Series IX
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1. Truisms of Life
2. Extension of Their Thought
3. Ideas
from The Mother & The Master
1) The grossest folly of the primitive man is there in us in traces, showing itself occasionally in the subtle plane as distant impulses .
Choice decides.
2) Imagination thinks of a possibility that is preparing in the subtle plane of the world, while fantasy has no basis outside one’s wishful thinking.
3) Events do not repeat, not even in memory, if the energy expressed there is balanced out. Residual energies arise out of non-event-oriented attitudes.
4) National governments are preoccupied with their own concerns, not the ideal of polity world over. There are leaders of governments, not international statesmen pronouncing political philosophy.
6) The origin of dress is not to hide shame, but to be attractive. Constant use of dress later gave birth to shame.
7) A small change on the part of selfishness can sometimes give a Himalayan boon for another’s selflessness. Selfishness finds that small effort as a Himalayan endeavour and refuses to do it.
9) Military reverses may not upset national leaders. A non-working phone will upset a housewife.
10) It is easier to part with material benefits; it is not so easy to appreciate another person.
13) That manners do not reveal the true person is a known fact. How much the world has realised that very good manners can fully screen the very opposite, especially when one can espouse those manners even in his looks?
14) We go to ten places to accomplish ten pieces of work. Our driver too can go to all these places, but cannot accomplish anything. It is not visiting places, but accomplishing that matters.
15) In an age that ushers in progress by destroying all good values, it is not necessary to swim with the stream. It can be done either way. The following period will be very high in values. Those who destroyed the values now will be transformed into upholders of high values. Others who stuck to their values will move up to uphold higher values.
18) To know something by its expressions is not to know itself. We do not see the Energy in itself, but only its results.
19) ‘Nihil can be only the abyss of the
Infinite.’
-Sri Aurobindo.
20) The great men of Europe, especially those of England, were those who saw the ascending ladder of personality in the formed mental capacity which education offered. Beyond that, they were ordinary men, not even ordinary souls. The entire Indian tradition offers spiritual knowledge as a ladder for the growth of spiritual personality. Sri Aurobindo added the mental dimension, too to it.
21) Foolish greed taking to faith becomes pious wish of superstition.
22) The free will of man is predetermined by the Supreme.
23) What we see as Indeterminates are really cosmic Determinations which are the determinations of the Indeterminable.
24) When acting outside social inhibition, the RAW man is in full evidence.
26) The imperceptible, intangible, invisible, inconceivable Infinite is the most concrete, palpable form and force on earth.
27) Man is so constituted -- of contradictions -- that he feels fulfilled in following an ideal or rule only when he breaks it in token.
28) The light that has once revealed to a sage cannot die later, just as the rain water that falls on the ground cannot disappear. Water is indestructible. One can suppress the light, mutilate it but can never get rid of it.
29) One man’s perfection can save the world, as man is universal.
30) The man who has ruined you would not like you to die because he knows he would die at your death. Enemies at one level are friends at another level.
32) Man’s energy is an important thing. He is rarely aware of how much it is influenced by his own thoughts and other human contacts.
33) Man’s emotions open only towards himself and to those who touch him. For the emotions to open to others only for their sake is sympathy bordering on compassion, which is a universal vibration.
35) To those who know the subtle symptoms, even consummate skill of considerable politeness cannot hide the truth.
36) He who does not have psychological ignorance will be able to deal with others successfully.
37) The unegoistic help is the soul exchanging force with soul, true lila in life.
39) A
single man under an attack of a mob has no self-defence. Man is exactly like
that in life. Surrender to Mother makes the mob melt away in seconds. One who
has a little peep in the subtle atmosphere around him knows the truth of it. Still man wants to defend himself from the
mob!
40) Poverty is the assertion of the ego of its Ignorance in which it delights.
45) To accomplish a work by an instrument
opposed to it is not a need of work, but is one of transformation.
47) Strong insistence on gentleness will result in violence, not gentleness.
48) Intelligence,
status, power, and age are not barred from silly behaviour. The greater the good endowments, the
greater is the propensity to be silly.
49) Infinity
unfolding in the vital is spiritual expansiveness.
The greatest aspiration is for that which is most inimical.
51) Inability to give up a relationship till the other betrays is the nature of vital attachment.
56) God’s attention is a wide focus on the whole universe, enjoying a comprehensive preciseness.
The Eternal is the Individual.
60) All
evolutionary possibilities are there in life, in humanity. This is what we see
in times of crisis. We see a great capacity to rise to any occasion in almost
everyone. Only that it is negative. The
world need not create anymore these necessary qualities, but only needs to
change their character.
61) Expectation is a crop that grows without sowing. Diversion is a major help in getting rid of it. When one is so diverted in Mother, expectation dissolves and Mother is the only standing crop.
63) People have the ability to consider anyone they hear of as rivals, even fictional characters. It springs out of the insufficiency of the unformed human substance.
64) To know the infinite varieties of Ignorance helps one to understand people more precisely. Its greatest help is self-awareness.
68) Likes and dislikes go by the evolutionary necessity of the temperament not only in marriage, but even outside that. One of them is mean perversity that is relentlessly abusive, likes to be so abused all the time, not by persons of character or standing but by those who are more detestable than they are.
69) The All-inclusive concentration HE demands of us is one which has not only universal spread, but has the centre in the Individual who has identified himself with the transcendent in the universe.
70) The Absolute creates its own occasion, for its own delight. In this creation, HE sought that delight in Ignorance which he conceived of.
71) The conception formed in the mind can be in accordance with the higher light above it. If so, it can mature into an act of energy. Suppose, exercising its prerogative of infinity, the conception seeks regions outside this creation, not only will the world call him a fool, but his conception may not have energy to lead to any action.
72) Each man is a dormant universe in himself. He does not open except to sympathetic souls. No man is equipped to handle the universe of energies of another when unleashed and unbridled. It may subconsciously hold the karma of another universe. The ordinary man is a sealed container that is safe.
73) There are persons in whom the most heinous crime in the society may pass for a light shade of their character.
74) Supramentalisation is Brahman in the body, as the Supermind is in constant touch with the Absolute.
75) The urge to serve one who is strong in our own traits and the urge to destroy those of opposite traits have the same intensity.
76) The closest person will be most closed to you in essential affairs.
77) Telescope
physically opens the heavens for the study of
astronomy. It is the soul that has any perception of the spirit. Spiritual quest by the mind without opening
the soul is like astronomy with naked eyes.
