Oct. 9, 2001
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Having
known Mother for a long time, one often feels that he has not made any progress
by knowing Her. Some say, “There was an initial spurt, later it subsided.”
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When
Mother is all, how can one not feel the change?
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In
times of prosperous transition, we see most people benefit and a few remain
unaffected.
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There
are others who see the treasure Mother is, but She remains a treasure
untouched.
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The
truths of social transition will clarify these positions.
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Some
changes like the Russian Revolution of 1917 compel everyone to accept the new
way of life.
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Events
like Indian freedom of 1947 remove the fetters of slavery. Those who
consciously avail of the freedom prosper beyond measure and others do not
understand what is happening.
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The
advent of T. V. attracts everyone by its value of entertainment and the social
pressure of spreading new fashion compels everyone to avail of it.
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Brave
men await opportunities of danger and rush at them, and when they succeed
become world famous.
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There
are pioneers and followers.
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There
are social changes that are compelling like having a telephone when it is first
spreading without which life is impossible.
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There
are others like education which if missed push you down to a lower level, but
one survives.
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It
is not difficult to imagine the other ways of change.
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Here,
the question is for one who knows Mother’s spiritual abundance and his own
unchanged status even though knowing all about Her.
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Maybe
he will answer to one of the descriptions of the above mentioned social
changes, as all are there in Mother.
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We
know the agents of achievement. They are energy, aspiration, choice, decision,
dynamism, skill and a variety of aspects representing oneself as well as
society.
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The desired change requires
all of them. No one who does not have even ONE of them can hope for it.
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Such
changes and their requirements can be conceived of in a graded fashion with
spiritual transformation at the top and physical survival of the unfittest at
the bottom.
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All
phenomena we witness in the society are in-between. Among them some can be
considered,
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Meteoric
rise to national prominence.
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Moving
from the middle class to the upper class.
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Daily
wage earner changing into a small proprietor.
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A
life of problems losing all its problems.
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A
young man rising to international fame by writing a book.
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A
technology making one very rich.
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All
one’s rich experience suddenly changing into rewards.
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These
changes will easily go into a scale of physical energy to spiritually rich
mental ideas.
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One
can choose any avenue to rise by qualifying for it.
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I
have chosen a phenomenal increase in income, as it has two advantages.
§ Being a goal of life, it is integrated at its own level and cannot suffer from the defects of being partial.
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It
is almost the easiest situated at the low end of the scale in the vital plane.
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One great value of this
accomplishment is, as it is an accomplishment in life, it keeps open the doors
of progress for the man to rise further if he chooses.
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The
aim of this article is to show how such a goal can be comprehensively achieved
and how even one of the hundred ways too can accomplish it, if chosen with full
understanding.
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Done
RIGHTLY, the progress cannot be anything other than of
infinite dimensions in its own social context.
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This
needs no argument at all, as those in the society who have risen from an
untouchable family to national Presidency have done this, of course
unconsciously.
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The process is to do
consciously what hundreds of men have done unconsciously.
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In
its simplest form, it can be stated as “Avail of all opportunities with a
vengeance till the last drop of your energy is exhausted.” This gives infinite
expansion.
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At
the other end the principle is, “The difference between two at the top level
and the bottom level is after all ONE item of efficiency taken to
its extreme.”
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Consider
two friends of comparable talents, one of whom is a local lawyer and the other
a person who has risen very high in the scale. We find the explanation to be
one from the list below.
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Well,
he pays full attention to his profession and I have not.
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He
always looks for fresh knowledge and benefits by it.
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He
practises what he believes.
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He
works hard and I do not like work.
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If
you go about collecting all the thousand possible explanations, they all reduce
to one of the principles stated below.
One of the standards of efficiency fully accepted and implemented makes the difference between life and death.
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It
is possible to create a comprehensive scale of efficiency as determined by
energy, direction, organisation, values at the physical, vital, mental,
spiritual levels so that we will have before us hundreds of paths of efficiency
rising from below.
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Any
two people of comparable capacities differing fifty times in accomplishment can
always be cited on ONE of these scales at two
ends.
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Studies
undertaken extensively will justify this theme.
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My own conclusion
experimented with many token cases and from observation over fifty years,
corroborated by the study of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother is,
It is easy to raise oneself fifty times by a full-throated effort of perfect efficiency even in one level.
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