The Divine Mother and the Triple Status of the Supermind by Debashish Banerji
Guru Pershad Memorial Lecture, Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry, 2004.
We may say that for integral Yoga there is one true root of integrality and that is the Supermind, but there is a delegate of that integrality inside us - an immanent integral power - and that is the psychic being. The psychic being can unite our subliminal consciousness, our inner mental, inner vital and subtle physical consciousness because as he says there, it is through the psychic and the Mother’s enlightening through their respective psychic elements, that your mind and heart and life and your physical consciousness can be enlightened.
So this becomes the method and mode by which the Mother can work on us, because our psychic being is indeed in tune with her, but the Mother herself is not just our psychic being, she has not just entered into us to leave us in ignorance with the psychic being that is so deeply hidden in us that we can hardly find an access to it by ourselves. This is exactly where the whole miracle and magic and wonder of the work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother comes in and the tremendous opportunity and Grace that is given to us by the fact that the supramental yoga is not an abstract impersonal yoga to be followed out by individuals left to themselves but that the Divine Consciousness and Shakti have brought it here and are present here to give it to us, that the Mother is here and that the Mother is not merely that psychic being hidden in us, but has come externally in an unveiled form so that we may relate to her and in that relating connect with the three statuses of the Supermind and find that she can open that experience up for us.
We as individuals can make some inadequate individual efforts. We can read these words and think of the three statuses of the Supermind, we can be inspired by Sri Aurobindo’s own successive realizations. But to have these realisations ourselves – it is next to impossible, because the co-ordination of these experiences, as Sri Aurobindo points out, is so complex because it is not just an individual coordination, the supermental reality that is evolving in earth nature is One Being. The whole of the earth is one Being and we are the diversified elements of that Being that are being lead through this evolution and this leading is a coordinated process, a harmonious process that only the Divine Consciousness knows and therefore it is not through any kind of principled yoga in which we determine beforehand what it is that we will follow as a routine, that we can do this yoga. It is only through a progressive surrender to that supramental source that is embodied and present to us as the Mother that we can become aware of how she is leading the creation individual by individual and totally at the same time. She is leading the Universe and every individual in it at once by her Knowledge-Will, which is a triple simultaneous knowledge through the triple status of the Supermind.
So this becomes the method and mode by which the Mother can work on us, because our psychic being is indeed in tune with her, but the Mother herself is not just our psychic being, she has not just entered into us to leave us in ignorance with the psychic being that is so deeply hidden in us that we can hardly find an access to it by ourselves. This is exactly where the whole miracle and magic and wonder of the work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother comes in and the tremendous opportunity and Grace that is given to us by the fact that the supramental yoga is not an abstract impersonal yoga to be followed out by individuals left to themselves but that the Divine Consciousness and Shakti have brought it here and are present here to give it to us, that the Mother is here and that the Mother is not merely that psychic being hidden in us, but has come externally in an unveiled form so that we may relate to her and in that relating connect with the three statuses of the Supermind and find that she can open that experience up for us.
We as individuals can make some inadequate individual efforts. We can read these words and think of the three statuses of the Supermind, we can be inspired by Sri Aurobindo’s own successive realizations. But to have these realisations ourselves – it is next to impossible, because the co-ordination of these experiences, as Sri Aurobindo points out, is so complex because it is not just an individual coordination, the supermental reality that is evolving in earth nature is One Being. The whole of the earth is one Being and we are the diversified elements of that Being that are being lead through this evolution and this leading is a coordinated process, a harmonious process that only the Divine Consciousness knows and therefore it is not through any kind of principled yoga in which we determine beforehand what it is that we will follow as a routine, that we can do this yoga. It is only through a progressive surrender to that supramental source that is embodied and present to us as the Mother that we can become aware of how she is leading the creation individual by individual and totally at the same time. She is leading the Universe and every individual in it at once by her Knowledge-Will, which is a triple simultaneous knowledge through the triple status of the Supermind.
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