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SERIES V
Part I
1) More than trying to wean
ourselves 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.s
2) Nostalgia, patriotism,
friendship. loyalty, honesty, reliability, etc., are necessary to life, but a
bar to yoga. s
3) What are you loyal to? To
be loyal to life means loyalty to falsehood. s
4) One conscious act is worth more
than hours of meditation that lead to spiritual inertia.
Meditation is to
yoga what sleep is to life. The only permissible meditation is that which
gathers concentration to act in higher consciousness. &
5) To rise to higher consciousness,
one has to be disloyal to life and its values. s
6) Creation is infinity changing
into the finite. Evolution is finite turning into infinite. All creations of
nature and forms of society are formations of the finite. The finite has its
own phases of growth. With that phase over, the finite is at a dead end. Such
dead ends are the faces of human problems. The Force is incapable of retrieving
itself or reversing its course. Hence the crisis. Each crisis is really a
negative announcement of an evolutionary opportunity. To know the evolutionary
nature of the crisis, reverse the course, and return to infinity is to be
alive. The man who does so goes back into another finite form which is still
growth for him. But to remain in infinity is Mother's option. Therefore, the
call is to rise from the point, while you are at a dead end,
¨ Know it is an evolutionary
opportunity.
¨ Reverse your course.
¨ Emerge out of the finite into
the Infinite.
¨
Stay forever in Infinity.
Seeking Mother
leads you to it and keeps you there forever. s
7) Man acts involuntarily, observes
consciously and analyses. Thinking follows and reason coordinates thinking.
Beyond is the witness. At the end is the psychic that evolves.
Actor, observer,
thinker, coordinating ego, witness Purusha and the evolving psychic is the
order. s
8) Man does not know the process,
but only knows the product. He can use the product. When explained, he can
listen or understand the process. Understanding the process does not give him
the capacity to extract the process himself in another situation. Can we give
him the knowledge or capacity of extracting the process from the event? In the
physical plane it takes time. In the subtle plane, it can be done at once if
there is an opening. In a situation where the masses do not give an opening,
the question is whether the pioneer can give it to the masses. It is possible
in two ways:
1) As long as
there is a preparedness in the atmosphere, one can resort to a method, or
2) The pioneer
can go to the causal plane and try to give the opening in the subtle plane to
others. ¤
9) What communicates is inspiration,
not idea. Emotion inspires, idea instructs. In sum,
When a leader
wants to move the world to action, he should realise his idea in emotions in
the subtle plane. For a devotee, he must consecrate in the subtle plane, i.e.
catch the very first impulse for consecration. ¤
10) Fashion begins to spread fast when the
individual catches sight of what the entire society appreciates. To be in
fashion is for the social individual to raise himself to the acceptability of
the social collectivity. ¤
11) Great literature brings the universal
character to the perception of the universal in the individual. Supermind in
Man will be in evidence when the Transcendent vibration is so brought to the
Parabrahman in the individual. s
12) Impersonal knowledge gained by one as a personal
possession becomes available to every other person, thus bringing it from the mental to the vital
plane. ¤
13) When an idea is accepted by the emotions and
is expressed in an act, it becomes power.¤
14) Grace is God acting through faith.
Supergrace is God acting through surrender. s
15) To see the MARVEL in his mission to
trample down those who refuse to rise may be the very last step in human
transformation.¤
16) How can God prophesy, as He is playing the
game? One can prophesy issues that are governed by a law which is a limited
scope. ¤
17) The professions require industry, not
necessarily intelligence. Surely originality is not a requirement here. Any
industrious man with a sense of responsibility will be successful in the
professions if he is of above average intelligence. Even average intelligence
can make it. ¤
18) There is absolutely no difference between
one man and another man when it comes to basic traits. What changes is the
field of action. For instance, we can say any man exhausts an advantage to the
fullest maximum, undeterred by obstacles. The understanding of the obstacle
varies, not the trait of fullest exploitation. That understanding belongs to
culture, not character. s
19) The Rishis discovered the infinity of
spirit. Sri Aurobindo shows us that Infinity in the infinite life. His call to
us is to exchange our finite life with an infinite life wherein the spirit
unfolds in a greater splendour than in its native home, the heavens. s
20) Extreme sensitivity in one area, by the law
of totality, implies equal insensitivity in another area. ¤
21) When you learn what you can from an event,
it never hurts. What is hurt is ego that refuses to learn. ¤
22) The meanest motive attributed to the act of
highest spiritual significance is only the other side of Truth. Acts and
strategies remain the same. Only motives change. ¤
23) Human choice is determined by what man
understands to be his authority. It is expressed by what he fears to lose. ¤
24) The Divine showers grace on us, but can also
choose to destroy us. Mother is the Divine who only showers grace and refuses
to destroy anything in us, though SHE is fully capable of it. SHE
expects
us to exercise our prerogative of choice. &
25) What achieves is authority, social,
psychological and finally spiritual. All else is equipment that serves its
purpose when commissioned.
