Series XIV
1) The dissolving ego removes the teacher, the school and
perhaps education.
In the company, the boss is replaced by a system.
The supramental force that possessed the governments in 1967 has now begun to possess ORGANISATIONS.
2) We may believe evil is only an
appearance and surely that helps transformation. The truth of evil is, it is
really a marvel.
3) The Absolute in creation or evolution is devoid of everything human, the mind, the vital as well as the body.
4) Skill in the physical is the sensation of the vital
perception.
5) Give up the one thing you cannot do without.
Do the one thing you cannot
do, as St. Francis embraced the leper.
6) To be emotionally selfless is to
FEEL happy in what anyone does in pursuit of his own happiness, in spite of how
it touches him.
The loss of property, honour, and
prestige to oneself that affords joy to another will be a source of joy for the
selfless person.
7) “Impossible” means it is impossible for
Her Force.
Darcy and Elizabeth changed
really, as we insistently refuse to change. Have we changed as they did?
8) Consecration of the most difficult
problem or an ordinary small problem is consecration. If one is possible, the
other too will be possible.
Consecration is the same for all
issues.
9) The blindness of selfishness
understands selflessness as a word, not at all as a reality.
Self understands only itself,
even selfishness as itself, i.e. selfishness.
10) A devotee sees Mother as a greater
power that makes him stronger.
The very concept of selflessness is
totally alien to man.
11) Man abundantly concedes and assumes
that all others must be Selfless. Selflessness enters man only in that measure.
“The world must accept
selflessness but I must remain as I am” is the formula of man.
12) When a friend or a crew or a spouse
acts not so much to desire a benefit for himself as to humiliate you, know life
is at work to make you free of selfishness.
Life that has outgrown the
need of selfishness tries to destroy it in the individual.
13) Every move of others or life is to
deprive one of his prestige or honour or benefit. These are the moves of
life to render man selfless.
14) The whole truth of one’s temperament will
emerge in one act of man with a force that is irresistible. Man’s changing here is real change.
Mother gives all the positive
circumstances to a person for him to change and awaits his choice.
15) To realise that I who find all others
selfish am equally selfish in another fashion is the very first realisation of
Selflessness in practice. Till the psychic emerges, one is selfish.
16) There
is no shortcut to accepting the defects of all people with us as our own
defects and changing there. That will make the finite man infinite. Till
then, one can see life presses only at those points.
17) Folly of meanness heckles another at
his strong point. Perverse meanness convinces him that it is useless. The
cleverest of meanness raises a doubt in him by withholding its approval of his
strong point.
18) What you detest and avoid most,
something in you will seek. It is the seed in contradiction for the complement.
To give way to that is catastrophe. To recognise its value, and endorse it by your
being and express it in the measure of that endorsement is transformation.
What matters is not the move,
but the move that is the change.
19) Seeing the Brahman in trance is like
seeing the stars through the telescope.
Black magic is the falsehood
of spirituality. Tricks are vital falsehood.
20)
The
truth of the mantra reveals that the idea in the word can achieve in the
material plane.
21) The servitors of Truth are free at
any moment to serve falsehood, even as the slaves of darkness can choose to be
soldiers of Truth at any time.
22) Sound is movement.
There is no sound without
movement.
Mantra is the movement of
Truth.
23) Insistence is loyalty.
Falsehood can become Truth,
not when man is loyal to it.
24) Should the human voice reach long
distances, one should speak into the radio.
25) The finite is the frontal
appearance of the Infinite.
27) Curing the disease is conquering
death a little.
Judgement of the court is to defeat vital
falsehood.
Discovery of a law is Truth emerging in
the mind.
Mantra conquers falsehood in its own
plane of movement.
Mother establishes Truth in the soul of
the body.
Mother is the Truth of body.
28) To see the defect of another and
attack that leads to destruction of both. To appreciate another’s good and support
that is construction at that level.
29) Matter is the tangible result
represented by the mercenary motive of the human mind. Brahman is the ultimate
source represented by the Nirvana behind the soul. Behind the result lies the
capacity. Beyond knowledge is there. The Spirit and its source are the
ultimate.
30) We seek the infinite speed of the
Infinite’s action in the finite.
31) To consider the wife’s lover as a
brother because of that commonalty is the acme of Mental Idealism.
When that right was conceded,
the wife gave up the lover as well as love.
32) Doing, accomplishment are acts of
self-limitation.
34) Future possibility is open by the
present failure becoming persistent.
35) Man’s initiative inimical to the
atmosphere of the organisation will end in his initiative being ejected.
The beneficiary refusing the
benefit shows the offer is absolutely opposed to the existing setup.
36) Courage is Truth.
Fear is falsehood.
37) The soldier of Truth is a fish of
truth living in an ocean of falsehood.
38) How can truth prevail and
falsehood perish, long as falsehood socially thrives?
No one will copy in the exam or seek a
degree false or true when people are employed for their talents.
39) Society organising itself so that each
man’s truth serves him best will release the truth of the individual.
40) The whole of human nature can be seen
in one man or in a few men. It is seen fully in oneself.That one man is
the one who reveals the ONE. One who reveals the ONE is the one man I look for.
41) Organised falsehood becomes hostility
when its intelligence becomes perverse.
What matters is
self-awareness.
42) A characteristic of hostility is to
convince people that their greatest strength is their greatest weakness.
Falsehood of intelligent
perversity organises itself as hostility.
43) Grace deciding to give a man an
undreamt of popularity at once, asked him to exercise his discretion
intelligently. He did so unintelligently.
When grace knocks at your
door, do not escape through the back door.
44) Having had his salary doubled without
any expectation at all, one finds the extra drained off for his brother’s debt
elsewhere. Grace is vulnerable to organisation of temperament.
Grace gives, personality
refuses.
45) Civilisation changes murder into
fist fight, poison into salty food, swords into sharp tongues.
46) The distance between the first
distinct possibility and the final fruition is as far as an interview with the
head of a nation and occupying that post.
From 1910 to 1947 or 2001 it can
be 37 years or 91 years. It can be as many DAYS as well.
47) In getting rid of ego, selfishness,
stinginess, meanness, etc. the quantity of effort does not matter. After a
prolonged effort, we expect it to give way. It only gets more organised. What
matters is the quality of effort which is expansive.
48) No value shapes when there is the cold calculation for
money.
Capacity to calculate arises
when there is no energy to create values.
49) The joy in being dominated is equal
to the joy in dominating, maybe better.
Man would prefer to be
dominated, than dominate himself.
50) Detachment first, calling next.
Calling to get rid of a bad
influence will help it grow, if you do not detach yourself first from it.
51) World fame is an ideal. It is better
to have an ideal that this world should become famous.
52) The future is for the Spiritual
Individual, not the informed ego.
53) Consecration, like all great
movements, has two components. One is initiated by the energy of the individual
and the other wells up by the strength of the atmosphere.
It is equally true that each
when it exceeds its normal strength can initiate and fortify the other.
54) To be engrossed is to forget,
particularly the possible results of this experience.
Forgetting is being
overpowered.
55) Human relationship which is two
people meeting each other, becomes a channel to move to the supramental plane
if both meet in their souls.
56) Man, who sees the world from his mind
and through his senses is a speck in creation. Moving to the psychic, he
knows he is the evolving godhead embracing the whole universe.
Senses shrink the universe
into a small personal world.
57) Any accomplishment so far is by
men who rise above the circumstances.
58) What we know as consecration is not a
mere method. The human centre moving to the psychic centre is consecration.
59) Consecration is the difference
between man and God.
60) The point where the yogi has to exert
himself is not dhyana or reading or even thinking. His exertion must be at
the point of psychological attitudes.
He who is willing to change his
attitudes is doing yoga.
Consecration changes what he
cannot change.
61) Physically expressed affection is as
satisfying to the adult as the child that enjoys being in his mother’s lap.
63) The idea that one can act for
another’s benefit or the benefit of all is not part of Man’s scheme.
The selfless man finds
himself acting for his own enlightened selfishness. True selflessness is
not born in Man yet. Nehru was the exception.
64) Knowledge of process, the instrument
of Science can explain after the event and also can make the object. Knowledge
of the essence, the instrument of spirituality, can know the outcome before.
65) The Himalayas let their height be
measured if man possesses one geometric principle. That is the power of
knowledge.
The power of knowledge is so great that it can possess
one aspect of any great thing.
66) Efficiency
At the end of one’s career a
most efficient man may not know what he is about. Let him explain to himself
theoretically what he does and his efficiency will rise several fold.
67) Great ideas as in The Life Divine
are clear as we read it, but do not stay in the mind. Memory retains a fact
when the whole mind has accepted it.
Understanding is a faculty of the mind,
not the whole mind.
68) When an idea is real in the
imagination, the emotion of excitement too will be real.
It is not easy for consecration
to handle the emotions, even in imagination.
70) Computer can eliminate all falsehood
that will enter into it, but the falsehood of the person will remain.
Man must choose to be true,
cannot be compelled.
71) Computer is an instrument of Truth and
therefore it will help establish Truth in society.
Install computer in such a way
that every event is recorded in it, then falsehood will be extinct.
72) If one can survive only by Truth,
social life may shift from falsehood.
73) A system where the individual seeks
efficiency for his salary will be efficient. Presently salary is for
attendance, not for work.
Self-employment is the only
employment.
74) Heavy sleep is bodily
unconsciousness.
Rituals rarely paid with Mother,
rather they banish Her forever.
75) Any life problem can be seen in the
context of a story and answer found. The Mahabharatha was thus used
for long and is still being used.
To see the right parallel between a
problem and a story itself is spiritual insight.
76) Any one idea can expand into one
million ideas is the experience of creative minds.
79) Culture by itself cannot serve as
consciousness.
80) Whether one can conquer death or not,
he can certainly conquer the sorrow caused by death.
To restore the dead, there must
be Truth organised in the substance of the body.
81) Urge for action is the urge of the
mutable soul.
82) Agreement creates.
Difference destroys.
Agreement preserves the present
defects.
Difference creates new Truth
destroying the present falsehood.
83) He who wants to create at his own
level insists on his strength and the other’s strength. Creation at higher
levels insists on defects.
All the evil forces are
determined to create a new world destroying the present one.
84) The door is never closed. The
earlier, the easier.
85) The whole creation is material
creation, as sound itself the first extension of Matter.
86) The world is a workshop where
millions of new material creations are forged. We lament over the changes.
87) Evil uses the imperfection of the
good to destroy the good and establish evil, but it does not see it is
destroying itself widely.
88) Moral perfection cannot become
perfection of the soul.
89) As bodily life begins at birth, the
life of the soul sets on its journey at death.
91) Gratitude is the mantra of the body.
92) Man, the conscious soul, alone can give life to anything.
93) Soul alone is conscious. All
consciousness comes from relating to the soul.
94) Mantra is a movement of Truth while movement
itself is false.
Mantra is a movement that
changes the field of falsehood into one of Truth.
95) The life of good men or any story
reveals God’s accomplishment in a small measure, but the process here is the
same process of creation.
Life permits one to serve
falsehood and perish or serve Truth and emerge immortal.
96) Telegram, telephone, computer
demonstrate that matter can conquer Time and Space.
97) A small falsehood can destroy a great
Truth. It shows the infinitesimal is equal to the infinite.
Perfection fortifies Truth.
98) When the atmosphere triggers personal
consecration, it is a pity the benefit of its strength should go to personal
desire.
99) Falsehood can have life as long as
Truth is partial. Falsehood can never create or construct but can destroy
what Truth has created.
100) Total dedication and concentration can
accomplish moving from any plane to any height if accompanied by the
organisation needed.
Trouble is attachment.
101) The individual is the concentration of
the universe which is the diffusion of the Transcendent.
102) When a sadhak who while in life
quarrels with others even in the subtle plane, leaves the body, he enters those
with whom he quarreled and that is why death of a sadhak or devotee is full of
peace. He elevates those into whom he enters.
A dead man’s vital feeds on the vital of
the living. To ward off those influences, rituals have come into existence.
103) Any great man gives his discovery to
the world. No one is interested in how he discovered it, nor does he give it
out to the world.
104) The youth of the Spirit knows no
illness nor problems.
Overflowing spiritual energies
overcome problems of life.
105) Yoga needs psychological pioneers. One
who is not even a social pioneer is not meant for yoga.
107) To value anything in the world is to
value the world, is to be vital.
You belong to the plane where
you are centred, not where are acting.
108) To create true humility, society humiliates
you.
109) Applying the rules of logic to life or
that of reason to intuition is like playing tennis by the rules of football.
110) Whatever genius man is endowed with, he
does not have the rationality or common sense to apply the rules that are
appropriate to each thing or not to apply irrelevant rules to a thing.
111) There is no injustice in the slow
ascent. Only the descent made it possible.
112) There is no tyranny in the animal
kingdom or in early societies. Tyranny arises only when the evolved part offers
the unevolved its own fruits. Tyranny is from the high towards the low. It
is the gap that enables tyranny. One from above and the other from below.
113) Mental mantras are of words.
Vital mantras are attitudes.
Physical mantras are products.
Internet is the Mantra in material plane
that can change misery into joy, poverty into prosperity.
114) As the eye develops new dimensions
of vision to act as the telescope, man develops Supermind.
116) Interest is full engagement of the
energies or engagement of full energies.
Interest is engagement.
118) The Spirit of India has become untruth
and falsehood to protect itself from the environment of falsehood, as Ammayar had turned to ghostly appearance.
119) Suffering is caused by imperfection.
Imperfection is seen as indecision or wrong decision.
120) Marriage is the hell that brought us
the paradise.
121) The unfailing perfection we know is
never failing as it is physical and low.
122) The centre cannot be in the head for
one to act from the psychic. It needs to rise above the head or behind the
heart.
The two centres of the being are
above the head and behind the heart.
123) The yogi needs no occupation as It is
occupying him fully.
That which needs occupation
is the physical in the mind.
124) Every point where a decision is to be
taken and no experience is there is an occasion for the generation of
superstition. Such occasions are plenty.
Action without understanding
creates superstition.
125) Writing a comprehensive definition of
each human trait defining it with great precision, makes one educated, if not
wise.
126) Adventure is an act of intense
enjoyment of challenge that constant danger offers.
The greatest joy is in the
greatest danger disregarded.
127) When a man chastises good emotions as
they have a questionable appearance, the life that is protected by those
emotions is endangered.
Kennedy was attacked when he
forbid Finn to visit his house on Sundays.
128) We know the effects of the past can
change by consecration. Do we believe that change of present emotions will
convert past tyrannies into present enjoyments?
129) One move will accomplish when the
atmosphere is saturated. One thousand words before that would go into the
millions of words required to saturate it.
Mother is the energy of
centuries and millennia.
130) Misunderstanding is the rule,
understanding is the exception. The force acts through both.
131) Human choice is the Divine choosing in
man.
132) When one is in love or adores another
as a leader, he idolises the other man’s formal words as true ideals lived.
