SRI AUROBINDO

AND

THE NEW WORLD

SISIRKUMAR MITRA

SRI AUROBINDO ASHRAM

PONDICHERRY

1957

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SRI AUROBINDO ASHRAM

PONDICHERRY

First Edition February 21, 1957

PRINTED IN INDIA

SRI AUROBINDO ASHRAM PRESS,

PONDICHERRY

862/1056/1000

Man is a transitional being ; he is not final. For in man and high beyond him ascend the radiant degrees that climb to a divine supermanhood. There lies our destiny and the liberating key to our aspiring but troubled and limited mundane existence.

We mean by man mind imprisoned in a living body. But mind is not the highest possible power of consciousness ; for mind is not in possession of Truth, but only its ignorant seeker. Beyond mind is a supramental or gnostic power of consciousness that is in eternal possession of Truth. This supermind is at its source the dynamic consciousness, in its nature at once and inseparably infinite wisdom and infinite will of the divine Knower and Creator. Supermind is superman ; a gnostic supermanhood is the next distinct and triumphant evolutionary step to be reached by earthly nature.

The step from man to superman is the next upproaching achievement in the earth's evolution. It is inevitable because it is at once the intention of the inner Spirit and the logic of Nature's process....

If earth calls and the Supreme answers, the hour can be even now for that immense and glorious transformation.¹

SRI AUROBIND

¹ bulletin of physical Education, Vol. III, No. 3, pp. 2, 6

This is the hour of God. His breath is abroad upon the waters of our being. In the calm solemnity of this blessed hour the Mother proclaims the advent of a New Age and the Victory of a new Light:

'...From this centre, this burning nucleus which is and will be more and more penetrated with Thy light and love, Thy forces will radiate over the whole earth, visibly and invisibly, in the hearts of men and in their thought.

'Such is the certitude Thou givest me in reply to my aspiration for Thee.

'An immense wave of love descends upon everything and penetrates all.

'Peace, peace, on all earth, victory, plenitude, marvel.

'O beloved children, sorrowful and ignorant, and thou, O rebellious and violent Nature, open your hearts, tranquillise your, force, it is the omnipotence of Love that is coming to you, it is the pure radiance of the light that is penetrating you. This human, this earthly hour is the most beautiful among all hours. Let each, let all know it and enjoy the plenitude that is accorded.

'O saddened hearts and anxious foreheads, foolish obscurity and ignorant ill will, let your anguish be calmed and effaced.

'This is the splendour of the new word that comes:

"I AM HERE."¹

¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, June 9, 1914