26) The Superman consciousness reveals the
marvel to Mother's BODY consciousness. Society
reveals its own marvel to man's vital consciousness. The process is the same in
both places. He who learns it in the vital can certainly make a great progress.s
27) Whomsoever you serve, you serve Mother. Whomsoever you
harm, you harm Mother. And still you have to refuse to serve on occasions and
harm people on other occasions when SHE commands. &
28) The Marvel is unfolding itself all the time
before our eyes. Seen through our senses, it is dull; seen through the psychic
it is a MARVEL. &
The world is not going
to change into a Marvel. We should be moving to that centre of vision that can
see it.
29) The auditor who enters your department from
the head office disturbs you when he finds out your lapses. He becomes a mortal
enemy. We lose sight of a few facts. He is another employee of the office
assigned this ob. You could have been this auditor. It is his findings that
make you efficient and pave the way for promotion. Suppose you are the head of
the department, you will value the services of the auditor. He who, being an
employee, is able to value the services of an auditor in spite of his being
punished, is capable of rising to the top.
The auditor is the marvel of the office.
The criminal is the marvel of society.
The harlot is the marvel of spirituality. s
30) No man can serve another man, as he is an
ego. Any ego desires the annihilation of other egos. How can a man then serve
another except at his peril? Service to fellow men and humanity is an illusion.
One can serve only the Divine. &
31) There is only one virtue. It is
self-restraint. ¤
32) As the pain of training turns into pleasure
of learning, when physical pain endeavours to taste Ananda, it ceases to be
pain and turns into pleasure of psychological effort. s
33) Depression gives an inverted Joy, while the effort to
get out of it expands into Joy.
34) Experience not only means learning new ideas which is
rare, but learning higher shades of the old knowledge.
35) A truth which has fully emerged out of
Ignorance, expressing self-existing Good through the instrumentation of united
knowledge and will acquiring a form of Beauty is our aim. s
36) Selfish impulse cancels rationality even in
a personality that is otherwise noble. ¤
37) As mean minds think privately, mean people
speak out. The masters of that plane pride themselves in its power as their
virtue. ¤
38) When man acts in planes higher than his
environment, he needs to be utterly secretive. Man who exists below social
levels tends to be secretive. Frankness is in play only when you are in tune
with the social milieu. ¤
39) To be secretive is the prerogative of those
who are outside the society, either above or below. ¤
40) The best way to write a book so that it
would be comprehended by the widest cross-section of the population is to
address it to the most stupid person one knows. ¤
41) The Omnipresent Reality enjoys the Play at
every moment and there is no pain for it. The divided being experiences pain in
outgrowing its division. Pain itself is a device for the ego to quickly outgrow
it. That ego which seeks the pain insisting on its division cannot certainly
escape it. Rather, pain is experienced, especially for devotees, only when they
insist on ego and its growth as ego. s
42) To think is to use a finite instrument of
mind; to feel is again to use a finite instrument of the vital. When we cease
to think or feel, the Infinite in us is awake and sees the whole. Then it is a
marvel. s
43) The central message of The Life Divine
is:
Find God
consciously inside and outside.&
44) The Divine expresses itself in all acts. One
of them is to be able to see HOW anyone tries to utilise a
given moment fully and to exhaustion. The Divine is Integral at any moment. Its
integrality compels it to exhaust the possibilities at any time. He whose soul
is awake will be able to see it. s
45) A sincere man knows he is not sincere.
46) The formula is, Supermind is each in all;
all in each. Mind's formula is separative, each for himself. Mother's force is
supramental. For it to enter us, we must act on the supramental formula. s
47) Intellectual understanding convinces, does not energise.
This way the idea is lifeless. The idea that energises is an emotionalised idea
or a Real-Idea. Real-Idea energises from above; the emotional idea energises
from below. s
48) That surrender which is a movement away from
the surface, from Time, from Ignorance, from ego and from mind will be true
surrender. s
49) It means you don't think and are silent, you
are not egoistic and are selfless, you don't do what you know but are open, you
don't lapse into subjectivity but you just are, and you don't confine yourself
to the focus but are aware of all that is behind.s
50) A key or a master key, a clue, a secret, an
intuition to unfailing success in life is to generously appreciate another's
talents, goodness and those in potential. The greater the appreciation, the
greater is one's success in life. This trait may be called unselfish
understanding of human potentialities instead of present self-appreciation
which triggers jealousy.
