The Synthesis of Yoga - Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Gradations of the Supermind 815
within and illumines with that inner vision the outsides and it
harmonises, too, readily — provided we keep intuitively awake
— with whatever fresh truth has yet to arrive. These characteristics
become more pronounced and intense in the higher, the
proper supramental ranges: in the intuitive mind they may not
be always recognisable in their purity and completeness, because
of the mixture of mental stuff and its accretion, but in the divine
reason and greater supramental action they become free and
absolute.
The suggestive intuition acting on the mental level suggests
a direct and illumining inner idea of the truth, an idea that is
its true image and index, not as yet the entirely present and
whole sight, but rather of the nature of a bright memory of
some truth, a recognition of a secret of the self’s knowledge. It
is a representation, but a living representation, not an ideative
symbol, a reflection, but a reflection that is lit up with something
of the truth’s real substance. The intuitive discrimination
is a secondary action setting this idea of the truth in its right
place and its relation to other ideas. And so long as there is
the habit of mental interference and accretion it works also
to separate the mental from the higher seeing, to discrete the
inferior mental stuff that embarrasses with its alloy the pure
truth substance, and labours to unravel the mingled skein of
ignorance and knowledge, falsehood and error. As the intuition
is of the nature of a memory, a luminous remembering of the
self-existent truth, so the inspiration is of the nature of truth
hearing: it is an immediate reception of the very voice of the
truth, it readily brings the word that perfectly embodies it and it
carries something more than the light of its idea; there is seized
some stream of its inner reality and vivid arriving movement
of its substance. The revelation is of the nature of direct sight,
pratyaks.a-dr.s.t.i, and makes evident to a present vision the thing
in itself of which the idea is the representation. It brings out the
very spirit and being and reality of the truth and makes it part
of the consciousness and the experience.
In the actual process of the development of the supramental
nature, supposing it to follow a regular gradation, it may be seen