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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==
==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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