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\n4 September 1957<\/font><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Today I received a question
\nabout a phrase I used on the fourteenth of August, the eve of Sri Aurobindo\u2019s
\nbirthday. And this question seemed interesting to me because it was about one of
\nthose rather cryptic phrases, that are almost ambiguous through simplification,
\nand which was intended to be like that, so that each one might understand it
\naccording to his own plane of consciousness. I have already spoken to you
\nseveral times of this possibility of understanding the same words on different
\nplanes; and these words were intentionally expressed with a simplification, a
\ndeliberate vagueness, precisely so that they would serve as a vehicle for the
\ncomplexity of meaning they had to express. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>This meaning is a
\nlittle different on the different planes, but it is complementary, and it is
\nonly really complete when one is able to understand it on all these planes at
\nonce. True understanding is a simultaneous understanding in which all the meanings
\nare perceived, grasped, understood at the same time; but to express them, as we
\nhave a very poor language at our disposal, we are obliged to say them one after
\nanother, with many words and many explanations.\u2026 That\u2019s what I am going to do
\nnow. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The question is about the phrase in which I
\nspoke of the birth of Sri Aurobindo \u2013 it was on the eve of his birthday \u2013 and I
\ncalled it an \u201ceternal birth\u201d. I am asked what I meant by \u201ceternal\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Of course, if the
\nwords are taken literally, an \u201ceternal birth\u201d doesn\u2019t signify much. But I am
\ngoing to explain to you how there can be \u2013 and in fact is \u2013 a physical
\nexplanation or understanding, a mental understanding, a psychic understanding
\nand a spiritual understanding. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Physically, it means
\nthat the consequences of this birth will last as long as the Earth. The
\nconsequences of Sri Aurobindo\u2019s
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 177<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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birth will be felt throughout the entire existence of the Earth.
\nAnd so I called it \u201ceternal\u201d, a little poetically.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mentally, it is a birth the memory of which will last eternally.
\nThrough the ages Sri Aurobindo\u2019s birth will be remembered, with all the
\nconsequences it has had. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Psychically, it is a
\nbirth which will recur eternally, from age to age, in the history of the
\nuniverse. This birth is a manifestation which takes place periodically, from
\nage to age, in the history of the Earth. That is, the birth itself is renewed,
\nrepeated, reproduced, bringing every time perhaps something more \u2013 something
\nmore complete and more perfect \u2013 but it is the same movement of descent, of
\nmanifestation, of birth in an earthly body. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>And finally, from the
\npurely spiritual point of view, it could be said that it is the birth of the
\nEternal on Earth. For each time the Avatar takes a physical form it is the
\nbirth of the Eternal himself on Earth. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>All that, contained in
\ntwo words: \u201ceternal birth\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>So, to conclude, I
\nadvise you, in future, before telling yourself: \u201cWhy! What does this mean? I
\ndon\u2019t understand it at all; perhaps it is not expressed properly,\u201d you could
\nsay to yourself: \u201cPerhaps I am not on the plane where I would be able to
\nunderstand\u201d, and try to find behind the words something more than mere words.
\nThere. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>I think this will be a
\ngood subject for our meditation.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

(Meditation<\/i>)<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 178<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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\n
\n11 September 1957<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Sweet Mother, why does one feel attracted at
\nfirst sight to some people and feel a repulsion for others? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Usually this is based on vital affinities, nothing else. There are
\nvital vibrations which harmonise and vital vibrations which don\u2019t. It is
\nusually this, nothing else. It is vital chemistry. <\/span><\/p>\n