51) Corruption is the expression of organised Ignorance
overmastering unorganised knowledge. Violence, dishonesty, prostitution, mafia,
tyranny, cruelty, dictatorship. war, crime, and empiricism belong to that
order.
52) To create a greater scope for activity is
play.
53) Humour is an invitation to enjoy Ananda. The
capacity to enjoy humour is the capacity to respond to Ananda. s
54) The surface of the past is to be given up.
The depth of the past is to be lived fully until it becomes the present. s
55) The Eternal, Infinite Being finds itself at
Play of being finite. It enjoys its self-discovery. Further, it makes its
infinity complete by being aware of itself in Time and space as the Player and
Playground.
The Player
becomes the Play and the Playground.
He is the Play,
He is the Playground and He is the Player. &
56) Body is the barrier to universal matter.
Thought is the barrier to universal mind. Ignorance is the barrier to
Supermind. These are the barriers in the gross, subtle, and causal planes. s
57) Mind's initiative is expressed as Thought.
Desire is vital initiative. Body expresses its initiative as restlessness and
impatience.
58) Satisfaction is of the vital surface. Contentment is
what is felt by the vital consciousness. Fullness that is self-forgetful
delight is of the vital substance. s
59) The love of the chaste wife is vital
devotion. The love of the harlot is physical passion. The former is superior in
the ascent, the latter is superior in the descent.
The Love of the
divine soul is higher than that of the chaste wife in the ascent and higher
than that of the harlot in the descent. The chaste wife is the evolving
godhead; the harlot is the involving one.
The harlot
evolving to become a chaste wife disciplines herself physically and dissipates
mentally. Bhadragiri's queen is in a prior state of physically enjoying
betrayal and mentally espousing chastity. Bhadragiri is her soul's counterpart.
s
60) Surrender enables us to leave the present plane and rise
to the next plane. Thus it enables knowledge to emerge out of Ignorance. Hence
surrender gives the maximum possible joy and therefore strength. s
61) There is no surrender as long as one of the
five supporting factors is active. Mind, Time, Ego, Finiteness and Exclusive
concentration on the surface are the five ingredients of Ignorance that stand
in the way of surrender.
62) Life giving you the discipline which you
refuse to take, is grace acting through a secondary agency at a distance, when
you -- the primary beneficiary -- actively refuse it. s
63) Refusal of Grace converts compassion into
punishment.&
64) Skill is of the part. Capacity is the
essence of all skills blending together and rising to the next plane. Expert
knowledge whether of astronomy or economics is a skill of the part. Knowledge
is the essence of all such parts mixing and maturing.
The academic
learner rises from below. The seer comes down to knowledge of the particular
subject.
65) A mental personality is one that accepts
anything on the basis of its own understanding from the first principles. A
physical personality accepts when it is physically overpowered. A vital
personality releases its energy neither by physical overpowering nor by mental
understanding. It does so by its own attraction to the object. A
spiritual personality understands without thinking, i.e. by silence. s
A Supramental
personality understands the object within itself.
66) Memory is like a register. This is surface
memory. The subliminal memory is the knowledge of family members of the others
and family history, none of which is recorded. s
67) Man unconsciously achieves slowly and after
a very long time understands. Mother helps us achieve at once and reveals the
understanding soon after. s
68) Every opinion, every act of disappointment,
frustration, grudge, etc. is a renewed attempt to rivet ourselves in the human
consciousness. HE calls it refusal of grace. s
69) When ideals that are not endorsed by inner
emotions are espoused mentally, it prevents us from following them.
70) The mantra 'MOTHER' takes one to
supramental consciousness, while even OM, when rightly
chanted, can take devotees only to cosmic consciousness. &
71) One of the endowments such as knowledge,
wealth, power, etc. in abundance gives a satisfaction that is full which makes
one feel infallible.
72) Infallibility is the outcome of fullness of a part
mistaken for the whole.
73) Awareness of the whole administers to the sense of
humility.
74) He who understands another's work does not
become wiser for that. The most he can do is to repeat it with understanding,
even as the stupid man who has memorised repeats from memory without
understanding. For one to become a thinker, the ideas, by their fullness,
outgrow themselves, yielding further ideas. As he thinks, each thought by the
necessity and power of its logic should lead to the next idea. Then he carries
those ideas with benefit in his mind.
