In this issue of our newsletter, we arrive at the Supermind. We dwelt awhile, in previous issues on the Mind, Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuitive Mind and Overmind. An essential difference between the Supermind and all these levels of minds is that in the worlds of the those other Minds, there is a mixture of light and darkness; whereas the “Supermind is the Truth-Consciousness, totally devoid of Ignorance.” It is then a region of Light, endless Light.
Since there is this essential difference between the other levels of mind and Supermind, does it mean that one has to make a super leap to another realm apart from this existence we know of here? Does it mean that the continuum of evolution from level to higher level stops at Overmind?
The philosophy and psychology of Integral Yoga explains that this need not be the case. Sri Aurobindo raises this doubt in The Life Divine (pg. 159) : “…it might reasonably be doubted whether such a divine living would be possible with this limitation of bodily form and this limitation of form-imprisoned mind and form-trammelled force which is what we now know as existence.”
He suggests a process that we might have to go through in order to arrive at a right perception and possible dissolution of this doubt : “…till we have woven the missing cords of connection, our world is still unexplained to us and the doubt of a possible unification between that higher existence and this lower life has still a basis.”
He invites us to study the connections between the four terms, Maya, Truth-Consciousness, Real-Idea and Existence and the “three others with which our human experience is alone familiar, - mind, life and body.” Essentially, for the Supermind to be perceived here in Existence as Master and King of all movements, a certain knowing of the play of Divine Principles in the way of existence as we know it to be here is needed.
Sri Aurobindo draws the connection between this world and the higher divine principles: “…But in reality all that we call undivine can only be an action of the four divine principles themselves, such action of them as was necessary to create this universe of forms. Those forms have been created not outside but in the divine existence, conscious-force and bliss, not outside but in and as a part of the working of the divine Real-Idea…. Mind, life and body must then be capable of divinity; ... They work as they do because they are by some means separated in consciousness from the divine Truth from which they proceed. Were this separation once abrogated by the expanding energy of the Divine in humanity, their present functioning might well be converted, would indeed naturally be converted by a supreme evolution and progression into that purer working which they have in the Truth-consciousness.” TLD, Pg. 160.
Perceiving the Supermind and collaborating with its action on our plane of existence must be a ceaseless, dedicated work of inner scrutiny and preparation and a simultaneous opening upwards. The time-frame seems inconsequential. The mind as it is, cannot postulate.
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