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CWSA 35

Fragment ID: 8449

Supermind and Overmind [3]

What you call supramental overmind1 is still overmind – not a part of the true Supermind. One cannot get into the true Supermind (except in some kind of trance or Samadhi) unless one has first objectivised the overmind Truth in life, speech, action, external knowledge and not only experienced it in meditation and inner experience.

25 February 1934

 

1 This expression is a misnomer since overmind cannot be supramental: it can at most receive some light and truth from the higher source. – Sri Aurobindo

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