of the second anniversary of the Supramental Manifestation, on February 29, 1964. Then she adds: ) ...Provided I can speak. ? Yes, I was kindly informed that I won't be able to speak any more. What do you mean? Oh, the adverse forces ...
... only with That that things can change, all the rest is inadequate. And if I remember right, Sri Aurobindo said that this manifestation (which he too calls Love) would take place AFTER the supramental manifestation, didn't he? First Truth, then Love. Then Love. Yes, he said there were different "levels" in the Supramental—but that ( smiling ) is the sauce that makes things more easily digestible ...
... out of the chaos existing at this hour, make a new, harmonious world surge forth. Page 108 × The Supramental Manifestation , ( Cent. Ed. XVI, pp. 33-36 .) ...
... Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960 February 29, 1956 The following text was given by Mother in both French and English. FIRST SUPRAMENTAL MANIFESTATION ( During the common meditation on Wednesday the 29th February 1956 ) This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you. I had a form of living gold, bigger than the ...
... March 19, 1956 Note written by Mother in French. At this period, Mother's back was already bent. This straightening of her back seems to be the first physiological effect of the 'Supramental Manifestation' of February 29 , which is perhaps the reason why Mother noted down the experience under the name 'Agenda of the Supramental Action on Earth.' It was the first time Mother gave a title ...
... No Hope Unless. (Written after being shown, as a special favour, on my birthday—November 25, 1956—what the Mother had written about her experience of the Supramental Manifestation on February 29 of the same year) No hope for me unless you break Even from within my Cave The gate of God the Gloom Just as you broke from the infinite room The ...
... East and the West in Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy(1968) 3. Reminiscences of Sri Aurobindo in Mother India(1972) 4. The Life Divine, Centenary Edition , p. 24. 5. Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings, Centenary Edition, p.245. 6. Aurobindo: Inaugurator of Modern Indian Criticism in the Literary Criterion; Vol. 15. No. 2, 1980. 7. Sydney Hook, ...
... The Secret Splendour (These lines were written in Bombay on 31 March 1956, when nobody yet knew of the Supramental Manifestation in the earth's subtle-physical layer, that had taken place in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram on February 29, 1956 in the late evening. The first stanza intuits what took place. The second goes beyond to a final stage still secret in the ...
... volumes of such poetry to read. (He appreciated Mallarmé, Whitman, Yeats and Eliot.) He also dictated, at the Mother’s request, the important series of articles published under the title The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth . In these articles he expounded the state of affairs at that time of his Work, of his Yoga of Transformation, explaining the realization of the “Mind of Light,” and the necessity ...
... but profound message: ‘One more step towards Eternity.’ Such is the Work of the Avatar in its simplest definition: one more step towards Eternity. Sri Aurobindo’s descent into death, the supramental manifestation of 1956, the realization of the overman in 1958, the descent of the overman consciousness in 1969 – this whole series of super events with a direct bearing on each and every one of us, whether ...
... × Letters on Yoga , 168 × The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth , 384 × Thoughts and Aphorisms , 3 ...
... × The Mother 40 × The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth , 235 × The Life Divine , 42 ...
... with the exception of Savitri and a series of articles that will demand our close attention. They were written at the very end of his earthly life and are now known under the title The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth. To become familiar with terms like “Supermind”, and to get to the fundamentals of the matter at hand, it is necessary to sketch a brief outline of Sri Aurobindo’s vision, which ...
... Mother (Sri Aurobindo) MI Mother India (periodical) NC Notes sur le chemin (the Mother) OH On Himself (Sri Aurobindo) P&M Prières et Méditations (the Mother) SM The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth (Sri Aurobindo) SY The Synthesis of Yoga (Sri Aurobindo) T&A Thoughts and Aphorisms (Sri Aurobindo, revised ed. 1977) TSA Talks With Sri Aurobindo (recorded by ...
... cannot yet grasp it, although I am here, but all eternity is before me. I attended a lesson of Mother for the youth. Among other things She said that probably the dominant aspect in the supramental manifestation in the coming age will be that of Power, for the new race will need to be protected and that is why the Divine Power will have to protect it from destructive powers. Naturally, she said, that ...
... in of outside matter in the shape of food, its digestion, assimilation of what is assimilable and elimination of what cannot or ought not to be assimilated. (Sri Aurobindo, The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, pp. 52-53) Life is the same in insect, ape and man. (Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Book II, Canto V, p. 164) All that is Breath has its life in food. ...
