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WRITINGS BY THE MOTHER
© Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust

26 June 1957

Mother, will the first supramental body be like this?

Like what?

A transformation without passing through a terrestrial birth?

Ah! Excuse me, you must not confuse things. There are two things. There is the possibility of a purely supramental creation on one hand, and the possibility of a progressive transformation of a physical body into a supramental body, or rather of a human body into a superhuman body. Then it would be a progressive transformation which could take a certain number of years, probably a considerable number, and would produce a being who would no longer be a "man" in the animal sense of the word, but would not be the supramental being formed fully outside all animality, for its present origin is necessarily an animal one. So, a transmutation may take place, a transformation that's enough to liberate the being from this origin, but all the same it wouldn't be a purely and entirely supramental creation. Sri Aurobindo has said that there will be an intermediary race--a race or perhaps some individuals, we don't know--an intermediary rung which could serve as a passage or could be perpetuated according to the needs and necessities of creation. But if one starts from a body formed in the same way as human bodies are at present, the result will never be the same as a being formed entirely according to the supramental method and [old p. 131]process. It will perhaps be more on the superhuman side in the sense that all animal expression may disappear, but it won't be able to have the absolute [new p. 132]perfection of a body that's purely supramental in its formation.

Collected Works of The Mother, First Edition, Volume 09, pp. 130-31