May 31, 2002
Karmayogi
v The theme of this
paper is the Time is ripe for humankind to receive the knowledge of Luck as a Formula and
if given, the world will accept it, if not readily like wild fire, then gradually in a few
years which by itself,
will eradicate
poverty, ignorance, and disease.
will convert all
psychological complexes into centers of energy of happiness.
will render earth a
peaceful abode for happy affluent humanity advancing 3000 AD to now.
v This paper will
enumerate the theoretical assumptions that are justifications of these expectations.
v What will spread
like wildfire as fashion spreads are
The appeal to
individual Freedom as Tom Peters advocates. It is an appeal to an idea, but the most
powerful of appeals the world has seen.
The magic of Harry
Potter to children, as children are the only awakened part of population and magic to them
is Spirituality. Magic is the spirituality of the vital.
v Since 1872 when Sri
Aurobindo was born and 1878 when The Mother was born, 120 years have abridged 500 to 1000
years of progress in human freedom, dissolution of colonies, discoveries of technologies
that abridged space and time, raising the least of men into full manhood, etc.
v Society,
organisations, individuals do not fully utilize all the opportunities they create for
themselves. Presently only less
than 50% of created opportunities are used.
v This can be
explained by the fact that the very long lists of deficiencies and sufferings will be very
short or will disappear altogether, if all the known remedies are used. Just as
historically nations have been blind to veritable dangers, now they are unconscious of
opportunities.
v These opportunities
are in the outer world. To avail of them by outer efforts will take centuries. Outer
opportunities will readily avail themselves of an inner effort.
v If this inner
effort is reduced to a readily available form in each sector of life, we can expect the
population to respond fully and quickly, if not miraculously and instantaneously.
v The subconscious
knows what it does perfectly as if it acts by a FORMULA.
v The will that
implements the knowledge of the mind fumbles, but the same will when guided by the
knowledge buried in it works perfectly as if it is the subconscious intelligence.
v We know the
phenomenon of our not being able to be rational in the other mans case as in our
own. People who accept their own mythologies question the mythologies of others.
v Man who is
perfectly efficient in survival, ceases to be so in growth. Common sense in old life is
refused to new ways of life.
v He who is truthful
in speech is not so in practice.
v No one passes the
test of Dont repeat the errors.
v Our attention
energises the problem. Detachment dissolves.
v Life changes the FORM,
retains the essence of content.
v Revolutions erupted
as the writing on the wall was ignored.
v The Decision must
be in Quadrant I.
v Centre yourself not
in the Becoming but in the Being of the Becoming.
v Nothing works when
the atmosphere is not ready or ripe.
v Methods can use the
atmosphere, but cannot create it.
v Transport,
education, etc. are the social powers man has created.
v Powers in man are
social, psychological and Spiritual.
v Our theme is MAN
has all the powers he needs to solve all his problems, to create Luck and exceed the
performance of 2002 A.D.
He does not fully
utilize the powers he has created.
Those who draw more
on the social powers rise. Those who lag behind are those who are unable to draw upon or
are not drawing upon those powers.
Such unutilized
powers are in society, in psychology and above the fabric of psychology.
Should that
possibility be reduced to a FORMULA, people will avail of it.
To recognize the
existence of such powers and to have a willingness to draw upon them are the two halves of
work.
The Theory of our
Formula is the outer power that takes long to be commissioned is at once called into play
from inside. The secret we offer
is release the outer power from inside.
v Man also uses
physical powers such as magnetism and gravitation that are invisible and subtle.
v Powers of
comprehension and culture too stay organised in the atmosphere, not the physical but the
subtle atmosphere.
v The poet draws on
cultural and psychological power in the subtle atmosphere for his own creation.
v The magician uses
mental powers, though temporarily.
v As law, dharma too
comes to mans rescue, if less regularly.
v The potential
created by a society, an organisation, a family or an individual is always for more than
can be utilized. Therefore there is always an excess to be drawn upon. This excess
is available in two dimensions, horizontally as the lowest organisational possibility and
vertically, as the spiritual possibility. After 1947, Indians who bought the companies of
British found a treasure house in them. One company in which ten crores of rupees was
invested was found to contain a fringe benefit of 500 crores.
v East India Company
of London came to rule India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Companies are
organisations that generate such excess possibilities.