75) Tapas needs a concentration that weans you
away from the course of Nature. Purna Yoga needs a concentration that would
arrest the course of Nature in you and reverse it from involution to evolution.
s
76) Thought is between act and ego. Soul is
beyond ego. The scale is act, thought, ego and the soul. The primitive
man acts without thought. We have moved from act to thought. By moving to the
ego one becomes a thinker. When man reaches the soul, he sees the ego and then
he can surrender it.
Man, being in
thought, tries to surrender his ego, while he can do so only when he moves to
the soul.
Act -- Thought --
Ego -- Soul s
77) The practical and ideal are unrelated. There
is a point where they are related. Prayer from that point is most effective. s
78) Prayer from a very practical point of view
carries human force; from an idealistic point of view alone it carries no force
at all.
Prayer is most
powerful when it issues from a point where one overlaps the other.
79) Self-discipline brings self-existent joy.
80) The finite can become infinite on all
planes. On the physical it releases energy and material plenty. On the vital
plane it brings popularity and luck; on the mental level it is the birth of
genius. When the finite soul becomes the infinite SOUL, it does so
through surrender, giving us the Supermind. s
81) Shopping, entertainment, or attending functions is meant
for the unformed, low consciousness. It is those people who while away the time
and whine when faced with hard realities.
82) Man, without exception, enjoys attention,
seeks it, and copiously responds to it. It is strange that he is totally
unaware of the Divine's Attention to him all the time.s
86) By giving up the possessiveness of the little
you have, you can enjoy the all. &
DAILY MESSAGES V
Part II
39) Work done by the body is labour.
Work done by the
nerves is enjoyment.
Work done by the
heart is Love.
Work done by the
mind is Knowledge.
Work done by the
body for the soul is yoga. s
40) The gods have ego and are not free of it.&
41) What right do I have to ask others to do
what I cannot do? How can I expect others to do what I can do
in the absence of the special circumstances through which I came?
42) In a life of opportunities -- the life in
Mother -- there is no punishment, but only loss of opportunities. Human life is
a life of problems. When a slight error is made, a great loss occurs which
appears as punishment.
43) Living in Mother, if one wilfully goes down
below the standards of human life, the results are disastrous. Man perceives it
as punishment.
When we are able
to happily accept Mother, to accept what Mother indicates through life even
when it is irrational, or disturbs our vital or physical sensibilities, we are
egoless.
54) Man's initiative is through a thought. Its
base is the emotional attitude. Below that is the physical urge, which is ever restless.
Therefore, HE says the basis of this yoga needs the curing of the
restlessness of the physical being. As the conscious Force acts through the
unconsciousness of the physical, the calm of that Force turns into restlessness
of the body. s
55) Most of the future events can be predicted
by those having access to Mother's Force. One thing about the prediction is, it
comes true because of the Force of predictions.
To work towards a
goal is always possible for the Force, irrespective of prediction. s
56) Tragedy occurs only in the life of
selfishness that is physical.
57) Inner first, outer next. &
58) Devotion is the spiritual energy welling up
in the heart centre.&
59) Habits are the physical skills that maintain
the surface personality.
60) Thoughts are the mental structure that keeps
the surface mind going.
61) Silence is the spiritual force that acts in
the inner being.s
62) Grace becomes Force that acts not on the
surface, not even in the subliminal, but in the pure medium of the true
physical, true mental.s
63) Shifting away from the surface and
continuing to shift, one ends in That within.s
64) Transformation avoids waste created by the insistent
Ignorance of the parts, particularly the body. s
65) Evolution in Ignorance involves waste, not
evolution in knowledge as transformation keeps the substance--body--intact. s
66) The bitterest event is the closest approach
to Mother. &
67) Long effort and time is needed when we are
working in the part. No time is needed when we centre ourselves in the whole.
To centre ourselves in the whole and work in the part is to be in the
simultaneous integrality of Time and Timelessness. s
68) Divine Love passing through the body becomes
ecstatic rapture unbearable to its present constitution. It is the acme of
divine experience in the human frame. s
DAILY MESSAGES
Part III
18) When a man faces an ideal, he often pulls
away from it in the name of his duties. In fact, he does so for the sake of his
desires.
19) My Herculean efforts for years at constant
remembrance resulted in my discovering constantly that I am unable to remember
Her.
20)
Events in the dream express deep-seated values.
21) Vedas describe women who make themselves
unhappy living a false life and hurting their Lord but helping to achieve that
Vast Truth.
22)
At some time or other man comes to see he is not wanted by others, even those
whom he loved. Then he feels lonely. It is a cruel moment in his life. For some
it comes early.
It rarely occurs
to us that God is always in that position. We are important for Him. He is not
important for us.
When we feel God
is important for us, we become important to all around.