Hence the disillusionment when it comes is great.
Love loves to be fooled with
eyes open.
133) The rich seek the costliest of articles,
but bargain for the cheapest price.
The rich seek status in expensive
articles and in procuring them at the lowest price.
134) Self respect is preceded by corruption.
Corruption is pride in
destroying one’s vestige of self-respect.
135) For one who finds consecration
impossible, taking initiative is possible. Not to take initiative becomes
the discipline at that state.
There is always a thing that can be done.
There is no moment when we can say ‘I don’t know what to do’.
136) Chaos is the sequence of the next
higher plane.
Clarity comes through
confusion.
There is no confusion anywhere in the
world, at any time.
137) Formality organised as death takes the
ritual as the result.
The reasoning of the physical is
ritual is the result.
Awakening is, ritual is not the
result.
138) To believe the high rewards are not for
us is to become a victim to the hostile forces and their intention.
Covetousness is followed by
temptation. Falling a prey to temptation is consecration to life forces.
139) The future discipline is written in the
reverse in our past.
Repentance is vital
transformation.
One can know what to do just
now.
Transformation can be in a
trice.
140) If you know all that Mother has
written, then you can KNOW what to do just now.
Doing what you know, life is
transformed.
If transformation is delayed,
it is consciously delayed by us as we do not want it.
141) The ideas of a plane will be so formed
as to reinforce the life of that plane.
142) The words of older languages would
admit fresh meaning to old words.
New words will be inflexible.
143) To find fresh uses or more uses to an
object is to discover the hidden Brahman in it. To discover the good in the
evil is transformation.
Limit is in the search.
144) A point extends into a line, a line
into a plane and a plane into a whole atmosphere so that one end of the point
can discover the whole line knowing the other end and so on, till the limited
becomes the limitless.
145) A right idea fulfils itself through the
long path of becoming energy before it becomes a fact. When the idea is
consecrated, it fulfils itself at once or is fulfilled better by other means.
Memory of successive events is
to be in Time.
146) We belong to Her when we think of
Her.
147) When the love of hatred is enjoyed by
the very cells of the body, its removal is intolerable.
Physical sensitivity is the
love of the physical for what it should part with.
148) Hatred is emotional ignorance.
Disgust is an intense emotional ignorance
which loves being ignorant.
149) He who says he never knew will be
enjoying the low consciousness. He who says he could not resist the temptation
would have relied on his own decision rather than consecration.
Grace informs the body, vital
and finally the mental.
150) Inability is unwillingness.
Not knowing is unconsciousness.
151) The very first expression of grace is
the subtle symptoms. Grace persists till you respond. It moves from the subtle
ranges to the gross range of physical, vital and mental.
At any point if we fully use all
available knowledge to respond to Grace, Grace will act.
152) Imagine what others should do to you
and do it to Grace, it will begin to act.
Is it true you have exhausted all
your energies in pursuit of Grace?
153) Unconsciousness, lack of understanding,
doubt, difference of opinion,etc. of the Divine is at bottom hostility.
Man is hostile to the Divine.
154) Unconsciousness expressing through the
memory is forgetfulness.
Memory is Grace.
155) Initiative is initiative to keep
grace out.
Failing memory may issue out of
conscious, wrong initiative.
156) Recall all that you know as wrong in
others, and act rightly according to that standard. You will see the Force acting
in full.
Grace does not stop acting, if we do not
consciously stop it.
157) You become what you call in.
Call is conversion of consciousness.
158) Man avoids the best possible course in
favour of the second best. It leads him to the worst possible.
The worst came to us as we
refused the best.
159) Knowing where you are, you can move
to any plane.160)Consolidation is conservation. It is more important than
progress.
Progress is energy,
preservation is organisation.
Preservation, not progress.
161) Ironic modesty is a devastating irony
of life.
Any good thing is good in
itself, not when it is assumed.
162) Replace conscience by consciousness
and live up to it.
Yoga is to exhaust ourselves into The
Mother.
163) Not knowing what is there around is not
inability to know or lack of interest, but a determination not to know.
164) Mantra is spiritual power expressed in
words to accomplish in the plane of matter. Change of attitude is mantra of
life that accomplishes vastly in the planes of life and matter.
165) Mind knows what eyes do not see, ears
do not hear.
166) Should your entire past flash before
your mind’s eye, know the psychic has surfaced.
167) Perfect humility puts perversity to
shame.
168) Joy issuing out of confidence is
unsullied.
169) Violence heckles ahimsa rising in
uncontrollable waves.
Violence obeys the strength
of the soul, not the fad of the mind.
It is not given to ahimsa to dominate
violence.
170) Incapacity to speak is Silence.
There is a Silence appropriate to each
plane.
171) Experience explains; realisation
raises.
172) The Many will be elusive at their level
of form. They unite at their essence in One.
The strength of the ideal dominates
the following, not the lustre of it.
173) The psychic coming out is seen in our
initiative that is the result of consecration.
Consecration ends when the
psychic emerges.
174) At the first symptom of real opening
the Force flows down when the body clamours for it to stop.
Body stops the descent at its
first touch.
175) Condescension compels the secrets out
of the beneficiary.
176) The distance between the
potentialities and actualities is a measure of frustration. The more
imaginary it is, the more the frustration.
Frustration is the intensity of
awareness of inability.
177) Descent is important for evolution as
it is all His play that must continue by His initiative.
To know the importance of the
descent is to know the whole of Reality.
178) Human life is a field that discloses
hell as a paradise to one who sees hatred as long lasting love and
contradictions as complements.
The subliminal whole rises to the surface
part in human life.
179) What accomplishment and wealth accumulated
over tens of generations education offers in a few generations. Mother’s
consciousness offers it in a trice through total surrender.
Mother needs no Time, karma
needs it.
180) Everything has a meaning, a use and a
right place.
181) An article written about the best child
is appreciated universally. The truth is every child is the very best to itself
and the teacher who discovers it, discovers a universal system of education.
For the worst teacher there
is no best pupil. For the best teacher all are best children.
182) Universal love cannot be shut up in
social marriage. Can we raise marriage to universality?
183) Body accepting the supramental
consciousness begins in our accepting the opposite nature.
184) The lower the consciousness of the
woman the more attractive she is to men.
185) Life needs love on the surface and
tyranny in the depth.
186) A writer becomes great when he reaches
the depth of human existence in his personal emotional experience.
187) Pride is in status, not what status
does to you. There is pride even in status humiliating you.
188) Selfish interest, selfish affection are
further organisations of selfishness.
Selfish affection overcomes selfishness
as affection. As it is selfish in the domain of affection, it is more
unpardonable.
189) When the infinitesimal is interested,
it defies the Infinity.
190) The yogi gives up thinking as a luxury.
It is the domain of the thinker.
191) Man without that spark is no man.
192) Aspiration is Grace.
We cast our vote, as our name is
in the electoral roll.
193) Disappointment gives depth denied by
shallow fulfillment.
194) Man prefers intensity in cruelty to
absence of it in love.
195) Women love animal nature on the surface
often expressed.
196) Symptoms of siddhi
·
Memory
of whole lifePast passing away as a weight on the memory.
·
Body
finding itself enveloped by the soul.
·
Memory
of the past lives.
·
Absence
of edge in emotions.
·
Love
for the object of hatred.
197) The limitless freedom gives the limited
institutions the opportunity of creating unending higher standards of culture
and wholesome human relations.
198) Atom bomb emerged to abolish war.
When wrongly used it can annihilate mankind.
199) Children are the physical extensions
for the psychological growth of the soul’s experience of the previous birth.
200) A broad-minded woman marries a
rigid-minded husband to discover their point of harmonious meeting. In the freedom
of her broad-mindedness, his rigidity can find the self–disciplined culture
that values warmth of human relationship. Refusing to do so, he goes mad and
she flies.
201) Rising expectations rise as nothing
else can ever rise.
202) Non-verbal communication is effectively
practised between two people of spirituality or vitality.
203) Man can live in a social or
psychological life having given it up inwardly. To live in the Becoming giving
it up is to live in the Being of the Becoming.
204) Feeling of power in utter freedom will
egg a man on to acts from which heads of nations will desist.
205) To have the future knowledge now is to
conquer Time. We must conquer Timelessness too. As Time wastes Time,
Timelessness wastes existence. We need to move to the action of Time with the
stability of Timelessness.
206) For consecration to have the force of
our initiative, whether it is mental or physical, the Person that we are must
cease to love death and feel enamoured of the freshness of spiritual freedom.
207) Social prestige precedes individual
psychological honour. Its physical version was the duel. Its vital expression
is their incapacity to lie.
The psychological vital
version of honour in women is chastity.
208) Psychological culture that one can
learn by fetters of love is given by marriage.
It is not the fault of marriage
that it is used as a breeding ground for contempt.
209) Emotional understanding comes from the experiences
of the heart and nerves. There is no other known way to acquire it.
210) Charity idealises poverty.
Poverty of perspective
idolises itself through charity.
Psychologically, charity is the
most magnificent emotion.
211) For a mental civilisation or for a
civilisation to be mental, it is necessary to know the theoretical value or
significance of everything he does.
Theory is a civilising force.
212) To feel God’s Delight in one’s
sensation of the body is the goal of yoga.
213) A crisis is an event that gives one the
real sensation of total dissolution.
214) Mind makes the dull information into
live mental force by the process of concept making.
Conception energises the
information into a fact of mental value.
215) Philosophy is the mental conquest
of the world or even existence. Theory of social evolution, when it is
right, is complete conquest of the mental life on earth.
Mind can conquer the world, even
the world of power.
216) Ego insisting on stupidity generates
Amish culture.
217) Analogy is to understand the abstract
in the concrete.
218) To be God is to be effortless.
219) Only the ego longs for companionship.
220) True surrender is without resentment.
221) There can be no human relationship in yoga
as the evil man avoids us the moment he knows we know him. Should he consent to
live with us, it offers no relationship.
Human relationship is
relationship with evil.
222) The small dominates, the great submits.
223) Consecration of all the movements of
the mind, gross and subtle will open the inner mind.
224) Life is full of a filler that is chaff
without life. At each turning point it becomes alive. For that short moment
of life, this long dead living is necessary.
225) Patience is great as a virtue.
We need no virtue.
What we need is the steady joy
that wells up from stable patience.
226) Explaining successfully to the dull
mind enables the deeper layers of our ignorance to emerge out of it into
knowledge.
227) When a man’s urge exceeds the social
sanctions or the intensities of the personal values of the people he deals
with, he errs, errs grievously.
228) No generalisation will apply to
particular cases; nor will another particular event apply. Any event is unique.
229) Defects in life and mean persons who
insistently expose them are the means for Nature to change the contradiction
into its complement.
230) Mind develops by exercise which is
education. Disciplining the mind not to exercise, it reaches the inner essence
and all knowledge.
231) Perfect perfection is preceded
necessarily by imperfect perfection which means the ideal of perfection is
being pursued by a growing perfection.
232) To ask for a favour is unbecoming. To
refuse to ask for what God has sent you is to miss grace.
233) It is impossible not to know whether one is idealistic or
mercenary.
If anything is crystal clear to
one, it is his motives.
Motives are self-aware.
234) An unintelligent man who wants to
understand is a better audience than an intelligent person who is conceited.
Willingness is better than
intelligence in an audience.
235) Life demands adjustments. Marriage
dictates obedience, since the freedom life sometimes offers is denied by
marriage.
When marriage is abolished
man would have outgrown the need of these fetters.
236) Marriage becomes a failure when the
opportunity given to two is appropriated by one of them.
237) It is possible to move the centre of
concentration to the point of pain in the body. A call from there will
instantly remove the pain. The same can be done to other persons or
problems.
238) A work admits of slips out of
carelessness, lack of skill, forgetfulness, etc., etc. all of which are
expressions of unconsciousness. One who avoids all of them will surely meet
with success.
239) One who neglected his duty was removed
from it. Before he started another venture he decided to compensate the loss in
his previous work and did so. The work itself showed a resourcefulness by
losing further under the new manager. It shows the man’s karma is deeper than
his cash compensation.
240) As the tree awaits flowering in the
season, mind awaits in mature saturation to put forth a million possibilities
at the touch of a single possibility.
242) -Is it possible is not the question.
Whether you need that possibility is the question.
243) Shrewdness is the intelligence of
meanness.
244) Love is the emotion of the vital
psychic that enjoys mental idealism and spiritual values.
245) Past events that were unpleasant during
their occurrence can give terror and make the body shiver now in consecration.
246) Our calling is on the surface; Her
calling is from the subliminal.
247) The world has entered into a culture
where a man’s pure relationship with his mother or sister is recognised and
valued. It still has to make that cultural progress in man’s relationship
with women, money or power.
248) The Absolute dwelt on itself to create
which was its concentration to create or creative concentration. Now it dwells
on itself similarly to evolve, which is evolutionary concentration.
The All-inclusive
concentration is what is above described as evolutionary concentration.
250) Joy
is for the present to become the ever-present.
251) For the inner being to awake and extend
above the head and below the feet is for the vital to be emancipated from the
thraldom of the body.
252) No love can become Love without freedom
emerging in full.
Love matures into Ananda in
Freedom.
253) The emotion of loyalty in love that
matures into chastity begins when that emotion begins to be the sensitivity of
the body.
254) The capacity for the mind to go beyond
the work on hand, except as forethought, is the measure of inefficiency arising
out of lack of concentration.
255) Man was unable to understand the
meaning of dirt and oscillated for centuries in spite of the bad odour it
generated.
Mental knowledge is important
to guide man.
256) ‘’ ‘’ are rich expressive phrases that
stand for a world of experiences taking vital forms.
Normal emotional behaviour needs the
temperament overcoming the above two states.
257) Poverty, disease and ignorance are
insufficiencies of the material circumstances of the body. Pleasant behaviour will not issue from the
body in the vital as long as they are not overcome.
258) Values are knowledge of the whole.
Partial knowledge necessarily
fails; knowledge of the whole never fails.
259) Life is full of hostility or hostile
forces in the sense it is unstable.
Mother gives stability. Man
weans himself away from it.
260) The onset of a fever that can oppress
for a few days defying medication, gives way for calling, maybe two or three
times. It is true for warding off earthquakes where symptoms are seen by one.
261) Travelling is the hangover of the
instinct of the nomad.
Nothing once born will die.
It lends itself to transformation.
262) Restful sleep is the meditation one
needs to cure his ailments.
263) Man’s existence has a centre and it acts
with reference to something which is usually of self-interest or an ideal. That
centre can be the psychic which is universal or the Transcendent inside
himself.
264) The organised saturated selfishness
rightly accuses the selfless man of selfishness when his selflessness
drastically affects his own selfish interests.
265) Whatever one knows about himself, all
those who know him will surely know through their subliminal. Its surface
expression goes by the name of public opinion, rumour, gossip.
