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At times I sense there's an extraordinary secret to discover, just
there at my finger tips; I feel that I am going to catch the Thing, to
know ...
Sometimes, for a second, I see the Secret; there is an opening,
and again it closes. Then once again it is unveiled for a second and I
come to know a little more. Yesterday the Secret was there completely
clear, wide open. But it's not something that can be explained: words
are silly, it must be experienced.
Sri Aurobindo speaks of this Secret almost everywhere, especially in his Essays on the Gita. He tells us that in the Gita itself
one gets glimpses of this thing which is beyond the Impersonal, beyond
even the Personal behind the Impersonal, beyond the Transcendent.
Well, I saw this Secret - I saw that the Supreme only becomes perfect in terrestrial matter, on earth.
'Becomes' is just a way of speaking, of course, for everything
already is, and the Supreme is what He is. But we live in time, in a
successive unfoldment, and it would be absurd to say that at present
Matter is the expression of a perfect Divine.
I saw this Secret (which is getting more and more perceptible as
the Supramental becomes clear), I saw it in the everyday, outer life,
precisely in this very physical life which all spirituality rejects ... a
kind of accuracy or exactitude right down to the atom.
I am not saying that the 'Divine' becomes perfect in Matter - the
Divine is already there - but that THE SUPREME becomes perfect in
Matter. page 366 , Mother's Agenda - volume 1 , 6th May 1960 |
What have you reread?
'Essays on the Gita.'Oh, what a treasure that is - a gold mine! page 93 - Mother's Agenda , volume 2 , 18th Feb 1961 |
Here is something important. Sri Aurobindo says that everything is involved down here - the mind, the vital, the supermind - and that what is involved evolves. But if everything is involved, including the supermind, what is the need for a 'descent'? Can't things evolve by themselves?Ah! He has explained this somewhere. But I don't remember seeing anything that satisfied me.Isn't it in the Essays on the Gita ? He explains what Krishna says and how the two [descent and evolution] are combined. I read it not long ago because I was interested in this very question. And I even said something myself about the difference between what evolves (what emerges from this involution) and the Response from what already exists above in all its glory. We'll have to find this passage. There are two lines in the ancient traditions, two ways of explaining this. One says it is by the 'descent' of what already exists in all its perfection that what is involved can be awakened to consciousness and evolution. It's like the old story: when what Sri Aurobindo calls the universal Mother or the Shakti (or Sachchidananda [[Sachchidananda is the Supreme Consciousness in its triple aspect of Existence (Sat), Consciousness (Chit) and Bliss (Ananda). ]] ) realized what had happened in Matter (that is, in what had created Matter) and that this involution had led to a state of Inconscience, total unconsciousness, the ancient lore says that at once the divine Love descended straight from the Lord into Matter and began to awaken what was involved there. page 277 - Mother's Agenda , volume 2 , 28th July - 1961 |
One thing struck me: you say that the Gita as Sri Aurobindo explained it is not overmental but supramental....Sri Aurobindo said that what he came to bring was already indicated in the Gita. page 367 - Mother's Agenda , volume 3 , 6th Oct. 1962 |