DAILY
MESSAGES
Series VI
1) When the heart
starts calling, mind will begin to recede and finally disappear. 5
2) What we know
as a bother is not only a reflection of our inner attitude, but is a physical
continuation of the previous generations.
5
3) Our wish to
serve Mother often meets with roadblocks. When we wish to serve Mother alone,
everything cooperates. 5
4) Man is God in a coma. &
5) A choice is either flat or rich giving
an opening. That choice which leads to the opening is the right choice. J
6) Physical work becomes emotional. When
it becomes mental work, emotions disappear and again work becomes work to be
reckoned with, not a factor of emotions. Sin attaches to the work only when
work remains emotional. J
7) The past rears its head in the name of
positive values. We forget they are positive to the past. J
8) Prayer
increasing the problem is a sure sign of our sticking to the habit
of the past. 5
9) Frankness and rationality is for social
life. Neither for the vital, nor for the most powerful subtle life of the
subliminal spirit, it will do. In fact, it would do
harm there. J
10) The Infinite becoming the finite is
creation. The finite becoming the Infinite is evolution.
Process of creation:-
Being – Consciousness – Ananda –
Supermind – Mind – Life-- Matter.
Person – Awareness – Sensation – Comprehension – Apprehending
awareness – Movement – Form of Non-Being. &
11) When people lie to your face, it means
you like them in spite of their lies. When they lie about you behind your back,
it only means you have not yet acquired the power over lies. J
12) The very best moment to know a little
more of Mother is when life utterly deserts us and leaves us in a hopeless
condition and in utter despair. &
13) The silence that comes out of
disappointment is still powerful. The full power of Silence comes out only when
it is the silence of joy and fulfilment. 5
14) Everything is a symbol of something
higher. Man as well as an idol symbolise higher planes. For one who does not
see the symbolism, man is just a body, the idol a carved stone. Symbolic
knowledge helps one rise. By transcending symbolism, man enters Timelessness.
At a lower level, where symbolism is not evident, man degenerates into animal
or matter. J
15) A total divorce from the past
is a sign of moving from the negative to the positive side. 5
16) A formula works for the first
time. For it to work forever, it should be moving continuously till the
physical learns. 5
17) Expectation leaves us negatively by utter
failure or tragedy. It can go positively by total success and utter fulfilment.
J
18) Mother saving life or property in the
past is no longer of value to man as Her offering
small successes now. J
19) Society will respect money and only
money. Society maligns one who is coming into money until he attains it. For
any reason if he rises to a higher position than his wealth supports, he will
be harassed in that measure. J
20) Consecrating the past and
anticipating the future are ways of abridging Time. 5
21) Lack of sensitivity gives the
dull man what he cherishes as peace of mind. 5
22) The surrender of The Gita makes one an awakened soul and departs from
religious worship. 5
23) By silence alone, one moves to
Purusha. By surrender alone, one moves to
Purushothama. By silent surrender, one moves to the
Psychic. 5
24) It is not difficult to see that
the inner life is like that of life in a refugee camp, devoid of all values,
moved only by necessities.5
25) To be able to consecrate fully
a single act, the entire consciousness must turn to the Divine. 5
26) To maintain hourly
consecration, one should remain in the Being of the
Becoming and let the Being surface at the stroke of the hour. 5
27) Hourly consecration keeps one
all the time in the Being of the Becoming. 5
28) Hourly consecration is the
penultimate stage for a consecrated living. 5
29) The Absolute enjoys in losing
itself and finding itself. There is the Absolute in matter, but matter itself
is Absolute. The Absolute that is matter struggling to remember itself is the
taste of ignorance. In Man it becomes the psychic. The psychic has only
knowledge, but no power. The human being has the choice of psychic. To choose
between life and psychic is the human choice.5
30) Hell that needs to be passed
through to reach heaven ceases to be hell and allows heaven to move towards
man, when he inwardly changes from ignorance to knowledge. 5
31) The need to consecrate the
thought disappears when memory leaves the consciousness. 5
32) The infallible human choice
requires that 1) it must be a self choice; 2) effective work that produces the
result coupled with a view of the whole; 3) the choice must be in the subtle
plane; 4) knowledge of the choice must reach the physical; 5) it must be
value-based; 6) it must be made from No. 3, the physical mind; 7) it must be
from the positive side. 5
33) Man has the choice of the
psychic and prakriti. The first gives him the
joy of emerging knowledge. The latter gives him the taste of ignorance. 5
34) The psychology of the spirit
expressing in the material is yoga.5
35) All perversions of human behaviour
must be seen in the light of the seed of Truth in them that is trying to
express itself according to its own circumstance, not as they appear to be. 5
36) Past civilisation was
materially productive. Present civilisation is materially creative. Future
civilisation must be mentally creative. The spiritually creative civilisation
is of the Supermind. 5
37) For the choice to be right, the
borderline between status and adventure must be crossed. J
38) Ego is the central person whose attitude
is selfishness and meanness is the strategy. J
39) For a work to yield results,
one should feel it; it is not enough to know it. J
40) As long as you choose the work
you like, you will have success and failure facing you. For him who chooses to
take interest in work given to him, there is only success. 5
41) Crossing the mind, sin changes
into an enjoyable act. 5
42) The highest ideal man can follow is
within the limits of his survival. As the ideal makes him vulnerable, he has to
limit himself. Otherwise, it is possible for the yogi to keep a pleasant
relationship with his detractors, rivals, enemies as well as the very hostile
forces. J
43) Human choice is made by the clarity of
emotions based on complete physical security. J
44) The divine end of expectation
is His initiative through life to bring the object of expectation towards us. 5
45) Silent will is not secrecy. It is a will
self-sufficient to itself, without expressing it to another. J
46) Hourly consecration that
reminds itself is unfailing. 5
47) Mind can think only one thought at a
time. Supermind receives innumerable thoughts simultaneously. &
48) A book of interest and one that is
wearisome are reflections of Becoming. The Being of
the Becoming finds even a wearisome book interesting. The Jnani
who is in the Being does not interest himself in reading or any other act of that
kind.&
49) Capacity to cure physical
ailments is Supermind touching the physical. 5
50) One minute of psychic awareness
is more difficult than one hour of trance. 5
51) The social maximum is the individual
minimum. The individual maximum is the
social minimum. J
52) Constant remembrance is the
earlier stage of being conscious.5
53) He who has imperfectly completed the
ascent and is in the process of descent, by the law of contradictions, will
face the corresponding step in the ascent. E.g. when he who has acquiesced in
mild corruption becomes the instrument to eradicate corruption, he will face in
his son the desire to become rich by corruption.J
54) Mother’s Consciousness raises the
level of innate intelligence. It also gives appropriate higher skills and
talents. &
55) To be conscious is to be
conscious of one’s soul. For the devotees, it means he must be conscious of The
Mother inside. 5
56) When life does not instantaneously
respond, it means the time has not come. J
57) An act is the unit of life. An act of shooting
a ball into the ring is a result of gravitation, an expression of Newton’s law
of motion. It is determined by the skill, energy, and experience of the player.
It is governed by the part of the ball, the ring, the other players, the
spectators and every thing in its universe. J
58) This yoga does not need a
concentration that shuts off the senses, but one that will take the sadhak away from the surface and into the subliminal. &
59) The thinking ego falling silent can
move to the Purusha. This is moving from Time to Timelessness. You can be
either in Time or Timelessness. How to go to the Psychic from Purusha? Or from Prakriti?
Move from Time to Timelessness without losing hold of Time. Thus you do
not move to Purusha, but to the psychic which is in the simultaneous integrality of Time and Timelessness. &
60) The greatest advance science
can make now is to know mind as they know the body. 5
61) The eternal freedom expresses itself
as choice in action. 5
62) When one stops thinking and
stops acting, one moves from Time to Timelessness. 5
63) To know mind, ego, Time, Infinity, memory
as we know the body, history and geography will make our partial knowledge
complete. J
64) Transformation of Matter: Instead of Mind seeing Divine through senses,
if the Supermind in matter sees the Divine through Force and not Form, Matter
will reveal to itself as Sat. &
65) Human choices exercised in adversity,
being those of the physical, are the valid choices. J
66) Creative men take a material or
a circumstance and produce more than what it ordinarily brings out. To create
infinitely out of NOTHING is
spiritual creativity. 5
67) Wrong could not come where all is
light and love. &
68) There is no
choice in Time or Timelessness. You are overpowered by the plane and forced to
be there. Only in their simultaneous integrality is
there the choice, the choice to be there, master of both Time and Timelessness. 5
69) The Force acts only when our attention
is turned away. It is a supramental realisation that
can allow the Force to act when one is still conscious. &
70) Punctuality makes one think of work and
more importantly, of the other men with respect to work. It widens the
personality thus. J
71) Intelligence is the youngest and
brilliant child of material Energy. –
Sri Aurobindo &
72) The ideas of the next century
expressed through the attitudes of obedience of the previous century will help in
receiving the FORCE now. 5
73) The yogic surrender Sri Aurobindo
speaks of is an act. At some stage, it ripens into an attitude, an inner
attitude through which all acts flow. It is then one is said to have the yogic
consciousness. &
74) The body learns. This means it gives
its stored power to the process of comprehension thus making knowledge
power.
For
integration, the body should think and mind should act while the emotion should
energise both.
Sri Aurobindo wants the psychic to
be materialised, the body supramentalised and mind
and emotions turn into light and love.&
75) The Many seek; the One exists. 5
76) Revolutions in society come to be stable
when the social organisations, customs, usage, culture and their individual versions
absorb the spirit of the revolution and restructure themselves. This is
eminently reflected by the literature of those periods. Conversely, literature
can anticipate the revolutionary fervour and lead the society for a bottom up
effort, which when accepted by it will change revolution into social evolution.
