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.