Series III,
501-600
501) Calling Mother completes the work for which we call
Her. The emerging psychic makes Mother’s action permanent.
502) Substance that is produced when being becomes
conscious is Spirit.
Mind giving birth to Life creates energy.
Consciousness turning into Ananda produces force.
Supermind creating mind produces thought.
504) Writing that contains facts is understandable on
reading. Writing that contains concepts is understandable on thinking.
505) The Upanishads say things are made of ether. Ether
constitutes things but when things go into ether they disappear. A parallel to that is the
Board creates the company, the CEO, the Chairman and is the company, but when the company
goes into the Board, the Board can dissolve the company.
506) Thoughts reflect the facts outside. Scholars
collect it and become experts. Idea is a state of being that arises out of thinking.
Scholars rarely grow into thinkers.
507) Theoretically there is no sin or virtue, only
neutral acts. Man coming through circumstances to do acts of sin as if they were virtues
of his life is indirectly qualified to recognise the same in others.
508) When a
man who has resented another’s sin comes to commit the same sin, he realises that the
other man was not sinful. He comes to such a conclusion in various ways:
· It is a virtue for me, but a sin for others.
· As he is doing it, he condones it in others, but no
one should do it to him.
· He is able to realise the nature of the act only
when he does it. Still, he is unable to accept the truth.
· As he sees his own act as the Divine Will, it is
possible for him to view others’ acts similarly
too for a while.
· His own act comes back to him for him to realise
the Marvel.
509) The finite can enjoy playing the game only from one
side. The Infinite can play it from both sides equally, enjoying it while it is on either
side since it has the capacity of self-absorption.
510) Betrayal is loyalty at a distance trying to catch
attention by the only faculty it has, even as a friend at a great distance wanting your
attention throws a stone at you that hits you hard.
511) Urge is the initiative of substance.
512) It is man’s vital authority that rules now
which permits those in authority to enjoy what they deny to others. Democracy, free
market, social equality are changing the centre of that vital authority to the common man,
the poor man, the woman and the oppressed. Oppression remains; its participants have
exchanged roles.
513) As civilisation advances, vital authority will be
replaced by the authority of rationality. Then man will agree to abolish marriage,
inheritance, private property, offering full freedom to women, opportunity to youth to
fully grow and the government to administer what the individual has earned.
514) Man can rise from the rational authority to
spiritual equality when he discovers the criminal and the harlot as great souls.
515) Beyond spiritual equality lies the pure Godhead as
it evolves in humanity and earth. It is then man can enjoy God as woman and will have the
insight to convert himself into woman for God to enjoy him, transcending the duality of
the male and female principles.
516) There is a normal conflict between understanding
and enjoyment. To enjoy what the mind understands to be good, is the first step towards
transformation, the final step being the capacity to accomplish what the mental
understanding sanctions.
517) Shamelessness is physical since the physical is
only aware of itself.
518) Mind, when it touches the emotions, ordinarily
jars. Touching the emotions at an inappropriate moment, it hurts because the only response
emotion gives to mind is reaction.
519) The small man evaluates the ideal in terms of his
experience. The idealist tries to understand his experience in terms of the ideal.
520) The surest indication of a selfish man is his
calling an utterly selfless person selfish.
521) As society has conscious and unconscious people,
the psychologically unconscious have psychological problems. The socially conscious
progress easily in society; the psychologically conscious do not suffer from psychological
problems. HE wants us to be
evolutionarily conscious, i.e. to become the evolving God.
522) Not being able to consecrate, or do a thing which
you understand, is not understanding it physically since the body starts doing as soon as
it understands.
523) Consecration makes the part into the whole by
taking the thought from the surface to the depth. There it takes the act from nature to
the soul by moving from the inner being to the subliminal.
524) Inner subtle vision: There are grades. To begin
with, one finds it difficult to conceive that there is something other than the physical
reality. Next, one feels inside everything is dark. The dark inner atmosphere resolves
into animal figures, insects, etc. Darkness gives place to greyness and some light shows.
In an atmosphere of light, events related to us reveal themselves. Light increases and
vision increases with light. Vision next embraces wider and higher planes till it is
vision at will.
