Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1

Letter ID: 407

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

November 14, 1933

No, the supramental has not descended into the body or into Matter – it is only at the point where such a descent has become not only possible but inevitable – I am speaking, of course, of my own experience. But as my experience is the centre and condition of all the rest, that is sufficient for the promise.

I am not able to answer your letter just now for it is full of bristling questions, but I shall do it today – in the course of the day. Only my difficulty is that you all seem to expect a kind of miraculous fairy-tale change and do not realise that it is a rapid and concentrated evolution which is the aim of my sadhana and that there must be a process for it, a working of the higher in the lower and a dealing with all the necessary materials – not a sudden feat of the Creator by which everything is done on a given date. It is a supramental but not an irrational process. What is to be done will happen – perhaps with a rush even – but in a workmanlike way and not according to Faerie.

However I will try to explain all that as far as possible – in principle only of course – as far as it can be explained to the physical mind which has not yet any vision of what the supramental is. For the rest, I will try to meet the points you make.