SERIES XIII
1) Judgements go awry if the contexts
change.
3) Love ends in
marriage. But marriage can resuscitate
Love if the hearts can accept Mother in love.
Love
is too pure to live in human hearts.
4) The
heart that longs for love can only long and yearn but cannot ask for it, as
what is got by asking cannot be LOVE.
5) To die for the beloved is an ecstasy life
often offers. To live for the beloved in love is what Mother always offers
and man finds it difficult to receive from Her.
6) Conscious gift to
unconsciousness.
It is a condition where foresight is not
born yet.
7) The idealist tries to train his nature’s
urge along the lines of his aim.
8) The
more one understands The Life Divine
the more the atmosphere grows strong.
9) Man
does not know the divine joy or peace, etc. but all devotees have been touched
by the loving grace of them.
10) Affectionate
persons never give up their rivals consciously. All serve their rivals subconsciously.
12) Life Response is a Timeless response.
13) One who has all the right to everything but
is unable to bring himself to ask for what is his own is a MAN of manly honour
and vigour of manhood.
Love can be given unasked but even love
cannot be asked for seriously.
14) He
who discovers love in life is one who gives that love so that it is evoked from other hearts, not one who expects
it from others.
Love
is Love that travels in one direction.
Human love becomes divine love when the one direction becomes two directions.
15)
·
When energy is
great, income takes care of itself.
·
When strength
is great, security is instinctive.
·
When faith is
great, courage overflows.
·
When cheerfulness overflows, Remembrance is
automatic.
·
When GOODWILL
is native, popularity is natural.
·
When status is
long inherited, capacity is innate.
·
Seeing That
inside, capacity, popularity, remembrance, courage, security, and prosperity are
forgotten.
16) May
my heart, soul and being give themselves fully to Him and to Her.
17) Mother
is compelling us to have our own personal spiritual discrimination, denying
even access to where SHE lived. One has to decide even that by his own
discrimination.
Mother is an iconoclast. She
breaks even that icon where her body is laid to rest.
18) The dark forces that arose as the two World Wars now
persist in other forms. The Mother and Sri Aurobindo who have abolished the
wars from the face of earth paid a subtle price for it by abolishing their own
abode.
The hostile forces in
retaliation wiped out their own world and occupy it now.
19) If
not the right motives for prosperity, people will release their urge for more.
20) As
something rises in the being, the vital and mental take it up. The psychic
taking it up straight before it is touched by mind or vital is consecration.
21) Having
long sought patience, I have come to value Patience. It has led me to value
gratitude.
It is in patience one recognises
the value of gratitude.
22) The
organisation retains Him as a dark shadow. He is behind it with Her brilliantly.
23) He
who writes for an audience writes at the level they are. Having universalised
human thought, the poet must WRITE not for the audience, but for what he is
inside.
Writing that disregards the writer lives forever.
Eternal writings write on their own.
24)
The
world will take infinite interest in the lives of a successful scoundrel and
successful idealist, both in the same fashion.
26) Equality
forgets the known as it does the unknown.
27) Knowledge
transforms opposition.
28) To
be civilized, one should concede equal rights to all others. To be yogic, one
should concede every event is a marvel.
29) Education is the yoga of the society.
30) Yoga
is to see the world inside and then go away from it to its centre.
The tapasvi goes away from life;
the yogi goes away from the life of the world inside.
31) To
decide to surrender is a mental decision.
32) Created faith creates
disharmony.
33) Insecurity
is for those who love security. Those who love danger are always secure.
34) As
life never offers the weakling any helping hand, transformation too is never
merciful to the weak, though a great help comes their way because of changing
circumstances.
35) Scholars
who stand on the shoulders of giants of the past either become serious thinkers
or degenerate into journalists.
36) Mean, perverse falsehood seeks
humiliation with ardent love and a sense of sacred privilege.
37) The
corrupt politicians amassing wealth sets the nation’s sights higher, compelling
everyone to aspire for prosperity.
Naturally they have to work hard to reach their goal.
The
common man cannot grow rich by corruption, though his ways will be corrupt.
38) It is the body that is frightened
of death, not the mind.
39) Society
destroys pioneers in its attempt to prepare for a PIONEER who cannot be
destroyed by them.
40) To
be able to say the very opposite of what one means is to have crossed human
expressiveness.
41) Goal-ridden
man;
Goalless
God.
42) Movement
in Time is a moveless point in Timelessness.
Infinity
does not grow or move but contains both.
43) Getting
out of the social excitement, man rules over the society. Rising above the
excitement of psychological growth, man becomes a SOUL.
44) Man can awake to a great
prosperity of inner joy and outer abundance or he can awake to his original
Godhood in man to be a marvel.
45) Spirit
measuring its movement by its own extension is Time.
48) Man will not do anything if it
is not a source of joy.
Nothing
moves if it is not for joy.
49) Consecration
is best done not as a spiritual discipline but as something enjoyable by
itself.
50) Consecration elevates one to be Mother,
surrender makes him Sri Aurobindo.
51) The
rule is never to help anyone if you do not want to be hit, hurt, opposed and
betrayed. He who wants to overrule the rule helps others voluntarily in double
measure and is not hurt but praised.
What
you get depends on how you give.
52) When man resorts to consecration, God acts
through him.
53) Each
act has both the dimensions of good as well as bad or the evolutionary right
and its opposite. In human action, the result is determined by that which
excels the other. In the right action they blend to produce a great result.
54) Divine Life requires one to value things while they are
available in plenty and value them not only in their absence.
55) Yoga is the spiritual exercise of what
magic vitally does. Rules are the same.
56) He
who laughs at another’s folly is only laughing at his own folly.
What
appears as folly to us in another is the most right thing seen from his own
perspective. Not being able to see it is folly.
57) All folly is inside.
58) Mind extends itself by thinking.
59) Intellect
takes the mind to the level of its understanding and it can become intuition of
that level, if it can part with its sense impressions.
61) If diet or drug can control bodily conditions,
thoughts can better control the same.
62) The whole world is after one who
accepts Mother. How can he hanker after
nostalgia?
63) The
conscious receiving a training that is in tune with the subconscious grows in
it. It matures into culture. When they are in conflict, the culture receives as
before but the subconscious organises in the reverse.
64) In
the higher life, there is no success or failure but there is work.
65) What
Brahman is to creation, ether is to the cosmic Becoming.
66) Matter is Sachchidananda presenting itself
to God’s mind for Delight of existence.
67) Courage
is natural and instinctive. One never feels it till it is called out to act.
68) The all-pervasive vision of the
Brahmic Consciousness is here as the public eye which cannot be escaped by
anyone, however skillful he is.
69) Judgement
prevents comprehension and condemnation is to judge.
70) Matter
is Sachchidananda represented to God’s own mental experience as delight of
existence.
71) To
know life intuitively and explain it intellectually is NOT possible for intuition
but needs integral experience.
72) A
government officer carries the power of the government. A devotee does not see that he carries the power of Mother.
73) Understanding
the actions of people instead of judging them is better.
74) Savings
come from a saving temperament and are not determined by the income.
75) Great
drama is written when the impersonal vibration speaks with personal accent.
76) Come
out of one, if not all the five – ego, finite, Time, mind, surface – and the
Response awaits you.
77) The
understanding of vested desire will be able to ‘see’ accordingly ‘concrete facts’, hear ‘true voices’.
78) People give way not so much for
money, prestige, or charms as for those things emanating from the higher seats
of knowledge.
79) Computer
used comprehensively will move life from the surface down and Life Response
will be the order of the day.
80) While
in the subliminal, every next moment one faces a Life Response. It is not so on
the surface, unless the time for the subliminal arrives.
82) An
impression becomes a fact in the imagination of the interested.
83) If
the politicians have swindled thousands of crores, have not the public swindled
equally that amount?
84) When
nothing is happening we feel it is loss of time. Instead the action moves from
the surface to the subliminal and is preparing there.
Non action is subliminal action
in preparation.
85) When
society neglects a family, it does so with a vengeance. When he becomes a
success again with the same vengeance it compels them to let them in. Society’s
compulsion that is violent is real.
86) Computer
has the ability to bring Indian spirituality to the surface, as it prevents
lying.
A
society develops in proportion to the organisation it creates to prevent lying.
87) When
by years of inner perfection one reaches the subtle beauties of spiritual brilliance, the stark realities of
practical necessities will appear before you.
To see the one as the other is
the path of purna yoga.
88) The
finite life of a small organisation or even one person can represent and fully
reflect the Infinite by Knowledge, Emotions, works and the appropriate
organisation of them.
89) Information
scotches rumour. Education dissolves superstition. Spiritual awakening is the
death knell for evil.
90) There
is absolute freedom, absolute goodness and absolute folly. There are as many absolutes as there are
aspects.
Brahman
is absolute absoluteness.
91) Free movement of information
frees the society from fear. Free information
is the basis for free action.
Freedom in one area becomes alive by freedom
in all areas. True freedom
is complete freedom.
92) Social,
psychological necessities to achieve more than one’s endowment
give rise to ambition.
93) The
physical recognises the mental by offending talk, respects it by a total silence that is incapable of speech.
Mrs.
Bennet offers uncalled for offence to Darcy but goes into a speechless silence after his engagement.
94) A
judge must be one of a higher impartial perception. To submit to the judgement of one who is at the
level of the parties is not to seek justice.
95) When
consecration defies, one may find surrender helpful.
Surrender is the move of the
awakened psychic.
96) Mind
considers, the methods of Japa, dhyana, pranayama, etc. where it can use its faculties of words, concentration,
will, etc. Surrender is of the soul and it seeks its origin.
97) Man
subconsciously wishes to reward his rival, as he is part of himself.
He has discovered Energy but
must go beyond it.
Man
has not exhausted prayer.
But
he must go beyond it.
102) Society can misuse everyone without a
premium which is welfare. That tiny token premium will reveal
where each one is.
Man
is unwilling to pay a finite commitment for getting Infinity.
103) (attitudes, motives)
Human attitudes changing into higher ones
is the soul awakening in life.
104) The incapable branding
the capable as fraudulent has its subtle truth of his own subconscious reality.
105) It is
obvious that Mind cannot accomplish this yoga. Not only ego, but mind too must disappear.
106)
The closely guarded secret will be known
widely as they wish, not necessarily
true. Accept Mother there.
The
Truth of one who is incapable of falsehood is the Truth of Brahman.
108) The
most developed subtle organisation is prestige; its lower version is
self-interest.
109) The
power of the initiative is powerful. It survives even the first defeat even in the second remove.
Moopanar
was suggested to the Prime Ministership twice.
111)
May
my ego dethroned from the inner sanctum and Mother occupy it.
112) Freedom
enables or compels forces that are free to act.
113)
114)
The
surface and the depth are in the reverse.
115) The
right to fame is felt only by the decadent ego. The capacity to shap the universal forces is incapable of
exercising this right.
116) Humility
or self-awareness is described as the capacity not to interfere in another’s affairs.
117) The
characteristic trait of ego is to offend and destroy the benefactor after receiving the benefit. Each man’s ego has its own mission or
destiny. He who helps that ego tries to deflect that ego from its
allotted path which is resented.
One
can destroy one’s own ego, not others’.
118) Skill
is learning by the body, not knowing the process. Yogic knowledge of say
Time or Space is learning by the body consciousness, not a
mental information.
120) Body
does not deteriorate if food and exercise are there. Piety cleanses the soul of the body.
121) An
unbearable headache arises and remains when one tries to overcome the intellect. It never leaves one
till it is dissolved.
122) One
who has not become cynical after he is 40 or 50, does have the spark in him. It can be the human spark or divine one.
124)
HE asked for
the boon. The Highest has granted it. Man is free to avail of it. But he is not free. He avails of it in
the measure he is unconsciously free. Even that resulted in the abundance he
now enjoys.
Becoming conscious, Evolution
will press forward.
Becoming NOT UNCONSCIOUS, man will be
chaotically abundant.
125) Theoretically man was free to do anything
he chose. It was true with the pioneer. Only in the measure the
society enabled the individual, did
he avail of that freedom so far.
That freedom has NOW come to the
individual. He can accomplish anything he chooses. Of
course, he will choose as
his personality permits, not as the field enables him.
130) When
a problem defies thought, consecration solves it revealing the
thought that eluded you.
132) The
least important man who actively shun his responsibilities of all types, self-styles himself most important and
demands he be treated as such.
133) Consecration
is an organisation of energy to unleash the powers of the spirit, suspending the urges of
the mind. It responds upto a point and slows
down before reaching the substance.
The
mental urge becomes playfully
violent to use the gathering of forces preventing the further penetration into the substance.
134) A
broken leg, just because it does not pain, cannot walk. The distance in
time from non-paining and walking is
considerable.
136) Space
is Being looking at itself in status. Time is Being looking at itself in movement.
137) Man
rises from physical to vital or mental when the society through its organisations or products raise
him. He must raise himself.
141) Surrender
completes the journey in the consciousness. The rest of the journey in the substance or in
the depth is to be done on our behalf by the Divine.
142)
·
It is a
revelation to the student he should read.
·
It is a revelation to man he should be
truthful.
·
It is equally
a revelation to the yogi that he should not be egoistic.
·
It takes a
life time to know that surrender is essential
143) Capacity
for reaction can be under control. It
never dies. Remembering past
wrongs will quickly revive that capacity, but will not so quickly go
away.
144) Insurance
is the Veritable Mother of the society. Man pays a trickle of a
premium for a flood of benefit. He
chooses not to avail of it.
Offering
is the premium for immortality.
145) Values
are built up by choosing the hard part of work. Man is determined
by his own choice.
146) The
properties of the nation are not fully converted into the currency value that is in circulation. It cannot be done
without raising prices.
Consecration of thought is as difficult
for man as the conversion of the national property into currency.
147)
Money
expands the time span of human life. Credit expands further. Money and credit render human Time Timeless.
Credit
is to cash old savings into future earnings. Credit is expanded, imaginative living.
148)
Life
is better reflected by literature than history. The author explains what we miss to see in history.
149)
Voice
in the radio station will be heard on all the receiving sets.
An
act repeats in the lives of all connected with us as good or bad, according to what we are towards them.
