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Sri Aurobindo THE SUPRAMENTAL MANIFESTATION & Other Writing

Shree Aurbindo

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The divine Body:- A DIVINE life in a divine body is the formula of the ideal that we envisage. But what will be the divine body? What will be the nature of this body, its structure, the principle of its activity, the perfection that distinguishes it from the limited & imperfect physicality within which we are now bound? What will be the conditions & operations of its life still physical in its base upon the earth by which it can be known as divine. Super mind & the Life Divine:- A DIVINE life upon earth, the ideal we have placed before us, can only come about by a spiritual change of our being & a radical & fundamental change, an evolution or have to rise out of the domination over it of its veils of mind, life & body into the full consciousness & possession of it’s the consciousness & power of consciousness proper to a mental, vital & physical being into the greater consciousness & greater power of being & the larger & freer life of the spirit. It would not lose these former veils but would no longer be veils or imperfect expressions but true manifestations; they would be changed into states of light, power of spiritual life, vehicles of a spiritual existence. But this again could not be if mind, life & body were not taken up & transformed by a state of being & a force of being superior to them, a power of Super mind as much above our incomplete mental as that is above the nature of animal life & animated Matter, as it is immeasurably above the mere material nature. The Reincarnation Soul:- HUMAN thought in the generality of men is no more than a rough & crude acceptance of unexamined ideas. Our mind is a sleepy or careless sentry & allows anything to pass the gates which seems to it decently garbed or wears a plausible appearance or can mumble is this so in subtle matters, those remote from the concrete facts of our physical life & environment. Even men who will reason carefully & acutely in ordinary matters & there consider vigilance against error an intellectual or a practical duty, are yet content with the most eareless stumbling when they get upon higher & more difficult ground. Where precision & subtle thinking are most needed, there thay are most impatient of it & averse to the labour demanded of them. Men can manage fine thought about palpable things, but to think subtly about the subtle is too great a strain on the grossness of our intellects; so we are content with making a dab at the truth, like the painter who threw his brush at his picture when he could not get the effect that he desired. We mistake the smudge that results for the prefect form of a verity. The Ascending Unity:- THE human mind loves a clear simplicity of view; the more trenchant a statement, the more violently it is caught by it & inclined to acceptance. This is not only natural to our first crudity of thinking, & the more attractive because it makes things delightfully easy to handle & saves an immense amount of worry of enquiry & labour of reflection, but, modified, it accompanies us to the higher levels of a more watchful mentality. Alexander’s method with the fateful knot is our natural & favourite dealing with the tangled web of things, the easy cut, the royal way, the facile philosophy of this & not this, that & not that, a strong yet & no, a simple division, a pair of robust opposites, a clean cut of classification. Our reason acts by divisions, even our ordinary illogical is a stumbling & bungling summary analysis & arrangement of the experience that offers itself to us with such unending complexity. But the cleanest & clearest division is that which sets us most at ease, because it impresses on our still childlike intelligence a sense of conclusive & luminous simplicity.