25)
Surrender is an exercise in Silence, not in thinking, or feeling or doing. Nor
can it be done in equality by the spirit. It is a movement of the awakened
psychic first by overcoming thinking, feeling, doing, etc. and then through all
of them. At that stage, it reaches completion. s
28)
Civilisation upgrades the capacity of the least of men. Spirituality makes man
into god.s
29)
Man's desire for results without effort or responsibility expresses as
expectation.
Expectation is the
distant negative symptom of future possibility, though it prevents its
realisation.
All
accomplishments are made first inside and later expressed outside. Expectation
tries to express it outside first without creating it inside.
He who expects
should go inward and accomplish there first. ¤
30) Life
will not pardon him for having flouted it all along. ¤
31) Man has not yet acquired the very first
discipline of self-restraint.This is where humanity is in psychological
growth. ¤
34) The power of the hostile beings is like the
criminal's acute, unfailing great knowledge of law for purposes of destroying
law. ¤
35)
Where the skill ends, force is of no use. ¤
36)
As man is without a higher organisation matching the higher opportunity, he
behaves like that. ¤
39)
Evil, circling the good around its own perfection. &
43)
The reconcilation of Being and Non Being --Spirit and Matter--at The Transcendent consciousness is expressed
in life by the mind recognising the truth in the action of the enemy. s
47) Man is partly live and partly dead. Methods
are dead means for the physical. When the live part uses the dead method, the
excessive liveliness gives positive results. At some point man moves to his
dead part and continues to use the dead methods. There it fails.
48) To be a good Angel means you are a source of
support to accomplish their work. ¤
49) Surrender enables the negative to integrate with the
positive. ¤
57)
The atomic scientist is not superior in intelligence to the primitive man. ¤
The wheel is not
less revolutionary than the Internet. The first man already had the form of the
body we have. The world is not going to produce greater minds than Socrates or
Newton. What is new now is that more and more people rise to greatness. ¤
The earliest
aspiration is the last.
58)
Trying to do good to another against his will is not only folly and infructuous
but is a sin against another soul's destiny. It is to be officious. ¤
59) Action based on thought is an unconscious
act, as thought is a movement away from the conscious centre. s
60) When aspiration is not enough or missing,
man consoles himself as not having faith, a rare endowment. ¤
61) Not only is aspiration missing, but there is
active aspiration for vital enoyment and physical occupation.
To be occupied is
more enoyable than aspiring for the Divine.s
62) Absence of work gives room for intrigues,
gossip, talebearing, etc. By taking to work and making result the one conditoin
of work, all these are banished. ¤
63) The sting of the mean man is, after all, the
reverse functioning of the higher spirit expanding in magnanimity. ¤
64) The mind understands God, the vital feels
Him, and the body is capable of being GOD Himself. s
65) Whatever work is done is done by Grace. All
obstacles are from man's ego. The ego is created for the growth of life from
matter. Its special duty is to centralise actions and postpone unity, a
deliberate move, deliberately done in pursuit of delight. The longer it
prolongs, the greater is the fulfilment.
To be able to
overcome ego is yoga.
To be able to see
the rationale of ego and the pursuit of slow, deliberate delight, is to know
the being in the becoming, the ultimate WISDOM. &
66) A self-ustifying thought gives place to an
attitude that reverses it; by accepting the opposite, ego dissolves slightly or
in that measure.
Man ustifies
himself; non-ego ustifies God.
67) Human choice: Man bases himself
on physical security, acts by vital energy, is guided by mental thought and
sustains himself by spiritual patience.
The greater the
knowledge the society offers, the greater energy it allows to be released by
enoyment, the greater security it provides, the greater is the individual
choice.
Law and order,
education, information and sense of fairness decide the level of human choice.
68) Reconciling faith with reason or power with love is
possible not in mind, but only in Supermind. &
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70) Force is essential to break down entrenched
forms.
71) Power lies in the inner
urge.
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72) Spiritual authority: Man,
under an oppressive ruler, not only submits to his rule, but comes to adore his
atrocities. The spiritual authority does 'atrocities' to the present society,
and must be able to win the approval and appreciation of people for its own
doings, in spite of their full knowledge of it.
73) So far it has been said,
"He is a realised soul." Hereafter, we must say, "He is a
surrendered Being." s
74) Austerity is to inflict pain on the body and
vital. Surrender is to give up the present human enoyment of dullness
voluntarily.s
75) When Life begins to respond, mind's thought
is too slow as events occur from all sides.
76) How much one lives in the other's emotions
is the characteristic of family and friendship.
Shared emotion is
friendship.
Shared existence
of emotions is family.