150) The
lazy man is one who is ‘aware’ of his being the Silent Brahman.
151) Professional
advice will often be in direct contradiction to what we see in the facts we know. It is
out of the expertise or out of ignorance.
152)
154) Conception
of Mother is beyond the surface mind.
155) Memory
being in Time cannot think of Mother who is beyond the Timeless.
Mechanical
repetition of ‘Mother’, is the repetition of the word, not the Spirit of Mother
which takes you beyond the Supermind.
156) Man prays when his security is threatened. While he is
secure, he rarely thinks of
Mother.
157) The
subconscious occupation is with himself.
Ego
prevents consecration, humility helps.
158)
Memory
prevents problems.
Problem
means forgetting Mother.
159) If you do not want problems in an area,
you must remember it. Remember not
the issue, but the Mother in its context.
Remembrance is protection,
remembrance of The Mother, not the issue.
160) The
BOON is below the surface. It awaits,
beckons, urges man to come.
163) A
skill rises in quality with interest, understanding and spiritual touch. A perfect
skill indicates the spiritual touch. One’s accomplishment then depends on his level of personality
decided by his truth and values.
Indians who have attained high skills in
textiles, painting, sculpture, etc. retain them to this day in potential.
Should their personalities accept Spirit, India will be
164) Till
the Being constantly seeks consecration, consecration does not mature.
165) The
greatest of revolutions is that force which can rouse the routine into liveliness.
166) Man
has once chosen to choose all his life in that one fashion.
To
choose again is to be reborn.
167) The
adventurer seeks adventure as the best part of his life. For the yogi life is an adventure, an adventure
of consciousness.
168) Don’t
seek God; know you are He.
Seeking is human; being is divine.
169)
Limits
limit one to our limitation.
Her
life begins when limits are thrown to the winds.
170) Stupidity
is genius indifferent to its endowment.
171) Initiative
is human; consecration is divine.
172) Man
enjoys evolution; suffers in involution; God enjoys both.
Man is God of his own Choice.
173)
·
Ego has the
option to grow as greater ego.
·
Soul has the
option of moksha
·
Psychic has no
such options.
Enjoyment is the Hobson’s
choice of the Psychic.
174)
Sri Aurobindo has given language a
spiritual lease of life through English. The
only people who cannot see it are the English speaking masses.
175) The
hurdles for romance were the social barriers so far. Romance will not lose its charms hereafter. Will there
be obstacles? If so, what would they be?
As
He says ego should go after the wire and receiver, hereafter Romance will meet with the obstacles of ego.
When ego dissolves, life will be a perennial
romance.
176) The
world enjoys socially enforced honesty; not individually cherishedone.
177) Repeating
Her name is surrender. When the depth repeats, surrender is
complete.
178) Man
never listens to another. He does so
when he is under the illusion he is
listening to himself.
179) Clashes
are of egos not work; work will clash only when it is not organised.
Work knows no conflict when organised.
Conflict in work is absence of organisation.
180) The
status of a man carries value. The
values of a man carry no status.
181) The
surest of protections is Her active Presence in the depth calling the
Divine Mother.
182) Knowledge
is not acquired by reading or experience. They clarify whatever Knowledge is there. Reading gives one scholarship, not knowledge.
Knowledge is of the mind, scholarship is of the
memory.
183) Any part of the
body can see if trained by mystic powers.
184) Seeing
Mother in greater depths inside widens the reach of one’s being. Her
calling from there offers Her protection to all those who are embraced.
Love
that is non-sentimental is universal.
185) Selfishness
is cynicism born early.
186) At a
moment of despair, the whole being calls.
Hence the full response.
187) Mother
remembering man is grace.
Her
forgetting him is Super Grace.
Grace
forgets man when the Super Grace has taken over.
188)
Truth
will achieve Truth-consciousness.
189) Ask
for the finite;
Wait
for the Infinite.
190) Virtue
cannot reach perfection. For perfection to be attained, virtue must be given up or destroyed.
191) The
Inner Sun is the Supreme, not the mere psychic. Looking at the world from there, there is nothing but
laughter.
192) The
heights are not reached by concentration, which is a dwelling on oneself. They are reached by dwelling on ALL.
Stability of the earth is incessant motion.
193) One can be shaken and shocked without being
sad. Sadness is the personal
emotion of universal incapacity.
194) The
Supreme is beyond Ishwara.
She
offers Ishwara; we seek success and happiness.
195) Seriousness and virtue go together.
Perfection goes with Laughter.
196) Pain
dwells in the rigidity of habits.
197) The
dissolving intellect dissolves pain too.
Restricting intellect restrains the JOY of
the Supreme.
To withdraw from intellect, to shed pain, to
overcome sorrow are not the same but similar.
198)
The
sea dissolves your sins.
199)
Man
who loves his own sins condemns others’.
201) Democracy
is a great step forward, but lacks full vigour.
Ego
is the obstacle; inheritance of throne, spirituality and property are its instruments. The professions break it; property perpetuates it.
202)
We
forget, not the work.
The
act does not forget at all.
203) When
I know that my child, my wife or even my life is ultimately my own
creation, I shall be able to see that I
have the choice of being under their control
or having them under my own control.
The human choice is really the Divine
choice.
204) Concentration
beyond a point is pointless. Beyond a further point, it is negative.
Concentration
is dwelling on oneself. It cannot go beyond.
205) Whether
it is astronomy or spirituality or science, for it to reach the common man it has to become astrology,
devotional prayer or a product that
can be purchased and used.
Man
can be reached only where he is, as he will understand. Man wanting to know Brahman
will understand pure philosophy too.
206) Full
development in a field arrives in the measure professional knowledge becomes the layman’s knowledge.
The
citizen’s right is an index of the nation’s freedom.
207)
The
beauty of the physical substance is received by another soul as love.
209)
Love
is created in another not by the love given, but by giving the capacityto generate Love.
210) One
who taunts another about something qualifies negatively to get that power or
benefit. To positively qualify for the
same, he should appreciate what is offered enough to create a yearning for it.
211) The
franchise of the adult citizen is a right to choose the representative. It is a potential power to become that
representative.
212)
Vishnu
is the acme of the mind. Sri
Aurobindo’s Alipore vision is supramental.
213)
No
hard thinking can see the earth going round the sun. It is the mathematical
inference that can deduce it.
214) The
mind that sees the broken pencil in water does not bypass the eye; it passes through the purified sight. It can see something of God’s intention on earth.
215) The
most beautiful scene in the truth of the subliminal is inverted on the surface as its opposite.
The
psychological inversion is lateral inversion. The surface has the integral inversion.
216) Any
system works as long as the value by which it stands is valued.
217) Revenge,
ambition, frustration, etc. taken on by the physical mind refuse to dissolve even in a deluge of prosperity.
Special
concentrations of grace can dissolve them one after the other.
218) The
golden rule of ‘doing unto others ….’ is not for the vital, not even for the mind. It is only for the golden light from above.
219) To
know the truth of the above in emotions is to qualify for the marvel.
220) Consecration
is the emergence of joy from pain.
221) In a
positive atmosphere, a complaint turns into an opportunity.
222) Infection
of the subtle forces is total. Only by total forgetfulness one can avoid them.
223)
Life
is to live in a ship; yoga is to be in the sea.
224)
Sri Aurobindo is the Hour of God.
225)
His writings relate man to the Hour of God.
226) To
know is different from knowing that you know. The one is information and the other is knowledge.
The
great idealists do not know what service they have rendered. They
know the arrears.
227) From
the known to a greater knowledge is the human possibility. Human ignorance moves from the unknown to
the known.
228) No
act sprouts all of a sudden. Each act
will have its own roots. Acts that have no earlier roots are God’s.
229) The green-eyed monster of jealousy is at the
bottom ignorant. A clerk in the college office cannot argue that no degree is
given to him after long service while others get it in a few years.
Jealousy
is the capacity of the negative to destroy the positive without its gaining. It is one of the mechanisms of
Nature to slow down evolution.
230) Intellect
is an instrument to organise ignorance. Consciousness possesses ignorance as a limitation. It can shed
ignorance, but intellect cannot.
231) The
idealist can serve idealism by keeping away from the unidealist
masses. If, by an error, he approaches the
masses with service, he will be served
right.
It is a piece of social wisdom NOT to try
to serve the public until it is applied
for.
Service
is the shortcut to sure destruction.
232) Crowd
of cads crowing aloud is the life an idealistic pioneer has to face.
Opposition
to idealism is from the psychological bacteria.
233) Learning
gives information. Thinking gives
knowledge.
234) The
coexistence of health and disease is dispensable, whereas thecoexistence of food and excretion is not
dispensable.
235) He
who endeavours to criticise others only in their shortcomings which he does not have approaches culture negatively.
Still, it is a great cultural endowment.
236) The
value of excretion is a value of existence. The value of disease is a value of survival.
Coexistence is future reconciliation.
237) When the physical repeats even Mother’s name, it looks like a fool. When the same repetition is taken up by the vital, we see peace and love pervading the Being.
Let the Mother in the being call Her.
238) The dictator demands obedience as he is
strong. Rationality assumes the capacity
to understand in the other man and take upon itself the onus of convincing him.
Rationality is equality.
239) When
a long standing hope is explained as possible, man evolves from emotion to thinking.
It
is an evolution of the physical into the emotional.
240) Knowledge
emerges out of Ignorance when it bypasses the intellect to see the consciousness behind.
241) All
problems are soluble at all planes. It matters not what the problems are or which is the plane.
Even in the highest plane, any problem
however tough yields, if only you
are an inch ahead of it. The smallest of problems
in the lowest of planes will remain unsolved if, in your attitude, you are half an inch behind the problem.
Not
the size of the problem, but your attitude to it decides whether you can solve it or not.
242) To feel the future as present is to conquer
Time.
243) To
expect spiritual rewards for having lived a mundane life and desiring heaven for a sinful life are the
same.
244) The
heart’s thinking is superior to the mind’s thinking. Yoga begins when that thinking goes behind the heart. Yoga of the body requires the thinking to be shifted to the cells of the
body.
245) Solid property is the basis of yoga as well as life.
Property is accomplishment.
246) No
one hears of a dull yoga.
247) Meanness
finding expressions for its urges cancels the very possibility of
such circumstances arising in future.
248) Making
the exception rule is the beginning of the end of rule.
249) Any work, however important, is in order
only when consecration is not
possible.
No
one can receive an offering if he is not endowed with a consciousness
that can dissolve its karma.
250) Perfection
of skill demands totality of vision.
251) Independence
and self-respect are noble and magnificent. In small
characters, they degenerate into fads of unseemly,
self-asserting, dry offence.
Self-respecting independence mellows into
culture when it sweetly receives
what is lovingly offered.
Human
self-respect becomes Self-respect when it gives it up in favour of love and affection.
252) The
offensive evil accuses independence of impertinence. Had the defending man been humble, the evil will
accuse him of being crafty and clever
instead. The intention is evil.
Without
destroying organised evil, there is no use in trying to discover various appropriate behaviours. It is weakness that looks for politeness.
253) One
can list the occasions where irrationality passes as rationality,superstition is honoured, blatant falsehood
is acceptable, uncultured behaviour is
permitted in national life.
He can
locate all such in his own life.
He who comes forward to eliminate them is a devotee.
254) The
birth of the Supramental being needs several things at several levels.
Being |
-- |
Truth |
Attitude |
-- |
Goodness |
Emotions |
-- |
Love and Joy |
Organisation |
-- |
Democracy that will help mature individual freedom. |
Values |
-- |
All higher human values as self-existing values. |
Atmosphere |
-- |
Harmony |
255) Sri
Aurobindo told us what to do to be transformed. They are surrender on our part and transformation by Her. We don’t know how this is necessary. The Life Divine tells us this.
To know that helps overcome the physical mind’s Ignorance.
256) Even
to represent the collective and fulfill their aims, the Individual needs to be stronger than the
collective. Otherwise he would be
crushed.
The
Individual dominating the collective will be able to serve them.
257) In
the life of ego we now live, authority is demanded at all levels from above and readily conceded from
below. Where ego does not rule, authority is replaced by rationality.
Before
relaxing authority from above, authority should be replaced by strength of Truth or Spirit.
258) Doubt of the physical becomes suspicion
in the vital as the vital expands the atmosphere for self-defence.
259)
·
Yoga is
changing from Natural evolution to spiritual evolution.
·
Nature
leisurely enjoys developing forms.
·
Spirit evolves
consciousness.
·
One is free to
shift from Nature to Spirit.
·
It is a rare joy which the spirit seeks.
·
Shifting from
Monarchy to Democracy, the individual evolves.
·
Shifting to
new technology, speed of social evolution rises. It is organisation of knowledge.
·
Yoga is
organisation of consciousness.
260) Protestantism
from the spiritual side and communism from the economic-political side are the harbingers of democracy, stalling
the movement of Catholicism
and monarchy.
261) Every
time Mother relieves man, She does so by a power not available for the highest in the land.
Mother’s avatar is the highest making it available for the lowest.
262) The
great retains its greatness even in serving the small.
263) The
man who feels that he does not like to be told what to do is one who has been vitally disciplined against
his will. It is a declaration that he is
unwilling to get out of his own
folly.
265) Behaviour
can be so thoroughly good and excellent that it can completely veil the very opposite of character.
But acts will always reveal not only character
but the deeper nature.
266) Consecration
that overcomes running thoughts solves problems. To avail of opportunities, one must be able to
consecrate the mental occupation. Neither is enough for yoga which
requires the surrender of nature that is occupied.
267) It is
the force of social change that expresses as Darcy’s love for Elizabeth. Hence
its irresistibility. Do we see that our
acts are expressions of Shakti’s
move?
268) Status
is far more powerful than dynamism as it infinitely sustains the dynamic activity just as skill is
vastly more resourceful than a one time help.
The
psychic is the centre of cosmic energy in calm.
270) One
may have to know to whom his services are due.
Of
the many things you need to know, one important thing is about your services, if you are an idealist.
271)
272) The
basis of harmony in collective work is the recognition of others’ endowment and one’s own defects.
Harmony is recognition of others’ talents
and our defects.
