Series III
801) Flatness is the enjoyment of the physical of its
lifeless routine which the vital resents.
802) Human mentality is separative human ignorance labouring towards identical knowledge.
803) Life is the determinant of the embodied being, not
the body or the soul.
804) Energy is the determinant of our faculties, not the
faculties themselves.
805) In a condition of reversal, the faculties will be the determinant of energy and the being the determinant of life.
806) The small being appreciates offence; offends
appreciation, worse still, suspects.
807) Mother’s methods and principles fully followed
usher one into yoga. As SHE
is moving towards us in any single work, however small it is, it is possible to reach the
heights for purposes of fulfilling it. In it ALL that She speaks is included. Only that we are
unconscious of the process and conscious of the result.
808) Purity of service and heroism in the battle reveal
the Divine in life. *
809) To know the other man’s point of view is to
know the world as a marvel for each one of them. It is only in God’s point of view
that the world will be a marvel to us.
810) The need for another makes us see his strength,
overlooking his defects. The need for another’s soul for our soul sees neither
strength, nor weakness, but only the relationship.
811) Each soul’s God-awareness enables him to
relate to the soul of another.
812) The relationship with another soul is different
from the soul experience of God-awareness. (The relationship with another soul is a
different soul experience from God-awareness.)
813) Man plays the game of life as he plays a game of
cards. To know Mother, the Supramental plane that has determined everything on earth, is
to play the same game of cards as if you knew everyone’s cards.
814) The spirit that seeks release seeks the infinite
spirit above. The spirit that seeks evolution first becomes infinite.
815) No man would agree to aim at a joy a whit less than
the maximum possible in his present understanding.
816) Any new ideal can only show him a higher one is
possible.
817) Disease, frustration, failure, pain and all the
ills of humanity we now witness are for the individual the source of an ardent aspiration
towards which his whole energy is exercised through the maximum possible organisation of
his consciousness.
818) It may be a social tragedy but not an individual
tragedy in the evolutionary sense.
819) Should the question, ‘Why should we try to
change the world at all?’ be raised, the answer is that effort for the individual
answers the above rule.
820) After reading The
Life Divine, reaching Light, still one becomes superstitious and strengthens the
opposite.* What decides is where your feet are planted, not what you know. Hence the
importance of nature.
821) “I am doing everything. Why is there no
result?” he
asked Mother. She opened both of her hands in despair because he had been strengthening
the opposite.
822) Changing
the roots is changing the attitude.
823) When the whole being accepts something, the gross
becomes subtle and can even become causal.
824) Perfection lies not in the gross or subtle but in
the causal plane.
825) Transformation is integral change. Surface changing
into inner; gross changing into causal; matter changing into spirit; idea into Real-Idea;
pleasure into bliss and then into delight; relative into its Absolute and the individual
realising that he indwells the Supreme.
826) The Absolute and the relative are co-existent.
827) The Absolute is the relative; the relative is the
Absolute.
828) The touch of the Absolute makes the relative
absolute relative.
829) The relative that is only aware of itself is
finite.
830) The relative that is aware of its origin in the
Absolute is infinite.
831) The relative that is able to know it is the
Absolute that has become relative is Infinite.
832) The finite becoming infinite is evolution; its
becoming Infinite is Transformation.
833) Ego being ego, knowing its origin is Supreme; the
Supreme knowing it is disguising itself as ego are the corresponding several stages.
834) Stupidity insisting on its admirable wisdom is
God’s laughing at Shankara since it is the Absolute that took upon itself the aspect
of stupidity ridiculing the immaturity of human effort to change it.
835) Stupidity is in the gross plane; human effort that
tries to change it can rise to the subtle plane; stupidity that laughs, laughs from the
causal plane.
836) Stupidity taking initiative in areas where it has
no knowledge is NOT stupid,
but it is its way of defence.
837) The best defence of a faculty, e.g. stupidity,
takes on the appearance of its own characteristic stamp.
838) The wisest act of self-preservation of stupidity
heightens its quality of being stupid.
839) Any faculty putting up the best defence does so by
rising higher in its own plane.
840) HE means this when HE says that to cure the disorders of a plane we
must carry them to a greater height.
841) The finite becoming infinite and turning into the
Infinite reveals all these potentialities in any field.
842) Cashbox, grain store, etc. are not fully emptied
because the force that acts is the force in the plane of grain and it needs continuity.
Mother’s force is NOT
the force of grain and it is outside it. Therefore for Her there should be no remainder
left which is a hindrance for Her force.
843) Training benefits by method which increases
efficiency. Originality cannot receive training and cannot benefit by methods.
844) Methods when perfect can surpass content in
appearance.
845) Surrender is a method that is content itself.
846) Surrender, starting as a method reaches the content
to become content itself by identification.
847) HE starts everything planting His feet in the
Absolute, keeping up the full appearance of the relative, leading them back to the
Absolute.
848) In surrender, concentration, evolution and all the
methods and devices HE
employs HE keeps the
appearance of the known to the ignorant, changes its basis, character and leads him to the
unknown starting from the known. In none of these acts is there any trace of the
dead past, the finite.
849) The past is dead. People cling to death by relying
on the past. He brings the past into the present and that is the only concession HE grants the past, the
right to lose itself like Freedom as the final law.
