Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume III - Part 3

Fragment ID: 12849

It [the correspondent’s experience] is the release from the limitations by the body consciousness and the opening into the wider being which is universal although it has an individual centre. As this develops one becomes aware of the true Self silent and illimitable and the cosmic consciousness. The concentration at the apex above the head is the station in the thousand-petalled lotus. There one becomes aware of states of mind above the ordinary human buddhi, the higher mind, the illumined mind, the intuition, the overmind – finally when one has achieved the overmind one opens directly to the supramental consciousness.