J
77) He who reaches moksha reaches God
above; he who reaches the psychic becomes God on earth. &
78) Is divine Love unemotional? Or
does that emotion turn into devotion? Is the highest vibration of Love felt in
the physical gratitude that thrills the body? 5
79) It is the ego that takes
initiative. Its initiatives are for self-preservation. In its absence, the soul
is awake, but does not take initiative. It lies in wait for the higher
impulsion. 5
80) One
man’s perfection can save the world.
Sri Aurobindo
One man’s choice can open the opportunity for the Millennium.5
81) Expectation is reliance on the external. J
82) Egolessness
can be seen if one is capable of no sorrow or disappointment. &
83) He who vainly sought for the
hand of human friendship all his life, scarcely is
able to know that the Divine has been waiting for his Love to be accepted all
the while. 5
84) Durability is consciousness
self-involved in its substance. 5
85) Civilisation is social manners replacing
social control. Culture is conscience replacing social manners. J
86) Each happening is a deep experience.
&
87) Human depravity is God’s most
powerful weapon to demolish the human selfish sensitivities so that Becoming of
Nature will yield place to God’s Force of transformation through double
opening. Depravity destroys barriers to
double opening. 5
88) When essential knowledge is
acquired, it helps one forget the details. Essence itself can be lost when it
turns into its own potentials.
The
Being expresses its truths and powers. Details are the powers, the truths are
the potentials. One can transcend the truths too by identifying with the Being.
5
89) Effort implies denial of comfort. J
90) To accept the responsibility of
irresponsible people is consciousness responsibility. 5
91) The choice to be most
successful must be made from faith which alone can have all the positive
energy. Shakti, Viryam, deiva
Prakriti are the earlier stages of effective energy. They are energies of
temperament, emotions and vital psychic. 5
92) Willingness to change from
objective analysis to subjective synthesis is the first break from physical
mind. 5
93) The objectivity of the scientist is
physicality of mind. J
94) Goodwill for oneself overlooks
the ill will of others, even humiliation or punishment since work needs to be
done overlooking those barriers. Good will for others that can similarly
overlook the same barriers when no benefit is to be derived, accomplishes in
the heart a niche for The Mother. 5
95) When there is a need to act, do not
act, call Mother. &
96) Mother is far away from us for our
call to be effective. But Her Presence is closest to us in the person of the
rival, the refractory child, the hateful gossiping member in our society. As
long as we refuse the close presence, Mother remains far away. &
97) Implicit obedience of loyalty
is spiritual manners. 5
98) When there is an occasion to think,
stop thinking and call Mother.&
99) Jails are not places to be abhorred and
shunned. Our peaceful life in the town is made possible because all the
criminals are shut up in the jails. J
100) To
the human eye, the accused and the convict in the jail are sinners who deserve
our sympathy or compassion. To the All-vision, the world-being is one. One part
of it, perhaps the better, comes forward to express the negative side of the
world personality so that the positive side can grow in other individuals. The
sinner makes the virtue of the virtuous possible. He is not to be condemned and
shunned. He is our other opposite part which is indispensable for our growth. 5
101) Man can become what he aspires for.
§ The highest aspiration of man is social
acceptance. Social acceptance can be at various levels.
§ What can make a man aspire for social
acceptance at the highest level? When
man knows it is achievable by him through his present equipment, he will aspire
for it.
§ A practical ideal can be made out for
him. He would like a PRODUCT to accomplish it.
§ Better than the product is an INFORMATION.
§ Ideas are more powerful than
information. The theory is a collection of such ideas.
§ Computer is such a product.
§ Practical concept of Infinity is such an information.
§ Beyond this is the aspiration to outgrow
the society. J
102) Character is the psychological
organisation (in the individual) of the society in the individual.
The psychological organisation of
the society in the individual is his own character.
Psychological potential energies of
the society find their expression in individuals of strong character as
Personality through their unorganised energies.
J
103) Life
is complex, not complicated. What is complicated for mental knowledge is really
a rich complexity to a supramental vision. &
104) Lila is self-discovery, but not the
discovery of the self that hid. The self that hid in itself was pure self. That
which it discovers is the self of matter. Between hiding and seeking, the spirit that
was hidden evolved. The self discovery of the spirit is indeed the process
of spiritual evolution. &
105) Imagination is purposeless. It is
purposelessness that gives any value for imagination. Imagination is the
carefully executed replica of Avidya. &
106) For temperament
to enjoy another temperament, there is a condition of one liking the other. He
who has risen above temperament can enjoy any other temperament without any
condition. J
107) When a
man gives himself fully, he can do so only to one thing. God consists of unity,
Truth, Goodness, Knowledge, Will and Love. For man to give himself fully to
God, he has to do so six times over. Only by moving to Supermind where all the
six are united can man give himself fully to God. 5
108) Prophesy is to make the Infinite finite.
Not to prophesy is to allow the Infinite its own course. The great prophet is
one who sees the course of the finite before it becomes the Infinite. J
109) Every man exerts
his uttermost in pursuit of possible enjoyment.J
110) Mental faculties are infinite.
Each has innumerable rules. All can be brought under as few rules of wisdom as
one chooses, as they have all issued out of one centre of Life. 5
111) Man is capable of believing his mortal
enemy to be a trusted friend, if he is capable of sweet behaviour. Human life
is skin deep. We see how others are
cheated. It is difficult to see how we are taken in. J
112) To make the
temporary permanent is the illusion of the sentiment; to make the permanent
temporary is the ignorance of the physical. J
113) The
formless Vast is not the spaceless infinite. Form is prior to Space. &
114) Not to
seek comforts and conveniences by the values of life, to seek them by the
values of Mother and express Mother in that seeking is aspiration.
Any
discussion of this conversion either with oneself or others will be endless. When it ends, it will end on the old note – Mother should make my
needs available; not that I should accept Mother’s values.
Ego
– Mother should work for me.
Psychic
– I should serve Mother. 5
115) Mantra: The depth from which a mantra is chanted
determines the power, not so much the mantra itself. 5
116) He who does not start with the
work cannot begin this yoga. Once he does so, he is not permitted to give up work for the rest
of his life.
Consecration
of work is the first step of yoga; and that is the final stamp of it too. 5
117) The difference
between wealth and poverty in old age is the difference between discipline and
dissipation in young age. J
118) Material benefits given to someone will
not be recognised until they are threatened to be taken back.
Matter being valuable only by touch
will not generate sentiments, especially sentiments of gratitude. It may be
that the entire property one now owns is something he got as a gift. Still, it
is incapable of evoking gratitude or even recognition. In most cases, memory will
be missing.
Matter has no feeling, much less
thought. How can it be grateful, which is a mental emotion? J
119) Disciplines, if accepted halfheartedly, have a way of undermining themselves. This
is so because discipline has a personality and cannot be made to cancel itself
without its consent.
Any trait has a personality. If you
want to get rid of it, better convince it of self-dissolution which we do when
we are stronger than the trait. It is better to do it by knowledge than by strength.J
120) All-inclusive concentration which is
the first step in this yoga comes only by the divine call, not by any human
effort.
As long as the attempt to understand
either by thought or by the silence of mind is there, the human effort lingers.
It is enough to prevent the call or sanction. &
121) Gossip is popular mostly for the reason
that one feels superior to the man about whom he gossips. He feels he is
sitting in judgement over someone. Another reason is in passing on to others
the vile acts of someone else, the speaker indulges
his own low tastes.J
122) The
world has not known the all-inclusive concentration Integral Yoga needs. One
can develop it if he is Sri Aurobindo or The Mother,
not otherwise. The easiest way to acquire it is to identify with them fully in
an attitude of surrender. &
123) One symptom of higher consciousness is the
emergence of personality from the idea of guilt. J
124) Love and affection that would not change
into hate are true, but they do not grow into attachment, nor are they capable
of being focussed on to one person. Always love retains its character of
impersonality. J
125) As
courage is the quality of the Force expressing itself expansively in action,
equality is the quality of the Infinite expressing itself in the plane of
Timelessness at infinite speed. 5
126) Purposeful purposelessness is
the subtle in the gross plane. Evolution will be complete only when the causal
plane descends into the gross.
Purpose gives thought
grossness. Thought, as in Shakespeare, becomes subtle and therefore immortal
when it leaves the domain of Purpose. 5
127) Any
problem in this wide world can be reduced to one human trait such as
selfishness or energy or wisdom since all such traits meet in the one centre
that is
128) Hurry and divine impulse
resemble each other. One is on our initiative and the other on the divine
initiative. 5
129) Short term goal leads to haste
and hurry. Long term goal generates patience. 5
130) The petty
idealist fanatically chases a fad. The practical idealist patiently discovers
the spirit that moves Matter which is mastery perfect in creation. J
131) Supraphysical
can be powerful. It is not Supramental. &
132) The ideal is for
ideal conditions. Unideal conditions only foster
their own conditions. The practical idealist is one who tries to live by the
ideal in unideal conditions in spite of them. J
133) There
is no darkness in the world except for the human senses. There is no suffering
in the world except for the human ego. — Sri Aurobindo
There is no death or dissolution in
the universe except for the created forms. &
134) The uneducated
man’s modern information will have the clarity and precision of a story written
with only pronouns, omitting proper nouns. J
135) The poor man
generously spends. When he becomes rich, his generosity disappears and gets
transformed into frugality. Poverty and generosity go together partly because
there is an illusion that generosity will secure him status. Beyond these
social definitions lies character. It always prevails. J
136) Mother enters our life as luck.
When a devotee enters the life of another, it is luck that enters into the life
of the latter. 5
137) We seek
Her to fortify human life. She comes to us to establish Her
life in us, destroying human life. &
138) The Infinite emerges in life as
abundance. 5
139) He who takes for granted unforeseen luck
and wants to build on it without further effort, meets with what is known as disappointment.
