September 05, 2003
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The four parts of Man have the Spirit in them at different levels.
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Man's growth is from physical to the evolving Spirit, the Psychic.
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In the composition of Man, infinite variations are available as paths
of progress.
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The variety of their combinations makes for the matrix of wonder in
life.
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Even now, some physical people remain physical and worship their
physicality.
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Orthodoxy all over the world is the vital reinforcement of physical
rituals and ceremonies.
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Having risen to the heights of mind, people begin to worship the
physical details of it and go to the length of declaring that there is no other
fact in life than the empirical one.
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It is the physicality of the mind.
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The flexibility of life permits any growth at any level to reach its
acme in Brahman.
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Thus the Westerner has discovered Brahman in Matter.
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The rigidity of life permits progress to freeze at the first step.
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The purohits (priests) have taken the rituals of the Veda as ultimate
and are stuck with it for the past several thousand years.
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Life is flexible as well as rigid. Both are partial qualities.
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The fullness of Life includes both. Its flexibility is strong; its
rigidity includes an opening. Strong flexibility is subtle. Rigidity that is
all opening is causal. At the level of Supermind, the rigidity turns into
differentiation without actual separation. Compassion wipes out the cause of
suffering.
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The scheme of Nature permits parts to develop individually and then
join to complete a whole.
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If Spirit has developed in Asia and Mind has developed in Europe, each
remains a partial achievement. The Spirit has not revealed itself as an
integral whole. Mind that has discovered Brahman in Matter is still a stranger
to the Spirit in its original integrality.
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The Indian should discover the Brahman in Matter, as the Westerner, and
the American should discover the Spirit which India knew long ago. But that is
not on the agenda.
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Both should move to the Supermind, thus completing their incomplete
Quest.
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The methods are:
1. The light in the
body should rise to the Mind as values organised in life.
2. The values of
life and work should penetrate the fabric of existence to discover there a particle
of light. Millions of such particles can come together as the Original Light.
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The basic requirement is the awareness of such a goal – Brahman – and
an aspiration to achieve it in life.
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In practice it can be discovered as goals of life in the national lives
of the Indians as well as Americans as
1. Prosperity
through values.
2. Inner Peace
through enlightenment.
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India is in the process of seeking prosperity by destroying all
existing values. She can fully destroy them and then discover new values in a
few generations. At any moment of her choice, she can stop the rot, reverse
it.
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Advance of technologies renders man silly and childish in which he
delights. He can pursue the technologies to their logical end and then discover
what an illusion it is, when its discoveries knock him on the head. Pollution
was the first blow.
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He too is free to stem the rot, look inside, discover the whole and
strike a new path. It is up to him to do so.
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To initiate such movements in both places, pioneers must place before
the public the Real-Idea as the goal and show how to begin from where they are.
I am NOT asking for a
demonstration which will spread in due time. One who accomplishes it
inwardly will become a subtle universal centre of such a vibration.
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It is done by accomplishment, an inner accomplishment that expresses
outside as a material reality standing there silently without seeking publicity
or wishing to propagate.
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Any Indian who prospers through values is a silent monument of such a
goal.
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Any Westerner who creates a family or an institution that is inwardly
joyous and outwardly a shinning star, serves this cause.
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The values of the Westerner are work values. They should be upgraded
into life values, mental values, spiritual values and finally values of the
evolving soul, the Psychic Being.
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The Indian should go back to the ORIGINAL spiritual values
of work, life and mind and upgrade them into psychic values.
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They are all methods open to him according to the amount of energy at
his command.
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He is free to go directly to the spiritual values of the evolving soul.
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Capacity to surrender dispenses with all these intermediary methods and
ushers him into the goal.
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For one whose mind is set on individual methods, it is good he works
out fifty paths each way – involution and evolution – before he can have the
vision of the whole.
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The printer in the West whose book is without printing error has a
vision of physical perfection from which he never deflects. It is perfection
for perfection's sake. It can be perfection for the sake of the customer, which
is one step higher, or for the sake of the Divine. To discover the inner divine
is the first endeavour and to refer to HIM each part of the
printing work will raise his work from printing perfection to divine
perfection.
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The Indian who raises the level of his life, instead of doing it for
his own sake, can refer to the inner divine who is established earlier.
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All these can be given to children in school as educational values from
the kindergarten classes.