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)