Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Letters

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Sri Aurobindo — Unknown addressee

Undated

All should understand that the true Supramental does not come in the beginning but much later in the Sadhana.

First:– The opening up and illumination of the mental, vital and the physical beings.

Secondly:– Making intuitive of the mind, thought, will etc., and development of the hidden consciousness progressively replacing the surface consciousness.

Thirdly:– The supramentalising of the changed mental, vital and the physical beings and finally the descent of the true Supramental and the rising into the Supramental plane.

This is the natural order of the Yoga. These stages may overlap and intermix, there may be many variations, but the last two can only come in the advanced state of the progress. Of course the Supramental Divine guides this Yoga throughout but it is first through many intermediary planes; and it cannot easily be said of something that comes in the earlier periods that it is the direct and full Supramental. To think so when it is not so may well be a hindrance to progress.

Sri Aurobindo