May 28, 01
q When a man has a knowledge
that is right and gives right results but cannot be explained, we call it insight,
perception, intuition, etc. It is subtle knowledge.
q Life exists in three
planes, one of which people dare not be concerned with, called causal plane, where the
soul gains experience and collects it. It is the plane of divine law of cause and effect.
q The one plane we all know
very well is the gross plane of objects. It is the physical material plane.
q Around our body is the
subtle plane, not always tangible, never visible. But it exists.
q Whatever occurs in the
physical plane first takes shape in the subtle plane.
q No speech comes out of the
mouth without first occurring in the mind. Mind is subtle, speech is gross.
q When there is a wound and
it is a festering sore, the hand coming a few inches near the wound would feel as if it is
touching the wound. The hand touches the subtle body of the wound.
q Out of long experience,
some people are able to have knowledge in a work, often a precise information, that proves
to be a supreme secret known to no other. That is what we here describe as subtle
knowledge.
q FDRs acumen in the
New Deal, Churchills intuition to hold out against Hitler single-handedly,
Rajajis lifting the nation in 1954, Gandhijis quelling the Calcutta riots of
1947 are eminent examples of subtle insight.
q Subtle knowledge is not
spiritual knowledge.
q As the smell of the food
on the dish spreads beyond the actual food, the subtle body of man extends beyond his
gross physical body.
q Mother says man had 12
senses and as his mind developed, seven senses were lost. Those lost senses belong to this
subtle body. The elephants awareness of pits far ahead of him or the camels
sense of water a mile away, or mans ability to put his ear on the earth and know the
footfalls at great distances are among the lost senses.
q Mans body extends
into this subtle body of his.
q His emotions extend into
the subtle vital.
q So also, the mind has its
subtle extension.
q We see thoughts occur in
the mind which we choose to express or not.
q Careful observation of the
mind will disclose the borderline between the gross mind and subtle mind. One can extend
his consecration to his subtle mind as soon as thoughts enter into it. One who has access
to his subtle mind can know the subtle mind of another. Hence telepathy.
q One of the ways the subtle
perceptions can open is the saturation of the gross body which comes to many by long
accumulated experience.
q It can be quickened if one
trains oneself to look at the issue in terms of the whole of which it is a part.
q Man is a greater whole
than he is aware of. At the level of his soul, he is fully so. In the measure his
personality is in touch with the wider areas of his own inner personality, his subtle
perceptions open.
q When we take the other
mans point of view or the view of his feelings, the subtlety opens with respect to
that problem.
q Courage, Love, Sympathy,
Compassion are intense human characteristics that open the inner man wider. By acting from
such opening, the subtle body opens.
q Being wedded to higher
principles of work suddenly reveals to man his subtle abilities.
q FDR looking at the
monetary crisis from the more basic economic point of view gave him success.
q As life is always subtle
and is acting from that plane, one who is used to those symptoms can see them.
q The Internet is capable of
physically extending mans operation to the end of the globe, to the earliest times
of history, to a wealth of information hitherto not easily available, into other
peoples experience. It puts at the disposal of man the very raw materials that
can open his subtle senses.
q In this sense, the
Internet is the subtle counterpart of the physical telegraphy or radio that was only one
way.
q Subtle knowledge by itself
is valuable but its real value lies in the higher perspectives man espouses, as the phone
is more productively useful in business.
q In the earliest stages of
yoga, the subtle parts open.
q Silence and subtlety go
together.