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Chapter 3
The New Creation
The really new thing is that a new world is born, born, born. It is not the old one transforming
itself, it is a new world that is born. And we are right in the midst of this period of transition
where the two are entangled — where the old still persists all-powerful, entirely dominating the
ordinary consciousness, but where the new one is quietly slipping in, still very modest,
unnoticed — unnoticed to the extent that outwardly it doesn't disturb anything very much for the
time being, and in the consciousness of most people it is even quite imperceptible. And yet it is
working, it is growing — until the time comes when it will be strong enough to assert itself visibly.
THE MOTHER
There are people who love adventure. It is these I call, and I tell them this: "I invite you to the
great adventure."
It is not a question of repeating spiritually what others have done before us, for our adventure
begins beyond that. It is a question of a new creation, entirely new, with all the unforeseen events,
the risks, the hazards it entails — a real adventure whose goal is certain victory, but whose road is
unknown and must be traced out step by step in the unexplored. Something that has never been
in this present universe and that will never again be in the same way. If that interests you . . . well,
let us embark. What will happen to you tomorrow, I don't know.
THE MOTHER
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SIGN OF THE SPIRIT
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35 Sign of the Spirit
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35 Sign of the Spirit
The Spirit says, "I am here!"
Viscum album. White
What we mean by Spirit is self-existent being with
an infinite power of consciousness and unconditioned
delight in its being.
SRI AUROBINDO
' Spirit is Sat or pure existence, pure in self-awareness
(Chit), pure in self-delight (Ananda). Therefore Spirit
can be regarded as a triune basis of all conscious being.
SRI AUROBINDO
All things here are expression, form, energy, action of
the Spirit; matter itself is but form of Spirit, life but
power of being of the Spirit, mind but working out of
consciousness of the Spirit. All Nature is a display and
a play of God, power and action and self-creation of
the one spiritual Being.
SRI AUROBINDO
This world is, no doubt, based ostensibly upon Matter,
but its summit is Spirit and the ascent towards Spirit
must be the aim and justification of its existence and
the pointer to its meaning and purpose.
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PROMISE
36 Promise
The future is full of promise.
Abutilon Xhybridum. Several colours
37 Mental promise
The assurance that the supramental goal will be realised.
Abutilon indicum. Bright yellow
38 Vital promise
The vital is full of possibilities ready to be developed.
Abutilon Xhybridum. Deep reddish purple
I know with absolute certitude that the supramental is
a truth and that its advent is in the very nature of things
inevitable.
SRI AUROBINDO
The manifestation of the Supramental upon earth is no
more a promise but a living fact, a reality.
THE MOTHER
What Sri Aurobindo promised and what naturally interests
us, we who are here now, is that the time has come when
some beings among the elite of humanity, who fulfil the
conditions necessary for spiritualisation, will be able to
transform their bodies with the help of the supramental
Force, Consciousness and Light, so as no longer to be
animal-men but become supermen.
THE MOTHER |
36 Promise
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Promise of realisation
in the mind |
39 Promise of realisation
The best encouragement.
T
ropaeolum majus. Several colours
40 Promise of realisation in the mind
The mind must become silent in order to let the
Supramental Consciousness take its place.
Tropaeolum majus. Yellow
41 Promise of realisation in the physical mind
A good encouragement for the necessary effort.
Tropaeolum majus. Light yellow and red
42 Promise of realisation in the physical
Courage to face the long labour.
Tropaeolum majus. Yellow and maroon
43 Promise of realisation in Matter
The best encouragement for doing what is necessary.
Tropaeolum majus. Dark red to maroon |
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PROMISE OF REALISATION
44 Promise of renewal
May ugliness disappear from the world.
Galanthus nivalis 'Viridapicis'. White
There is another aspect of the Divine Grace, the aspect
of a progress that will be victorious over all obstacles, the
aspect that will propel humanity to a new realisation,
that will open the doors of a new world and make it
possible not only for a chosen few to benefit by the
divine realisation but for their influence, their example,
their power to bring a new and better condition to the
rest of humanity.
This opens up roads of realisation in the future,
possibilities that are already foreseen, when an entire
portion of humanity, the one that has opened itself
consciously or unconsciously to the new forces, will be
lifted up, as it were, into a higher, more harmonious,
more perfect life.
THE MOTHER |
44 Promise of
renewal |
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THE NEW CREATION
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45
Creative Word
45 Creative Word
Belongs only to the Devine.
Leucanthemum
Xsuperbum.white |
46 Descent of the Light
46 Descent of the Light
It flows towards the earth in harmonious waves.
Laburnum anagyroides. Golden Yellow |
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CREATIVE WORD
[The Creative Word] is the word which creates.
There are all kinds of old traditions, old Hindu
traditions, old Chaldean traditions, in which the Divine
in the form of the Creator, that is, in His aspect as
Creator, utters a word that has the power to create. So
it is this. . . And it is the origin of the mantra. The
mantra is the spoken word that has a creative power.
An invocation is made and there is an answer to the
invocation; or one makes a prayer and the prayer is
granted. This is the Word, the Word that, in its sound
... it is not only the idea, it is in the sound that there
is a power of creation. It is the origin of the mantra.
In Indian mythology the creator God is Brahma, and
I think that it was precisely his power which has been
symbolised by this flower, the "Creative Word". And
when one is in contact with it, the words spoken have
a power of evocation, of creation, of formation or of
transformation; the words . . . sound always has a power; it has much more power than men think.
