Sri Aurobindo has gone into the depth of evolutionary process and goes on to discuss the "Future Evolution of Man" and, a brief account of this is given by P. B. Saint Hilaire. The concepts of 'super mind' and the 'supra-mental' are difficult for us, common people,to understand. However,it is essential to know the concept of Mind that created man in the first place elevating from the stages of plants (as source of food, annam, and Aushadha, medicine). This evolution from the stage of simple uni-cellular to multi-cellular organisms- through living organisms in water (aquarian), both on land and water like turtles (amphibian), and crawling ones (land animals) like the reptilian and the arboreal ave (birds) upto the stage of primates and man. All these gross entities are the end result of a long long evolutionary process lasting billions of years! Man has evolved just recently and is yet to evolve from the state of animal-like existence (with preponderating propensities and dominant qualities of all sorts of insects and animals!). Even today, man behaves as a cruel animal killing each other! Man is yet to develop the human qualities, let alone the divine qualities. It is here the future evolution of man becomes important. The language and style of presentation of Sri Aurobindo is extremely terse and not easy for even scholars to understand his mind and thought process. Many of his writings are not complete! It is difficult to fill in the gaps!
Now What the great Saint Sri Aurobindo says is that the same human being can attain to higher and higher levels of consciousness! His "Synthesis of Yoga" describes this. One can take recourse to yogabhyasa, practice of intense yoga sadhana and drop all the lower levels of body, sensual, mental levels and reach higher spiritual consciousness and experience the ultimate reality, the truth, the divine soul within!
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