If the whole being could simultaneously advance in its progressive transformation, keeping pace with the inner march of the universe, there would be no illness, there would be no death.
What the Supramental will do the mind cannot foresee or lay down. The mind is Ignorance seeking for the Truth, the supramental by its very definition is Truth-Consciousness.
It is only when the outer crust of the ordinary life is violently taken by some unexpected and tragic event that the inner consciousness has the occasion to take the place of this outward movement and to govern fully the whole being.
Hypnotism is a form — a form modernised in its expression — of occultism; a very limited, very small form of a very tiny power compared with occult power.
Those who have come upon earth fully conscious of their entire being and conscious of their Origin, there is at first a period when this consciousness gets veiled by the physical life and the body-consciousness.
About Savitri | B1C2-02 The Usefulness of Crisis and Tragedy (pp.12-13)