July 15, 2002
v Sri Aurobindo came to the world when
Man missed knowing the arrival of the Hour of God.
v The occasion for Him to come to yoga
was the Freedom of India.
v In six years He went beyond all the
yogas. He sought and won Indian Freedom in the subtle plane.
v Born as a human being, blinded by the
ardent passion of patriotism, He could not know He was the Avatar and it was the Hour.
v Swami Vivekananda showed Him the
Supermind and God led Him to His mission, first showing Him the world is a Marvel, all
beings and non-beings are HE.
v HE attained Supermind and called it down
on humanity.
v Mother came and joined His Mission.
v HE could not ask any one to take to His
yoga as the nature of HIS yoga did not admit it.
v HE needed a hundred receptive souls or at
least 10 realised souls.
v Thousands who were with HIM in previous births and desired to be
with HIM at the Hour of Fulfilment and who had
forgotten their aspiration came to HIM, mistaking HIM as a Rishi.
v Only a conscious SOUL can receive the descent for the
further evolution of the Soul. An unconscious aspirant will receive the descending Truth
in their ego which will dissolve their souls according to its constitution.
v During the 100 years HE and SHE were here on earth, HE could compress 500 years or more in
terms of progress on earth, but saw HE could not eliminate the dark forces
that presided over the earth. They had to rise in war and destroy themselves. It presented
itself as Germany's imperialistic aims, Russian brutal violence and the ingrained
hypocrisy and sincerity of humanity represented by the West.
v He won both the wars and prevented the
third, and called the second world war 'Mother's war.'
v The descending Truth if received in the
vital or mind will have the other side charged and cause an opposite reaction to every
positive development such as pollution to technology, cold war to WW II.
v HE departed and sent down His Force in
1956.
v Until His avatarhood, mankind was
plunged in darkness. The arrival of the Hour of God could not be recognised, nor His own
birth.
v During the last 125 years HE and The Mother did the very best they
could do by being on earth personally in their physical bodies. Even the arrival of
Universal Mother in 1946 to fulfil Mother's mission went unnoticed. Not one of us
recognised the arrival of the Force in 1956 or since then until today. There has been
no soul conscious to participate in their work. Great souls came forward to offer their
entire lives for the work. Others offered in an act of spiritual heroism all their wealth.
There is no greater adventure in the spiritual life than offering one's soul to the
Divine. Many did that too. To Mother all of them were valueless ciphers. To be Her
children She wants the surrender of all one's life, work, wealth and soul all at once.
Until today, neither He nor She found one receptive soul fit to carry on the work.
v All that HE could do was to advance humanity by
500 or 1000 years and win the wars that were inevitable, not abridge the 30,000 years and
help the Supramental Being emerge.
v Now that the wars are won and the third
war was prevented, is there something to be done by his unconscious followers?
v If we succeed, it would be our
unconscious best.
v What is that unconscious best? Has He
given any hint or lead?
v The ideal is we should be fully open,
in Unity, Goodness, Truth, Knowledge and Power. If not, we can be open in one of
these aspects.
v The next best to HIM is HIS Force. By receiving Him in us, we
become HIM.
v By receiving His Force in us, we become
His Instrument.
v He has written about money in His
book The Mother. It is in the hands of the Asura and must be won for The Mother
which means earning money honestly for Her Service.
v Money was scarce all over the world
till 1900. Farmers owning three acres of land in southern USA in 1860 had not seen $ 5 as cash. Now
America is cash rich. Even in India nowadays you commonly see a 100 rupee note . In the
sixties hundred rupee notes were a novelty and had to be signed for transaction. The
world does not see the truth today that by honest means one can earn far more than by
dishonest means.
v To see the truth the world does not
see, to earn money honestly for Her Service can be said to be the least one can do, if he
cannot do yoga.
v To earn money in vast quantities, more
than resorting to the methods She has advocated, there is one aspect of movement of money
which is a mechanical aspect.
v The inflow is mechanically determined
by the outflow.
v Should you desire greater inflow, the
outflow must be great.
v Whether this is true in human life is a
possible question.
v The miser earns more by virtue of the
infinite attention he pays money when great flow of money occurs in response to that
attention. The miser gives MONEY greater attention than he does to
his children. That is a rule by which he grows rich. Everyone cannot feel happy giving
such attention to money.
v Again, the fields of life where the
miser grows rich will be fields that are ordinarily questionable to normal human
conscience.
v Honest work is expansive. When Mother
enters, work is more expansive.
v Expansiveness is cheerfulness.
v Misers who are possessed by money
cannot be expansive, much less cheerful.
v When Sri Aurobindo was on earth, there
was the possibility of the birth of the Supramental Being. As the earth was not ready, the
most HE could do for the earth was to win the
two world wars. Had the first war been lost or even the second, the world would have taken
a very long time to outgrow that tyranny. Hitler who destroyed the Jews would have turned
on who or what next, we cannot say. Sri Aurobindo said that Japan was a young country. Had
the impulse of imperialism succeeded there, she would take possibly 500 years to outgrow
that. British Imperialism was the expansive impulse of a mature nation, founded on
democracy, which valued the good opinion of others more than anything. She did not come to
rule, She came to trade. Ruling India was almost an accident. From the time Indian Freedom
was won in the subtle plane in 1910, we see in the House of Commons endeavours to grant
India a greater measure of self-rule. In 1935 the India Bill that was passed by the House
of Commons conferred dominion status on India. Gandhiji rejected it.
v Out of His five aims, He realised the
first two Indian freedom and Asian freedom during His lifetime. The next on
the agenda is world union.
v When the possibility was so great as
the birth of the Supramental being, the utmost He could do was to win the wars for
humanity.
v Is there such a best available now for
the unconscious aspirant?
v Before Sri Aurobindo came, there was no
quest in the mind of humanity. The dark ages continued in effect. If anything was there,
it was groping, sometimes fumbling. No one knew what to aim for.
v Though we are unconscious, we have
before us in writing what to do, what to aspire for. He has left us those blueprints.
v His final goal was the birth of the
supramental being. Before that, He speaks of India becoming the Guru of the world. World
union is the next in the list.
v His Force is working for world union in
the subtle plane.
v The European union which He spoke of in
1916 has become a reality.
v If we have the knowledge that world
union is possible, being unconscious, can we work for it? If so, is it to be overt or
covert?
v He successfully worked for Peace. As
His Force is working for other goals, our working for Prosperity is possible, in my view.
v How can an individual work for the
world's prosperity, especially when he is unconscious, is a question. Where does
prosperity come into the scheme of things is the next question.
v If India should emerge as the Guru of
the world, we find the entire Asia immersed in poverty.
v He stipulated two things before India
could become the Guru of the world. 1. Her freedom, 2. Her geographical unity. Maybe unity
is first. Without the physical foundation being united, Guruhood would be an illusion. A
poor nation will be occupied with her poverty. There is no question of her leading others.
Hence prosperity assumes significance.
v The individual I speak of is an
unconscious one. He is presiding over a family or perhaps a product or service
organisation.
v Though he is unconscious, he can
unconsciously receive His Force through consciously chosen ways of life for his family or
organisation.
v It is the experience of sadhaks and
devotees that whatever they do consciously or unconsciously, it spreads all over the world
after a fashion, maybe after the fashion of their own personality.
v A devotee working for his organisation
to make it prosperous by ways of Truth will be a channel for the Force to descend on his
country as Prosperity.
v The method is the conscious ways of an
unconscious devotee.
v In spite of our soul-unconsciousness,
let us consciously choose Her way of life Truthfulness.
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