One would have to be in a much deeper and more clear-sighted
\nconsciousness for it to be otherwise. There is an inner perception based on a
\npsychic consciousness, which makes you feel which people have the same
\naspiration, the same aim, and can be your companions on the way; and this
\nperception also makes you clear-sighted about those who follow a very different
\nway or carry in them forces which are hostile to you and may harm you in your
\ndevelopment. But to attain such a perception one must oneself be exclusively
\noccupied with one\u2019s own spiritual progress and integral realisation. Now, that
\nis not often the case. And usually too, when one has attained this inner
\nclear-sightedness, it is not expressed by attraction and repulsion, but by a
\nvery \u201cobjective\u201d knowledge, it might be said, and a kind of inner certainty
\nwhich makes you act calmly and reasonably, and without attractions and repulsions.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Therefore, it may be
\nsaid in a general and almost absolute way that those who have very definite and
\nimpulsive likes and dislikes live in a vital consciousness. Mixed with this,
\nthere may be mental affinities; that is, some minds like to have relationships
\nin common activities, but here too, these are people on a much higher level
\nintellectually, and this is also expressed even more by a comparative ease in
\nrelationships and by something much more calm and detached. One takes pleasure
\nin speaking with certain people, for others there is no attraction, one gains
\nnothing from it. It is a little more distant and quiet; it belongs more to the
\nfield of reason. But likes and dislikes clearly belong <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 179<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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to the vital world. Well, there is a vital chemistry just as there
\nis physical chemistry: there are bodies which repel each other and others which
\nattract; there are substances which combine and others which explode, and it is
\nlike that. There are some vital vibrations which harmonise, and harmonise to
\nsuch an extent that ninety-nine times out of a hundred these sympathies are
\ntaken for what men call love, and suddenly people feel, \u201cOh! he is the one I
\nwas waiting for\u201d, \u201cOh! she is the one I was seeking!\u201d (laughing<\/i>), and they rush towards each other, till they find out
\nthat it was something very superficial and that these things can\u2019t last. There.
\nSo the first advice given to those who want to do yoga: \u201cRise above likes and
\ndislikes.\u201d This is something without any deeper reality and it can at the very
\nleast lead you into difficulties which are at times quite hard to overcome. You
\ncan ruin your life with these things. And the best thing is not to take any
\nnotice of them \u2013 to draw back a little into yourself and ask yourself why \u2013
\nit\u2019s nothing very mysterious \u2013 you like to meet this person, don\u2019t like to meet
\nthat one.<\/span><\/p>\n

But, as I say, there comes a moment when one is exclusively
\noccupied with one\u2019s sadhana, when one can feel \u2013 but both more subtly and much
\nmore quietly \u2013 that a particular contact is favourable to sadhana and another
\nharmful. But that always takes a much more \u201cdetached\u201d form, so to say, and
\noften it even contradicts the so-called attractions and repulsions of the
\nvital; very often it has nothing to do with them. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>So, the best thing is
\nto look at all that from a little distance and to lecture yourself a little on
\nthe futility of these things. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Obviously there are
\nsome natures which are almost fundamentally bad, beings who are born wicked and
\nlove to do harm; and logically, if one is quite natural, not perverted, natural
\nas animals are \u2013 for from this point of view they are far superior to men; perversion
\nbegins with humanity \u2013 then one keeps out of the way, as one would stand aside
\nfrom something\u00a0 <\/span>fundamentally harmful.
\nBut happily these cases are not very frequent; what one meets in life are
\nusually very mixed natures where <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 180<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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there is a kind of balance, so to say, between the good and the
\nbad, and one may expect to have both good and bad relations. There is no reason
\nto feel any deep dislike, for, as one is quite mixed oneself (laughing<\/i>), like meets like! <\/span><\/p>\n

It is also said that some people are like vampires, and when they
\ncome near a person they spontaneously suck up his vitality and energy, and that
\none should beware of them as of a very serious danger. But that also\u2026Not that
\nit doesn\u2019t exist, but it is not very frequent, and certainly not so total that
\none need run away when one meets such a person. <\/span><\/p>\n

So, essentially, if one wants to develop spiritually, the first thing
\nto do is to overcome one\u2019s dislikes\u2026and one\u2019s likes. Look at all that with a
\nsmile. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(Silence<\/span><\/i>)<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cA
\nnew humanity would then be a race of mental beings on the earth and in the
\nearthly body but delivered from its present conditions in the reign of the
\ncosmic Ignorance so far as to be possessed of a perfected mind, a mind of light
\nwhich could even be a subordinate action of the supermind or
\nTruth-Consciousness and in any case capable of the full possibilities of mind
\nacting as a recipient of that truth and at least a secondary action of it in
\nthought and life. could even be a part of what could be described as a divine
\nlife upon earth and at least the beginnings of an evolution in the Knowledge
\nand no longer entirely or predominantly in the Ignorance. How far this would
\ngo, whether it would eventually embrace the whole of humanity or only an
\nadvanced portion of it, would depend upon the intention in the evolution
\nitself, on the intention in whatever cosmic or transcendent Will is guiding the
\nmovements of the universe.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>
\n <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n


\nThe
\nSupramental Manifestation, p. 60<\/font><\/span><\/i> <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 181<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

Is this
\nintention unknown? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Do you know it? Do you? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>It is self-evident
\nthat evolution has a goal and therefore cannot stop short now. <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