J
140) As power issues out of light
(Consciousness-Force), light is more powerful than power and can create it,
whereas power cannot create that light by itself. 5
141) Thought is important, but it is
emotions that accomplish. Still, what matters is the result of action. The
unconscious man is unable to think; the egoistic person thinks egoistically.
What matters to the world is the
unegoistic conscious action that yields the right results. 5
142) The Theory of Development is to the
Society what the operating system is to the computer. J
143) The
atom represents the physical ego; the cell represents the vital ego. &
144) Peace of mind stays permanently only
when the ego disappears.&
145) Mother who can supramentalise the world in one day does not do so because
that way the Lila would be cancelled. 5
146) There
is no intrinsic evil. Evil exists only for the ego, and its ethics, its mental,
vital values and the egoistic social, cultural sensitivities.
Evil disappears from the horizon of one who has shed his ego.&
147) Not all people have great good qualities. When such people
come to Mother, the very opposite qualities rise so that the maximum progress
can be made. Instead of making that progress, invariably people leave MOTHER. J
148) The imperfection
of aspiring perfection is spiritually complemented by the perfection of
depravity. J
149) More than trying to wean
ourselves away from life, it is worth turning our thoughts to Grace. To be able
to see Her in each act is to move away from karma. 5
150) There
is nothing in the world that is not Ananda, a pure enjoyment by the object.
What we see as pain is only subliminal JOY. When man moves to the subliminal,
pain vanishes from his perception. &
151) There
is no evil or suffering in the world to be abolished. Man needs to shift from
the surface to the subliminal depth to enjoy the delight without distortion. &
152) Man is in life; the saint is in
God; the sadhak should live in God in life. One moves
from mind to Purusha to psychic in the above process. 5
153) Sri Aurobindo says that the contents of
an immortal work are not lost in translation even as the soul preserves itself
in a new birth in another body. &
154) The difference between the yogic
attainments of the past yogas and Integral Yoga is
the same difference between the power of a person over the population while he
is in a government post and when he is out of it. J
155) Arrogance is stupid, but stupidity itself
is the arrogance of matter. J
156) Man loves or punishes. God loves and punishes.
He can punish lovingly; His love can be punishment.
Wisdom is compassionate discipline. &
157) Replacing lower qualities by higher
qualities is to become civilised. In fact, man rising from below changes his
situation from being a victim to being a perpetrator. That is the first step he
takes.
Man, trying to civilise himself by replacing hatred with love, starts
hating those who hated him.
The victim choosing to victimise others is the first step in his moving
to the higher order of behaviour. J
158) All great
negotiations are in silence. J
159) The
difference between ego and mind is that mind thinks to understand, but ego
thinks by coordinating understandings so that it may defend itself and preserve
its entity. &
160) The scientist who knows the
immense value of his microscope and telescope is unable to conceive of the
greater value of insight and intuition that reveal the inner kingdoms where you
can see what those instruments reveal outside. 5
161) Thought denied becomes energy;
energy denied expression becomes an act; the act when not allowed turns into
the silence of status, thereby creating greater thought and energy for action
at higher levels. 5
162) Man moves to a revolutionary system only
through the values of his present system.
Followers of an idealist follow him only for his present social value. J
163) If the feelings
receive the incoming message, the message will turn out to be true. J
164) When a problem is unmoved by
prayer, the person is not all right. To pass without reading, to earn without
going to work, to luxuriously spend borrowed money, to dominate people with
Mother’s Force may be his ideals. “I don’t do my work. Rather I am against
everything good. But Mother should complete my prayers” will be his basis,
rather his ideal. His prayers will not be answered. This is not known as
prayer. These people deserve punishment. Life will punish them. They sometimes
stubbornly continue such prayers. Then Grace will wipe them off. 5
165) The selfish man who never conceived of
doing anything to anyone, thinks all that people around are getting is because
of him. This is so because he conceives of himself as the whole world.J
166) The
secret of Mother seeking us is man is becoming God. &
167) This is
a world where there is no effort to raise man to God. This Force tries to raise
subman to Godhead. 5
168) One who
realises Brahman by knowledge is known as Brahma Rishi.
Knowledge is the seat for it. Knowledge sees only a part of Brahman. Man can
know the whole of Brahman only through the Brahman inside him. For the Brahman
in man to emerge, it should begin in the psychic and reach the
Supermind. &
169) The
chaste wife submits to her husband. The sadhak
submits her mind, feelings and God to Mother. One is the rule of life. Next is
the freedom of yoga. Chastity is the austerity of life. Yoga is the
austerity of Freedom in God. 5
170) Mind accomplishes by interest. Detached,
it accomplishes more. Taking to work in that detached mood, man accomplishes
like God. J
171) One can trust a good man. A
good man taking to Mother needs no prayer. 5
172) We call one of
pleasant behaviour a good man. J
173) Prayer welling up from the
heart not occasioned by a problem, is bhakti. 5
174) Man deserts, not God. Relying
on the God in man, neither God nor man will ever desert you. 5
175) “From the moment Krishna entered my bosom,
my thoughts that reached him never returned,” says the poet. If one can say
this of Mother, he becomes a devotee. J
176) The
weight on the head presses down on the head. Worry depresses the vital. Life
and body are the weights on the mind. None of them weigh down the soul. When the mind accepts Mother, we shift from
mind to the soul, and the weight lifts off our parts. We float in the air. 5
177) To
see the finite mind as the infinite Brahman is given to the Supermind.
Mind says, ‘This is my pen.’ Brahman
created the pen. Supermind makes the man write with it. The Upanishads say,
“The Brahman of the pen makes the Brahman of the man do the Brahman of
writing.” 5
178) If we
do a work as punishment, the body will not receive Mother’s energy. To simply
accept the work as an inevitable duty will not create any feeling. If we do it
without understanding, even the mind will not receive the Force. 5
179) May my material values be
transformed into spiritual values.5
180) To know injustice
as God’s justice is knowledge. To accept that is patience. He who patiently
accepts that knowledge and adores it in practice gets a luck that lies beyond
ordinary justice. J
181) To enjoy work for
its own sake, one should see the work as a compliment of one’s own personality.
Then as the personality is infinite, work opens itself to infinite dimensions
and yields God’s delight which can rarely be given by the result, however great
it is.
The delight seeking work is greater than result-oriented work. To work for a result ends in victory or failure. When work itself
is the reward, the duality disappears. J
182) Love or affection brings others’ luck to
us. Hatred gives our luck to others. J
183) Insistence is outside the pale
of spirituality. Truth turns into falsehood by insistence. 5
184) Subjective: Sat – Chit – Ananda
Objective: Satyam – Jnanam – Anantam &
185) True emotion of love cannot confine itself
within the boundaries of manners. It is predatory. To be proud of such exploitation
is to receive that love properly. J
186) When
the perfected part tries to take a view of the whole, it would be a perfect
view of the whole. By aspiring for
perfection in the part, one attains the perfection of the Whole. 5
187) It is a
misfortune not to come closer to Mother when our prayer is answered. She
answers our prayer so as to open a door between the human being and the Divine.
J
188) Neither in
frustration nor in jubilation can we remember Her. It is growing faith and aspiration that keeps Her memory. It is not given to all people to remember
Mother. Certainly, remembering Her all the time is not
for one and all. 5
189) Life longs for
the destruction of the enemy. Mother’s life longs for the progress
of even the enemy.
That enemy whose attitude is that of
life meets with a more complete destruction.
Destruction is also a part of a wider
creation. He who destroys himself thus, moves to that plane. 5
190) When we see the
opposite tendency as the effort of Nature to accomplish the double opening of
the new evolution, we embark on transforming wrong, evil, falsehood and error,
thus moving from sensitive sentimentalism to being a neutral instrument of
psychological transformation.
Sacred human sensitivities are swept away by the whirlwind of God’s
social transformation. J
191) We are angry with
bad people. The truth is, we will be more angry with
good people. We believe that good people are creating greater mischief. J
192) If we can accept the ununderstandable as God’s will, we have a heart that Mother
loves. To see justice behind what we
dislike is possible for the psychic.
The body that accepts an impossible work deserves supramental
conscious- ness. 5
193) If
everyone’s wants are satisfied at home, poverty will be abolished. When we have
enough energy to remember Mother all day, the soul loses its karma. 5
194) It is courageous
to own one’s shortcomings.
To accept the presence of jealousy is magnanimous. To convert jealousy
into magnanimity is transformation. J
195) We
see the omen and know the end. A devotee sees the omen and changes it as it
should be. 5
196) Consecration being an inner
process cannot be begun outside in everyday acts. The outer end is the point
where the inner consecration ends. 5
197) It is mean to
point out one defect overlooking nine endowments. To appreciate one strength overlooking nine defects is magnanimity. J
198) The
body that is free of falsehood will be fragrant.5
199) When
life deserts someone, all intimate persons too desert. Grace acts through a
person of good will and saves his life. Man is not grateful to him or does not
give him the news of his having been saved. Instead, his longing is to convey
his success to that intimate person who had deserted him. Such men are selfish and
treacherous.
When Grace alone saves, man seeks
support from selfish treachery that has deserted him. Our gratitude is due to
Grace that saved us, not to betrayal that has deserted us.