THE MOTHER
NEW WORLD
The situation we are in is very special, extremely
special, without precedent. We are witnessing the birth
of a new world; it is very young, very weak - not in its
essence but in its outer manifestation - not yet
recognised, not even sensed, denied by the majority.
But it is here. It is here, making an effort to grow,
absolutely sure of the result. But the road to it is a
completely new road that has never been mapped out
before - nobody has gone there, nobody has done that!
It is a beginning, a universal beginning. So it is an
absolutely unexpected and unpredictable adventure.
THE MOTHER |
47 New world
47 New world
The result of transformation.
Bixa orellana. Pale lavender pink
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NEW CREATION
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48 New creation
48 New creation
Strong, lasting and fragrant, it rises straight
towards the sky.
Polianthes tuberosa. White |
49
Perfect new creation
49 Perfect new creation
Clustered,complete, manifold, it affirms its right to be.
Polianthes tuberosa. White, double |
The only creation for which there is any place
here is the supramental, the bringing of the
divine Truth down on the earth, not only into
the mind and vital but into the body and into
Matter.
SRI AUROBINDO
For centuries and centuries humanity has waited
for this time. It has come. But it is difficult.
I don't simply tell you we are here upon earth to
rest and enjoy ourselves — now is not the time for
that. We are here ... to prepare the way for the new creation.
You must strive, you must conquer all your
weaknesses and limitations; above all you must
tell your ego: "Your time is over." We want a race
that has no ego, that has in place of the ego the
Divine Consciousness. That is what we want: the
Divine Consciousness which will enable the race
to develop itself and the supramental being to
take birth.
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SUCCESSFUL FUTURE
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Do you know what the flower which we have called
"Successful Future" signifies when given to you? It signifies the hope - nay,
even the promise - that you will participate in the descent of the supramental
world. . . . Once the world- conditions are ready the full descent [of the
Supramental] will take place carrying everything before it. Its presence will be
unmistakable, its force will brook no resistance, doubts and- difficulties will
not torture you any longer. For the Divine will stand manifest - unveiled in its
total perfection. I do not, however, mean to say that the whole world will at
once feel its presence or be transformed; but I do mean that a part of humanity
will know and participate in its descent.
THE MOTHER
51 Successful future
Full of promise and joyful surprises.
Gaillardia pulchella.
Several colours |
50 The future
50 The future
A promise not yet realised.
Salix discolor. Pearl grey |
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Successful future under
the supramental influence
52 Successful future under
the supramental influence
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Gaillardia pulchella. Red and yellow |
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SUPERHUMANITY
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53 Superhumanity
53 Superhumanity
The aim of our aspirations.
Dahlia. White
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When superman is born as Nature's king
His presence shall transfigure Matter's world: He shall light up Truth's fire in Nature's night,
He shall lay upon the earth Truth's greater law;
Man too shall turn towards the Spirit's call.
Awake to his hidden possibility,
Awake to all that slept within his heart
And all that Nature meant when earth was formed
And the Spirit made this ignorant world his home,
He shall aspire to Truth and God and Bliss.
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SUPERHUMANITY
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In a profound sense it is the call and attraction of the
future that makes the past and present, and that future
will be more and more seen to be the growth of the
godhead in the human being which is the high fate of
this race that thinks and wills and labours towards its
own perfection. This is a strain that we shall hear more
and more, the song of the growing godhead of the kind,
of human unity, of spiritual freedom, of the coming
supermanhood of man, of the divine ideal seeking to
actualise it self in the life of the earth, of the call to the
individual to rise to his godlike possibility. . . .
SRI AUROBINDO
If a spiritual unfolding on earth is the hidden truth of
our birth into Matter, if it is fundamentally an evolution
of consciousness that has been taking place in Nature,
then man as he is cannot be the last term of that *
evolution: he is too imperfect an expression of the Spirit,
Mind itself a too limited form and instrumentation;
Mind is only a middle term of consciousness, the mental
being can only be a transitional being. If, then, man is
incapable of exceeding mentality, he must be surpassed
and Supermind and superman must manifest and take
the lead of the creation. But if his mind is capable of
opening to what exceeds it, then there is no reason why
man himself should not arrive at supermind and
supermanhood or at least lend his mentality, life and
body to an evolution of that greater term of the Spirit
manifesting in Nature.
SRI AUROBINDO
Each time we try not to be ordinary men, not to live the
ordinary life, to express in our movements, our actions
and reactions the divine Truth, when we are governed
by that Truth instead of being governed by the general
ignorance, we are apprentice-supermen, and according
to the success of our efforts, well, we are more or less
able apprentices, more or less advanced on the way.
THE MOTHER |
54 Radiation of the manifestation
54 Radiation of the manifestation
The divine manifestation is spreading.
Strophanthus. White and purple |
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MIRACLE
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55
Miracle
55 Miracle
(Air of Auroville) Marvellous, strange, unexpected.
Memecylon tinctorium. Intense blue |
A miracle is nothing but a sudden descent, a
bursting forth of another consciousness and its
powers . . . into this plane of matter. There is a
precipitation, upon the material mechanism, of
the mechanism of a higher plane. It is as though
a lightning flash tore through the cloud of our
ordinary consciousness and poured into it other
forces, other movements and sequences. ... If
we have eyes and know how to observe we can
see miracles in abundance. Especially must they
be constant among those who are endeavouring
to bring down the higher reaches into the earth-
consciousness below.
THE MOTHER
At every moment all the unforeseen, the
unexpected, the unknown is before us — and
what happens to us depends mostly on the
intensity and purity of our faith.
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