WRITINGS BY THE MOTHER
© Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust

A stag passes through a forest to get a drink, but what is there to prove that he has passed by? Most people won't see any sign; perhaps they don't even know what a stag is, and even those who know may not be able to say that he passed that way. But one who has made a special study of hunting, a tracker, will find obvious signs and will be able to say not only what type of stag has passed, but also his size, age, sex, etc. Similarly there must be people who have a spiritual knowledge analogous to that of hunting, who can disclose that a person is in contact with the supramental, while ordinary people, who have not trained their mind, will not be able to perceive it. The supramental has descended upon earth, it is said, it has manifested itself. I have read all that has been written on the subject, but I am among the ignorant who see nothing and feel nothing. Couldn't someone who has a more trained perception tell me by what signs I can recognise that a person is in relation with the supramental?

Two irrefutable signs prove that one is in relation with the supramental:

1. a perfect and constant equality,

2. an absolute certainty in the knowledge.

To be perfect, the equality must be invariable and spontaneous, effortless, towards all circumstances, all happenings, all [old p. 112]contacts, material or psychological, irrespective of their character and impact.

The absolute and indisputable certainty of an infallible knowledge through identity.

February 1961

Collected Works of The Mother, First Edition, Volume 15, pp. 110-111