266) The emotions that are disturbed are
human, egoistic and are incapable of accomplishment. Calm emotions can achieve
at their level.
267) To be uncovetous is no great virtue.
Still, one who deals with his mind and its emotions knows how difficult it is
to be so.
268) Open-mindedness is consecration of the
mind.
269) When ego is shed, mind becomes
open-minded.
Open-mindedness is purity of mind.
270) Nehru who went to USA for aid could not
ask for it as he was very sensitive.
Self-respect for Indians and
generosity for the Americans will make them receptive.
271) Life is inside, not outside.
272) The very fact that spiritually capable
people are not earning shows they are capable of earning infinitely.
If a spiritual country is poor it
means it is only by its choice.
273) Smallness expanding in vain too is
expansiveness. Mother’s reward is great
there, though short-lived.
274) Spiritual people are poor is a
contradiction. Either they are not spiritual or are poor by choice.
275) While concentration is a strain, what
we call all-inclusive concentration is not such a strain. It is natural.
All-inclusive concentration does not come
in response to intensity, but to raising of one’s consciousness.
276) Sri Aurobindo said that this yoga is
not for man. His part is surrender. Yoga is for God, He said. He never
disclosed the secret that surrender too is for God.
Desire, ego, dharma are to be surrendered
according to the Gita. Surrender itself is to be surrendered is the truth.
277) One can surrender to anyone because he
has to surrender to everyone.
278) What took Buddha forty years, surrender
gives in a minute, but surrender cannot be achieved by effort even in forty
years.
Surrender is there when you want
it.
280) Non-ego is effortless, has no memory,
seeks no friendship and does not strive for anything including being good.
Non-ego is not psychic, but helps the psychic
emerge.
281) Falsehood cannot bother one when he
fully realises its true role. A vibration persists as long as it is not fully
understood or appreciated.
283) Is it not a living wonder that God
submits to all the atrocious assertions of man?
284) Man has unconscious double
consciousness. God has conscious multi-consciousness.
285) To appreciate virtue, one must be
human. Only God can know the value of sin.
286) Wisdom is to tell the population what
they do not know. Leadership makes the people do what they already know but do
not follow.
Wisdom instructs, leadership leads.
287) Life sets limits to our exuberance. We
can ourself set them reluctantly or with understanding. They are the
breakdowns, restraint and culture.
288) Nearness is always mistaken for
equality.
Misconception serves the
mercenary.
289) It is common for the next generation of
idealists to be opposed to it. In rare cases, the founder himself goes
against his own idealism.
290) Neither urge nor impulse is generosity.
Still, we know of generous urges and impulses.
Generosity is pure, simple
and inviolate.
291) Unpardonable ambition and greed are the
other side of the ever-present universality as a live vital vibration.
292) A fight against a tendency inside
yields slow progress when one is unwilling for it while inner resistance
increases the strength of what one tries to get rid of.
293) If your enemy benefits by your hatred,
it means he is working for your ideal.
294) Nothing surfaces if you do not have
something to learn from it.
295) In the second chapter of Book II, Sri
Aurobindo makes the Spiritual Reality self-evident to us through the right
massive language and comprehensive statements. He wants us to place ourselves
in the position of the Infinite, Formless, the Identical, the Silent, the Self,
the Purusha, Ishwara, the One and the Being of the Becoming. This He does in
all the chapters.
TheLife Divine.
Through understanding, HE
takes us with Him.
296) Man always has double consciousness but
is aware of only one. Sri Aurobindo asks for double awareness too.
297) All truths are not explainable, though
speech may permit. Man is not ready to hear them. Life makes him see what he
cannot hear.
298) Decisions taken on the spur of the
moment govern the life forever thereafter. Decisions are taken in Time that
govern the movements of Space.
Space is the objective
expression of subjective Time.
299) The joy of Self-discovery is greatest
when the Self forgets itself. It is also greatest when the differences are
greatest making each item unique. Prakriti insists on offering the Purusha
the greatest opportunity for unity in diversity.
Uniqueness makes possible the maximum
difference.
300) Sensitivity will render man senseless.
301) What makes one shy in public, becomes
sweet in private. The same is true with varying distances of intimacy.
Intimacy changes disgust into
discretion.
There is no intimacy without
freedom.
302) Jivatma is the individuality of the
spiritual part of man. The Individual Sri Aurobindo speaks of is that of the
embodied being of the man that fulfils the evolutionary aim of the Spirit which
is the Self-Conscious Being.
Man maturing into a citizen
is social evolution.
Jivatma maturing into the
Individual is spiritual evolution.
303) Energy that is incapable of rising
further in action is capable of turning back on itself with vehemence for
destruction. Then it is called evil.
Frustration is incapacity.
Incapacity to understand dissents and frowns. Evil is the weakness of goodness.
304) Sensation is of the body and nerves,
emotion is of the heart. Bliss is of the soul that is static, while Delight is
that of the whole being that evolves.
305) To realise the folly of the past is
wisdom. To realise the folly of the past as the necessary step for the present
joy is yogic wisdom.
306) Ananda in samadhi is tapas.
Delight in work is yoga.
307) To be awake in the being is awakening
of the Soul. Aspiration is the awakening of the Being in the Becoming.
The psychic can awake and give
you moksha. Unless you aspire for evolution he won’t evolve into the
supramental being.
309) Human opportunities are vast; even the
greediest calculations of man are small.
310) Love fails often, not because it is
bound to fail, but because it commits the error of seeking a social goal.
A psychological force cannot
reach a social goal.
311) Prices do not rise proportionally in
all products or commodities. Price is the social value of a product. Commodities
change in their social value. Inflation inflates the value of a cherished
product.
Inflation indicates the
direction of social progress.
312) Teacher is a bar for teaching. The
computer eliminates the temperament of the teacher, not the teacher himself.
The child needs a centre of
learning to use the computer best. Till then the teacher will linger.
313) We act on impulses of the body or mind.
That is the only way we always act. All that can be suspended as we have
overcome the bodily impulses in favour of mental ones. Overcoming that the
Spirit will urge us.
Mother’s impulse shows only when the
Spirit also is overcome.
314) The fullness of inaction is the
fullness of the Whole in action.
315) Mother who asks you to work for luck,
first gives all the luck and asks you to preserve it.
Effect first, cause next.
316)
·
Education
is the yoga of the Society.
·
Management
is the education of productive forces.
·
Administration
is the management of the collective living.
·
Culture
is the education management of the entire life on earth.
317) Calling the Mother orally or mentally helps
one to get out of that plane. Calling Her from inside or Her calling from
inside is one getting into the inner mind.
318) Teaching once meant beating. Now it is
scoring high. Computer has made teaching learning. The computer has no
temperament.
319) Moksha is the desire to reach the
Superconscient of the spirit that was unconscious in the inconscient. Evolution
is to fulfil consciously the Lila of the Self-Conscious Being as an act of
self-giving.
Moksha is the act of human
soul for its own sake.
Evolution is a selfless act for
the sake of the Absolute.
320) Pronunciation and spelling are accepted
habits of social superstition. There is no virtue in itself.
321) Disciplined learning will acquire
facts, not ideas. Original ideas are not learnt. Real-Idea too can be learnt in
freedom.
322) The uncultured man is ashamed when he
recognises his uncultured behaviour. One who is unknown to culture offers those
offending behaviours as his pride of possession to others.
The loafer offers liquor to his
cultured guest at a substantial sacrifice to himself.
323) Man becomes a yogi replacing his
thinking by consecration.
Thinking is mental; consecration
is spiritual.
325) Man exclaims “Mother’s Grace” when his
selfishness succeeds.
Given up goals in selfishness
are grace in yoga.
326) See God’s laughter in the vulgar
freedom of the filthy low when you desire His vision.
Vulgarity makes one vulnerable to God’s
Touch.
Another’s vulgarity gives the
Touch. One’s vulgarity is the realisation of the Reality on the wrong side.
327) Eternity of Time is the everlasting
exuberance in the existence of everything.
328) Incapacity to expect or wait for is the
capacity of eternity.
The All-sufficiency is what we
exist in.
329) As Silence deepens the Timeless reveals
in Time. One can see in one second the potentials of several years.
330) Human unconsciousness is God’s secrecy.
331) Availing of an opportunity is to
organise a discipline. Abandoning of a discipline is done in a trice. It is
like destroying a good work by one wrong move.
The ultimate accomplishment
of a man is by a woman, as Ishwara does through Shakti.
Evolution is by evolving, not by rules.
332) To minister to one’s selfishness is not
right.
One should do what is right or
right for the Mother.
333) Instead of surrending one’s capacity
for thinking and the mind that thinks, the ego usurps surreptitiously the
effort of surrender and tries for the right thought.
Ego is deceptive to the end.
334) The starting point for this yoga is one
should want it on its own terms.
Our prayers are prayers of ego.
335) The individual ego expands to be the
ego of the family, community or nation. For him to serve God or mankind, he
must first shed the ego of any form and become an Individual free of ego.
Ego grows under any pretext.
336) Selflessness learns patience by dealing
with selfishness.
Patience creates and preserves values.
337) Patience is maximum demanded of one who
descends one plane and tries to live according to his own values in the lower
plane.
Lower work teaches higher values
patience.
338) Prayer is Hers, not man’s.
339) The world has recognised the value of
moving away from the ego to the individuality. Yoga needs it to be the
psychic being.
Ego offers precarious success,
individuality luck and the psychic Love.
340) Man is egoistic, society is
egoistic, his worship and religion are egoistic. His science too is egoistic.
Does
anyone desire the dissolution of his ego?
341) When the gross mental will is
surrendered, one will see life as he sees it in the dream, as the subtle mind
opens.
342) Individuality has taken form in him who
desires not to be known for the ultimate sacrifices he has made.
Culture is unconscious of its
sacrifice.
343) Things elude, people turn unreliable,
work fails so that you can think.
Willingness to learn immunises
one against failure.
344) Inflation in the absence of deficit
financing is the real index of human development.
345) Energy is the only reality in life as
it sustains life. Biological energy rests in the opposite sex, social energy in
money. The rest are for discussions and the future.
346) The idealist quests for a goal in the
world which is not there in him.
The intellect conquers vast
domains of territory which are to be fully abandoned when intuition rises to
rule.
348) As consecration needs concentration,
any level of consecration needs prior penetration of personality to that level.
349) The ideal of one who is unaware of the
goal will help him serve himself in the name of the ideal.
350) As the idealist is not permitted
anything more than patience of forbearance in a refugee camp, the yogi, in our
world, can acquire God-Vision to see the marvels of human intensities.
351) It is not yet time for direct action by
the force of Supermind on human thought. Presently it acts behind the physical
urges of humanity pushing it in its own direction.
It is time for fundamental
research, not commercialisation of the product.
352) To absorb the supramental force in the
precinct of intellect so that it may develop insight and intuition by
self-dissolution is service to the descending Force.
353) Those who desire to understand the many
dimensions in which thought organises itself in the bypaths, can beneficially
take a close look at the neo-rich spending his excess funds.
Neo-thinkers build up the
national body for thinking.
354) The web of lies poverty weaves is as
much required to preserve the light in the body as the sweat of 20 miles riding
needs preservation for the protection of physical darkness.
Protection is needed till its
own time arrives.
355) Consecration avoided will always wait
elsewhere.
God never deserts man as He is
the man.
356) The ever receding target in its
infinite mercy changes into a moving target.
357) Increasing popularity must be sustained
by increasing strength of leadership.
358) To know is to be happy. To take Delight
in life one should dominate life benevolently.
359) Secrecy of the selfish may be more due
to the nature of selfishness of not knowing others, than a desire to hide.
360) Not taking initiative gives a great
calm. Surrendering that gives the occasion for the psychic to emerge.
361) Even an excellent reply can be
excellent, will not be the right answer.
362) The thoughts that move are of the
surface and of consciousness. The thoughts of the substance do not move, are
not seen or felt, but will be there. Purity is that which will disregard even
that to rely on The Mother.
Pure dependence is purity.
363) The scope given by life for growth
does not affect man even when he makes the wrong choice.
364) Man understands exactly why something
goes wrong and how something goes right. Only that he eliminates himself from
the first and all others from the second.
365) To instinctively flow into another
and not out of preference indicates the absence of ego.
366) Gradualness is in Time. Timelessness is
instantaneous.
367) Obsession precedes identification.
368) Education makes man what he is not born
with. Yoga makes him what he is not ever.
369) The energetic man acts endlessly.
Something must be endless in great men – action, thought, concentration or
inaction.
370) Memory is a faculty which is different
from expectation that is an attitude.
Memory is a neutral faculty
while expectation is a vital urge in the mind that has a goal.
Expectation is a mental urge.
372) A good man does what no one else
does.
Neglected people are served by
good souls. Good souls are served by The Mother.
373) Success in life is success of Spirit.
374) To energise the rival is one important
process of evolution as the opposite is also a part of ourselves.
To destroy the rival is partial;
to energise him is to be whole.
375) Ideal friendship enjoys the devoted
service of an obedient servant delivered in grateful appreciation.
376) The very first rule of consecration
remains the very last requirement.
377) Water that represents emotion symbolises grace.
378) The instrument that compels action is
from the energies of existence. It is the supramental that enriches the
instrument.
379) Cause leading to effect is the divine
law of supramental action. But, one can rise further too, if he chooses.
380) Cause and effect is a better law than
karma of reward and punishment.
381) One cannot be unjustly ousted now,
without his having entered earlier unjustly.
382) He who repeats the age old wisdom still
expresses a new shade of its deeper truth in the present context.
383) The orthodoxy of bathing cannot be
maintained by a bath in dirty places or in dirty water.
Cleanliness is cleanliness, is
not a ritual.
384) Behind all subtle events one can see the
physical realities, stark naked.
If the subtle is true, the gross
is truer.
385) The physical is unidimensional and
myopic.
386) Memory retains till the end words that
are significant for progress.
The inner voice of the simple
man is the world’s voice which he neglected on first hearing.
387) Broadminded idealism cannot escape
strangling when it steps down to practical realities of mercenary motives.
Idealism cannot be hurt by
other things.
388) If the ACT is the miniature of Life, we
can say decision is the miniature of mental life.
389) The psychic being is the point at which
Prakriti submits to Purusha in it.
390) One who rushes to people with a human
attitude finding them responding according to human nature, is best fitted to discover
all the truths of human life.
391) Born stupid people, by excellent
training, can expound high ideas of philosophy.
392) Experience educates by information. It
can ennoble by its essence.
393) Thought translating into an act is part
of the process of creation. One who is utterly bad wanting to pass for a good
man sees his good acts result in bad consequences.
Judge the man by what he does,
not even by what you understand him to be.
394) Marriage, through the spouse, educates
the man who aspires to leadership, all that he needs to know of the nether
world.
Mastery comes from knowledge of
the other side. Ourside can give only efficiency.
Efficiency achieves. Mastery
protects.
395) Politicians seeking knowledge of the
society need to know the underworld, the inner city, the world of gossip and
crime.
