DAILY MESSAGES

Series X

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1. Truisms of Life

2. Extension of Their Thought

3. Ideas from The Mother & The Master

1) When we ardently seek surrender of an act, in the purity of the moment the strands of that act, by virtue of the same purity will become powerful and will be contending with the similar strands of surrender. One needs to move even from the act of surrender to the attitude and motive of surrender in greater sincerity.

2) “I do not understand beyond this point.” “This is too much for me and I cannot stand it”, are the human limitations. Yoga begins when we understand what we now do not understand, and stand what is intolerable. To act within limits is human. To cross the border is yoga.

3) When man says, “I want a peaceful life” he means he wants full freedom for his unconscious ego.

4) • Bound not to be bound

• Not even bound by freedom.

• Free, utterly free. Free even from freedom.

5) The process of creation is occult to the mind, but is seen by the Supermind. The mind that is able to see the process becomes Supermind.

6) I learnt it is too low to yearn for happiness. I asked, what else am I to seek for? There was a blank. I insisted. It answered: ‘It is not for you to seek.’

7) Would Mother grant psychic delight to psychic sadness?

9) Is sucking blood a process of creation too?

10) Pain is only for the ego, not for the soul. Why then is the psychic granted the privilege of endless sorrow for eternity?

11) Understanding is prevented by the activity of the mind. How can one steeped in sorrow ever hope to understand?

12) It seems it is the special privilege of parasites to be predators on idealism. Can they too turn up in a vision of marvel?

13) There is no greater pain than to be pleasant to those who await an occasion to destroy you.

14) I longed to make the world happy. It gave me unmerited sorrow.

15) Love intense loves itself.

16) My life is one of sores all over inside. Everyone finds me a happy man!

Happiness can inversely express sorrow.

17) Trusted friendship – the bitter end of betrayal.

18) To one who can dissolve the sorrow of a tragedy, no tragedy ever comes.

19) To understand the supramental process as detailed in The Life Divine is conception. It is perception when you see it occur in life. To allow our being to be an instrument for that vibration gives the sensation that is gratitude.

20) Details of a thought as expressed in an essay will remain in the mind when the perspective is seen or when memorised.

21) People who win big lottery prizes always, at least often, lose all their money and sometimes even what they had before. This is because when more comes in than the personality can hold, the existing structure gives way, wiping out the basis.

33) If what we see as a foolish behaviour in others is approached from their own point of view, it will reveal itself to be an expression of a great effort well conceived and very well expressed. Folly for one is genius for another.

34) Silent waiting gives the knowledge which trial and error give at the end.

35) The fool eagerly embarks on the follies the world has given up long ago and then learns or does not learn. How do we learn except by trial and error? The only conscious method open to us is the fool’s unconscious method.

• The fool is unconsciously foolish; we have the privilege of being consciously foolish.

37) To conceive of a concept higher than the contradictory ones is mental courage. To phrase it in brief words, mental clarity of a high order is needed.

45) The ingenuous genius is the idiot.

The bound Freedom.

Free imprisonment.

Outer life and inner yoga.

52) Descent is to split. Ascent is to integrate. To turn the descent into ascent is awakening of the Being in the Becoming.

53) Normally a professional is one who holds one piece of useful knowledge which he organises by experience. By definition he cannot pursue knowledge.

54) Greater knowledge is, often, knowledge extended or applied.

55) Extension of knowledge by application is energising the subtlety of life.

56) He who opposes on the surface will prolong your life in the depth.

57) Absence of death prevents birth of life in matter.

58) One version of Sarvam Brahman is to say the atom is a full universe in miniature, which contains in it every single process the universe knows.

59) Converting pain into Ananda is human evolution. Converting psychic sadness into supramental bliss is the divine delight.

60) All processes of creation are present at all levels and act, thus keeping their integrality, absoluteness and infinity forever.

63) Matter takes on Form, which becomes perfect in Spirit before it merges in the Absolute.

64) Human enjoyment is in stagnant status. Divine JOY is in movement.

65) Evolution begins with energy and ends in form.

66) His evolution includes involution.

67) Delight is there not only in evolving but also in involving.

68) · Ananda in matter turns sad in its untransformed parts.

· Psychic needs to be born in matter. Sadness there is inevitable as there is a part left uncovered.