78) As the swimmer cannot rest for a while, the yogi has no respite in his remembrance.
79) If you cannot bring two women together socially, it is equally true that two men or two persons cannot come together psychologically.
81) It needs physical energy to look into another’s eyes. Mother gave yogic energy through the eyes.
82) Looked at from one’s own needs, the whole world appears outrageous, predatory and unpardonable. To the world, we too look so. Not that either is wrong, but each judges the other from his own point of view, instead of the other man’s point of view.
84) The steam engine’s discovery was stuffed away for over a thousand years. Will the theory of creation be looked at sooner?
The individual hastening the collective evolution has to wait till be becomes a collective individual.
85) Conservation gives considerable self-importance.
Brahman is our patrimony.
88) Necessity can make a man not only truthful, but pious. It can give him faith also. But, it is a minor insignificant truth. Piety, faith and truthfulness arising on their own, not in the physical plane, but in their own planes, is of value.
89) Extremely polite people will spiritually benefit if they are ‘polite’ to their inner sensitivity.
90) Man is either a social being or a psychological personality. He is rarely above both. The problems he has are of that level, not problems as such. Only those who are above both and are personalities can relate to Mother.
91) The physical giving the right response to Mother regrets it and allows the vital to cancel it by reaction.
Active constitutional ignorance cancels the gain of a part.
93) When trying to raise the personality level, the being and the body respond variously. Pain in the body is the result of the physical shifting to the vital. Emotional disturbance accompanied by nervous pain is the vital raising itself to mind. Mental confusion, unrelieved headache, and dizziness are symptoms of the mind outgrowing itself.
Suffering from psychological surplus.
94) External appearance is of no value. But it is also true that the inner value is enhanced and completed by the excellent external appearance. It is equally true that the merest external appearance has the innate power to somewhat induce the birth of the inner value.
95) Offence is the not-self’s pressure on the self, for inner spiritual awakening.
The organised part is closed. The unorganised responds.
The essence of Real-Idea is Being.
98) The selfish man, living a self-contained life, has all the energy to himself and thus enjoys a better health of a low, dynamic vitality. The selfless man accepts something of others and thus is drained of his energy, but that enables him to draw forth greater energy from outside. He who gives has less, in spite of receiving more.
The selfless man will be delicate while selfish men are course.
99) He who desires to be known as a rational man is irrational. The world will know him to be a rational man either when he overcomes his desire or when he irrationally succeeds.
100) God instructs man in a hundred ways, by his sight, hearing, what others tell him, what he reads, and what happens around him. Man sees them as events and misses the Instruction. At last God makes the man speak the very ideas he needs to learn. Man does it well, excelling himself in the assignment. But God is defeated even here, as man continues to miss!
101) The reconciliation of One without a second and All
is Brahman is the point at which concept moves to practice, mind rises to
Supermind, science accepts spirituality, and emotions rise to mind.
The
knowledge can be had in the body, and the power of physical accomplishment can be
had in the mind’s substance. They are,
-- Capacity to surrender the impulse of substance in the
mind – that value, and
-- Theoretical clarity of the very last detail of work.
103) Nature’s profoundest method of presenting itself through opposites arises out of the involution by self-absorption.
104) An
organisation is administratively effective and efficient when each fully
understands his powers and duties. It becomes creative when each is aware of
every other department’s powers too. This is true of families as well as
individuals. For men to be dynamically
creative, each part should know fully what every other is capable of.
105) Capacity without character, wealth without culture, and strength without knowledge are destructive of personality.
Science today is power without social
culture. Hence it is a BRUTE.
115) The four points of transition from mind to Supermind-- Reconciling the One without a second with All is Brahman, Man’s aspiration with God’s descent, knowing Matter as fully as the sannyasi knows the Spirit and the greater scruple with the Aryan legacy. They are 1) unanswered question of the Upanishads, 2) occult link – secret, 3) The last step for the scientists, and 4) Integral aspiration.
116) He who acquires innumerable embellishments in his trade, without first qualifying for it, forgets that all or any of these embellishments will only highlight his disqualification.
117) The greatest possible attention is conscious neglect.
119) Man can be jealous of the success of his own work in others; it becomes subconscious intolerance of one’s own progress.
121) Indian society, - maybe all over the world – is bent on destroying all social, cultural values so that a new evolutionary beginning can be made.
122) A nation’s integrity is seen in all aspects of her culture. The measure of freedom women enjoyed in England in the 19th century is a function of the truthful character of youth.
124) Unselfish strength and rightness of the situation make one invincible in all situations.
125) In a developing country, especially in a developing market, the segment of newly created market is greater than the one in which there is competition.
126) The husband wants to please the wife which makes him vulnerable. If he wants to be right, he will be strong.
127) John’s mother’s faith in the doctor.
Cancer is cured by Force. It is difficult for Mother’s Force to win the approval of the doctor.
128) The subtle omens in life are far more abundant than what we know as omens – the ones in the gross physical plane. The trained sensitive eye will not miss them. Similar symptoms in the causal plane are by vague, but strong inner feelings. Arrival of good news in thus felt as deeply as joy.
129) A law or a rule when perceived becomes less effective later. If anticipated – if a result is anticipated based on that law – the anticipation reverses the effect. Effectiveness of the mind, here, is at its height.
130) Certainly
Mother and Her works are great. Work’s greatness subdues the ego. One’s
greatness felt boosts the ego and blunts the work.
131) Man understands better through faith, than through his intellect.
132) Outer
awakening
Outer conflicts are seen.
Conflict become compelling.
It grows strong in the periphery.
It moves to the centre and destroys the stubborn physical.
Better to understand the conflict.
Compelling conflicts must become convincing arguments.
The strong growth in the outskirts must change into strong devotion at the centre.
It will move to the centre and transform it.
Only surrender can do it.
133) Man wants to create trust so that he may betray. As long as measures are not there to prevent that possibility, man and the society do not progress. Records prevent it essentially. Now computer prevents almost every possible lapse.
134) Passion
that overcomes one’s heart leading to death, rises in utter indifference to the
quality of the love object. Not only that, it can rise from good motives as
well as the opposite. Overcoming of the
heart or death depends on the intensity of passion, not its ethical source or
goal.
135) Can the evolutionary adult hope to have less dedication than the courage of Churchill or the tenacity of the primitive’s physicality?
136) One who is offended by his own position of which others may not be aware has no right to attribute that offence to those who pronounce statements touching his positions.