Man loves the one who betrayed, not
the Grace that saved.5
200) In
each man there is the ideal and pride of doing what in the previous era was
wrong, sinful and shameful. This is the reversal social phases undergo. Unless and until we are able to conceive,
perceive and sense the joy and beauty of what we now know to be sinful and a
shame, we have not reversed our consciousness to fully appreciate Mother.5
201) As the biological
chip implanted in the body gives man all the knowledge he needs to acquire, the
new MONEY SYSTEM can give man all the money he now
earns or can earn. J
202) The vital loyalty
enjoys intensity, not purity. Purity in loyalty belongs to the mind. Impurity
never sticks to the physical. J
203) Physical key for supramentalisation, the vital key for LUCK
and the mental key for the knowledge of luck and physical immortality:
Mental key: silent alertness in the subtle plane of
selfless self-existent goodness. Vital key: total protection in the
subtle plane to
the knowledge of unfailing success and infinite abundance.5
204) Life
is created by Mind energising the Force and losing itself in the Force. This is
an intentionally created tangle. Man-woman relationship symbolised by marriage
is the symbol of life’s knot.5
205) In
human life we seek security and avoid risk. In Mother’s life we must give up
everything before we go after any goal.5
206) Expression of thought stands in
the way of serious thinking. Thinking prevents understanding. Understanding is
a bar to knowledge. Knowledge dilutes power for action. Action makes us less
conscious. Consciousness makes pure existence not so pure. Existence takes us
out of the realm of the Unmanifest Eternal, Infinite
status.5
207) Nothing expands intelligence like the
effort to understand stupidity. The finest of idealisms is best served by
insolent, offensive depravity to shed its human limitations. J
208) Depravity transforms idealism
into a field of action of Real-Idea. Real-Idea emerges from narrow idealism
through the DOOR or organised
depravity. Idealism and depravity are the two hands of God by which HE lifts
man out of his sacred smallness into HIS Vast
Truth that is RIGHT.
Let idealism invite depravity and
emerge into Supramental Truth.5
209) The
inner voice rises when the outer submits to the inner. We can cross mind when
it feels utter fulfilment. 5
210) Obstacles start as lack of
knowledge, temperament and skill. Later they arise as obstacles of the
atmosphere. Next, they show as friends turning into enemies. That cycle will be
completed when the family turns against you. The very last stage is the inner
barbarian. For him who has conquered that too, the cycle starts in the reverse
course. Initially it is by cooperation of those around,
finally it ends in the cooperation of the rival or the enemy. When that comes
forth, that cycle too is complete. Beyond that lies the territory of yoga.5
211) The
shock is received at one point of emotions and later it is spread over all the
parts when it is not so acutely felt.5
212) Knowing Mother thrills. He who
knows Mother inside will awaken in the soul. Perfection lies in that awakening
that thrills.5
213) If
body is the ultimate, life-span will be determined by the horoscope.
If life is the ultimate, luck will be
decided by life. If mind is final, the new world will not take birth. If there
is no determinant, earth will become a paradise. Even for the incapable, that
attitude will bring luck.5
214) He who works for others’ success will
succeed. He who desires others’ defeat will be vanquished. J
215) If it is true
that the other man needs us, to validate it is selfishness. It is gratitude to
receive the other man’s participation in our life even though it is to his
advantage. J
216) Only
those who do not know the spiritual mystery of friendship will break their
hearts at betrayal. 5
217) The
high and low struggle hard to survive. If one saves money, another tries to
steal it. Untold sufferings belong to life. When transformed, it becomes
unflinching rapture, intolerable ecstasy.
Unbearable suffering + Mother =
Intolerable ecstasy.5
218) Many
think. Is there one who touches the feelings?5
219) Man accepts the status quo. The
devotee creates the non-existent. 5
220) The selfish man
has problems of selfish conflict. The true, unselfish man has compassion for
his suffering fellow man, but does not interfere in his selfish ways. He who
thinks he is unselfish but really has exalted his selfishness to subtlety,
tries to do good to his fellow men, expecting them to outgrow their
selfishness. He expects vital selfishness to become mental rationality. God
works in the reverse. His altruism is crushed and he is branded as a selfish
man. Nature is a conscious Force which, in this way, makes subtle selfishness
realise its folly.
If man is audacious enough to try to educate nature, nature educates him
out of his folly.
Mind’s endeavour to educate the vital results
in the mind learning that it is impossible. Mind can educate the vital if it reaches the
mental part of the vital through strength. Education follows experience. Any
attempt to reverse it will fail. True education begins inwardly, not outwardly.
The only rule of progress is inner first, outer next. J
221) Harmony among those who are
important to work, practical results in our project, sweet humble emotions to
others all make a person wholesome. It endears him to Mother. 5
222) Any problem,
except the one that is not solved by anyone, can be solved if looked at from
its own angle. Even the remaining problems can be so solved by the same method
by persistence. There is no problem that cannot be solved if seen in its own perspective.
J
223) A blind insistence creates a
problem. Mental man creates a problem for himself by moving down to the vital
or physical. The stupid man looking at
his problem from his own stupidity, refusing to see it as others see it, is
faced with an impossible situation. When an intelligent man faces a similar
impossible situation, it is the same stupidity of refusing to look at it from
the other side. If this is not true, he must be looking at a problem so far not
solved by the world. Any problem solved by another can be solved by everyone if
he does not insist on refusing to see from the other side. 5
224) A force
hidden in the opposite is compelled to find itself. The opposition party will always assert. &
225) Unconditional acceptance of
life and its tyranny is the only way of survival. Unconditional acceptance of
events as His marvel is the way of yogic vision. 5
226) Legal justice, social justice,
psychological justice, karmic justice are partial justices. Absolute justice is
behind each of them or all of them and is most evident in injustice. &
227) Perfection of the part; partial
realisation of the whole; the whole in the part; the past finding itself in the
whole; the whole realising the part as itself; the wholeness of the whole in
itself and as such in the part are several versions of the Spirit in creation.&
228) Edward Witten
would prefer to spend his time discovering the formula for family happiness
rather than trying to discover the origin of the universe.
q Happiness is what the lower vital
seeks.
q Happiness needs mastery.
q Mastery is inward, not outward.
q Not to bite off more than one can chew
is the formula.
q The family is a vanishing institution.
q To seek happiness there is a low
ideal.
q The female offers biological attraction.
q To see the biological ideal will help.
q Mental ideal in a biological institution
creates unhappiness.
q The family was a social ideal.
Therefore, one can have social happiness, not psychological happiness.
The
formula for family happiness is efficient, good manners.J
229) Sometimes
one relaxes, even indulges so that later concentration will gather. J
230) For skills to
mature into capacity, the horizontal must open up. No individual skill can rise
to its corresponding capacity vertically. J
231) No nation can essentially progress on
alien inspiration. J
232) When
unconscious development begins, it opens up the opportunity for the lowliest.
Conscious development opens it at the higher end. 5
233) Continuous concentration is a fad, is an impossibility like continuous eating.J
234) When the
sweetest thing palls, know you are physical. 5
235) The
world already taking up your ideas shows your effectivity in the subtle plane. &
236) The stiff pride
of a poor man who resents help and the obsequious seeking of it are on the same
plane. Still one is preferable to the other as the latter is lower still. J
237) If NOT seeing Mother awaiting us in our
work is not blindness, what else is? &
238) Imperfection can be the best
instrument to destroy perfection. 5
239) Establishment is the enemy. J
240) A policy not
taken to its logical conclusion or practical expression can lend itself to its
opposite purpose. J
241) A friend who will
not come all the way is a potential enemy. J
242) Men destroy the cause they are not able to
serve fully. Should man drop out of a cause and NOT betray it, it is higher loyalty,
even divine loyalty. J
243) Mother’s Avatar is like jumping
off the cliff with a parachute. Unless the mission is fulfilled, the body is
crushed. 5
244) Who has
not seen Mother waiting for us wherever we go, for whatever purpose? &
245) The
kingfisher that returns with no food becomes the food for its young ones.
Mother sacrificed Herself thus to us. &
246) Age has maturity. When it is coupled with
deceit, youth can rarely escape it. Grownup children can testify to that. J
247) How to persuade man not to
compete with others as he does so with himself? Man can be jealous of himself. The
vibration being universal does not spare even his own
self. 5
248) It rarely strikes the idealist who has
weaned himself away from the boisterous joys of social functions to enjoy the
cultured serene joys of sophisticated living that he, in his situation, is not
different from the others. J
249) Formula for Prosperity:
Physical — Borrow technology
Vital — Imitate organisation
Mental — Accept their ideas
Spiritual — Create
new ideas and borrow VALUES. J
250) There is no event from which one cannot learn. J
251) Man increases his enjoyment of a thing,
imagining that he does not really want it. Therefore he refuses. What man
most refuses is what his heart is really after. The attraction of a philanderer
overcomes even that subconscious reverse behaviour. The woman irresistibly
courts him. Psychologically she is attracted to his falsehood. Physically it is
her evolutionary urge to conceive for him who has enchanted her heart. J
252) Oblivious selfishness is best seen by
those who send telegraphic messages without return addresses and are disappointed
in not receiving a reply. They blissfully assume that their address must be
known! J
253) Desire to shun company is desire for
distinction. In the weak it leads to distinction; in the strong it brings wider
recognition. J
254) Mind uses reason. Brahman reveals
to integral experience. Intuition relates both. Starting from reason one can go
to intuition and finally complete it by integral experience. 5
255) Man acts to preserve his survival; he acts
more readily to fulfil his least silly desires. J
256) No member of the orthodoxy – Hindu,
Christian, Muslim, Buddhist – when he realises his spiritual individuality in
life, need find himself in any social stratum other than the top.J
257) Blindness in the devotees
indicates they are blind to Grace. 5
258) Each man has
something to boast of. Let him take that skill or capacity and implement it in
his own life by the highest value he knows. He will rise to the top of his
profession. J
259) The meanest of
men who cherishes psychological meanness can by a social effort pass for a
perfect gentleman. J
260) To think that a
person will be interested in his own self is folly; to know that he may be more
interested in his own silly desires appears to be wisdom. J
261) To trust a
treacherous character in the guise of friendship and to offer egoistically
proud fools what they do not deserve are the same. J
262) Short term goals are not in preference to
long term goals, but are even at their expense. When the long term goal is
restoring a broken betrothal and the short term is the wedding function, the
short term does prevail. J
263) It is not the
whole truth that a clear wrongdoing like Lizzie’s diamond possession will bring
unpopularity to her. It is also true that it may make her very admired by Lady Glencora. J
264) If only man would listen to others,
unashamedly people would ask him to destroy himself because that is the only
thought uppermost in men’s minds.