69) Manifestation is all-delight for the unmanifest.

72) Capacity to create something out of nothing is the capacity of Brahman.

73) For the friendship not to mature in betrayal, one’s personality growth should outgrow the growth of intensity of friendship.

75) Genuine attitudes of surrender will be accompanied by expectation making it less pure.

76) Life emerges in matter as death.

79) Selfishness will not allow even divine love to pass its test successfully, if it does not serve its purpose.

80) Life’s Omnipotence in the finite appears as incapacity.

81) Desire is Bliss in Time and Space.

82) He who sees a fool as a fool is the FOOL.

83) As the driver who drives the President-elect to the swearing-in ceremony feels that he has given him the presidentship, man always feels he confers benefits on others.

84) Force and Grace should await their turn after Saravanan and soapstone in the scheme of devotees.

85) It is true one understands as he speaks. He can understand better when he refuses to speak. By refusing to speak, knowledge sprouts inside. By speaking out after it is born inside, KNOWLEDGE sprouts in the hearer, as it flows out of an unmoving reservoir.

86) ‘Death makes life immortal’.

When a higher principle is coerced into a smaller existence, the coercion is negatived by an eternal positive principle.

87) The intensity of Bliss imprisoned in the physical atom is pain, confined to the individualised vital finite is desire.

89) It is life that can easily lend itself to universalising. Harmony is the impulse, universe is the plane for the fulfilment of life.

90) Desire for the approving admiration of erstwhile rivals, enemies, friends and acquaintances is not, as is generally conceived, magnanimity, but lack of experience in subtle life knowledge.

93) There is no single move or strategy or even ACT that can wholly neutralise folly. It can give a one-time result.

95) It is love -- purity that is love -- that offers, knowing full well it will be rejected.

103) Love is romantic. But mere romance cannot pass for love.

Love that is romantic or not is abiding, as it is of the heart and its deeper springs. Romance can be of the nerves, its educated idealist version or even a social ideal.

Love abides, romance is fleeting.

104) One’s patriotism, integrity, understanding of the collective are all summarised in one’s emotions in paying his taxes.

106) Desire to communicate is a desire to create problems.

107) The love of drama, of the miraculous, the overcoming of the impossible are all of the physical. The supramental manages to pass the true great miracle for the ordinary.

108) Memory goes back to a particular period of the past and stays on it for a while, before it changes.

109) To accept a new philosophy is difficult. To practise it, it is necessary to develop the procedures in detail without one link missing. It needs experience that has theoretical clarity.

111) Thought dissects the form of energy from the force of energy which helps studying. To understand, it is necessary to see the whole.

112) Public opinion is formed by the highest comprehension of the public from all the available impressions.

Wilful opinions based on impressionable facts are public opinions.

113) Being and consciousness are not different in the higher experience. It is cosmic consciousness.

114) Relationships have their intensities and their limits. Issues have their own limits. When the issue travels beyond the reality of the relationships, the issue prevails, not the relationship.

115) To explain from the result the laws that produced it is a great knowledge of the laws, but that is different from a knowledge of the laws towards a possible result, if not a precise prediction. The one can be a partial knowledge while the other cannot afford to be so.

116) In the social progress, the civilised state of living we are in, past indignities are vastly reduced. An aspiring man who is pushed around rarely knows he is being frowned at now instead of being murdered. The pattern remains, the intensity is less.

117) Taking their words implicitly as literal fact or gospel truth – ÷ÁuÁõUS && is great. To know the full significance, the spiritual or mental significance, is to add to our act the power of mental clarity to our implicit obedience. Having understood the import of their words, we can still bring ourselves to set aside our understanding and act on faith.

118) He said selfishness and meanness are human follies. It seems man, by giving up falsehood and selfishness will cross over vastly.

119) Action can be outer or inner. The inner action is more powerful of the two. That outer action issuing from the inner is perfect because it is complete.

120) A trick learned as a mere trick will not serve its purpose in higher planes. If learnt by one who at least has imbibed the essence of the knowledge it represents, the trick will work.

121) Don’t look for short cuts, immediate results, tricks, ploys, mantra, methods etc. They all need an enormous energy of falsehood. Spend the same energy in Truth. It will give you an attitude or a poise. It will be powerful.

