{"id":454,"date":"2013-07-13T01:28:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=454"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:28:06","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:28:06","slug":"15-the-supramental-yoga-vol-17-the-hour-of-god-volume-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/17-the-hour-of-god-volume-17\/15-the-supramental-yoga-vol-17-the-hour-of-god-volume-17","title":{"rendered":"-15_The Supramental Yoga.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\nThe Supramental
\nYoga<\/font><\/span> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

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\n                        A<\/font><\/span>LL<\/font> <\/b>Yoga
\ndone through the mind alone or through the heart or the will or the vital force
\nor the body ends in some one aspect of the infinite and eternal Existence and
\nrests satisfied there, as the mind imagines for ever. Not through these alone
\nshall thy Yoga move, but through all these at once and, supremely, through that
\nwhich is beyond them. And the end of thy Yoga shall be the integrality of thy
\nentrance not into one aspect, but into all the Infinite, all the Eternal, all
\nthe Divine in all its aspects indivisibly unified together.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Whatever is beyond mind and life
\nand body is spirit. But spirit can be realised even on these lower levels, in
\nthe spiritualised mind, in the spiritualised life-force, even in the
\nspiritualised physical consciousness and body. But if thou rise not up beyond
\nthe mind-level, then in these realisations the spirit must needs be modified by
\nthe medium through which thou attainest to it, and its supreme truth can only
\nbe seized in a reflection, partial even in widest apparent universality, and
\nthe utmost essential integrality will escape thy seizure.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Rise rather into the supramental
\nlevels and then all the rest shall remain a part of thy experience, but
\nwonderfully changed, transfigured by a supreme alchemy of consciousness into an
\nelement of the supramental glory. All that other Yogas can give thee, thou
\nshalt have, but as an experience overpassed, put in its place in the Divine
\nWhole and delivered from the inadequacy of an exclusive state or experience.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The Supramental Yoga is at once an
\nascent towards God and a descent of Godhead into the embodied nature.
\nThe ascent can only be achieved by a one-centred all-gathering upward
\naspiration of the soul and mind and life and body; the descent can only come by
\na call of the whole being towards the infinite and eternal Divine. If this call
\nand this aspiration are<\/p>\n

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there, or if by any means they can be born and grow constantly and seize all
\nthe nature, then and then only a supramental uplifting and transformation
\nbecomes possible. ,
\n        The call and the aspiration are only
\nfirst conditions; there must be along with them and brought by their effective
\nintensity an opening of all the being to the Divine and a total surrender.<\/p>\n

       
\nThis opening is a throwing wide of all the nature on all its levels and in all
\nits parts to receive into itself without limits the greater divine
\nConsciousness which is there already above and behind and englobing this mortal
\nhalf-conscious existence.
\n        In the receiving there must be no
\ninability to contain, no breaking down of anything in the system, mind or life
\nor nerve or body under the transmuting stress. There must be an endless
\nreceptivity, an always increasing capacity to bear an ever stronger and more
\nand more insistent action of the divine Force. Otherwise nothing great or
\npermanent can be done; the Yoga will end in a breakdown or an inert stoppage or
\na stultifying or a disastrous arrest in a process which must be absolute and
\nintegral if it is not to be a failure.
\n       But since no human system has this endless
\nreceptivity and unfailing capacity, the supramental Yoga can succeed only if
\nthe Divine Force, as it descends, increases the personal power and equates the
\nstrength that receives with the Force that enters from above to work in the
\nnature. This is only possible if there is on our part a progressive surrender
\nof the being into the hands of the Divine; there must be a complete and
\nnever-failing assent, a willingness to let the Divine Power do with us whatever
\nis needed for the work that has to be done.
\n       Man cannot by his own effort make himself
\nmore than man; the mental being cannot by his own unaided force change himself
\ninto a supramental spirit. A descent of the Divine Nature can alone divinise
\nthe human receptacle.
\n      For the powers of our mind, life and body are
\nbound to their own limitations and, however high they may rise or however
\nwidely expand, they cannot rise above their natural ultimate limits or expand
\nbeyond them. But still, mental man can open to what is beyond him and call down
\na supramental Light, Truth and Power to work in him and do what the mind cannot
\ndo. If<\/p>\n

