At the Crossroads - The Evolution of the Spiritual Being

Appendix

The three layers of the Supermind: Interpretative Supermind, Representative Supermind, Imperative Supermind. The seven suns of the Supermind. The divine superman.

The Supermind

    There are three layers of the Supermind corresponding to three activities of the intuitive mind:

1. Interpretative Supermind

First is what I call Interpretative Supermind, corresponding to Intuition, I call it interpretative, because what is a possibility on the mental plane becomes a potentiality on the supramental plane and the Interpretative puts all the potentialities before you. It shows the root cause of events that may become true on the physical plane. When Intuition is changed into its supramental value, it becomes Interpretative Supermind.

2. Representative Supermind

    Next comes what 1 call the Representative Supermind. It represents the actual movements of potentialities and shows what is in operation, When Inspiration is changed into its supramental value, then it becomes this Representative Supermind, Even this is not the highest. There you know certain potentialities in thought and action working and you can in many cases say what would happen or how a certain thing happened if it does.

3. Imperative Supermind

    There is the Imperative Supermind which corresponds to Revelation That is always true. Nothing can stand against it. It is knowledge fulfilling itself by its own inherent power.

The Hour of God. p. 26

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The Seven Suns of the Supermind

1. The Sun of Supramental Truth, - Knowledge-Power originating the supramental creation.

Descent into the Sahasradala.

2. The Sun of Supramental Light and Will-Power, transmitting the Knowledge-Power as dynamic vision and command to create, found and organise the supramental creation.

Descent into the Ajna Chakra, the centre between the eyes.

3. The Sun of Supramental Word, embodying the Knowledge-Power, empowered to express and arrange the supramental creation.

Descent into the Throat Centre.

4. The Sun of Supramental Love, Beauty, and Bliss, releasing the soul of the Knowledge-Power to vivify and harmonise the supramental creation.

Descent into the Heart-Lotus.

5. The Sun of Supramental Force dynamised as a power and source of life to support the supramental creation.

Descent into the Navel Centre.

6. The Sun of Life-Radiances (Power-Rays) distributing the dynamis and pouring it into concrete formations.

Descent into the Penultimate Centre.

7. The Sun of Supramental Substance-Energy and Form-Energy empowered to embody the supramental life and stabilize the creation.

Descent into the Muladhara.

The Hour of God, p. 27

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The Divine Superman

This is thy work and the aim of thy being and that for which thou art here. to become the divine superman and a perfect vessel of the Godhead. All else that thou hast to do, is only a making thyself ready or a joy by the way or a fall from the purpose. But the goal is this and the purpose is this and not in the power of the way or the joy by the way but in the joy of the goal is the greatness and the delight of thy being. The joy of the way is because that which is drawing thee is also with thee on thy path and the power to climb was given thee that thou mightest mount to thy own summits.

    If thou hast a duty, this is thy duty; if thou askest what shall be thy aim, let this be thy aim; if thou demandest pleasure, there is no greater joy, for all other joy is broken or limited, the joy of a dream or the joy of a sleep or the joy of the self-forgetting. But this is the joy of thy whole being. For if thou sayest what is thy being, this is thy being, the Divine, and all else is only its broken or its perverse - appearance. If thou seekest the Truth, this is the Truth. Place it before thee and in all things be faithful to it.

    It has been well said by one who saw but through a veil and mistook the veil for the face that thy aim is to become thyself; and he said well again that the nature of man is to transcend himself. This is indeed his nature and that is indeed the divine aim of his self-transcending.

    The Self that thou hast to become is that self that thou art within behind the veil of mind and life and matter. It is to be the spiritual, the divine, the superman, the real Purusha. For that which is above the mental being is the superman. It is to be the master of thy mind, thy life and thy body; it is to be a king over Nature of whom thou art now the tool, lifted above her who now has thee under her feet. It is to be free and not a slave, to be one and not divided, to be immortal and not obscured by death, to be full of light and not darkened, to be full of bliss and not the sport of grief and suffering, to be uplifted into power and not cast down into weakness. It is to live in the Infinite and possess the finite. It is to live in God and be one with him in his being. To

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become thyself is to be this and all that flows from it.

    Be free in thyself, and therefore free in thy mind, free in thy life and thy body. For the Spirit is freedom.