124) To take our ideas, beliefs, or urges seriously is to mistake an actor for the role he plays, as our ideas, etc. are of the surface mind.

125) When small countries are consciously refused, it means it is deep-seated hostility.

Deep seated hostility escapes through chinks of behaviour as missing small courtesies. When a man who desires to murder another hears of his death, he will fail to hear the news or ignore it.

126) The infinite Brahman in us is always exercising its prerogative of Freedom not to be within its field of action, whether it is society, family or even evolution. For the freedom of the Infinite, even evolution is a fixed field.

127) Development can be hastened by creating a host of organisations along the lines of education to secure the inner essence of knowledge through vocabulary, capacity through skills or work attitudes, culture through motives, etc. Society is capable of this. It can be introduced as a system in schools, not of education, but in schools that are units of culture.

128) Mean, treacherous men construe politeness as weakness or scope for their character. They expect polite people to cooperate with them to have themselves destroyed. They are shameless and senseless enough to ask polite people to help discharge their heinous intentions.

130) To know one is unclean one needs the culture of cleanliness and more than that, a sense of cleanliness. In their absence, an unclean person will consider himself to be clean. How can one know he is stupid, if he is unacquainted with knowledge? Is there a hope for one to know that his consciousness is low?

131) A characteristic of human endeavour, especially mental effort, is to seriously think and understand SILENCE. It is so because the truth of things is buried in their opposite.

132) We are left with an emotion in the last analysis, rather after the very last act following the very first analysis, which, as they say, is from the first principles. He who finds a happy vibration there is really happy.

* Psychic sadness.

133) We believe that a man of extreme evil habits will be the most wonderful citizen when transformed. We certainly do not see the greatness of his soul even as he is. That is God-vision.

134) It is not as if God created egoistic pain and emerged out of it into Delight. For him involution is delight, evolution is delight. Not for one moment is HE outside Ananda.

136) The desire to please everyone, excel everyone is the other side of the corresponding incapacities.

137) Man does not love to be pure or good but loves to be fully enjoying regardless of what he is. Here, he finds himself a free Brahman unfettered by moral shackles.

138) Without the energy of enthusiasm, life at no level can be sustained. Soon everything will be dead wood. For the dull consciousness of the undeveloped in culture, enthusiasm is released only by overdoing. Overdoing too has its place, within its own ‘limits.’

139) Vasishta Ganapati Muni, a realised soul, having had Sri Aurobindo’s Darshan described Him as ¦µõuÚ ¦¸åõ, an ancient soul. One becomes an ancient soul by having several ‘rebirths’ in this birth.

140) Mother fulfils several of Her requirements not so much by our conscious adherence, but by the refractory disobedience of our subordinates.

As Mother accomplishes in us, so we can accomplish in life, if we know the rules of life.The subordinate who disobeys the boss, OBEYS The Mother unconsciously. The plane of life is full of such incidents.

141) The golden RULE is not to achieve, but to preserve what is achieved , NOT to fall into the temptation of our predecessors.

Achieve, do not argue.

142) Try to evoke Life Response. Observe EVERYTHING on all sides – events, facts, feelings, opinions, etc. -- and analyse on the basis of these Laws. One thing will be more than apparent, revealing:

1. When there is accomplishment, it is we who did I

2. When it is spoiled, it is we who spoiled it.

Either way, the centre is “we”. A good working rule, not a moral edict, is, let us know we alone spoil and let us also know we can always accomplish if we want. In practice, “Mother achieves, we spoil” will work.

143) · How can we not take the credit for achieving?

· What achieves in us is the higher side, not ego.

· The higher side in us is The Mother.

· The higher achieves, the lower spoils is the rule.

· To know ourselves as the higher side, not the lower side is observation.

· A greater Truth is NOTHING is spoiled, as when ego is destroyed, it is that which is to be destroyed.

144) · Evoking Life Response within the scope of our individual strength is always readily possible, if you know how to use the rules with an effect.

· When one wants to achieve more than his own personality is fitted for, but is socially attainable, one has to create that social strength before he commissions the laws into action.

· To evoke the same response even before such a strength is created is also possible when you know how small forces combine to produce great strength temporarily. A bright child sometimes meets the US President to receive an award or recognition.

· The right thing is to use this knowledge to rise in individual strength, social importance or psychological intensity and then receive the appropriate awards.