You know this because you have read Sri Aurobindo\u2019s books! But
\ntake any man in the street and ask him what the intention of the universe and
\nthe evolution is; you will see what reply he gives you! That he knows nothing
\nabout it. Naturally, those who have read and studied Sri Aurobindo\u2019s books at
\nleast think they know something about it. When Sri Aurobindo wrote this, he
\nwrote it quite obviously for people who were not interested in yoga and had not
\nread his books. He wrote it for people who were concerned with physical
\neducation, so he put himself in their place, expressed their ideas and tried to
\nlead them a little farther. He took the standpoint of those who had never read
\nhis books. <\/span><\/p>\n

But you said \u201cit is self-evident.\u201d There are many people here \u2013
\nseveral hundred \u2013 if you ask them individually, not to repeat to you what they
\nhave read, but what they themselves feel and think about the intention of
\nuniversal evolution and whether there is any intention in the universal
\nevolution\u2026I don\u2019t think there would be many who could tell you in all
\nsincerity: \u201cIt is like this, it is like that, it is this.\u2026It is obviously
\nthat.\u201d Some of them could quote passages from Sri Aurobindo, but otherwise\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>If you yourself stop
\nthinking, if you stop thinking with the help of what you have read, and try to
\nexpress your personal experience, have you any certainty? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>I am not speaking, you
\nsee, of the result of what you have read or learnt or all that; I am speaking
\nof the result of your personal experience, your own, something that\u2019s evident
\nto you because it is your own life, it is your own experience \u2013 are you capable
\nof describing it? <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 182<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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Yes. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Yes! Well, I congratulate you. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>In spite of myself, it does happen. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Well, very good. I hope there are many more like you, that\u2019s all. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>There are many conflicting elements in me, but
\nall the same there is something\u2026<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Yes, that\u2019s good, that\u2019s good \u2013 is very good.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

So I can tell you that you have not wasted your time since you
\nhave been here! (Laughter) <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Well, we are going to look at this within ourselves. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

(Meditation<\/i>)<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 183<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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\n
\n18 September 1957<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Mother, what
\nplace will occultism have in the supramental life? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Why particularly occultism? <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Because everything will be known, won\u2019t it? <\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Why occultism? There is a place for everything in the supramental
\nlife. <\/span><\/p>\n

Does this interest you specially? <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

According to
\nwhat we know about occultism, it is the science which shows us things that are
\ninvisible to us, the invisible world, the invisible forces.\u2026But in the
\nsupramental world all this will be known. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

What do you understand by occultism? <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>The
\nknowledge of the invisible world and invisible forces. <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

And so \u2013 I don\u2019t quite understand. In the supermind one will no
\nlonger have any knowledge, or what? <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>One will have the knowledge already, so\u2026<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Already.\u2026But then it will be an occult knowledge! I don\u2019t quite
\nunderstand. Occultism is a special way of dealing with things. In The Life Divine <\/i>Sri Aurobindo has
\nexplained this in great detail. It is a special approach to knowledge and
\naction, and there is no reason why it should disappear or why.\u2026 <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 184<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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It will
\nbecome the natural consciousness. Then perhaps one won\u2019t need to learn this
\noccult knowledge. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Oh, you think one learns occultism as one learns to play the
\npiano! (Laughter<\/i>) But it is not quite
\nlike that, anyway, that things happen. In fact, those who have no special
\naptitude could read all the books on occultism in the world and never know how
\nto practise it. It needs a special capacity.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is true that you may also read all the books in the world on
\nhow to play the piano \u2013 if you do not play, you will never know how to play.
\nBut there are born musicians, born artists, and there are people who may work
\nat it all their lives and never come to anything at all. It is the same thing
\nwith occultism. If you mean that when one becomes a supramental being, one will
\nhave the gift of doing everything, very well, but that doesn\u2019t imply that the
\ngift is spontaneous. It is possible that you might have to concentrate on the
\nsubject and then learn your work. And it is also possible that one may be
\npotentially capable of doing everything but it is not necessary that one has to
\ndo everything! There will be differences and classifications all the same, and
\nspecial functions according to people and their individual tastes. I don\u2019t see
\nwhy you should deprive the supramental world particularly of occult activity
\nmore than of any other. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>How do you conceive of
\nthe supramental life? As a paradise in which everyone will do the same thing in
\nthe same way?\u2026The old conception of paradise where everybody became an angel playing
\nthe harp? It is not quite like that! All the differences will be there, all
\ndifferentiations and different activities, but instead of acting in the
\nordinary human ignorance, one will act with knowledge, that\u2019s all; that is what
\nwill make the difference.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>And the capacities will also increase, won\u2019t
\nthey? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Capacities?\u2026You take occultism in the sense of the power to act on
\nlife and things, as a process; but that is not occultism, that is magic. <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 185<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

