Nov. 25, 2000
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In any work there are facts
that can be orally given or given through written instructions. There are other
facts that cannot be so communicated but must be learnt by experience. One must
have a feel for that knowledge. It is subtle knowledge.
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Subtle knowledge can be
described or explained or illustrated as
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knowledge of the higher plane
(knowledge of mind for the vital)
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knowledge of the subtle part
of the plane (subtle physical of the physical plane)
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knowledge to be gained by
experience (training)
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knowledge of the part of the
whole (hand learning the knowledge of being).
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knowledge of the essence
(capacity is the essence of skill).
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It is a knowledge that is
felt, rather known.
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Each plane has a subtle part.
The physical learning the knowledge of the subtle physical is easier than
learning from subtle vital.
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A larger volume of
information can help to a great extent in acquiring subtle knowledge which
education that creates an expert does. Now the Internet plays that part.
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The subtle knowledge of the
Spirit or subtle mental plane can still be acquired by the physical, if the
subtle physical is open. The spiritual being of the physical is found as
annamaya Purusha and the subtle physical Purusha i.e. the physical psychic.
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Gross physical learns the
skill. Subtle physical acquires capacity. Physical psychic learns the subtle
spiritual knowledge proper to the evolutionary urge of the physical being.
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Physical learning is by
doing. It is the slowest. It takes a few thousand or a few million repetitions
to learn as the physical repetition releases physical energy which belongs to
its subtle plane. Often, the physical learns by punishment.
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Vital learning is by energy.
Energy, though more subtle than the physical, as it is in motion, cannot learn
quickly. In order to learn, the motion must stop. Vital often learns by
offence.
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Physical punishment and vital
offence from outside presses the energy out of it by force.
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Hence, tyranny and cruelty
are Grace. Discipline is a civilised version of cruelty.
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Mind learns through thought.
For thought to learn, it must be free of distracting, running thoughts.
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The higher mind learns
through Silence.
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When the mind tries to learn
silently without thinking, it raises itself to the higher mind.
v Money is vital. It is a creation of mind. To
comprehensively understand money we need to know the physical goods it once
represented, the vital services which it now represents and the mental values
which enrich money. All of them must be understood in their subtle planes
too.
v The subtle plane will be very much to the fore if we
take both sides (positive and negative) into account. That is why criminals have a good deal of subtle knowledge.
v In including the negative with the positive, we try to
know the whole. Subtle knowledge can be easily learnt from the whole by the
part.
v Barter is an effort of the part to extend towards the
whole. Market is a greater whole.
v Saving the excess energy is an effort to expand one’s
utility.
v As money makes one produce the maximum he can create,
money becomes an instrument for the individual to maximise his effort and
through it his being.
v Coins extend the sphere of influence of money and
currency does so further.
v As each extension of money endeavours to integrate with
every existing institution, money expands its sphere of physical influence and
subtle presence.
v There is a process for the birth of an organisation
like money.
v There are rules for it to spread to each level of the
society.
v Again, its saturation is governed by another rule.
v Its extension into the subtle plane has the stages of
birth, spread and saturation. Each such stage has its process and rules.
v All these rules are essentially the same in all planes
and all stages with necessary modifications are dictated by the localised
situation.
v It will be interesting to compare the laws of physics
and chemistry and try to look at them with the eyes of the mathematician. The
philosopher sums it up and the poet symbolises it. The yogi achieves it.
v What is equally important or more important is to
study the above in the context of the social development, better still, social
evolution.
v Studied as part of yoga or philosophy completes the
study.
v Start with the novice cook who learns the recipe and
proceed to the master who never tastes the food but knows that taste from the
look of the boiling soup.
v Recipe gives all that written instructions can give.
v It cannot give the experience of the smell of a tasty
dish that the kitchen can give.
v When the master cook senses the ripe moment, his
sensation subtly communicates itself to the novice without the spoken word.
v Surely a long apprenticeship can be shortened during
the training. Still, training is necessary.
v Education abridges the length of training required.
v An atmosphere of work enhances the subtle receptivity.
v OBEDIENCE
puts one’s subtle personality under the benevolent influence of the one who
instructs.
v When the submission opens the subliminal to that of
the teacher, communication is total and most effective.
v Understanding, idealism, obedience, devotion, service,
appreciation, adoration of the prevailing atmosphere and the one who instructs
and the subject to be learnt are contributing factors to subtle learning.
v Hence, the shishya was required to live with the Guru.
The atmosphere of the college enriches the process of learning. To live in a
city of the US is to live in a university campus. The graduate doctor practices
as the house-surgeon.
v At the point money enters the subtle plane in a
society as a force to be felt, it begins to self-multiply. From 1990 it is
doing so.
v Self-multiplication starts only after saturation or
maturity.
v Compare language in similar phases.
v A child learns her language through physical influence
and through the subtle atmosphere. One who learns a foreign language misses the
subtle part. He can draw upon the subtle part of his own language if he is
perceptive.
v Conception changes into perception by entering into
the subtle plane.
v Perception does so to become sensation.
v The physical insists. It uses irrationality to insist.
