Series XII

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1) A universal Soul achieves its wishes even though they are only wishes.

His wish is fulfilled, as it is the wish of the Universe.

2) Nature, He says, deliberately delays evolution and He calls for quickening evolution. Surrender is capable of neutralising Nature's deliberate delay.

Surrender is a movement beyond Timelessness.

3) Determined ego is Ignorance organised. When it gives way, it passes through unconsciousness and unorganised ignorance. To consecrate a thought mental ego first faints and later awakens in heavy unconsciousness.

4) A stupid mind succeeds in thinking by passing through confusion. Mind that is unconscious becomes conscious through surrender. Stiff mental ego reaches consecration through dismembering itself by heavy unconscious-ness.

Unconsciousness is better than mental hardness.

5)

· Body is transformed through diseases.

· Consecration is achieved by mind through unconsciousness.

· The vital seeks harmony through quarrel.

· Self-experience of Ignorance is ego.

· Consciousness experiences Ignorance as ego.

6) If man is in his elements while consecrating, as he now does being what he is expressing his own urges, he becomes a yogi.

7) There are two types of organisations. In one the importance of the procedure is related to the importance of the result. In the other the fulfilment of the smallest procedure determines the highest result.

8) Strength needed for surrender is greater than the strength called for, for domination.

Strength of humility.

9) Consecration is to allow Mother to act on a situation without activating one's personality.

Restraint of reaction is consecration.

10)

· Surrender is Love

· Love is Surrender

· To surrender the human one has to awake in the divine parts of his being.

11) The pain of transformation is equal to that pain which one feels when all the bones are broken.

Transformation is complete when the pain is consummate pain. Surrender

changes it into joy.

12) All that man has to surrender is his pain which he is totally unwilling to do.

Surrender is getting rid of the unwanted.

13) I am what disturbs me.

14)           Never forget the Divine man is. Beware of man himself as man.

God never fails; Man never fails to fail; It is God in Man that offers

increasing intimacy. Neither man nor God is the goal. It is God in Man.

15) The Force acts, but acts on both sides – for its instrument and against its excess – exactly in the same way.

Air that freely inflates the tyre to keep it afloat at high speeds, leaks out fully by a prick. Air is air.

16) Altruism will render one vulnerable, if he believes in its virtue.

17) The experience of Sat is Spirit. It is an experience in Truth.The experience of Self-Consciousness in Ignorance is Ego.Ego is Spirit in Ignorance.

Spirit is Truth. Sat is the Soul of Truth. Sat is the Being of Truth. Truth is the Becoming of Sat. Spirit is the field where Sat creates Truth.

18) He who is not able to consecrate an important work will not be able to consecrate any work as one is at the same level of consciousness at a time.

19) Where a right explanation fails, a strong attitude will work.

Life acts, does not explain.

Silent men deny rights; people are frightened.

Rational men explain. It falls on deaf ears.

Accomplishment is by any authority that is valid.

20) Decision making for another's JOY is the mental formula for the world to which MAN will give unfettered response.

21) At the end of their lives men discover that they were ruled by a few facts, most of them false.

22) Man who accepts his circumstances achieves in those circumstances. It is not given to man to conceive of more than his circumstances unless education, trade or other circumstances compel. The truth is man can conceive of the ultimate of circumstances and achieve there.

23) The dream of our ancients for a world free of Ignorance is not before the modern mind. To revive the dream, to place it as an ideal before mankind itself is something desirable.

Man is no longer a dreamer of ideals. He is now an achiever of actuals in technology.

24) What the body cannot accomplish, the mind fulfils in fantasy. He who wants to accomplish must be able to stop that fantasy.

25) We see the greatest positive event as the greatest negative one by our inverted vision.

26) Organisations work by the authority of hierarchy. In effect, it is effective in the measure of the respect shown to the higher levels or the authority enforced from above.

Organisation is authority and respect.

27) Standing before the WISDOM of the universe, man finds it a trickle as against Surrender to the Divine.

