Series III 901-1000
901) Rumour is each man describing himself to the
public.
902) HE was given in the jail the same can for drinking
and for other dirty use to overcome physical sensitivity. Abolition of private property is
an idea that disturbs the mental sensitivity; seeking a mere woman as an adorable wife the
vital sensitivity. These are the marvels of the Lord.
903) The hooded Gnosis the Inconscient is explained as
the Lord’s humour of presenting the fangs of a poisonous snake as a wonder to Mother. (p. 1039, Fangs - Agenda)
904) While on the borders of Matter to cross into Mind,
Man actively and intensively exhausts doing things outside – starts doing things
before understanding them.
905) In life man DOES see a little of
the process mind misses and only the supramental sees. The educated man shunning a
middle-class job and choosing to start a shop sees that in physical terms. Humility helps
man see it mentally. Desire to please another gives the same perception vitally.
Spiritually it is seen when one goes away from the surface to the depths in the subliminal
or inner being.
906) Seeing the process opens the gates to the
supramental and vice versa.
907) The inherent aspiration of the being for the
Supreme translates into happiness, delight, ecstasy, in different parts of the being.
908) Impersonality is the pure substance of the nature
of Being.
909) The message of The Life Divine is all resources are infinite and
if we understand them, we can get them.
910) To the finite person resources are finite; to the
infinite being resources are infinite.
911) Man is after material, vital, and mental resources;
God seeks infinite resources of infinite Delight.
912) God deciding to come into the world and living
among men would surely not be universally
adored and acclaimed. He may meet with stiff opposition even as avatars met.
913) Man has learnt to tolerate only what is subservient
to him, not his equal or superior.
914) To revive any old interest will be detrimental to
yoga as even new interests will not serve its purpose.
915) It is not interest that will serve yoga but
aspiration, aspiration that releases freshness.
916) It is not generosity or broadmindedness to consider
everyone as a friend in a place where everyone loves to destroy you. It is blind folly
loving to outgrow itself without first acquiring the content and strength.
917) Vain generosity is lavish in its imagination of
giving away what it does not have.
918) The expansive generous self-giving of a vain poor
man turns into cautious self-preservation and later miserliness when affluence comes to
him.
919) True generosity of a poor person turns into
compassionate self-giving when wealth replaces poverty.
920) Compassionate self-giving is seated in the
substance and multiplies infinitely.
921) Vain generosity is not seated even in the
consciousness. It is there in fantasy and weaves a cocoon of protection of its fast
disintegrating non-personality.
922) The conscience that is awake during the day and in
public and is dormant otherwise is the conscience of the surface mind, not that of the
inner person.
923) Seeking favours from those at whose hands one
suffers indignities, or according the sanction of social emotions to unfaithful spouses
are expressions of the physical personality in the society; not one of vital sensitivities
or mental idealism.
924) Even as Silence reveals more than thinking, the
Unknowable reveals Itself for an effort not to know. It eludes or defies an effort to
know.
925) Not only the elementary school teacher teaches the
primer all his life, but even the avatar has to confine himself all his life to teaching
the rudimentary lessons.
926) The egoless peace of Nirvana makes the eternal
Indian ideal of escaping from the cycles of births and deaths petty.
927) Thinking prevents higher understanding in Silence
even as being hands-on prevents thinking.
928) Thinking, feeling, and sensation prevent higher
silent understanding, finer emotions that lead to Love, emerging of the physical psychic
that teaches the body consciousness.
929) Exercise of any faculty stands in the way of the
emergence of the higher faculty.
930) Surrender is a method of not giving up faculties
but the consciousness that generates faculties.
931) It requires a genius to fathom the ways of a
localised behaviour which practical intelligence sees through experience.
932) Genius is the knowledge of the other man’s
practical ambitions.
933) Grace, Super Grace, Luck, Mother’s Luck,
Spiritual opportunities can take on the appearance of karmic revenge, physical
annihilation, vital humiliation, mentally challenging confusion or even shame. The
criminal and harlot are instances. The fangs of the poisonous snake the Divine has
presented Mother as a joke are a confirmation.
934) Poisonous creatures and poison take the theatre of
evolution to the physical substance at the points where it is organised to perfection so
as to acquire beauty. The Divine asks Mother, pointing to the fangs, “Is it not
wonderful?”
935) It is the psychic of the physical substance that
can see that WONDER.
