Ramanujan himself often said his insights were gifts from Namagiri Thayar (Lakshmi of Namakkal), his family’s goddess, who appeared in his dreams and visions, writing equations on his tongue or in the ether, which he would later record.
Would it be right, then, to understand this as ṛtambhara prajna of Patanjali, or in Sri Aurobindo’s gradation of consciousness, as the Intuitive Mind occasionally touched by the Overmind?
Ramanujam (and few scientists of that Age such as Max Plank, Heisenberg, Einstein, JC Bose, Watson and Crick, Newton as well as quite a few others did receive intuitions from the Intuitive and the Overmind plane. Ramanujam was humble and honest to recognize and admit it. The coming of these scientists was part of the preparation of the earth for the manifestation of the Supermind. I am sure you have watched the movies ‘The man who knew infinity’ and ‘What the beep are we doing’ which show the direction in which Science itself was evolving.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