Man cherishes the idea of destroying
a rival. He would want his rival to accept his advice for self-destruction. J
265) The token work is
the material link between the subtle spiritual power and the material world
where it should be achieved. J
266) The longer the
heart waits to be rewarded, the sweeter is the reward of the heart that accepts
it. J
267) Unwillingness to respond to opportunity of
grace is silent opposition of the meek and insecure. J
268) They say nothing
succeeds like success. If so, if you are after success, pay
attention to success, since there is no greater response than to attention.
J
269) Grace comes to one directly or
through goodwill, or even ill-will. As long as you are open to Grace, it shall
come to you. 5
270) To be satisfied with little or less in the
name of austerity or simplicity is a subconscious perversity acting
hypocritically, not an idealistic discipline. J
271) Subconscious ego is capable of
refusing good or even Grace, just because it is offered. 5
272) He who stipulates how Grace
should come to him, denies it. 5
273) Service to evil disqualifies a
person from receiving Grace, even if it is done to a wife or husband or parent
or child. Still, in extreme cases, the person can serve as a channel of Grace
to others. 5
274) In a
family or an organisation, a person may have an endowment. Grace will pass to
all those through that person. No Grace will come to them if they refuse that
channel. 5
275) Our
own birthdays are spiritual openings for growth. Our rival’s birthdays are
occasions for the destruction of opposition. 5
276) Family happiness – formula: Look at an
issue from the other man’s point of view till it becomes your own point of
view. J
277) The
great man, rather the great souls of the world have seen the wholeness of
creation in the parts where their interest lay. The saints have realised the
whole in part. Sri Aurobindo realised the whole as a whole and expressed it in
his integral experience by bringing the Brahman to the material physical world.
&
278) Brahman created the world for Delight.
The Superconscient felt it as static bliss. Jivatma sees the bliss as pain but remains unaffected. Ego
receives the Delight as pain. &
279) It is a backward
society where man is respected for his strength or wealth or even knowledge.
One should be respected for his culture. J
280) Imitation becomes innovation
when the inner springs are released by the outer touch. 5
281) Condescension is the aim of weak substance
with strong consciousness. J
282) Unconscious development opens up
opportunities for the oppressed to rise and assert. Assertion leads to
development; humility opens up greater development. Conscious development calls
for repentance, reversal of attitudes. J
283) Learn the lesson – “Desire to
give out of self-giving as well as desire to take out of selfishness are the
same.” Self-giving to be true must be Self-giving, the Self in us giving to the
Self. 5
284) He who insists on offering now, when he
learns the lesson, will not even agree to give when requested. J
285) To put oneself at
the disposal of the other is a type of self-giving, maybe the best type. J
286) Access to seats of power is an expression
of inner power. Its higher version is humility. J
287) It is
not easy to behave like a gentleman. Should one be psychologically a gentleman,
he is one step into the
288) For one who
brings his own vital under the control of his own mind, his family will be a
source of happiness to him. J
289) Man cherishing evil or at least
evil-minded persons, in spite of their evil tendency, is his link with the
other side.5
290) Every development
opportunity tries to destroy the existing set up at some point or other. If
resisted, it leads to clash. J
291) Whatever be
his situation, he who looks up is right; he who looks down is not. The last
rung of the ladder is that which helps him to discover the inner god in outer
life. 5
292) Their
words are nothing if they are not literally
293) Development occurs when the physical
pressure is replaced by mental urge for progress. J
294) The world has
leaped from mind to Spirit seeking moksha. HE has attempted rising from mind to
Supermind gradually and bringing it back down. That is the only possible method
for social development. So far, the privileged leaped to power and prosperity.
Democracy has opened the route of power to the lowest. We must orchestrate
Man’s rising to full power; and
295) Family happiness will be secure and
everlasting if we remember two things:
1) the family is a social unit; 2) other family members expect the same
out of us as we do from others. J
296) Mental perversions express as life
problems. J
297) Indigenous formula for prosperity:
1) Devise values and skills to achieve from
your own culture and spirituality what Westerners have achieved.
2) Draw upon the subtle life power to solve
crises and create opportunities.
3) Let the Indian discover the spiritual
individual to become effective in Indian democracy. J
298) A person may be good to you or not;
still, it is possible for Grace to come to you through him. If he is good,
Grace will also come to him because he is a channel. 5
299) Those who are in the periphery of
Her atmosphere are beckoned to avail of Her Grace as Luck.5
300) The capacity to please another and
the wish to give joy have a touch of the Divine in them.5
301) The offerings we give the Divine
are as useful to Her as the stones the vital being offered to throw.5
302) In the institution founded on the
principle that ego has to be dissolved, the one ruling impulse is the
pre-eminence of ego.5
303) Dr.
Thorne and Mary illustrate that the greatest wealth and status can seek the
lowest. It is the social best of those times. Now MOTHER gives the world’s best for a similar disciplined culture and value.5
304) Man’s
creations can be greater than his size, not his essential value.5
305) Values
are the psychological instruments of the individual for social progress. J
306) If you want to deliver grace, you
should be capable of two extremely opposite attitudes. One is the capacity to
go behind the absence
of response endlessly and the other the capacity not to respond when you are
chased endlessly.5
307) Not to give the small man the due for his great service is
an absolute rule. Man’s unwillingness to give the due for any work is also an
absolute rule. J
308) Life
functions by the awareness of the physical sensations. Our knowledge of ethics
or spirituality is information in the mind. It would rule the world when it is
accepted by the physical sensations.
Knowledge in the physical is effective. For Mother to
be effective in our life, our knowledge of Her must be
accepted by the body.5
309) If my thoughts should be accepted by the world or
at least my world, they should have been accepted by my physical first and then
my body should possess them as the representative of the world. &
310) Vehemence
of character alienates people. Vehemence of character for a value exhibits
sweetness in its expression.
People
gravitate towards one who combines strength of value and sweetness of temper. J
311) The resourcefulness of the rogue
touches the negative infinity.5
312) He
who has transcended his conscience must bind himself to it more than others,
not because conscience is binding, but because he can illustrate his adherence
to it even when he disregards it. J
313) It
is one of the touches of Wisdom to see how man retains God’s touch when he
denounces him most; and how man is farthest from Him while his worship is in
the acme. J
314) At every step of involution,
provision is made for evolution. To know that helps one to understand The
Life Divine.5
315) Evolution
is to move from the divided part to the united being.&
316) The mind that refuses to understand what it does
not like, is the VITAL mind. &
317) Man,
who knows that he is unable to change, wishes everyone else to change. He who
has changed knowing how difficult it was, still expects others to change.5
318) Ignorance,
inertia and division stand in the way of matter responding. Ignorance can be
overcome by knowledge, inertia by inspiration. To overcome division, one has to
shed ego. &
319) If all traits are DIVINE,
what future does oblivion build? Maybe it is the greatest GLORY that
it will achieve so that one may be oblivious all his life.5
320) I
have been longing to have a story written illustrating the principles of
Mother, especially that great good fortune will knock on the door of one who is
good, efficient and cultured. Anthony Trollope has written Dr. Thorne
exactly on those lines. It cannot be excelled. J
321) To cherish nostalgia is
necessarily backwards. The only exception is the occasion to attempt a greater
whole in the accomplishment.5
322) The falsehood in human personality
is so deeply rooted that anyone who vows to give up lying forgets his vow in no
time.5
323) Progress
of yoga is only at the most sensitive points of the personality, not in the
routine acts. &
324) Overpowering
life circumstances are for the soul that needs to be disciplined from outside.
A mature soul gets intractable life circumstances which can be controlled by
him. He can choose to discipline them or submit to them as a
self-discipline.5
325) Sri
Aurobindo wants us to discover Brahman in Supermind. The Indian elite is capable of doing so in Mind and the masses can do it in
Life. The Westerner did so in Matter. Discovery of Brahman in Matter is
science and prosperity, in Life it is infinite prosperity and everlasting
peace, in Mind it is subtle knowledge of supramental
evolution. These are the steps HE wants us to skip and evolve as the
Supramental Being. Let us do it at any
326) When the consecration of a single
act can raise you hundreds of folds, how can you complain of poverty? 5
327)
328) Those who have betrayed the ideal are the greatest enemies
of new followers of that ideal. J
329) Of
all the ignorances, the one which mistakes the wrong
force as right is the most interesting or most characteristic. Perhaps it is
the most catastrophic. J
330) Leadership
is to have our own power of leading in the vital as a representative of the
collective that needs leadership. J
331) Mind
divides the Force in the form of substance. Beyond the atomic existence, the
force cannot allow itself to be divided since so divided, it must go back into
its original status of being, which is evolution. The dividing mind, while
in the process of involution, cannot act as the instrument of evolution and
turn the substance into being. &
332) Material
objects absorb Mother’s atmosphere, not fully. They need a human intervention
to give results.5
333) The only sensation for the devotee
is physical sensation of Love.5
334) Man’s
offering to God is a distant echo from the farthest point of existence –
physical – of a tittle of what God has poured on him
for ages. For something to be known as offering, at least man has to come
forward to give his all. Only then can he set about withdrawing his vital
mental hold on it. The crassest ignorant expects offering. Its
physical personality asks for it. God does not mind doing that too, to bring
grace to man. In extreme cases, HE even
steals it from man.5
335) Tradition
is traditional superstition. J
336) Man
lives his life by his own self-conception limited by the external circumstances.
