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
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0:02 Within the framework of our mind and the experience of our Vital existence. We are inculcated in the belief that everything is subject to duality of good and bad happy and unhappy, light and dark. We cannot generally conceive of an existence that is not subject to these pairs of opposites. We believe that we cannot appreciate. eight happiness, without the experience of sadness or that we cannot truly gain any measure of knowledge, without a corresponding experience of ignorance, or that light cannot be valued unless we have gone through Darkness, We experience Our Lives as a series of alternations between these states and believe there cannot be any other way. We do not generally consider that the experience of the dualities is due to the way we perceive the universal creation, under the circumstances attendant upon our current mode and level of conscious awareness. If we reflect on the existence of the Stars our own Sun, it does not alternate within our ability to observe between light and dark.
1:25 There is no on/off, switch, their it generates continuous light. It is the framework of Life on this plane and our limitation that creates The Duality of light with Darkness. Just as there are vital States Of Consciousness that thrive upon the experience of Duality and seek to achieve what they conceive to be as positive experiences. So there can be States Of Consciousness that achieve a form of equality, as well as statuses that do away with the Duality entirely.
2:07 When Consciousness is one and Universal. When all awareness is quantum entangled to such a degree that it experiences, the entire manifestation as unified. And carrying out the intention of the creation, there can come about a status in, which all is known the one and the many and the relativistic conclusions about good and bad. Happy and unhappy, Darkness and Light. Lose all meaning. Such a Consciousness knows the unity while at the same time, recognizes the multiplicity in the play of forms, dr. Dalal notes, quote, the term super mind is apt to convey the sense of a super eminent mind, which is far above the ordinary mind.
3:01 However, SRI aurobindo means by it as supercontinent plane of being, which is Not only above the mind, but also Beyond mind and radically different from it. It is beyond indifferent, not only in relation to the ordinary mind. But also in comparison with the supercontinent Plains of Mind, namely higher mind, illumine mind intuition and over mind for whereas all these supercontinent planes of Mind are blends of light and darkness knowledge, Ignorance supermind is the truth Consciousness, totally devoid of ignorance.
3:45 SRI aurobindo writes quote, the super mind, isn't it? Very essence of Truth Consciousness. A Consciousness always free from the ignorance which is the foundation of our presence natural or evolutionary existence and from which nature in US is trying to arrive at self-knowledge and World Knowledge and a right Consciousness and the right use of our existence in the universe. The super mind because it is a truth Consciousness has this knowledge inherent in it and this power of true existence its course is straight and can go direct to a team. Its field is wide and can even be made illimitable. This is because its very nature is knowledge. It has not to acquire knowledge but possesses it in its own right.
4:43 It's steps are not from nescient sore, ignorance into some imperfect light but from truth to Greater truth from right perception to deeper perception from intuition to intuition from illumination to utter and boundless luminousness from growing wideness, has to the utter vasts and to very infinitude. On its Summit, it possesses the Divine omniscience and omnipotence but even in an evolutionary movement of its own graded self manifestation by which it would eventually reveal its own highest Heights.
5:29 It must be in its very nature essentially free from ignorance and error. It starts from truth and light and moves always in Truth and light and quote reference SRI aurobindo in the mother, our many shelves, practical, yogic psychology introduction, SRI aurobindo on are many cells planes and parts of the being Pages Roman 31 to 32.
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