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The
Supramental Realisation
In order to know what the Supramental Realisation will be like, the
first step, the first condition is to know what the supramental consciousness
is. All those who have been, in one way or another, in contact with it have had
some glimpse of the realisation to be. But those who have not, can yet aspire
for that realisation, just as they can aspire to get the supramental knowledge.
True knowledge means awareness by identity: once you get in touch with the supramental
world, you can say something about its descent, but not before. What you can
say before is that there will be a new creation upon earth; this you say
thro
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The
Supramental Descent
Do you know what the flower which we have called “Successful
Future” signifies when given to you? It signifies the hope nay, even the promise that you will participate in the descent of
the supramental world. For that descent will be the successful consummation of
our work, a descent of which the full glory has not yet been or else the whole
face of life would have been different. By slow degrees the Supramental is
exerting its influence; now one part of the being and now another feels the
embrace or the touch of its divinity; but when it comes down in all its
self-existent power, a supreme radical change will seize the who
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Union with the
Divine
Consciousness and Will
The force
which, when absorbed in the Ignorance, takes the form of vital desires is the
same which, in its pure form, constitutes the push, the dynamis towards
transformation. Consequently, you must beware at the same time of indulging
freely in desires, thinking them to be needs which must be satisfied, and of
rejecting the vital force as positively evil. What you should do is to throw
the doors of your being wide open to the Divine. The moment you conceal
something, you step straight into Falsehood. The least suppression on your part
pulls you immediately down into unconsciousness. If you want to be fully
conscio
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Appendix
To
Questions and Answers 1929
Sri Aurobindo's explanations of certain
phrases and passages in Questions and
Answers 1929
Appendix to Questions and Answers 1929
The
Mother asks: “What do you want the Yoga for?
To get power?”¹ Does
“power” here mean the power
to communicate one's own experience to others? What
does it precisely mean?
Power is a general term – it is not confined to a power to
communicate. The most usual form of power is control over things, persons,
events, forces.
The
Mother says: “What is required is concentration
concentration upon the Divine with a view to an
integral and absolu
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14 April 1929
What are the dangers of
Yoga? Is it especially dan
gerous to the people of the West? Someone has said
that Yoga may be suitable for the East, but it has the
effect of unbalancing
the Western mind.
Yoga is not more dangerous to the people of the West than to those
of the East. Everything depends upon the spirit with which you approach it.
Yoga does become dangerous if you want it for your own sake, to serve a
personal end. It is not dangerous, on the contrary, it is safety and security itself,
if you go to it with a sense of its sacredness, always remembering that the aim
is to find the Divine.
Dangers and difficulties come in when peop
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True
Humility – Supramental Plasticity –
Spiritual
Rebirth
As I have often been questioned about it, I shall touch briefly on
the meaning of true humility, supramental plasticity and spiritual rebirth.
Humility is that state of consciousness in which, whatever the realisation, you
know the infinite is still in front of you. The rare quality of selfless
admiration about which I have spoken to you is but another aspect of true
humility; for it is sheer arrogance that refuses to admire and is complacent about
its own petty achievements, forgetting the infinite which is always ahead of
it. However, you need to be humble not only when you have nothing substantial
or divine in
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The
Elephant
As
the elephant on the battlefield endures the arrow
shot from the bow, so also
shall I patiently bear insult,
for truly there are many of evil mind in the
world.
It is
a tamed elephant that is led to the battlefield; one
whom the Raja rides. The
best among men is he who
patiently bears insult.
Trained
mules are excellent, as also the thoroughbreds
of Sindh and the mighty tuskers.
Better yet is the man
who has brought himself under control.
Not
by mounting one of these animals does one attain
the unexplored path, but by
mastering oneself. By that
mastery one attains it.
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9 June 1929
What is exactly the nature of religion? Is it
an ob-
stacle in the way of the spiritual life?
Religion belongs to the higher mind of humanity. It is the effort
of man's higher mind to approach, as far as lies in its power, something beyond
it, something to which humanity gives the name God or Spirit or Truth or Faith
or Knowledge or the Infinite, some kind of Absolute, which the human mind
cannot reach and yet tries to reach. Religion may be divine in its ultimate
origin; in its actual nature it is not divine but human. In truth we should
speak rather of religions than of religion; for the religions made by man are
many. These different religions, even
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2 June
1929
What
is the relation of human love to Divine love?
Is the human an obstacle to the
Divine love? Or is
not rather the capacity for human love an index to the
capacity for Divine love? Have not great spiritual
figures, such as Christ,
Ramakrishna and Vivek-
ananda, been remarkably loving and affectionate by
nature?
Love is one of the great universal forces; it exists by itself and
its movement is free and independent of the objects in which and through which
it manifests. It manifests wherever it finds a possibility for manifestation,
wherever there is receptivity, wherever there is some opening for it. What you
call love and
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The Fool
Long is the night for one who sleeps not;
long is the
road for one who is weary; long is the cycle of births
for the fool
who knows not the true law.
If a man cannot find a companion who is his
superior
or even his equal, he should resolutely follow a soli-
tary path; for no
good can come from companionship
with a fool.
The fool torments himself by thinking,
“This son is
mine, this wealth is mine.” How can he possess sons
and riches,
who does not possess himself?
The fool who recognises his foolishness is
at least wise
in that. But the fool who thinks he is intelligent, is a
fool
indeed.
Even i