Occultism is a special use of the consciousness, that\u2019s all. That
\nis, at the moment, as it is practised by human beings, it is a direct and
\nconscious perception of the forces behind appearances and the play of these
\nforces, and because one has the direct perception of them, one has the power to
\nact on them, and one makes some higher will intervene in the play of these
\nforces in order to obtain a required re<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

In the
\nsupramental world one will have these powers spontaneously. <\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Spontaneously!\u2026But everybody practises occultism without knowing that
\nhe does. Everybody has this power spontaneously but doesn\u2019t know he has it. It
\nmay be a very slight one, like a pin-head; it may be as vast as the Earth or
\neven the universe. But you cannot live without practising occultism, only you
\ndon\u2019t know it. So the only difference you can make is that when one has the
\nsupramental consciousness one will know it. That is all. So, your question
\nautomatically vanishes. <\/span><\/p>\n

When you think \u2013 I have explained this to you I don\u2019t know how
\nmany times \u2013 when you think, you are practising occultism. Only, you don\u2019t know
\nit. When you are thinking of someone, some part of you is automatically in
\ncontact with this person, and if to your thought is added a will that this
\nperson may be like this or like that or do this or that or understand this or
\nthat \u2013 whatever it may be \u2013 well, you are practising occultism, only you don\u2019t
\nknow it.\u2026There are people who do this with power, and when they have a strong
\nthought it manifests and is realised. There are people in whom it is very
\nfeeble and they do not obtain many results. It depends on the power of your
\nthought and also on your power of concentration. But this kind of occultism
\neverybody practises without even knowing it. So the difference from someone who
\nreally practises occult- <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 186<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n

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ism is that he knows he is doing it and perhaps how he does it.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

But
\nas you have spoken to us so often of Mr. X who was a great occultist, I thought
\nthat in the supramental world it would be something natural. All would be as
\ncapable as he. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

But why this in particular? That is what I don\u2019t understand! Why
\nparticularly occultism? <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Because I thought that all knowledge of the
\ninvisible world entered the sphere of occultism. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Yes. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

So, now,
\nin ordinary life man is unconscious, half conscious; but in the full
\nconsciousness he would also have the full consciousness of occultism. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

No, this is all very well, but do you believe that in the
\nsupramental life there will no longer be any classification of activities, or
\nwhat? That everything will be mixed up in a general spontaneous capacity? <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>No, there will also be a hierarchy. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

There will always be different ways of dealing with things.
\nPerhaps the occult power] will be more common, but if you imagine a world where
\neveryone has equally the same occult power, there will no longer be any
\ndifference. You understand? There are people who have the occult power and act
\non those who haven\u2019t, but if everyone has it equally it will no longer be
\noccultism!\u2026Is that what you meant? <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Yes.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 187<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

Ah!\u2026Well, I am convinced that even in the most perfect supramental
\nrealisation there will always] be a differentiation between the capacities and
\nfunctions of each one; but instead of being or not being in one\u2019s right place,
\nof doing or not doing what one ought to do, unconsciously, one will be in one\u2019s
\nright place \u2013 I hope always in one\u2019s place \u2013 and will always do what one ought
\nto do, consciously. That is, instead of always trying to know and groping in
\nthe dark, one will know what one ought to do and do it well. But that is the
\nwhole difference. Differentiations will be there, each one will have his own
\nrole, his own place, each one will have his own activity. Don\u2019t think that
\neverybody will begin to look alike and do the same thing in the same way! That
\nwould be a terrible world. <\/span><\/p>\n

We could say that the difference between the supramental world and
\nour present world will be this: what you don\u2019t know, you will know, what you
\ncan\u2019t do, you will be able to do, and what you don\u2019t understand, you will
\nunderstand, and of what you are unconscious, you will become conscious. But
\nfundamentally this is the basis of the new creation: to replace ignorance by
\nknowledge and unconsciousness by consciousness, and weakness by strength. But
\nthis does not necessarily mean that everything is going to be so mixed up that
\nit is scarcely recognisable! <\/span><\/p>\n

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(Long silence<\/i>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Sri Aurobindo has told
\nus that in the Supermind itself there are different planes of realisation and
\nthat these planes will manifest successively, with the same progressive
\nmovement that has always presided over the universal development. And simply
\nbecause, till today, it is a world that is closed to the greater part of
\nmankind or hardly half-open to some, it is difficult to conceive of this
\nprogress in the supramental life, but it will exist; and the moment there is
\nprogress, there is ascension, and there is a perfection which develops
\naccording to a law of its own, <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>which is gradually unveiled
\nto the consciousness \u2013 even <\/i>to a
\nfully illumined consciousness \u2013 and works in the truth instead of working in
\nignorance.\u2026This something \u00b9 which is not there completely, totally, all at once
\n\u2013 it could almost be said massively \u2013 in the Manifestation but is progressive,
\nwill follow the same law of development as that of the world we live in now,
\nbut instead of not knowing where we are going, well, we shall know the way and
\nfollow it consciously. Instead of standing there imagining or guessing or
\nspeculating about what ought to be, we shall see where we are going and know
\nhow to go there. That will be the essential difference. Certainly it will not
\nbe a dull existence in which everything goes on indefinitely without changing. <\/span><\/p>\n