273) The
centre of man is emotions. They are powerful when the body expresses them.
274) The
capacity at the end of a long life of scholarship to patiently teach the alphabet is the capacity to see the
Infinite in the finite.
275) This
world cannot change by the ACT of anyone however high he is; it is moonshine
to think it will change by preaching. An
act in the Centre of the
universe by one who represents it can certainly change this world.
276) The
secret of development lies in man wanting it.
Theory:
To present the highest achievable goal in
terms of his present aspiration is
possible for one who understands the Theory in practice.
277) The Simputer technology, which by itself will be great, will reach its full use value if accompanied by educational technology and the most important technology of psychology or spirituality of right use of human power – the formula for
decision-making.
278) Man
exerts himself at the plane he is centred in. The yogi’s only work is to turn all his urges to Him, making
consecration his only work. God enjoys
the revealing marvel of involution as well as evolution.
To
be able to see at any given moment the distance from exertion and enjoyment is human aspiration.
279) When consecration of occupation is
successful, it will open one to his existence
in substance.
Occupation
is in the depth of consciousness.
280) The
touch of supramental consciousness will ensure at least one thought not known to the world.
One act unknown to the world is a sign of
the power of Supermind.
282) When
something happens, everyone related with the event will have acontribution to it. It is a rule without exception. To
fully understand what
happened and why it happened is possible if all pool their
information. If done properly, if there
is a wrong it can be rectified.
283) In
our own life, though it is a small circle, we know moments of joy and we know all
its rules. We do often cross the limits a little, but quickly come back. The
joy lies in crossing the limits, though we know it will hurt. It is
equally true that we are never hurt.
There
is no danger at all in a life dependent on Mother as long as we honour the limits. Still crossing the limits a little enriches the joy.
284) The
idea of mastering every field is not only not practical and foolish in its origin, that is the way the partial
ideal tries to fulfil perfection. It is basically the goal of the part.
285) Not
to usurp what can be usurped is a great virtue on the right side. Unless
that culture emerges, revolution at each
stage is inevitable.
Rights
emerge first, organisations later. To use rights rightly, culture is
needed.
286)
Justification with another arises in a heart where there is no self-justification. It can be selfish.
There
is no selfishness in Self-justification.
287) Evolution is considered to be emerging knowledge from Ignorance, not joy
from pain or Timelessness from Time, because here man is the instrument of
evolution.
Had
evolution been centred in life, perhaps evolution may be emerging joy from pain.
288) When
consecration crosses occupation into a semblance of substance, one tastes Timelessness in existence.
To
know concretely that we make our world is, in a sense, to cross Time. Crossing
Time, one can enter Timelessness of simultaneous integrality.
289) A
determinant of a plane is the power of law of the next higher plane. Law is the determinant of the rule, character
the determinant of behaviour.
290) Vanity
is the ideal aspiration of the unformed weakness of the emerging consciousness.
291) Man
enjoys his capacities being rewarded. He really prides in the society recognising him for non-existing
capacities. Pride of class and caste arise thus.
292) Joy in work is compelling. Joy in not working does not even have that edge of compulsion.
293) When
a rich man seeks our help, we see it is a lucky occasion. God seeks our help through a poor man but we do
not know its significance.
Attitude
determines, not the act.
294) The
weightage for age is so great in India and even elsewhere that leaders who emerged famous collected
followers around them only from their
juniors.
This
is a wide sweeping rule that covers Gandhiji, Sri Aurobindo, and a host of others, though Caesar and
Napoleon are exceptions.
295) Philosophic urges of the unlettered is the
parallel for the scientists’ quest
for the formula of the universe.
For
one in the early stages of a quest on the right track, what remains is stupendous work. What about one
who, like the scientist, is looking for consciousness
in Matter?
His best bet is he will discover the nature of his quest. Seeking knowledge in Ignorance, one
will discover the ultimate
Brahman.
296) Wisdom
begins when complete folly becomes a concrete experience.
One
can easily see the complete folly of others, not his own. As man is evolved as an instrument of perfect
ignorance, theoretically, it is possible to
conceive it.
297)
·
Enjoyment
first, enjoyment last.
·
Enjoyment is
accomplishment.
·
Accomplishment
is enjoyment.
·
Existence is
enjoyment.
·
Consciousness is enjoyment.
·
Creation is
enjoyment.
·
Unity is
enjoyment, division is enjoyment. There is nothing except enjoyment.
298) The
heart goes after one, at least the mind lingers on the one when he is away,
forgetting that while he was with you, you never looked at him.
Indifference is subconscious interest.
299) When devotees and sadhaks examine their
work and thought, they will
find new aspects in their fields. When this new aspect is followed, it will usher them into Her consciousness.
Her
consciousness opens infinities of infinites.
Infinity
is real when it is seen as infinite infinities.
300) To be serious is to make life a silly
expression seriously organised.
Agenda
Volume IV, pages 29 to 34, Sun of laughter.
301) The view the Omnipresent Reality became the universe, permits the principle that any plane is power, however small, when perfected crosses its plane and has the potential to reach Brahman.
302) A kind act is lost when delivered
through an unkind attitude. A simple thought becomes incomprehensible when
delivered through complex sentence structures.
303) Trial and error also creates rules that
are erroneous when a one time success is taken for granted as successful rule.
304) Not to allow an ideal man unideal hours
of existence is to mistake the ideal for values.
Values pursue Ideals.
Ideals do not govern life, as
values which are ever present. They are
as different as marriage and love.
305) Emotion becomes ideal when it rises to
devotion.
306) Misuse of freedom in the extreme can
best be seen in an unorganised character’s first considerable success and in
the woman’s behaviour after marriage.
-307) Having arrived at
the right point of change, instead of giving all the intensity it needs, he
intensely goes after all the other things.
308) Grace that abides since their Advent is
the lightning steadied in the sky. Man
is busy looking away.
309) To know how the Overmind has laboured
to take the possibility of stupidity in another to its unique form, requires
spiritual wisdom. To be able to do so
with oneself is a spiritual realisation.
310) To move another is to move a mountain.
311) The desperate man’s hope reveals human
behaviour in the raw.
Man’s
originality is revealed in his despair.
312) One’s real values are revealed while he
is at his worst.
313) Man moving to God above is moksha; moving to God inside is marvel.
314) Romance is human emotions rising
idealistically as a transitory phase. It has not been institutionalised yet,
nor can it be until man lives by his emotions.
315) Man despairs in the best moment of his
life.
316) Rarely one arrives at a point he needs
to change. When he does arrive there, the first thing he does is to forget it.
317) As we keep some information from
others, life keeps much from us. Wisdom
or yoga tries to delve deep into it.
- Yoga unearths the hidden secrets
of our life.
318) The leader,
the wise man, the yogi understand the world in different fields.
The Transcendent Individual
rules the world from inside.
319) Standards are external.
Self-delight is action without
standards.
320) Rules change
when planeschange.
321) Machines are as sensitive as men.
323) It is choice
that decides, whether it is a small social opportunity or a Himalayan spiritual
opening. The greater the opportunity,
the smaller is the apparent choice.
324) Legal quibble given political reality
was witnessed in 1947 when the Indian princes were given autonomy. It was
precipitated by Nehru’s impulse as Kashmir problem. At the back of it lies the
conscious malice of divide and rule.
325) He in whom the fire of passionate love
is burning loves the whole sex.
327) The intense effort to understand unity
above from both the opposite sides simultaneously raises man from mind to
Supermind. Its effort is most fulfilling when its pain is exhausted.
328) Heart was the channel for Jnana Yoga for
Ramana Maharishi.
329) Darkness is for
the incapable sense of sight.
330) Life does show
the most pleasant thing alongside filth. Man
does not concede the same thing to another.
331) Eloquence is the
power of emotion that finds expression in words.
By definition
eloquence is not expected to be rational; but it is not prevented from being
so.
332) Perfection
saturates the finite with energy that is consciousness so that the infinite
will emerge out of it.
333) Man evaluates
another against a scale of perfection. While he himself will be measured
against a scale, every lapse is pardonable.
334) A thing never
refuses to come to you when you are capable of fully enjoying it as it should
be.
Full
enjoyment gives full possession.
335) For one to feel the emotion of love,
though fleeting in its nature, one should have ceased to be physical that seeks
the security of marriage.
336) The common sense to use a better skill
or tool available is called in spiritual life surrender.
Not to know a higher method is
ignorance. Not to use it when you know
it is perverse foolishness.
337) To use another’s earnings, even if it
is the father’s, is dissipation. To
earn oneself builds character and capacity.
How can one build ability if he
inherits wealth? Earning makes one earnest.
338) We may understand the cause for a
problem and it may or may not be right. As
it is our own understanding, it will be powerful. When we act on it, the
problem will be solved.
Whether
it is right or wrong, mind will be powerful.
339) Full appreciation of the best in one
eliminates the worst in him from you.
340) He who does not resort to tricks will
be tricked by negative forces in the subtle plane unless he is stronger than
they are deep down.
341) Courage is human; Force is divine.
342) When people are cultured in their
behaviour, their lack of culture from below acts as a force that hurts the
other. We understand it as rasi.
343) Stubbornness too needs courage. It is
the courage of the myopic physical.
Courage of stubbornness delights
in self-dissolution.
Idealism changes the
stubbornness into firmness.
344) What ages toil to accomplish, one touch
of grace does.
Computer does in no time what
takes ages for man to accomplish.
345) The power of the small can, on
appropriate occasions, be equal to the power of the great. The determinant is neither the small nor the great but that which
includes both.
346) Very generous men
often dislike a request, as theirs is egoistic generosity.
To go behind such a trait is to
crack the ego.
347) When our actions are from a complex and
are a reaction, to know it as such is knowledge. To shed that, one should
emotionally realise that knowledge.
348) The feminine felicity born in the
masculine mastery completes it.
Sweetness
completes brute strength.
349) Unkindness or cruelty cannot be
neutralised by equal generosity, as it is in the same plane. Coming from a higher plane, it can be wiped
out.
350) The authority of a father or husband
administers punishment as discipline of kindness.
351) Life compels you
to punish the wrong doer inspite of your uncon-sciousness.
352) Punishment is mental, punishing
attitude is moral.
353) He who pardons another’s sin generously
first pardons it in himself.
354) There are a good many people who
despise wealth with a wholesome disgust.
Of them, how many are capable of acquiring it? Disgust of the unattainable is disguised desire.
355) Thought is not man’s highest instrument;
but how many have been born so far to wield that instrument? The glories of
thought are yet inconceivable on earth.
356) We cannot harbour hatred. It has no
right to live in us.
357) Hostility, neutrality with a vengeance,
adoring obeisance are the three phases of life.
358) Genuine love refused by a girl compels
her sister’s lover to desert her, of which neither of them is aware.
Love refused, refuses itself.
359) To learn a foreign language is very
different from learning it as a native. If
one wants to learn his own mother tongue, as the language would appreciate, he
will see here it is a foreign language to him.
360) The measures aimed at perfection at
once generate imperfection.
It is inevitable that any move
towards perfection will be imperfect and increase imperfection.
361) The inner He speaks of in the last
chapter of The Life Divine is the inner that includes the outer.
The inner of the Sat includes
the outer of matter.
362) He who has tried
to raise one emotion of his to the mind can know the process of moving away
from mind to Supermind.
The laws do not change because the plane
changes. What changes is detail.
363) To be scorched
is to be an unlucky human. To dodge Him and laugh is to be lucky.
364) One can be
happy, but should not try to make another happy, as it goes with the desire to humiliate him.
365) Goodwill,
great living, abundant prosperity, genius will hereafter proliferate.
366) It
is true genius is born. Today the social atmosphere is so ripe that in anyone
with the deepest psychological aspiration,
genius will be born.
The
collective consciousness today is the potential creator of genius.
367) Human consciousness is mature enough to
give birth to very many souls of genius.
368) Should a selfish
person tries to give up selfishness without the mind first accepting it, his
effort will kill him.
Rather than giving up
selfishness, a selfish person would give up his life.
369) Any rule social, religious or moral
will pull one away from Mother.
370) Genius is the future car.
371) Faith is security. It removes fear and
tension. When there is no one inside to
have faith, it is the super grace of Bliss, as it is SHE who is there, not even
our self. 372) Freedom leads to greater obedience
because freedom is born as higher inner obedience.
Knowledge
is knowledge of inner potentials.
373) Human
conception of freedom is licence for man’s whims and fancies in an atmosphere
where the world adores him for what he is. Freedom for the Absolute exceeds
that conception by including in his own freedom the capacity to offer what He
wishes to others. One of the miracles is the latter makes the former possible.
God grants man that freedom
where his soul will flower and evolve outside society and conscience. Man
shudders at its sight.
374) Understanding the use of the capitals
in The Life Divine shows complete understanding of its contents in right
spirit.
375) The higher in
its own place arrives in the capital. Coming down into ignorance and human
existence the capital is lost and it assumes the smallness it now deserves.
It is revelation to know where
it is.
376) Life that
punishes the offender does not grant the satisfaction of vengeance to the
victim.
Life grants the victim the
satisfaction of vengeance only when the offender looks for it beyond his
offence.
377) Selfish meanness is punished, not
exposed.
What is
exposed to the victim is vengeance that goes beyond the gains.
378) Unmerited punishments are the recoils
of one’s own unwarranted offending thoughts.
379) Man who is punished for his own evil
thoughts is one who tried earlier vicarious gratification for the injustice
meted out to him.
Weakness is
punished for sins not committed.
380) To describe the Prime Minister as an
M.P. is the characteristic of under- statement, as saying that a millionaire
has enough to eat.
Understatement is the acme of perverse understanding.
381) Emerging organisations enhance the
social efficiency not marginally but by multiple factors. Existing organisations exhausting their potential equal the efficiency
of emerging organisations.
Organise,
extend existing organisations.
382) Exhausting
the possibilities equals endless revolutions.
Enlightenment
exhausts possibilities.
383) Yoga is
the acme of civilisation which is a process of the collective and individual
acquiring knowledge and capacity to rule themselves.
384) One
who has understood all the circumstances that came to him is safe. It is transformation that fully
understands.
