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Namah Vol. 29, Issue 3, 15th October 2021

before. It can be put into direct contact with
the essential truth of its being, to the extent
that, spontaneously, at every moment it knows
instinctively, or intuitively, what is to be done
and that it can do it.

As I say, this state can now be realised by
all those who take the trouble of preparing
themselves to receive the supramental force,
to assimilate it and obey it.
Now, according to what Sri Aurobindo teaches Of course, there is a higher state than this, the
us, this is not a final realisation, nor is it the ideal state Sri Aurobindo speaks of as the ideal to be
to which we want to rise. There is a higher state fulfilled: the divine life in a divine body. But
than this, in which the consciousness, though he himself tells us that this will take time; it is
it still remains principally mental or partially an integral transformation which cannot be
mental in its functioning, is already open to achieved in a moment. It will even take quite
higher regions in an aspiration for the spiritual a long time. But when it is accomplished, when
life, and open to the supramental influence. As the consciousness has become a supramental
soon as this opening occurs, one passes beyond consciousness, then action will no longer be
the state in which life is purely physical — when determined at every moment by a mental choice
I say ‘physical’ I include the whole mental and or be dependent on the physical capacity: the
intellectual life and all human achievements, entire body will spontaneously, integrally, be
even the most remarkable; I am speaking of the perfect expression of the inner truth.
a physical which is the summit of human
capacities, of an earthly and material life in This is the ideal we must keep before us, for the
which man can express values of a higher order realisation of which we must strive; but we must
from the mental and intellectual point of view not delude ourselves and think that it can be a
— one can go beyond that state, open oneself to rapid transformation, miraculous, immediate,
the supramental force which is now acting on marvellous, without effort and without labour.
earth and enter a transitional zone where the However, it is no longer only a possibility, it
two influences meet and interpenetrate, where is no longer even only a promise for a far-off
the consciousness is still mental and intellectual future: it is something which is in the making.
in its functioning, but sufficiently imbued with And already one can not only foresee but feel
the supramental strength and force to become the moment when the body will be able to repeat
the instrument of a higher truth. integrally the experience of the most spiritual
part of the being, as the inner spirit has already
At present this state can be realised on earth done, and will itself be able to stand in its bodily
by those who have prepared themselves consciousness before the supreme Reality,
to receive the supramental force which is turn to it integrally and say in all sincerity, in
manifesting. And in that state, in that state a total self-giving of all its cells: ‘To be Thyself
of consciousness, the body can benefit from a — exclusively, perfectly — Thyself, infinitely,
much better condition than the one it was in eternally... very simply (1).’”

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