525) Knowledge emerging out of Ignorance: In children
the knowledge of the parents is hidden. They exert themselves most to let that knowledge
flower. Parents do not have a greater joy than bringing out their own hidden knowledge in
the children. The joy is greatest because it has gone out of their hands.
526) Overcoming the grief within, unable to respond to
grief inside, Savitri says She has overcome Death.
527) The finest joys of the human heart outlive
themselves until a fresh accumulation of energy makes it possible again. The Divine Joy is
ever-living, non-stop, like life.
528) Raising any activity to a status of permanency is
to transform its human character into divine status.
529) The diabetic’s enjoyment of sweets hurts his
health. The soul’s enjoyment of discipline hurts the senses. These are expressions of
progress through contradictions. The senses and the soul enjoying the same is progress
through unity.
530) The pain of progress through contradictions, the
joy of progress through unity are two faces of the Absolute in involution and evolution.
531) Pain is the intense joy of evolution while man is
identified with the process.
532) Pain is the sensation of the objective experience.
Shifting to subjective experience it is no longer pain. Going beyond objectivity and
subjectivity, it is neither pain nor pleasure but original Ananda. Pain and pleasure are
stages in Ananda’s march to delight.
533) The enemy’s infliction of injustice extends
one’s domain of existence negatively.
534) What the enemy does negatively can be positively
done by consecration at the level of
substance.
535) Sensational experience of both will be the same for
the evolving man, undiluted pain. It is only the evolving God in man that can enjoy
delight in Lila, not the man.
536) Senses that give pain to man offer pure delight to
God.
537) Converting senses from a channel of pain into a
channel of delight is purification of senses.
538) Human senses are instruments of the finite.
Purified senses are channels of the Infinite. Purification is to convert the finite into
the Infinite.
539) Finite seeking purification intensifies the
existing pain since it tries to go from the finite to the Infinite.
540) The Infinite waking inside and emerging is a
process of the opposite. Being a process of Lila, it issues delight.
541) To die to the finite surface and awake in the
Infinite in the depths is consecration. He
who has given up initiation initiates it in the greatest of human depths.
542) Yoga is the process of human initiative
transforming itself into divine action.
543) It is a moment when the Divine in the ego chooses
to awake and dissolve itself.
544) A concentration that takes one to the divine seed
in the ego makes consecration possible.
545) To convert the existing potentialities into
results, methods are useful. To create fresh potentialities, methods are useless.
546) Fresh potentialities are created by understanding a
fresh idea that is higher. It becomes results when acted upon.
547) Social evolution is the majority of the society
mentally achieving what the pioneer achieved physically. Its spread is possible as it is
the subconscious knowledge of the society.
548) Purna Yoga is to raise the evolutionary centre in
Man from the physical to the Spirit, making a beginning with the mind.
549) The energy needed in this yoga for the
concentration is one that is greater than needed by Nirvikalpa
Samadhi, where even branding will not restore
sensation.
550) Awakening in Purna Yoga comes when one is able to
see ALL actions of his as perfect expressions of complete folly and is no longer enamoured
of them.
551) An earlier stage or penultimate stage is to see
every other person like that.
552) All that we cherish such as human existence,
happiness, practically useful knowledge, unfailingly working technologies, administrative
accomplishment are INTEGRAL as the
Integrality of the Absolute includes Being and Non-Being.
553) Integrality at any level includes the opposite
fully.
554) Nothing that is not integral is fully efficient or
satisfactory.
555) An efficiently working clock or an office or an
individual is integral in his constitution as well as functioning.
556) Revelation of Marvel comes to an integral
knowledge.
557) Conceptual knowledge of the Marvel will reveal it
as a concept, not as a reality.
558) Fate and free will: the infinite freedom of the
finite is the finite determination of the Infinite.
559) The sensation of this knowledge in the vital
generates infinite energy. The physical sensation of the same gives infinite power.
560) The desire to know is of the mind, to try to know
the Law or rationale is still of the mind or ego. Abandoning them all in favour of MOTHER
alone is faith.
561) Man lives within a radius of his own perception
within which he is extraordinarily intelligent and resourceful. It is a radius of
unconsciousness. Outside that he commits acts
of utter folly.
562) Every situation is infinitely creative in
potential. It is circumscribed by our lack of experience, lack of interest or lack of
comprehension.
563) The practical concept of infinity becomes practical
reality of infinite resources through infinite interest.