28) The political leaders must know facts, especially the facts of underground life. Right decisions of survival or growth can be taken only based on such facts. Decision comes later, but facts are primary.

29) Perversity of depravity can aspire for transformation if it decides to be utterly truthful and factual.

30) Perfect life is one where the enjoyment that one needs or seeks flows out naturally from his life-style.

Life is perfect when the result is enjoyment.

31) Civilisation marches ahead bringing negative physical forces under the control of culture while law brings them under its purview. Efficiency is to bring one's own negative consciousness under one's control.

The part growing into the whole is integration.

32) At moments of crisis, whoever is right, the FORCE is there, acting and alive.

The crisis is for the individual; the progress is for the collective.

34) Silence is Golden, not in the figurative sense, but in the real sense.

Gold is gold even in Spirit.

35) The view is His, not yours, not even that of the yogi's or that of the universe.

36) One's opening to Force must be understood from the point of view of the Force, not the social, personal points of view.

37) When Calling is good, it overcomes the physical mind.

38) Now that the needs of Prosperity are fully met in the subtle plane, the next desire of the universal soul is for universal joy.

39) Both sides of life will be there till it rises above the Overmind.

Protection is a must till we cross Overmind.

40) Brahman is the Self, the soul, the being, as it is the Spirit.

41) The Self is Identical.

42) The Self is without the scar of division.

43) The Self, without the Form is the formless energy.

44) Stands the Self, without the sinews of energy.

45) At the gates of the Transcendent stands the Self, Pure, Silent, Still.

48) Conscious thought is a thought one wishes for. Thought that is outside this conscious volition is an inspired one, either from above or below. Inspiration from above is divine, from below is Divine.

49) It is Love that transforms the guru into the Jagat Guru inside presiding over the world.

50) The lawless tyrant has to obey law is the law of democracy.

52) Man forgets Mother in spite of the fact She is he himself.

(*The opposites are true.)

As knowledge does not reach the Supreme, it is, in that sense, Ignorance.

54) Self-awareness is Self knowing Himself as Self in us and further discovering himself as the human in us trying to emerge as the evolving Self from the involving Self.

56) The fact is we cannot communicate simple news to others, while our deepest urge is to educate the whole world.

57) The great experience of one culture is mockery to another who is ignorant of it. A stupid person, ignorant of the rich wisdom of another, neglects him or laughs at him.

The fool who laughs at wisdom is proud about his own great mind.

58) Capacity of Goodness is an asset, not mere capacity that can be used either way.

As goodness is never met, one's efficiency is a threat.

59) The spiritual relationship of social factors is well defined to the spiritual vision but to the ordinary person it is complex or complicated, as a five year old listens to the genealogy of his family or the members introduced to him in a function.

60) Sri Aurobindo's explanations are not beyond comprehension but are non-realities to human life. They won't be retained by the memory.

61) Mind can desist from an action. But the body on its own, without any volition of mind can act on what it likes. It is the involuntary action of the physical substance.

62)            There is no question for which answers are not found in The Life Divine. Only that one must find it.

All questions of life are answered in The Life Divine.

63) Services rendered by sulky behaviour are disservice.

64) Evil choosing the life of the good, subconsciously craves for destruction at everyone's hands.

65) People who do not have the basic capacities should not attempt perfection.

Perfection is for strength, not for weakness.

67)

One retort loses one hundred years of patient waiting.

Patience is patience when it is endless. That patience which has an end is not patience. He who was patient for a long time loses its value when he

retorts even once.

68) Mean resourcefulness is matchless.

Meanness has matchless resourcefulness.

71) Jnana is the Thought that descends on the mind in its Silence.

72) Gods are of the size of the earth; the psychic expands to the ends of the universe.

73) Mind understands mental thought. The brain understands the Supramental Thought.

74) Jnana is so profound and vast as the universe and defies communication.

75) Silent Will is a wider will and can grow widest.

The Absolute's decision is Delight.

76) Realisation is relief.

Realisation can be relaxation, but realisation should be enjoyment.

