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Namah Vol. 33, Issue 3, 15th October 2025

it were precious, because we want to stay plane of Global cognition or the Overmind
conscious. But let’s unite with the Supreme plane, which is the plane where the godly
Consciousness, and we’ll stay conscious qualities manifest, cannot fully overcome
forever! That’s IT, that’s exactly it. the resistance of the subconscious and the
Inconscience. Sri Aurobindo explained that
I could put it this way: we unite our it is the transformative power of the highest
consciousness with what is perishable Supramental plane (Integral cognition)
and we’re afraid to perish! Well, I say: that can fully and completely overcome
let’s unite our consciousness with the the resistance of the subconscious and the
eternal Consciousness and we will enjoy Inconscience.
eternal consciousness (4).”
If the Superconscience is Reality, the
Inconscience also is Reality; the Inconscience
is in fact an inverse representation of the
Superconscience. The Superconscience is
present as a divine essence of everything that
exists and thus the divinity of the human
being is a primal reality. Hence, the ancient
Indian declaration that the human being
is a child of immortality stands justified.
However, the evolution in nature that
manifests life in its variegated multiplicity
starts from the Inconscience which being
In fact, this zone of defeatism must be a denial of everything is a repository of
clarified so that the new race can come. The falsehood, ignorance and suffering and
Mother clarifies: hence the Semitic assertion that the human
being is born as un-divine (sinner) is a
“The subconscious is a mass of defeatism. phenomenal reality. However, as the origin
That’s what keeps rising to the surface. As of the human being is in the Divine and as
we ABSOLUTELY need to change that, the it is the Divine that is present as the inmost
subconscient must be clarified so that the new race reality of everything in the soul-poise, it is the
can come. We must clarify the subconscient. It’s work of a consciousness-based paradigm to
a mire. It’s full of defeatism — defeatism, the move from the status of the un-divine to be
first reaction is always defeatist. It’s absolutely identified with the poise of the Divine which
disgusting…. We absolutely must… we must is one’s origin and which is secretly what
be categorical and vigorous — fearless, you one always is.
know. Change it MUST (5). “
References
The Superconscience
1. The Mother. The Collected Works of the Mother,
However, the victory over this zone of Volume 4. 3 ed. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo
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defeatism is not easily secured. Even the Ashram Trust; 2003, p. 156.

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