SUPRAMENTAL AVATAR AND PHYSICAL TRANSFORMATION A LETTER You have put me a number of important questions arising from what I wrote to you on the Agenda and the Divine's Will.1 I must not delay to answer them to the best of my ability. (1) "How far limited in their workings are the Avatars who have brought down the Supramental World into this lower triple universe?" I suppose you mean Avatars who came with the mission of establishing the Supermind in mind, life and matter on the earth. For, surely the Supramental World has not yet been brought down. Some Light, Force and Consciousness of it manifested in the subtle-p

THE TRUE TEILHARD AND THE ESSENTIAL SRI AUROBINDO* SOME GUIDE-LINES FOR THE SPIRITUALITY OF THE FUTURE Teilhard de Chardin, throughout his life, stood at a critical crossroads and made moves in different directions at different times and held a complex vision from which it is not easy to arrive at a focus on fundamentals. He1 declared that he had been "born with a 'naturally pantheist' soul"; but, brought up a Roman Catholic and trained to be a priest, he had a habitual reaction of vehement anti-pantheism. By profession and mental affinity he was a scientist drawn towards a secular humanist world-view based on the t

SOME QUESTIONS ON TRANSFORMATION AND SRI AUROBINDO A REPLY TO A LETTER I am glad you liked the way our correspondence has figured in Mother India under the caption "Sri Aurobindo's Views vis-a-vis.the Mother's". The new points you have raised on some other matters are welcome. The issue of 300 years for total transformation has several bearings. In the first place, it is a mistake on your part to set in opposition the later letter dated 6 December 1949 in which Sri Aurobindo speaks of full physical transformation — "the divine body"1 — as a matter of the remote future and the earlier letter where he write

SRI AUROBINDO AND PLATO When a poem by a disciple was read out to Sri Aurobindo he expressed special admiration for the line: Seer-suns beyond the gold of Plato's brain'. We may legitimately surmise that Sri Aurobindo admired this flight of poetic imagination not only because it winged with the right words a certain view of Plato but also because it summed up his own insight into the truth of Platonism vis-a-vis the Ultimate Truth as seized by his yogic consciousness. The line by Amal Kiran suggests at the same time that Plato had his mind set glowing with a wonderful perception of spiritual reality and that, for all the extreme brilliance of this

THE SACRIFICE OF SRI AUROBINDO A FLASHBACK FROM ITS FIRST ANNIVERSARY 1.26 a.m., December 5, 1950. A moment like any other, in a night like many a night — except to those who watched in the room where for over two and a half decades Sri Aurobindo had lived. For them there was all human history coming to a cryptic climax: after summing up in himself the aspiration of man in entirety — man the soul, the mind, the life-force, the body — and after bringing a power of complete godhead to answer this fourfold aspiration, Sri Aurobindo was throwing away the earnest of the final and supreme triumph, a physical being in which the very cells wer

TWO CLARIFICATIONS ANSWERS TO READERS' QUESTIONS 1 On the Agenda and the Divine Will I can see that although you do not favour Satprem for a moment you are genuinely puzzled at the turn that things have taken in relation to the Agenda. Your puzzlement may be summed up as follows: "How is it that the Divine Mother who, by definition, must be both omniscient and omnipotent, has allowed the Agenda to be got hold of entirely by Satprem in spite of her telling her son Andre that in case of publication it should be edited by him — without necessarily meaning utter exclusion of Satprem as collaborator? No matter if the Divine Mother has le

SOME DIARY-NOTES OF 1956, THE YEAR OF THE SUPRAMENTAL MANIFESTATION ON FEBRUARY- 29 (As February 29, 1988 will mark the eighth anniversary of the great event which took place thirty-two years ago in a leap year, a dip into a sadhak's Diary of 1956 will be of interest.) Bombay, March 4 On December 18, last year, on a Sunday night the Divine Grace came forth to meet me and lift me up. I was feeling a sense of hopelessness and helplessness. Then, towards early morning, perhaps at 4.30 or 5, I had a dream. Even after waking, I could not think it a dream, so concrete it had been, so intensely real — mor

THE SEARCH FOR SOMA It is legitimate for scholars to seek the identity of the marvellous Soma of the Rigveda. Their efforts claim justification from the fact that an actual plant was used in rituals of the times succeeding those of the ancient scripture which had made Soma famous. But, as the reviewer in the Times Literary Supplement1 of R. Gordon Wasson's monumental study, Soma, the Divine Mushroom of Immortality,2 clearly tells us, the plant in question was acknowledged to be a substitute. The fundamental fact, as pointed out by the reviewer, is: nobody could tell, even in antiquity, what plant the original Soma had been. Surely, therefore, it is legit

"SEVEN DOUBTS" Here is my attempt to answer your "seven doubts". 1.It is according to Sri Aurobindo that Sri Krishna is known to have revealed what you designate "the plane of Purushottama" in the Gita. I venture to suggest that he could disclose Sri Krishna's ultimate status because he was himself Sri Krishna in a past birth: the status of an Uttama (supreme) Purusha beyond either the Kshara (mutable) or the Akshara (immutable) Purusha. The existence of Purushottama was part not only of Sri Aurobindo's philosophical knowledge but also of his own experience. Both he and Sri Krishna were Purushottama incarnate, the latter using, in consonance with the need of t

-032_Apropos of Udar's commrnt in the mother india of december 1981.htm APROPOS OF UDAR'S COMMENT IN THE MOTHER INDIA OF DECEMBER 1981 1 A Letter to a Friendly Critic I am sorry Udar's article in Mother India has proved so offensive to you. I know it hits hard at places but it does not seem to me more offensive than the extract Udar has quoted from the Introduction to Vol. I of the Agenda. Perhaps your reaction is really to what he has said in reply to that extract? As you have singled out this reply, let me first say something about it. Obviously it is subjective in most part but the provocation is to be understood before one judges it. It is v