· Before such strength arises, a million possibilities arise because of his knowledge. To use this special knowledge sparingly as an exception is a difficult discipline for anyone.

· One should learn, observe, organise the thoughts, see the results, emphasise learning, NOT the results and WAIT for results to sail towards him.

One who honours this rule, will meet with unending progress. Will you be one such? No one has ever passed that barrier.

Man has the right to either. Society may not accept him, but God will not reject him.

146) Sri Aurobindo says man does not have the potential for evolution which the ape had, but can exceed himself. Now, man has the capacity to escape to the origin.

148) Yoga is to move from mind to spirit, from part to the whole, from Time and Timelessness to both in Time.

153) Harmony is abolition of discord, conversion of the enemy’s hatred into love, realising inner rancour as outer pleasantness.

154) Realising that old is gold is superstition. Recognising the folly of our parents now is not wisdom, but to discover their then folly in us now.

155) Organising a part, especially an isolated part, into perfection is either to attempt an insular superhuman aim or to prepare the general atmosphere slowly.

156) Technology is to make matter express an idea. Organisation is to render a practical idea express in the subtle plane.

Organisation is subtle technology.

157) Sri Aurobindo wrote in English, not his own mother tongue, in a way that no Englishman has ever written. This is so especially in Savitri and The Life Divine. The Force makes not only the impossible possible but the unusual come to pass.

There is no greater miracle than the writing of Savitri and The Life Divine.

158) The process from the possibilities to actualities is occult to the mind. Organisation makes the implicit explicit, the occult reveal itself.

Intuition becomes rational by intellectuality.

159) Harmony for selfishness means elimination of opposition and difference and a united overall submission to itself.

160) Abundance, strength, richness, fullness, etc. belong to the depth, not the surface, especially the depth of the substance.

161) Culture can be defined as the patient capacity of understanding the value of harmony which keeps behind the scene or surface any unpleasant disharmony from breaking out.

162) The Indian atmosphere differs essentially in some respects or at least one respect from the various Indian religions – Buddhist, Mayavada, Hindu, Vedanta, etc. Does it make a haphazard mixture of an amorphous atmosphere or does it compel the specialisations to lose their focus and go in for a wider perspective?

163) The power is in the atom, infinite abundance in the substance.

164) The person is not the Purusha. What then is the person? The organised focus of energy on the surface, which is reversely organised as the Purusha, is the person and its personality. It is a product of nature. Being on the surface, he needs to be inversely organised, demanding a reversal of consciousness.

165) The subliminal is depth to the surface. Being is depth to Force. The depth of the surface is still the surface to the Being.

166) Selfishness changes into selflessness forgetting itself as it is dissolved. “I am determined to be selfless” is the insistence of selfishness not on the opposite, but on itself in a subtle sense.

167) As the Absolute desired to taste Ignorance, it cannot be detestable to us.

168) Boredom is not the dull repetition of the dead vibration. No vibration is dead or dull, as no moment is a repetition of the previous one. The inability to see the infinitesimal variation appears as repetition of the old.

169) The One and the Many are different in existence but one in essence. The phenomenon of unity dividing into parts and again opening back to unity is the cosmic secret (p.358, The Life Divine).

170) Mind insists on either rights or duties. But, Supermind sees the duties as rights and the rights as duties. This is the secret relationship of One and the Many.

171) What we understand by thought gives clarity, not the power for action. Sense that comes from emotion below or silence above gives the power that can act.

172) A mean character puts a mean construction on what others do while he who is not mean or generous does not put a generous construction on it, but lets it pass unnoticed. Putting a construction on something means the act assumes undue importance for the observer.

173) The woman needs the physical security of the earning man; the man craves for the psychological support of the woman who completes his being.

175) Any skill like education is acquired sooner as days pass by. What was received by a long training, is, in later years acquired by some of its vocabulary or attitude or even its atmosphere in a shorter period.

176) Generosity can also be described as the capacity to receive with expansive pleasantness what one detests or from someone despicable. On the other side, there is a generosity to oneself or to any act. It is not to receive what one most likes, as the receiving will hurt the object or the giver.

177) The view of finding one’s explanation inefficacious when the listener lacks comprehension may not be pure generosity but a strategy to sharpen one's ability for explanation.

178) Sometimes a superior type of generosity is called for to refuse a superior help.

