Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
CWSA 35
Fragment ID: 8618
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Sri Aurobindo — Unknown addressee
April 25, 1930
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“A Far Greater Truth” [1]
In a letter dated November 1928, you speak of “a far greater Truth than any yet realised on the earth”. Does this mean that the realisation of the Divine which this world is witnessing at present in the person of Sri Aurobindo eclipses the Light of all the previous Divine Descents of which humanity is aware? Or, is it to be construed as meaning that Sri Aurobindo does not call himself the Avatar but the Divine, having realised the Divine on earth?
“A far greater Truth” has nothing to do with Avatarhood or anything of the kind. I meant by it the descent of the supramental Consciousness upon earth; all truths below the supramental (even that of the highest spiritual on the mental plane, which is the highest that has yet manifested) are either partial or relative or otherwise deficient and unable to transform the earthly life, they can only at most modify and influence it. The supermind is the last
Truth-consciousness of which the ancient seers spoke; there have been glimpses of it till now, sometimes an indirect influence or pressure, but it has not been brought down into the consciousness of the earth and fixed there. To bring
it down is the aim of our Yoga.
25 April 1930
1 SABCL, volume 22; CWSA, volume 29; The Riddle of this World: vast
2 SABCL, volume 22; CWSA, volume 29; The Riddle of this World: To so bring
Current publication:
[Largest or earliest found passage: ] Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Himself and the Ashram // CWSA.- Volume 35. (≈ 26 vol. of SABCL).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2011.- 658 p.
Other publications:
Sri Aurobindo. The Riddle of this World: Letters.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1973.- 72 p.