Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
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The Significance of the 24th November [6]
[A disciple of Sri Aurobindo’s wrote an article on the significance of the realisation of 24 November 1926, in which he quoted the following passage from The Life Divine:]
In order that the involved principles of Overmind and Supermind should emerge from their veiled secrecy, the being and powers of the superconscience must descend into us and uplift us and formulate themselves in our being and powers; this descent is a sine qua non of the transition and transformation.1
[The disciple concluded:] This is referred to in the Vedas as the birth of the gods in men, devānāṃ janimāni; Sri Aurobindo regards it as indispensable for supramental realisation on earth. It was this that occurred on the 24th November, 1926, and it is only then that Sri Aurobindo started his Ashram, being sure that with the cooperation of the gods the supermind can descend upon earth.
What happened on the 24th November prepared the possibility of this descent and on that day he retired into seclusion and entered into deep and powerful meditation.
20 November 1950
1 Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, volume 22 of The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo, pp. 955–56.