Sri Aurobindo
Letters on Yoga
1. The Supramental Evolution
Fragment ID: 6
See letter itself (letter ID: 18)
Sri Aurobindo — Nahar, Prithwi Singh
October 18, 1934
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The descent of the supermind is a long process, or at least a process with a long preparation, and one can only say that the work is going on sometimes with a strong pressure for completion, sometimes retarded by the things that rise from below and have to be dealt with before further progress can be made. The process is a spiritual evolutionary process, concentrated into a brief period; it could be done otherwise (by what men would regard as a miraculous intervention) only if the human mind were more flexible and less attached to its ignorance than it is. As we envisage it, it must manifest in a few first and then spread, but it is not likely to overpower the earth in a moment. It is not advisable to discuss too much what it will do and how it will do it, because these are things the supermind itself will fix, acting out of the Divine Truth in it, and the mind must not try to fix for it grooves in which it will run. Naturally, the release from subconscient ignorance and from disease, duration of life at will, and a change in the functionings of the body must be among the ultimate elements of a supramental change; but the details of these things must be left for the supramental Energy to work out according to the Truth of its own nature.
1 Sri Aurobindo and Mother to Prithwi Singh: sweep over
2 Sri Aurobindo and Mother to Prithwi Singh: that
3 Sri Aurobindo and Mother to Prithwi Singh: functioning
4 Sri Aurobindo and Mother to Prithwi Singh: results
5 Sri Aurobindo and Mother to Prithwi Singh: detail
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Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga // Sri Aurobindo Birth Century Library. Set in 30 Volumes (SABCL).- Volume 22. (≈ 28 vol. of CWSA).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1971.- 502 p.
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