The Main Conditions of Preparation for the Supramental Change

0:00 In a brief compass, Srioro Bindo outlines the attitude to be assumed and the nature of the work to be done to prepare the being for the consummation of the path of the integral Yoga, Srioro Bindo writes. Quote Get the psychic being in front and keep it there, putting its power on the mind, vital and physical, so that it shall communicate to them its force of single minded aspiration, Trust, faith, surrender, direct and immediate detection of whatever is wrong in the nature and turn towards ego and error away from light and truth.

0:43 Eliminate egoism in all its forms. Eliminated from every movement of your consciousness. Develop the cosmic consciousness. Let the egocentric outlook disappear in wideness, impersonality, the sense of the cosmic Divine, the perception of universal forces, the realization and understanding of the cosmic manifestation, the play. Find in place of ego, the True Being, a portion of the Divine, issued from the world Mother and an instrument of the manifestation. This sense of being, a portion of the Divine and an instrument should be free from all pride, sense of claim of ego, or assertion of superiority, demand or desire. For if these elements are there, then it is not the true thing. Most, in doing yoga live in the mind, vital, physical, lit up occasionally or to some extent by the higher mind and by the illumined mind.

1:55 But to prepare for the supermental change it is necessary, as soon as personally the time has come, to open up to the intuition and the Overmind, so that these may make the whole being and the whole nature ready for the supermental change. Allow the consciousness quietly to develop and widen, and the knowledge of these things will progressively come. Calm discrimination, detachment, but not indifference are all very important, for their opposites impede very much the transforming action. Intensity of aspiration should be there, but it must go along with these.

2:41 No hurry, no inertia, neither rajasic over eagerness nor temasic discouragement. A steady and persistent but quiet call and working. No snatching or clutching at realization, but allowing realization to come from within and above, and observing accurately its field, its nature, its limits. Let the power of the Mother work in you, but be careful to avoid any mixture or substitution in its place of either a magnified ego working or a force of ignorance presenting itself as truth.

3:23 Aspire especially for the elimination of all obscurity and unconsciousness in the Nature. These are the main conditions of preparation for the Super mental change, but none of them is easy and they must be complete before the Nature can be said to be ready. If the true attitude, psychic, unegoistic, open only to the Divine force can be established, then the process can go on much more quickly. To take and keep the true attitude to further the change in oneself is the help that can be given, the one thing asked to assist the general change. End Quote Reference Srioro Bindao, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 2 Faith, Aspiration, Surrender, pages 36 to 38.