137) Spiritual courage is not something known to the world. It may not be exhilarating, and may be sweet in its benevolence, capable of any act God wills.
138) One’s freedom in speaking to another, if
limited to the courage of the other person, will be true freedom.
139) What is the idea of calling someone mannerless when you choose to talk to a mannerless man. Manners require that we talk only to those who are capable of manners.
140) As we do not consider animals as our enemies, but protect ourselves from them, those who carry light must carefully protect the light, by totally keeping off beings of darkness.
141) Surface surfeits.
Depths decide.
142) If the role of an event is to give man a certain knowledge, human relationships cannot fare better than one such episode in one’s life.
146) Mean, shameless, mercenary character can be above monetary mercenariness.
147) What are Inderterminates to us are really cosmic Determinations. In fact they are the determinations of that which is Indeterminable to us.
149) He is the Play, He is the Playground and He is the Player.
150) Mother does not have the limitations of the other gods in sanctioning our prayers. The limitation is ours.
151) In learning a new language, grammar and vocabulary are gross, while pronunciation, accent and intonation are subtle.
Electric shock needs the contact.
Subtle forces act by thought.
153) That low consciousness cannot be touched is a subtle fact. One can fortify himself only by the strength of inner purity.
154) Man
voluntarily withdrawing from the divine opportunity of service cannot return to
it.
155) There is
only one failure. It is the failure to make the right choice.
Selfishness will sacrifice for its own gain. It will not give up selfishness.
157) Life is not a straight process of accepting the right and rejecting the wrong. It tries to accept the right in the wrong, for the sake of the attractions of the wrong and very slowly works out the compromise through tortuous paths.
159) Ideals
are accomplished by cooperation, are destroyed by resistance. Great ideals are achieved by resistance.
The greatest ideals are achieved by transforming resistance.
160) It is purposelessness that touches the bottom. Spontaneity rises in full only there. Literature created without purpose remains immortal.
162) The highest value of independence that cannot bring itself to accept help of any description has its counterpart at the lowest end, where there is a knowledge that no help will be forthcoming. It is true that both meet where the cycle of life closes.
163) Man accepts a new ideal not by rational appreciation of the concept, but by learning about the practical experience of others. When he has such experiences from which many others can learn, he prefers secrecy.
164) Professionals are dignified wage earners. It is a pity of human life that one has to earn his bread. Culture can rear its head only when man is relieved of that necessity.
Mother’s consciousness enables us to do great works. You can make the impossible possible. As it is done in ego, the impossible will land on you and devastate you, as one trying to feed the whole village.
184) Our
urges are biological, social, psychological and evolutionary in succession.
Energies of an urge conserved will help build the next higher plane. For yoga, one needs to conserve the
evolutionary energies, if he had mastered the earlier urges.
185) The way in which a person exhausts his last drop of energies in pursuit of the unattainable, reveals his sacred values.
186) There is no problem other than that caused by hankering after the past.
187) Physically strong cruelty goes with obscenity of physical love and both are centred in physical selfishness.
188) The unconsciousness of the parts of our being enables them to assume the right to originality for action. Even the soul suffers this blemish. Only the psychic being can know it is an instrument of Shakti.
190) The infinity of Brahman emerges in its capacity to play against itself in creation.
191) Man’s efficiency arises out of his surrendering to his subconscious. Yoga needs the surrender to Mother who is Superconscious.
Sri Aurobindo’s surrender is not new to the
world, but it is to rise from the lowest to the highest.
192) Capacity to energise your opponent for your own delight expresses one’s infinity.
193) Anyone can learn the grammar of another language. No one can learn its idiom as the native can.
195) Surrender belongs to the causal world.
196) Man can submit when he is overwhelmed, but cannot bring himself to surrender as a voluntary act. His faculties have such an independence as well as a rigid formation.
197) The joy of self-discovery is the joy of the
struggling surface capitulating to the overpowering of the subliminal.
Ishwara fulfils Himself in his surrender to Shakti.
Surface fulfils itself in being overpowered by the subliminal.
Democracy rises to heights of value when one accepts defeat with grace.
Surrender is the Victory of the whole over
the part.
198) Completion of work:
Till the physical learns, the work does not move.
A work awaits surrender to be complete.
As long as you remember a work, it will be a non-starter.
199) The Time has Come
To know this is the Hour of God is to make the distant hour come now. To have that knowledge is not given to mind. It is there in the heart. It arises in the fullness of the heart which comes through surrender.
200) Generally man does not understand what he can or must do. When he does, he finds no capacity. He is unaware that that capacity can be acquired in a trice by surrender. It rarely occurs to him. So, human problems or opportunities reduce to,
· Unconsciousness.
· Absence of faith.
204) Triumph of the ego lies in its dissolution.
206) Is there an instruction that can have the power of actually doing the work? It is the idea that arises from the substance of the mind.
207) To solve a vital problem mentally is evolution, a step towards supramentalisation.
208) A phenomenon has its existence at all levels – from Sat to Matter. Surrender of that phenomenon in any plane will yield the result of that plane.
209) Presently it is social values that enable families to survive, especially those below par. In a culturally developed and stable society, the family values must energise the social structure.
211) To be sincere is to move to the psychic in that part or the act, as Prakriti cannot be sincere.
Pain is only for the ego.
215) Repetition of Om raises one to cosmic consciousness; repetition of Mother raises one to consciousness.
216) Om chanted from its own depths will shake the earth literally and can take you to Brahman in the cosmos.
217) An idea will be accepted by the world only when the author withdraws from it.
220) The retailer often gets more than the manufacturer, which emphasises the insignificance of ownership.
221) An idea is greater than its author. It is seen in the fact that he cannot own it.
224) When a troublesome man goes, the same trouble comes through someone else. It means the seed of that cause is in us.
225) The powers of the establishment are to preserve the old and destroy the new. It is less than ignorant to expect the establishment to foster the new.
227) Man understands only what has been already explored, not what is to be explored. Each time he crossed a plane, he needed a new tool. To try to discover in the next plane without an appropriate tool for it, is one expression of mental folly.
229) The
only way mind can understand the unknown is by the known which cannot disclose
the unknown except that the essence of the known can lead to some
understanding. The essence of the known is the psychic. Any unknown is
understandable only by the psychic and because of transformation.
-- The known cannot reveal the unknown unless it contains the known in some fashion.
-- The unknown contains the known as the known is the involved unknown.
-- Therefore the process of understanding is the process of transformation.
