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Mind … and Supermind · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Or we may describe this as the parable of the caterpillar in
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  the butterfly, the mind is like the caterpillar slowly grinding
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  its way, along eating, and focusing on its physical being
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  and its circumstances for gaining sustenance.
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  It does not dream that one day, it will be transformed into a
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  butterfly and fly freely through the are seeing the world from a
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  totally different state of awareness, or if it is aware of
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  its future Destiny, it cannot experience the consciousness of
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  the butterfly as it flies and sees the world from a totally
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  different perspective than the caterpillar fixated on chewing.
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  The nearest Leaf yet. When it reaches a certain stage
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  of its development, the caterpillar withdraws from its
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  active focus on eating in closes itself in a cocoon.
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  And when it later, emerges it spreads its wings and flies away
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  at that stage, the awareness of the butterfly takes over the
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  consciousness of the former caterpillar, the Mind acts
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  through analysis decomposition of what it experiences into
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  discrete units, and then tries to piece them together, as in a
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  jigsaw puzzle to get a picture of its reality.
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  It is the caterpillar crawling along the leaf focused on its
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  physical. We'll need for sustenance.
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  And even if it can conceive of its future, Destiny, with the
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  Advent of the super mental Consciousness, it cannot begin
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  to understand what the experience of that Consciousness
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  actually will be SRI aurobindo rights.
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  It is hardly possible to say what the super mind is in the
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  language of mind, even spiritualised mind for it.
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  Is a different Consciousness, all together and acts in a
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  different way. Whatever may be said of it is
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  likely to be not understood or misunderstood it is only by
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  growing into it that we can know what it is.
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  And this also cannot be done until after a Ang process by
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  which mind heightening and Illuminating becomes pure
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  intuition, not the mix thing that ordinarily goes by, that
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  name and masses itself into over mind after that, over mind can
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  be lifted into and suffused with super mind till it.
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  Undergoes, a transformation in the supermind, all is self
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  nownself. Luminously, there are no
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  divisions, opposition's are separated aspects.
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  As in mind, whose principal is division of knowledge into parts
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  and setting each part against one another over mind,
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  approaches this at its top and is often mistaken for super
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  mind, but it can't reach it. Depth by uplifting and
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  transformation, SRI aurobindo, integral yoga, SRI aurobindo is
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  teaching in method, of practice, planes of Consciousness and
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  parts of the being Pages, 62 to 65.