77) Understanding is ascent, teaching and writing is descent.

78) Energy, nutrients, micronutrients, etc. determine health. There is a greater wider determinant of inner equilibrium. Any imbalance or lack of any ingredient will be rectified by this equilibrium within its limits.Mind determines health.

82) Man's formula for self-justification.

83) God brought Freedom to India on the most auspicious of days. Astrologers manipulated the hour of commencement, which directly led to bloodshed.

Man's resourcefulness in cancelling grace is consummate.

84) Becoming is a passing phenomenon. Being is everlasting. But the Being of the Becoming is the everlasting phenomenon that is evolving which is eternal Delight.

85) All men are equal before law is rewritten by the tyrant that all men are equally ignoble before tyranny.

87) The slave who ascends the throne is the tyrant.

88) The evolutionary Force acting, acts according to the circumstances rather than according to ethics.

89) Life preserves itself when shaken in a crisis. Writers preserve the society when they stir up its forces. Literature is generally preservative of society.

90) Partial perception of the mind needs a direction, feels an excitement. The full sensation of the Spirit is directionless and is in calm Ananda.

The soul needs no ideal that mind seeks.

91) Any present institution will have over 80% of outdated methods in-built into it. Moreover, they would be indifferent to advantages up to 80%. To get rid of the first and avail of the latter will raise any company fifty to a hundred times.

Growth is by choice; non-growth too. Anyone who chooses can grow.

92) Subtlety is as important as Silence to begin yoga.

93)           Man's life is determined by his subconscient.

94) Study of a language introduces one to its history, culture and their social values.

Language is the cultural skin of the social body.

95) Language is a science that develops as an art.

96) One who tries to codify the linguistic concepts sees all the time that his effort is effectively defied. He must remember that the very development of language is a codified one.

97) Rational advice is only for men who will avoid past errors of themselves and others.

98) Wise men in the traditional sense can have traditional wisdom that is limited to their period. To speak of the future one needs to know the theory of change or better still the theory of creation.

99) In the name of Mother one can justify one's weakness and that too may succeed by the intensity of faith. It does not mean weakness is right.

To surrender that weakness to Mother is faith in Mother.

101) To be concentrated is partial. To be the finite is to be unconscious. Integrality is to be aware of the Infinite in the finite, one expression of the comprehensive preciseness.

102) We know of the human heart with four chambers. But what we call heart is not situated in it. It is there in the centre of the chest. There is another spiritual heart behind it where the psychic is.

Psychic is the heart of spiritual emotions.

103) The ship is aware of the port towards which it sails, not the vast sea that keeps it afloat.

105) Supramentalisation is inevitable, as Overmind has already descended.

The descent of November 24, 1926 is of the Overmind.

It is the predecessor of its successor.

108) It is authority when it can destroy anyone for any small fault or no fault.

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109) When the mind thinks or the spirit meditates, the entire body is actively silent to enable the higher parts to act.

The silence of the body is a great effort for its restlessness.

113) Human consciousness as well as divine consciousness overwhelms the yogic consciousness.

114) Local opposition is due to local appreciation of the inner true status.

116) Fear rises as long as one is wedded to separation. Fear goes forever when the union or unity with the Spirit is felt. Beyond that, occasions of fear are moments of exhilaration of courage.

117) Procedures become predicaments in low situations when each person is capable of unseemly assertion.

118) Man understands as he wants to understand, i.e. he imposes on the outer environment his own limitations and understands them as he is constituted to understand.

119) Problems are solved by our memory. Yoga cannot be done by that. Life is on the surface, yoga is of the depths.

120) The observer in the mind, and even the thinker in the mind is not the I. They are functions of the I or parts of it.

Mind itself is a part of us, one of the four parts.

Being is behind and comprises of these parts.

121) We know which food is good for health and which not and which are non- issues for health. We have no similar ideas of life and work. Works classify with respect to life as essential, non-essential, harmful, evolutionary, etc. Except empirical knowledge, we have none.