385) Any man is
given ALL the circumstances of the universe, if only he cares to know them.
When
man learns all there is to learn, he is born as God on earth.
386) One is the
voice of the ego and the other is a realisation of its dissolution.
We can
give up possessiveness.
Better
to give up the possessor.
387) Our lives, even the physical material lives
are on the surface. Popularity is
the Surface of the surface.
388) To see
knowledge emerging from Ignorance as a brilliant Light is realisation. To be able see the same in our acts is
enjoyment consummate.
For the realised
yogi as well as the shallowest crowd, the past is past. The present alone
matters.
389) The
originals of the Indian scriptures, and those of Shakespeare are unknown to
human eyes. And yet they rule the
world.
The
present is ever present and present everywhere
390) What longs for the past is the remnants of the Ego.
391) The
greatest strength is required for surrender, as surrender makes one greater
than the greatest.
392) Insurance
is the Individual security given by the collective. Individual prayer to Mother is the security the individual gives the
collective.
Prayer
is the premium paid by the devotee to the Divine for the well being of the
world.
393) The
infinitesimal equals the infinite in capacity is seen negatively. Changing into positive, the infinitesimal
will equal the infinite in creativity.
394) Surrender
is the effort of the Divine.
The highest effort man can take is surrender.
395) Surrender
of important big works is possible, if you can learn to surrender small works
like getting up or opening the door.
396) The choice
of handing over oneself to Mother awaits always.
Mother
awaits as luck, though She is Grace.
397) If you are
a perfectionist, choose Surrender and
make it perfect.
398) Human evil
is divine GOOD.
The human finite is the divine infinite.
399) The physicality of the Mind does not realise that the willingness of
the other man is emotional and is to be agreed upon silently and given. It asks for it rationally!
400) Right or
wrong is a vital limitation of the perception energetically imposed on the
being. Right or wrong does not exist in wider comprehension.
401) The spiritual
individual is created by the pressure of the evolving Spirit even as the social
being is born out of the pressure of the society.
402) Love cannot be frustrated, as it has
nothing to expect.
What is there
for one to expect?
403) Crude methods
surely yield results, but they are crude results.
Surface
includes all Becoming. It includes our
body as well as the earth itself.
404) Trying to know Supermind is itself knowledge.
The
aspiration to discover the formula of the universe is of a genius.
405) Training and education offer dead
methods and live contact of the teacher and classroom. The resulting success is more due to the live contact than the methods
employed.
406) Irrationality is a symptom of the
atmosphere.
To know the atmosphere by the
rationality of people is perception. To justify the atmosphere from the
irrationality is a prior mental state of superstition.
407) The body is in the soul.
The unconscious soul is in the
body. The awakened soul contains the body.
408) Human life enjoys unconsciously. It
does so, so that its existence by the soul is buried. Moksha is the exclusive enjoyment of the soul outside its embodied
life still unconsciously. Yoga is the
conscious enjoyment of all the parts of being by the evolving soul.
409) To write with errors is to offend the
language.
Erroneous writing is linguistic
sin.
410) Learning a language fully is to know it
to explain concepts adequately and emotions precisely. For this it is not enough to be a native of that language, but one must
know the language as it knows itself.
411) Personality is social whose main
ingredient is one’s expertise in his work.
Expertise of social survival and psychological enjoyment determine that.
Psychological personality is
formed like the equipment in mother tongue.
412) The effectivity of law lies in the
enforcement of it.
Culture
is the current law.
413) The world events in the physical plane
and the dreams in the subtle plane together express the total personality of
man.
Man is his world of dreams.
414) Civilisation makes today’s luxuries
tomorrow’s necessities.
415) There is an organisation behind the
knowledge of The Life Divine. To know that helps one understand the
Book.
Knowledge is organisation.
416) Everything yields to a determined,
intelligent effort that is organisation, especially when the effort is informed
of the higher plane behind. Otherwise
this effort creates that influence.
417) Old age is an
occasion to feel greater affection in an affectionate family.
418) Man identifies
with the traditional wealth, though it is unattainable. His own obeisance is
enough reward. Fresh upcoming men are a
challenge he cannot tolerate.
419) Establishment is
endorsed. Pioneers are upstarts that
threaten the inner establishment.
420) Revelation is instantaneous. Experience
needs time. To know a man’s name it is not necessary to live with him for a
long time.
421) To voluntarily
give up known defects that were grave diggers is practical wisdom, maybe
practical efficiency.
Defects or capacities, they win
our attention by long association.
422) Democracies
have not gone to war. No family in
which someone does not try to destroy another needs to have quarrels. Next to destruction comes domination.
Quarrels
are absence of culture.
Acquire
culture to avoid quarrels.
423) Time is no factor for one who can act
from Timelessness. Still, Time needs consideration as it can be upgraded into
its third poise.
Time is no bar, as we can be in
the third poise.
424) All those who sold weapons to
terrorists bewail the acts of terrorism.
The national governments silently overlooked terrorism all these days.
425) Man is drawn towards intensity.
Gambling, drinking, crimes are there because they thrive by their intensity.
It is possible to create programmes of intense enjoyment towards which
all criminals turn. Even the presence of crime gives a subconscious
consolation to the apparent good population. That is why evil survives.
426) Desire to know the right decisions is
the awakening of the Spirit in mental will.
427) Decisions are actions of personality.
428) Decisions are made by the Person in
spite of one’s personality. The Person exercises the choice. The efficiency is
of the personality. The Person can
always prefer Mother to his highest efficiency. It is surrender.
Surrender
gives the greater efficiency.
429) Ego is stiff; surrender is Soft.
430) The moment of surrender is momentus. At
that moment one seeks knowledge emerging out of his own ignorance as Light,
maybe as the head of Sri Aurobindo.
431) Man
is structured in graded layers. When a
decision is made at one level, all the levels below are relieved of it. To
decide at the highest level, all the rest must be surrendered.
Sri Aurobino recommends
surrender, as it is the decision of the highest level of personality.
432) The
latest fashion spreads at once. Acquiring the latest power descended on earth
is known to be surrender.
433)
One needs shrewdness to know the
subconscious motives of others.
Shrewdness becomes insight when we know our own subconscious motives.
434) Ego is directly inimical to work. It is
interested in its own work that will build itself.
435) Destroy or worship is the motto of ego.
Popularity is the crown of ego.
436) Nature’s evil in us will dissolve in
Mother’s atmosphere if it is saturated.
Human evil will not so dissolve. First, it requires to be rid of the
human fortification.
Man seeks evil for its
intensity.
437) The evil in us,
if condemned morally, will be negatively fortified. To know how that evil is
perfection of good and how it circles the good in us, will help dissolve it.
Condemnation
confirms, understanding dissolves.
438) Public opinion disregards facts, goes
by preference which means it loves to have the power to reward or punish.
The public publish their own crimes by gossip. The public punish themselves in punishing others
439) To raise a doubt
about things well explained is the understanding of the ununderstanding.
440) The laziness of falsehood is a
spiritual darkness. Work is its curative. But physical work cannot cure it at
its origin. To realise the origin of
that falsehood one needs to work knowing that he is false. To get rid of that laziness quickly, one
must work to feed innumerable lazy people.
441) Sparkling health does not have the pride of
expensive hospital treatment.
442) To be able to cure any disease is a
wonder of the drugs. To have a health
that seeks no cure is a marvel of inner goodness.
Influence is
needed when the functions are diseased. Influence
is a power of silent good living.
Influence is
influence when it does not need to be exercised.
Disease is
morbid inner consciousness
.443) One who knows
his experiences in the subtle, causal planes has the ultimate knowledge.
444) Reality is neither subjective nor objective,
but is integral.
445) A man who rectifies his misdeeds
without giving up that attitude does not stand that chance of transformation.
446) Double dealing sometimes serves to save
an honest man from becoming a victim to double dealing.
447) The world you are unaware of will
respond to your wishes.
448) Spiritual evolution has two stages. The
first is the spirit evolving out of the lower planes. The next is the Spirit
growing in its Spiritual stature seeking fresh adventures.
449) Persistence is rewarded with
Perfection.
It is endless aspiration that
yields endless energy.
Persistence
is to do something non-stop. To do anything non-stop, one needs endless energy.
Life is intermittent; living is
constant.
450) Proximity disillusions. Fame arises in after-life, as it abolishes
proximity.
Popularity not banished by
proximity is greatness.
451) Knowing is the
greatest joy of the mind.
Not knowing
is a greater joy of the being.
452) To know one’s
surroundings, one must be awake in his senses.
Not to know
the environment, one must be awake in his being ONLY to his own object.
453)
Alertness in one situation implies
gullibility in another situation, unless it is a wider alertness which is
awareness and does not require one to be alert.
Alertness makes awareness
possible.
Alertness
is deceptivity implied.
454) One who deserves popularity gets it by
outdoing the local population and in the process becomes unintelligible to
them. By definition, there can be no
local popularity.
Popularity
is not by appreciating the work but by sharing its social results.
455) The aim of the physical is NOT to know
but to enjoy exercising itself.
The Indian body enjoys pure
existence and has no need to exert. That is how it is aware of the inner light.
456) Soul and mind secretes in life and
matter, just as the metal and diamond form in earth.
The
purpose of creation is beyond the human thinking that deals with its own
affairs.
457) A Blessing Packet is very powerful, but
its power will not act if you are unclean.
Force of Truth needs a clean
atmosphere to act.
458) Affection can be given unstintedly,
keeping back every essential thing such as help of every description or
recognition of status.
Selfish,
mercenary affection can be condescending.
459) Unwilling arrogance puts on humility of
ignorance to assert its ego.
The
resources of the ego are endless.
460) Doing an act of kindness to relieve one
in distress in spite of the fact he is in the process of ruining you, is surely
a death warrant. Even that done in the absence of ego will surely remain a death
warrant, but to the evil-doer.
The act
killeth not, only the intention.
461) Statistical
study of human behaviour achieves precious little, which may be right, by a
labour without proportion.
462) Wifely affection
is obedient service in adoration.
463) Life transforms a drop of evil through
one lifetime of unconscious living. A
drop of Her Light destroys it.
464) Benefits from a lower plane such as
corruption, however small they are, can destroy the whole for another
generation.
465) Refusing a genuine gift refuses luck.
Acquired culture cannot receive
affection or even gifts.
466) When affection is true, it generates
prosperity in its proportion.
467) She who mocks everyone for mocking’s
sake ends up an eternal mockery.
468) Offended prestige becomes idealism at
the first possible excuse.
469) People who
invoke the Lord often mean by that word ‘Lord’ themselves. Maybe they believe in its being true.
It is a great
consolation that men of all shades believe themselves to be God in one way or
another.
470) Computer is a
commercial avatar.
Computer is
an avatar of modern technology.
471) The opening is
deep when deep spots of personalities are touched. That which is intractable is deep.
Depth is what
no one has seen; perhaps it is unseen by us too.
473) Ambition is the
desire for the unattainable. Desire to
give what one does not possess is the vanity of ambition.
474) Possessiveness
is in proportion to the intensity of enjoyment. Sex became a taboo thus.475) The
subliminal sight is the vision of the psychic.
476) Calling The
Mother gives the capacity to solve problems.
Her calling Herself from inside solves the problems of the world.
477) Complete folly
is compulsorily present.
To create knowledge, energy must
be withdrawn from elsewhere where ignorance is organised.
478) A yogi who takes interest in social
life will have as much energy for yoga as a gambler who tries to run his family
with what is left over by gambling.
479) When the spiritual atmosphere of a
great soul spreads all over the world, those who were with Him contrive to
destroy it at its birth place.
480) The deciphering of one’s dreams is like
trying to understand the script of a foreign language unaided.
- Compassion has the strength of
mercilessness.
482) Emotions affect health.
The deepest emotions affect
instantaneously.
483) Not to repeat
a folly, and to follow what we know to be right is the most difficult for the
human mind.
484) To bring Major Grantly into Crawley’s
house* life accuses Crawley with the theft of £ 20.
*Last
Chronicle of Barset.
485) The
invisible is not non-existent.
486) Fast friendship of great sincerity
cannot mature between a man and woman within the norms of the limitation of
social behavioural requirements. That too is possible in higher
consciousness.
487) To draw an inference from the evidence
may be right or not. It can open a way to gross injustice.
To
enable pure justice to descend on one, life offers injustice.
488) Objective analysis ends in unity.
489) Information can be unorganized, not
knowledge, as knowledge is organised mental perception.
490) Ego receives submission, not rational
service. To serve the ego is ruin, at least utter folly.
491) Man possesses the mantra of social
life. It is the same formula of a life
of luck. Shedding the ego
changes it.
Mother saw the mantra of
Life. Its social version is the mantra
of luck.
492) He who has received precious education
as his property will subconsciously endeavour without fail to prevent property
reaching his benefactor.
493) Attitude of
surrender is the greatest of strengths.
494) Silent will is
surrender of the will.
495) Heart has not learned to
pardon one to whom we have confessed.
496) Enjoyment is
egoless.
The only
enjoyment of the ego is to destroy other egos.
497) Knowledge
becomes power by the organisation of energy
in the vital. Similar organisation in
Matter is technology. Knowledge directly
becomes power when the faith in this process is surrendered.
498) If each man acts
according to his own choice and no social restraint is present, society will
not slide down a century or two, but will go back to man’s nomadic existence.
Removal of restraints does not
relax, but wipes out everything
.499) Sense of helplessness brings out the
very best from inside.
500) Even ego gives way to equality.
501) Mother protects by knowledge,
circumstances, changed attitudes and hundred other ways. There is no protection for one who walks out of it with determination.
The
unprotected are protected in their souls.
502) I seek, I know not for what.
The poets
sought God in Nature. He who seeks God in man does not know that it is the one
place where he cannot be found.
503) The soldier in the
front and the house holder enjoy the same security, the security of what they
take for granted.
Danger comes
from fear, not the circumstance.
504) You may have been creative. For the
neighbour you are only a rival.
To consider the Infinite in man as finite is the
privilege of the finite colleague.
505) When thought exceeds words language becomes creative.
506) Language has basic potentials to
communicate in the absence of vocabulary or even primary concepts.
