Oct. 17, 2002
Limiting the
Limitless
¨ The history of human accomplishment has revealed a character of it - man always accomplishes.
¨ Explorers, researchers know
this from experience.
¨ Ordinary men driven to a
corner attempt in a novel way to escape and often achieve the out of the
ordinary and take it as luck. What they
take as luck is the nature of possibilities and their own ability to
accomplish.
¨ Rarely is this realised.
¨ This is the principle of
Yoga of Self-Perfection, enunciated in the Gita as one can accomplish whatever
he aspires for.
¨ The devotee comes to the
brink of this character of life frequently.
¨ What is indicated in life
and yoga are limitless possibilities.
¨ We live in a limited world.
¨ How does the limitless
become limited?
¨ We see this phenomenon very much in the society that men do NOT avail of all the
opportunities always.
¨ Why does man turn away from
opportunities? Does he do so from Himalayan openings? YES.
¨ He does so because the
enjoyment stops.
¨ The enjoyment stops because
the energy for the enjoyment sags.
¨ Energy issues from
aspiration.
¨ The greater the aspiration,
the greater the enjoyment.
¨ When man turns away from higher
enjoyment, does enjoyment cease?
¨ No, it does not cease, he
turns to his present enjoyment.
¨ In the evolutionary sense,
enjoyment is knowledge and ignorance is turning away from it.
¨ It is inconceivable that one
turns away from a higher opportunity of greater enjoyment to a smaller
enjoyment.
¨ What are the mechanics of
it?
¨ The answer is, man can
handle ignorance, not knowledge.
¨ Man, for these purposes, is
not mental, but is physical.
¨ The physical is habit-bound
and is slow to learn.
¨ The opportunity is seen by the mind while what enjoys is the physical
body.
¨ Mother says the physical
does not wait when it has learnt.
¨ The whole civilisation can
be described as the physical learning from the descending mind the skills of
comfort and convenience.
¨ The internet has come as the
cruse of that process.
¨ It even opens up the subtle
mental knowledge to the physical that is groping.
¨ Can we not reduce the bodily
learning of the mental knowledge -- subconscious becoming conscious -- to the
very skills presided over by values and show the distance from a similar
physical learning from the Supramental splendours in terms of human values of
life?
¨ The body, when it sees an
opportunity that it understands to be feasible, grabs by the vital energy of
desire pushed by the urge of the physical. Its spiritual value is the physical
perfection.
¨ It is a process of physical
possessiveness. A greater enjoyment is the one of giving. The physical knows no
giving as it is material and its cohesiveness of durability demands the
intensity of utter possessiveness.
¨ Self-giving is beyond the
subtle and is causal. Even in the mind its seeds are seen. Mind does not have the vibration of possessiveness. Its
possessiveness ends with memory.
¨ Man knows all in each which
he has taken to be all should serve his ends. He is still unable to see that he
is in all and his service is due to others. That transition is possible only
when he realises that all is in God and God is in all which is the basis of all
is in each and each is in all.
¨ What does the Rishi seek by
moksha?
¨ The Rishi seeks in moksha
the physicality of the Spirit as he lands in the Spiritual Force which is the
origin of the Spirit -- the spiritual substance.
¨ It is an incomplete
realisation as the Spiritual substance is the experience of Sat in the process
of its objectifying.
¨ The Spiritual Force is not
Spirit. Spiritual consciousness and the Spiritual Being are its antecedents. It
does not stop there. The Brahman is beyond. Sri Aurobindo seeks that whole or
Origin of Brahman, not in its unmanifest state but in its full manifestation of
involution and evolution which is Brahman taking birth in creation, ¤µ®© áÚÚ®.
¨ Our question is to render
the theoretical explanation of this spiritual status in the human language of
energy, skills, understanding and values.
¨ As the Rishi neglects the
body and shuns life, it is not possible for us to consider his own values of
Spiritual life in the body.
¨ It is there for the purna
yogi. If it is there, we must be able to explain. One thing is certain. The human traits of desire, possessiveness, etc.
cannot be there or should not be there. What should be there are their
transformed counterparts which are equality and self-giving.
¨ Nalayani did it for her
husband transcending Time.
¨ Her self-giving was one-sided
as it was the period of Mind. Self-giving becomes complete when it is mutual
and is from both sides.
¨ As creation is by Self-conception, the Self-giving of both ends should
be initiated from our end. It is an inner status that in the 3rd dimension includes the outer
movement planting itself in Simultaneous Time.
¨ Except the experiences of
the Master and Mother, we have nothing to quote unless we now practise and
create an example.
¨ Mother's Power to send the
invading Chinese back in the subtle plane, exceeded in its Spiritual quality
that of Sri Aurobindo who, finding the Second World War inevitable, conquered
it.
¨ The Limited with turn into
the Limitless when the Origin of our actions is inside, which includes the
outside.
¨ Taste of Ignorance has not
outlived its dynamism for the Quest of Knowledge to emerge as energy in the
physical substance.
¨ In practice, Man has three
responses faced with the ever-expanding opportunities.
1.
The
energy finds expression in horizontal expression.
2.
The
vertical growth finds a compromise by moving towards a side position in the
pyramid of growth.
3.
With the greater energy of
the new awakening given to him by his being in the atmosphere, he goes with a
vengeance to enjoy his old position more intensely.
¨ Suppose a man does not take
one of the above three routes, he will have the vertical growth at his disposal,
to maintain which he needs at every stage renewed aspiration that releases
renewed energy.
¨ Even that energy will not
accomplish unless that energy passes through all the intermediate stages to
reach the results aimed at.
¨ What I call a TOKEN ACT will provide a full field of play for this experiment where he can
gather all the experiences he needs to accomplish what he aims for.
¨ Those who have had such
successful experiences are aware of one danger; the desire to fall back on the past method.
¨ Action is done on faith and
faith only. Grace so arranges now that the devotee has no other option which
helps him to adhere to faith.
¨ The human choice is so
conspicuous and so decisive that it can either make or mar.
¨ Mother has put it concisely, "A little effort yields great
results; a little effort of error ruins".
¨ To convert the external
compulsion of the atmosphere into an inner aspiration for the Marvel is the
choice before MAN.
¨ The Limited becomes the
Limitless when
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We
enjoy in the least action the great Delight.
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We
shift to the 3rd dimension of Time.
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The
physical acts through the psychic.
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Equality
practises Self-giving.
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Surrender is attractive.