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The sun is the symbol of the concentrated light of Truth.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/sabcl/23/visions-and-symbols-v#p15</ref>
The sun in the Yoga is the symbol of the supermind and the supermind is the first power of the Supreme which one meets across the border where the experience of spiritualised mind ceases and the unmodified divine Consciousness begins the domain of the supreme nature, '''parā prakṛti.''' . <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/35/passages-from-the-yoga-and-its-objects#p6</ref>
==Sunlit path==
==Superconscient==
The life of the mind, senses, vital activities in which we dwell is not the whole or the chief part of our existence, not the highest, not self-existent, not master of itself. It is an outer fringe, a lower result, an inferior working of something beyond; a superconscient Existence has developed, supports and governs this partial and fragmentary, this incomplete and unsatisfying consciousness and activity of the mind, life and senses. To rise out of this external and surface consciousness towards and into that superconscient is our progress, our goal, our destiny of completeness and satisfaction.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/18/the-great-transition#p1</ref>
==Supermind==
The Supermind is in its very essence a truth-consciousness, a consciousness always free from the Ignorance which is the foundation of our present natural or evolutionary existence and from which nature in us is trying to arrive at self-knowledge and world-knowledge and a right consciousness and the right use of our existence in the universe. The Supermind, because it is a truth-consciousness, has this knowledge inherent in it and this power of true existence; its course is straight and can go direct to its aim, its field is wide and can even be made illimitable. This is because its very nature is knowledge: it has not to acquire knowledge but possesses it in its own right; its steps are not from nescience or ignorance into some imperfect light, but from truth to greater truth, from right perception to deeper perception, from intuition to intuition, from illumination to utter and boundless luminousness, from growing widenesses to the utter vasts and to very infinitude. On its summits it possesses the divine omniscience and omnipotence, but even in an evolutionary movement of its own graded self-manifestation by which it would eventually reveal its own highest heights it must be in its very nature essentially free from ignorance and error: it starts from truth and light and moves always in truth and light. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/sabcl/16/supermind-and-the-life-divine#p2</ref>
==Supernatural Phenomena==
There are different planes of substance, gross, subtle and more subtle going back to what is called causal (''kāraṇa'') substance. What is more gross can be reduced to the subtle state and the subtle brought into the gross state; that accounts for dematerialisation and rematerialisation.
The direct power of mind-force or life-force upon matter can be extended to an almost illimitable degree. It must be remembered that Energy is fundamentally one in all the planes, only taking more and more dense forms, so there is nothing a priori impossible in mind-energy or life-energy acting directly on material energy and substance; if they do they can make a material object do things or rather can do things with a material object which would be to that object in its ordinary poise or ‘law’ unhabitual and therefore apparently impossible
<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/35/the-stone-throwing-incident#p2</ref>
==Supression==
Forceful suppression (fasting comes under the head) stands on the same level as free indulgence; in both cases, the desire remains; in the one it is fed by indulgence, in the other it lies latent and exasperated by suppression. It is only when one stands back, separates oneself from the lower vital, refusing to regard its desires and clamours as one’s own, and cultivates an entire equality and equanimity in the consciousness with respect to them that the lower vital itself becomes gradually purified and itself also calm and equal. Each wave of desire as it comes must be observed, as quietly and with as much unmoved detachment as you would observe something going on outside you, and must be allowed to pass, rejected from the consciousness, and the true movement, the true consciousness steadily put in its place.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/food#p1</ref>
==Supramental==
Supramental is simply the direct selfexistent self-existent Truth-Consciousness and the direct self-effective Truth- Power. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-supermind-or-supramental#p44</ref>
The supramental is the Truth-Consciousness and what it brings ill in its descent is the full truth of life, the full truth of consciousness in Matter. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/bhakti-yoga-and-vaishnavism#p37</ref>
The Truth-Consciousness whether above or in the universe by which the Divine knows not only his own essence and being but his manifestation also. The fundamental character is knowledge by identity, by that the Self is known, the Divine Sachchidananda is known, but also the truth of manifestation is known because this too is That. Mind is an instrument of the Ignorance trying to know - Supermind is the Knower possessing Knowledge, because one with it and the known, therefore seeing all things in the light of His own Truth, the light of their true self which is He. It is a dynamic and not only a static Power, not only a Knowledge, but a Will according to Knowledge - there is a Supramental Power or Shakti which can manifest direct its world of Light and Truth in which all is luminously based on the harmony and unity of the One, not disturbed by a veil of Ignorance or any disguise. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-supermind-or-supramental#p18</ref>
==Supramentalisation==
Is only a key for opening the gates of the supramental to the earth-consciousness.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/sabcl/26/conditions-for-supramentalisation#p1</ref>
The object of supramentalisation is a body fitted to embody and express the physical consciousness on earth so long as one remains in the physical life. It is a step in the spiritual evolution on the earth, not a step in the passage towards a supraphysical world. The supramentalisation is the most difficult part of the change arrived at by the supramental Yoga, and all depends on whether a sufficient change can be achieved in the consciousness at present to make such a step possible. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/transformation-in-the-integral-yoga#p28</ref>
==Supraphysical Worlds==
This organisation includes, as on our earth, the existence of beings who have or take forms, manifest themselves or are naturally manifested in an embodying substance, but a substance other than ours, a subtle substance tangible only to subtle sense, a supraphysical form-matter. These worlds and beings may have nothing to do with ourselves and our life, they may exercise no action upon us; but often also they enter into secret communication with earth-existence, obey or embody and are the intermediaries and instruments of the cosmic powers and influences of which we have a subjective experience, or themselves act by their own initiation upon the terrestrial world’s life and motives and happenings.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-order-of-the-worlds#p13</ref>
==Surrender==
Surrender means to consecrate everything in oneself to the Divine, to offer all one is and has, not to insist on one’s ideas, desires, habits etc., but to allow the divine Truth to replace them by its knowledge, will and action everywhere.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/surrender#p4</ref>
The essence of surrender is to accept whole-heartedly the influence and the guidance when the joy and peace come down, to accept them without question or cavil and let them grow; when the Force is felt at work, to let it without opposition, when the Knowledge is given, to receive and follow it, when the Will is revealed, to make oneself its instrument.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/sabcl/23/basic-requisites-of-the-path-v#p52</ref>
==Symbol==
A symbol is the form of one plane that represents a truth of another. Generally all forms are symbols. Everything is a symbol of some higher reality. There are different kinds of symbols : (1) Conventional symbols, e.g. Vedic cow for light. (2) Life-symbols such as derive naturally from our day-to-day life. e.g. mountain, a symbol of path of yoga, level above level, peak upon peak. (3) Symbols that have an inherent apposition and form of their own, e.g. ākāśa or etheric space, a symbol of the infinite all-pervading eternal Brahman. (4) Mental symbols, e.g. numbers or alphabets. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/sabcl/23/visions-and-symbols-v#p1,p2,p3,p4,p5</ref>
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