Physical company
makes for companionship.
77) A family where members are honest,
industrious, unegoistic, affectionate, and unpretentious is a place to which
Mother goes without invitation. If they are devotees of Mother, it becomes an
Ashram SHE wanted. Otherwise it precedes the place. The opposite
tendencies work out either to extinction or transformation. The former is a
dangerous atmosphere which can ruin anyone totally who comes into contact with
it.
The only true
beginning is with the individual who tries sincerely. s
78) What you cannot physically wrest from
another, you certainly cannot persuade him to part with. Your appeal to Mother
can. It means Mother gives you the physical strength you do not have. s
79) Those who suffer are those who enoy what is
there on the negative side. s
80) By seeking greater oy than what is
available, one becomes a pioneer, an evolutionary spearhead, God Himself. s
81) He who enoys, enoys what is, but on the
growing side. s
82) The autocrat holds all the power himself and
is unable to conceive that the same power can be expressed through an
organisation in a far greater and richer measure. Neither can his subects
conceive of it. Still, all over the world we have democratic administrations
and societies ruled by democratic values living a far richer life than under
the autocrat.
Being in becoming
changes from autocracy to democracy. We are unable to conceive of the ability
of Being retaining its unity in becoming. s
83) A woman was tortured by the thought that her
husband was depraved, mean, perverse, immoral, unreliable and loved tyranny.
She learnt that by one of Sri Aurobindo's definitions, her husband was a great
soul who had come forward to undertake what ordinary souls had shunned. Sri
Aurobindo said He adored his feet. In spite of her great devotion to Sri
Aurobindo, she was unable to feel comfortable with that definition. s
84) Men do not know what gifts life has given
them; nor do they know what gifts they missed. This is unconsciousness.
Normally, if this is brought to their notice, they have several responses:
bafflement, indifference, and derisive smiles.
85) 'Let Thy Will be done and not my will'
acquires significance ONLY when we understand that it is
impossible for us to know what to do next in any issue. s
86) The poor, the ignorant, the suffering and
the diseased are like those who have been electrocuted. Sympathy with them will
only help the current pass through you. It will not help them. If you can, you
can turn off electricity.
This is equally true
of the selfish and the perverse. Whatever one man's limitation is, he cannot be
pulled out of it even with his cooperation. Reaching a higher level and
bringing it down alone can be of any help. This is a rule that has
no exception.
87) Whether it is a small prayer or a great
siddhi, without crossing the ego-barrier at least for a while, it does not get
fulfilled.
88) Ego is the trouble maker. No one can get
over it because that is an effort of ego. The ego's realisation that its time
is over is essential. A sense of expansive freedom of universality is the
indication of the ego giving way. s
89) The first step to bring God's Lila is to
receive His Joy, Peace, Silence, Power, calm, knowledge and Force in oneself. &
90) Surrender is God in Man becoming God in the Divine.
Surrender is Man becoming God in action on earth. &
91) God's Lila was centred in Timelessness. It
has moved now to Time. Integral Yoga is an invitation to Man to oin God in His
lila now centred on earth. &
92) Wherever Her picture is, the intensity of
the Samadhi is there. It means any heart that calls is equally sacred to Her.&
93) The emotion towards the Divine is devotion. &
94) The thinker enoys thinking even as the child
seeks play as an outlet for its excess energy. The devotion of the bhakta wells
up and seeks an outlet for itself in the Divine Personality.
95) Knowledge is acquired from first principles. For the
scientist the first principles are from matter, through empirical knowledge in
the material plane. The seeker starts from spirit in the subtle, causal planes.
97) Concentration in meditation is partial as it is centred
either in the mind or in the heart. Concentration in work is total, as the
physical movement has a character of totality having its own mind and vital.
Theoretically, thinking and feeling are on a par with working, but in practice,
work is much fuller than either of them as we are most developed only in the
body. s
98) What you have outlived weighs you down. The
entire culture is built upon carrying what has served its term. It is
conservatism.
99) Finding mind behind his physical vital acts,
man has civilised himself. Sri Aurobindo wants us to find the Supermind behind
our mental acts for us to discover God on earth. In fact, that Supermind is in
constant touch with the Absolute. What Sri Aurobindo actually wants us to
discover is the Absolute in our relative life. &
100) He who is unable to think works physically. He who is
capable of inner concentration need not work through thought or exert himself
physically. The capacity to surrender all inner movements dispenses with all
work, mental or physical, that is not necessary as a medium for surrender. s
DAILY MESSAGES
Part IV
1) Marvel is the sight of Man seeing
the whole. s
2) Absolute justice, vision and
Marvel are the sight of the Whole of itself. s
3) Problem is the experience of
partial existence. Solution is to remember the existence of the WHOLE. s
4) Being, Consciousness, Knowledge,
Will, and Love at their height are partial from the point of view of the
Absolute. It is unity that gives them the sense of the whole. Therefore, the
sense of unity is the beginning of the sense of Realisation.&
5) The urge is irresistible. To
overpower that urge is not given to man. Only he who is open to Grace will have
the Force to overpower it. s
6) Human generosity is ingratitude
to God. A generous, personal emotional attitude invariably produces negative
results.
