The Life Divine

For in fact both individual and universe are simultaneous

and interrelated expressions of the same transcendent Being;

even though in the Ignorance and under its law there is maladjustment

and conflict, yet there must be a right relation,

an equation to which all arrives but which is missed by our

blindness of ego, our attempt to affirm the ego and not the

Self one in all. The supramental consciousness has that truth of

relation in itself as its natural right and privilege, since it is the

supermind that determines the cosmic relations and the relations

of the individual with the universe, determines them freely and

sovereignly as a power of the Transcendence. In themental being

even the pressure of the cosmic consciousness overpowering the

ego and an awareness of the transcendent Reality might not of

themselves bring about a dynamic solution; for there might still

be an incompatibility between its liberated spiritual mentality

and the obscure life of the cosmic Ignorance which the mind

would not have the power to solve or overcome. But in the supramental

being, not only statically conscious but fully dynamic and

acting in the creative light and power of the Transcendence, the

supramental light, the truth light,

rtam jyotih , would have that

power. For there would be a unity with the cosmic self, but

not a bondage to the Ignorance of cosmic Nature in its lower

formulation; there would on the contrary be a power to act in

the light of the Truth on that Ignorance. A large universality

of self-expression, a large harmonic universality of world-being

would be the very sign of the supramental Person in his gnostic

nature.

 

Book II  Chapter XXVII  p. 1010