Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
CWSA 35
Fragment ID: 8389
(this fragment is largest or earliest found passage)
Sri Aurobindo — Unknown addressee
April 20, 1933
Passages from The Mother [3]
“...it is only the very highest supramental Force descending from above and opening from below that can victoriously handle the physical Nature and annihilate its difficulties ...” [p. 2].
“Opening from below” means this – that the supramental force descending awakes a response from below in the earth consciousness so that it is possible for a supramental activity to be formed in the material itself. All is involved as potentiality in the earth consciousness – life, mind, supermind – but it is only when Life Force descended from the life plane into the material that active and conscious organised life was possible – so it was only when mind descended that the latent mind in Matter awoke and could be organised. The supramental descent must create the same kind of opening from below so that a supramental consciousness can be organised in the material.
20 April 1933
Current publication:
[Largest or earliest found passage: ] Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Himself and the Ashram // The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo. Set of 37 Volumes (CWSA).- Volume 35. (≈ 26 vol. of SABCL).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2011.- 658 p.
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