7) All evil, cruelty, rudeness,
roughness, betrayal, treachery, lowness, falsehood, wrong, error, etc. are the
routes through which the divided being emerges into unity with its Origin.&
8) To expose a person, anticipating
his needs, is to be mean. This way we attribute an ulterior motive to him.
A generous emotion in this situation is to ignore his motive, expressed
or unexpressed, and to put a positive construction on it.
22) Things happening as expected is luck. Events
advancing towards you is grace.
25) Calling is the realised inner being trying
to realise the same in outer life.
28) The great and the idiot
have one thing in common when faced with mean perversity-- incapacity to reply.
50) God waits for us in one place. We are
looking not for God, but for other things. God awaits us with these things
elsewhere. Until we know where He is waiting, we wait.
DAILY MESSAGES
part V
15)
Ever-present cheerfulness is great. If anything excels it, it is humility. Can
humility be exceeded? Yes. It is by QUIET efficiency. s
20)
Success is the turning point.
When frustration is building up and there is no peace of mind, quietly go about
achieving a success and that will change your heart and the environment.
26)
The secret of success in any field is to be fully devoted to that field only.
To have it as the one and only aim of life is the method.
48) Knowledge is the essence of things, what we call
abstractions. The general is the practical events. The common essence of all
these general items is Knowledge.
49) Knowledge that reaches down to
the body is power. It is flawless efficiency. s
50) What decides is the pressure of the moment.
51) Computer will be the 21st century's electricity.
52) Without the knowledge of
computer, one will belong to the 19th century.
53) A good resolution:
"I shall happily accept every discipline I SHOULD accept".
A better one:
"I shall delight in every human contact."
The best decision:
is the one which makes the inner being call Mother on its own. s
54) Do not accept the offer of
a man however good it is, when it is really beyond his capacity.
56) When everyone around you is working for your
good, know you are in an atmosphere of grace.
57) Changing attitudes can abridge years into
months or weeks.
58) To expect people to be grateful to you
implies you are lacking in gratitude to the Divine.
59) When there are moments in the human mind
when one is not proud about oneself, they are Divine moments.
65)
When your highest interest occupies the mind and nerves, you are always happy.
When it ceases to interest you, boredom begins.
Boredom means you have nothing that interests
you anymore. You have outlived your highest interest.
66) Gossip spreads by a sense
of self-importance. The weak show off by giving out the latest information. The
strong enoy by making it a secret.
67) All achievements of man
are mental. Even his spiritual realisations are mental. It includes
Satchidananda and Brahman. A higher achievement, higher than that of the mind,
is possible only when man rises above the mind. Sri Aurobindo ushered in that
era. s
68) Good manners are on the
merest surface. Do we fully qualify at least for that?
69) When we call, it is the
Mother we believe in, i.e. The Mother shrunk to our size. A time comes when we
lose faith in our call. Then THE MOTHER as
She is in the Ashram and in the world acts. It is the Force.
The force acts when we fully step aside. &
70) We do anything,
small or big act, as we now are. To do them as a changed person is devotion to
Mother.
71) In spiritual life, to be
dull or flat is worse than what we know as crime or sin.
72) Mantra, apa, pranayama
etc. are instruments of mind. Surrender is the process of the entire mind being
given up. A fuller surrender is that by which the complete being is given up
into that of the Divine. &
73) When Grace acts, karma is
dissolved. When man refuses to believe in karma, Grace acts. When man refuses
to believe in his capacities, Super Grace acts. When Super Grace descends on
you, it brushes aside your faith in your capacities and acts.&
74) Human relationships are
instruments of perfection in the sense that, until you are perfect they will
continue to provoke, dominate, irritate and annoy you. The boss, the partner,
the friend, the crew and the spouse play this role fully. For the woman, the
child is an eminently great instrument of perfection.
The instrument that plays this negative, nasty role never evolves but is
destroyed.
75) With knowledge of
computer, you can achieve anything.
76) When you give something to
anyone, behave as if you are receiving it.
77) We often think about a ob,
a work, etc. and when it becomes a problem, we call Mother. It disappears.
