Sri Aurobindo
The Mother
to Prithwi Singh
Correspondence (1933-1967)
18 October 1934
Prithwi Singh — Sri Aurobindo
Mother,
I heard from Nirod who came to know it from Tulsi 
who learned from somebody who said to him that you had told him that the Supermind was certain to descend by this November. Is it correct? If so, will there be any sudden great change not only in the Asram but outside also? Or the change will be gradual as the Power effectively sweeps over and takes possession of the earth-consciousness more and more.
When the Supermind touches the body, is it that Your Power will be absolute over the physical and the subconscient and the fumes of the latter disappear at your very Touch? Supramentalised Overmind has already touched Your Body which has become “God's happy living tool”. When the Supermind touches, will there be further changes in the chemical constituent of the body, and will it become immortal to be withdrawn only when willed?
I pray, Mother, you will at least say something about these things.
With deep devotion
Prithwisingh
I do not know1 who was Tulsi's informant, but certainly the Mother never said to anybody that the Supermind was to descend on the 24th November. Dates cannot be fixed like that. The descent of the Supermind is a long process or at least a process with a long preparation and one can only say that the work is going on sometimes with a strong pressure for completion, sometimes retarded by the things that rise from below and have to be dealt with before farther progress can be made. The process is a (spiritual) evolutionary process concentrated into a brief period — it could be done otherwise (by what men would 
regard as a miraculous intervention) only if the human mind were more flexible and less attached to its ignorance than it is. As we envisage it, it must manifest in a few first and then spread, but it is not likely to sweep over the earth in a moment. It is not advisable to discuss too much what it will do and how it will do it, because these are things the Supermind itself will fix, acting out of that Divine Truth in it, and the mind must not try to fix for it grooves in which it will run. Naturally, the release from subconscient ignorance and from disease, duration of life at will, and a change in the functioning of the body must be among the ultimate results of a supramental change; but the detail of these things must be left for the Supramental Energy to work out according to the truth of its own nature.
Sri Aurobindo
18 October 1934
1 This letter was published partly at Vol.22 (No 6) of SABCL