936) Fowler is trying to plead and demonstrate the
perfection of a language that originated in imperfect social origins. It is the height of
divine creativity that he allows for the growth of linguistic originality that demands
unorthodox extensions.
937) What should be our attitude to contradictions,
acceptance, understanding, welcome, appreciation or endurance, equality, rejection,
destruction? All these attitudes, we forget, are there created by the different stages in
which the evolution proceeds through contradictions.
938) There are several bases or origins of joy such as a
satisfied want, sense of security, excess of energy in the mental or vital. They take the
form of pleasure, joy, Bliss, Delight, etc. They also appear as satisfaction, relief,
contentment, etc.
939) Is there a basis of Joy that by its presence
continuously releases springs of felicity in an increasing measure? It is the relation of
the Divine soul with other Divine souls and with God. Sensing those relations offers that
basis.
940) In life the highest expression of it positively is
one relating to another in the cause of an idealism where the other draws upon oneself for its fulfilment. Negatively it is to sense a
similar relationship with another when he destroys the citadel you have built in the cause
of his own spiritual growth through destruction of another.
941) All these relationships do have the tendency to
cross the limits of the present manifestation when it is spiritual common-sense to pull up
or allow the other to destroy himself instead of destroying what you have built up.
942) One can choose not to act even then. It may take
him back to the original indeterminability of the unmanifested Absolute.
943) Pain issues from vital possessiveness or moral
notion, not from spiritual perception as spirit does not sense pain.
944) What is pain in the mind is creative joy in the
Supermind. Supermind has no sanction of pain of any description.
945) Mind conceives of infinity because it is able to
see the limitation of ideas. Unless the vital feels the infinity and life becomes one of
overflowing abundance, the psychic cannot emerge there. For that the vital, instead of
enjoying its sensation as sensitivity, must be able to know its limitations, enjoying the
opposite of it.
946) ‘It is not so difficult to change as to know
where we should change’ says Mother. It is,
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spiritually in the willingness
to consecrate;
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vitally at the point of
irresistible desires;
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physically in laziness;
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mentally in trying to
understand the other man’s point of view;
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egoistically, it lies at the
centre where it must realise it is ego, not soul;
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in life, in discovering the
infinity of energy and material;
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in Time, to perceive its
eternity;
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in Space, to see its infinity.
947) The maximum accomplishment is in the act in doing
which our body thrills with joy.
948) Physical thrills come from external work, vital
thrill from the emotions received from another, mental thrill is from an idea mind
creates.
949) Spirit as well as the evolving spirit can reverse the order of origination of thrill from
outside to inside. As you go up the reversal shows.
950) Self-giving, a spiritual act of the being, can
generate the thrill inside without needing the external stimulus.
951) Acts of self-giving accomplish the most.
952) One type of common disappointment is the
expectation of results for an endowment one does not have.
953) To read a wearisome book with interest is to work
in the substance of mind.
954) He who has achieved in the consciousness looking
for results in the substance will not meet with disappointment. The project will be a
non-starter.
955) Doing things in which we are interested means
expressing skills already formed. Doing things in which we are not interested means
forming new skills. Formation of new skills requires an enormous energy and therefore is
uninteresting.
956) Being interested, ‘Doing what I want to
do’, stolen pleasure, cheating, betrayal, cruelty, being silly, substandard,
shameless, etc. are all summed up as: Man is lazy.
957) When we see assertion, lack of manners, meanness,
perversity, jealousy, joy in betrayal in the light of their process, objectively, the
intensity of reaction loses its edge.
958) Desire to support a non-earning brother for life,
wanting to borrow, shameless soliciting of help, gossiping, responding to the philanderer,
immorality, lack of self-respect all come under one description. From the point of view of
energy required for self-discipline, they all are the same.
959) Supramental life demands relating to another as a
soul. The gradations that lead to it are rationality, social values, and hard work.
960) Rationality is to relate to another mentally. Good
behaviour is social relationship. By hard work one relates to oneself psychologically for
survival.
961) Sense of comparison is an index of the presence of
ego.
962) Spiritually, no one is lazy. Each seeks a different
goal.
963) The supramental view demands viewing another from
his own point of view of maximum possible enjoyment which is a vision of marvel.
964) Desire to accomplish, initiative, and discipline
all belong to one who wants to progress in his own plane.
965) Knowing the value of non-accomplishment, sarvaramba
parityagi, and freedom all belong to one who wishes to move to the next plane.