v Companies are
vital, ideas are mental. Organised ideas make soldiers rule over the world for millenniums
as it did Socrates and Buddha. Armies are physical. Once a physical organisation is
successfully created it can rise to any height and even world domination as in the cases
of Caesar, Napoleon and Chenghis Khan.
v I am now pleading
for the creation of such an organisation in the highest inner heights of the Individual
which can be called higher mental or Spiritual which by its organisational powers master
Life.
v Should that ever
happen, the 21st century will be the century of the Spiritual Individual even
as the 20th century was the century of the common man.
v Life in general as
well as in particular does not exhaust mans potential. Therefore, no problems
created by that life can be too many for a higher, inner power of man.
v How does a man see
the existence of that power? As explained before, it can be seen in the existence of the
vast subconscious power that is unfailing on which our social life is built. Sri
Aurobindos yoga of earthly paradise, a standing Marvel of life is based on Man
moving his centre of functioning from his own Becoming to the Being of his Becoming. All
revolutions were created when man shut his eyes to facts of life, which is this
subconscious efficiency. The Theory knows all Decisions from the First Quadrant always
succeed. Problems are in dead forms, not in the living essence. For ages, wise men have
declared it is only man who energises his problems and those problems have no real hold on
him. Who does not know that the man who does not repeat his earlier errors never fails?
Truth knows no failure if it expresses not only in words but in acts. The other mans
point of view, and the old wisdom have never failed. In supramental terms, the knowledge
inside the will never fails. My proposal is to present a NEW FORMULA in terms of the
everlasting values of the old accomplishment so that humanity will be able to respond
without hesitation.
v Once man sees the
existence of such a power, how can he release it into action, draw upon it, lay his hands
on it for fuller utilization? The secret lies in commonplace truths. Man knows all
problems are of disharmony and therefore he seeks the solutions in harmony, not in outer
harmony that needs long periods of preparation but in inner harmony. All problems of man
are created by his reactions, ignorance, unconsciousness, superstition, and lack of
organisation. So he moves to inner equality, inner comprehension to master outer
ignorance, inner awakening of consciousness, inner clarity of actual information instead
of bogus impressions that foster fertile superstitions. Thus he moves to overcome
situations created by the lack of organisation outside in life and he organises
himself inside.
v It is worth
repeating how he can arrive at that power.
As our problems
arise out of the arrears in the past, let him attack his past and remove the mental
arrears.
There will be no
future problems.
Anyone has the
outer form of religious faith or inner core of personal faith. Let that be raised one
step.
Human personality
can be measured on scales variously constructed, one of which is from the capacity
to repeat to the capacity for comprehension. Let him raise himself one notch on that
scale.
In the collective,
the problems present themselves differently. The truth is Social Potentials remain
unexhausted at all levels. At the highest levels it is no more than 70%. At the lowest
levels it can go as low as 20%. In times of social transition the lowest utilisation
doubles in quantity as well as quality. The knowledge we propose here is direct power,
not one that needs to be converted into power. If presented
rationally in such a fashion that it can be readily practised, say as a FORMULA,
the social response of utilisation of the existing social potentials can rise all over the
spectrum 5 to 10 % more. Should that ever happen, the problems of the world
poverty, disease, ignorance, violence, depression, inner disharmony, minor military
conflicts, etc. can be swept away in one stroke.
v Of course, either
in the life of the individual or the collective it is possible ONE significant
problem may defy solution or ONE type of problem may remain unsolved. Solution to this may need as much effort as taken
hitherto with greater intensity but requires no new knowledge. Once major progress is
achieved, this will be comprehensible.
v There is a
spiritual truth that the all-inclusive concentration has a prior revelation. The light man
now has becomes spiritual light. This is true of all the spiritual aspects. It reveals the
subtle world leaving no scope for ignorance.
v One more thing.
Physical submission of a part to its superior whole changes into surrender of the whole to
the awakened part so that the whole in involution becomes the whole in evolution which is
the Absolute in action.
v This FORMULA
can be repeated in terms of common sense, organisation, evolution, spirituality, history,
wisdom of the ages, or theoretically. So, it will be 1. avoiding past errors, 2. shifting
the organisation from outside inside, 3. to apply the rules of survival to evolution, 4.
to moving from Becoming to Being of the Becoming, 5. to raise the subconscious to
Consciousness, 6. man can achieve what he aspires for and 7. a decision that is sound
in the outer as well as the inner never fails.