... any "need to shun existence or plunge into the annihilation of the spiritual Person in some self-extinguishing Nirvana." 2 1 The Life Divine, pp. 962-63. 2 The Supramental Manifestation, p. 85. Page 141 ...
... issues of Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. 2 Towards February 29, 1960, p. 2. 3 See Bulletin, February 1967, p. 75. 4 The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, pp. 69-70. Page 417 substantial stuff of the body, although still remaining material, will be of an altogether different sort. For corresponding to the ...
... shadows . Supramental consciousness: Gloriously awake and powerful—luminous, sure of itself and infallible in its movements! The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth Bliss: Ananda: Calm, tranquil, equal, smiling and very gentle in its truly simple austerity . Ananda in the physical: It is welcome even if it manifests rarely ...
... surrender to the Supreme Lord. She said, "This is exactly what I wanted You to tell me. I am ready!" She was really wonderful. In 1960, on the night previous to the First Anniversary of the Supramental Manifestation, Krishna came to me and told me, "It is I who will distribute tomorrow's message." So the next day when I went down, He sat on my lap and started giving blessings to people. It was really ...
... 21.2.68. It read: Truth alone can give to the world the power of receiving and manifesting the Divine's Love . The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: Messages for the Supramental Manifestation upon Earth On that day, 29.2.1968, at 5.15 p.m., the Mother gave Darshan from her balcony to the Ashramites, Aurovilians and the representatives of different countries and the Indian ...
... of the eternal, stupendous Love, only Love: each pulsation of the Love was carrying the universe further in its manifestation. And the certitude that what is to be done is done and the Supramental Manifestation is realized. Everything was Personal, nothing was individual. This was going on and on and on and on.... The certitude that what is to be done is DONE. All the results of the Falsehood ...
... between their experience and the DESCENT—what Sri Aurobindo calls 'the descent of the Supermind': something that comes and establishes itself. Even when I had that experience [the 'first supramental manifestation' of February 29, 1956 ], when the Lord said, 'The time has come,' well, it was not a complete descent; it was the descent of the Consciousness, the Light, and a part, an aspect of the Power ...
... the physical appearance, it is to this higher Reality that you must turn. The physical being cannot become truly expressive of the eternal Reality until it is completely transformed by the supramental manifestation. And until then, it is through it that you must find the Truth. 22 September 1959 Sweet Mother, Is it possible to have control over oneself during sleep? For example, if I ...
... stupendous Love, only Love. Each pulsation of the Love was carrying the universe further in its manifestation. And there was the certitude that what is to be done is done and that the Supramental Manifestation is realised. Everything was impersonal, nothing was individual. This was going on and on and on and on. The certitude that what is to be done is done . All the results of the ...
... in an identical vibration, as happened to me with Sri Aurobindo.... But that never took the form of little stories! Whenever there was a special force descending, or an opening, or a supramental manifestation, we would know it at the same time, in the same manner. And we didn't even need to talk about it; we would sometimes exchange a word or two concerning the consequences, the practical effects ...
... and disorder is a sure sign of a nature which rejects its psychic being and wants nothing to do with it. 21 October 1972 Cleanliness is the first indispensable step towards the supramental manifestation. 21 January 1973 Relations with Local Villagers Mother Divine, A few points on which Thy divine guidance is required. There is resistance from the villagers in selling ...
... Like a triumph. But I didn't write that one down because I did not want to spoil my impression. Of course, these things should not be published. We can file them in this Agenda of the Supramental Manifestation for later on. Later on, when the Victory is won, we shall say, 'If you want to see the curve...' But what is going to come now? I constantly hear the Sanskrit mantra: OM NAMO BHAGAVATEH ...
... total. ( long silence ) Page 82 This particular period was very bad last year too. 6 There was a tremendous opposition because of February 29th [first anniversary of the supramental manifestation]. But always a little before Darshans 7 or days for special blessings there is a new outbreak of adverse attacks—always. Well, mon petit, we have done nothing but talk. It's time ...
... they open up. Really a pleasant sight. Just look at this! ( Mother holds out a rose ) Soon afterwards Now, there has come a message for February 29 [third anniversary of the supramental manifestation]. The message for the 21st is a jest, and this is the charitable explanation... which comes a week later! Oh, it's very simple ( Mother reads ): Truth alone can give to the world ...
... general the consummation of Sri Aurobindo's work and hers and which she turned into the present tense on March 29, 1956, making it run as a Message referring back to February 29 when the Supramental Manifestation had taken place: Lord, Thou hast willed and I execute: A new light breaks upon the earth, A new world is born. The things that were promised are fulfilled. ...
