Jan Feys, (1973) The Philosophy of Evolution in Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin, Calcutta: Firma K.Chetany (1978), The Future of Man According to Teilhard de Chardin and Aurobindo Ghose, New Delhi, Oriental Publishers & Distributors Brookman, Teilhard and Aurobindo: A Study in Religious Complementarity, Mayur Publications, 1988 Beatrice Bruteau (1974), Evolution towards Divinity (Theosophical Publishing House, Wheaton, Ill).Sri Aurobindo (1977) The Life Divine, (Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust), ISBN 0-94 (hardcover), ISBN 0-94 (paperback). On 1 January 1969, The Mother (at age 90) announced the "arrival" of the "superman consciousness" – "the intermediary between man and the supramental being". It is at work here, and one day will come when the most blind, the most unconscious, even the most unwilling shall be obliged to recognize it." On 29 February 1956, Sri Aurobindo's co-worker Mirra Alfassa (The Mother), announced, "The manifestation of the Supramental upon earth is no more a promise but a living fact, a reality. This will lead to a greater unity, mutuality, and harmony. A critical mass of such "gnostic individuals" can create the foundation of a new social life and order. This new life is superior to the present way of being. The Gnostic beings can work together to create a new common life. Every individual existence in life plays a role in the unfolding of existence. One sees that all existences are various forms of the divine reality. This awareness eliminates the usual separation between man and life, and between people. The gnostic being sees the spirit everywhere in the world, and in every other person. The physical body will be transformed and divinised. Division and ignorance are overcome, and replaced with a unity of consciousness. This supramental transformation gives rise to a new individual, the Gnostic being, which is fully formed by the supramental power. The supramental consciousness transforms the entire being and leads to the divinisation of the material world. Through integral yoga, one actualises the Supermind. Supramentalisation and the Gnostic being Īccording to Sri Aurobindo, full yogic development consists of two parts: the standard yogic goal of ascent into a formless and timeless self, and the descent and establishment of the supramental consciousness into Earthly life. One can open to it, in order to transform the various aspects of one's being, as well as set right the conditions of life, creating sudden good fortune ("instantaneous miraculousness") for the person opening to it. It is a plane that man can rise to, above his current limited mentality, and have perfect understanding through revelations and power that is leaning down on the earth's consciousness. Supermind is a plane of perfect knowledge, that has the full, integral truth of anything. It is the power that enables creation, by dividing the Force into the forms, forces and powers in the universe. This plane enables the Real Ideas of the Supreme to manifest as forms of that force in creation. Supermind is a plane between the "upper hemisphere" of pure being-consciousness and the "lower hemisphere" of life in the universe (mind, life, and matter). Supermind, in Sri Aurobindo's philosophy of integral yoga, is the dynamic manifestation of the Absolute, and the intermediary between Spirit and the manifest world, which enables the transformation of common being into Divine being.īy "Supermind", Sri Aurobindo means several things:
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