The Supermind is in its very
essence a truth-consciousness, a consciousness always free from the Ignorance which
is the foundation of our present natural or evolutionary existence and from
which nature in us is trying to arrive at self-knowledge and world-knowledge
and a right consciousness and the right use of our existence in the universe.
The Supermind, because it is a truth-consciousness, has this knowledge inherent
in it and this power of true existence; its course is straight and can go
direct to its aim, its field is wide and can even be made illimitable. This is
because its very nature is knowledge: it has not to acquire knowledge but
possesses it in its own right; its steps are not from nescience or ignorance
into some imperfect light, but from truth to greater truth, from right
perception to deeper perception, from intuition to intuition, from illumination
to utter and boundless luminousness, from growing widenesses to the utter vasts
to the very infinitude. On its summits it possesses the divine omniscience and
omnipotence, but even in an evolutionary movement of its own graded
self-manifestation by which it would eventually reveal its own highest heights
it must be in its very nature essentially free from ignorance and error: it
starts from truth and light and moves always in truth and light.
Footnote: The term
“Supermind” is apt to convey the sense of a super-eminent mind which is far
above the ordinary mind. However Sri Aurobindo means by it a superconscient
plane of being which is not only above the mind but also beyond mind and
radically different from it. It is beyond and different not only in relation to
the ordinary mind but also in comparison with the superconscient planes of
mind, namely, Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuition and Overmind. For whereas
all these superconscient planes of mind are blends of light and darkness, Knowledge-Ignorance,
Supermind is the Truth-Consciousness, totally devoid of Ignorance.
(‘Our Many Selves - Selections from the works of
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’, Compiled, with an Introduction ,by A.S.
Dalal, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry)
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