Sri Aurobindo
Letters on Yoga
1. The Supramental Evolution
Fragment ID: 6343
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Sri Aurobindo — Nahar, Prithwi Singh
December 1, 1935
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The descent of the supramental is an inevitable
necessity in the logic of things and is therefore sure. It is because people do
not understand what the supermind is or realise the significance of the
emergence of consciousness in a world of inconscient Matter that they are unable
to realise this inevitability. I suppose a matter-of-fact observer, if there had
been one at the time of the unrelieved reign of inanimate Matter in the earth’s
beginning, would have criticised any promise of the emergence of life in a world
of dead earth and rock and mineral as an absurdity and a chimera; so too,
afterwards he would have repeated this
mistake and regarded the emergence of thought and
reason in an animal world as an absurdity and a chimera. It is the same now with
the appearance of supermind in the stumbling 
mentality of this world of human consciousness and its reasoning ignorance.
1 Sri Aurobindo and Mother to Prithwi Singh: his
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