In the measure he widens his self-conception, the environment is overcome. He
is so constituted to overcome the entire range of environment.5
337) Man
expands on hearing the uttered word in praise, not the unuttered understanding
of great merit. Word pleases, not
values. J
338) Marriage
reveals the social depths of human nature. Psychological depths will not be
seen until all social supports are lost or withdrawn.
Marriage is
an institution that gives self-knowledge to man. Maybe it stops at social
self-knowledge or goes up to psychological self-knowledge. It has no reach to
reveal to man the spiritual self-awareness. Only yoga can do so. J
339) If the fit should be on me, let
it be a fit for self-awareness.5
340) To read and understand the facts, one requires the
intelligence of literacy. To read and understand the arguments, the intelligence
required is academic. Higher intelligence is needed to know the process of the
author’s thought. Intelligence, as we understand, has no useful purpose
beyond this point. J
341) When mind knows Time is its own
creation, it acquires the ability to rise above its mastery. 5
342) Nothing
expresses the awakened soul as the Smile. J
343) Leadership
is a miniature universe packed with power. Thinkers discuss most of its
external expressions. Its inner essence escapes definition.
The real
leaders sense its presence. The real thinker defines its power in terms of the
other aspects given to him by theory. J
344) The
man who eats a great quantity of coarse food does not enjoy it half as much as
the one who eats a fourth of that quantity of a sophisticated meal. Enjoyment increases as the level of
consciousness increases. To grieve for the absence of it at lower levels is a
biological superstition.
It is not
the animal act but the sweetness of exchange of finer emotions that is the real
enjoyment.
Who in the
metropolis would regret not owning landed property in the village?
Enjoyment
rises in value in proportion to man’s ability to wean himself physically from
the act. J
345) Enjoyment
can be constant when it moves to emotions and spirit. Surely it cannot be
constant if one remains in the physical plane.5
346) Each human contact for me is what I have been and am to
another. J
347) The physical man trying to raise his status often puts his
feet on the table, symbolising his inner aspiration. J
348) Mother makes any subconscious endowment we have
effective in life. Activating the low consciousness of our ego neutralises it
and even wipes out the basic endowment we had.5
349) There
are several movements of Nature that converge at a point of an act, such as
Lila, enjoyment, accomplishment, absolute justice, efficiency, involution,
evolution, etc. All these movements have the dual capacity to express
themselves in any direction fixed by the person. The directions are social,
personal, evolutionary, survival, growth, etc. Social evolution or human
development is determined by the CHOICE man makes. J
350) In bringing one person to appreciate another, man feels he
depreciates his own self. J
351) “Instructions”
occupy a significant place in management since each person receives the
instructions according to his own predilections. Successful instructions now
are successful by virtue of custom and usage, not by virtue of the clarity of either
party.
Capacity to
give instructions rightly qualifies one to be an excellent manager; capacity to
receive them rightly is given to a rising star who will be a future leader. J
352) Waste
is a social conception during periods of scarcity. There is no waste anywhere
else.5
353) Man’s
impulse of surrender is to the opposite.5
354) The finite man adores himself with
infinite energy. Should he shift the adoration to the God in him, he becomes
God.5
355) The story of the three Poles fixing a bulb shows the
infinite scope for progress at any time. J
356) As man moves away from several of his elementary functions,
he also moves away from many elementary relationships. His stage of
development is determined by the measure of his moving away. J
357) Man’s
capacity for nostalgia, past loyalties, desire to settle ancient scores, his
value for venerable tradition are only of his physicality and ego. They have
nothing to do with his ideals or values. J
358) Human
emotions and opinions will NOT change
for ages. The Divine descent will help them change. 5
359) The energy of youth is raw and
rough; that of the Spirit is sweet.5
360) Nothing makes the accomplishment or the ensuing
enjoyment so great as surrender does. &
361) Rare
souls see God. Rarer souls see the same God in Nature. Sri Aurobindo stipulates
that the sadhak must see God and Nature uniting in
him, i.e. he sees his own actions as a point that unites God from above and
Nature from below. &
362) The world needs a thinker whose
context is not the nation or a sector like politics or commerce, but human
existence. Such a thinker also needs a human faculty that is wider than the
mind which is an instrument of Ignorance. 5
363) Money
acquired in greater measure than for direct use, is a fetter like anything
else. J
364) Contagion,
infection, imitation etc. are most intense at the opposite poles. J
365) Tyranny
is enjoyment of expression of authority and energy more than love of cruelty. J
366) Any vibration of Nature, even sex,
can go behind for a time, even a long time, but not permanently unless
sublimated or transformed.5
367) Devotion
devoid of desire fulfils itself, even as oblivious desire to the very depths of
the body never fails to fully satisfy itself.5
368) In human life, only certain
diseases are contagious or infectious. In higher consciousness, all diseases are
infectious, even as the higher consciousness enters us without our knowledge.5
369) C.D.
Deshmukh said the movement of secession in Tamilnadu is the voice of the dying culture that opposes.
We see that phenomenon in its obverse and reverse forms in the Sanskrit names
becoming popular in Tamilnadu and the Brahmin culture,
especially their slang being taken over by the erstwhile anti-Brahmin groups.
It happened in public speaking in the 60s. J
370) Deep
emotion of a devout person is devotion. In response to it, Mother moves into
that centre.5
371) Betrayal
in friendship only expresses that the growth cycle of the relationship is
completed. J
372) Jealousy
disappears in the measure one’s energy is drawn off in his own development and
society prevents expression of jealousy by its culture. J
373) Social
life can at best give only social knowledge. At higher levels knowledge is
psychological. Pure knowledge transcends both.5
374) Dissatisfaction
is a negative emotional aspiration. J
375) Simplicity
of mind is determined by itself, not by the material opulence of the
environment. J
376) Luxury
or simplicity is relative. J
377) The only role of the relationship between the small and the
great is the small should go at the expense of the great. J
378) Social
support means the individual ego should be propped up.J
379) The miser, at a moment when life showers on him its bounty,
tries to preserve his miserliness. J
380) Devotees
constantly conquer space by getting
things done at a distance without traversing it, but miss the truth as they mistake
it to be a prayer answered.5
381) When hostile forces are overcome, they are
contained necessitating our being on the alert. No defence or alertness is required
if they are transformed. &
382) Trying
to please others is the surest way of displeasing oneself.J
383) Superstition
is the strength of vital life. J
384) Fairness
is a function of available freedom. J
385) Oblivious
people by their very best will achieve oblivion. J
386) Moving
from mental thought to mental consciousness, one sees that Time and Space are
conquerable.5
387) Evolution
is experience replaced by education.5
388) One who knows the subtle forces,
the causal plane, and their symptoms will never fail to see the results of his
work, however distant their expressions are.5
389) Constant
emotion of constancy having moved to the substance becomes devotion generating
powerful currents of immortality that can even neutralise poison. J
390) —
Man knows by the sense covered mind.
— The jnana yogi sees in his trance by his mind freed from the
senses.
— The sadhak can see from the mental psychic freed from the
surface during his waking hours.
— The supramental being sees with the newly created faculties of
the body – the physical psychic.
— You are what you see or that from
where you see. &
391) Rationality
accepts one’s own defects as true. He who does it himself is said to be RATIONAL. Him we call a rational man.5
392) How can one be a devotee without
working or consecrating?
5
393) For the pioneer who leads the society, having outgrown it in
essence, to long foolishly for its approval is a retrograde step. J
394) Sensitivity
is an organisation in the physicality of each plane according to its mental
values. Thus it carries the maximum intensity of forces that can be harnessed
between the mind and physical in that plane. J
395) Any intense event in life raises
the sex vibration in us. Any intense event in the life of devotion raises
aspiration.5
396) Rank
tries hard to preserve its external forms, only when they are about to lose it.
J
397) • To
destroy ego externally is revolution.
§ To destroy ego from inside is evolution.
§ Evolution of ego’s dissolution is transformation.
§ The Ego that realises the value of spiritual transformation is
one who passes through self-immolation.
§ Objectivity gives one that knowledge.
§ Ego that dissolves itself does not move to the Purusha but
becomes the Psychic.
§ Purusha emerges when ego separates itself from its activity.
§ It is the being of the Becoming that can
dissolve ego from
inside. &
398) There are people who understand work; others understand
people. Those who understand both are fitted for recruitment of staff. J
399) Mind
grows through imagination by anticipating the future possibility. It also
‘grows’ through fantasy by learning to discard the non-existent.5
400) The
heart expands in gratitude to present Rs. 100 to one
who has completed a work for you that would otherwise cost Rs.
1,84,000. 5
401) To think of Mother when choked means She is all over us. &
402) The fluent liar who is prolific in his lying belongs to
life. He goes from life to matter because of his mercenary nature. J
403) Time
is abridged by technology by speed. Mind can abridge Time by changing its
conception. &
404) He
whose physical being rises to pure existence is capable of Truth. &
405) He
who goes after something will go on seeking all his life. Seeking itself will
be the reward. What comes to us is ours. When we seek inside, the world will
seek us.5
406) Ignorance
is better than knowledge. &
407) Earth
is superior to paradise. &
408) Man
is superior to the Gods. &
409) To see the small as great is yogic vision. &
410) To see darkness as intense Light is drishti. &
411) To know that evil is a great Good is knowledge.
