Nirodbaran

Talks with Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1

10 December 1938 – 14 January 1941

26 March 1940

Nirodbaran: You have said in The Synthesis of Yoga, Volume II, in the chapter entitled “The Difficulties of the Mental Being”, that there are divine planes in the mental being just as there are divine planes above into which one ordinarily enters in Samadhi. What are these planes? Higher Mind, etc.?

Sri Aurobindo: But there are divine planes everywhere. It depends on the context.

Nirodbaran: Here is the passage.

Sri Aurobindo (after reading it): I must have meant the reflections of the higher planes in the mind. Thus, for instance, one may receive a reflection from the Overmind. One may not oneself know it. What is called genius is the reflection from the higher planes – from the Intuitive Mind, for example. But it does not mean that one is living in that plane. There may be reflections in the vital being also.