122) How can a child know the hour of reading from play or the moment of exam, if he has no sense of a time–table? Man with respect to life is like such a child and is unable to distinguish the critical moment from an empty hour. Presently man is caught on the wrong foot as he goes by observation.

He does need a yardstick.

126) Mental maturity flowers as Silence.

129) (a physical person).

(a vital person).

(has a touch of supramental sense).

131) The oblivious unpunctual person makes Time an idiom of his own personal culture of inspired energy.

132) Consecration is at several levels.

133) The funeral rites allow our lives to be governed by the laws of dead spirits, not by gods or divine laws.

134) Transformation finds endowments a resource. Still, to begin afresh is better.

135) Accomplishment is an advantage.

Accomplishment is an obstacle.

It is human choice that decides on the advantage or obstacle.

136) This yoga has the power to complete Raja Yoga in six days.

137) Life does not wait for a second.

138) Her action is instantaneous.

139) Unpunctual persons speak of five minutes which is half an hour. For them, time is not on the face of the clock but is an idiom of their culture.

140) Medical knowledge permits preparing a health bulletin for future decades. One's future well-being can now be determined and the prescription written.

*He can choose his time of death.

141) Income is determined by one's temperament.

142)

· Man does not know the great JOYS sanctioned to him.

· He is not aware of them. Some are not acceptable to his notions.

· He has his own petty joys.

· By a mysterious error his joys and divine sanction overcome his unconsciousness and hesitation.

· He seeks them with ardour and enjoys them as MOTHER'S GRACE.

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144) The original worth of personality will be clearly seen at times of crisis.

Perceptive people can see it at other times too.

Crisis makes personality transparent.

146) Love that needs testing or proving is no love.

147) Heart grudges to smile or expand.

148) Not pride but expansiveness is what gives joy.

149) A Christian may honestly believe he can cheat a Jew, but he will never be honest to one man on earth.

Double standards are no standards.

150) The Life Divine - Summary understanding is sufficient.

Detailed understanding is a Delight.

151) Rain will pour down if the inner truant changes or is crushed.

153) The restlessness of the physical being should be saturated with peace.

154) Pride is poverty.

155) Love is incapable of suspicion.

156) Inner call moves seats of power.

157) His grace is awaited for the world to move towards Him.

158) The evolving Soul takes the poise of surrender as if it is its nature.

159) He who acts in any plane can seek the results only in that plane. Any redressal is in the plane of action, not anywhere else.

160) The return of Evil to Good is announced by evil entering one's life. Often it is through marriage.

161) Work is what one does inwardly.

162) Self-absorption is as great a joy as Self-discovery.

163) Another man's achievement generates no inner energy of expansiveness.

164) In the mouth of an evil low person, good becomes bad.

165) The maximum understanding or health is determined by intelligence and health, not information and food. So, the maximum yogic benefit is NOT determined by practice but by consecration.

166) Expanded selfishness is not selflessness.

Self dissolving gives rise to selflessness.

167) A man is his problems and opportunities combined. He rarely knows it. Knowing them and consecrating them, he makes yogic progress in life.

168) Future goodness can be seen in present sweetness.

169) Our idea that our children will be affectionate, our friends will be loyal, etc. does not so much reflect the reality as our own self-esteem.

Human goodness is human expectation.

170) The greatest progress one can induce in the society is that which he can realise in his inner spiritual substance.

171) Sense of unreal superiority that is emotionally fulfilling is that of the primitive who prides in his primitivity. All orthodox people are like that.

172) Surrender is the reversal of the original hostility to God's creation.

The very first contradiction is the birth of Asuras. Surrender is the reversal of that contradiction.

173) Neither man, nor woman, can hope for fulfilment without the other. Tapas that gives up the woman is obviously partial.

Shakti demands surrender of the Ishwara and there is no escape from it as he seeks the whole that is integral.

174) Surrender is not a method in that it is not partial. It is a state of consciousness that is not only full but is indivisible.

Methods are partial. Fullness requires a status, not even an attitude.