   Be one with God and all beings; live in thyself and not in thy little ego. For the Spirit is unity.

    Be thyself immortal, and put not thy faith in death; for death is not of thyself, but of thy body. For the Spirit is immortality.

    To be immortal is to be infinite in being and consciousness and bliss; for the Spirit is infinite and that which is finite lives only by his infinity.

    These things thou art, therefore thou canst become all these; but if thou art not these things, then thou couldst never become them. What is within thee, that alone can be revealed in thy being. Thou appearest indeed to be other than this, but wherefore shouldst thou enslave thyself to appearances?

    Rather arise, transcend thyself, become thyself. Thou art man and the whole nature of man is to become more than himself. He was the man-animal, he has become more than the animal man. He is the thinker, the craftsman, the seeker after beauty. He shall be more than the craftsman, he shall be the creator and master of his creation; he shall be more than the seeker of beauty, for he shall enjoy all. beauty and all delight.

    Physical he seeks for this immortal substance; vital he seeks after immortal life and the infinite power of his being; mental and partial in knowledge, he seeks after the whole light and the utter vision.

    To possess these is to become the superman; for he is to rise out of mind into the Supermind. Call it the divine mind or Knowledge or the Supermind; it is the power and light of the divine will and the divine consciousness. By the Supermind the Spirit saw and created himself in the worlds, by that he lives in them and governs them. By that he is Swarat Samrat, self-ruler and all-ruler.

    Supermind is superman; therefore to rise beyond mind is the condition.

    To be the superman is to live the divine life, to be a god;

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for the gods are the powers of God. Be a power of God in humanity.

    To live in the divine Being and let the consciousness and bliss, the will and knowledge of the Spirit possess thee and play with thee and through thee, this is the meaning.

    This is the transfiguration of thyself on the mountain. It is to discover God as thyself and reveal him to thyself in all things. Live in his being, shine with his light, act with his power, rejoice with his bliss. Be that Fire and that Sun and that Ocean. Be that joy and that greatness and that beauty.

    When thou hast done this even in part, thou hast attained to the first steps of supermanhood.

The Hour of God, pp. 74-6

The last or highest emergence is the liberated man who has realised the Self and Spirit within him, entered into the cosmic consciousness, passed into union with the Eternal and, so far as he still accepts life and action, acts by the light
and energy of the Power within him working through his human instruments of Nature. The largest formulation of this spiritual change and achievement is a total liberation of soul, mind, heart and action, a casting of them all into the sense of the cosmic Self and the Divine Reality. The spiritual evolution of the individual has then found its way and thrown up its range of Himalayan eminences and its peaks of highest nature. Beyond this height and largeness there opens only the supramental ascent or the incommunicable Transcendence.

The Life Divine, p. 882

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Descent

    All my cells thrill swept by a surge of splendour,
    Soul and body stir with a mighty rapture,
    Light and still more light like an ocean billows
        Over me, round me.

    Rigid, stone-like, fixed like a hill or statue,
    Vast my body feels and upbears the world's weight;
    Dire the large descent of the Godhead enters
        Limbs that are mortal.

    Voiceless, thronged, Infinity crowds upon me;
    Presses down a glory of power eternal;
    Mind and heart grow one with the cosmic wideness,
        Stilled are earth's murmurs.

    Swiftly, swiftly crossing the golden spaces
    Knowledge leaps, a torrent of rapid lightnings;
    Thoughts that left the Ineffable's flaming mansions,
        Blaze in my spirit.

    Slow the heart-beats' rhythm like a giant hammer's;
    Missioned voices drive to me from God's doorway
    Words that live not save upon Nature's summits,
        Ecstasy's chariots.

    All the world is changed to a single oneness;
    Souls undying, infinite forces, meeting,
    Join in God-dance weaving a seamless Nature,
        Rhythm of the Deathless.

    Mind and heart and body, one harp of being,
    Cry that anthem, finding the notes eternal, -
    Light and might and bliss and immortal wisdom
        Clasping for ever.

Collected Poems, p. 563

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OR WE MAY FIND WHEN ALL THE REST HAS FAILED

HID IN OURSELVES THE KEY OF PERFECT CHANGE.

                                                                       SRI AUROBINDO

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