Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

04. The Triple Transformation: Psychic – Spiritual – Supramental

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It [the supermind] cannot be brought down to the mind and vital without being brought down into the physical – also one can feel its influence or get something of it but bringing down means much more than that.

The supermind is a luminous whole – it is not a mixture of light and ignorance. If the physical mind is not supramentalised, then there will be in mind a mixture of ignorance, but then it will not be supermind there, but something else – so also with the vital. All that can manifest in the mind separately is a partly supramentalised overmind

If the supramental can stand in the mind and vital, then it must stand in the physical also. If it does not stand in the physical, it cannot stand in the mind and vital also; it will be something else, not the supramental.