507) Written language demands to be grammatical.
When the language grows into higher forms it passes through forms that are not
grammatical.
Periods of growth defies the
rules of form.
508) Human behaviour is not logical or
rational, but empirical and superstitious. The
expectations are not based on what the thing is, but what one needs.
Man calls woman, “Frailty, Thy
name is woman”.
509) Is there no forum where I can justify
my case? One who serves God, has no such
forum, nor can he communicate as his thoughts are wordless.
You are a law unto yourself.
510) Culture has no value at all in the field of spirituality. Culture is the manners of high character. Where manners are yet not formed, culture is a distant cry.
Absence of culture may be
positive in a people who have deeper spiritual potentialities in that it can
emerge easily.
511) The best of men in ordinary vocation is
NOT capable of being appreciated. Lack of appreciation, mean criticism are
still positive forces in public work.
512) Perfection raises the plane of Time to
the simultaneous integrality.
Perfection
513) Two brothers, one who was dutiful and
the other who neglected his duty, after thirty years of devotion to Mother were
ruined along different paths. It means
it is a family that can progress through ruination.
514) A superstructure needs a foundation.
Several superstructures automatically help lay the foundation. Money is one of
them.
Money is the higher that
includes the lower.
515) To discover the complement woman is,
the discovery must begin in the mind. The world is not yet privileged thus.
Human emotions have not yet created the structure to permit or enjoy the
complementing vibrations of the woman. Sri Aurobindo speaks of the final level
of it in the body as God enjoying the man when he becomes a woman. It occurs when the feminine in the
masculine rises to its own spiritual stature.
516) Creation is a joy at every moment even
as evolution releases joy. Creation is
evolution of the cosmos from the Absolute.
517) Emotional knowledge enriches life while
intellectual knowledge is dry. If there is a physical knowledge, a knowledge of
the body in the cells, it will thrill to the touch of life.
Gratitude is knowledge of the
body.
518) Friend, follower, admirer, disciple,
member of a group, etc. have given place to 'associate', which neither adds a
further shade nor serves any new purpose. The
emergence of this word is an expression that the language tried to develop in
vain with no thought behind.
519) God is ready to help when called, but
no call has gone forth from humanity or earth so far. Sri Aurobindo has asked for a boon on earth and it was granted. To
convert the boon into a fact, the call must go from humanity to God.
520) Bengal did not pray to Sri Aurobindo
either about the famine or communal outburst.
The ego of the world has never
asked for God’s help.
521) Whether you join a course or take an
employment, you acquire the initial qualifications for entrance. A work of perfection in spirit needs a similar qualification of
calm, equal organisation.
Capacity for perfection in
whatever one does is a spiritual qualification.
522) When one becomes conscious of the
knowledge that the problem is no real problem, the problem is forgotten, giving
place to a calm sweetness.
Forgetting is overcoming the
problem in consciousness when it generates a sweetness.
523) It is evident that the cocksure
moralist mouths absurdities. Is it
equally clear that all that we are socially and morally, are absurdities?
Nothing is absurd for the Being
of the Becoming.
Each plane is absurd to the
higher plane.
524) Incomprehension of the intellect
announces itself as difference of opinion.
Incomprehension has no right of
difference.
525) The arrival of God on the scene of your
life will not go unseen. In fact, it will be seen, felt, smelt in every
possible way.
526) Inheritance and marriage should be
given up and no vestige of them should remain.
Social marriage should be
psychologically dissolved. Disinherit inheritance.
527) In the absence of culture or
experience, what reveals one’s character is characteristic events.
To know one’s character
unrevealed by occasion needs deep penetration or wisdom.
528) Knowledge of the world is
inexhaustible. It need not be acquired. Its
essence is essential.
The finite becomes Infinite not by details but by essence.
529) He who is annoyed at not getting a
thing is again annoyed at getting it. He wants not the thing, but power over the
person who gives it.
Ambition is
frustrated either way.
530) When society creates forms, Nature
provides for those forms to be exceeded so that life will not be stifled.
Marriage is one such form that offers the greatest conceivable emotional
security for most. For those who are
physically passionate, marriage and confinement to it will be direct insanity. Prostitution
and lapses that lead to promiscuity save them from certain insanity.
531) The highest knowledge one can aspire
for is the definition of life from the first principles.
Knowledge will shade off into
consciousness beyond the basic definitions.
532) Love is the ROMANCE of Spirit when its
strength is from the power of consciousness.
Confidence is the Will of love.
533) The biologist knows the human past
recorded in our cells. The economist can see the history of civilisation in our
inner consciousness.
Mother speaks of the earth’s
memory.
534) To offer a right as a favour is
deceitful meanness.
The meanness of the small is an
intolerable deceit.
535) The developing world needs more of
knowledge of development than actual development.
536) Sorrow is not for one who does not seek it.
537) We now know everything is attainable, and still seek the old
route. First go to the soul, come to any goal from there. You will be
unfailing.
538) An effective organisation does not
simply execute effectively. It does so
by communicating the sense of purpose through an emotion that is an attitude.
539) The one source of jealousy one can
never escape is his own against his achievements. It presents to him as rational thoughts.
540) Man who hangs the bunch of carrots
before his donkey, rarely perceives he has hung one before himself by his own
art of self-deception.
Man who practises self-deception
deceives his own Self.
541) Deceit fails utterly when it becomes
self-deception.
542) The faith of the surface being is that
of a simpleton, but still faith, although simplistic. When the depth surfaces, the simplistic faith of the simpleton becomes
simplicity itself, which while in faith changes into the Being of the Becoming.
Human awakening restores to
Spirit its original Simplicity getting rid of all the wanton crookedness. Still the crookedness too is divine.
543) The
fool is oblivious of the greatest danger that looms large till it destroys him.
Often, maybe always, the foolish faith
is rewarded, though he would remain the self-same FOOL.
544) It is not enough he does not believe in
the power of money. He should be happy
in that freedom.
Not the act, but the joy the act
issues.
545) Man’s reliance on the instruments he
has created is the human version of Ishwara’s
surrender to Shakti.
When the Ishwara awakes in man, the money he would handle will be the
world’s wealth.
546) He who released your soul from the
oppression of selfishness is selfish. He brings you your nightmares.
547) The best is put to the worst use.
Freedom in an organisation
raises efficiency infinitely. In a negative atmosphere, he who gave freedom
loses all personal respect.
548) Whatever the ideal one gives himself
to, the man remains what he was in his own life. That alone is the determinant.
Future leadership will go to him
whose ideal overmasters his nature.
549) Unity is paramount to man, says HE. One who meditates on that idea will touch
the Self-conscious Being in himself. If he fails, he will touch Sat.
550) One’s understanding of past national
events and predictions of personal course of life may be true. It only means he
has a broad understanding, not a complete one.
One who is truly wise almost
sees their course.
551) The smallest of men effectively
threatening the biggest man is a negative expression of the finite becoming
infinite.
552) The
physical cannot resist acting, like the monkey with the split timber, even when
it knows it will powerfully recoil on itself.
553) Social
disciplines become social culture under the rigours of summary total punishment
and material loss.
554) The population will respond to an idea or changed lifestyle
not on its own basic merits, but to the
extent the new will serve the purpose of the old.
What
moves is the old, not the new.
556) To concede impersonality to personality is possible at a
time ripe for universalisation.
Currency
becomes legal tender when money comes of social age.
557) Responsibility not fixed to a person is not effective.
Organisations
work by fixing responsibilities. When culture takes over the responsible
institution is born.
558) “One man’s perfection can still save the world”. It rains in
answer to one man’s prayer which means weather has always been under the
influence of the Supramental force.
559) The pride of patriotism of the country, the pride of one’s
class, family, etc. no longer seem to be there. The individual is left to
himself. He who has pride is no individual.
560) No act has any significance outside its own context,
especially in the spiritual context. It
has full significance in its own context.
Spiritually
any act is pardonable, nay noble.
561) Lack of organisation belongs to Time,
while perfection belongs to simultaneity. Perfection organises, becomes quietly
equal and becomes dynamic based on that equality.
562) Money rose from the
physical labour and therefore includes all that forms the foundation. Knowledge
emanates from above and cannot so include the items of foundation.
563) To be able to see the enormous effect
of ONE single value like punctuality, though values do not exist singly, on the
result – the phenomenal effect – is to understand the value of organisation.
The difference between greatness
and smallness lies in ONE item of life.
564) The
supramental being is the psychic of the physical substance. The vital psychic
will have a life full of heavenly joy on earth, and will suffer an abundance of
heavenly luck. The mental psychic man
will emerge as a being when his physical base is fully protected and his vital
life is invulnerably lucky.
566) Sensation that over powers sensitivity is sincerity.
Sincerity overcomes sensitivity.
568) The
opposite hides your force. You must not only discover it and its complementary
nature, but also enjoy the way it works with your own force.
569) As the world governments have been
indifferent to acts of terrorism, educated men are indifferent to clear
symptoms of serious diseases or defects of their own children.
Unless something precipitates,
it is not a problem.
570) Man realising his greatest achievement
is his greatest fetter, realises the significance of work. It is freedom.
Freedom is freedom from one’s
achievements.
571)
To be silly is to full; meanness
gives intensity.
Malicious meanness gives full
delight of intensity.
572) The desire to have a purpose is not a
very commendable view of life, but it is given to the pure Spirit to be
purposeless.
Man is caught between the high
purposelessness and his narrow purpose.
573) Why do you
want to look for omens, symptoms and symbols? Don’t you see you are creating
them?
You are what you have made
yourself.
574) He who succeeds in accepting surrender
changes into Sri Aurobindo.
Even consecration is too distant
a goal to man.
575) Problems are presentation of Maya. Not to recognise them is faith. To
benefit from them is superstition.
576) Purifying
the senses means, the senses must have the universal vision.
Not to resist the descent is
service to the Divine.
577) Shankara presented creation as Maya. All that mind presents to the soul,
especially what the senses present are Maya.
Let the soul see the earth going
round the sun.
578)
Senses that see light as
darkness, cease to feel the motions, do succeed in hiding God.
Man is mind. As long as he
allows Mind can fool him.
579) Whether initiated by us or accepted
from the promptings outside the ACT remains. The human act of the past must be transformed into the divine act of
the present.
Surrender transforms the planes
of the past actions.
580) Consciousness is the awareness of the
obvious.
581) The man without rights hoping for
something to turn up was then in the position of voiceless, rightless woman of
today even after they are granted in law.
Man becomes woman deprived of
rights.
582) Awakening of Man is evolution. God
cannot awaken him. It is for man to awake. Still
it is God who awakens man and we call it grace.
583) One may do anything difficult, but not with the right change
of emotions.
Not
the act, but the attitude is difficult.
584) One who is amazed at earth shaking
problems dissolving at the touch of Her Force is equally or more amazed by
finding tiny problems fully resisting.
Absence of mental impact moves
mountains. Its presence renders a pin difficult to move.
585) Tension is the lower plane handling the
higher.
586) As the chain sits on the toothed wheel,
the hands move in locomotion, breathing adjusts to work, every movement
complements every other movement. To know them is knowledge, to sense them in
action is power which raises human
enjoyment to spiritual ananda.
The joy of Lila is the Ananda of
Ishwara discovering Shakthi in the
least of action.
587) The world can create a new high standard
of scholarship and call it Acme of Understanding where accomplished thinkers
can analyse life in their own fields from the fundamental spiritual
determinates.
588) We know the phenomenon of a place where
a saint live for a short while, but utterly neglected, revealing its full power
to a receptive devoted heart while lack of faith, disregard, hostility driving
his influence away from the place where he is buried. It is thus we are unaware of our own hidden soul.
Soul responds to the finest of
touches at first. Life needs to be changed by the soul of life.
589) Finest of spiritual experiences are
there in the depth in moments of receptivity. They enlighten the soul. Not even
dozens of them can change life. Life is
changed by a conscious change of temperament as temperament expresses life.
Years of life with Sri Aurobindo
left the lives of many untouched. Moments of change of heart, changed life.
590) Interruption comes from the presence of
ill-formed information and its energy.
591) Theoretical validity dispenses with every possible practical
doubt.
Knowledge
is successful practices well learnt and organised.
592) Theory dispenses with all trials and
errors. It needs only confirming experimentation. Theory derived from past experiences dispenses with the experiments
also.
593) The first gain of an organised society,
which is the least, is to prevent the meanness of the small.
Social organisation prevents the
exploitation of the extravagant individual.
594) To be able to concentrate and not
define it is an unconscious possession of it. To know it in the mind, we
consciously possess mental concentration. For us to know it at Sat is to be
conscious of Sat and its concentration.
Conscious concentration
possesses the plane of concentration.595) Ego
equates primary membership with the presidency of an organisation.
For the ego, it is equal to the
world and more.
596) Service is rendered by one who enjoys
service. Others will be ill at ease in service. Such people will expect in
return of a little service the benefit of a whole life.
Service makes a man spirit.
597) The Cuban crisis and Chinese invasion
never bothered us. If the present crisis bothers, it means we are awake at
points we were not. To be awake
positively makes for equality.
The world has existed always. It
is MAN who changes or moves up or down.
598) The leader of the future is not a
person, but a Thought.
599) A photo of a man, his biography or even
a video especially of a writer are all true representations of him, but he is not confined to any of them. Our
perception of God is like that.
We see God in his partial
records and refuse to take a full look at Him.
600) Wider issues
need wider faculties; they widen the faculties too.
Greater phenomena appear to upgrade
the plane of action.
601) Hard-earned money will be protected by
stinginess. Rarely it becomes generosity. When it does so, it is for its own selfish reasons.
602) Literary perfection excludes the
masses. To strike an answering chord in their hearts, one must use their
language which resists perfection. The
force forces the language to take a better shape. It is the perfection of
imperfection, which is a universal vibration.
603) Statements are indicative or
explanatory. They can be comprehensive too. Trying to make a statement all of this at one time, it states nothing.
604) Meanness develops everywhere. Power
does it; absence of power too does it. Meanness
disappears when the inner strength exceeds power of any kind.
605) Process of concentrating behind the
heart will not lead to trance as it
includes all the parts of being.