&
412) To oppose the goodwill of the devotee or to abuse God soils
one’s soul. J
413) Luck
is for one who is wedded to Truth. J
414) The greatest courage is the
realisation of one’s own defects. To pardon those who humiliated us, one needs
yogic equality.5
415) To know that the robber came for
the sannyasi’s utensils because God needs them
is to have a heart where God abides.5
416) To hate, dislike and remove from one’s periphery the thing
that one most adores is possible for man. J
417) He
who believes he alone knows all expresses a great yogic secret inversely or
perversely. The wise man comes to the
unpardonable attitude that he alone knows and no one else knows anything. It
is a pity that it is true.5
418) One
who is too conscious of his capacities will express it in shirking work. J
419) Man
does not seek Mother. When he thinks of Her, his mind
will not go to Her. Mother who does not come to him as his desires and needs
is of no use to him. His own desires are important for him even in the
shape of Mother. Man takes the fulfilment of his desires as his faith. Man
calls his desire devotion.
As one seeks desire, if he seeks Mother, She will
respond. We have the power to realise anything. Mother can be realised. Luck
can be achieved. But we seek only our desires. Desire changing into
aspiration makes man a devotee. There is nothing man cannot realise if he
intensely seeks it. By seeking only Mother, the heart will be blessed with
Grace. 5
420) Help
leads to trouble. What we give may be money or sympathy. One’s yoga is not
helped by others.
Help must be returned with interest. When you want to
take, you will lose what you have. What you earn alone is yours.
Whatever you receive must be returned in greater
measure.
Our own possession will not generate trouble.
Memory is man. We cannot join others, because no one
will admit us. As long as we wish to join others, we will meet with no one who
admits us. Mother alone will take us in. We can join others only through Mother.
There is only one thing. It is Love. There is only one
Person. It is Mother. Man’s giving ends in trouble. To give to Mother is
offering. It will bring everyone, including Mother.5
421) We understand another person at once. Even at the age of
fifty, we do not understand ourselves like that. J
422) God
is the Love and the Beloved. &
423) The miserable man cannot be saved
without his misery creating scars in the saver. His yoga offers to transform
misery into joy.5
424) Ananda
is luck, it is the Ananda of Brahman. It is Mother’s
Luck.5
425) One’s
patience annoys others. When Patience saturates itself, it becomes sacred. It
will make the impatient patient. This is Mother’s Patience.5
426) Constant thought of constancy moves from
words to settled emotions of deeply seated sentiment. Then enjoyment is ever-living
and also ever-increasing in intensity. J
427) Man
is physical even in his mind, perhaps in spirit too. It is not in him to give
up anything unless it is taken away from him. He does give up desires,
attachments, etc. before he is ripe enough for that detachment violently. Rationality
requires voluntarily giving up things or persons whose nature he understands
has to be given up. Voluntary weaning away from low consciousness reveals rationality
that has power over the physical.
o Man gives up out of selfishness.
o Selflessness demands giving up the
low.
o Maturity gives up voluntarily.
o Immaturity waits for it to be taken
away.
o Maturity gives up the wrong, takes
on the right on the very first understanding. J
428) Adoration
of the feminine heart goes to the charming face, not a capable head or an
upright character. Not all men can escape that illusion even after they
discover how odious that adoration is. J
429) The Life Divine
pours His consciousness into us whether we read it,
speak it or speak about it.5
430) Cultural
values are the sensitivities of social organisations. They help to concentrate
the social forces for their progress. J
431) A
family or an organisation that accepts Mother will have Her
protection in an organised fashion, if not as an organisation.5
432) Democracy
that offers the ultimate opportunities to the weak, the poor and the
underprivileged opens up infinite opportunities for all evil forces to express
their resourcefulness.
Mother offers to all those who try to avail of the
opportunities of democracy full protection from the play of the evil forces.
For Mother’s present protection to become a social
organisation, the society should accept Mother.5
433) Diseases
lie dormant in us. They are cured by prayer or medicine only when they come to
the surface. The idea, ‘Transformation of the body needs the disease’ is based
on this principle. We can transform the body if our concentration on it is as
intense as when it is diseased. Such a transformation is offered to man who
has faith in The Mother in his physical substance.5
434)
Every value is related to every other value. That is
why rewards or punishments come in areas where no attention is paid. J
435) To fully cover the negative side
is to fully conquer the forces of that side.5
436) Men
who have attained the goal they sought often are unaware of it, for want of an
outer symbol. Nehru and Indira were not at all aware of the monumental advances
they made in Indian development directly, as well as in laying the necessary
foundations, because the GNP never measured it.
Mother felt sorry for not remembering Him after fully
identifying with Him.
Long after the work is accomplished in the subtle
plane, he who does not see it in the surface wonders about his ideal.
Often the achievements are seen in the reverse. When
the accomplishment is all but perfect, as it does not show visibly and he has
no subtle perception, men can be dejected or frustrated, or may even despair.
The music master sees the job lost, not the hearts
won.5
437) Man
cannot remain what he has been after knowing Mother, even as the earth cannot
remain dark after sunrise.5
438) Equilibrium, not ethics. J
439) Life
is lived successfully by equilibrium and harmony of forces, not by their being
right or wrong. Not the moral right, but their sufficiency in harmony makes
life possible. J
440) Whatever one looks up to in desire, he is sure to miss. It
can come to one only when it feels attracted to him. The surest way to escape
wealth is to adore it without longing. J
441) Man
can know the level of his own personality by those personalities that attract
him and those of whom he disapproves. The former is his goal,
the latter is what he is not able to wean himself away from. J
442) The practical concept of Infinity
has several expressions. One of them is for the individual to know he is equal
to the society in its capacities.5
443) He
who understands Lila or its version in his own life and feels the joy of
knowledge emerging from his ignorance understands Sri Aurobindo. &
444) An unformed person clings to formed forces of the society
such as power or money. This happens when he has greater energy than usual.
Sherlock Holmes is a genius in action. All his life he struggled to preserve
the tradition. From a revolutionary point of view, we can consider him unformed
and informed of vast reservoirs of energy. J
445) To create anything in any plane
and establish it securely, one has to ORGANISE all
the (12) spiritual aspects of that plane and win their endorsement from the
next higher plane. Social stability is secure because peace, prosperity, law, education,
enjoyment, etc. are fully organised and the mind endorses them accordingly.5
446) Stationary
life that needs no shifting of places is overcoming Space, through its nearest
expression. Mind that refuses to go to the past or future is its counterpart
that overcomes Time in a similar measure.
Overcoming Time in the right sense of the word is to
be ecstatic in the present. A similar experience in Space may forget totally
and blissfully the external world.
Its real indication is the dissolution of the ego or
its beginning. 5
447) He
who condemns the leader he admired all along condemns his own character! J
448) Trying
to revive relationships outgrown is to invite catastrophe.J
449) Reversal
of consciousness of His Yoga is practised in the society by the population
serving the underprivileged
450) The
Establishment that was warm to a rebel begins to be cool when the work of the
rebel begins to take shape. J
451) As the biological man seeks the woman, the social man seeks
the new values which are the very opposite of what is. J
452) The
secret of life as well as higher life lies in knowing how the play generates
results – Consciousness with Consciousness, Being with Being, Ananda with
Ananda, Force with Force. Creation by destruction and destruction by
creation are the twin facets of that primal Secret.5
453) Desire
to give away what one is about to get is considered to be self-giving in the
extreme. If it is really so, what is expected will arrive. If it does not come
as expected, the urge is not self-giving but self-expanding vanity. J
454) The woman has an intuition in practical affairs where man
does not have a similar grip over the facts. J
455) To make a virtue out of a useful and convenient institution
like marriage shows the infinite capacity for illusion in man.J
456) Power
as money can fulfil man partially, but the woman can fulfil him fully, when she
is awake in her spirit.5
457) Neither money, nor
power, not even the spirit can offer man the ultimate sense of completion or
fulfilment as the woman does. The woman combines in her his opposite, his
spiritual complement as well as the Form his nature seeks completion in.5
458) The most crude expressions of ego are arrogant
stupidity and violence.
Ø Pride and assertion are its less violent forms.
Ø It can move to self-preservation from destruction
of others.
Ø Competition and jealousy are its vital forms.
Ø Prejudice and opinion are its mental forms.
Ø Memory is a support to ego in perpetuating Time.
Ø As ego was created at the time of
creation of Time, it will survive until Time is overcome. Memory plays the role of lingering
in Time.
Ø Ego can be given up through self-discipline. Abolition of selfishness
achieves it. Its other components will survive still.
Ø Ego cannot survive below the surface, nor when
its finite form is lost.
Ø Mind is overcome by stopping the running thoughts, losing the faculty of
thinking, and by restoring its lost link with Supermind.
Ø Time is overcome by losing oneself in the present and withdrawing from
memory.
Ø Only consecration moves one to the depth.
Ø Not to react is possible only when one sees he is
the Whole.
Ø Withdrawal of the senses removes the grossness of the ego which helps it
to become subtle.
Ø The deep decision to dissolve the Ego
initiates the
process. &
459) The one weapon of the hostile forces is to upset
one’s calm before they start their work. &
460) He
who wishes to be loyal to those who betray is subconsciously trying to outlive
treachery.5
461) Two
effective ways of understanding oneself are, 1) to assume you alone are
responsible for everything that has gone wrong in any work you have been
involved in, and 2) to assume that it is because of your participation that any
work you were part of has grown into a success. These are true because ACTION
in the world is man-centred with the two extremes of his positive and
negative personalities. 5
462) When there is concentration, it is
best to resort to consecration. In its absence, better to increase
concentration.5
463) Subtle
imagination when saturated to intensity has a great chance of its becoming real
in the gross material plane of physical realities. 5
464) As long as an idea appears in the
mind and evokes an answer to it, it means the mind has not outgrown it. The
levels of consciousness outgrown by the mind do not arise in the mind as
disappearing thoughts. 5
465) To know one’s defects precisely and in their true dimensions
is the real strength of man. J
466) The value of an idea is appreciated only when the person
faces the problem and a question has risen in his mind. Ideas are valueless in
the absence of a real life context that compels mind to thought. J
467) When concentration flags, look at
the mental impulses and consecrate them, then the intensity of concentration
will increase.5
468) Receptivity
of Mother’s Consciousness in the body makes it lose its physical rigidity and
gives a longer life. J
469) The best of thinkers when they
come to meet life are taken in by vital beings that can deliver them some petty
results. When thinkers who are not charmed by the likes of clairvoyants attempt
rationality, they may rise above the prevalent superstition of the scientists. 5
470) The longer the devotee lives, the
deeper his receptivity.5
471) Readers
mistakenly identify the writer with his characters. A character rises to his
own stature only when his trait becomes impersonal knowledge in the writer. It
is also true, like
472) Analogies
fabricated by one who does not understand the basis rightly, will not only fail
to serve the purpose, but may pervert the original intention.