-- Any understanding is possible only when the mind is blank and by transformation.
-- Therefore only the psychic can understand, not mind.
--
It is OBVIOUS that mental understanding is to insist on ignorance.
230) Man does not understand any event. He understands in the social context and does not try to understand it fully beyond, as long as it does not affect him. It is NO understanding.
231) There is no known method to understand a new phenomenon except by trial and error which is a long drawn process, perhaps of centuries. Anyone who hits upon a right solution does so by chance. Only the inner self-perception can do that also. Surrender to Mother can always do it.
232) The profitability of an organisation is decided by its organised strength when its intensity is higher than the social average.
The relative is the Absolute.
Truth blossoming as falsehood is creation.
A relationship is sweet as long as it serves one's selfishness. It is not the relationship that is sweet, but the selfishness.
239) Mind will get the lost link with the Supermind, if the new thought is expressed in the old idiom.
240) The free will of the bound person is the determinism of the Supreme.
The infinity of the infinitesimal.
241) Brevity of expression brings the substance to the surface.
242) When there are several reasons for a problem, we wish to locate the prime mover. The prime mover will peep through all other causes.
243) Efficiency can be deceptive, not sincerity.
244) Sincerity in the depths becomes complete is its surface expression is smooth and sweet.
245) To make the mischief maker himself set it right is the method of transformation.
246) Idealism can learn more from meanness, though it is a negative lesson, than from other idealists.
247) Problem arises when the work is greater than the personality.
248) At times of ferment, the minor details will decide the major outcome because they are times when all lids are off and energy is afloat. As any organisation is fully integrated, at such times small things become decisive.
249) When an organisation is sinking or life is ebbing out of the body, not all the ideals, principles, great traditions, or high rituals can stop it. Turning inward and restoring the lost touch with the inner light can revive what all these cannot. The word 'Mother' can do it without fail and cheerfully.
250) Spirit emerges when Existence objectifies itself as Truth between them. Mind emerges when the comprehending Supermind objectifies itself and its activities between the subject and the object.
251) Public
opinion is a personal convenience of selfish limitation.
252) Sri Aurobindo offers man in life a rich fulfilment of spirit which is a minor version of His spiritual evolution where the manomaya purusha evolves into supramental being.
253) Generosity in polite men not really capable of it, will, under the stress of life, move to be its very opposite.
254) Man is spiritually the universe and the
transcendent, but we see him in society as a mere individual endowed with the
powers society has given him. But in his psychological makeup, especially in
the negative forces, he does wield those higher powers fully.
255) When we pray for someone, it is to invoke grace on him. Sometimes, it may be we withdraw our ill-will by our prayer or neutralise our low consciousness.
256) Unconsciousness aspiring for Samadhi gets unconscious sleep.
260) Life is not negative. It is neutral. Man can make it positive or negative by his attitude.
261) Perfection in the substance will perfectly express in the surface.
264) Success in life is neither right nor high nor even the ideal. It means integral existence at our own level.
265) Communication is most effective when the information is translated into the context of the receiver, not when the rules of communication are followed.
267) When the character gets out of the writer's hands, his writing excels. If the character outgrows his narrow personality, it brings out great life as well as great literature.
268) The best of men, when grace descends on him, receives it with emotions of surprise but, in a moment, it is all but forgotten. The next time when he is to act, it is not the grace that comes to his mind, but his own helplessness.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Work first, anything next.
270) Man
functions only from inside. So, his mastery has to be inside.
Inner joy makes the outer bloom.
272) A rebel needs to maintain his rebellion throughout his life. At the point he stops rebelling, he becomes a reactionary.
273) Conceptions can survive in consciousness. Accomplishments belong to substance. For conceptions to become accomplish-ments, the substance must conceive of that necessity.
274) Man's primary value is to be conscious. In the measure he is conscious, he feels gratitude. His normal best is unconscious ingratitude. His work can be explained as yearning to be conscious so that he may be grateful.
277) The joy of self-discovery is the joy of knowing how SHE has been following you, since when and how seriously.
278) Do you FEEL Her TOUCH? If so, you belong
to Her. What else do you need, He asks
us? The joy of belonging to Her and to Her only.
279) Where man is recognised, SHE is forgotten.
280) Fullness of gratitude is silent awareness.
284) Birth of Gratitude is a burst of Energy.
285) Unconsciousness is ingratitude.
286) Absence of energy is lack of inner contact.
287) Calling
is the most tangible of feelings when you feel Mother as Joy. Knowing Mother is
greater still, as mind is a greater part than the vital.
288) By conceiving the process of creation in full, one's mind restores the lost contact with Supermind.
289) One who
knows the process of creation without a flaw so that he may practise it, is one
who creates LUCK non-stop.
293) Human selfishness excludes everyone with a vengeance. Divine Selfishness includes every soul equally with the same vigour
294) The height cannot be achieved without the lowest of the low being satisfied, as both are the same.
300) He
chooses surrender as the transformation of the self-absorbed Brahman is the
evolution. Surrender is the right
counter5movement to self-absorption.
301) From the top to the bottom, the substance is the same. So also the structure from the atom to the Absolute.
302) Computer is new to the world. In the long run, it will integrate with every walk of life in the society. For enterprising people in the field, there is an infinite scope for innovation and even creativity. As the whole of USA once offered a vast scope to the settlers, the field of computers is offering to those in the field, especially the Indians, a vast scope for a rich, lucky harvest.
303) The least we can do is to feel grateful to Mother constantly, or when such a feeling is there, to convert it into a sensation of gratitude.
Man has miserably failed to be grateful to
the Mother and Sri Aurobindo for their Presence on earth.
304) The
whole trying to raise the part to its level is an exalted ideal. For the whole
to rise to the occasion of the part is noble. For the whole to identify with the part and rise is what Sri Aurobindo
wants.
305) Capacity for self-justification or self-depreciation is an indication of unaccomplishment. To accomplish, one goes after the goal with an energy that is self-possessing.
306) To discover Brahman in matter, one needs to have all the energy the work needs at the material level organised into effective skill by the mental interest, motivated by the spiritual attitude of veneration.
Brahman reveals if the spirit is evoked
from the work.
307) The first step in spiritual wisdom is to know every man must act and can act only according to his light. Thus, each is doing his very best or honest best.
308) The best way to read fiction is not to see it with the eyes of the author, but to feel with the sensations of the characters.
309) That which you enjoy or resent from the past still lives with you. Even its memory is a link with it.