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mind cannot by
\neffort become what is beyond mind, Supermind can descend and transform mind
\ninto its own substance.
\n           If the Supramental
\nPower is allowed by man’s discerning assent and vigilant surrender to act
\naccording to its own profound and subtle insight and flexible potency, it will
\nbring about slowly or swiftly a divine transformation of our fallen and
\nimperfect nature.
\n         This descent, this working is
\nnot without its possibility of calamitous fall and danger. If the human mind or
\nthe vital desire seizes hold on the descending force and tries to use it
\naccording to its own limited and erring ideas or flawed and egoistic impulses,
\n– and this is inevitable in some degree until this lower mortal has learned
\nsomething of the way of that greater immortal nature, – stumblings and
\ndeviations, hard and seemingly insuperable obstacles and wounds and suffering
\ncannot be escaped and even death or utter downfall are not impossible. Only
\nwhen the conscious integral surrender to the Divine has been learned by mind
\nand life and body, can the way of the Yoga become easy, straight, swift and
\nsafe.
\n        And it must be a surrender and an
\nopening to the Divine alone and to no other. For it is possible for an obscure
\nmind or an impure life-force in us to surrender to undivine and hostile forces
\nand even to mistake them for the Divine. There can be no more calamitous error.
\nTherefore our surrender must be no blind and inert passivity to all influences
\nor any influence, but sincere, conscious, vigilant, pointed to the One and the
\nHighest alone.
\n       Self-surrender to the divine and infinite
\nMother, however difficult, remains our only effective means and our sole
\nabiding refuge, – self-surrender to her means that our nature must be an
\ninstrument in her hands, the soul a child in the arms of the Mother.<\/p>\n

This divinisation of the nature of which we speak is a metamorphosis, not a
\nmere growth into some kind of super-humanity, but a change from the falsehood
\nof our ignorant nature into the truth of God-nature. The mental or vital
\ndemi-God, the<\/p>\n

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Asura, Rakshasa and Pisacha, – Titan, vital giant and demon, – are superhuman
\nin the pitch and force and movement and in the make of their characteristic
\nnature, but these are not divine and these are not supremely divine, for they
\nlive in a greater mind-power or life-power only, but they do not live in the
\nsupreme Truth, and only the supreme Truth is divine. Only those who live in a
\nsupreme Truth-Consciousness and embody it are inwardly made or else remade in
\nthe Divine image.
\n          The aim of the
\nsupramental Yoga is to change into this supreme Truth-Consciousness, but this
\ntruth is something beyond mind and this consciousness is far above the highest
\nmind- consciousness. For truth of mind is always relative, uncertain and
\npartial, but this greater Truth is peremptory and whole. Truth of mind is a
\nrepresentation, always an inadequate, most often a misleading representation,
\nand even when most accurate, only a reflection, Truth’s shadow and not its
\nbody. Mind does not live in Truth or only seeks after it and grasps at best
\nsome threads from its robe; the Supermind lives in Truth and its native
\nsubstance, form and expression; it has not to seek after it, but possesses it
\nalways automatically and is what it possesses. This is the very heart of the
\ndifference.
\n             The
\nchange that is effected by the transition from mind to Supermind is not only a
\nrevolution in knowledge or in our power for knowledge. If it is to be complete
\nand stable, it must be a divine transmutation of our will too, our emotions,
\nour sensations, all our power of life and its forces, in the end even of the
\nvery substance and functioning of our body. Then only can it be said that the
\nSupermind is there upon earth, rooted in its very earth-substance and embodied
\nin. a new race of divinised creatures.
\n            Supermind at
\nits highest reach is the divine Gnosis, the Wisdom-Power-Light-Bliss of God by
\nwhich the Divine knows and upholds and governs and enjoys the universe.<\/p>\n

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