Opinion is of the mind, attitude is of the vital, motive is of the being.

Status is all embracing.

175) One needs a full YOGA to realise the value of surrender. Consecration is difficult to begin as it is to leave the surface being and enter into the subliminal being.

176) Instead of one trying to change from evil to good, one should surrender that effort to Mother. That knowledge is the knowledge which awakes to Him in one and is far higher than the tapas for moksha.

Surrender is the awakening of the soul to the reality of Brahman inside as The Mother.

Tapas is to recognise one's capacity to liberate oneself. Surrender is to give up one's reliance on one's own capacities.

177) The idea of surrender is the knowledge of the existence of a greater power. Surrender to be real must begin as total surrender and be total throughout.

By being total and integral Surrender is a vibration of Brahman even as Supermind is a plane that is in constant touch with the Absolute.

Surrender begins when the being becomes integral and complete.

178) Espousing ideals, especially high ideals, blunts the conscience in other areas and lapses are justified by the mind.

May we say it is the ideal that negatively spurred the betrayal?

Essential lapses in character offset espousal of high ideals.

179) Evil nature seeks ideals as a compensation.

180) The rational mind feels like a fool when he sits and calls Mother. But, it is not only what no mind can ordinarily do, but the first step into the golden hour.

181) He who has chosen Mother has only one thing to do which he always avoids and forgets. He has no right to ask what it is.

He forgets it because it is too much for him.

When reminded he wonders how he forgot it.

Man forgets Mother.

182) Repentance on the part of man, forgiveness on the part of the divine in man are the most distant echoes of Surrender that is the action of self- awareness. Surrender is self-made, not imposed from outside or even inside.

Evil returning to Good is surrender. It is the Hostiles returning to God, the Absolute.

183) God takes man back to Himself through his wife. That is why marriages are made in heaven.

184) Sin is not an act; it is an attitude.

Error is not sin, to stick to it is.

185) Conscious humility is God's self-awareness.

186) Consecration makes the past present.

187) Humility not only recognises we are part of the whole, it enables the whole to offer the efficiency of it to the part.

Humility is the strength of prosperity.

188) Ideals, doctrines, creeds, etc. are followed not as they are but as one's personality permits or accommodates.

Man alone is the determinant.

189) Change is by emotions, not by thought.

190) He who consecrates his speech will find his words come true.

191) Man rarely turns to God or does anything GOOD. But the moment he does so he abundantly resorts to the opposite.

The moment man does anything Good, God compels him to balance it fully without waiting for the Good to be completed.

192) Punctuality is time deciding work. Work deciding Time is the WORK.

193) Initiative is inhibitive. Surrender rises when initiation is given up.

194) To be what one is, even if it is evil, is REAL while the effort or desire to change into GOOD is not real to man. One is what is real to him. Against the needs and urges of his nature he is helpless. One is awake if he is good.

Soaked in Mother's atmosphere one is awake to the necessity to change his evil nature. Life gives only antidotes, not awakening.

195) Till man recognises his own evil, he serves the evil in others. Squint is expressive of the evil.

One meets oneself in others.

196) A lack is a warning signal when one arrives at the end of his resources. For a sadhak it is an occasion to remind himself of the Infinity of his energy and capacity for skill formation.

197) When work stalls, it means the energy of the capacity is insufficient. As the demands of work on the person rise this happens, which is a good sign and an occasion for progress.

A lack is a signal for growth.

198) Thought works in the mind. Methods work in their own planes.

The plane of Surrender is not mind or body but evolution.

Surrender is not a method nor does it belong to any plane.

199) Faith and consecration are almost synonymous.

200) Man can entertain surrender from others. The offending part in others is an announcement of God to him of his spiritual duty.

201) The eyes that powerfully communicate become powerless when the heart overflows.

203) True love grows into blemish–free love of the divine touch when the mind of emotions is pure as well as free.

204) To transform weakness into strength is welcome. But neither of them is required for one to function creatively. The man of inferiority complex can become dynamic, but it is better for him to be an ordinary citizen.