A plane of dazzling light, so dazzling that this plane has long been mistaken for the ultimate space of Light, the Supreme’s abode and the highest reaches available to the ardently seeking being of man. This very light so dazzling, The Mother has said, has misled seekers into believing it to be the ultimate stair in the climb, and so enticed them to remain there, without opening to the regions above this level, which alone can bring about a transformation here on earth, a supramentalisation of nature.
In this issue of our Newsletter, we touch the world of the Overmind, having climbed from rung to rung, beginning with the physical mind right up to the Intuitive Mind in our last issue. Sri Aurobindo, in ‘Savitri’ gives a wonderful description of this beautifully dazzling world through Ashwapathy’s journey:
(BOOK II: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds 301-302)
Neighbour his being grew to Nature’s crests.
The primal Energy took him in its arms;
His brain was wrapped in overwhelming light,
An all-embracing knowledge seized his heart:
Thoughts rose in him no earthly mind can hold,
Mights played that never coursed through mortal nerves:
He scanned the secrets of the Overmind,
He bore the rapture of the Oversoul.
A borderer of the empire of the Sun,
Attuned to the supernal harmonies,
He linked creation to the Eternal’s sphere.
His finite parts approached their absolutes,
His actions framed the movements of the Gods,
His will took up the reins of cosmic Force.
Meditating on these lines silently may just throw some light into our consciousness, in whatever state, to grasp an inkling of what the world of the Overmind could be and for us to silently savour that world and know it also for what it is, what it is not, what it can and cannot do.
This is the world of the Gods, albeit a limited world. The Supermind, which is above the Overmind, is the world of Truth. The Overmind is as yet “far below the true Divine. It is not the authentic home of the Truth… And the reason why the true Divine has not manifested and transformed earth-nature is precisely that the Overmind has been mistaken for the Supermind.”
The Mother explains why the Overmind is capable of deviating from the Truth of things: “Not that the Overmind is a field of ignorance; but it is the borderline between the Higher and the Lower, for the play of possibilities, of separate even if not yet divided choice, is likely to lead to deviation from the Truth of things.”
The Overmind, therefore, does not and cannot possess the power to transform humanity into divine nature. For that, the Supramental is the sole effective agent.” (‘Our Many Selves, Selection from the works of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother’, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, 2001).
April is a special month that commemorates the final arrival of The Mother to Pondicherry in 1920, 93 years ago. The Society observes this special event with a simple offering of sound and music, and movements. We would like to take this opportunity to remind readers that the 4th of April marks Sri Aurobindo’s 103rd year of arrival in Pondicherry. The Mother and Sri Aurobindo arrived in Pondicherry 10 years apart and both of them never left Pondicherry after their arrivals.
In this issue of our Newsletter, we touch the world of the Overmind, having climbed from rung to rung, beginning with the physical mind right up to the Intuitive Mind in our last issue. Sri Aurobindo, in ‘Savitri’ gives a wonderful description of this beautifully dazzling world through Ashwapathy’s journey:
(BOOK II: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds 301-302)
Neighbour his being grew to Nature’s crests.
The primal Energy took him in its arms;
His brain was wrapped in overwhelming light,
An all-embracing knowledge seized his heart:
Thoughts rose in him no earthly mind can hold,
Mights played that never coursed through mortal nerves:
He scanned the secrets of the Overmind,
He bore the rapture of the Oversoul.
A borderer of the empire of the Sun,
Attuned to the supernal harmonies,
He linked creation to the Eternal’s sphere.
His finite parts approached their absolutes,
His actions framed the movements of the Gods,
His will took up the reins of cosmic Force.
Meditating on these lines silently may just throw some light into our consciousness, in whatever state, to grasp an inkling of what the world of the Overmind could be and for us to silently savour that world and know it also for what it is, what it is not, what it can and cannot do.
This is the world of the Gods, albeit a limited world. The Supermind, which is above the Overmind, is the world of Truth. The Overmind is as yet “far below the true Divine. It is not the authentic home of the Truth… And the reason why the true Divine has not manifested and transformed earth-nature is precisely that the Overmind has been mistaken for the Supermind.”
The Mother explains why the Overmind is capable of deviating from the Truth of things: “Not that the Overmind is a field of ignorance; but it is the borderline between the Higher and the Lower, for the play of possibilities, of separate even if not yet divided choice, is likely to lead to deviation from the Truth of things.”
The Overmind, therefore, does not and cannot possess the power to transform humanity into divine nature. For that, the Supramental is the sole effective agent.” (‘Our Many Selves, Selection from the works of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother’, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, 2001).
April is a special month that commemorates the final arrival of The Mother to Pondicherry in 1920, 93 years ago. The Society observes this special event with a simple offering of sound and music, and movements. We would like to take this opportunity to remind readers that the 4th of April marks Sri Aurobindo’s 103rd year of arrival in Pondicherry. The Mother and Sri Aurobindo arrived in Pondicherry 10 years apart and both of them never left Pondicherry after their arrivals.
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