396) Computer is the psychic of technology.
397)
·
Learn
to be neglected.
·
Understand
insult as interest.
·
Disobedience
is desire to discipline.
·
Betrayal
is of the Beloved.
398) Evaluation is the basis of expectation.
399) Commonplace capacities giving way is an
indication of old age. It also shows the old consciousness giving way.
400) Calling brings energy,
Determination, Force,
Character, Power,
Skill, results.
Possession of skills of the
Spirit brings the results at once.
401) Equality is the strength of substance.
Strength is the equality of
substance.
Equality is the strength of
consciousness.
403) Knowledge offers itself to compress
itself into a mantra.
404) Those who respond to a philosophy
should base themselves on a philosophy. At least they must offer to be logical.
405) Perfection is the form of essence
expressing in the externals.
406) Instructions to the immature who have
no potential of receptivity are to be implemented finally by the giver.
407) A consecrated act reveals its whole
past.
408) Consecration is a complete act in the
sense where nothing can be done if all is not done.
Consecration is a spiritual
value.
409) Immortality was accorded to the soul by
the Vedas. Sri Aurobindo asks for immortality for life and acts.
The
concept of immortality began with the soul. Now it must come to life.
410) The soul, losing the ego, preserving
its form in the higher planes is the immortality of the Vedas.
411) The impulse never dies. It changes into
an impulse towards the Divine.
Impulse towards the Divine is
equality.
Equal fulfillment in the
opposite is equality.
Impulse towards the Divine is
a non-movement.
412) The urges of Nature going out changing
their direction inward to pass through the soul before reaching outside is
consecration.
Nature finding her soul is
consecration.
413) The first touch of The Mother is the
best touch.
414) Man appreciates another man’s common
sense when the latter approves of his lapses. Then common sense will be
upgraded as wisdom.
415) Human prejudice is capable of assuming
any possibility of its imagination as real and building the future attitudes on
it.
416) In the lower plane of mind the selfish
aim of moksha is held up as the ideal to be pursued.
417) In a static society aspiration is
branded as ambition and is condemned as the aim is to preserve what is.
418) Obedience is exacted by power
exercised. Culture is the emotional rising to the expectations of the higher
power of society present without pressure.
419) Sri Aurobindo’s knowledge and power are
there on earth as Shaw without his books.
The word will survive but
only an organisation can effectuate it.
420) Humility is the power of harmony.
421) Body is true when we do what we
know.
422) To develop the ego in Her name is worse
than unpardonable.
423) Power organises in freedom. Human
choice determines that organisation.
424) Choice is made by character.
Not
to choose is to surrender.
Choice
is Hers, not ours.
425) Interest in the small becomes intense
when there is no energy for interest in the great.
426) Karma is choiceless.
We can choose to overcome karma.
Freedom works through choice.
427) Human choice decides whether the high
serves the low or the low serves the high, as both are possible.
Man
becoming God is by choice.
428) Destruction is construction at a wider
level.
Destruction leads to wider
destruction.
429) Growing by giving is His growth in
us.
Giving and taking are necessaries of
balance.
431) A crisis threatens survival.
Crises are at all levels.
434) Man thinks and gets an answer. To
surrender the capacity to think gives you Her answer.
Surrender is in grades.
435) The Spiritual Individuality is the
future.
Money, technology, education,
media are organisations of economic, scientific, mental powers that help
organise the individual and society.
436) Education organises information and
knowledge. Money organises power. Democracy organises social power. Technology
helps now to organise economic power through money.
437) Religion is the social organisation of
spirituality. Magic is the individual power of spirituality.
438) Education organises knowledge, money
organises power. Technology organises power by knowledge.
What prevails ultimately is
the individual’s organisation of the collective.
439) To be human is to be possessed, by what
it does not matter. Even if it is the spiritual consciousness, to be possessed
will not qualify for freedom.
Freedom qualifies for spiritual
life.
440) Incapacity for superstition makes one
rational. Not to be possessed by any plane qualifies one for spiritual life.
Utter
freedom accepts Spirit.
441) Sri Aurobindo tries to get a clue for
the workings of Maya through the three powers of creation – Self-determination,
self-absorption. Here lies a clue to the scientist to move from the
processes to the mystery of creation.
442) Good will is God on earth.
443) Strength of human life is jealousy.
One is jealous as he
tolerates others.
444) One who knows the full significance of
his family will know his society or country. He who understands the
evolutionary history of the Ashram knows the universe.
445) The poor have the joy of earning while
the rich have the joy of giving.
Joy is the sensation of a
widening movement.
446) How can man be rational while he is
subjective? Even the ideals he espouses are subjective.
For each man his profession
is important.
447) The more capable one becomes, the less
urge there is for action.
Urge for action is capacity
in formation.
448) To create an organisation for the
support of an ideal is the crux of physical superstition as they are
antithetical.
449) Nothing challenges as an absolute
contradiction. The greater the challenge, the greater is the result. The
woman does offer that to the man in marriage.
450) Personality is strength of clarity.
Clarity is difficult; strength
needed by that clarity makes one a great personality.
451) Life energy is sex energy till the day
of death.
452) Capacity to give a little of what
one has received is generosity.
453) Generosity recognises the other as
himself.
To recognise the other as the same divine
one is, is generosity of Spirit.
454)
·
Nature
annihilates.
·
Life
is violent.
·
Society
is tyrannical.
·
Civilisation
imposes the majority on the minority.
·
Goodness
leaves the evil to perish unheeded.
·
Humanity’s
compulsion of Muslims to be democratic and civilised is in order.
455) A patient good man who tolerates
endlessly our dull slow laziness, will not wait a moment left to himself.
The Indeterminable determines
itself as infinite as well as finite.
456) Not to be occupied is detachment.
457) As long as people have the habit of
stealing, it can only be controlled, not abolished.
458) Man’s longing for woman is the body’s
aspiration for completeness.
Biological incompleteness is at
the bottom of romance.
459) Mind is so refractory, especially the
vital in the mind that it will not allow you to hear the right answer to your
problem. It will insist on its own wrong answer or confusion.
The one characteristic of mind
is blind refusal.
460) Civilisation compels people to be
civilised. The world community has a right to compel every nation to conform to
a standard of civilisation.
Compulsion is present everywhere
compulsorily.
461) God looking through human eyes is love
eternal.
462) The Spiritual energy is the source of
all energies. Sex energy is really spiritual energy felt in the nerves.
463) Surrender to Mother means surrender to
one’s own ego as their own ego is The Mother.
464) The strategies of all successful men
are well known. What is not known is what makes him do it.
465) Success is not a desirable goal nor
happiness a laudable aim. Progress is better than both.
466) The manners of a gentleman are the best
description of yogic attitude in life.
467) Preaching is the outer process of
educating oneself inwardly.
468) Devotees in Mother are like children in
the central cabinet.
469) Knowledge of the process gives the
result. Theory of the process opens higher fields of knowledge.
Science has opened millions of
processes and consequently millions of products. Their theory will unravel
creation.
470) Charity becomes unwise destruction by
the rival when you are not stronger than him.
471) Psychic awakening is seen by the
symptoms of
1)
Knowledge
of the past birth.
2)
Past
life flashing before the eyes.
3)
The
thinking centre rising above the head or the feeling centre going behind the
mind.
4)
Vision
at a distance.
5)
Inner
voice,
6)
Opening
subtle spiritual vision.
7)
All-inclusive
concentration.
8)
Capacity
to consecrate.
472) As rationality completely reverses
superstition, yogic perception turns the rational world upside down.
Rationality loses all
superstitious fear. Yogic perception finds karma and time non-existent.
473) Man talks loudly about what his mind
understands. Knowledge of his heart are secrets known only to his God.
Body’s knowledge of God is the
broad smile that breaks out, out of gratitude.
474) To think of The Mother when something
is possible is bhakti.
475) Woman sees her own attractiveness in
men taking liberties with herself.
The
unformed social woman appreciates an advance that hurts a formed cultured
person.
476) Man seeks progress as he is in the
wider movement of the mutability of the Spirit. Situated in Timelessness, he
may not seek progress.
Progress is a laudable human
ideal, not outside it.
478) Atma, Purusha, Ishwara can be likened
to nature, character and capacity.
Atma is conceptively
creative, Purusha is dynamically executive and Ishwara is both conceptively creative
and dynamically executive.
479) Sense perception of the physical is
limited to its size. The vital extends its perception by the energies of sight,
hearing, etc. Mind’s energy goes all over the world by thought.
480) Sudra gives the service of the Spirit,
even as the Vaisya offers the prosperity of the Spirit. Kshatriya’s courage is
that of the Spirit. Jnana of the Brahmin is the Jnana of the Spirit. He who is
at the top in one evaluation goes to the bottom in another evaluation. Integral
yoga asks for all in each and each in all.
484) The finite delights in being finite in
the conviction that it is the infinite.
485) Joy issuing out of victory of the right
is higher than the joy of success.
Ananda is the joy of existence
which has no need for creation.
486) Character is the greatest possession in
life. In spiritual life even that is of no use. What matters is consciousness.
487) With good character, one can transact
even with rivals or enemies. Without good manners, even partners or brothers
become intolerable.
Though manners are shallow,
life without them becomes intolerable.
488) Negativism is the first active
recognition of desert.
489) The idealism of smallness is to take
generosity as meanness.
An ideal cannot lower others in
its eyes.
490) Successful people are a success because
they DO what we know. The key lies in finding what made them DO it.
491) Patience with organised stupidity is
pure patience.
492) Consecration is a complete act. It cannot
be undertaken piecemeal or partially.
493) Life’s wisdom lies in knowing the
demands of transition.
494) It never strikes one to help another
except out of self-interest. In the help that comes on its own, this will be
mixed with the moves of grace.
Self-knowledge begins when he
knows the meaninglessness of emotional relationship.
495) A move anywhere is a move everywhere.
496) Mind becomes Supermind when the outer
becomes the inner.
497) Phineas Finn is an excellent example of
how man responds to grace coming to him through life and through good will. He
is uniformly unreceptive and often mean.
Solicitude is suspect.
498) Bhakti is human emotions experiencing
the touch of God.
Man’s sensation touching God’s
body is gratitude.
499) Progress requires one to consider
his own defects and the other’s strengths.
500) Friendship is an emotion felt in the
company of the other person, irrespective of the differences in the levels of
other endowments.
501) No trouble can defy native cheerfulness.
502) To seek Mother in inability is to seek
ability. To seek Her while you are able is to seek Her.
503) Dead knowledge cherishing its living
death and intensely enjoying it is called orthodoxy.
504) Unless a man is incapable of expressing
his feelings to another, he would not really feel.
Words are not the medium for feeling.
505) Words expressive of emotions are like pictures of persons.
507) Problem is resistance to growth.
508) Consecration of the physical made
civilisation possible.
Mental
consecration will lead to yoga.
Progress
comes by need.
Mental,
vital needs have given present progress.
Supramental
need will give yoga.
509) Man’s growth is a pyramid of growth
based on widening support. Growth is determined by his seeking, support by his
physical accomplishment.
510) To know what one is is the quest.
Quests range from the physical
to the spiritual.
511) Man grows inwardly and expresses it
outwardly.
513) To know the social outside, one should know
his own outside in his family and himself. Life of man is a series of
experiences of that description. It is his physical, vital, mental, spiritual,
supramental growth.
Sri Aurobindo moved us from the body to
the supramental. We love what we are. Mother loves our opportunity.
514) From Viswamitra to Sri Aurobindo one’s
own life travels through Jesus, Buddha, the Rishis, the Avatar of Krishna. Man
making his own choice is human history.
The Life Divine is the mental or conceptive
history of the Absolute seeking Himself for sheer Delight. Man joining this unfoldment at
some point is the life of the individual.
515) A story is fascinating as we know what
a story is. The Life Divine is the story of the Absolute in Man on
earth. For that book to become a page- turner, one needs to know the story of
the universe. The Mother rewrote that story as a play and lived it in Her own
life. That is Agenda.
516) The Life Divine will be a
page-turner to the mental psychic; Synthesis of Yoga will be an
interesting guide to the vital psychic. The Agenda is the history of the
evolving psychic in the physical.
517) A form can evoke a response as if there
is content when there is no real content, but the spirit of content is there.
518) The maximum one can do is to be in a
constant state of consecration. The next best is to act through understanding,
while the minimum is full protection.
519) Memory brings events to the mind as
long as one needs to learn from them. It goes out of his memory the moment
he has learnt everything he needed to learn.
520) To be able to explain an event after it
has happened, to be able to plan a work and do it successfully are great
endowments, but they are not the full possession of effective knowledge.
Complete possession of theoretical knowledge
will be able to predict the future precisely, even if prediction abridges the
possibilities.
521) India experienced the birthpangs of
Freedom in the communal carnage as she first divided herself. Bharat Mata
gave the ecstasy of Freedom in a bloodless transfer. Human mind made it bloody.
Let harmony heal the division.
Poison will turn into nectar.
522) Evolution that begins with the physical
energy becoming physical skill ends with the talent and ability of the psychic
in the physical being.
Man works in the body by his
mind. God reveals Himself in the Body as his evolving Spirit of the psychic.
523) As USA started afresh in the last few
centuries to build herself in the image of Europe and overpassed her, so USSR
is now starting afresh to catch up with the industrialised world. She will
outdo USA.
525) The Mother living among men and working
was the Universal Mother taking a human body and guiding the unconsciousness to
consciousness by identifying Herself consciously with the human unconsciousness.
Mother’s Life was the
unconsciousness of Her own evolving consciousness.
526) Thoughts and Aphorisms is the
summary of the evolving supramental consciousness in the mind of man.
527) Evolution is the lower planes learning
from the higher planes that descend. Abandoning physical destruction, seeking
higher comfort, quest for wider, deeper understanding, aspiring for peace,
acquiring the spiritual capacity to move matter are the stages of civilisation.
528) The ideal that begins by demolishing
the society aspires for social approval.
You cannot destroy something from inside.
529) USA has successful practical work
organisation at the individual and collective level and is left with no energy to
develop emotional appreciation of the emerging individual. Russia is emotional
and would not accept any organisation that is not already endorsed by its
collective emotional enjoyment. Indian spirituality must organise the one in
the context of the other.
530) Man resents demands on his attention,
but feels lonely when all such demands are withdrawn.
Loneliness is for one who longs
to repel friendship.
531) Depression cannot be self-existent as
it arises out of a dependence or relationship with someone or something
outside.
Depression is social or
psychological, cannot be spiritual.
532)
·
A
no-story can be filmed with all others aspects being excellent as an
interesting view.
·
By
a captivating delivery, a piece of no-news could be listened to with spellbound
attention.
·
Excellent
externals can give full life to non-living content.
534) Indifference that leads to forgetting
precedes consecration.
535) Movements in the gross and subtle
planes are irrevocably interrelated.
537) Emotional disturbance is vital’s
understanding.
