VII. SUPERMIND AND MIND OF LIGHT THE essential character of Supermind is a Truth-Consciousness which knows by its own inherent right of nature, by its own light: it has not to arrive at knowledge but possesses it. It may indeed, especially in its evolutionary action, keep knowledge behind its apparent consciousness and bring it forward as if from behind the veil; but even then this veil is only an appearance and does not really exist: the knowledge was always there, the consciousness its possessor and present revealer. This too is only in the evolutionary play and on the supramental plane itself the consciousness lives always in an immediacy of knowledge and ac

SPECIAL APPENDIX I. PERFECTION OF THE BODY—Sri Aurobindo (From Bulletin Vol. 1 No; 2 Page 2.) II. THE DIVINE BODY—Sri Aurobindo (Taken from Bulletin Vol. 1 No. 3 Page 2.) III. SUPERMIND AND THE LIFE DIVINE—Sri Aurobindo (Taken from Bulletin Vol. 1 No. 4 Page 2.) IV. SUPERMIND AND HUMANITY—Sri Aurobindo '(From Bulletin Vol. 2 No. 1 Page 2.) V. SUPERMIND IN THE EVOLUTION—Sri Aurobindo (From Bulletin Vol. 2 No. 2 Page 2.) VI. MIND OF LIGHT—Sri Aurobindo . (From Bulletin Vol. 2 No. 3 Page 2.) VII. SUPERMIND AND MIND OF LIGHT—Sri Aurobindo (From Bulletin- Vol. 2 No. 4 Page 2.) VIII. TRANSFORMATION—The Mother (From Bulletin Vol. 2 No. 3 Page

VIII. TRANSFORMATION WE want an integral transformation, the transformation of the body and all its activities. But there is a first step, absolutely indispensable, which has to be completed before anything else can be undertaken, it is the transformation of the consciousness. The starting-point, it goes without saying, is the aspiration towards this transformation and the will to realise it; without that nothing can be done. But if to the aspiration is added an inner opening, a kind of receptivity, then one can enter at a bound into this transformed consciousness and remain there. This change of consciousness is abrupt, so to say, when it happens, it happens all on a sudden,

A SCHEME FOR THE EDUCATION OF BENGAL The present condition of Bengal From every point of view, Bengal is in a deplorable condition. She has forgotten her spiritual idealism and the worship of Matrishakti and is either under the influence of materialistic ideas or still bound to and satisfied with the rites and rituals of the ancient Dharma. As a consequence, intellectually she has become stagnant and has lost her creative genius, vitally weak, selfish and narrow, physically without strength and enthusiasm. Her moral life is degraded, economically she is ruined and in every phase of life she has become bankrupt. Reason The reason is that either there

II. A TRUE NATIONAL EDUCATION FIRST it is necessary to disengage from all ambiguities what -we understand by a true education, its essential sense, its .fundamental aim and significance. For we can then be sure of our beginnings and proceed securely to fix the just place and whole bearing of the epithet we seek to attach to the word. I must be sure what education itself is or should be before I can be sure what a national education is or should be. Let us begin then with our initial statement, as to which I think there can be no great dispute that there are three things which have to be taken into account in a true and living education, the man, the individual in h

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I. PERFECTION OF THE BODY THE perfection of the body, as great a perfection as we can bring about by the means at our disposal, must be the '' ultimate aim of physical culture. Perfection is the true aim of all culture, the spiritual and psychic, the mental, the vital and it must be the aim of our physical culture also. If our seeking is for a total perfection of the being, the physical part of it cannot be left aside; for the body is the material basis, the body is the instrument which we have to use. Shariram khalu dharma-sadhanam, says the old Sanskrit adage,—the body is the means of fulfilment of dharma, and dharma means every ideal which we can propose t

V. EDUCATION THE education of a human being should begin at his very birth and continue throughout the whole length of his life. Indeed, if the education is to have its maximum result, it must begin even before birth: it is the mother herself who proceeds with this education by means of a two-fold action, first, upon herself for her own improvement, and secondly, upon the child which she is forming within her physically. Certain it is that the nature of the child about to be born will depend very much upon the mother who forms it, upon her aspiration and will as much as upon the material surrounding in which she lives. The part of education which the mother has to go through

V. SUPERMIND IN THE EVOLUTION A NEW humanity would then be a race of mental beings on the earth and in the earthly body but delivered from its present conditions in the reign of the cosmic Ignorance so far as to be possessed of a perfected mind, a mind of light which could even be a subordinate action of the supermind or Truth-Consciousness and in any case capable of the full possibilities of mind acting as a recipient of that truth. and at least a secondary action of it in thought and life. It could even be a part of v/hat could be described as a divine life upon earth and at least the beginnings of an evolution in the Knowledge and no longer entirely or predomina

III. SUPERMIND AND THE LIFE DIVINE A DIVINE life upon earth, the ideal we have placed before us, can only come about by a spiritual change of our being and a radical and fundamental change, an evolution or revolution of our nature. The embodied being upon earth would have to rise out of the domination over it of its veils ' of mind, life and body into the full consciousness and possession of its spiritual reality and its nature also would have to be lifted out of the consciousness and power of consciousness proper to a mental, vital and physical being in to the greater consciousness and greater power of being and the larger and freer life of the spirit. It wo