Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume I - Part 2

Fragment ID: 10006

The Supermind is the total Truth Consciousness; the Overmind draws down the truths separately and gives them a separate activity – e.g. in the Supermind the Divine Peace and Power, Knowledge and Will are one. In the Overmind each of these becomes a separate aspect which can exist or act on its own lines apart from the others. When it comes down to Mind, this turns into an ignorance and incapacity – because Knowledge can come without a Will to support it or Peace can be disturbed by the action of Power etc.