Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 35

Fragment ID: 8455

Overmind [5]

Is it possible for another being to take birth in a human being’s কারণ দেহ  [kāraṇa deha] and see everything from that standpoint?

The কারণ দেহ  may be simply a form answering to the higher consciousness (overmental, intuitive etc.) and I suppose a being could be there working in that consciousness and body. It is not likely to be the supramental being and supramental body – for in that case the whole consciousness, thought, action subjective and objective would begin to be faultlessly true and irresistibly effective. Nobody has reached that stage yet, even the overmind is, for all but the Mother and myself, either unrealised or only an influence mostly subjective.

24 March 1934