310) Involution
creates the surface mind and perfects Ignorance there. Evolution achieves the fullness of the depth in the surface.
311) The urge in the nerves to work is not so
great in India as in cold countries. Man sitting idle in dhyana was less
frowned upon here than it would have been, say, in USA in the last century. Maybe
such a social climate was one reason for people to take to meditation.
312) The Truth that a man lives as long as he wishes to live is scarcely known, since men are aware of their surface selves only, while the decision is taken below the surface.
315) Even when impediments or obstacles are not
there, limits arise.
316) Generosity and graciousness, as every other thing, have their significance in the planes appropriate to them, not outside them. Outside they will fall flat, or even be taken mean advantage of.
317) Revolutionary transitions still rest on the base of wealth but status changes colour. There can be a spiritual revolution when only the base of values can remain. In periods of spiritual transformation, the core of the values will not be lost, but values change diametrically.
318) He who wants to live the lives of others, is aiming at becoming the soul of the Universe. When that objective experience is internalised into subjective experience, the Universal Soul rises to the Transcendence. It is the Supreme.
Exam is in the physical plane.
Acts of goodness are in the invisible, subtle plane.
320) We
see in the hartal that society protests; a news announces a new discovery. In
an overcast sky we see the approaching storm. Do we see the touch of Life in
events? We must be able to see the hand
of Mother in each event.
322) When the soul changes the body, the old one dies. When the body changes its consciousness, it feels almost as if it is dying.
323) We
work to survive. The Europeans worked to learn. They learned by doing. We
learned by sitting in meditation. Work
is anathama for us. Sitting quiet is inconceivable for his buoyant energy.
They must be in sitting to see the
truth of work. We must express the depth in work.
324) Abuse is violent recognition of oneself in others.
When abuse arises in one, he should turn his look inwards and see the same thing he disapproves of in another.
It is not in human nature to develop that in-look.
To endeavour to eradicate what he sees is SINCERITY.
327) Rather than building character in India which is inconceivable, better pray for the Force to raise us past the need of character.
331) When you read a written work – play, story, essay – and know all that the writer has put in consciously, you are a good reader. To identify with the characters or thought which exceeds the author's intention is the most one can get out of it.
332) The intuitive knowledge of the seers was not in a form that intellectuality could have consumed. If the theoretical knowledge of prosperity is possessed in a discernible form, the masses will rush for it.
333) The strong part that denies the rest its own privileges grows into being the whole by being denied by those who are now denied.
334) The
maximum psychological effort man is willing to undertake is to pray or to buy a
lottery ticket. He may be available to
God when He is that close!
335) To relate to another as he is and fully inside and outside is not given to man unless he is thus awake in himself and is endowed with the subtle, universal vision.
336) People resort to reading to pass time. Writers write to pass time.
340) Before the will goes silent abandoning its right of expression, it has to take a form.
341) Achievements through enjoyment are greater than achievements in austeity.
342) Love is noble; manliness is magnificent. That manliness which denies the touch of even love at its own sacrifice is, of course, elevating.
343) Creation is a field of play. Its intensity is heightened by the differential existing between the two ends. Nature provides for it in its eternal oppositions that find their crux in the difference between the male and female.
344) One
who aims at a social life can overlook events in his life, as besides social
life there are a great many elements in his life. Yoga that aims at perfection
cannot afford that luxury. The yogi
knows that as long as the memory of an incident rises to his mind, he has work
to do.
345) Matter tempting the hidden consciousness with the secret godhead is for its delight.
The Force in the Form resists.
Awakening the knowledge in the Force turns the bitter discipline into sweet transformation.
346) We need not build character and ego and
then dissolve it. The Force can escape those needs and raise the consciousness
straight.
347) There is no known method in life for the weak to win over the strong. If the weak moves to Mother, it emphasises his Truth, and his Truth becomes stronger than the strong. It wins surely.
348) Enjoyment, when it is real, increases energy.
349) For several centuries human kind is at pains to discover harmony and concord in an institution created to nourish disharmony. Its intensity of persistence is only equalled by its utter impossibility.
350) Tradition gives birth to rich blooms; evolutionary vistas put forth blooms of innate vigour whose fragrance is enchanting.
351) Start any inquiry with, "I am always at fault", then there is no way you can fail.
352) Conception of Brahman:
Before one conceives of Brahman, one should have experienced the 12 aspects of Spirit.
Infinity, Eternity, Truth, Goodness, Consciousness, Knowledge, Power, Beauty, Love, Joy, Silence and Peace.
One who is utterly Truthful can realise any of them or all of them.
Having realised them, one should rise above them in conception. That will be the conception of Brahman.
353) "Good will is the best bet for Ashramites."
--The Mother.
All will has a bad character.
The bad will becomes Goodwill when it passes through Mother.
Harmony is Mother's first value. Absence of rivalry and competition are Her rules.
To generate Goodwill one has to shed rivalry, competition and reach others through harmony.
Goodwill is unselfish, harmonious appreciation of other devotees.
354) The distant symptom rightly understood will lose its significance and what it signifies will lose its existence. When not understood, it comes closer until you recognise it.
355) Supramentalisation is the body thinking with the Supermind.
Now the body thinks with the subconscious mind.
Life thinking with the mind is prosperity.
Body thinking with the mind is luck.
Mind thinking with the Supermind, life thinking with the mind or even body thinking with the vital mind are prosperity, luck or overflowing abundance.
356) An impulse can be identified as non-egoistic if it is devoid of the insistence of the limited.
357) Instead of reading a novel as a story, one can read it as a gradual unfolding of characters in the field of life or forces of life seeking a confluence in events minor and major, one leading to another.
358) Ego
restraining itself by force of circumstances will not lead to progress. Any real progress begins with ego realising
its need to dissolve itself.
359) What is held as a collective ideal today, the individual has upheld long long ago as his own ideal. The progress is not the discovery of new ideals but to accept collectively the ideals of the individuals.
360) A system cannot be corrupted beyond the point of collective sensitivity. Reversal is not possible before that point.
362) When Mind that works in Time concentrates away from the past and future and into the present, it regains its origin Supermind.
363) The full knowledge one gets after reading The Life Divine is given to him when he is touched by the Spirit. As it is an inner knowledge, it is better in that sense.
364) The crude raw man of primary impulses as well as one possessed of godly emotions are insistently in the present, not allowing themselves to be hampered by ethical considerations by allowing the past to intrude into the present.
