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The Supermind and Its Evolutionary Action · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  As we begin to experience realms of awareness other than that of
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  our current primary body, life mind complex, we can begin to
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  appreciate that there are further higher states of
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  conscious awareness that can be experienced and which have
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  powers of insight and ways of working that are far different
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  than the normal processing of linear thought that represents
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  our mental consciousness. We tend, in our current mental
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  standpoint, to process things in a step by step manner with very
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  narrow framing around whatever we are trying to understand.
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  We want to move from point A to point B in a straightforward and
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  logical fashion. There are tremendous advantages
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  to this approach for accomplishment of specific tasks
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  in the external world, as well As for deconstructing and
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  appreciating the elements involved in any specific form or
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  event. There are, however, also serious
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  limitations. The limitations revolve around a
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  concept which artificially separates things into distinct
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  event channels and thus does not take into account nor appreciate
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  the complete relationship and interaction that takes place.
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  We thus gain a very detailed but narrowed view of our existence,
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  its significance and our lines of action.
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  Srioro Bindo describes the process of involution and
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  evolution of consciousness to put a context on the emergence
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  of the next term in this process, which he calls simply
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  Super Mind as it is the level beyond the mental level.
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  As with each preceding term of the manifestation of levels of
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  consciousness, it must be involved in matter in order to
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  be able to evolve out of matter. And to the extent that it
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  manifests here within the framework of nature, it will
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  have its native action modified by the limitations of the
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  earlier terms through which it works, until it can be fully
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  manifested and thereby change the substance of the body, life
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  and mind to conform to its native power of action.
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  Sri Aurobindo observes quote Super Mind is the grade of
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  existence beyond mind, life and matter, and as Mind, Life and
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  matter have manifested on the earth, so too must Super Mind in
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  the inevitable course of things, manifest in this world of
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  matter. In fact, the Super Mind is
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  already here, but it is involved, concealed behind this
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  manifest mind, life and matter, and not yet acting overtly or in
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  its own power. If it acts, it is through these
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  inferior powers and modified by their characters and so not yet
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  recognizable. It is only by the approach and
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  arrival of the descending Super Mind that it can be liberated
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  upon earth and reveal itself in the action of our material,
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  vital and mental parts, so that these lower powers can become
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  portions of a total divinized activity of our whole being.
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  It is that that will bring to us a completely realized Divinity
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  or divine life. It is indeed so that life and
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  mind involved in matter have realized themselves here, for
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  only what is involved can evolve, otherwise there could be
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  no emergence and quote reference Sri Aurobindo and the Mother,
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  The Hidden Forces of Life, Chapter 6, Hidden Worlds and
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  Evolutionary Forces, pages 149 to 150.