There is no trance when any part
is awake.
606) Death that generates joy is
transformation.
607) Accomplished organisation still has to
acquire manners and culture.
That which is BIG need not be
great.
608) Even when the mind concedes with
understanding and joy, everything else revolts.
The distance between the conquering revolution and administering
management is covered by the awakening in the substance.
Revolution conquers, management
accomplishes.
609) Each man represents a world of his. The yogi represents the whole world.
God evolves; we too can evolve.
Moksha takes us to the unevolving God.
Yoga makes us the evolving God.
610) Romance seeks vital, physical
gratification. Rarely does marriage enter into the scheme of romance.
Romance is an intense sentiment,
is not a stable substance to seek stability of marriage. Romance is no romance
if it seeks marriage.
611) There
is no great philosophy that is not reflected in anyone’s life.
AqÄ® ¤µ®©®.
612) No one can progress who has a valid
code for himself.
Only he who is awake in his
psychic can disregard conscience. He must overcome it.
613) Observation is constant and automatic.
The observer is the sense, not
the mind.
614) Completion compels.
Compelling completion completes
itself.
615)
Fullness comes by including
others in you.
616) To know what moves a man, it is not
enough to observe his movements, but you have to move him and observe.
617) Death changes into life by inner
change.
618) Man is conscious not of what he knows,
but what he wants to know.
619) Formal words prevent
losses.
620) Decisions are conveyed more through the
manner than through material words.
621) Selfishness has the psychological
shield of reluctance.
622) The abysmal poverty of poor nations is
beyond the comprehension of rich nations. To know the abysmal ignorance of an
innate stupid mind is beyond our mental reach.
623) Even tenderness can
take on the appearance of hardness.
624) Mind does not know its attachments till events knock against
it.
625) Affection is really of the Spirit. Its
depths are in the physical. The most intense emotions are the emotions of the
body.
626) Negativism is greater efficiency in
potential.
627) Ideas lose the focus in translation, in
writing down the understanding and in the change of one plane to another.
628) Urgency depends upon understanding, not
the actual situation.
629) Perfection cannot be achieved by
pointless delay.
630) To be precariously perched can be
perennial security which is insecurity assured.
631) To be functional is not to be all right
in health. Enjoying sound health is to be really all right.
632) There is no punishment for unknown causes
of crimes.
633) The unemotional man has an unbelievable
freedom from emotional issues.
634) Methods, ideals, institutions will die
their natural death when they have served their purpose.
Form perishes; the Spirit
cannot.
635) The wisdom of stupidity is public
opinion. The stupidity of wisdom is common sense.
The common sense of public
opinion is the corrective to the leadership.
636) The heart longs, continues to long for
long.
637) Rare spiritual advice given unasked is
inauspicious offensive destruction.
The
soul too needs an invitation.
638) Secrecy is selfishness.
The
best instrument of Self-giving is secrecy.
639) The world can be changed but not instructed.
640) One who created the problem is capable
of the greatest consolation.
641) A long cherished idea that one knows to
be unrealisable, realises itself the moment man surrenders it to Mother. One can be certain about it, not about how
it will be fulfilled.
Surrendered thoughts fulfil
themselves at a higher level.
642) Vices are the virtues of the violent.
643) The small man’s greatness usually
emerges through his smallness.
The creativity of smallness lets
the smallness serve greatness.
644) Quantity is an illusion; Quality is an
illusion; Quantity changing the Quality too is another illusion.
645) All omens are true. They can be changed too. Accepting the
omens as they are brings about the best of changes.
646) Nothing
that is significant remains unknown.
647) Work rewards.
Not working rewards more.
648) Exercise energises. Physical exercise
keeps the body in fine fettle and mind indirectly is a truth well known in the
West. It is more due to their climate. To
fully exercise any part of our body and being is a spiritual growth.
649) Deftness needed to handle subtle forces
is great. Only surrender can handle the
causal movements.
650) Help given has other
greater uses than intended.
651) As the whole world tries to destroy a
pioneer, every known force on earth is a mortal enemy to Grace.
652) The inner woman accomplishes in
consciousness; the outer woman preserves the extensions of the body.
653) Prayer is strength. Anyone’s prayer
helps. The most effective prayer is of the one who created the problem. Thus he
removes the evil.
Enemy’s reversal is effective
prayer.
654) Fullness is of the being.
655) A great creative work permits enough
scope for its further extensions by fresh minds coming to it in later
generations. This it provides by the slips and lapses in
its construction. It does not mean slips are not there.
Lapses are extensions into
higher creativity.
656) The man needs a woman and the woman
needs a child. Man seeking a woman is human, seeking the woman inside, he is a
yogi. The finest woman comes to him when
he finds her inside.
Inner completion is the real
completion.
657) Life is predictable, Mother is not.
658) The unfit of this society is for the next
society.
659) Most of the enjoyment
in marriage is the enjoyment of domination that is successful.
Domination dissolves love, but
can also fulfil it.
660) Approached from above, everything is an
endless source of joy.
Joy from above, mixture from
below.
661) Absence of skill makes life
boring.
662) The greater one’s aspiration grows, the
more impossible grows the face of The Mother.
Poison is for one who quests for
amirta.
663) Blood
relations try to inhibit. Devotional relationships prohibit inhibition.
Power of relations and friends is inexorable. Power of devotional relationship
is refined and ennobling.
664) He who gives up the old deadening ties
will have new life-giving relations.
Relations relate to our
restraints.
Devotees are relations without
restraints.
665) Expanding one’s psychological frontier
leads to everlasting progress that is happiness.
666) Astrology and palmistry were created by
subtle vision and are practised not by vision but by experience.
Vision discovers, experience
practises.
667) Faith is absence of danger.
Terror is there because of lack of faith.
668) Intensity that is fully wide is
equality.
Intensity must be positive.
Avoid avoidance.
669) Compulsion is to be compulsorily
avoided.
670) We accuse man for not rising to the
highest standard to which we have not attained.
Complaining is a negative urge
for perfection.
671) How can anyone know what he has not
experienced? Is it wise to blame him for that?
Ignorance
is inexperience.
672) Successful removal of problems in one
plane or an area is followed by problems in the next plane.
673) A devotee is one who is devoid of problems or a worrying
idea.
674) Unconscious oblivion can serve the same end as conscious
alterness.
675) Illusory possession of a higher value protects itself by
falsehood.
Pride
becomes arrogance by falsehood protecting itself.
676) When hard labour successfully organises
itself into higher productivity unaccompanied by higher spiritual values, stinginess is born.
677) Idealism is shameless. To be proud about one’s idealism as
it can be shameless is pure consciousness on either side.
678) The physical satisfying its needs
without knowing there is a human environment that disapproves is shamelessness. The vital that fulfils
its urge overcoming its sensational understanding of others is a shameful act.
Shame is a bar to spirituality.
679) Letting Her call is to disinherit the ego.
680) Quiet success is Hers.
That
which is NOT quiet is not God’s.
681)
·
Making
the concepts real is Brahmic consciousness.
·
Concepts
becoming perception is divine life descending.
·
Their
becoming SENSATION is constant gratitude to the Divine.
682) The disciplined man living in the
society lives in his discipline as a chaste woman living with women lax in
morals.
683) Her calling from inside is the
Universal Mother finding Her voice in the world.
Mother’s call is God’s reign.
684) Ego enjoys and prides in secretly
enjoying what I condemn in others publicly.
Publicly approve of private
secrets.
685) If mind does not question or if mind is
not there to question, there is no question.
686) If Truth is conscious in JOY, where is the question of right
or wrong, true or false?
Truth
or consciousness or Joy is God even as Silence or Peace. When the three
combine, questions disappear.
687) Find
the Truth in emotions.
688) Harmony is a sure symptom of supramentalisation.
689) He who will give up a great advantage
will not, of his own, give up a small one.
690) Self-restraint is not in the parts of man.
691) Punishment restrains, not reasoning.
Civilisation is yet at the point
of external discipline. It is physical punishment.
692) The same surroundings appear differently to different people
is a truth of varying visions.
693) One who does not use an object but
keeps it, USES it in another sense, a sense of preservation.
Silence too can be eloquent.
694)
One
who overcomes a problem, overcomes it on behalf of the world he is emotionally
identified with.
695) An idiot who lives in a big house of
his own feels he is superior in intelligence because of his ownership of a
house.
696) The impulse of human action is from the
vital or other parts, that of divine action is from the Being of the Substance
and will not have the character of impulse, but will be the true Force.
The divine action is the divine
acting through man.
697) He who is unwilling or unable to accept
the responsibility for his organisation cannot manage that organisation.
698) Dirty places that hide dirt and offer a
clean look give a sense of dirt.
Senses sense the Truth.
699) The greatest evil in the world has the
prerogative of making another, especially one devoted to her, realise Mother,
overcoming his own inner evil.
Relating to the negative, evil, and hostile knowing their role helps
you overcome their power. Knowledge is power.
700) The scare God does not feel need not
scare me.
It is He who does things. Let me
not comment on it.
701) Boredom
is a defence against dull repetition.
702) The abuse that by its intensity evokes
the gratitude of the inside is attractive.
It comes to man from the woman.
704) Intense ignorance is
opposition.
705) The body’s
self-awareness of itself as the evolving soul is supramentalisation.
710) Organisations emerge when the life of
the subtle plane matures and dominates over the gross plane.
Organisation exists in the minds
of men, not on the floor of the office.
711) Misspelling of one period becomes the
sacred spelling of another period.
712) Urbanisation allows greater scope for
individual existence, but the rule of the collective is retained behind.
Either the Individual is under
the collective or the collective is led by the individual.
Today the individual is the
collective individual, not an entity by himself. The world awaits the birth of the Spiritual individual.
713) Society is so organised and the
individual too functions as the society does that each act is viewed not in its own context but in its context of central
social importance.
The individual, till he creates
a collective for himself, cannot overrule the collective. He is the collective individual.
714) Man
exists; dynamic men act as they can. The
Spirit evolves.
715) The very best happens.
716) The
fully developed intellect giving way to intuition is like the army general
submitting to civilian authority.
717) Matter, though inconscient, does not
have the perversion of ego.
718) The desire to please undeserving people
brings unmerited punishment.
719) Silent subtle reception is in a plane
one level lower than where you are.
What cannot be directly
communicated gets communicated in the subtle plane.
723) Introduction ends in acceptance.
726) Gratitude greatens the body through the
vital and mind into soulhood.
727) The consciousness of the body evolving
to house the evolved consciousness gives it a longer life.
730) Romance gives the intensity to life to become love.
731) Woman whose beauty reveals when she
sheds her body and mind, decorates herself with dress.
732) The baffling past sometimes resolves in
the mind. When it becomes power, these events reverse actually or by representation.
733) For the world to accept one’s ideas,
they must be elevated to a universal concept.
The moment a second person
accepts the idea, the individual idea becomes a universal concept.
737) Taboos develop in a culture at a point
the culture can idealistically forge ahead.
738) The theoretical significance of the
Theory is practical.
739) The prose of The Life Divine has elevated philosophy to literary excellence.
740) Sri Aurobindo’s English prose is
unparalleled for its beauty at the level of its thought.
741) The finest work done by drugs is to
help the body cure itself by creating a helpful physiological atmosphere.
742) Fame is the desire to be widely known
for the value one has.
743) Human contact, especially of the
physical touch, if it is capable of offering gratitude changes the relationship
into a divine one.
744) Desire for popularity is to wish for
being known widely, whether one deserves it or not.
It is the expansiveness of
emptiness.
745) Charity has no place in a country where
there are no beggars or takers of help.
746) One man wanting to play a role in
another’s life is permitted only by the social duties. Outside of that, it is
either the spiritual generosity of the egoless person or the officious
interference of the egoistic individual.
One’s ego is fortified by the
other’s mercenary nature.
747) Change is by Silence.
748) All changes have always been radical.
What matters is change that is
stable.
It is change versus stability.
749) For one who has a perspective, there will be no waste if he is working
all the time. When the perspective is to be, doing absolutely no work at all
still creates no waste.
There is no waste for anyone. It
is only a point of view or the view of
having no view.
750) To recognise the newest organisation
and explain it to the world is a rare mental joy.
751) The real Quiet is the Spiritual quiet
and it belongs to the being. All the quiet assumed by the becoming will
generate tension. The Being exists by
itself. It is.
752) Crisis in any plane confirms the plane one is in.
753) Ignorance
is not only the most effective knowledge of the hour but it
is the organisation most suitable for the highest enjoyment.
754) Efforts to survive at a certain level
shape themselves as problems at that level. That is why problems at one level
are not problems at another level.
755) The desire to convince another is the fact of being mental
or rational.
The
psychic is that representative.
756) Any scandal puts the object under a
scrutinising eye, either to browbeat him or to push him to a higher standard
where he is out of reach of the scandalising multitude.
757) The higher the culture, the higher the
transgression. This is a transgression
that is transformation at the social level.
758) The best expressiveness of the language
lies in its elegance that is simplicity.
759) What a person is proud to speak out or
enjoys receiving, without making a
secret of it, can be safely done to him, as that attitude of his
indicates the higher permission.
Secrecy in the receiver hurts
the giver.
760) The lure of obscenity is not the lure
of the object, but the joy of freedom from inhibition.
Transgression is Transformation
on the lower side.
762) Overwhelming sorrow is toned down to recognisable sadness by
a blessing packet.
763) Woman condoning man’s injustices to her, the poor accepting
the rich at all costs is the way by which the low rises.
Civilisation
has not developed self-respect with respect to fairness or justice.
764) The urge to justify oneself implies the rationality in the
hearer who may not even have the needed comprehension. It shows he is wedded to a life of rational mind that is devoid of
power.
Punishment,
not explanation is called for.
Widening
our personality is punishment for the other.
765) The Spiritual individual creates the
spiritual society and does not live as a lone citizen.
It is a question of society or spirituality, not individuality or collectivity.
To become a spiritual
individual, one cannot honour any of the existing social institutions such as
marriage, property or inheritance.
766) Money is a power that grows by
movement. The faster money moves, the more valuable it becomes.
