Nirodbaran

Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo

Second Series

1. Spirituality

Understanding the Supermind

You won't say anything about the Supramental till it descends. It is this great mystery about it that makes us pin all our faith on it and the word Supermind goes from mouth to mouth. Ah, if we could have faint glimpses of it!

Not much utility in this mouth to mouth business. If people set themselves seriously to the task of psychic or spiritual opening or development, it would be much more useful – even for the coming of the Supramental. If I tried to explain about the Supramental, it would be all UP with the Supramental. The rest of the lives of the sadhaks would be spent in discussing the supramental and how near Nirod or Nishikanta or Anilbaran was to the Supramental or whether this was supramental or that was supramental or whether it was supramental to drink tea or not etc. etc. etc. and there would be no more chance of any sadhana.

17.04.1937