I believe there is always a tendency in the human consciousness to
\nwant to get somewhere, to sit down and feel it is at last all over: \u201cWe have
\narrived, we settle down and don\u2019t move any more!\u201d That would be a poor type of
\nSupermind. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>But this ascending,
\nprogressive movement towards a growing perfection will be still more prominent,
\ncertainly, and instead of unfolding itself in the darkness where everybody is
\nblind and gropes along, it will unfold in the light and one will have the joy
\nof knowing where one is going and what one is doing. That\u2019s all. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>So one must not come
\nand ask, \u201cWill this be there?\u201d or \u201cWon\u2019t that be there?\u201d There will be many
\nmore things still than we have now. Every possible thing will be there.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\u00b9 <\/font> <\/span>When this talk was first published, Mother defined this \u201csomething\u201d: \u201cThe
\nunmanifest which will use the supramental world to manifest itself\u201d.<\/font>\u00a0 <\/font> <\/span><\/span>
\n
\n <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 189<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n
\n25 September 1957<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201cA new
\nhumanity means for us the appearance, the development of a type or race of
\nmental beings whose principle of mentality would be no longer a mind in the
\nIgnorance seeking for knowledge but even in its knowledge bound to the
\nIgnorance, a seeker after Light but not its natural possessor, open to the
\nLight but not an inhabitant of the Light, not yet a perfected instrument,
\ntruth-conscious and delivered out of the Ignorance. Instead, it would be
\npossessed already of what could be called a mind of Light, a mind capable of
\nliving in the truth, capable of being truth-conscious and manifesting in its
\nlife a direct in place of an indirect knowledge. Its mentality would be an
\ninstrument of the Light and no longer of the Ignorance. At its highest it would
\nbe capable of passing into the supermind and from the new race would be
\nrecruited the race of supramental beings who would appear as the leaders of the
\nevolution in earth-nature.\u201d <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n


\nThe
\nSupramental Manifestation, p. 67 <\/font> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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This was certainly what he expected of us, what he conceived of as
\nthe superman who must be the intermediate being between humanity as it is and
\nthe supramental being created] in the supramental way, that is, no longer
\nbelonging to animality at all and delivered from all animal needs. <\/span><\/p>\n

As we are, we have been created in the ordinary animal way, and
\ntherefore, even if we transform ourselves, there will remain something of this
\nanimal origin. The supramental being as he conceived of it, is not formed in
\nthe ordinary animal way at all] but directly, through a process that for the
\nmoment still seems occult to us, but is a direct handling of forces and
\nsubstance in such a way that the body can be a \u201cmaterialisation\u201d and not a <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 190<\/span><\/p>\n

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formation according to the ordinary animal principle. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>It is quite obvious
\nthat intermediate beings are necessary, that it is these intermediate beings
\nwho must find the means of creating beings of the supermind, and, undoubtedly,
\nwhen Sri Aurobindo wrote this he was convinced that this is what we must do. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>I think \u2013 I know \u2013
\nthat it is now certain that we shall realise what he expects of us. It has
\nbecome no longer a hope but a certainty. Only the time necessary for this
\nrealisation will be longer or shorter according to our individual effort, our
\nconcentration, our goodwill\u2026and the importance] we give to this fact. For the
\ninattentive observer things may appear very much what they were before, but for
\none who knows how to see and is not deceived by appearances things are going
\nwell. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Let each one do his
\nbest and perhaps not many years will have to elapse before the first visible
\nresults become apparent to all. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>It is for you to know
\nwhether this interests you more than everything else in the world.\u2026There comes
\na moment when the body itself finds that there is nothing in the world] which
\nis so worth living for as this transformation; that there is nothing which can
\nhave as great an interest as this passionate interest of transformation. It is
\nas though all the cells of the body were athirst for that Light which wants to
\nmanifest; they cry out for it, they find an intense joy in it and are sure] of
\nthe Victory. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>This is the aspiration
\nthat I am trying to communicate to you, and you will understand that everything
\nelse in life is dull, insipid, futile, worthless in comparison with that: the
\ntransformation in the Light. <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 191<\/span><\/p>\n

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