179) One can start earning at any age, with any level of skill. But one who acquires knowledge to any extent or capacity of any degree will make no money unless he employs himself. Yogic experience can have this parallel.

180) We generally understand that karma can be wiped out. This is a partial statement. His position is the surface being governed by the Force is subjected to karma whereas the whole being is worked by a Self-determining Force, i.e., no karma is ever generated.

181) Bhakti as the tradition knows, is one of the doors that open on moksha. Aspiration that He speaks of is not that £Uv, not for that purpose, but it is the link between the surface and the depth.

Aspiration makes the surface being a complete Being.

182) Space is the objective extension of consciousness while Time is a subjective extension. But Space too is as subjective as Time, as it is an extension.

183) When a certain useful knowledge is known to a part of the society, we see the phenomenon of others not believing in it and not wanting to use it. They are those devoid of consciousness that can create faculties for comprehending those uses.

184) The manners of physical people or people whose prosperity is not five or ten generations old are skin deep or raw.

185) Compare affluent aristocrats with equally affluent people of the same tradition with a spiritual inclination or background. One will be a pictorial representation of a mountain and the other the real mountain.

186) Imperfection in a skill can be made perfect with perseverance. It can oscillate between the two ends. Imperfection in a value renders it valueless. A value is a value by virtue of perfection or not.

187) For man, one thing matters. It is the sense of superiority, felt as prestige. It emerges in all possible fashions which are pardonable. Its ‘best’ form is the assumed sense of humility where he neglects himself.

188) “The one thing I cannot stand is pain” is the response of the ego centred in the mind of nerves, as this is the inverted self-attention one gives oneself to club himself with the socially rich or great.

189) “It is true the Princess loves me, it is more than true that the barmaid is more fulfilling.”

Mother comes to us, envelops us, continues to follow us even when we have forgotten Her for years, but is it not the greatest truth of life that family is more enticing and enthralling as described by Francis Thompson?

190) Everything is a landmark in life. What cannot be given up is more so. The

spouse acquires that truth.

Your wife is your index of YOGA.

191) No one seeks advice because no one likes it. There are people who go around seeking it persistently for a long time. They are all people who want others to do what they alone can do to themselves.

192) A man deserts all those who love him, reluctantly relates to them infrequently, and complains of loneliness. His aim in life is not to complain, and to live among these whom he loves. Thus, he pays the greatest attention to himself, rather his idea of not complaining and not being lonely.

193) Man who knows the origin of ruin, who sees it blatantly, loves it dearly. What does he mean? He loves to be ruined by those whom he loves.

196) When great GOOD things happen to us unexpectedly, a similar aspect would have surfaced.

197) • Facts, on examination, reveal laws of Life Response.

· Our probing into facts should not stop until we see the laws.

· Laws are infinite in number as well as having infinite ways of explanation.

· Law is a relationship between events.

· The laws have behind them principles or Truths.

· Truth is not final as it is outside.

· What is seen inside is the Truth. It is the essence.

· The essence of Truth is existence

· When Life is understood as the essence of existence inside, it is Reality for our purposes. We can stop there. Then Life Response will explain itself.

Any event you report can be analysed like this. Analysis needs fresh facts, fresh views of facts. This can only be done by several persons reflecting on one event. One must invite the opinions of many on each event.

Scholars are satisfied when their energies run out.

Interchange with others energises.

No inquiry should stop in the middle. Carry it on until you are fully resolved in mind.

198) · We do not understand Life Response until we see Life is a field of all Responses.

· Life is no life if it is not all Responses to Life.

199) · Often we explain an event as Life Response.

· When the connected events are precise, the explanation is entirely satisfactory.

· The scholar dies when he is satisfied.

· From connected people fresh light is thrown from new facts.

· Others give fresh explanations to old facts.

· As life is infinite, there are infinite explanations.

· When the facts reveal the LAW behind, no further explanations are needed. But the laws are infinite.

200) · We take good positive results as Life Response

· Sometimes we concede that status to the opposite

· Every act or any event can fit that description. For one who observes and wants to learn, no move or event is too trivial to study.

· The more trivial the act, the greater is the revelation. Only when we are able to SEE the laws of Life Response in every act, do we understand it.

· Life Response, like every other study, has so many other facets which emerge from listening to hundreds of points of view.