767) One who longs to deliver a message to
the world never succeeds. He who has a
way of life delivers it as a message.
768) Most of the problems of the world will
be solved and innumerable opportunities can be created if ORGANISATION as a
principle is accepted in the life of the world.
Organisation solves problems and creates opportunities.
Organise the opportunities.
769) The psychic is the universal in you.
The psychic faith or belief makes the world accept it and act on it.
The psychic accomplishes for the
world. The mind dreams; the psychic moves in action.
770) Faith is powerful. Still mental faith
has its limitations, as it will be tainted with mental ego.
Faith of any level will be faith
in its own limits. Mind anywhere will bring in its limitations.
771) The woman man looks for to complete his
own being is inside him and not outside. For
her to present to him outside, he should become an avatar.
The woman who makes the man
realise his evolutionary destiny is sweet even when she is abusive or obscene.
773) At the most creative moment, man feels the greatest despair.
This truth which the world has
seen after the event but has not realised must be realised now.
774) Mind consecrates when
it refuses to enjoy itself and prompts the soul buried in itself. It is
consecration.
775) Mother comes to those who have
surrendered their very best to the inner counterpart.
776) Love begins when marriage ends.
777) Oppression of a period is the
requirement of the organisation of that period.
The unorganised energy held in
leash for effective functioning is called oppression. Oppression is violent organisation.
778) When one stops growing and asserts his
position, strife issues.
Eternal harmony is non-stop
growth.
779) Injustices are the highest justice
possible at the moment. Rebellion and
resentment make for a great whole.
780) Offering of money when given and
received from the depths is an act of pure Love of the soul for the Soul.
781) Mind eliminating itself in favour of
the soul so that it may emerge is consecration.
782) Consecrated contact
expands the mind with love.
783) Verbal consecration is of an
unconscious mind. Consecration is
conscious when it is automatic.
Completing the consecration of
the surface, one goes in.
784) The only cure is what the body does to
itself. It is done by rest. To offer all the treatment and no rest not only
does not cure the illness, but it increases its severity.
785) Memory is the insincerity of the mechanical
functioning of the brain.
Lack of fullness of the present
is the memory of the past.
786) Result – Process – Essence
Nothing
is impossible for him who does not ask how.
787) As long as you
are either small or great, you are in the descent of creation. The moment you
enter the ascent of evolution, you see the small is great or great is small.
788) Shamelessness is part of life whether
you are an idealist or a member of a group or below that. No act can be efficiently executed without shamelessness of one kind or
another.
789) Money belongs to economics only partly.
It really belongs to society as a Power, a power of organisation.
790) To see the direction of the movements
of the world and to be part of it, is idealism. To create that direction and move the world along it is yoga.
791) Status without content is a source of
negative dynamism that is evil.
792) Absence of regret is presence of
wisdom.
793) Terrorism,
especially bio-terrorism against which there seems to be no defence, shows the defence effort must be in a
higher plane.
794) One who aspires for others’
prosperity will not be listened to or respected, while the wealth of a selfish man is looked up to.
Achievement is weighty; ideal is
not.
795) Trust
is self-confidence.
796) In the domain of spirituality, no
communication is necessary or possible as it is a subtle plane.
The active mind silences the mouth.
Our field is that of the silent
mind.
797) Offered
help can recoil.
Help asked for cannot hurt.
Man cannot usurp God’s generosity.
798) Mind is often frustrated and is rarely
pleased by what life presents. The
subliminal is always pleased. Yoga or evolution is the subliminal fullness
coming to the surface.
To be able to see subliminal
fullness on the surface is to see the link between mind and Supermind.
799) Mind acts at the first symptom. Vital waits
for the problem to shape to a vital reality.
Education eliminates snowballing
of a problem.
800) Understanding is possible when the MIND
concedes that NO act is ever wrong. Till then, opinion can form on its own.
801) The soul of Prakriti agreeing to
participate in the Becoming is its surrender to Prakriti. The soul of Prakriti becomes the psychic by surrendering to it.
804) Physiology and psychology have close
parallels. Almost all of them are exact parallels.
805) To fully organise the energy into skill
and capacities through values is perfection.
806) Luxury is a relative term. Again
it is the attitude that matters in seeking luxury, not luxury itself.
807) One rupee
production yields 10,000 rupees comfort.
808) An organisation becomes an institution
when the whole community or the community as a whole is incapable of being
negative in that regard.
809) The Becoming cannot hurt the Being. At
its worst, the Becoming will destroy itself to become the original Being.
Nothing can be destroyed. The
fading Form may be destroyed.
810) The infinite for the finite is the infinitesimal.
811) Process makes results insignificant.
Essence makes process non-existent, as Essence
that is Sat includes the other two.
The
poise of Sat is the bhavam.
812) Joy is the
sensation of the vital.
Ananda
is self-sensation of Sat.
Sensation
is mind knowing itself vitally.
813) Substance knowing itself as
subconscient is our physical body.
The Absolute knowing itself as a
Being is Existence.
814) Pain is too much ananda.
Joy is too much of positive
vital energy.
815) The individual need is personalised
universal need. At first it rises from inside as urges, finally it comes from
outside representing the world.
816) The pity is people must be told of the
value of Truth and the scientist must be shown the need of a Theory.
Unconsciousness needs the
obvious to be explained.
817) Corruption will not arise when men have
developed self-respect.
Corruption is the seepage in the
riverbed and banks.
818) The intensity of romance to get its
object after marriage turns into the intensity of possessing it. In the first phase, you think only of the
positive side and in possessing it, you feel only the other side.
819) God’s frequent touches of human soul,
especially in old age or at times of crisis, are taken by the human being as
the last summons, not a spiritual opening for rebirth here.
Promise of plenitude is death to
the aging body.
820) Life Response is not life response if
the result is not instantaneous.
Lightning takes no time to
travel to us.
821) The fool discovers the joy of being a
fool. It is his version God’s joy in Self-discovery.
No one’s joy is less than
another’s joy.
Each man’s joy is as great and
intense.
822) Aspiration that delights is aspiration.
823) To understand a crime from the
criminal’s point of view may justify all crime. That attitude will enable us to comprehend God’s view of our own action
which is a Marvel.
God’s view of the crime is
marvel.
824) A complaining mind or nature can, by a
single decision, take an attitude of not doing so anymore. Then he will see the step through which irritability travels to ever
increasing joy.
A sensation goes to mind to
become a dominating thought over the sulking spirit. It becomes joy.
825) To lie in wait without expectation is
to be moveless in Timelessness.
Unsuspecting nature is
non-expecting made permanent.
826) Thought in the descent changes
irritation to joy, as irritation is the thought of impatience in the physical.
827) To concede that a secret is kept away
for my good is GOOD WILL to oneself, known as common sense.
828) General endowment is like sunlight
outside, which may or may not brighten your book. Specific knowledge is like table lamp.
829) Sarcasm soils the soul.
830) Prayer answered neither implies devotion
nor faith.
831) It is not law that binds us; it is the urge to bind
ourselves.
832) Theorising
is to move away from the physical mind to the thinking, speculating mind.
833) When a secret is of Truth, the enmity
will dissolve.
834) Bad changes into good; good
changes into GOOD.
Goodness cannot do yoga.
835) Mother’s Force reaching us through any
existing channel is grace. Super grace comes without any such channel.
836) Concentration wipes out the present and
much of the past. One can surely reach
that intensity of concentration which can remove the effects of the past and
even the memory of the past.
Joys of life submerge sorrows of
the past. Ananda of the Higher Consciousness will obliterate all the oppressive
effects of the past.
837) Truth is a greater
mantra than all other mantras.
To mistake falsehood as Truth
will not help.
838) Classical knowledge divorced from the
present life creates the complex for stupid superstition.
Knowledge
without status is a complex without cause. Great education in language is
unawareness of one’s utter folly. He is a social stigma.
839) The great comes down to the low for one
thing which is the beauty of the woman, the learning of Brahman or the caste,
etc. Let it be for the Mother to whom we
take fully.
Let that ONE
be The MOTHER.
840) The mother knows the baby requires
constant attention to ward off fatal circumstances. In his old age, man is
aware of it for his own life. Adventure makes one aware of it all the time. Yoga is the adventure of consciousness.
841) Social mobility gives life education,
opening fresh cultural vistas.
Education presupposes enlightenment elsewhere.
Education being factual is a
requirement of rigour.
842) One who tries to preserve his gains may
successfully survive, but it may be intelligent progress.
One can escape any influence, but not that of the atmosphere.
Successful Himalayan effort in
scarcity is an effective bar for progress of any type.
843) Survival in falsehood succeeds as long
as one is not suspected.
Unsuspecting nature is human
survival.
844) For effective functioning, the distance
needed is that required for non-recognition.
Ego recognised dominates; not
recognised it obeys.
845) Politeness of the fully developed ego
is its awareness of no right.
846) The act whose process we are unable to
see is what we call chance. When one understands the process after the chance
has occurred, it ceases to be chance.
847) Often when the strongest urges of man
come to pass, they disgust the man. He
longs for what disgusts him.
848) The transformation of a weakness in one
person abolishes that weakness from the entire world, as what She does is a
universal act.
Transformation is the universalisation
of the opposite of what is – weakness or evil.
849) A wrong influence like black money, in
a negative atmosphere, strengthens the wrong hands to lead him to destruction.
In a positive social atmosphere, the wrong power goes to build the wrong people
so that the wrong in them will be destroyed.
There is nothing wrong. Really they are forces that widen our base of support.
850) Idiom
of a language is the most expressive part of it. It expresses its genius. Also words like in Tamil, and flirt, chivalry in English reveal the major
character of that society.
851) Money and power bring greater command
of our circumstances. Where they fail,
Mother works. We do not try to replace money and power by The Mother. Why?
We rarely realise it is our choice.
852) Forgetfulness helps man’s ever-present
negativity to not come into play.
853) Survival demands elimination of
problems which requires excess of knowledge over ignorance.
Man
marches ahead by increasing his knowledge.
854) It is possible to pardon one who has changed his criminal
attitude, not one who retains it. When
given up, it moves from Time to Timelessness.
To accept one who has not
changed, one should move from Time to simultaneity.
855) We now feel vital joy. JOY is the
sensation in us of the highest we know of.
Bliss
is Sat sensing itself. TO SENSE the evolving Spirit in us is the joy we are
after.
856) Purna
Yoga is fully realised when the physical substance senses the evolving inner
God expressing in one’s life.
The
conscious physical sensation of the Absolute is the realisation of God in the
matter of the body.
857) Thought emotionalises when the inner being opens.
Civilising
is the yoga of humanity.
858) Superstition is to rationality what intellectuality is to
intuition.
Only
Integral Experience can present Intuition to intellectuality.
859) Adherence of principles will wait to yield results till the
appropriate values are accepted as strategies.
860) Man always met with vast opportunities. Now he is buried
under an abundance of incalculable opportunities. He does not see them, perhaps because he is buried.
861) One knows a thing fully when he knows
it through Brahman. Any other knowledge is knowledge of that plane, meaning
ignorance of that level.
Know Brahman before trying to know anything else.
862) To conceive that genius is the energy
equivalent to the lazy man is supramental perception.
863) The woman who is deprived of all rights
and strengths is offered chastity that excels all virtues and endowments.
864) Law takes the psychological effort of
not considering the criminal as criminal till it is proved. It does not equate
the criminal and victim when the crime is proved.
The ‘fairness’ of one who
equates the criminal and victim is the most outrageous danger for justice.
865) Example educates when education is
missing, not always.
To follow another is not necessarily possible.
Following
is desirable, not always possible.
866) Attraction ostensibly generated by
wealth, status, or beauty may or may not be right. Man is not endowed with the capacity to know the cause of attraction. The
fact he is unaware attracts more.
Unawareness is attraction.
867) Less energy makes for inefficiency.
More of energy does not ensure higher efficiency unless it is also organised.
Language is an organisation of
mind.
868) Is there any act behind which does not
lie the experience of the past, its principle as theory?
When the obvious must be argued
for, unconsciousness is total.
869) The computer is more human than the
human parents.
The computer humanises the
children by a great volume of information and by its capacity not to be
negative.
870) The revolutionary of today is the
reactionary of tomorrow when he is attached to his attachments.
Attachment qualifies one to be reactionary.
Movement is Becoming. We need
Being of the Becoming.
871) Abridging Time into the present, one
abridges Space into a point.
872) The world is not too big for the soul awakened in the being.
873) Achieve perfection anywhere without attachment. It gives the
capacity to rule the world.
874) Grace removes the unwanted elements
from us. We long to restore their relations.
875) To accomplish in higher consciousness,
one has to be a whole at his own position. It
is more difficult than to rise to higher consciousness.
876) The wronged soul is the fit instrument
to remove wrongs from the world.
The best can still emerge out of
the worst.
877) Yoga should acquire a
new definition for the prayer, speech and act to be yoga. Yoga which means union, should mean unity.
878) The Silence behind the Silence is the plane
of yoga.
881) The energy needed for education takes it away from subtle
appreciation.
Focussing
is to draw away from other fields.
882) Absence of education in a subtle mind makes him see the
divine hand in life.
Education
that enlightens is accompanied by the deadening influence on subtlety.
883) Hurry is in haste for its dissolution.
That is why it rears its head.
884) What delays is the mind.
885) Computer is the Messiah of Mental Peace and Material
Prosperity of the world that
wipes out the gaps in development. Anyone who wants to catch up with
anything can.
886) Total sacrifice of one’s preferences is necessary to please
another on his own terms. Yoga demands
we do it to all.
Neither
pleasing, nor elimination of ego is the aim. To let Her move us is.
887) Change your attitude to Mother, if you want others to change
towards you.
888) Why hide jealousy? Have the courage to accept it and seek
the adventure of its transformation.
889) Enlightened self-interest can never be
offended and so sensitivity will ever surface as long as the knowledge that it
is served well, amply and widely is there.
The human heart that longs for
the Divine nectar receives the offence as grace. A greater offence is
supergrace.
890) Seeing tyranny as grace, man becomes god.
891) All the changes in our behaviour will not touch the
attitude of others towards us. Change of heart changes others.