Rarely do we realise that it is our thinking that created the problem.
Move away from life to Mother, there will be no problems to solve.
We create problems by thinking about them.
Thinking is the source of problems.
78) When work is consecrated, mind falls silent
and stops being the crooked mind. &
79) The Divine fills us with Grace. We go away
from Her because we cannot receive more. Man goes one step more and turns
against the Divine using the very thing he received from Her.s
80) When man decides to give up his initiative,
he asks what he can do? He does not realise that by a further initiative, he is
trying to wipe out the existing one.s
81) When no work that can be demonstrated as
work is done, one would be doing a good lot of work, very essential, but not
visible to the onlooker.
82)
Once a devotee, devotee forever. s
83)
What can be enoyed for its own sake is Peace. s
84) Tricks, ploys, however rational, will never
go with Mother's Consciousness. They have absolutely no role to play here.
85) Resources get exhausted when the finite resources
are infinitely used. The progressing mind is infinite. The resource is
old and finite. Oil is old and finite. Modern life expands infinitely.
Therefore it is exhausted.
86) He who begins to love what he so far hated
is crossing into sainthood.
87)
The presence of the mind in the form of thought or memory prevents the oy
reaching its acme. It does so only in total forgetfulness.&
88) Man seeks intensity. When his character does
not permit positive intensity, life gives him negative intensity which is
suffering. Some enoy intensity in imagination. In positive persons it is later
confirmed. In negative ones, later it turns out to be a disappointment. It
becomes a preparation to enoy
positively. The suffering of humanity which the great souls wanted to abolish
is humanity's preparation to receive oy. s
89) As the government comes to you from high or
low levels, Kali exists at the level of village goddess as well as Mahakali. It
is a simple mind that takes Kali of several levels as the self-same. s
90) The conscious mind thinks of Mother when faced
with a problem. The subconscious thinks of Her always.
The occurrence of a problem indicates we are in the conscious mind and forgot
Her. s
91) Concentration necessary to start consecration is not
attained by one who is at the threshold of moksha. Moksha is attained by the
full concentration of a part. Consecration is started by the full concentration
of the whole. s
92) As the man who takes good care of his body
suffers no disease, he who confines himself to the rules of life does not meet
with evil.
93) In our own context, there is only oy.
Comparison with others creates pain of disappointment.
94) Termites in the house show that our
attention is withdrawn from things. When human consciousness withdraws, the
animal consciousness takes over.
95) Racial prejudice is so total that Gandhii,
Nehru and Sri Aurobindo were denied the prize given to Teresa.
96) The shrinking milk supply in Mother's dining
room rose three fold by an outside visitor's writing about it. That is the
power of Her Force.
97) Acting without trying to understand lets the
force work in us.
98) There is no ordeal like the ordeal of
expectation. It turns into one of enoyment and aspiration when you expect the
Divine.
99)
The ant is small. Elephant is big. But HE who made both of them is great and He used the
same energy to create both. Can we see Him and the energy HE spent in creating the ant and know
the ant and the elephant are equal.s
100) The interest that increases is service. That which
flags is human.
DAILY MESSAGES
Part VI
1) A family tried to kill one of its
members. Later he who had tried that died. Some social pressure got the
aggrieved member her due. Twenty-five years later, her son took to book service
for two years. Now his 'due' was given amicably, rather abundantly.
Book service is
the vital expression while cleaning is its physical expression.
2) There is no virtue in weakness
unless you see HER in the indwelling weakness.s
3) All those who have been harsh to
us were the bringers of Grace; but let us not take Grace to others through
harshness, since Grace of a greater dimension will certainly come to us with a
stronger hand of harshness.s
4) When a work is done to a 't' we
not only forget Mother who did it, but we forget ourselves. The only thing we
remember is what can be planned next.
5) 'A great work will be done by a
small effort' if SHE precedes our thought of that work in our own minds.&
6) Body exults in keeping things
clean.&
7) I began to examine my mind. I
found that goodwill rarely enters my mind. Now I know why I speak of goodwill
always.
8) No one, not even Mother, has the
power to neutralise the negative work of those to whom She herself has given
the power and freedom.s
9) He who secretly gloats over his
success in his closely guarded secret, often does not know it is already a
public secret.
10) Cleanliness imparts a living touch to the obects and the
floor on which we walk.
11) Cleaning brings physical plenty. Harmony
brings vital plenty. Ideal brings mentally prolific thoughts.s
12) It is Grace that brings luck. Sometimes it
comes with ifs and buts. It is Super Grace that brings Luck to us in rounded
perfection.s