201) There are individualised forces in life of both positive and negative character that move to an individual in response to what he is and what he does.

Their combined operation maintains an equilibrium of smooth existence.

When the equilibrium is tilted in favour of the right side, and in that measure, forces of life precipitate a positive act in his life.

At any given time, one can see forces on the move. They move in concert.

One who is perceptive may see, just before an act is precipitated, several major and minor forces simultaneously moving in unison towards the centre.

Among them there will be a single prime mover, some major constituents and a host of minor tributaries.

Without the Prime Mover, there will be a disturbance, no result.

Without the major contributors, the Prime Mover may powerfully upset the system but no permanent contribution positive or negative will be made.

A good judge of these Forces can precipitate a Good Act by any one of these SMALL forces and similarly avoid trouble.

One who is positive and alert can manage the field with a bias to the right side.

At any moment, knowing the combination of forces and their laws, one, by increasing the right forces in their intensity or decreasing the wrong forces, can make Life Respond.

202) Man has a way of resenting payment of his taxes, the only thing that has given him all the freedom of democracy.

211) That which is taxed is nerve. Nerves always come to feel taxed.

214) Surrender of something, if not done at the moment, will never be done later.

216) Work explains an idea when thought fails to comprehend.

224) When one responds to the Force and the other does not, the first expands and the latter does not. It is not a reward and punishment, but a Law. In the higher life, there will be a higher law so that every part can respond. The rule of the lower life is each develops in turn while the rule of the higher is all develop simultaneously.

225) Any yoga is difficult. Purna Yoga done by accepting life, turns out to be like a school where the students and parents and teachers challenge the Founder to reach very high results where they all organise against any process of learning.

229) The culture of a place will be there in a pronounced measure in everyone living there in spite of the very opposite circumstance in the individual.

230) In a contention between two persons, what prevails is the social authority of the respective individuals, not the justice or issue.

231) What is it to know anything, say Ego? To know its constitution, origin, structure, character, and capacities as we know a pen is to know ego.

235) The rival outwitting you announces that you need a better strategy, rather a positive one.

236) The uneducated person of insincerity has a deep superstitious faith. The educated person in the affluent nations does not have such superstition, but ardently believes in his own capacity to take care of himself. How is it different from the other superstitions?

237) Capacity for expectation will cease if the capacity for initiative ceases.

Initiative expects.

238) While we are serious in our own way, we say the grass grows under our feet. The grass that grows like that is God’s wisdom in action, v¸ÄÒÍ®.

242) Man’s not knowing his weakness is a weakness. His not knowing his strength is a strength. But one needs to know both. It is neither weakness, nor strength, but fullness.

246) The character becomes REAL when he gets out of the hand of the author and becomes universal. In the measure the character is under the author’s control, the author too remains human.

Any moment is a moment of choice.

251) Love of children and love of grandchildren is love of one’s own flesh, an intense physical love of selfishness. People who are incapable of it are still capable of intense affection. It is selfishness pure and simple.

253) Fullness generates richness.

You rise to the heights of your self-giving.

Self-giving raises one to its maximum.

255) It is the censor that perfects the mind. It is the critic who fashions popularity and its norms.

Complaining fulfils by complaining.

256) Realisation of our identification with the ego so much that it may be shed is like receiving the patronage of royalty having known it as an idea all along.

257) Sri Aravindam is to possess this life of ours consciously instead of unconsciously.

258) A writer becomes popular writing on popular themes. It is not so much because he is a writer as that he is able to project in literature popular themes.

259) The intensely emotional Russia is an enigma wrapped in mystery for the English whose character formation has ousted emotions from public and private lives.

260) The joyous sensation a person’s touch can give directly shows how positive he will be in other people’s lives.

261) The avatar reminds us of God. Wise men try render the edicts of God in terms of human appreciation. The poets give it a poetic representation. It is education that links the future to the past by a graded construction. Formulas of Existence formulated to form such graded structure touching men today will bring about a revolution of great speed.

262) The study of these laws gains intensity gradually. At its peak, life is one of life responses, for however a brief period it is.

263) The ego prides in its memory, in its absent-mindedness. In either case, it prides. In the absence of that pride, it loses its entire faculty of memory to remember all.

264) After the world war, the armament industry was not so much for the war or to uphold the cold war, as it was an avenue for lucrative employment of capital.