892) Prudishness
is not purity, nor is it chastity.
Chastity is the virtuous
strength of a disciplined mind.
893) Surrender
is a value and as such yields its result only when it is complete and perfect.
As
surrender takes us to the causal plane, it must be completed in the subtle,
i.e. the very impulses must be surrendered.
894) What
is your own, if it is in other hands for any reason, will not come unless you
force it out of their grip. But, even to
think of it is not right for you. The intensity of your desert will bring it to
you when you know it is NOT yours but Mother’s.
Her right is not your right, your right too is not yours.
It
is right to disown all rights.
Right
is not right.
895) The highest known efficiency is the
taking over of the subconscious from the conscious. The conscious surrendering to the subconscious generates the highest
efficiency.
The thought, feeling, act,
thinker, feeler, doer is the order of surrender which ends in the being
surrendering to the Being.
896) He said yoga is for the Divine,
surrender is man’s part. Who is to surrender to whom? He said the soul should
surrender to the Divine.
897) A great action in a higher plane is
excelled by the consecration of a small act in a lower plane.
Consecration is the achievement
of the universe over the ages in the individual.
898) To appreciate another’s endowments as
one does his own is a path to Supermind.
899) What is not instantaneous is not
Mother’s action.
900) To know the distance between the
potential and the actual is only a decision to make the will the will of the
Force.
Raising the thought is
result.
901) Man who does most things based on a
theory of practice or conceptual theory, does not realise the need for any
Theory to build his future.
Doing is important, it does not
matter how.
902) If anyone is unaware of one’s love, it
is the object of love.
Love is fleeting when it is
fully reciprocated.
Love is immortal when it goes
unrecognised.
903) A man in love with a woman is really in
love with Love which is undying.
904) The spiritual atmosphere of the inner
soul of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother extends to 7½ miles around Pondicherry and
reaches as if through tentacles every one who thinks of them.
His SOUL is in touch with every
other awakened soul.
905) The professional starts his career with
the efficiency which the amateur acquires at the end of his efforts.
The yogi is a professional in
the arts of life.
906) If every one speaks ill of someone, he
will certainly not be a bad man. Because, people will shun such a man and would
not refer to him at all. They will speak
so ill in two conditions. One he should be of their level and accomplished and
two a very successful idealist.
Complaints
of the contemporary people is future fame.
907) Why people fall out is an eternal
question. The strong man drops out if his domination is not permitted to
continue. The weak man drops out if he is not allowed to exploit.
Men
fall out because they lack manners.
908) Imagination lies between the intellect
and intuition.
Imagination can convert
intellect into intuition.
909) Scientific
inquiry by superstitious faith is the order of the day.
Total inversion of realities
arises when the atmosphere is ready for the greater change.
910) The vast cataclysmic revolution that
sprouts spreads everywhere like wildfire. The perceptive eye would know it from
the beginning everywhere.
No revolution, political,
technical or religious appears suddenly.
911) One may be willing to receive Mother’s
Force all the time, but his receptivity will be exhausted in a few minutes. In the last years SHE became the Supreme
for 15 minutes at a time and expanded it.
The
receptivity of the being is restricted by the mind.
912) Transport in India touched the caste
barriers roughly enough to crack it. Internet
relates people and children across the globe thus creating global consciousness
at a tender age.
913) In the absence of social pressure, the
commonest courtesies will suddenly disappear. Such courtesies are expressions of social status not personal culture.
914) After fifteen years of school and
college education we are unable to learn to speak English, while any language
is learnt in schools in two years. A girl learnt speaking Spanish from a CD in
two months. Computer abridges fifteen
years into two months.
Resistance to Computer is the
greatest in USA. The Indians should learn to move to Mother without such
resistance.
915) Spiritual victory will be total and its
aftermath will be a resurgence of exuberant life as at the end of World War II.
Indian Freedom is a fight of moral truth against falsehood in the material
plane. Its success will be without glamour and the take off into prosperity
will be after a fashion.
916) If I am born of affectionate selflishness,
served those whose ideal is treachery, loved the emotional falsehood, lived
with folly and death, courted perverse meanness, served personified evil, what
am I?
It
answers when you don’t raise a question.
917) The
first step can be any one of the following
1) A concept of Brahman
2) Utter Truthfulness accepted as
soul’s commitment.
3) To see Mother behind the worst
enemy.
4) One full day of Remembrance.
5) Understanding that no evil was
created.
918) Learn
the rules.
Know
them thoroughly.
Make
a token experiment.
Let it be perfectly perfect.
It
will have infinite success.
The
success may be more than all your life.
That opens Mother to you.
919) Anyone
who wants inconceivable success in Mother’s life can see it as a token at once.
That token will be greater than all
their lives.
920) The devotee has the advantage of modern
life, computer and Internet to organise his life and Mother to expand his life
infinitely. Her writings are now available in print and Her Force is all
around. Let him accomplish everything he has dreamed of.
Supersonic plane
921) From theory to practice is a sound rule.
Let the theory be comprehensive so that the sliding back will explain itself.
Practise at a point successfully. Expand slowly preserving the gains.
The Indians who have realised
the Brahman in the mind, giving up
FALSEHOOD can theoretically plan for India. Then India will overtake the
USA in Science, Prosperity, Practical organisation. Computer is the organisation
for that purpose.
922) Consecration of all surface movements
alone can take one to the psychic.
Jnana yoga is a local election.
The psychic is to be elected as the leader of the House.
923) One who is unable to rob asks for help.
Weak robber seeks help.
924) One who knows the process of creation
well from The Life Divine,
will certainly be able to create an ideal organisation for his work in his own
mind. It is a great leap forward.
925) Education will instruct, will not change.
926) Knowing is doing.
927) The little prosperity of a selfishly poor family is equal to
the nation’s abundant prosperity in the causal plane.
928) The weak man is known as a good man by
those who do not exploit him.
Those who know you to be weak and
exploit call you bad names.
929) Wisdom acts on what is, not what it
assumes.
930) The idealist is vulnerable, as he is
unaware of the reality.
931) When you decide for another against his
will, know you are inviting violence later.
932) Nothing leaves you because you drive it
away. When you want to drive it away
from yourself, it goes.
933) Because a man is not clear headed
enough to ask you to act inside him or not bold enough, he asks for advice.
Give
no advice even if it is sought for.
934) Take the story of Pride and
Prejudice. Understand how Eliza could have got a Pemberly for all her
sisters and how each of them should have co-operated. Follow the parallel in your family.
935) Any Indian family especially in USA,
giving up falsehood, gossip, laziness, superstition
of all types and organising their lives by the computer will find the
children blossoming as geniuses, family becoming eminent in the country.
936) Not going back is more important than advancing further.
Advance is partial, not going back is total.
Mother
is exactly the reverse of life. The first rule is not to slide back.
937) Inexperienced men listen to the words
spoken to them; shrewd persons listen to the voice and understand differently. Behind the voice and words lies the man.
The rare men see it.
938) The descending Ananda is the subtle body of the Divine
Mother.
939) It is grace that ananda wells up. To refuse to enjoy it is
to refuse grace.
940) You cannot educate by offence, but you
can achieve by offending the vital as the vital invites it.
941) The quantitative equation of quality is intelligible only to
the conception of infinity.
942) Individuality
achieves.
Self-reliance
is self-accomplishment.
Outer denial is inner accomplishment.
Unseen
accomplishment does exist.
943) When
you refuse to connive at another’s misdemeanour, life prevents the bad results
of yours.
944) The Whole world and the universe are before our
very eyes and inside too.
945) Thoughts
stop running when concentration moves to the mental substance.
946) Man rules this wide world by the power
of military. To rule it by ideas, its inherent strength must be equal to it if
it is not more.
Strength of ideas in the
substance will rule the earth.
947) Who is to shift the centre from the mind
to the psychic? Each plane has a person who is to act till the Person of the
being emerges.
To know WHO acts is some self-awareness.
948) One characteristic of human folly is to
expect results of one plane staying in another.
A universal expectation is the
reward of virtue for one’s own deeply enjoyed vice.
949) For the being to awake, shift the centre from the mind to the
being.
Concentration
needs its own centre.
950) Devotion evokes the
response of the deepest chord.
Devotion creates ecstatic
exhilaration.
951) Courage is the light of will; it is the strength of light.
Light and will combining above
is consciousness; combining below is courage.
952) Dirtand filth wonders why they are
denied a period of governance.
Dirt
sees itself as the purest purity.
953) God penetrates dirt to reach the cleanliness of His Being.
954) He who has seen in him an act or a
thought that represents the highest or lowest truth of life, can develop an
effectivity that encompasses that area.
Seeing is ruling.
You
can rule what you have seen.
955) Not to know is Ignorance.
Not knowing actively a thing which you have known
well is
unconsciousness.
The ignorant man has evolved to
be an unconscious one.
956) Concentration
is dwelling on itself. All-inclusive concentration is possible only when the
ALL in us is awake. It is prevented by the awakened mind.
The psychic is the SOUL of the
embodied being.
As man worships technology and
is lost in it, he knows his mind to be himself and does NOT know he is an
embodied being.
957) Understanding
is incomplete as long as the mind and its thinking are present even in the
least measure.
Man’s belief is always inverse.
958) The highest knowledge or power man now
possesses is partial knowledge. The
power he needs to express the Force covers all facets of life on earth.
The establishment of a World
Government needs a power that is comprehensive of Earth’s life.
959) It is not as if man is incapable of
thinking of life or technology from its first principles. Specialisation is the domain of overmind Maya. One in
specialisation never thinks of ideas. Very soon he hates to think.
960) Goodness
and loyalty still depend upon the circumstances.
961) It
is the mind that gives the lasting values to friendship or family loyalty.
962) A personal emotion like loyalty and faithfulness is not
preserved by social institutions like marriage.
963) A person’s subtle presence may enter a place as subtle smell
and linger for a while.
964) Work has its subtle presence even as subtle smell. Even that subtlety has some physical basis.
After
a work moves away from a place people of subtle sense can feel its having been
done there.
965) Jealousy carries the smell of garlic.
966) When great opportunities open for a
nation or an individual, we see it is rightly responded by authority. To do so
by discrimination is rare. To replace
authority by psychic discrimination is yoga.
To extend our expertise to
opportunities is rare spiritual wisdom.
967) When God tells a man the secret of
creation for him to realise it at once, he,
instead of following it, tells all others.
Man learns by advising others.
968) Fullness is in the
male discovering the female inside.
969) Low culture of
higher status is impertinence.
970) Incomprehension
of work can have the same result of dishonesty.
Honest application demands
comprehension.
Work takes your comprehension of
it as honesty.
971) It does not matter what you do, earn
great wealth, become popular or anything else. As long as you are different
from others, all the others will try to destroy you.
Equilibrium needs destruction of
the difference.
972) Awakening means aspiration.
973) Knowledge is constantly emerging in us
unconsciously as physical skill, vital energy and mental intelligence. When it does so consciously it becomes
spiritual light or Silence.
Silence makes us conscious.
974) Confession
is consecration compelled.
975) Mental will that can refuse today to walk into the traps as
in days of ignorance, is emotionalised.
976) Life
is bound by the fixities man imposes on it, but when it wants to thwart man or
reward him, the subtle life has enough resourcefulness to accomplish its goals.
Life prevails when it chooses.
977) The FORMULA for individual happiness
that is the JOY of earth is there as a mental possession, but we need it as a
vital sensation.
978) Expertise at the level of the parts,
particularly at the specialised part has reached its acme or is almost reaching
it. Psychic is the expert of the whole.
979) As no child need
be taught how much water is needed to slake its thirst, the world needs to find
a sensation that knows the
equilibrium of joy in a man’s relationship with his family and the world.
That sensation is with the vital
psychic.
980) Let man find happiness in the family
and the secret of unfailing success, then the
world will be cured of its ills.
981) We forget a greater opening to the
Spirit, is equally a greater opening to the other forces as they too are of the
Spirit.
The yogi is still in the
dualities.
982) When the consciousness expands we do not
perceive that it is the ego which receives a further filling of expansiveness.
The ego can usurp the soul even
when it flowers.
983) Fame and reputation can spoil one even in
the seeking.
984) Thinking of Him is the awakening of the Soul.
985) Grace enters man’s life as fresh water is poured into sea.
God
is transformed into man through the descending grace.
986) The love once blossomed remains undying.
987) Rarely man has recognised God in his life. Only God in man has recognised God.
Man
sees God as man; God sees man as God.
988) The emotional heart can empty its love at the altar of the
Divine. What it needs is not His Blessings but Love pure and simple.
989) When life comes to you to lift you out of life of risk, the
unlucky person thinks of the risk and shuns it.
Man
refuses to be saved.
990) An act that goes against one’s conscience cannot be right
because it is legal or right in God’s eyes.
A
higher qualification cannot issue without the lower qualification.
991) Normal problems of life do permit
abnormal solutions that fit the idealist description. To get things done in
corrupt office without corruption is, thus, a practical efficiency equal to
earning a million dollars.
Permanent perfection at any tiny
level is ultimate realisation.
992) To convert smallness one should realise
it is greatness inside.
993) Problems are solved by the strength of
experience that is knowledge. To solve
them by the strength of spiritual
experience that is knowledge of values will be an everlasting solution.
994) One swallow is not summer. In great
times of transition like Indian freedom or a rapproachment between fending
families or a new culture is in the process of being accepted, we are tempted to say the summer is not set
in until the last swllow flies in.
Transition is not
transformation.
996) The future can become the present by the exercise of rich,
real imagination.
Imagination
is emotional thinking extended into the future.
997) We lose ourselves in the present and think
of it when it is past. To catch oneself in the present and station there is to make
the present ever-present.
The present becoming
ever-present makes man god.
998) The will pushes the thought away making
it silent. Observing the process of the thought formation enables the knowledge to emerge.
999) A thought is explained. An experience
can only be communicated non-verbally.
1000) The sub-conscious opening in the sleep
gives a nightmare. Either Her consciousness or even a blessing packet on the
head, can avoid the nightmare and reveal in the dream the truth beyond the
nightmare.
No study has been made of dreams
to render their meaning to us, as the appropriate perspective is not yet known.