In a recent book presenting the life of Sri Aurobindo we have a chapter entitled The Ascent to Supermind. This gives an impression that during the period 1915-1926 Sri Aurobindo was making progress in the discovery of supermind, climbing step by step towards it. But he already had the knowledge of it with him, at least for a couple of years now, even much prior to the meeting with the Mother on 29 March 1914. What was happening during the period was not the ascent, but something radically different than that. It was the period of supramentalisation of the various grades of the lower consciousness. First it was the supramentalisation of the mental, during the Arya-period, 1915-21, and then the supramentalisation of the vital. This finally paved the path for the overmentalisation of the physical, marking its siddhi on 24 November 1926. Sri Aurobindo’s next concern was the supramentalisation proper of the physical itself. He recorded the first definite experience of it coming on 8 August 1938. We have to be pretty attentive towards these “visible” disclosures in the life of Sri Aurobindo.   more »

I need some place of refuge in which I can complete my Yoga unassailed and build up other souls around me. It seems to me that Pondicherry is the place appointed by those who are Beyond, but you know how much effort is needed to establish the thing that is purposed upon the material plane… I am developing the necessary powers for bringing down the spiritual on the material plane, and I am now able to put myself into men and change them, removing the darkness and bringing light, giving them a new heart and a new mind. This I can do with great swiftness and completeness with those who are near me, but I have also succeeded with men hundreds of miles away… What I perceive most clearly, is that the principal object of my Yoga is to remove absolutely and entirely every possible source of error and ineffectiveness, of error in order that the Truth I shall eventually show to men may be perfect, and of ineffectiveness in order that the work of changing the world, so far as I have to assist it, may be entirely victorious and irresistible…   more »