365) The 1943 Bengal famine was the forerunner of the 1946 communal riots. Life struck before base human energies took revenge over to rigid mental stupidity. Gandhiji represented the facile hope of the fallen Indian spirituality. The 'spirit' that denied itself to the whole community is destroyed by that wider community by its primal energies.
367) Our maximum efficiency is seen when our interest is maximum in a well known work. There we excel ourselves but that too will have a limit, a limit set by our capacity and skill. Any prayer that receives that efficiency will not fail, not because the work has received its all, but because Mother had taken over where we have finished.
368) Have you ever failed to get whatever you needed while you were in earnest?
369) "Remove the anomalies and restore health" is equally good for any ailing organisation.
370) Positive thought blending with creative diction reaches the acme of language. It is capable of social creativity.
371) An
avatar or a genius is known to be a gradual development that finally reveals. The creativity of the evolutionary flux
provides even for the opposite, as the opposite movement also ends at the same
point.
372) Abundance without the reinforcement of power matures into affectionate, emotional culture. Power renders the strength of abundance into perverse meanness.
373) Thought is stimulated by a field of Thought.
A person desirous of understanding is such a field.
One who thinks on his own is better than one who understands.
Emotional endorsement of thought is a rich field to stimulate thinking.
Trying to reach another's emotional understanding, one gets an inspiring field for intellectual stimulations.
The finest arena for mental, intellectual inspiration is an uneducated person's desire for understanding in her physical mind when it is endowed with spiritual clarity.
374) Law is conceptual and mental. It is not for the whole population. Law expressing itself through a human example will vastly help in understanding the example, not the law. A wider human context such as a work of fiction will help to express the law better than explain the example. The reader will be able to see the significance of the Law if the universal version of it exactly touches his personal experience.
375) Ideal work and its requirements are squandered in dissipation, just as stray cattle destroy hybrid seed beds. It is out of bounds for rational arguments.
377) Absence of understanding of the environment or oneself or both generates anger.
381) Meanness and perversion assert and when hurt try to restore normality not by good pleasent behaviour, but by sombre gloominess.
384) The selfless man active in life deciding out of right values to act exactly as a selfish person would act, is progress for him.
385) The
impulsive urge to deprive someone of his right to enjoy an unfair advantage and
the impulsive urge to give another generously what he does not deserve are
basically the same impulses that urge. In
that they both urge, they are the same. As instruments of equality, they both
are equally unfit.
386) Prejudices
are often formed with a vengeance and castles are built on those shifting
sands. A whole course of events is shaped on that basis, only to discover at
the end it is shadow boxing. Still, it was
not without a seminal truth, and that is the real, but subtle, truth of life.
387) In the mean deceits of the lowliest that are successful, one can see the highest wisdom reduced to practically successful strategies.
392) Surrounded by the finest allurements of the heart, formed character finds it incapable of responding to them even to the point of recognising their presence.
395) Anachronism is the sentimental intensity of the emotion for things missed in their own time.
396) When revolutions are avoided, the transition is expressed through the temperament of the people, which does not fail to express the roughness of the change.
397) A crisis in law that baffles the very constitution and is further complicated by the procedures of administration is not any of these but is a sign of changing times. Will it give thinkers the clue?
398) Life cycle brings you exactly the opposite experiences to the ones to which you have devoted yourself passionatly. One who has been maintaining order in a place may have to fully disturb it later. This is how contradictions become complements.
400) Life and divine life have the same or similar style. What differs is the basic motive of life or the plane where they function and exist.
402) The wisdom of the wise is the psychological biography of their human environment.
403) The first expression of power is uncontrollable urges.
404) The very first expression of further access of power is uncontrollable urges. Having expressed them, man will anxiously look for higher reputation.
405) In the measure we are open to Her, not only will our character reveal in us, but the wider areas of our community, nationality and humanity will surface.
406) Though
intuitive knowledge is of a higher order than intellectual knowledge, for the purposes
of making this world richer in content and life, intellectual knowledge is
superior. As with all others,
intellectual knowledge in the descent is expressive of Supramental creativity.
407) Physical affection is an affliction. It is
fostered by proximity. Once there, it will stay. It can be worshipped as an
ideal, an ideal of the uncouth.
408) All revolutionary ideas meet with not the best in the society, but the worst.
409) 'Mother is Great' are words to us. Is She great to us inside, greater than our cherished possessions?
410) Suppose
everyone who matters to you now is shed by your mind and memory. What is left? Our world is our relationships.
411) Man's natural relationship with his friends is to try to destroy them when they rise. On failing this, he will, on his own, try to submit and adore him whom he tried to destroy.
412) The more hopeless a situation, the greater the opportunity to raise our faith.
Call never fails. Man may fail.
413) Those who are making history may not be aware of it. Often they rant against the ideas that recognise their achievement for the future.
Achievement is unconscious, often hostile in its understanding.
415) Gratitude of a plane leads to understanding
in the next plane, perhaps in the next generation.
416) Love survives betrayal, but cannot resist the call of love from behind the betrayal.
417) Bill Gates is an illusion whereas ©õª¯õº is Reality.
418) Mother reads the letters of those who send Her their minds. Others who need Her touch receive Her Touch to their messages.
422) Marriages are made in heaven in the sense heaven alone can choose the right opposite vibration one needs through the husband or the mother-in-law or in those circumstances around the wife's family.
423) For the truly wise, new knowledge awaits in the next plane to be reached by a chink in present perfection.
424) Possessiveness possesses. Man exercises this on his woman fully. As education and urbanisation advance, he acquiesces in her coming out. At the level of soul, a complete interchange of forces is called for.
425) The conscious genius is aware that that is possible by total ignorance that is delightful stupidity of all the other parts.
Realisation is conscious for one who
sees all his darkness in all the other parts.
427) A project
is to be prepared in consciousness before it can succeed in the physical plane.
In doing so, several subsidiary issues will crop up. Instead of socially handling them, should one cope with them by the
attitude and power of the central project, it is sure to succeed on that score
alone.
430) Man's conscience is awakened by social pressure or material interests. At best, it awakens to his present prospect of pleasantry. It is so because conscience is a social product. Even when you consider it a psychological product, there is no other psychology than the social milieu.
432) Mother becomes real when prayers fail.
434) Is this not the Hour of Mother for us?
435) Mother comes to us not only as love personified but as the urges of the physical in a dying man of no culture.
It is like the caress of the leper. St.
Francis enjoyed even that.