Right
analogy illuminates; inappropriate analogy distorts. J
473) Consecration
slows down involution and finally wipes it out, leaving the field free for
evolution.5
474) Progress
begins with ACTION. Rule No. 1 of psychic
education initiates one into progress.
Work uncomplainingly, nonstop if you want progress.
Greater
progress lies in not feeling a complaint inside.
The
above are included in negative progress. The first step of positive progress is
to be aware of it every moment.Its measure of success
is seen in the immediate outside life. One can initiate himself into the
first step of progress only when he takes to the four consecrations. 5
475) Luck
means nonstop work in Mother. 5
476) Can one who lies come anywhere
near to Mother? 5
477) He
who is lost in the moment, however efficient he is, will never be able to build
for the future. J
478) It is right to hasten when the
opportunity waits. When no such opportunity awaits, to
press forward will cause a recoil. The
power of Patience to rush forward never fails.5
479) The world is ruled by likings and dislikings.
It runs en masse after what it likes and frowns on what it dislikes. Scope
for rationality is yet to rise in the society. J
480) He
who needs money for spending meaningfully, will earn endlessly. &
481) The
capacity to try and accomplish something by the very method that will destroy
it shows that one is still in the plane of mind and its ignorance. 5
482) The opposition to any change mostly tries to strengthen it
physically, vitally help it to release greater energy and offers a greater
understanding in the mind. J
483) The great achievements of one who is outside the Establishment
are negatively resisted and positively recognised by Silence. Appreciation here
is not the order of the day. J
484) Rebels
arise from outside, not inside. The only instance in history is Gorbachev
destroying the Communist party from inside. Gorbachev is a unique rebel who
destroyed the system from inside. J
485) The greatest of compliments one
can get from the ignorant public is that you are ignorant. A greater one is
that you are wicked. The ignorant public initiating the movement to destroy
someone is the finest stamp that he is truly a great soul, maybe tending
towards avatarhood. 5
486) He
who knows the level or point where he levels off, has a future possibility of
growth. Whether he continues to progress or not, he is the evolving godhead
at that point. 5
487) The route for Indian prosperity is
to discover Brahman in Life.5
488) Discovery
of Brahman in Life, includes discovering Brahman in Matter. 5
489) Yoga
brings the outer and inner together into one unified whole at a higher level of
created existence. &
490) No
one will fail to achieve a work when he pushes his mind away.J
491) No
devotee can escape LUCK if
he does not stop for a minute from working. 5
492) Indolence
is the physical version of the unconsciousness of the soul in trance. 5
493) Each time man misses an
opportunity, Mother opens a greater one which is more difficult to avail of. 5
494) Work
uncomplainingly consecrating it, and LUCK will
seek you.5
495) How can you not be happy if you stop complaining?
&
496) Man
who attempts surrender achieves the same to a higher, finer version of his
desire. 5
497) Inspiration
energises, whether it is right or wrong. Intuition illuminates, right or wrong.
5
498) Efficiency
is to redirect the outward energies inside.
Effectivity is to redirect the outward impulses inward.
Spiritual prosperity is infinite; material
prosperity is finite.
Prosperity is spiritual, not material.
Accomplishment is in the Being, not Becoming. &
499) Knowledge moves down to the
physical consciousness and substance as physical sensation and sensitivity when
it becomes power and effective. Knowledge begins as an unrelated observed
information and ends as power of the individual over the collective. Any
progress is to move on this scale further. 5
500) •
Faith, grace and supergrace.
• Gross, subtle and causal planes.
• Problems, opportunities and self-choice.
• Subconscious, conscious and Superconscious.
• Subliminal, inner being and surface.
• Ignorant seeking, conscious seeking and what
comes by itself.
• What comes by itself through ignorance and consciousness.
• Problems belong to life, opportunities belong
to mind, grace belongs to Spirit.
• These several trios need not necessarily have
a fixed
correspondence. &
501) Thoughts
are generated in the world even as products are created by the market. We
choose some of them and accept. We call them our own thoughts. As we produce
some products for the market, we also create some thoughts for the world. There
we are original thinkers. J
502)
503) Human
life does not permit ready fulfilment of all its desires. Assuming it does, it
is obvious it will soon come to an end. So, the mechanism of absence of
fulfilment of desires provides for the prolongation of life. Is there a higher
balance where life is endlessly
prolonged at will while the aspirations are fulfilled unfailingly? The longer
he seeks for a life of successfully fulfilled aspiration, the higher his aims
should rise. Desire and ego should give place to aspiration and the psychic.
Desire moves towards its defeat. Ego struggles towards its dissolution. Only
the evolving psychic enables the body to be transformed so that life never
comes to be terminated and aspirations never meet with failure.
Immortality is a life of
harmonious enjoyment. 5
504) Several
1) The key to the physical leads to the birth
of the Supramental being.
2) The key to the vital gives a life of LUCK either
to the individual or to the collective, stopping short of the physical
immortality of supramentalisation.
3) The
505) For the thinking mind, the joy of
existence is the discovery and the penetration of the mystery of creation that
comes with knowledge. 5
506) God
enjoys Self-discovery. Man enjoys repetition, energy, understanding.
As long as he enjoys any of them, he cannot move further. When he stops understanding,
step by step he moves to the supramental intuition.
At this point God’s joy is in determination. Beyond lies
the joy of consciousness and being. The joy of self-discovery is for the Being when it gives up the joy of being. &
507) Self-discovery
for Man at any given moment is to discover what he really enjoys whether it is
repetition or understanding. To know that one does not want to know appears to
be the self-discovery that awaits
508) Man loves the very opposite of what he
seeks. His goal lies in neither what he seeks or its
opposites, but in their becoming complements. By seeking it in either, he is
human. By seeking it in both, he rises to the godhead. &
509) Judge another at his best. Give another man
your very best. Trying to give anything less will
drain you and take you to his level. Often such a giving will not reach the
person. If it does, it will be used to destroy you. J
510) Only when the field is full of crops do we need a
fence. The fence is the crop protecting itself. So also evil is the good that
circles its own perfection. Good needs protection only when it is rich.
The fence
is not frowned upon by the crop as it protects it. Even so, evil is the fence
that circles the good for its own protection.&
511) That patience which issues from the
knowledge that evil is after all good, is lasting patience. 5
512) The key to the vital is to know
life at its most sensitive, live front and have a mastery over it in one’s own
affairs. 5
513) The
key to the mind: Silence and a thought
capacity to know
514) Problems
arising out of physical inability give pain to the body. Mental agony arises
when one refuses to do physically what he can out of a value. Confusion is
mental inability. J
515) The idea that one knows more than others is not so much an
egoistic idea as one arising out of the ignorance of what others know. J
516) The mind’s faith in the medicine makes the medicine
effective. Its faith in the doctor often saves the life. It is the faith of the
soul that makes one immortal. &
517) Surrender
waits till thoughts cease. &
518) The beginning of yoga starts with surrender which
is offered by the awakened soul to the inner Divine. It is preceded by other
steps as follows:
v consecration
v all-inclusive
concentration
v a formidable will that seeks consecration.
v sincere aspiration of
the inner Divine for the
v a call of the
Transcendent to the Individual.
All those
who have come to Mother have that call one way or another is some measure. &
519) Yogic
energies for life have to fill the entire plane of life, not only the point
that receives, even as the water that enters the reservoir cannot raise the water
level at the point of entry until it raises the level of the whole.
Maybe when
the recipient is selfish and resists self-giving, he may rise faster. At least
the energies of Integral Yoga are not available in great measure for selfish
benefits. 5
520) Before you think and formulate the
thought, the impulse of the vital makes several moves. Life
outside also moves many times. Here we see the speed of life far greater
than the mind’s thinking.5
521) When you call Mother, the ego
recedes. Ego is the obstacle; it operates in the planes of mind; Nature
includes both. Only when all give way will Mother remain there forever. 5
522) Information
is knowledge. Knowledge is power.
Power confers rights. Rights are self-existent.
Rights are not to be granted. Rights are taken and
exercised.
Information is the first link of the chain whose last
link is self-existent right that leads to endless prosperity.
Life is infinite.
It is for man to choose.
Life cannot compel man’s choice. Man’s choice can
compel life to submit.
Finite man can choose to be infinite in resources.
It is the choice that makes the man. 5
523) It
is a subtle axiom that there are no coincidences in life. As no disease rises
in the body by chance, no event occurs in life by chance. J
524) As
consecration and surrender are whole acts that embrace all the six aspects of
life – unity, knowledge, will, love, Truth and Goodness – they cannot be made
by partial personalities on the surface. Conditions for becoming complete
personalities are many, such as never giving out information, not expecting,
patient reticence, quiet efficiency, non-initiative, equality, etc. 5
525) It
is the restlessness of the physical being that expresses itself in all planes
as haste, hurry, impatience, tension, irritability and expectation. 5