WRITINGS BY THE MOTHER
© Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust

The supramental world

18 September 1957

Sri Aurobindo has told us that in the Supermind itself there are different planes of realisation and that these planes will manifest successively, with the same progressive movement that has always presided over the universal development. And simply because, till today, it is a world that is closed to the greater part of mankind or hardly half-open to some, it is difficult to conceive of this progress in the supramental life, but it will exist; [new p. 190]and the moment there is progress, there is ascension, and there is a perfection which develops according to a law of its own, [old p. 189]which is gradually unveiled to the consciousness-- even to a fully illumined consciousness--and works in the truth instead of working in ignorance.... This something\note{When this talk was first published, Mother defined this `something': "The unmanifest which will use the supramental world to manifest itself."} which is not there completely, totally, all at once--it could almost be said massively--in the Manifestation but is progressive, will follow the same law of development as that of the world we live in now, but instead of not knowing where we are going, well, we shall know the way and follow it consciously. Instead of standing there imagining or guessing or speculating about what ought to be, we shall see where we are going and know how to go there. That will be the essential difference. Certainly it will not be a dull existence in which everything goes on indefinitely without changing.

I believe there is always a tendency in the human consciousness to want to get somewhere, to sit down and feel it is at last all over: "We have arrived, we settle down and don't move any more!" That would be a poor type of Supermind.

But this ascending, progressive movement towards a growing perfection will be still more prominent, certainly, and instead of unfolding itself in the darkness where everybody is blind and gropes along, it will unfold in the light and one will have the joy of knowing where one is going and what one is doing. That's all.

So one must not come and ask, "Will this be there?" or "Won't that be there?" There will be many more things still than we have now. Every possible thing will be there.

Collected Works of The Mother, First Edition, Volume 09, pp. 188-89