That key, He says, is to be turned in the lock of the universe which is Sachchidananda. In the previous chapter He explains Maya is the key to the world enigma. The insight of the tradition and its error.How the Supermind makes itself implicit and explicit.The difference between the Supermind and Mind.The Real-Idea is triune, not three in one.Thought separates itself from the object and finally we too detach from the object.Mind understands its own analysis, not the thing it talks about.What prevents the Mind from being the creator.Why Sachchidananda could not have created this world of ours.The Process of the One becoming the Many.Supermind can be indirectly known through its several relations with life.In the Supramental vision there is only good. Therefore Arjuna saw good as well as evil. In that vision there will be no evil, as in the vision of Arjuna. In the sense Narayana was born from the Supramental plane, it will be right. As Narayana is an overmental god and this was a Supramental vision, they will not go together. For the lack of a better word Sri Aurobindo called His vision Narayana Darsan. If a devotee should have the same vision, he will see the objects before him as Sri Aurobindo. In the Alipore Jail, Sri Aurobindo saw the jailors, the convicts, the iron bars, the branches of the tree were all one. Both are, to the supramental, the same form. Then the Man ceases to be a man, he acquire a supramental form. As the vision ripens, it becomes perfect. Suppose we succeed in moving to the centre behind the heart, then we will see the man and the post are related as the leg and the hand are related. We do not see such a relationship between the moving man and the stationary post. Body is a whole of which the leg and hand are parts. We know our left leg and right hand are parts of the same body. Our Mind is unable to think of any relation between the man and the post. There is a lamppost a man is passing nearby. When we shift to thinking in our Mind, still we do not see any connection between them. We get those impressions through our senses. Now we see before us objects, walls, furniture, shops, moving men, trees, and birds all apparently not connected with each other. Hence the injunction to concentrate behind the heart. When it is created it will lodge behind the heart, not in the heart. Till then we have to be satisfied by an intellectual statement that does not shut out the higher faculties. Sri Aurobindo illustrates this principle through parts and the whole and goes on to say that even the sum of the parts will not be the whole, as the parts of a machine collected in a box will not be a machine. The Supermind is like the earning member. The same difference exists between the self-employed entrepreneur and the salaried employee. All the income comes from the earning members. In a family there are a few members, sometimes several members, but one or two earn. The mass leader creates the party, the others run it or manage it. But there is one who is a mass leader who alone attracts the crowed, for whose sake the people vote. They can be of some guidance.Ī political party is full of volunteers, workers, experienced leaders. There are certain facts of life where a similar phenomenon occurs. It is a perception they had by insight and intuition. It is not a knowledge they got by the thinking of Mind. In the last para He says religions believe God is omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent. disinheriting the active Mind, if we shift our emphasis to insight and intuition, His explanations will reach us. We often see these facilities flash in us. So, is there any use of our reading the book at all?Įven in the beginning of the chapter He says that this difficulty exists, but it is not as if we have no real connection with this exalted plane. Mother says no one has understood His explanations about the Supermind. As yet there is no centre in Man for that plane - the Supermind. It is an explanation offered to the Supermind in us as it is about the Supermind. In this chapter he describes the Supermind and explains how the creation was made. The world is created by the Supermind and not the Mind, says Sri Aurobindo. Its higher version is subtle and its centre is between the brows. On important issues, we sit down, withdraw from the senses and think and decide which job to accept, what course to choose, whether we can accept this alliance. These sensations give our life knowledge. The eye does not have the power of thinking. The process of the Mind that arrived at that idea is thinking, maybe mathematical thinking. The idea that it is the earth that goes round the sun is an idea of the thinking mind, not the ocular sense that sees. Sri Aurobindo cites the example of the sun moving around the earth in talking about the inability of the senses to do the duty of the Mind.
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