267) · All totality is a reversion.

· All Truth-seeking is yoga.

· All OBSERVATION is knowledge.

· Life responds when we seek totality of knowledge, Truth of existence, OBSERVATION of the obvious.

268) Constant consecration is conservation of collective energy.

270) Friendliness is on the surface to see. To see the same friendship behind the deceptive mask of treachery needs God’s eyes.

271) When man shifts from his own culture to Mother’s, he still has several occasions to cherish the glories of the old culture. It can hamstring his new progress or render both values valueless. By shifting the inner essence of one to the other, he will enrich his new content.

272) A valuable value will be valueless when sought for its social or psychological value. Its true value will become Truth itself, if approached as such.

Value is of Value when sought for its Value.

274) To feel gratitude instantaneously is spiritual. To voice it as spoken words or mentally express it is vital gratitude or mental recognition of it.

275) To study one fiction entirely from the point of view of Life Response is rewarding. To take a period of history for a similar study will widen one’s outlook. To know one’s own life like that will open innumerable dimensions on life. Reading Sri Aurobindo’s Human Cycle, Ideal of Human Unity, Future Poetry, Foundations of Indian Culture for such benefit is beneficial.

276) There is only one Jivatma; we see it as Many on the surface.

278) The Absolute is the Absolute either in itself or in the subliminal world or on the surface. Even while it appears relative, it does not for a moment cease to be Absolute.

285) If a man is happy that you also met with the same misfortune as he did, be sure you got it because of your love of him.

287) Vehement opposition to an idea is an intense effort to understand by exhausting the incomprehension.

288) Had HE said what the Rishis had NOT realised and what He had realised, it would have been much easier to comprehend the incomprehensible. Nor did he ever say that the entire realisation will be gifted to us by Him, though the principle was laid out.

290) Behind ALL, there is the Absolute. We call it absolute justice.

292) Any intelligent method will offer protection from a lapse, a loss or insecurity. It will be of tension. The best of methods is surrender. Protection is guaranteed and one will be tension free.

How can anything which is made up of Reality be finite?

295) He who speaks the opposite in the same breath is one who is intensely trying to develop thinking from both ends.

296) He who has no practical ignorance is one who knows the Origin.

299) Conception achieves.

Insensible people discuss varieties of insensitivities.

303) A poet does not try to create good men or heroes but real men.

304) The human choice is infinite, because he is infinite.

305) · Comparison is human.

· Sense of difference is a trait of Thought.

· To know each in its own way is the very best possible for it is divine wisdom.

· That will render the urge for evolution superfluous.

· How should one who evolves view the high and low?

· To know the low is the highest for him, even as the high as the highest for him is the equality of one who evolves.

· One who evolves is concerned only with himself and not others.

· His concern about others is theoretical.

306) To catch oneself being unconscious is a measure of consciousness. To prevent the consequences of unconsciousness is a must. To rectify the ill-effects of the previous act of unconsciousness, though difficult, is possible.

307) When someone is an occasion for you to err, it is wise to sever the relationship, if it is to be followed up by inner correction.

308) Clarifying thought when used to justify one’s action instead of correction, is undesirable as it becomes a means of indulging in the wrong.

309) To intensely enjoy the good, man needs to know evil.

Darkness is for the poor eyes, not for the world.

Light is darkness for weak eyes.

311) When He says we, He means the soul inside, not the ego, not even the mental person.

312) Everything in the end does turn into a marvel, but what is not utilisable is to be left behind.

314) By following the development of logic in the arguments of The Life Divine, one can get a rigorous training in logic. It is also the logic of the Infinite.

315) The psychological capacity we have now will be that level of self-restraint where no misuse of power is admitted.

Silence grants the intellectual maximum.

317) Those who are bound by duty and love often turn their face away, even when endowed with all authority to render you a help. Mother acts, and fulfils your need magnificently through those who are not so bound.

When the world turns away, She turns to you infinitely.

319) As Governorship is decided by the dislikes of a lady, great events are decided by small preferences.

The tiny movement of the needle decides the course of Time.

Time is decided by a tiny movement.

320) A big organisation or a big family comes under stress of the members’ refractory behaviour. It is destroyed by mismanagement or ill-will or internecine quarrels. There are heavy misfortunes but still the organisation can survive. When members want to destroy the ideal and work for it, they will succeed.

