Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 35

Fragment ID: 8749

1935 [41]

Yesterday you said that the Supermind descent into Matter is what is being attempted. If that is so, has the Supermind already conquered the mental plane, the vital plane and the subtle physical plane?

There can be no conquest of the other planes by the supermind, but only an influence, so long as the physical is not ready. Besides the Supermind did not attempt – it is we who are attempting.

Unless the mind and the vital are perfectly prepared how is it possible to bring the Supermind down into the physical or into Matter itself?

And how is it possible to perfect the mind and vital unless the physical is prepared – for there is such a thing as the mental and vital physical and mind and vital cannot be said to be perfectly prepared until these are ready.

7 November 1935