564) Man is infinite in potential, finite in his
experience, interest, comprehension or equality.
565) God is infinite consciousness; God in Life is
infinite resources of ways of life one wills.
566) To make Infinity a practical concept of daily life
is to realise HIS yoga in life.
567) Such a conception in the material brain – mind
involved in brain – transforms Matter, a condition where Spirit moves Matter.
568) Spirit moving Matter is a condition where the
subconscient will becomes conscious.
569) Theory formulates long experience into a concept
and elevates it from the physical plane of random observation to a constructed rational
scheme of thought.
570) Frowning on higher behaviour which one should learn
is the last stage of organised ignorance and its emotional protest.
571) What responds to the touches or onslaughts of
another’s ego is only our ego. Ego reacts; in its absence, there is response.
572) The soul coming to the surface and looking around
gives us the sense of wonder. Wonder is the sensation of the soul in life.
573) Initiation
is the act of the being, even as thought, feeling and movement are the acts of mind, vital
and the body.
574) He who recognises that divorce is as natural and as
compelling as marriage is unable to divorce even after choosing to marry. That knowledge
assuming the force of practical wisdom prior to marriage leads to brahmacharyam which is a
theoretical possibility.
575) Activity based on thought cannot be effective
beyond the mental plane. Those that are effective in life originate from emotions.
Builders of institutions or lasting empires let their actions issue out of physical
sensation borne out of long experience.
576) Even when world stirring actions originate in the
soul, they must pass through the levels of mental thought, emotional intensities and
finally convert themselves into lasting monuments in societies.
577) God acts through the perfected human soul in whom
the field of awakened spirit at the level of being is open. It may either be evolutionary
or not. For it to be evolutionary, the awakened spirit must be his evolving psychic.
578) God’s action through the awakened spirit
expands the present life when it is non-evolutionary.
579) Authenticity and Self-Existence are the stamps of
the Absolute.
580) A Self-Existent thought survives without the help
of agents of preservation and spreads without the need of media.
581) A Self-Existent vital sensation effectuates itself
without the need of external support of any description.
582) A Self-Existent act multiplies itself throughout
the world and the universe.
583) The stone is the Absolute in matter, even as the
plant and human body are the Absolute in the vital planes.
584) The Absolute expressing in thoughts generates
immortal words.
585) When
one’s spoken words come true, it is the
Absolute partially or fully expressing in words.
586) Information is propagated and is effective when the
knowledge in it is understood and acted upon.
587) At another level, information is knowledge itself.
588) As information is knowledge itself in the plane of
mind that receives it so, information or knowledge can be result itself if it is absolute
information or absolute knowledge.
589) Mariadoss could not accept the coconut proposal
because he had no mental power to convert the information into knowledge and then into
effectivity. From my side it was information, not absolute information. For that to be
absolute information, the Absolute should have touched my mind.
590) The absolute touching the mind makes the mind lose
its normal traits of expectation, pride, satisfaction, etc.
591) Perfection in any plane is the path of reaching the
Absolute or bringing the Absolute down to the plane. It is a path that is a method, a path
from below, ascent. Descent is to rise to the Absolute and consciously let it pour down on
any plane.
592) The Absolute descending on any plane brings
perfection as a consequence while perfection prepares that plane to qualify receiving the
Absolute.
593) Perfection of any plane is like the good opposed to
evil. Perfection that issues out of the Absolute descending on that plane is like the
Self-Existent Good.
594) At the base of expectation, complaint, grievance,
wanting to settle ancient scores lies memory.
595) Expectation fulfilled is accomplishment in that
plane. Dissolving memory, wiping out lingering expectations, gives an ever-fresh joy which
the fulfilment of that plane is incapable of.
596) HE said the West realised Brahman in Matter when HE referred to the
Perfection in their works.
597) Error-free printing in India is certainly that
Perfection if it is also accompanied by error-free writing.
598) Cleanliness, orderliness, organisation,
systematisation, perfection are the elements of that state.
599) To rise above the need of that Perfection is to be
able to bring it about through external agencies. As Mother brought that Perfection to HIM, it must come to one.
600) Something coming on its own is Grace, is the
condition to realise the Absolute.
Mother seeking us is an indication that the Absolute can be realised in us.