850) The values of social personalities will have their
social version since values of any plane express more of the plane than of itself.
851) Practical ignorance:
To know where one is in terms of all his faculties and acts he is doing and know
where he should move to similarly is to get rid of this ignorance.
852) With the best of intentions, nostalgia can only
lower the consciousness. The response is not for the intention but for the consciousness
invoked.
853) Without energy, joy and prosperity infinitely
expanding, one cannot say he has come to Her.
854) Partial expressions of such increase reveal that
his roots are in the past.
855) Only those who are happy to part with the past with
the knowledge that past is low can begin surrender. Sticking to the past and surrender are
opposite movements and will cancel each other.
856) ‘Past’ or 'low’, do not belong to the act that is neutral. The attitude and consciousness are the
determinants.
857) If Force does not surge up, luck does not chase
you, and all your work is not overfulfilled, it means that Mother is one of the gods to
us, not a Force..
858) Man cannot overcome nature. He can accept Mother.
If one tries to give up nature after accepting Mother, nature will yield its hold on him.
859) Nature is strong. Our own enjoyment fortifies it.
The strength is not the original strength of nature.
860) When we are detached from nature, it is a desirable
condition. Nature is fortified by our identification with it.
861) Without realising the soul, the ego cannot be
dissolved; without dissolving the ego, the soul cannot be realised. The way out is to
surrender each act of ego to the soul. Ego beginning to give way will be like the earth
under our feet giving way.
862) Silence that precedes surrender is not mental
silence but it is Supramental silence.
863) Mental silence stills thoughts, without which
surrender cannot be initiated. It does not have the power to surrender thoughts.
864) Mental silence is silence of thoughts. It is the
silence of the mental psychic that is capable of surrender.
865) Stilling the thoughts, the power issues out of a
decision. It is not enough to surrender them.
866) Only something stronger than thoughts can surrender
thought.
867) Mother’s Force that enters by calling can
surrender thoughts because calling itself is an act of surrender.
868) Surrender being surrender of ego, the energy for
surrender must be as pervasive as ego.
869) Surrender has vast, wide, beneficial material
results, but can never be evaluated in those terms.
870) All human conceptions being conceptions of ego,
there is nothing else to conceive of surrender.
871) Ego’s conception of surrender is
self-defeating, an illusion, a paradox.
872) However stupid or unconscious Man’s life
appears, it is exercising a great intelligence in a consummate fashion even as the inert
matter is in constant motion and at an inconceivable speed.
873) He has the energy for transformation. Only that he
must consent to it or change his view of sense and substance.
874) Man changing his view is God awakening in him.
875) Man’s enjoyment of self-discovery rising
beyond a point leads to an awakening.
876) What is the difference between unconscious groping
and conscious awakening if it is not the Infinite’s self-conception at that moment
and at that level?
877) The Infinite that chose self-absorption and
self-discovery is not bound to follow a fixed course at the beginning. It is free to
change the speed, velocity, momentum of its movement at any time. HE initiates us into that ever present change.
878) The course of the Infinite is not finite. It can be
infinite too. And it can change infinitely.
879) Evolution of form follows the path of horizontal
growth of repetition.
880) Evolution of consciousness follows the path of
vertical expansion that does not repeat even once.
881) Spiritual evolution can either be evolution of
consciousness or an evolution of the infinite into Infinite.
882) All that we know of so far can limit us when the
evolution is still according to any law.
883) When law gives way, the universe dissolves and
recreates at every moment, the infinite evolves into the Infinite that includes the finite
and the infinite.
884) Is there any rule that the Divine should not change
its chosen course mid-stream?
885) The greatest of spiritual experiences awaits on man
to turn away from what he is.
886) When one of the few hundred ideas of The Life Divine is fully assimilated, it raises the
level of mind out of its humanity -- its human limitations.
887) Subtle thoughts are less irrational, being less
rigid.
888) That which is filthy, intolerable and disgusting
will not be so when mind moves to the subtle plane.
889) Mind moving to the spiritual plane can find the
same thing reasonable and acceptable.
890) Only in the Supramental plane will what is filthy
to us become a marvel.
891) When the atmosphere is not ready, the best of
methods evokes no response or discovers a creative way to cancel itself.
892) On withdrawing the belief in the method, the
atmosphere becomes ripe and ready.
893) Mother’s Force creates results. It can create
the atmosphere, it can create the aspiration for the atmosphere also, but it chooses its
own preference.
894) She invites you to receive the Force, to become the
Force, to become Herself.
895) Do you really need Her, Her Force, to receive Her
Force, is the only question for you.
896) Physical skill, its finest expression, loves a
similar skill of the mind or spirit.
897) Perfect skill of one plane meeting perfect skill of
another plane creates perfection.
898) Energy, skill, capacity, talent, ability each
becoming perfect and working in unison makes the plane perfect for you.
899) Abuse can have a penetration which solicitude may
not have in an atmosphere of less developed people. This abuse can give a sweetness by its
penetration which solicitude cannot have here and material results of far reaching
consequences.
900) Whether
abuse or solicitude, what produces the results which are the results of inner joy is the
penetration from one side and receptivity on the other side.