Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Yoga

5. Planes and Parts of the Being

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Sri Aurobindo — Unknown addressee

April 13, 1932

At the time when the last chapters of The Synthesis of Yoga were written in the Arya, the name “overmind” had not been found, so there is no mention of it. What is described in those chapters is the action of the supermind when it descends into the overmind plane and takes up the overmind workings and transforms them. The highest supermind or Divine gnosis existent in itself, is something that lies beyond still and quite above. It was intended in latter chapters to show how difficult even this was and how many levels there were between the human mind and supermind and how even supermind descending could get mixed with the lower action and turned into something that was less than the true Truth. But these latter chapters were not written.

Current publication:

 
Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga // SABCL.- Volume 22. (≈ 28 vol. of CWSA).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1971.- 502 p.

Other publications:

1. 8027.
Sri Aurobindo. On Himself // SABCL.- Volume 26. (≈ 35 vol. of CWSA) / Popular edition.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1972.- 514 p.

2. 21411.
[Largest or earliest found passage: ]Sri Aurobindo. Letters of Sri Aurobindo: In 4 Series.- Forth Series [On Yoga].- Bombay: Sri Aurobindo Sircle, 1951.- 652 p.

3. 23303.
Sri Aurobindo. On Himself and on the Mother // Sri Aurobindo International University Centre Collection.– Volume 1.– First Edition.– Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1953.– 782 p.