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December 2006 
Supramental and Supermental
Posted on Dec 17th, 2006
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Ben
Ben
These waves of spritual/cultural development signify points in the human historical process. Spirit always incarnates in a particular medium called culture. Culture peaks and crashes when the spiritual principle becomes obscured. This is followed by a period of stasis when a spark of spiritual consciousness deep within the collective mind conjures another precipitation, creating another condensation. At this point, a teacher or avatar appears and the quickening begins again. Then another wave appears. Each of these waves represent another teaching or stage of spiritual development. Wether we are aware of it or not, everything experienced on the physical plane is a stage of spiritual development.
Absolute intervention in history is always supramental. We have to make a distinction between supra and supermental. These are natural, cosmic principles first distinguished by Sri Aurobindo. The descent of the Absolute is supramental, meaning it comes from beyond the mind. Supermental refers to the effort made to absorb the supramental (anything beyond the present thinking layer), and then translate is precisely in the language necessary for comprehension. Revelation is supramental -beyond mind. Any new revelation requires supermental effort to comprehend because the mind must always rise above its present condition to grasp it.
For example, Muhammad spent each summer in a particular cave outside of Mecca where he would meditate and pray. This continued for 15 years, when, through his persitance, perseverance and supreme trust in God, the angel Gabriel appeared and spoke to him, dictating the first five verses of the Holy Quran (now the first five verses of Sura 96 of the Quran).
1. Read, in the name of your Lord, who created.
2. He created man from an embryo.
3. Rean, and your Lord, Most Exalted.
4. Teaches by means of the pen.
5. He teaches what men never knew.
Little did Muhammad know that during those 15 years he was being prepared to receive the supramental descent. Only after the prophetic vessel was prepared could the angel appear in a way that Muhammad could hear what he had to say. Up to that point, he might not have understood. Even though he was prepared spiritually, after the appearance, Muhammad went back to his wife, Kadijah, and told her he might be going crazy. Was this really happening to him? This is because he was being taught what he never knew.
This illustrates how the supramental is precipitated, and then decoded into the form, which Muhammad, after sufficient preparation, could supermentally percieve. This is an example of the principle of supramental descent. Through this example, we can see that the supramental manifests in a supermental form, a form beyond what is ordinarily imagined. The supermental is the mind operating beyond the inhibitions of ego. The ego creates 'protective barriers' , but protective only in a shallow sense of keeping the individual in a tightly contained boundary, through which it views reality. Everything that happens in this state is mental. People always talk about what they conceive in their mind containers. However, supermental states can only be experienced once these containers are emptied and you have gone beyond the inhibiting barriers of the ego.
In Muhammad's case, he wore down the barriers of his ego by going to the cave, praying
and meditating every summer for 15 years, until finally his ego inhibitors were sufficiently dissolved so that he could function at a supermental level. The method that Muhammad followed was owing to a natural spiritual inclination. There are cases when people ingest phychotropic substances that temporarily dissolve the ego barriers/inhibitors allowing them to receive information and encounter supermental states of mind. While this might be useful in some circumstances, the danger is that people afterwards think 'I got it, I'm enlightened, I know what it is', but then make no effort to naturally maintain this state. Many people then take the high experience and interpret it in their 'normal' state. But in their 'normal' state, they may not have dealt with their ego inhibitors, so when the substance wears off, their ego takes the information received and runs wild.
The point is that most people are not ready to receive the supramental descent. We can then only understand the supramental within the context of an evolutionary psychology, what is usually referred to as mysticism or the cultivation of mystic states of mind. Those who do receive a supramental descent are capable of it only because they have been especially prepared and are functioning according to a Divine Plan.
(...)[From Cosmic History Chronicles Volume II, By Valum Votan]
Absolute intervention in history is always supramental. We have to make a distinction between supra and supermental. These are natural, cosmic principles first distinguished by Sri Aurobindo. The descent of the Absolute is supramental, meaning it comes from beyond the mind. Supermental refers to the effort made to absorb the supramental (anything beyond the present thinking layer), and then translate is precisely in the language necessary for comprehension. Revelation is supramental -beyond mind. Any new revelation requires supermental effort to comprehend because the mind must always rise above its present condition to grasp it.
For example, Muhammad spent each summer in a particular cave outside of Mecca where he would meditate and pray. This continued for 15 years, when, through his persitance, perseverance and supreme trust in God, the angel Gabriel appeared and spoke to him, dictating the first five verses of the Holy Quran (now the first five verses of Sura 96 of the Quran).
1. Read, in the name of your Lord, who created.
2. He created man from an embryo.
3. Rean, and your Lord, Most Exalted.
4. Teaches by means of the pen.
5. He teaches what men never knew.
Little did Muhammad know that during those 15 years he was being prepared to receive the supramental descent. Only after the prophetic vessel was prepared could the angel appear in a way that Muhammad could hear what he had to say. Up to that point, he might not have understood. Even though he was prepared spiritually, after the appearance, Muhammad went back to his wife, Kadijah, and told her he might be going crazy. Was this really happening to him? This is because he was being taught what he never knew.
This illustrates how the supramental is precipitated, and then decoded into the form, which Muhammad, after sufficient preparation, could supermentally percieve. This is an example of the principle of supramental descent. Through this example, we can see that the supramental manifests in a supermental form, a form beyond what is ordinarily imagined. The supermental is the mind operating beyond the inhibitions of ego. The ego creates 'protective barriers' , but protective only in a shallow sense of keeping the individual in a tightly contained boundary, through which it views reality. Everything that happens in this state is mental. People always talk about what they conceive in their mind containers. However, supermental states can only be experienced once these containers are emptied and you have gone beyond the inhibiting barriers of the ego.
In Muhammad's case, he wore down the barriers of his ego by going to the cave, praying
and meditating every summer for 15 years, until finally his ego inhibitors were sufficiently dissolved so that he could function at a supermental level. The method that Muhammad followed was owing to a natural spiritual inclination. There are cases when people ingest phychotropic substances that temporarily dissolve the ego barriers/inhibitors allowing them to receive information and encounter supermental states of mind. While this might be useful in some circumstances, the danger is that people afterwards think 'I got it, I'm enlightened, I know what it is', but then make no effort to naturally maintain this state. Many people then take the high experience and interpret it in their 'normal' state. But in their 'normal' state, they may not have dealt with their ego inhibitors, so when the substance wears off, their ego takes the information received and runs wild.
The point is that most people are not ready to receive the supramental descent. We can then only understand the supramental within the context of an evolutionary psychology, what is usually referred to as mysticism or the cultivation of mystic states of mind. Those who do receive a supramental descent are capable of it only because they have been especially prepared and are functioning according to a Divine Plan.
(...)[From Cosmic History Chronicles Volume II, By Valum Votan]
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