... haven't spoken about a crisis in 1957. There would be a fulfilment in that year. The crisis comes before." According to her, no world war could come about after 1956, the year meant for the Supramental Manifestation. When Nolini, Amrita and I were going together to the Ashram after the Mother's outburst, I reminded Nolini that the possibility decried by the Mother now was clearly spoken of in the supposedly ...
... Samadhi serving as an occult radiating Page 77 centre. I have also the conviction that even beyond the Ashram there is a strong magnetic Aurobindonian milieu. After all, the Supramental Manifestation of February 29, 1956 is a universal phenomenon and is now ineradicable part of the earth's future evolution. We need have no fundamental fear of our Gurus' work fizzling out under any cir ...
... both Sri Aurobindo and the Mother gave up - for reasons of their own - the grand experiment with their own bodies, the hope of any of their disciples doing it faded. But what is called "the Supramental Manifestation" on February 29, 1956 has made the evolutionary achievement by mankind in some future age certain, for now the Supermind's "light, force and consciousness" which manifested are a part of the ...
... in my head. I didn't know at all. And then that came. × On February 29, 1964, second anniversary of the Supramental Manifestation upon earth. ...
... That means a long, long way ahead. In other words, later, among the supramental race, they will say, "That's all very well, but it's only the beginning. Now, the entire earth has to become a supramental manifestation." Just as from mental man the supramental being was born, so also from the supramental being will be born the powers that will transform the earth.... Do you see it?! It's interesting. ...
... indeed the supramental Force, Mother answered this: "I'd rather not name it, because they will make a dogma out of it. It [this "something"] is what happened when what we called 'the first supramental manifestation' took place in 1956. I tried my best to prevent it from being turned into a dogma. But if I say, 'On such-and-such date, such-and-such a thing took place,' it will be printed in big characters ...
... transcendent Supermind's becoming now, through this reality and that being, a part of the earth's future and creating the possibility of an earthly heaven. The last allusion was to the Supramental Manifestation that had occurred on February 29, 1956 in the earth's subtle-physical layer. But I was rather Page 10 disturbed by the word "transitory", I wrote to the Mother that ...
... in Mother India ? — " '4th May 1967 (4-5-67): The Supramental will start working on earth, but the working may start even a little earlier. " 'I observe this day as the Supramental Manifestation day thus: this is the day of India's New Year, Earth's New Year and the whole Universe's New Year and all these three strangely coincide on the same day which may change the face of the ...
... each piece of paper. Suggestively enough, my sentence is the beginning of the Prayer whose ending served, with an appropriate change of the tenses, as the Mother's Message soon after the Supramental Manifestation on February 29, 1956, in the earth's subtle-physical layer, what she called the earth's "atmosphere". Lord, Thou hast willed, and I execute, A new light breaks upon the earth, ...
... create limits, yet the limits are luminous borders for a special working, voluntary and purposive bounds, a service of the finite ever extending itself under the eye of infinity. The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings, p. 53 (b) The Outer (Surface) Vital Being (Life-Nature) Life then reveals itself as essentially the same everywhere from the atom to man, the atom ...
... The Spectrum of Consciousness". Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 1975. Vol. 7, p. 105. 24. John Welwood (Ed.). The Meeting of the Ways, pp. 224-25. 25. "Our Ideal" in The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings (SABCL, Vol. 16). p. 314. Page 22 ...
... from affirmation, it is because they must be so vast in their periods as to escape not only all our means of observation, but all our means of deduction or definite inference. The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings, p. 229 ...there is the beginning of a perception that behind the economic motives and causes of social and historical development there are profound psychological ...
... surprising faculties and capable of a much surer action and experience, conscient of the superficial mind, Page 73 though of it the superficial mind is inconscient. The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings, p. 261 It [the subliminal] is, according to our psychology, connected with the small outer personality by certain centres of consciousness [Chakras] of which we ...
... totality of the change we have to achieve, human means and forces too have to be taken up, not dropped but used and magnified to their utmost possibility as part of the new life. The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings, pp. 5-7 Page 174 ...
... exact and careful knowledge begins to cast its fathom into these depths, it is obliged to repeat in other language what had already been written nearly three thousand years ago? The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings, pp. 262-63 (b) Normal (Ordinary) and Higher (Spiritual) Consciousness ...briefly... there are two states of consciousness in either of which one can ...