The Divine who, as a joke, presented fangs to Mother, after it was accepted revealed the unearthly beauty of venom.
436) We have heard of the 'rule' of karma. We know all the 'rules' of Life. It is possible for us to know something, or at least a few of God's 'rules'? Does He have any rule?
438) As man has not responded to the Force, or rather the idealists who organised themselves to work for Supermind have betrayed the descending Force, the Force is working in the subtle plane, and through governments.
439) We wonder why man becomes vulgar as soon as money or power comes. It is natural for the unorganised energies to emerge at the outset of freedom.
440) The mother
enjoys the vehemence of the child, never finding it vulgar. The nascent energy
of man is always frowned upon, never appreciated. As in man new unformed energies emerge in uncouth form, so the society
meets it with similr energies.
442) The freedom you need must be sanctioned by the environment. Or at least you must deserve it inwardly so that it may be secured when sought outside.
444) To feel the touch of grace is the beginning of delight. To emerge out of involution in response to that touch is The Delight He is after.
445) Great
decisions are made on small circumstances. It is life that offers these
circumstances. Whether true love was
achieved by such occurrences may be a question to many. All those who knew true
love, know it is not those small circumstances, unless they are of spiritual
import, that generate true love.
446) Absence of utterance allows inner strength to be organised, though feebly.
447) Character is the result of work that achieves inspite of adversity and has the truth of spirit in it. In the absence of such accomplishment, it is behaviour that readily rises to the occasion of a material need that is mercenary.
448) Man who has survived tragedies is often overcome by the emotions surging to the surface. HE was similarly overcome by the tragic constitution of life and matter. Mother called it psychic sadness.
449) True love disregards honesty honestly.
454) When a society readjusts in terms of a new life style, it does so essentially at its most sensitive points of culture.
455) Mind taking a stance can enjoy the luxury
of prejudice, not the vital that wants to accomplish. The recesses of life open
to it, demanding the pliability of apparent want of character.
Existence is incomplete without Non-Existence.
456) It is ends that prevail, not the fond means piously cherished. In the process, the varieties of folly are creatively abundant.
457) Recovering the lost senses at a higher level is to move to the Supermind.
458) When a difficult idea is suggested, the mind knows it is difficult to follow, while the vital is offended that it is wrong to offer something impossible.
460) People having sleepless nights sleep over
their problems.
461) As when greater organisations emerge in the society, man needs greater personal capacities to avail of them, the descent of Force demands greater organisation of consciousness in the devotee.
The greater the social service, the greater
is the individual ability.
Comfort is a function of receptivity.
Inaccessible proximity.
Incomprehensible revelation.
466) People who are unable to take note of their immediate sourroundings and therefore appear foolish, are capable of knowing more inwardly by the little they take note of.
471) To perceive God, it is necessary to overcome human emotions, sensations and perceptions. What reveals beyond that is unconditioned godhead. There is still a beyond. It is the unconditioned observing the conditioned in action.
472) Suicide 'comes' to one from several sides
when he seeks to submit the Mother's consciousness in him to the social
consciousness in him which is a symbolic suicide.
Man grows by knowledge. Knowledge becomes emotion and emotional sensitivity. Beyond that point, life events contrary to that sensitivity rub salt on the wounds.
Truly man grows in spirit, rather by the spirit, in his embodied being.
As we are not aware of the spirit, we see only the mind. It is first accepted by the mind of the emotions and later when that knowledge reaches the physical of the vital, where it turns into emotional sensitivity, it becomes allergic to the touches of life.
Yoga, as He describes, it to overcome the physical sensitivities in the body and be free to receive the Force.
474) A gentleman is a complete product. Defects like pride disqualify one to be a gentleman.
476) An uncultured instrument endeavouring its best to fulfil a cultured commission is sure to fail, as it may master the details, but cannot lay its hands on the spirit of the culture.
478) It is true that true love is more easily consummated between the male and female, but when consummated between members of the same sex, it is of a higher intensity, if not higher order.
As beauty and love are aspects of ananda, one easily consummates the other. Lavanya does it readily. If failure is there, it is in soundarya as it is external. The gap starts being creative perhaps!
479) People treat you according to your status generally, but when they are keen, they treat you as you are to them.
480) Human relationships constitute only our psychological personality. Beyond it lies the physical personality of the environment and the vital personality of sensations from that environment.
481) Harmonious conflicts raise one from the vital to the mind.
482) Yoga is beyond society and mental understanding. To know the extent of our social, psychological conditionings is a yogic self-evaluation.
483) At moments of crisis, one makes statements repudiating all his behaviour so far to justify his present predicament. Is it not honest? Or is it dishonesty?
484) Man repulses luck, gravitates to
misfortune.
Conception comprehends, perception acts.
488) One tolerates folly with an indulgent smile. He goes beyond to tolerate wisdom with the condescension of inherent superiority. To be able to see the loveliness of folly flouting with a cocksure wisdom makes life indulgently expansive.
489) Authority -- parental or social -- stifles affection. The avenues along which passion stubbornly subsides under authority may differ but the common trait of the various expressions is intensity.
491) Mother's consciousness being evolutionary, it works through reversal of consciousness.
492) The soul progresses in mind's trance. The psychic awakes in mental awareness.
Mind regains Supermind when the soul tries to awake in the wakefulness of the mind.
493) The world is neither disappointed, nor fulfilled. Man is.
494) Intuition giving a FORMULA for the mind is the ascent resulting in the descent.
495) Ego
Pronounced ego is insatiable, but can enslave itself.
Ego thrives on fear and timidity, especially nourished by social sentiments.
He who secretly cherishes an ideal, dare not proclaim it, if he is unformed, low, and weak, as they nourish him.
That is THE POINT of personality that reverses itself as Mother.
Everyone does have that point and jealously guards it.
It is difficult to be self-aware THERE.
Self-awareness will be distasteful at that centre.
Self-awareness is liberating as well as expansively pleasant.
Self-awareness is a resolving psychological experience.
One can best see it in a child or parent.
Surrenders transforms.
Resolving self-experience too transforms.
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is Self-Knowledge, knowledge of That in us.
To know what one is really is a realisation of the Self.
It must be expansively sweet. Social attitudes embitter it.
To know what you are in your Self and delight in it is the key.
Trying to understand the other from a similar attitude gives the same spiritual opening.
Calling Mother from that perception solves
the problem on hand, temporarily if vitally approached, permanently by mental
knowledge.
