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The Inevitability of the Emergence of the Supramental Consciousness and its Transformative Action on Body, Life and Mind · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  One of the limitations of mind embedded in a physical body is
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  that it tends to fixate on what it can experience here and now.
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  It has a hard time correlating past, present, and future and
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  seeing and understanding trends, directions, trajectories, and
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  momentum other than in specific areas such as physics or
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  mechanics that focus the mind on these things.
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  Things that are unseen are for the most part either ignored or
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  dismissed. Another limitation is the
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  fragmented approach that sees parts but not the whole, and
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  sees them in isolation from the other parts, as if they are
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  totally separate and distinct entities existing independently
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  from one another. Thus, it has a hard time
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  appreciating the big picture that makes sense out of the
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  disparate elements. Additionally, it has a
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  difficulty in appreciating that something that manifests in the
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  future may indeed represent something entirely new and
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  different from the present known and experienced ways of nature.
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  For these reasons, it becomes almost impossible for any mental
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  analysis to recognize and understand the evolution of
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  consciousness through time, the transitional nature of the
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  current stage, and the inevitability of a new phase
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  that ushers in a consciousness that operates from a totally
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  different perspective and power of action.
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  Based on what Shrioro Bindo calls a reversal of
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  consciousness, the mental consciousness cannot comprehend
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  the type of radical differences that can occur with the advent
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  of a new power of consciousness involving changes in the way the
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  physical body operates, the vital force acts and the mind
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  responds, Sri Robindo writes quote.
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  The descent of the Super Mine is a long process, or at least a
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  process with a long preparation, and one can only say that the
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  work is going on, sometimes with a strong pressure for
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  completion, sometimes retarded by the things that rise from
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  below and have to be dealt with before further progress can be
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  made. The process is a spiritual
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  evolutionary process concentrated into a brief
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  period. It could be done otherwise by
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  what men would regard as a miraculous intervention only if
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  the human mind were more flexible and less attached to
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  its ignorance than it is as we envisage it.
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  It must manifest in a few 1st and then spread, but it is not
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  likely to overpower the earth in a moment.
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  It is not advisable to discuss too much what it will do and how
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  it will do it, because these are things the Super mind itself
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  will fix, acting out of the Divine truth in it, and the mind
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  must not try to fix for it grooves in which it will run
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  naturally. The release from subconscious
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  ignorance and from disease. Duration of life at will and a
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  change in the functionings of the body must be among the
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  ultimate elements of a super mental change, but the details
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  of these things must be left for the Super mental energy to work
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  out according to the truth of its own nature.
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  The descent of the Super mental is an inevitable necessity in
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  the logic of things, and is there for sure.
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  It is because people do not understand what the Super mind
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  is, or realize the significance of the emergence of
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  consciousness in a world of inconscient matter, that they
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  are unable to realize this inevitability.
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  I suppose a matter of fact observer, if there had been one
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  at the time of the unrelieved reign of inanimate matter in the
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  earth's beginning, would have criticized any promise of the
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  emergence of life in a world of dead earth and rock and mineral
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  as an absurdity and a shimra. So, too, afterwards he would
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  have repeated this mistake, and regarded the emergence of
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  thought and reason in an animal world as an absurdity and a
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  shimra. It is the same now with the
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  appearance of super mind in the stumbling mentality of this
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  world of human consciousness and it's reasoning ignorance.
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  End Quote. Reference Sri Aurobindo and the
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  Mother. The Hidden Forces of Life,
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  Chapter 6. Hidden Worlds and Evolutionary
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  Forces. Pages 1:51 to 1:52.