321) Till the soul awakens, one can only prepare for it, not attempt to do what the soul must do.

322) One’s character and values are known by the fact of their self-restraint and its absence. The respective areas reveal the man.

323) The unrealised dreams are of the unformed personality.

325) Neither serious thinking nor deep concentration of the mind will reveal the Reality He speaks of, as it is a whole which the partial mind is incapable of seeing. Until the centre shifts to one of the two centres meant for it, it cannot be seen.

As long as the parts of being activate themselves, concentration to see the Reality will not gather.

327) Clarity of thought, capacity for action together are still insufficient to reveal the Reality to the soul.

329) For sentimental persons of grateful emotions, nostalgia carries charm. In subtle life, they will find the other side of nostalgia, which is beyond anyone’s control.

330) Readers of The Life Divine are not all practising Yogis. They read about His experiences as arguments. Intellectual comprehension will desert them at some point. For those who practice His yoga, the point of departure will be postponed. Giving the reading the aspect of Jnana Yoga will be of some small help in the right direction.

331) What we give carries our personality. It may not always be a blessing. Self-giving, whether it is a blessing or not, will be expansive on both sides.

332) Giving as an attitude is expansive. Of all the things the best to give is one’s Self. He who can give that need not bother to give material objects. It is true even to the Divine, the Self-giving to the Divine.

333) ‘Anyone is a friend as long as I am not hurt’ is the policy for a few. It will hold good as long as the relationship is distant.

334) The experiences of the reader of The Life Divine are spiritual experiences in the mind. Mostly it gives powerful meditations. It can give spiritual experiences if the mind is open.

335) Compulsion of work or poverty generates a stronger will and more energy from the same intake of food which hardens the body as well as will.

336) Body is soft if emotions are soft. Absence of hard work alone will not render the flesh soft. It may render it flabby. Softness of the flesh is strength of will expressed in culture.

337) “The mind needs to be prevented from interfering with the descending intuition”. Mind can do so by shifting to intuition.

338) Without getting out of Time, Ego and the Finite, it is not possible to get out of mind.

339) Human life is marked by possession. Mother’s life is characteristic for being possessed by the Beloved.

340) The finer things in life are to be waited for with no expectation. When they come, they come on their own. There are rewards of the higher plane. They do not come even for an unexpected attitude of equality. They wait for the maturity of the plane and satisfaction of the soul expressed as inability to know that possibility. Man has a way of demanding all of them.

342) The shrewdest of men have no entry into higher consciousness. Instead of high success of life, here they will meet with high failure

364) A refractory subordinate teaches you patience. Life, even when it is not refractory gives you Patience.

365) We love to work as work is enjoyable, whether there will be a result or not. Consecrate if you want to be sure of results. Surrender if you want the results before the work is done.

There is a Silence behind the Silence.

There is Brahman behind all the brahman we speak of, know of and explain in detail.

Brahman behind Brahman

367) Knowledge has become Ignorance and enjoys emerging from it. Mother has no such need. Hers is a conscious Avatar that plunges into the world’s darkness with a view to rescuing it, sacrificing Her Light. Hers is a true holocaust.

368) The urge for constant progress is from the awakened soul.

369) · Men do fall into two categories of pioneers and followers.

· All that Mother speaks of is for the pioneers.

· To the others, Mother grants their prayers.

· If they want to follow Her, they must first shift to being a pioneer.

· Mother has in mind not the social pioneer or the psychological pioneer. She thinks of the evolutionary adult.

370) Man gets alert when he senses he is directed to do something. This is physical. The vital person offers to do it.

371) To be secretive is a ploy. To be frank is to be generous in behaviour as it takes the other person into confidence. But when you are secretive, your work moves quickly. To be secretive without its being a ploy is to be reticent.

372) The steadily increasing joy can express on the face as a certain sadness because the substance of the being is uncertain of any JOY and is incapable of any security.

373) The greatest urge in man is to be lazy. He says he wants to be himself. He is unconsciously reminding himself that he needs to be God.

374) Culture, for those who are to live in other cultures, must primarily respect their sensitivities, not understandings.

375) People cannot stand fools or stingy people. An intelligent person can stand a fool, if he ever tries to follow his own train of th