Sri Aurobindo and the Mother gifted to mankind the supramental fire which meant: “a new creation on earth, a bringing in of the ultimate powers which would reverse the conditions here ...” (SABCL 22, p. 31).
This supramental flood seems to be submerging everything, the sacred and the mundane, the beautiful and the ugly, the religious and scientific values, etc. It is sweeping away the illusion of a single truth, single values, single religion, single country or culture. The force of the flood and the fire are tearing down and wrecking all walls of separation and division, all notions of superior and inferior.
A mightiness of something invincible is pervading the world; Shiva’s tandava is aboard the human consciousness. Something seems to be in the offing; the world can never go back to its quiet and pastoral rhythms of life. A sudden bursting of light everywhere is being awaited; a new release of life, a new explosion of consciousness submerging the present and formidable darkness and ugliness and the violence of the helpless world in its last throes of survival.
The silent invasion of this supramental flooding had begun on 29th February 1956, about fifty two years ago. Since then human history has taken on a rapidity that is inexplicable, a turn of events which are unpredictable. The golden force is pressing upon matter and man to change, to transform, compelling both to turn to the inner divinity. “And so the apparent result is as though catastrophes were inevitable.” (CWM 11, p. 313) — warns the Mother. Man is confused with the present workings of this pressure because there seems to be an explosion of both the positive and the negative: the good is getting better and equally rapidly, if not more rapidly, the bad is becoming worse.
This struggle, this conflict between the constructive forces of the ascending evolution of a more and more perfect and divine realisation, and the more and more destructive, powerfully destructive forces — forces that are mad beyond all control — is more and more obvious, marked, visible, and it is a kind of race or struggle as to which will reach the goal first. It would seem that all the adverse, anti-divine forces, the forces of the vital world, have descended on the earth, are making use of it as their field of action, and that at the same time a new, higher, more powerful spiritual force has also descended on earth to bring it a new life. This makes the struggle more acute, more violent, more visible, but it seems also more definitive, and that is why we can hope to reach an early solution.
(CWM 9, pp. 297–8)
It is not that, the difficulties are new or they were not there before. They were always there before, only we did not know them. The only difference now is that the Supermind gives us the light and acts like a mirror on our nature revealing all the hidden hypocrisies, insincerities and difficulties of our nature. We become more and more conscious of ourselves, the potentials and the incapacities and the limitations and the incongruence of our nature.
“A terrestrial reorganisation and a new creation” (CWM 11, p. 116) will alone stop this flooding. But, any birth is a pang and much is at stake, so is the birth of the new world: “a dark confusion … the confusion becomes all the more intense and dark at the time the light is about to dawn. It is so. It appears as a dark chaos.” (CWM 11, p. 175)
An impatient cleansing is taking place in earth’s consciousness, and it is this which is felt as the great supramental deluge. But out of this, the true earth and the real man shall be reborn. There shall be the reversal of conditions here, on the earth. Surely: “It would seem to be the onrush of the new species, the new creation, or at any rate a new creation.…How long will it take to reach a concrete, visible and
