Sri Aurobindo's notes and letters on his life and yoga and letters on Himself and on The Mother.
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Sri Aurobindo's notes and letters on his life and yoga and letters on Himself and on The Mother. In these letters, Sri Aurobindo writes about his life as a student in England, a teacher in Baroda, a political leader in Bengal, and a writer and yogi in Pondicherry. He also comments on his formative spiritual experiences and the development of his yoga.
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Q: When I hear people talking about the supramental descent it makes me somewhat sceptic. They expect that when the descent happens everything will soon be spiritualised and even in the most outward political life
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all that is now wrong will be immediately set right—and this expectation creates in them a great curiosity and flutter.
A: All that is absurd. The descent of the supramental means only that the Power will be there in the earth-consciousness as a living force just as the thinking mental and higher mental are already there. But an animal cannot take advantage of the presence of the thinking mental Power or an undeveloped man of the presence of the higher mental Power—so too anybody will not be able to take advantage of the presence of the supramental Power. I have also often enough said that it will be at first for the few, not for the whole earth,—only there will be a growing influence of it on the earth-life.
15-12-1934
Q: When the Supermind descends into the earth-consciousness will all the Sadhaks be aware of it—the descent into the earth, I mean, not in themselves?
A: It would not necessarily be known by everybody. Besides, even if the descent were here one would have to be ready before one could get the final change.
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