966) Nalayini
mastered Time by perfecting chastity, a characteristic of culture. Her husband doing the
same service to her will be frowned upon by the culture but will be sanctioned by life
outside formed culture. It will give him mastery over Timelessness.
967) When man acquires a great experience, he has the
tendency to benefit by that experience which, at last, will give him either greater
experience or the essence of that experience. By using that experience to go beyond it, to
shun the earlier acquisition, he derives the best benefit of crossing the plane that
yielded that experience.
968) When good and evil present themselves to man, he
chooses one. To accept both and relate to the good in both is to move from mind to
Supermind.
969) Suppression, discipline, elimination will not serve
His purposes. Only transformation is permissible. Even ego is not to be eliminated which
He says will eliminate our life in the cosmos. Human love, He says, is not to be given up
but transformed.
970) Suppression allows the vibration to grow below the
surface. Discipline yields a localised result. Elimination defeats the purpose of
evolution. There will be nothing there to evolve.
971) Suppression gains the appearance. Discipline
secures the desired result. Elimination
gives freedom. All belong to the local context. Only transformation belongs to the field
of evolution of the whole.
972) Service is a social conception. One cannot serve
another soul, he can only relate to it on conditions acceptable to souls. Divine service
is an exalted social term; in the domain of spiritual evolution it is a misnomer.
973) To meet another as a soul, you can receive the
message that soul has for you and withdraw from the scene. Only the Divine Soul can enjoy
the difference between other Divine Souls. It is not given to man.
974) Desire for the best possible relation is still a
human emotion. Neither your soul nor the other’s can figure there.
975) No one who has not realised his own soul and raised
it to the status of the Divine Soul can aspire for a soul relationship with another.
976) The maximum that human relationships permit is
fulfilment of duty and pleasant, positive attitude.
977) Having different attitudes to different people is
to function from the mental plane.
The soul attitude knows that all souls are equal
grappling differently the circumstances for difference experiences.
978) The souls are not different. The experience they
seek in this birth is different from one another.
979) To
realise equality with other souls is to be awake in one’s own soul.
980) Reaction is that of the ego; relation with another
soul is unegoistic attitude; enjoyment of that relation belongs to the soul.
981) He who is incapable of acts that are morally known
as cruel acts is also incapable of expressing Divine Love.
982) Anger is socially impermissible, morally
self-defeating, and spiritually destroys its one endowment equality. The Force in anger
which does the same thing as anger to the other more powerfully is Divine and one must not
hesitate to be its instrument when called upon to express it.
983) The Sadhu is not one incapable of anger, but is one
whom anger can never overpower.
984) It is not for moral rectitude that one should
desist from anger, rather the expression of the force in anger, but for reasons of
spiritual equality.
985) Retaliation wishes for the annihilation of anger,
self-defence aims at preserving oneself, but equality by its incapacity to react sends
back hostile forces to their origin, which brings about the destruction in a more complete
measure.
986) Divine Love is pure force, a force nothing on earth
can now withstand and how can that pass through an instrument that shies away from a force
of anger which is feeble before it.
987) People gravitate towards a great soul not so much
for the enlightenment, not even for the mundane benefits but for the attraction of the
force he has.
988) Force is power. Its attraction is the greatest.
989) Attraction of gain is physical, that of knowledge
is mental, both of which are creative in their own planes. Force is of the consciousness.
Its original power is a power that lies beyond Supermind in the consciousness. The Force
we speak of is from the supramental plane.
990) Force becomes divine love when it passes through
the human soul.
991) Man’s hesitation to use the force is more due
to his attachment to the mental notions of right than to any native objection to it as
Force.
992) Force gives one the fullness of the plane of
consciousness whereas equanimity that prevents anger can give only the fullness of the
mental plane.
993) Force is the origin of the will that created the
universe.
994) Force is the nature of being expressing through
consciousness.
995) Divine Love in its expression may feel Joy, but
Force is beyond the plane of any sensation.
996) Force may be conscious of its being force, cannot
have any sensation, even joy or delight.
997) Dreams of parents or grandparents dying are symbols
of one’s outgrowing their parental inheritance. Parents praying for the death of a
child is the child’s weaning away from the parents evolutionarily.
998) Jealousy of family or friends or society, in that
sense, is the subtle index for the individual outgrowing the opportunities of growth in
that sector.
999) Fond memories of the past relationships are
lingering subtle inabilities to detach oneself effectively from them.
1000) Memory makes us
insincere is a statement of Mothers which implies the above truth.