538) Aspiration is actual burning of the
being for the goal as Karna desired to know his father.
539) Warm emotions rising giving an idea
will disappear in minutes as it is ascent. Formed idea descending giving warm
emotions is lasting loyalty.
Loyalty is mental. Sudden
bursts of emotions are vital.
540) The power of the letter of law depends
on the spirit with which the unwritten law is accepted.
541) The emerging individual was the centre and
life of democracy. Spiritual communism centres around the Spiritual Individual.
Spiritual communism
542) Martin Luther, the mental individual,
wanted to find God himself. The spiritual Individual wants to discover
himself as God.
543) A right, better still a product, can
make world union a reality. In fact, it should be a formula whose powerful
reality can be reached through modern technology – the Internet.
545) Even the unremitted curse will have the
force of curse.
Curse is the formula of the
intense vital.
546) For the Being of Becoming there is
spiritual relationship above the mind; there is no social relationship which is
below the mind.
547) Betrayal is possible only when
something is thrust on another against his own will.
Betrayal betrays one’s ignorance
of the law of action in the existence of life.
548) The higher cannot benefit the lower nor
the lower seek such a benefit from the higher, unless the higher in the lower
awakes and acts.
The seed cannot become the
tree unless it is live.
549) The good health of the forester is the
balance his body strikes with his work. The Rishi’s health is governed by the
light of the Spirit.
550) As urges rise in the scale, man
becomes God to witness the Marvel.
551) Interest is released when the capacity
is born.
552) To disregard the result in favour of
learning the process is the force of civilisation. Sensitivity enables us to
move.
553) The world union when it comes into
existence will do so on a principle that transcends religion, race and
language. If there is a right to be gained or a thing to be acquired that
represents this transcendental stage and to acquire which race, religion, etc.
are a barrier, the coming into existence of the world union will be facilitated.
554) The truth of Mahatma Gandhiji is the
overgrown vital in the mind espousing its own truth as Spirituality, as the
charity of Christian Love has turned into material help to the poor.
Charity of the soul is Love that
is Ananda.
Charity that is material help is ego
usurping the soul.
555) When the energy of the force in a form
expands or contracts it is felt as heat or cold.
556) Brahmic consciousness in the body will
not be affected by heat or cold or weight.
557) Truth is Truth of Brahman in the body which is unaffected by
heat.
558) The accused must prove his truth, not
all others.
Society has fashioned a cruel
test as it has known the Truth of Brahman while it is selfishly cruel.
559) A witch was to be burned when she was
so accused, whether she was alive or dead.
Approach to Brahmic knowledge
enabled the selfish French to kill those suspected as witches.
560) Ego is the result of mind dividing the Force
coming to an end in atomic existence beyond which Force is incapable of being
divided. It is the physical ego.
561) That abacus can still win over the
electronic computer in calculation shows the enormous potentials of methods
left untapped.
The finite contains the
Infinite, if you care to unravel it.
562) Mind can choose to be closed or open
but the vital can only be closed.
Ramakrishna’s experiences
were vital.
Spiritual awakening can occur only at the
highest point of personality.Once the mind is somewhat awakened, the Spirit can
only show up in the mind.Vedic Rishis opened their bodies to the Spirit,
Ramakrishna his vital, Ramalinga Swamigal his mind.563) Authority that is to be exercised from above must be exercised for
work. To expect it to come from below before its time is ignorance.
564) Effective instruction educates without
provoking.
Provoke the thought, not the
person.
565) Whatever happens happens by
consecration at different levels. What we are not able to consecrate, the wider
forces of society, law, life do in their own fashion.
566) The perverse evil that understands its
possibility for the future is its death feels a joy in the understanding.
567) The new world must be created by
pushing the frontiers of the old world. Before they are established in physical
concrete facts, they must be done so by ideas and attitudes which must be
true.
The new is born in the old. The
old is ego, the new is the psychic.
568) One who is awake in the present need not
know the past as it is in the present.
569) As age advances, men in foreign climes
long for their native countries, idealists seek the support of society they had
eschewed, sannyasis cherish their relatives. This is true when the psychic
is not awake.
Age, Time do not abridge human
opportunities as youth is replaced by experience.
570) Sri Aurobindo, who was the first to
declare complete independence as the goal even in 1904, advocated dominion
status in 1942. Opposition to Indian self-government in 1912 was more from
Indians than from the British public.
Love of chains is a tangible
emotion.
To the final goal, the stepping
stone appears to be contradictory.
571) Mental leadership learns the large
details by their essence.
Organisation for effective
leadership requires men who can report the essence of enormous details. Leaders
act by temperament. Leadership must act on the composition of the temperament
of events.
572) Physical prowess as the furious energy
was the beginning of physical leadership. Future seeks the leadership of one
who is above good and evil. In between it has moved from power to ideas, from
personal ideas of the leader to the capacity to learn the ideas of the masses.
perfection
Leadership always enjoyed
perfection in its endowments.
The history of leadership is the history
of humanity.
Power goes to perfection in
leadership.
573) Excitement in enjoyment is for the ego.
Enjoyment that is quiet like that of quiet efficiency is of equality.
574) Complaints keep one negatively alert.
The wife excels there.
An awakened soul replaces
complaint by appreciation.
The weak are enlivened by prodding
complaints; the strong are motivated by praise. One who needs neither is a soul
awake.
575) New experience of old wisdom carries
new dimensions of thought. If not thought, it carries or conveys new
temperaments absorbing old ideas.
Nothing present can be entirely
old or useless for that reason.
576) It is not as if new energies are not
continuously released. What matters is whether they go to the old ways or the
new.
577) Human subjectivity is Ignorance.
Divine
objectivity is Knowledge.
578) The process of creation is described in
the chapters of Matter, Life and Mind ending in Sachchidananda presenting
itself as Matter, the basis for objective action.
579) The reversal required is that of the
selfish man discovering his inversion of selflessness into selfishness.
580) Drive requires tact. Tact that inspires
the other is the policy in action.
581) Tactics work once. Policy is permanent.
Permanent tactics of the policy is the strategy of good will.
582) He who needs the first experience is
mentally alert. Vital intuition does not need even that one time casualty.
583) Tactics are to attack someone where he
cannot defend himself. Physically it is done by overwhelming strength. The
vital traps another. Mind uses no tactics. To enable another to see his own
ignorance can be called mental tactics. The Spirit has no need to conquer, as
it is Self-existence. To help another discover his Spirit, a tactic may be
used.
584) In a confrontation, the Spirit works
for another’s victory who seeks the rival’s defeat. The Spirit emerges
stronger by its defeat.
585) The conqueror marches into other lands.
The Guru awaits his disciples.
589) Going down of the psychic to the body
ensures the victory of its going up.
590) No work of ours is spoiled without our
invitation and contribution.
This is true even when one
loses a misfortune as when Wickam moved away from Elizabeth.
591) The Internet gives electronically wide
ranging information, as the clairvoyant gives vitally information of the past.
internet.
The Internet is an electronic crystal.
592) When the Indian rulers moved to ideas
from power in 1900, imperialism
gave way to democracy or
freedom.
593) A system emerges when the action is
error-free.
594) Factual memory differs from the
impression of memory which appears to be false, but all ideas and impressions
are formed out of the latter.
595) Grace can move away from rain to
wealth. It can either include it or
exclude it.
596) All acts are acts of ananda. Man’s greatest
joy, says Mother, is the moment when the woman conceives in her womb his child.
The woman’s hour of ecstasy is in the moment of delivering it. Mind has
made it the most painful experience.
Life will acquire freedom when
delivery is enjoyable.
597) Adoration is ignorance of the obvious.
598) When people say, “I do not know how I
lost all my wealth or where it went,” they declare that they unconsciously
indulged to satiation.
When full dissipation it
crosses the border, it becomes full spiritual realisation like Vipra Narayanan.
599) Mental individuality is well formed in
the West. What the world needs is
Spiritual Individuality.
The Spirit too has a
personality.
600) The house is so arranged as to make
family life possible. A child’s freedom always upsets it. Can there be an
organisation of the house where the child can always move freely, enjoying the
movement and educating himself and still be in harmony with the functioning of
the family? It is the harmony of organisation in freedom.
601) Personality is of Nature. Individuality
is the result of Purusha individualising the experience of the world-being in
one soul. It is that which seeks uniqueness in the very thumb print.
602) Superstition is vociferous. Knowledge
is mantra.
603) Insufficiency is never insensitive.
Offence is the vigorous
self-defence of insufficiency.
604) Human nature never pardons those who
helped. Even when that knowledge is not there, it never fails to offend. 605) Character does not surface in daily work. Only we see
manners then. In critical moments only character emerges.
606) The silent soul evolves when it is
conscious of moving into Nature.
607) Man who sees the process of creation is
a realised Ishwara – the psychic being.
The evolving Purusha witnesses the
process of creation in his own life.
608) To arrest the Becoming into Being is
the office of concentration.
Creation is Purusha moving into
Prakriti.
Concentration immobilises
movement.
609) Ununderstanding irresponsible apathy is
unconscious surrender.
610) The ultimate satisfaction for the
intellect is to know, not to act.
611) Mind acting through the matter in the
brain is intellectuality.
612) The low is the real great that comes to
consider itself low. Brahman, forgetting himself, can appear as low even to
Himself. The great who are great can know themselves as low when they
identify themselves with the social consciousness.
We choose what we are and we can do it
consciously or unconsciously.
613) Can the Absolute forget itself? That which can forget cannot be the
Absolute. But it has the right to create Ignorance into which it can forget
Itself.
614) Energy not organised for work generates
tension.
Work and energy not in organised
harmony is tension.
615) The 20th century was one when the major
wars came to an end. Till then the role of the Kshatriya was pre-eminent.
Before that, the quest for knowledge was in the forefront. The 21st century is
one of man’s service to his fellow men. Therefore the Sudra will rise to
prominence after the Vaisya exhausts his mission.
616) Man moves from physical, mental
illusion to objective intellectuality; from there he touches outer intuition,
which when moved inward, reaches Supermind.
617) Vital infatuation equals that of
superstition.
618) Present equality is ours; the future
results are not.
619) For the Force to act, ego – physical,
vital, mental – is the obstacle. Later even the structures of mind, vital, etc.
can be obstacles unless their structures are transformed.
620) What
inspires is not action but an action in tune with the social consciousness. No wonder bright ideas
remain bright.
To prepare the society to
respond one must universalise himself. It is Transcendent grace for the
individual in the universe.
621) A great idea of one person will work
for another who is in work, not for him, until he works successfully.
622) The first move to overcome the
influence of money is not to earn it, but to perceive it can be earned more by
moving away from it.
623) The lure of money cannot be
successfully used to lure man away from money. It grows on what it feeds.
624) Surrender is for the initiatives. Not to
have initiatives is a state of ever-present surrender. Equality is of that
state.
625) The opening paragraphs of The Life
Divine are inspiration and the rest are explanations.
The Life Divine.
626) Silence, drshti, intuition, knowledge
are the steps to self-knowledge. Consecration skips all the steps in between.
627) Power, rather skill that can use the
power gives the result. Knowledge sees the process. Neither the result nor the
process is ultimate. Essence of Brahman is.
628) Reversal of consciousness and past
consecration are expressions of the sincerity of soul.
There is no shorter cut in
foreign travel than air travel. Despising
the plane is despicable.
629) Surrender is for the conscious Soul,
not for the active mind or energetic vital.
Thinking is of the active
mind that is asleep.
630) Domination is the pleasure of power
expanding its territory. JOY is the ananda of the soul and the evolving soul
dissolving in creation to expand in evolution.
631) JOY is not for the vital which knows
only pleasure.
632) Man, in asking for his rights, awakens
to his own inner depths which will happily renounce all rights.
633) Capacity to own is love of our
psychological fetters.
634) Emerging knowledge is the first
perception, while JOY finding the new height is final.
He asked us to emerge as knowledge and
said the supreme discovery is the creation of the Superconscient.
635) Beginning with the mind, one meets the
first realisation in the vital as the Pranamaya Purusha.
636) One who can meet Vyasa, Valmiki, Jesus,
Buddha, Krishna, or Newton won’t like to spend his time reading newspapers.
637) To know that the longest route is the
shortest is Supermind’s comprehension in life.
There is no shorter route to
earning than taking crores by counting.
638) The same goals can be reached by total
frankness or total secrecy. Each has its own route.
639) Absence of mental consideration of
an issue is the penultimate step for consecration.
640) Affection received as attention is
still sweet.
641) Explaining His logical thought in terms
of the logic of life is to apply His thought to life.
642) Surface is disgusted by what the
subliminal longs for.
Repulsion is the seeking of the
subliminal.
643) We came to Him to discover ourselves as
God; we ask Him to do it for ourselves.
644) To realise one’s soul is moksha. For
the soul to become the Superconscient
and realise itself in the trance
of the Inconscient is our aim. That soul living its life on earth in mind or body
is the new definition of trance of Sri Aurobindo.
645) To be aware of the process of
involution and consciously reverse that is surrender.
646) The art of ruling is simple to
understand, not easy to execute, because it is fairness and common sense exercised
by power.
647) Creation can be explained in terms of
the eight planes – Sat to Matter – which means one fully understands The
Life Divine.
Life Divine
648) To know the
process of creation 1) in terms of its powers, 2) planes,
3) processes, 4) Time, and be able to unite all of them
into ONE idea is to know The Life Divine very well.
The
Life Divine
649) Sat becomes
Truth by objectifying and again creates the world out of Truth by apprehending
Supermind which is objectifying again which by becoming subject creates life
and matter.
650) To become objective is to become
intellectual, which makes earth matter. For the intellectual to become
subjective is to become Sat.
Objectivity first, subjectivity
next.
651) Man discovers capacity in himself. His
luck lies in his capacity to fully understand the role of his rival and enemy
in his own life.
653) Action of a full heart in circumstances
that are organised appropriateness is unfailing – it is initiation into
Luck.
654) Anger is the desire for domination
by the hasty unthinking vital.
655) Intelligence understanding leads to
intellectuality, a state of matter. Surrendering abolishes intellectuality into
spirit by reversing the objectivity into subjectivity.
Mind’s objectivity is
intellectuality. Making intellectuality subjective, intuition is born.
656) What computer has achieved in speed,
thought achieves in brevity.
Latest is fastest.
The briefest is the present.
657) Repetition looks foolish till one
reaches the physical substance. Calling can be replaced by being in the mind,
vital and in the physical consciousness but not in the physical substance.
658) Mind tries to understand when a doubt
arises and succeeds after several decades. Surrendering that doubt clears it at
once.
659) Mental silence is mental will pushing
away mental thoughts. Mental will dissolving or surrendering to the Divine will
generate the silence of Supermind.
660) The subjective selfish human being
becomes an intellectual by objectivity. His objectivity when it becomes
subjective at that higher level develops intuition and insight.
Human life is superstitious.