... Ibid., p. 257. 49. Ibid., p. 260. 50. Ibid., p. 261. 51. Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, SABCL Vol. 18, p. 124. 52. Ibid., p. 143. 53. Sri Aurobindo, The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings, SABCL Vol. 16, pp. 41-42. 54. Sri Aurobindo, The Upanishads, SABCL Vol. 12, p. 96. 55. Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL Vol. 20, p. 395. ...
... Pondicherry (1970-75). Vol. 12 : The Upanishads Vol. 13 : Essays on the Gita Vol. 14 : The Foundations of Indian Culture Vol. 16 : The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings Vol. 17 : The Hour of God and Other Writings Vol. 18 : The Life Divine-Book One and Book Two Part One (pp. 1-632) Vol. 19 : The Life ...
... the powers of the Ignorance attempted a desperate obstruction again and again. But Sri Aurobindo's sacrifice had already delivered the first of the finishing strokes to them. And with the Supramental Manifestation on February 29, 1956, when the Consciousness and Power of the Supermind became part of the earth's atmosphere, as it were—a power subtly yet directly at work on a universal scale in the midst ...
... the eternal stupendous Love, only Love: each pulsation of the Love was carrying the universal further in its manifestation. And the certitude that what is to be done is done and the Supramental Manifestation is realised. Everything was personal, nothing was individual. This was going on, and on, and on, and on. The certitude that what is to be done is done. All the results ...
... The Mother - Past-Present-Future The Supramental Manifestation of February 29,1956* EXTRACTS FROM NOTES OF TWO INTERVIEWS WITH THE MOTHER May 13,1956 THE MOTHER: Were you here on the 29th February? Yes, Mother, I was here. I arrived the same day in the morning and I was present at the "Questions and Answers" and the Meditation ...
... Knowledge would be a more beautiful and glorious manifestation with more vistas ever unfolding themselves and more intensive in all ways than any evolution could be in the Ignorance. The supramental manifestation of life would be more full and fruitful; it would mean a greater and happier life for the entire earth. It is, indeed, realized that the task involved in the transmutation of man into ...
... have been built towards the supramental ascent or the incommunicable Transcendence. The recent developments of the spiritual evolution have opened up the paths of the supramental descent and supramental manifestation on the earth so as to bring about largest synthesis of the Spirit and Matter, the boundaries of which, it is claimed, are constantly breaking so as to bring about on the earth a new species ...
... importance. Fortunately, again, the aspiration to move upward seems to be gathering the force of burning fire, and both in the East and in the West, experiences of the new realms of Spiritual and supramental manifestation seem to be breaking a new ground. Therefore, even though the path is difficult and obstacles are "formidable, we need not fear to aspire and to work for the triumph of the Divine Will in securing ...
... research and development of new Yogic methods, as also by bringing all the relevant materials from the synthetic yogas of the Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavadgitā and Tantrathe aim of the supramental manifestation on earth is sought to be realised. Sri Aurobindo equates the Vedic truth-consciousness with the supermind, with the Gitā's concept of parāprakriti and with the supreme Shakti ...
... and development of new Yogic methods, as also by bringing all the relevant materials from the synthetic yogas of the Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagvadgita and Tantra, that the aim of the supramental manifestation on earth is sought to be realised. Page 296 Sri Aurobindo equates the Vedic "truth-consciousness "with the supermind, with the Gita's concept of paraprakriti and with the ...
... of development reaching up to its climactic point. A study of these volumes and other volumes such as Sri Aurobindo's 'The Life Divine’, 'The Synthesis of Yoga’, 'Letters on Yoga’, "The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth’, 'Savitri’ — an epic written in the English language, as also 'The Mother's Conversations’, 'Questions and Answers’, and several others show that no change has been more radical ...
... has, as its aim, perfect manifestation of the perfect supramental consciousness and power through the perfected individual vehicles for the upliftment of the entire humanity so that the supramental manifestation on the earth can facilitate more and more rapidly and more and more effectively humanity's endeavour towards increasing unity and harmony and, eventually, towards the evolution of the next ...
... Sri Aurobindo, who has explained the great teachings of the Vedaand the Upanishads in his voluminous .writings, and he has opened a new chapter of spiritual victory over Matter in terms of Supramental Manifestation on the earth. We shall, therefore, refer to his writings for illuming ourselves in regard to the question as to what is the real reality of the human being, and whether after the death of ...
