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June 21, 2023

Supermind

Supermind

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Introduction, Sri Aurobindo on Our Many Selves, Planes and Parts of the Being, pp. xxxi-xxxii

This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/06/19/supermind/


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Within the framework of our mind
and the experience of our Vital

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existence.
We are inculcated in the belief

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that everything is subject to
duality of good and bad happy

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and unhappy, light and dark.
We cannot generally conceive of

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an existence that is not subject
to these pairs of opposites.

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We believe that we cannot
appreciate. eight happiness,

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without the experience of
sadness or that we cannot truly

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gain any measure of knowledge,
without a corresponding

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experience of ignorance, or that
light cannot be valued unless we

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have gone through Darkness, We
experience Our Lives as a series

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of alternations between these
states and believe there cannot

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be any other way.
We do not generally consider

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that the experience of the
dualities is due to the way we

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perceive the universal creation,
under the circumstances

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attendant upon our current mode
and level of conscious

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awareness.
If we reflect on the existence

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of the Stars our own Sun, it
does not alternate within our

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ability to observe between light
and dark.

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There is no on/off, switch,
their it generates continuous

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light.
It is the framework of Life on

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this plane and our limitation
that creates The Duality of

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light with Darkness.
Just as there are vital States

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Of Consciousness that thrive
upon the experience of Duality

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and seek to achieve what they
conceive to be as positive

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experiences.
So there can be States Of

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Consciousness that achieve a
form of equality, as well as

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statuses that do away with the
Duality entirely.

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When Consciousness is one and
Universal.

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When all awareness is quantum
entangled to such a degree that

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it experiences, the entire
manifestation as unified.

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And carrying out the intention
of the creation, there can come

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about a status in, which all is
known the one and the many and

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the relativistic conclusions
about good and bad.

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Happy and unhappy, Darkness and
Light.

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Lose all meaning.
Such a Consciousness knows the

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unity while at the same time,
recognizes the multiplicity in

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the play of forms, dr.
Dalal notes, quote, the term

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super mind is apt to convey the
sense of a super eminent mind,

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which is far above the ordinary
mind.

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However, SRI aurobindo means by
it as supercontinent plane of

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being, which is Not only above
the mind, but also Beyond mind

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and radically different from it.
It is beyond indifferent, not

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only in relation to the ordinary
mind.

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But also in comparison with the
supercontinent Plains of Mind,

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namely higher mind, illumine
mind intuition and over mind for

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whereas all these supercontinent
planes of Mind are blends of

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light and darkness knowledge,
Ignorance supermind is the truth

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Consciousness, totally devoid of
ignorance.

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SRI aurobindo writes quote, the
super mind, isn't it?

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Very essence of Truth
Consciousness.

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A Consciousness always free from
the ignorance which is the

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foundation of our presence
natural or evolutionary

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existence and from which nature
in US is trying to arrive at

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self-knowledge and World
Knowledge and a right

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Consciousness and the right use
of our existence in the

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universe.
The super mind because it is a

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truth Consciousness has this
knowledge inherent in it and

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this power of true existence its
course is straight and can go

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direct to a team.
Its field is wide and can even

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be made illimitable.
This is because its very nature

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is knowledge.
It has not to acquire knowledge

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but possesses it in its own
right.

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It's steps are not from nescient
sore, ignorance into some

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imperfect light but from truth
to Greater truth from right

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perception to deeper perception
from intuition to intuition from

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illumination to utter and
boundless luminousness from

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growing wideness, has to the
utter vasts and to very

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infinitude.
On its Summit, it possesses the

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Divine omniscience and
omnipotence but even in an

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evolutionary movement of its own
graded self manifestation by

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which it would eventually reveal
its own highest Heights.

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It must be in its very nature
essentially free from ignorance

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and error.
It starts from truth and light

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and moves always in Truth and
light and quote reference SRI

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aurobindo in the mother, our
many shelves, practical, yogic

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psychology introduction, SRI
aurobindo on are many cells

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planes and parts of the being
Pages Roman 31 to 32.