Intellectual life is
superstitious for the Spirit.
661) Millions of people coming to the site
of Britannica shows how eager people are for facts. For the world to appreciate
the theory or seek it, people should similarly seek ideas.
662) The high self-respect we witness in the
debtors’ prison in England will be a high standard for us to reach.
663) Those who have espoused any ideal will
accomplish it when their character endorses it. Sri Aurobindo’s ideal will be
well served even if appropriate manners are forthcoming.
664) Mental individuality is born by
refusing any help and refusing to help. Spiritual individuality enters into
all others and asks for the help of everyone.
665) Individuality is the greatest
achievement of the West which expresses self-respect and organisation of
personality based on truth of life. The present western civilisation is the achievement
of that Individuality. Its value is
not accepting help. For the spiritual individual to emerge, the present one
must be shed and he must go to all others which means to ask everyone to
help.
666) Our best effort at consecration is a
mental belief. For consecration to be consecration mind and all other parts of
the being should move away, leaving the psychic to come forward to
consecrate to the Divine.
667) What Shakespeare achieved in language
was in Life. Sri Aurobindo had the same level of linguistic achievement in
yoga.
A linguistic achievement in
thought lies between them.
668) He gives most who refuses.
Capacity to refuse to give
when you can to an undeserving man gives him the capacity to earn what we want
to give in multiple measure.
669) During the difficult endeavour of
consecrating a thought, the impulse to communicate it to another will be
powerful. If done, it cannot be consecrated.
Communication prevents
consecration.
670) Removal of all anachronisms that are
obstacles will be total development.
The entire theory can be fully
explained from any one point of view.
671) Intellectuality seeks oneness as it is
a product of Matter. Thought seeks the Absolute as it is not of the absorption.
As the Absolute created the pure existence by self-conception, thought seeks
its origin.
Intellectuality is the comprehension of
the inverted Spirit.
672) When you stop running after someone, he
starts running after you and succeeds in catching you.
This is an example of contradictions
becoming complements.
The best way to catch is to be
caught.
673) To do a work one likes is rest and even
relaxation.
674) “Is there anyone who needs me? What is
it that makes me seek people who do not need me,” is the question an emotional
idealist often asks. That is God-seeking in him.
Grace is the action of the Superconscient
trying to awaken the Inconscient which is unaware. Grace in man seeks
indifferent men.
675) Mantra is the word that contains all
that long explanation can give in a few words, bringing the power through the
subtle causal planes.
676) Man is selfish matter.
Matter that is self-giving is
the Delight of Existence.
677) Subjective selfishness becomes
objective intellectuality, rises to intuition through insight, again by
subjectivity reaches the Spirit, the Sat Purusha.
678) Self-conception, self-extension,
objectification, division, aggregation, self-absorption through form and force
are the different stages of the process of creation.
It begins as choice, becomes
extension, hiding comes from absorption.
679) Concept that matures into perception is
an intuitive concept. An intellectual concept insists on perceiving itself,
prevents it from becoming a perception.
Eternal choice is man’s eternal
freedom.
Progress lies in choice.
680) To give up wealth is the ascetic path. To
earn money is progress for an incapable man in life. Progress is to move to the
next step, not doing what others do.
681) To be quiet is to be awake in the soul or
to be awake as soul inside action.
682) A small man wanting to be great and
finding it not possible, bloats in his body.
Obesity is the hunger of the
cells of the body.
683) Victory, domination, success, looting, destruction
of enemies are the rationality the human heart hungers for.
684) Vital cannot be rational, but can be
pleasant. The vital finds it disgusting when another does to it what he does to
him. The rationality of the vital is to enjoy what he now detests.
vital rationality
685) Punctuality, or any work value that
expands the work, will constrain the scope of the personality.
686) Stealing as well as non-stealing is a
habit.
An act is social or moral or
spiritual or functional.
There is no superiority in any act.
687) Consecration is self-giving.
Self-giving is consecration.
686) The embodied being energises the I.
689) Imagination is the subtle mental
perception of what will be. The reality of imagination is realisable. It can
also create by the faculty of imagination.
690) The correspondences we see in life are
indicative. That which we determine is our own self.
Man is granted a freedom from
life. It is for him to exercise it.
691) The best way to destroy someone is to persuade
him to help you.
692) Idealism for the practical man, rather
the mercenary man is like loyalty for the infatuated.
694) Either outer crisis or inner seeking
creates discipline, opens one to higher opportunities like Mother’s atmosphere
so that values of that order are formed.
Distress gives discipline.
695) Values form in low status in those who
preserve or foster high values even in low conditions.
The exertion of the
low to be dutiful creates high values.
696) Presently if rationality can be evoked
from man, it can be done if he is excluded from the field.
Mind can rationally exercise
itself about others.
697) For one to be full, all the four
endowments are indispensable even if one will serve as a spearhead.
The Spiritual values in mind,
vital and body are knowledge, courage, capacity and service, not the faculties
of the part.
698) The criminal sitting in judgement of
himself reveals the fairness of his mind.
699) Evaluation of oneself on a scale one
devises reveals one’s rationality.
The collective rationality is
seen when the criminal awards a judgement to himself.
700) The objectivity of man is seen when
he applies the impersonal rule to himself.
701) (objectivity).
Man reaches the original Matter
when his inner and outer are the same.
702) Objectivity is freedom from
superstitious illusion.
The latest ideal expresses the
old philosophy in one word.
Buddha is objectively valid,
not subjectively.
Shankara’s illusion is subjective.
703) Desire to prove oneself right is the
vital’s quest for power, not mental quest for knowledge. Still, it is one form
of curiosity.
704) To surrender the whole being, one needs
to know the whole being which is not fully given to the will only, as the knowledge
is left out.
He who surrenders wholly knows
his being wholly, which means at the moment the One became the Many.
705) That which initiates surrender is the
will of the Individual being which includes the mutable and immutable aspects.
Surrender is an act, not
meant for the immutable being, the witness Purusha.
706) The energy of surrender issues out of
the idea of spiritual evolution.
The psychic comes forward by
bhakti and can give either moksha and lead you to evolution. The choice is ours.
707) Energy meant for surrender becomes
force fit to achieve surrender by the will that directs it to evolution.
708) The force of surrender is organised
into power to achieve surrender by one’s character organised by humility, not
by ego.
709) Surrender requires a skill, even when
it is an organised power. It is a skill that steers clear of ego.
710) The universe is a self-conceptive
extension. Surrender is the self- conception of the being that begins to
evolve.
Surrender is the counterpart of
the Self-determination that made creation possible.
711) Surrender begins when the taste of Ignorance is over.
712) The light of surrender is the psychic
light.
713) Sensation of surrender is joy in the
nerves.
Joyless surrender is no
surrender.
714) Surrender is in Simultaneous
Integrality of Time, while in Time it is submission and in Timelessness it is
identification.
715) Surrender in the finite is the Infinite
suffering form.
716) The psychic is the result of Nature
surrendering to the soul when the entire Nature is willing.
717) All problems belong to the same plane.
Surrender is in the next higher plane.
Search for a solution in a
higher plane.
718) Mind moves horizontally. Surrender is
an upward movement.
719) Surrender
has NO limits. Faith in surrender has limits. Learn to create faith through
surrender.
720) The
helpless woman’s inaction is surrender in a strong woman of inner equality.
When she enjoys full freedom, her present absence of initiative will become
surrender for higher progress.
721) There
is no act where a little of surrender is not in-built.
Freedom
is the condition in which an act becomes surrender.
The fullest freedom emerges in
surrender.
722) When
Nature is self-creative she comes forward to surrender.
Surrender
is the relative becoming the Absolute.
723) Accidents
keep away if understanding is practically honoured.
Surrender
of sensation to perception is protection.
724) Outside
it is a labour; inside it is a joy. Surrender is the link.
Labour
of outside becomes joy of inside by surrender.
725) Concentration
that converts conception into one’s sensation is the precondition for
surrender.
726) Surrender
is the will agreeing to enjoy the full delight through reversal.
Delight
changes into gratitude through surrender.
727) Tragedies
occur when the body is ready for surrender but the will of the body resists.
728) When
the body does not understand the ideal accepted by the emotions, God wants your
child to be cooked.
Surrender
of the body is hastened by God’s demanding the child’s life.
729) Surrender
raises itself to its full stature only when we realise that it is really the
conquest of the universe.
Surrender
conquers by humility.
730) We live in the past, enjoy it, call it
nostalgia. To surrender the past is to conquer the future to enrich the present
into eternity.
Surrender
conquers Time.
731) A poor man getting the greatest
conceivable opportunity becomes miserable plagued by expectation that will ruin
it. The knowledge that expectation is ruinous makes it worse. Surrender of the
expectation is not possible, but surrender of the past folly, assertion,
failures is possible which will quell expectation.
Surrender dissolves expectation
when the past is surrendered.
732) When the global market is in a
downturn, there is nothing anyone can do, much less a sole individual. Not
so when the past is surrendered.
Past surrendered will reverse global market going
down.
733) One can conquer the enemy at the borders
or stave off famine, but the rain that falls is not in his hands. One may have
any prayer answered but cannot consecrate a single small act.
In yoga consecration is like the
control of thoughts for an ordinary man.
734) The miser is miserable in enjoying his
accumulation. He enjoys misery miserably. Surrendering the Form of his energy
which is misery, the miser will be ushered into the wealth of the world to
enjoy it universally.
735) The centre of personality decides the
scope of surrender.
Surrender is limited by our
centre.
736) Ego, permitting the divine inside, by
coming forward to surrender, becomes divine.
God acting in man is surrender.
737) Surrender converts the greatest tragedy
in the gross plane through subtle and causal planes into the greatest
opportunity.
Surrender walks through the subtle to the
causal.
738) Surrender makes the idiot realise that he is a genius.
739) Sri Aurobindo working through Churchill
and Wavell to stem the Bengal famine is to work through the loyalty of the
traitors, a method of Supermind.
The traitor’s loyalty serves
the Transcendent. It is His surrender to betrayal.
740) The victim of tyranny when he
penetrates it and reaches the truth inside can surrender to it if he wants to transform
tyranny into Love.
Surrender is the alchemy that transforms cruelty into
Love.
741) All-inclusive concentration gives a
subjective vision of the objective world.
Subjective vision of the universe is all-inclusive
concentration.
742) As the urge rises, before the mind
enters, it should be consecrated.
743) Human relationship is based on honest
confidence that is energised into expansive inter-relationship and is raised by
social values transcending society into personal intimacies.
744) A creative work is a vision of the poet
or the writer and it cannot be changed in translation or filming without
violence to the original.
745) Surrender of a capacity to Mother is to
become consciously unconscious of it.
Surrender is conscious
unconsciousness.
746) Concentration is subjective.
747) Learning is like typing where each
letter is to be printed in succession while surrender is like printing where
the whole page is just impressed all at once.
Learning is successive, surrender
is simultaneous.
748) Surrender, if understood as a means to
initiate transformation can be fully comprehended.
As transformation is
indispensable, so is surrender.
749) Surrender can be seen as a method, a
power, a knowledge in action, a movement of evolution opposite to the
Self-determination of the Absolute, an energy in action, a discipline, an
attitude, a motive, a quest for joy, a trait of humility, etc.
As you approach surrender, so it
reveals to you.
750) The dirty man is physically
untouchable. The false man is spiritually untouchable.
Spiritual light protects
itself from extinguishing by a thick cover of falsehood.
751) Intelligence is to know what the other
man means. Intuition is to know what the other man is.
Intelligence knows the externals,
intuition, the inner.
752) Many people occupy our thoughts, even
become pre-occupation. How many do you love? Memory is not love, nor even
affection.
753) The soldier, genius, artist, the Rishi,
etc., can master life in various fields. For the final perfection a man needs
to come to the arena of his greatest complement – his woman.
754) Thoughts are in Time.
755) The silence of the physical is the
silence of the substance.
The full range of Silence compresses
in it the history of involution and evolution.
756) Spiritual awakening for Sri Aurobindo
is to open oneself to the fourth dimension.
To know Him, it is not enough to
be spiritually awake.
757) Sri Aurobindo says that the first
realisation is Pranamaya Purusha, though His yoga commences only in the mental
psychic as Man is vital.
Man is vital, not mental yet.
758) The Force comes to us through The
Mother. It does act directly on world events. Discrimination is given to the
deserving.
To feel the Force as Force is a
measure of consciousness.
759) To see that the fool considers
himself intelligent is perception.
760) We relate to one of the shallow
surfaces, not the real depth.
761) The final refusal of the Brahmin that
gave birth to the caste system based on birth is the choice of humanity of
Nature. The laws of copyright and patent are its relaxation. Newton and
Einstein giving their formulas to the world is their choice of evolution.
There is a human choice
between Nature and evolution at every moment.
762) The thought that analysed Brahman, the
mind that saw the Brahman, saw it from outside, as the staff in the Chief
Minister's office are close to him. They had not approached Brahman as one who
is qualified to become the Chief Minister, say the Deputy Chief Minister, is
close to him. One is physical proximity, the other is the penultimate
station to the post.
763) As the Absolute became the
Self-conscious Being by Self-conception, which remains in our mind as thought,
thought seeks the Absolute.
764) The shallowest platitude, such as
"Happy birthday" said to someone on his own birthday, still has the
thrill of being one of the society.
Context of Self makes the
dull word live.
765) Knowing that another understands I am a
fool annoys me. Knowing that I am a fool is self-awareness and can be
revealing.
Irritation becomes inspiration
when another's perception of us becomes our own.
Outer irritation, inner
inspiration.
766) The best way to lose advantages is to
take advantage.
768) The Mind does not dissolve when thought
ceases. Thought becoming still is not thought dissolving. Mind is a plane, not
a faculty like thinking, made up of its substance of brain.
Mind
dissolving leads to universalisation of the mind.
769) To reach the Supermind individually is
to get nominated to the Assembly without any election or mass basis.
A seat of power when created
can be reached in various ways as one can become wealthy in more than one way.
770) We are the unconscious end of the
embodied being. The psychic is the tether end of it consciously. We are
unconscious because we look outside at the world. To become conscious we must
go to the psychic and look at the world from there.
771) Intellectuality is the function of mind
which takes the data from the various senses and coordinates them in the mind
to see at what point they are ONE, which is called oneness.
Intellectuality is incapable
of going beyond oneness.
772) Money removes human emotions is what we
believe. It is true, but it will be truer to say the mind that values money
does it.
773) The eternal HOLE death makes in one
life is filled to overflowing by Mother's Peace that is not available even in
death.
The Peace that is not there even
in death is the Peace of the Spirit that is released.
774) Population is an amorphous mass.
Demography classifies and systematises it to become a perfect statistical
social science.
Science is classification and
systematisation.
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775) In a blatantly unfortunate situation of
all round loss, one fails to see that just outside these losses, Life is
building up for you.