496) The male seeks the approval of the female to fulfil his psychological need. Women know it instinctively and withhold that approval, in order to hold on to the man. Any woman who ever expresses her whole-hearted approval of her man will lose him instantaneously.
497) A
technology is commercially viable or valuable only when it is economically
affordable and is available in a usable size. A philosophy is practicable when it is comprehensible to the average
intellect and is usable in the daily work.
498) Man's capacity to wait for events to overtake him is the female principle in him and therefore more effective.
499) Conscious oblivion is what lets accomplishment overtake us.
500) Consecration of impulses, reversal of consciousness, etc. widen the personality.
Perversity rejects the call.
502) Contact is cure.
503) One who is oblivious of great inner
endowments and outer opportunities pressing on him, enjoys his obliviousness.
504) Instead of changing the body to house the
developed consciousness, the present body must evolve to its new requirement.
Go not after the new.
Evolve the existing body to suit the
new consciousness.
505) Rational understanding is of the mind. True understanding is of the emotion. Know one by his emotional sympathy, not his mental understanding.
506) Physical ailments in higher consciousness
is like our being kept in lock up for a day. A pick-pocket being in the lock up
is not a serious loss for him.
508) It is not common that one discovers the social opportunities as they are. Only when it comes through the established power centres, do we recongise these opportunities as such. In that case we have recognised only the part.
509) The new revolutionary opportunity for its full exploitation needs a new kind of receptivity that longs to serve Truth, not feel cosy in falsehood.
510) Rationality and logic will be able to express intuition if they lose their rigidity and take on the flexibility exhibited by life as well as the Spirit.
Treachery turns loyal when betrayed.
513) The physical body is capable of very hard work on starvation diet, though the constitution will seek its equillibrium in anemia. So also, the personality can become socially functional at any level, from that of the brute to that of a cultured person.
514) Collecting strength to spend is the way of
life. The higher life allows one to spend and enables the spending to generate
higher incoming energy.
515) A new field creates its own language or at
least its own jargon at first. Supermind is yet to develop its own language.
The finite will not even concede equality
to the infinite when it comes into its own arena.
517) Man uses the mind as brain, the centre of
the central nervous system, not as an instrument of thought.
518) Chastity is essentially a social value. In ideal instances, it acquires an intense psychological value when it can even evoke spiritual responses. But it has no spiritual value on its own. In fact, the spirit, in its own domain, has no values.
519) English has not produced prose of the order of Sri Aurobindo's writing and cannot do so for a long time to come. No study need be made to confirm this. Language rises in its literary quality by the thought it expresses and His thoughts are not yet fully comprehended by the English speaking world. Till thoughts of His level arise, there is no danger of English prose equalling His, much less excelling it.
520) Concept
formation is that of mental life, propelled by mental curiosity. One's
observation may lead one to the understanding of the mind but it does not
constitute a mental concept. For the majority of perople, a social concept is a
mental concept. Only to those who have mental discrimination does a concept of
the mind present itself as an opportunity.
521) Sri
Aurobindo's philosophy can create mental personalities. Devotion to Mother
creates emotional bakthas. A sadhak is
born if he accepts Them.
522) The organised part is a finite rigidity in man. The unorganised flux is an infinite possibility.
523) Fullness is the deepest part coming to the surface. Richness is that depth enjoying to the last drop.
524) Earth is an efficient organisation because the atom is structured and shaped well. Man is the atom of the universe who is yet to be discovered by the society as an individual. He too must discover himself as a psychological and spiritual individual and organise himself as such.
525) If the first response is complaint and the
second is correction, men stop with the first.
526) Food gets its taste from the consciousness with which it is made.
No loss in losing what is to be lost.
528) Marvel is the supramental vision. The psychic too can be sad. Reaction belongs to the vital. Change frustration into a sense of wonder.
529) Ignorance, inertia and division are the modes in which matter resists as ignorance began with division losing energy.
530) The Life
Divine starts with our mind, goes to matter, shows it is Sachchidananda. Page
239 is really the quintessence of the BOOK.
531) To know Mother is to have the call for yoga. It is undoubtedly a special spiritual privilege. Having come, one has the prerogative of fulfilling this yoga straight away. It is equally true that there are millions of bypaths. Will you wake up?
532) She is knocking at all our doors. Would you open one of them?
Page 239, last para of the chapter 'Matter'.
535) Initiation is Infinity emerging from the Finite.
539) Mind is an instrument of division. Supermind is a field of unity.
For the mind, acting as an agent of unity is supramental transformation.
540) The heart that remembers its origin is the spark alive in us.
541) The collective is waking up consciously in the individual. The conscious Individual cannot wake up the collective by external methods. His inner awakening will lead to the collective outer awakening.
Service is inside; work is outside.
Man becomes the Absolute if his own thoughts come true.
544) Life coming under one's control is his moving to simultaneous integrality of Time and Timelessness.
Loss of memory raises man to divinity.
Brahman is the Reality, not the Superconscient.
548) Creation
exists at 8 levels creating Seven Ignorances.
Lila yields Ananda when evolution ends in Brahman.
550) Mind sees Brahman as Sachchidananda Supermind keeps its touch with Brahman unbroken.
Creation is for the taste of Ignorance.
552) To transcend law and to act in utter liberty, one needs to shift from outside to inside even to act in the outside.
557) Search
for knowledge once begun cannot be stopped.
558) Inner light is outer power.
Falsehood insures human life against transformation.
560) Supermind acting in the finite of life may not honour the rules of the finite, but will be fully of the power of life that grants it the moral right of action, evidenced in the wholesome joy of the psychic.
561) Supramental reason, logic of the infinite are best seen in infinite expansion. Its value is a value acceptable even to the opponent.
563) Problems of material interest can very well be approached by higher human values. So far the world knows of the lower human interests. It will be a great day when that appears on the horizon.
564) The
highest accomplishment of one is determined by the greatest enjoyment that his
highest values permit.
Capable values cater to accomplishment.
Status is sealed by the values of capable organisation.
Status is the values of capacity.
565) Prices rising a hundred times means that the value of man has risen a hundred times.
566) An
idealist even after his success will evaluate himself by the acceptability of
the society while the society adores his success for flouting it.
567) People think of a possible convenience and try to take advantage of it as of right when they are unconscious of any sense of mutuality or obligation.
568) Every man of affluence concedes to himself the right of indulgence with many woman in a society where the ruling power is money, not conscience.
569) Friendship is governed by human values more than moral values of possession which envelop a man's relationship with a w