Chapter XXVIII : Supermind, Mind and the Overmind Maya

SYNOPSIS – I Supermind, Mind and the Overmind Maya Reason for fall into Ignorance What causes the process of lapse of the Individual consciousness into Ignorance? An exclusive concentration on

SYNOPSIS – II Supermind, Mind and the Overmind Maya Overmind Vs Evolutionary Mind (Para – 10) The poise of consciousness assumed in Man is mental consciousness which sees the world

Study Notes      (Note: This chapter was not there originally when Sri Aurobindo wrote in the Arya, but it was added later while revising the first version. It deals

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 2      Still there is one aspect of this problem which must be immediately considered; it is the gulf created between Mind as we know it

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 4      But when we look more closely, we perceive that this normality is deceptive and that in fact there are several directions in which human

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 5      There are two successive movements of consciousness, difficult but well within our capacity, by which we can have access to the superior gradations of

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 7      It is in the latter alternative that we find the secret we are seeking, the means of the transition, the needed step towards a

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 8      In its nature and law the Overmind is a delegate of the Supermind Consciousness, its delegate to the Ignorance. Or we might speak of

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 8 Contd…. The integrality of the Supermind keeps always the essential truth of things, the total truth and the truth of its individual self-determinations clearly knit together;

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 10      Since the Consciousness-Force of the eternal Existence is the universal creatrix, the nature of a given world will depend on whatever self-formulation of that

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 10 Contd.. Our mind sees that all things are born from Matter or material Energy, exist by it, go back into it; it concludes that Matter is

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 12      If we would understand the difference of this global Overmind Consciousness from our separative and only imperfectly synthetic mental consciousness, we may come near

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 13 Contd… But it is only by the evolution in us of the concealed superconscient powers of cosmic Truth and of the Reality in which they are

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 15      Yet, as in our subliminal or inner Mind, so in this Mind also a larger power of communication and mutuality still remains, a freer

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 16      Two things render that culmination more facile than it would otherwise be. Overmind in the descent towards material creation has originated modifications of itself,—Intuition