Subtlety and irrationality are anti-thesis. Subtlety uses the rationality of
the plane and work, that can appear to be irrational to the common man. Work,
achievement, subtlety, etc. disregard the IRRATIONAL man.
v Physical work is of physical movements. Mind, by
understanding, takes their essence and sees them in sequence to create systems.
To put them in order is organisation.
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Organisation is the subtle
mental essence of work.
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To be organised is to be
subtle.
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To be organised is to be mental.
v Identify yourself with the man who created coins and FEEL
as he felt. Repeat the process for each stage of development of money.
v It can best be seen now when we try to understand what
happens to money and to the society when it travels through the computer.
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It is the goodwill of the
society that offers the individual greater facilities.
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That goodwill can be
explained as attitudes.
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It exists in the subtle
plane.
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Spirit is entirely subtle and
all its aspects – Truth, Goodness, Joy, etc. – too are subtle.
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Our own goodwill is subtle
too.
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Therefore, our goodwill will
reach the social goodwill.
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Subtle knowledge, moving to a
higher plane, and knowledge of the whole are the same.
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From Prakriti to Purusha to
Psychic being is another movement which covers this territory.
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From ego to Purusha to world
Purusha to the Transcendent is also another movement of a similar type.
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So much is about money,
though incomplete. Next, we must see what makes one receptive. In short, it is
organisation, subtle knowledge, goodwill, motive, energy of VALUES, i.e.
values of accomplishment. He who wants to make all the money he wants can
make it. Time is irrelevant. Is he willing to experiment on himself? If so,
it is enough he removes all the impediments. It takes only a DECISION.
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Money represents trust.
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What is trust?
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To believe what you do not
see is trust. It requires a subtle knowledge.
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Trust, then, is subtle
knowledge.
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The villager who will not
take the cheque, the urban man who uses the cheque often but still prefers
cash, the friend who hesitates to convey an important news on the phone all do
not have a full subtle knowledge of money or phone.
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The villager who believes in
the rasi of a doctor, the superstitious man who trusts his money at the bottom
of the dustbin have subtle knowledge but are superstitious in nature.
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The educated person who
refuses to believe the rasi of the doctor but goes by his experience and
degrees does not have the subtle knowledge of the society he lives in.
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We often speak of our being
conservative or modern.
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What are they?
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Positively it is a readiness
to change that goes by ‘modern’ and valuing the good things of the past as
‘conservative.’
v Negatively it is a desire for change for change’s sake
that makes ‘modern’ meaningless and the superstitious incapacity to change that
is ‘conservative.’
v The mental, vital and physical can be conservative.
v Mentally conservative often say, ‘I know you are right
and I am wrong, but I just do not want to change. It is against my grain.’ It is an inability to be rational.
v Vitally conservative people speak out, ‘I know
spirituality has nothing to do with ice cream, but I cannot bring myself to
indulge in an ice cream just on this auspicious day after a nice
meditation.’ This is enjoying one’s
inability to change or wanting to believe that one is incapable of change. Is
it to be conservative or superstitious joy in an illusion?
v Physically conservative persons do not speak, they
act. After having seen the plate in the broken arm, knowing the bonesetter did
a bad job and the operation did a good job, he without thinking goes to
the bonesetter. What is it? How do you understand it? He has the subtle
knowledge to trust the bonesetter in spite of what he has learnt about
operation. He does not have that subtle knowledge about the operation.
v He TRUSTS the bonesetter.
v He does not trust the operation.
Civilisation, education, modernisation,
sophistication, urbanisation, yoga are processes that enable man to rise out of
ignorance into knowledge.
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Money, self-multiplying money, belongs to the future,
a distant future. To avail of it, he should TRUST the distant future,
not love the outworn past.
v We are
discussing money from the points of view of society, organisation, energy,
trust, etc. to have a fuller knowledge of it.
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lies a great principle of knowledge that is power: --
World, life, knowledge, power and
everything we know are integral and are capable of integral perfection.
Knowledge of something acquired from ALL sides can become integral
knowledge which is integral power. At that point, that knowledge turns into
result.
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chapter in the fourth book of ‘Synthesis’ is entitled “Integral Perfection.” We
can make an exhaustive list of the various aspects of knowledge and give full
serious consideration to the subject from all sides until it becomes power to
yield result.
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Money has a history.
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It is an economic force.
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It is an organisation.
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Parts of it are tending to become an institution.
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It has integrated itself with survival, defence,
functioning, enjoying, transport, communication, sports, information, politics,
education and all the other existing organisations.
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It has lent itself to evolving enough to avail of the
benefits of each technological development. Metal smelting, minting, paper,
printing, computer are only major landmarks.
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Money has expressed other social aspirations such as power,
women, etc.
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It has thus evolved from being an economic organisation to
social institution.
As the aspects are endless, the consideration too is
endless. But at some point it comes to an end without waiting for the list to
be exhausted. It is the point when our energies are exhausted. A
question arises. How can the work end, the study become an integral knowledge
just because OUR energies are exhausted?
Ř Where man
ends, Mother begins.
Ř At the
point of exhaustion, an ‘integration’ proportionate to our own personality will
result. It will have a proportionate result if we stop there.
Ř If you do
not stop there, Mother, in spite of our imperfect endeavour, gives us the
perfect result for our faith.
Ř To achieve
that, faith must lead to surrender.