bernie
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The Summum Bonum
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9/27/2009 3:25 PM
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The Summum Bonum In our essays, our probes, we must finally envision and realize the biggest possible prize - hit the jackpot - the summum bonum, the greatest Good, i.e., Supermind - an existential synthesis, a dynamically comprehensive, fully-integrated consciousness.
'Our new vision, on the contrary, is the divinization of life, the transformation of the material into a divine world ... What has happened is truly a new thing: A New World Has Been Born. It is not the old that is being transformed, it is quite a new world that has been really concretely born ... At the present hour we are in the very heart of a period of transition, where the two are intertwined; the old persists, still all-powerful, continues to dominate the ordinary consciousness, while the new glides in, still modest, unnoticed to the extent that for the moment it disturbs nothing much externally, and even in the consciousness of most people it is quite imperceptible.
'And yet it works, it grows till the moment when it will be strong enough to impose itself visibly .... as an effort towards a still higher realization, was born this idea of the unity of religions, of something that is unique, which is behind all manifestation - and this idea was really the ceiling of human aspiration ... But for that (one must come out of the overmental creation and seize the new -> the Unitive Life, Supermind, Supramental Yoga), the new creation, the supramental creation must have taken place.'
(Robert McDermott, ed., The Essential Aurobindo)
... the final leap to a New World, a New Man - the supramental transformation and creation!
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lilsparrow
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Re:The Summum Bonum
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9/28/2009 7:11 AM
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Dear Bernie . . .
I live for this to be true.
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