776) When a revolution has successfully
taken place, every small detail of culture in the society is swept off at one
stroke. To prepare a society for such a revolution from below, any ONE of such
sensitivities can stay the revolution.
Change changes.
A loose nut is total loss.
777) Justice at the hands of law in India
today is honesty of the politician.
778) Pre-occupation with the beloved is the
privilege of the emotion.
779) Woman is the greatest complement to man
because she is the greatest contradiction of him.
780) Thinking that has disappeared will
leave behind inactive memory.
Memory is lifeless thinking.
781) Satire is active thinking of life as a
negative expression of it. It cannot come by the laws of life which come by
calm observation of it.
Reaction is negative
understanding of the emotions.
782) The one person whom you cannot get along
with is the person whom you should worship.
We
know exactly what we need, because we avoid it.
783) Sri Aurobindo's yoga can be simply
stated as moving from the mental centre to which man has not fully attained, to
the centre of evolving spirit in all parts of being.
784) Children gathering around sinking
parents is the unity of the bodies.
785) Survey of the land is the
self-awareness of the soul in the physical-material.
Survey is man's
self-awareness of his physical origin.
786) Elimination of expectation is to rise
from thought to intuition.
·
Any
function of the body can be an index of the Being or the index of any other
part of the body.
·
Physiology
is the horoscope of the body.
·
Omens
are the blood tests of the body of life.
·
Sneezing
is the safety valve of the emotions.
·
Stepping
on a thorn is vital unconsciousness.
·
Birth
of mind removes the protection from thorns.
·
Expressing
the Spirit in the language of the primitive is yogic mantra of life.
787) Evening Talks is an expression of
the Divine View meeting the human view of the Divine issue.
Man met God in the Evenings.
·
The
effectivity of man's unexpressed thought is seen in Life Response.
·
God's
conceptions evoking Life Response in Man is spiritual evolution.
788) Man expresses his inspiration and prays
for it to be fulfilled. He can wait for Mother to inspire him and be divinely
successful.
God's action in us is to
eliminate ignorance by eliminating Time.
·
Supermind
is the super computer.
·
Computer
speeds the thought electronically. Silence, light, intuition, and knowledge
speed thinking spiritually.
·
Silence
is the computer of mind.
·
Telescope
is the vision of universal matter.
·
Drshti
is the spiritual telescope.
·
Psychic
is the spiritual microscope.
·
Surface
is the human naked eye.
·
The
subliminal is the electronic microscope.
·
Gratitude
is the spiritual spacewalk.
·
Rewriting
science in spiritual vocabulary helps open the spiritual vision.
789) Credit to determination is often
discredit to comprehension.
Urge is determination without
comprehension.
790) The Formula For the Future must
include the entire wisdom of the past.
Past absorbed is Time overcome.
791) Working on oneself is individual
progress, on another is creating a universal vibration. To be able to see the other
man's view as your own inside will be conception in the transcendent plane.
792) The forms of speech into which highly
cultured emotions go to express their intention are not to be developed in a
short span of time of a century.
Culture is slow to grow;
elegant expressions of culture slower to develop.
793) Freedom is seldom given, always taken
or wrested from authority is what we know. Having come on earth, God offered
that freedom which no one has availed of.
794) Birth gives social status, education
psychological and initiation spiritual.
Endowment on one plane is
useless in another.
795) vital) mental) ego) Psychic) Harsh
vital, stiff mind, aggressive ego, soft psychic.
796) The detective follows the lead of
material physical events to discover the sources of a crime. The scientist is
led by the mental possibilities to discover a new process and a new product. The
Rishi follows the subtle insights to reach higher spiritual possibilities.
Creation
is by subtle insight.
797) Scientific creativity is by subtle
mental insight. It is a process by which man can lead himself to the Absolute.
Courage to deny present
advantages opens the endless possibilities that will end only in the Absolute.
798) The Individual is the TOKEN person of the
Transcendent Self.
799) In the age of information the expert is
one who is as informed as any other man.
Information raises the citizen
to the level of the expert.
800) "Scientific reasoning was the
organising metaphor of the western-educated elite.” In this expression we see a
linguistic capacity in thought unsurpassed.
Reasoning refines reflection.
801) Life being a plane of forces in
equilibrium, jealousy trying to restore it when one rises is natural.
There will no progress without jealousy.
Negative jealousy, positive
competition.
802) The lower the
vibration, the greater the enjoyment.
803) Universal
consciousness shows the earth going round the sun. It can reveal our
horizontality on the globe when we FEEL vertical. Man will be aware of his
own selfishness objectively only when he is in universal consciousness.
804) Man can be
classified and graded by what he enjoys. The lowest enjoyment is the value
of the lowest vibration. A pioneer is one who enjoys discovering what his
society is unaware of.
The highest enjoyment is
knowledge emerging from Ignorance.
805) Mean pleasure has no particular victim
in mind. Any scope is good scope. It lands on any field – any person –
vulnerable.
Meanness
is an impersonal force, not a personal energy capable of acting on a particular
person.
806) Nostalgia
activates the pleasure of the past which is to be given up and overcome.
807) Idealism in public life is spiritual
life.
808) Thoughts of another work interfering in
a work does not so much show the importance of the interfering work as the desire
not to do the work on hand.
Interference is dislike.
809) The most
successful democratic leader is one who educates the followers to willingly
submit on their own understanding.
Education for submission is
thought dominating the act.
810) Integral vision sees Sachchidananda and
the universe simultaneously from Supermind.
811) Supermind is the mind of
Sachchidananda. The subjective experience of Supermind is Sachchidananda. The
objective experience is Mind, Life and Matter.
Time sees objectively what
Timelessness sees subjectively, while the simultaneous integrality sees both
simultaneously.
Moving to Supermind, the whole
creation can be experienced as subjective and objective experiences,
alternately from the apprehending Supermind and simultaneously from the
comprehensive Supermind.
812) The fourth dimension and three poises.
1.
God
– Jivatma – Ego.
2.
Being
– Becoming – Being of the Becoming.
3.
Soul
– desire soul – the psychic being.
4.
Subtle
– gross – causal planes.
5.
Time
– Timelessness – simultaneous integrality of time and timelessness.
6.
Intellectuality
– Intuition – Integral experience.
7.
Good
– Bad – Transformation.
8.
Householder
– Sannyasi – Devotee as sadhak.
9.
Apprehending
Supermind – comprehending Supermind – Supermind.
10.
One
– Many – Many in One.
11.
Force
– Consciousness – Consciousness–Force.
12.
Mind
– Supermind – Mind of Light.
13.
Positive
– Negative – Whole.
813) Culture is
expressed by the deft and dexterous forms of ripeness and maturity.
814) The profundities
of life find expression in Shakespeare. The profundities of Spiritual
Thought find expression in Savitri.
Savitri is the poetry of
the evolving soul.
815) The
executive in an organisation is the coordinating centre who brings together the
experts there, much as the driver of a bus takes several passengers to their
destination.
816) He who plays
chess against himself – playing the parts of the opponents alternately – is in
the simultaneous integrality of Time and Timelessness.
The
actor who plays several parts is talented.
817) Grace is that
which reminds the forgotten past.
Grace is the action of the whole
on the part, the whole that can be simultaneously the part and the whole.
819) Ego
endeavours to go beyond Time and Mind.
Stinginess
tries to excel Time by its intensity.
820) The very first
discipline of this yoga is outside human reach, perhaps outside the universe.
Aspiration which is prior to that itself is rare.
821) Everything
in the tradition is personal. Anything in this yoga is universal.
822) A VIP receiving
an ordinary man is privilege. The VIP coming to the common man at his house is
fulfilment.
823) Popularity, a
vibration of social approval, brings the Idea to the level of social
comprehension and, thus, effectively prevents the realisation of the Ideal.
824) 'Fame is the
last infirmity of noble minds' is the comprehension of self-justification of
the limited ego.
Fame
is a result that mind expects.
825) The world, in
its prejudice, is perverse in refusing recognition to the great. He who
regrets, forgets that God in His mercy has prevented thus the misfortune of his
failure.
The world's refusal is God's grace.
826) HE cannot be caught in words, as HE
wishes to survive the abolition of language.
828) One who speaks
his own thoughts as facts of his perception lies to himself. His whole mind
is a big lie. Still it is the basis of imagination.
Truth to oneself, the subjective truth,
is an objective lie.
829) Falsehood, in
its evolution, has a great end.
Truth in its
involution has a miserable end of falsehood.
830) Silence gives fullness,
richness and when entering into Peace together they become joy.
Joy begins with the higher vital and
travels to great heights to become Bliss and Delight.
831) When all the hidden pockets
of the being are filled with energy that is result, JOY rises.
832) The joy in gambling is as great in loss
as in victory. Perhaps that in loss excels.
The subconscious delight is
greater than that of the surface.
833) It is better to think of the past for
its correction instead of the future for calculation.
834) Man preferring the GOOD is the
kingdom of God on earth.
Inability is unwillingness.
835) The first conscious emergence of
knowledge from Ignorance emerges as Power, a power that can rule the world as
if the world were a petty potentate.
Power is conscious knowledge.
Self-conscious knowledge is Power.
836) All miseries
issue out of initiatives. When one is overwhelmed by outside opportunities,
life saves him from his own initiatives.
All good things come on their own.
837) The greatest success of one's
intelligence is the direct success of his stupidity which is a general truth,
because our intelligence is the intelligence of our folly.
838) To appreciate another's capacity is not given to mind.
To
acknowledge goodness in another is super-human.
839) He who awaits God will have God's patience.
840) Work is physical. Work with changed
attitude is vital.
841) Man's future is
the continuation of the past. The yogi's future is the reversal of the past.
As the past contains the entire history of creation, its reversal will be
the entire glory of mankind.
842) Intellectual statements exclude facts
of insight as they belong to the subtle plane and intellectuality is material
thought.
843) The incomplete engagement of the present
makes one think of the future.
844) For Mother, to be conscious is to be
aware of the emerging Godhead in creation.
845) Sweetness is the understanding of the
psychic.
Sweetness is
the sensation of comprehension.
846) An urge may be under control in fear;
while the same will not be under restraint in freedom.
Discipline
in freedom is value.
847) The institution
of the gentleman has installed fact as Truth and its motive too. For the emerging
civilisation, it is of paramount importance. Hats off to the gentleman.
Society now
must move from True Facts to Rational Opinions.
848) For a new society
to fashion itself, the old one must go. One of the avenues of its going is
gambling. This is the creative aspect of gambling, as death makes life
immortal.
849) Gambling is the instinct of certainty
of the uncertainty. It is an irresistible pleasure for the unknown.
Gambling is
the delight in expanding into eternity outside the form.
The joy of
the form for the formless is gambling.
850) A work that
makes the bodily sensations sweet is expressing the supramental consciousness
in the body.
Wherever sweetness emerges,
there is the psychic.
851) Discovering the sweetness of being a
slave releases the psychic in the physical.
The slave of the servant can
still progress by becoming the slave of another slave. God in the physical
does not reveal to anyone but the slave.
852) The greatness of the soul of the harlot assumes a divine form behind her
human body.
How can one escape greatness,
having served Many?
Service is selfless even in a
public woman.
853) When a bright child was born, the
father in ironic modesty said that the child was no prodigy. His next child was
retarded.
Speech is best when silent.
854) Constant
remembrance arises when human memory is lost.
Sincere remembrance is not in
the mind.
855) The power of the form, its germ of
truth to individuality formation is best observed in the English people
honouring the privacy of another's letter, especially when they are otherwise
pressurising him.
No tyrannical mother who is
barely cruel to her daughter will open the letters of her daughter.
856) Accomplishment is perfect achievement.
Man achieves; the soul accomplishes.
857) Wherever the repetition ceased there
the physicality is overcome.
Repetition is the hallmark of
physicality.
858) Culture embellishes the crudeness of
the situation by euphemism. Language in its harshest form is a euphemism of the
reality of life which is venomous.
What
Mother gave up after undergoing torture, the Rishis avoided by a knowledge.
859) During the periods of physicality,
torture was common. Tyranny came into vogue in the vital period and slander in
the mental life.
Rewards and punishments are
another symbol of the age.
860) One needs to
cross the border of life to see the Spirit. Whether it is like Lear, or Arjuna
or Burgo, or a man who receives the affectionate loyalty of the adorable lady,
unless he crosses life, Spirit cannot be seen. In yoga the body must be
crossed over.
'Humour is the savour of life' ~ Sri Aurobindo
862)
§
Conscious
thought seeking God is worship.
§
Emotions
seeking God by themselves is bhakti.
§
Acts
never seek God, they actively refuse HIM.
§
We
can worship and yearn for Him, but never work for God.
§
Acts
seeking God, actively trying to express Him is yoga.
§
Matter that is body seeking the inner secret Godhead through
sensation is Delight of existence.
863) Knowledge
changing into omniscience is man becoming God.
Ignorance becoming omniscience at once is granted already.
864) Exhausting the resources is the
efficiency of energy.
866) After the initial readings, The Life
Divine yields to thinking, not further reading. To think through His arguments there overcomes intellectuality.
Beyond this, not thinking, but Silence alone will reveal the Book.
Reading,
thinking, Silence must be followed by reversal of consciousness.
867) Inner knowledge is the only knowledge. Academic
training will still seek the outer which can confirm and clarify the inner. In
its absence, the inner expands, flowering, which is fresher still.
Inner flowering fragrantly is creation.
869) Astrology is the science of subtle
knowledge that sees the movement of stars in terms of our inner growth. Physical
sciences should travel aeons to reach that inner refinement. It is a
science of force. Yoga is the Science of Being.
870) Corruption devouring the heroic
attainments of freedom is an extension of ahimsa dissipating the spiritually
won Freedom in the subtle plane.
The
final refusal of the Brahmin, the capitalist's greed, ahimsa in India are the
earlier seeds of present corruption in India and all over the world.
871) The final refusal of the Brahmin, the
falsehood that got thus organised, the poverty of today are the ways in which
the dormant Spirit protects and preserves itself till the time comes.
The worst of falsehood is best
of Truths in disguise.
872) Biological evolution on earth proceeds
in parts which will be followed by the spiritual evolution of the whole.
Evolution
in Time skips the Timelessness to evoke the evolution in simultaneous
integrality.
873) Surrender is a knowledge of the whole
comprising of the knowledge of the parts. Similarly it is power, love and
everything.
Totality of methods is
surrender.
874) Words whose meanings are denoted by the
context changing by inflexion to have their own precise shade is the way
language grows.
Growth of language is achieved by words acquiring
individuality.
875) Culture is the greatness of the part.
The other side will always reveal in
glimpses.
Every cultured place will have a pocket of the opposite which will
espouse the local culture but will not forget its origins of lack of culture.
876) Having begun at the psychic of the
mind, evolution will be complete when we reach the psychic of the physical.
Beyond that lies the entire Sachchidananda before evolution reaches the
Absolute again.
877) Human relationship demands violently
total surrender of the other person to his own interests.
