Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 4

Letter ID: 1014

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

December 10, 1944

(A disciple of Sri Aurobindo wrote to Dilipda that if he stuck to Krishna, the Supermind would not be included in his realisation, whereas if he stuck to Sri Aurobindo, Krishna would be included in his realisation. The disciple disapproved of Krishna as Krishna only brought down the Overmind and not the Supermind.)

I am puzzled and perplexed by this affair of Krishna and the Supermind. A.B.C.D.E.F. of Bombay, Nagpur and Delhi and P.Q.R. up to X.Y.Z. of Calcutta and Pondicherry will all be able to catch hold of the Supermind by the hair of the head or the end of the tail and “include” it in themselves, only poor Krishna can’t do it! He can only be himself “included” in it! Hard lines on Bhagavan Vasudev! What I said was that Krishna in his incarnation brought down the Overmind into human possibility, because that was his business at the time and all that could be then done; he did not bring down the Supermind, because that was not possible or at least not intended at that stage of the human evolution. I did not mean that he could not have brought down the Supermind if that had been willed at the time. You listen too easily to anybody, G.H. or Q. let us say, and treat their ingenious hair-splitting or unduly authoritative ideas as if they were gospel truths; that creates mental confusion. I believe Krishna’s intentions are to remain with us and he won’t run away when the Supermind comes down; so why should Mother send you away on his account? It would be a most illogical procedure. So that is that.