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