... be into force and light, not into obscurity and weakness. Continence therefore is the rule for all who aspire for progress. But especially for those who want to prepare themselves for the supramental manifestation, this continence must be replaced by Page 437 total abstinence, gained not by coercion and suppression but by a kind of inner alchemy through which the energies usually used ...
... organs of a very different character or, if anything material was needed, instruments that would be forms of dynamism or plastic transmitters rather than what we know as organs." (The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, pp. 69-70) And it is not that the body-structure and the organ-systems alone will undergo the necessary supramental transfiguration: the Page 309 ...
... animal state from which Science tells us that we have issued. These three are one; for man's unity and man's self-transcendence can come only by living in the Spirit." (The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings, pp. 287-291.) Page 250 ...
... 'Supermind in the Evolution', 'Mind of Light' and 'Supermind and Mind of Light', the last appearing in the issue of November 1950. These articles are reproduced in volume 16 of the SABCL, The Supramental Manifestation. They constitute the last of Sri Aurobindo's prose writings and, as you can see from the titles, they are concerned not only with the ideal of bodily perfection but move beyond to a consideration ...
... No 1. India's Rebirth pp 89 p 293 in the manuscript No 2. India's Rebirth pp207 p293 in the manuscript Chapter 11 No 1.Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library, Vol 16 The Supramental Manifestation pp 394 p 302 in the manuscript No 2. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library Vol 20, The Synthesis of Yoga pp 27 p 302 in the manuscript N0 3. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary ...
... was turned outward and not aware of the soul’s will, the agony was there. The union with the soul brought the peace. (5) Will her soul come again to take part in the Mother’s work of supramental manifestation? The soul is bound to come for the Divine’s Work. When the time comes and the circumstances are favourable, we shall know about it. Love and blessings 10 December 1964 ...
... foreign readers? Books recommended: Sri Aurobindo: The Ideal of Human Unity ; The Human Cycle ; The Life Divine ; Essays on the Gita ; Thoughts and Glimpses ; The Superman ; The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth . The Mother: On Education ; Words of Long Ago ; Words of the Mother (containing Conversations with the Mother ); The Four Austerities . Bulletin of Physical Education ...
... AUROBINDO Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library (SABCL). 30 vols. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press. Vol. 15. Social and Political Thought. 1971. Vol. 16. The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings. 1971. Vol. 17. The Hour of God and Other Writings. 1972. Vols. 18-19. The Life Divine. 1970. Vols. 22-23. Letters on Yoga. 1970. WORKS OF THE MOTHER ...
... courage to pursue till the end, I set out and this is what has been revealed to me, and what I have been able to bring down here — the total realisation of the Supramental and consequently the Supramental manifestation upon earth, and with that the promise of a divine life upon earth. It is this that I dreamt of in my childhood, it is this that I have expressed through all that I have undertaken in the course ...
... conditions following the Mother's own special instructions. Her insistence is always on cleanliness. (She said in a recent message: Cleanliness is the first indispensable step towards the supramental manifestation...) I questioned Sri Aurobindo about this: "I wonder why the Divine is so particular about contagion, infection, etc. Is he vulnerable to the virus and the microbe?" He replied, "And why on ...
... Srinivasachariar, Mandayam, 375ff, 391, 405,525 Standard-Bearer, The, 527 St. Paul, 445 Statesman, The, 222-23, 237, 247 Strachey, Lytton, 177,241 Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, The, also Mind of Light, 438-39, 718 Swarnalata Devi, 25,27, 30,48 Synthesis of Yoga, The, 404ff, 415,448,490, 492, 514, 516, 550ff; structure of 55051; French ...
... the important landmarks, of course, indicative of the development of the Ashram and the changes in the contours of its physiognomy; but the invisible milestones marking the progress of the supramental manifestation were of deeper consequence still. The coming of the disciples, first a trickle, then almost a flood; Page 838 the organisation of the Ashram Services; the physical growth of ...
... s throw light on aspects of her own ministry in the Ashram. Thus, explaining a passage containing the line "Only a little the God-light can stay," the Mother recalls the aftermath of the supramental manifestation. The atmosphere of the earth is too contrary to the magnificence of the Supreme Consciousness and veils it almost constantly.... It was like that when in 1956 the Supramental Power ...
... rare dream-experience between 2 and 3 in the afternoon, comparable to her dream of the hotel on 2 July 1957 or her dialogue with Nature on 8 November, 1957. 23 For sometime - ever since the supramental manifestation, in fact - she had been feeling that the distance in communication and understanding between the inhabitants of the supramental world and mere human beings was greater than that between the ...