878) Consecration of
the vital emotions makes the mind subtle.
Subtle
planes of the higher levels open when the lower levels resort to consecration.
879) All-inclusive concentration is thinking
by the cells of the body when the mind surrenders thought, vital feeling.
Mind that enjoys thought must
cease to think if the emotion should
sail
into action. It is much more so if the cells should wake up.
880) Consecration of the physical urges
includes the consecration of emotions and thoughts and therefore matures into
surrender.
Surrender
of a higher level is consecration of a lower plane.
881) When comprehension is incomplete consecration
is needed. Where it is complete it does not enter our mind and bother.
Consecration lies in the intermediate
zone between comprehension and incomprehension.
882) Skills and capacities are external.
Their becoming subjective awakens the Self. Then knowledge, consecration, etc.
become Self-knowledge, Self-consecration, etc.
883) Consecration of the fuzzy impulses in
the mind makes the Silence that descends stay.
The deepest Silence does not
remain.
884) The silent
secret initiative of the biological female culminates in Shakti dominating, or
trying to dominate the Ishwara who tries to fulfil himself in surrendering to
Her.
The
attractive female accepts his surrender ultimately.
885) Every effort of man is an effort to
acquire strength. He does it by initiative. He would get all the strength by
surrender.
Life is from effort to
surrender.
890) Man denies
the other the right to discover his own faults.
902) Classification
and systematisation are tools of science. They are so essential that we may say
they are science. Both are limited to one aspect, as science, as it is, is one
aspect of a process that seeks utility. Overcoming them is to widen the
scope of science into yoga.
Yoga
is the science of existence.
903) Life science is subtle science. What we
call Science excludes observation in the subtle plane and confines itself to
the gross plane.
904) He who exhausts his last drop of energy
in the right direction progresses without exception.
Exhaust yourself, you are in for
elevation.
905) Man dies of old age, diseases or
accidents is a physical explanation. The spiritual explanation is one dies when
his spiritual growth stops.
906) As the senses of the mental man are
active all the time but disregarded by his mind, the psychic vision disregards
the intellect.
The Jnana yogi sees the world by
his awakened mind shutting out his senses. Purna yogi sees the world by his
psychic without shutting out his senses but purifying them.
907) Seriousness
in yoga stipulates absence of desire for relaxation that is entertainment.
Entertainment
is exempted.
908) The Force enters through a decision to
follow Mother, though a lot more organisation is needed.
909) Instructions are in the gross plane.
They accomplish work in the physical plane. Work done by not giving
instructions or by silent will helps move from the gross plane to the subtle
plane.
910) A doubt patiently waits to be answered
as doubt itself is of inertia. What interrupts is not doubt but intolerance.
Intolerance becoming intolerable by its
insincere imposition is interruption.
911) Interruption is an egregious thought
insisting on its sole authority.
Vital
assertion is interruption.
912) Meditation is a CD which can hold a
whole encyclopedia in itself. Consecration is the mind that creates the
knowledge of the book and the CD.
913) The vital using
the mental occasion falsely to assert its physical authority is intolerance.
Interruption is intolerance of another speaking.
914) The whole Idea of The Life Divine can be held not in the mind, but in the supramental
centre of the mind, not as an Idea, but as SILENCE.
915) It is an
ambition of my life to read The Life
Divine without a break.
To hold the IDEA
wholly at once is the aim.
916) Purna Yoga
begins when Paramatma succeeds in reminding the Jivatma that it is Paramatma.
To be reminded is grace. To
remind is Super grace.
917) Initiative causes problems is thought
of only when the trouble comes, not before the initiative is taken. That is the
extent of unconsciousness.
918) Calling of the sensation that receives
Mother in the physical consciousness is to change us into Mother.
Grateful calling is installing the Presence.
919) The human value
of currency is the only value.
920) An ideal urge for one, if seen as unpardonable in others, must be
seen as selfish.
Selfishness makes
sin 'its' ideal.
921) Money is the monetary organisation of
social power.
Money is
power of social organisation.
922) Grace is simultaneous; prayer is successive.
Grace gives all at once.
Prayers bring them one by one.
923) A tragedy remains tragic as long as one
wants to speak it out or give a mental consideration. A subjective appreciation of a tragedy will reveal its original wonder.
Objective tragedy
is a subjective wonder.
924) It is not impossible to understand all
aspects of creation in terms of one aspect like Silence or one process like
subjectivity.
Integral life can be embraced by any one method.
925) Urge for human action is want or
insufficiency. He who seeks for the sake of fulfilment alone can work for any
ideal.
926) Enervation is unconscious.
Consciousness energises.
Energy issues in involution.
927) To explain is to involve. To be silent
and give up the desire to explain is to evolve.
Capacity not to know or not be
conscious is evolution.
Surrender is surrendering the tendency to
involve.
928) Going in is to reverse involution.
929) Mother's manners are that which will raise
one to higher consciousness.
930) Proximity promotes love that is
attachment.
931) Attachment gains in intensity by the excess of energy
exchanged.
932) Love that is
affectionate romance will die if denied expression.
933) Intellectuality relieves the mind from
its identification with the body and the vital, not in itself. Intuition does.
934) Evolution is knowing the original
nature of a thing.
Anything has two sides. The
lower side is use or form or force; the higher side its truth or being.
One leads to the finite; the
other to its infinity.
935) The twenty four spiritual determinants
when examined for their origin will reveal themselves as Spirit.
One can know the Brahman
starting from any point. Only that his inquiry must be upwards.
936) Anything on
earth has come from Brahman and can be traced back to it. All methods end in
surrender, as it is a method by which Brahman has created the universe.
Brahman who is above all surrendered its
lofty status to create the universe. Therefore surrender is his method.
937) The
Superconscient came into existence by concentration. Therefore it is reached by
concentration that is tapas.
A thing can be attained by the
method with which it was created.
938) Any finite can reveal
the infinite it hides. Intellectuality is a finite which can reveal the
integral experience which is its infinity. Accepting surrender as a method
keeps our intellectuality finite. Understanding it opens it up till we resort
to surrender for understanding.
Ignorance
becomes knowledge when you know what Ignorance is.
939) The
greatest decision of the highest part of us is surrender.
940) Any experienced man knows all the
possible behaviours of men and their motives. The yogi knows them as God's expressions.
941) Social stability is the justice of the
injustice of authority.
Social security is unjust acceptance of power.
942) Mind dwelling on itself – concentrating
– discovers itself as Spirit. Being dwelling on itself discovers itself as the
evolving Spirit.
Moving from the part to the whole, the
immutable Spirit becomes the evolving Spirit.
943) Charm can also express as the shyness
of the affectionate.
944) For each person, the best instrument is
that which represents his plane and
uniqueness.
The beads restore japa where concentration fails.
945) Forgetting, though unconscious is the
best strategy to let the force act.
Our conscious effort is a conscious obstruction.To decide to
forget it is better, but will produce no results.It is to be consciously unconscious.To succeed in it is faith
becoming mental knowledge.
946) There is complete security for what is
achieved. Insecurity is only for new pastures.
Secure foundation; insecure fresh attempt.
947) Classification is clarity, as mind
clearly understands a divided separate section.
Systematisation is to organise classification. To enable mind to
understand, one divides and groups separately.
948) What appears to be a small temptation,
when it is in the physical as an urge, will utterly defy the best self-control
unless the restraint is from the same urge.
949) Desire for life is
the sanction for death.
950) The psychic sees what God does and intends. Ishwara is
God who does it.
951) The objective researcher who collects
unvarnished FACTS is just on the physical material side of God's action in the
subtle.
The objective scientist and researcher is the gross material FORM
of God's action in the subtle subliminal.
952) We often mistake memory for
consciousness.
953) Physics, mathematics and every new
subject deal with the public through a new vocabulary created for that purpose.
We have to create such a new language, a special vocabulary to deliver the
knowledge of Sri Aurobindo to the masses.
Parlance and jargon are the
linguistic bridge to people for any new body of knowledge.
954) Manners is bringing the entire relationship under the
ideal. Yoga is to do so for the entire being. Luck demands Mother's Power for the entire life that touches us.
Luck is good manners to life.
Luck is the fullness of an occasion.
955) The world will pass before one's eyes
in a procession after one knows one's previous birth.
956) Prayer can move the general grace
against the resistance of the particular beneficiary. When grace descends
copiously, the beneficiary whom we aim at will receive the least.
957) The astrologer's prediction holds good
as he is in Time. The yogi's prediction goes astray as he is not in Time. Yes, it changes, changes for the better.
Man spoils by trying to improve.
When a yogi is compelled to spoil, it improves.
958) For
a plan to succeed, one explains its salient features to others. It does not
take off, as what he communicates are his thoughts. His thoughts should
dissolve in his inner Silence, and evoke a curiosity from outside. If he speaks
it then, it will accomplish itself.
959) Facts have flowered in poetry as
stories. Even sentiments have thus been expressed. Philosophic ideas have not yet found poetic expression.
960) Culture of a dishonest intelligent man
makes him polite in public, perverse in private.
961) Society expresses politically in power,
commercially in trade, while it draws its structure and energy from its
culture.
962) Honesty will reveal the insights needed
when objectivity is reached.
Objectivity
is physical, honesty is vital.
963) Lifespan is determined by the measure
of the body accepting the mind or the soul.
Mind expresses in the body as
life.
964) People who never consult anyone believe
in this wisdom. Selfish men also do so.
965) Falsehood is really low consciousness
organised efficiently.
Cleverness is successful falsehood.
966) Involution comes about by the process
of the one becoming two by splitting into subject and object in the creation of
Truth and again in the apprehending Supermind. Consecration reverses the process.
Consecration
goes from the surface to the subliminal taking the part to the whole, the
object to the subject.
967) Mischief in
an organisation is by those who are immune or think they are so and who are
conscious of their ineffective ability. Spiritually
it leads to self-destruction.
968) Concentration of the uninitiated is a
concentration of ego.
969) It never strikes
us that our successful resourcefulness is grace.
970) The joint family was a village in
miniature. The nuclear family fast reduced itself into one man.
Individual thinking was in the
priests and sannyasis, not so much in the lives of family men.
971) Authority in an atmosphere of freedom is
the withholding of appreciation, especially of the chief.
Organisational authority changes
into the authority of vital acceptance.
972) The joint family provided the physical
base for the emotional life. Life of mind that thinks needs the solitude of the
monastery of the West or the tapas of the rishi.
The thinking individual is not born in the collective life of a
community or even a big family.
973) To discover the law of spirit in the
cosmos in human collective life is the height at which intellectuality shades
off into intuition.
An analogy of the Individual to the
process of creation is the ultimate WISDOM can ever reach.
974) The Spirit in cosmos acquires a
material body through mind. Man is born with a body and discovers his mind and
finally his Spirit. Beyond the Spirit lie the Self-conscious Being and the
Absolute.
To see
the one as the inverse of the other is the summit of intellect.
975) The tapasvi
discovering the Spirit stops with the Spirit. To go beyond to the
Self-conscious Being and the Absolute, one needs to start with the evolving
Spirit.
The psychic starts with the
joint family and reaches the Absolute through the universe.
976) Scholarship provides the outer details
that confirm the organising inner insights that work for the conversion of the
intellect into intuition.
The outer experience is a
revealing confirmation that the inner insight gives of the Force that is
conscious.
977) Mental effort is a labour. Intuition from above is intermittant. Integral
experience converts the labour into joy and retains intuition forever.
979) Mental understanding becomes
spiritual experience in Silence.
980) The
static spiritual experience changes into dynamic supramental living when the
silence moves from Timelessness into the simultaneous integrality of Time
eternity and Timeless eternity.
Evolution is a change in the
poise of Time.
981) Truth
acquiring consciousness or consciousness comprehending itself is Supermind.
Creation is confined to Existence and Consciousness.
Ananda stands outside. Sri Aurobindo discovered its inversion as psychic to
know about the joy of Self-discovery.
982) Mind, being a
plane of the lower hemisphere and a divisive instrument could not conceive of
creation as a whole. It conceived of God and the world as different and
separate.
Ananda remained
a sensation of the Spirit for the rishis.
983)
§
The touch of psychic Ananda in life comes by
getting out of karma, failure, pain and death.
§
It is
spiritual prosperity in life, immortality in Spirit.
§
Its individual expression is everlasting luck;
its collective expression is Prosperity without pollution.
§
Mother is the physical embodiment of its subtle
organisation in the universe.
984) Existing
capacities will be rewarded by faith.
Grace brings
rewards for non-existing capacities.
985) We love our
enemies who destroy us or drain us, because the draining is an enjoyment in
itself.
A
magistrate was forced by circumstances to rob and cheat. He said he enjoyed it
most.
986) Lawrence of Arabia,
with whom mercy was a passion, had to kill a man whom he had earlier saved. He
was sorry he enjoyed it.
Enjoyment is emerging out of any
inhibition.
987) People pride on
the wrath of the man in authority and quote his love for
others in support of it.
988) For a vibration to
die, it must die in the body.
989)
§
God, Jivatma, Ego.
§
Timeless, Simultaneity, Time.
§
Silence behind the Silence, Silence,
Sound.
§
Immanent Spirit, Spirit, Evolving
Spirit.
§
Sat, Delight of existence, Matter.
§
Consciousness, Supermind, Mind.
§
Consciousness, Divine Life, Life.
§
Ananda, Delight, Pleasure.
§
Being, Being of the Becoming,
Becoming.
990) One
has potential capacities and accomplished work outside. Both rise to a higher level
and meet in his articulated thoughts. This is a parallel to Time, Timeless and
simultaneous integrality.
The
three statuses of God, Jivatma and ego are in the plane of Time too. It is
there in all other planes too.
991) He who works in
the field is in Time. One who thinks and plans is in the Timeless. A
revolutionary idea cannot be implemented by field workers. He who conceives it
himself comes to the field to work it. He is in the simultaneous integrality.
Man
works in Time. Great men plan in the Timeless. God works His Plans in the
simultaneity Himself.
992) Time is Spirit
looking at itself in essence and principle; space is Spirit looking at it in
its dynamism.
993) Man
loses himself in his works or in his thoughts. To expand himself into his work
and thoughts is given to a full man.
Before becoming all the three Divines himself simultaneously, man
can expand into his thoughts and works.
994) Man never
notices the force that drains because it is always what he likes.
995) The success of a
revolutionary movement depends upon the elite of the past shifting. It is
expressed in money, culture, values, popularity and perfection in everything.
996) Passages in The Life Divine can be summarily
understood shorn of all fringes. The fringes include the extensions at each
stage and contain the riches of His writings.
997) Time is Spirit
looking at itself. The Being lies behind. Truth and Truth consciousness lie
ahead. One is essence and principle. The others are extensions and power.
Trying to understand each phrase of His is to possess His Jnana in full.
999) Sat,
Spirit, Truth, Truth consciousness, Mind, senses, body reverse generating
Delight of existence.