... cry for the clasp of God... that one actually felt the enveloping love, the answering clasp. 12 The day after the dedication of Auroville was the third leap-year anniversary of the Supramental Manifestation - the Golden Day, the Day of the Lord. "Truth alone," ran the Mother's message, "can give to the world the power of receiving and manifesting the Divine's Love." 13 There was the distribution ...
... words. Her advice in 1950 was: "Don't speak. Act. Don't announce. Realise." And in 1954: "Never boast about anything, let your acts speak for you." For 1956 which was to be the year of the supramental manifestation, "The greatest victories are the least noisy. The manifestation of a new world is not proclaimed by beat of drum." In 1967, when "the transforming evolution of the world" had taken "a hastened ...
... disharmony. But once the ego steps down from its self-raised pedestal and unites with the universal, there will be no further clouding of its vision, no further confusion of its movements. The supramental manifestation has created a favourable climate for the radical self-diminution - self-annulment - of the ego, and all that is now needed is to permit the supramental Light and Force and Consciousness to ...
... fundamental change in the Sri AurobindoMother-disciple relationships? As the Mother explained in her talk of 15 August 1956, - the day she had distributed the flower symbolising the supramental manifestation, In the days when Sri Aurobindo used to give Darshan, before he gave it there was always a concentration of certain forces or of a certain realisation which he wanted to give to ...
... of the three gunas can be .liberated from its lower poise and working, and Page 398 transmuted into the divine Nature. But this double liberation is the very base of the supramental manifestation as envisaged by Sri Aurobindo. The Integral Yoga really begins where the other yogas usually end. We shall now pass in brief review the nature and potentiality of this double or integral ...
... supreme Mother in Her individual poise is closest and easiest of access to our physical being, whose transformation and conversion is the most important condition Page 99 of supramental manifestation. In the Integral Yoga no spiritual experience counts for much unless it is translated into the terms of the physical being, and rivetted and revealed in the outer nature and action. The Mother's ...
... 3 As quoted by Encyclopaedia Universalis , 15.9.1 × 4 The Supramental Manifestation , p. 24. × 5 Rig-Veda , X.53 ff. ...
... me with this inexpressible feeling he vanished conferring these benedictions — as if a standing Call for the awakening of a new consciousness to the coming Dawn of Sri Aurobindo’s future Supramental manifestation: — “Why this lassitude? I am united with Sri Aurobindo.” I wrote everything to Sri Aurobindo and asked him, “How shall I, so unfit a person, so poor a sadhika, take this experience? Have I ...
... necessary for the accomplishment of Thy work. 23 October 1937 Page 41 I wish 1) personally to be eternally the perfect expression of the Supreme Divine. 2) that the supramental victory, manifestation and transformation should take place at once. 3) that all suffering should disappear for ever from the worlds present and future. Page 42 ...
... It can very well happen that the first supramental manifestations will be altogether incomplete. But even to these, man as he is at present will seem something absolutely gross. There is no halt in the universal development and even the thing, which would seem at a certain time absolutely perfect and finished, will still be only a stage for future manifestations. But men very much like to sit down and... Suddenly they said that they were having wonderful supramental experiences, because one is rarely in these regions which lie beyond the reason, which are regions of direct perception, intuition and other faculties of intuition of the same kind, which go far beyond the reason; and these are still mental regions, they have nothing of the supramental. Mother, you said that between the supermind and... a book, in a teaching, immediately imagine that they have realised that. So, when Sri Aurobindo began speaking about the supermind—in what he was writing—everyone wrote to him: "I have seen the supramental Light, I had an experience of the supermind!" Now, it is better to keep the word "supermind" for a later time. For the moment let us not speak about it. Somewhere he has written a very detailed ...
... consciousness and use vital forces. Which is not very recommendable. 1 I wish 1) personally to be eternally the perfect expression of the Supreme Divine. 2) that the supramental victory, manifestation and transformation should take place at once. 3) that all suffering should disappear for ever from the worlds present and future. 20.9.1953 It is never work that makes ...
... but that's not the aim; it's only a means, it's to change your way of functioning.) So I was looking at the way the mind has to function in the true life (the supramental life, since Sri Aurobindo said he called "supramental" the manifestation of Truth and Light). Anyway, I was looking. I was conducting a kind of terrestrial survey, wondering, "Are there on earth mentalities that are ready to receive ...
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