DAILY
MESSAGES
Series VI
1) When the heart
starts calling, mind will begin to recede and finally disappear. 5
2) What we know
as a bother is not only a reflection of our inner attitude, but is a physical
continuation of the previous generations.
5
3) Our wish to
serve Mother often meets with roadblocks. When we wish to serve Mother alone,
everything cooperates. 5
4) Man is God in a coma. &
5) A choice is either flat or rich giving
an opening. That choice which leads to the opening is the right choice. J
6) Physical work becomes emotional. When
it becomes mental work, emotions disappear and again work becomes work to be
reckoned with, not a factor of emotions. Sin attaches to the work only when
work remains emotional. J
7) The past rears its head in the name of
positive values. We forget they are positive to the past. J
8) Prayer
increasing the problem is a sure sign of our sticking to the habit
of the past. 5
9) Frankness and rationality is for social
life. Neither for the vital, nor for the most powerful subtle life of the
subliminal spirit, it will do. In fact, it would do
harm there. J
10) The Infinite becoming the finite is
creation. The finite becoming the Infinite is evolution.
Process of creation:-
Being – Consciousness – Ananda –
Supermind – Mind – Life-- Matter.
Person – Awareness – Sensation – Comprehension – Apprehending
awareness – Movement – Form of Non-Being. &
11) When people lie to your face, it means
you like them in spite of their lies. When they lie about you behind your back,
it only means you have not yet acquired the power over lies. J
12) The very best moment to know a little
more of Mother is when life utterly deserts us and leaves us in a hopeless
condition and in utter despair. &
13) The silence that comes out of
disappointment is still powerful. The full power of Silence comes out only when
it is the silence of joy and fulfilment. 5
14) Everything is a symbol of something
higher. Man as well as an idol symbolise higher planes. For one who does not
see the symbolism, man is just a body, the idol a carved stone. Symbolic
knowledge helps one rise. By transcending symbolism, man enters Timelessness.
At a lower level, where symbolism is not evident, man degenerates into animal
or matter. J
15) A total divorce from the past
is a sign of moving from the negative to the positive side. 5
16) A formula works for the first
time. For it to work forever, it should be moving continuously till the
physical learns. 5
17) Expectation leaves us negatively by utter
failure or tragedy. It can go positively by total success and utter fulfilment.
J
18) Mother saving life or property in the
past is no longer of value to man as Her offering
small successes now. J
19) Society will respect money and only
money. Society maligns one who is coming into money until he attains it. For
any reason if he rises to a higher position than his wealth supports, he will
be harassed in that measure. J
20) Consecrating the past and
anticipating the future are ways of abridging Time. 5
21) Lack of sensitivity gives the
dull man what he cherishes as peace of mind. 5
22) The surrender of The Gita makes one an awakened soul and departs from
religious worship. 5
23) By silence alone, one moves to
Purusha. By surrender alone, one moves to
Purushothama. By silent surrender, one moves to the
Psychic. 5
24) It is not difficult to see that
the inner life is like that of life in a refugee camp, devoid of all values,
moved only by necessities.5
25) To be able to consecrate fully
a single act, the entire consciousness must turn to the Divine. 5
26) To maintain hourly
consecration, one should remain in the Being of the
Becoming and let the Being surface at the stroke of the hour. 5
27) Hourly consecration keeps one
all the time in the Being of the Becoming. 5
28) Hourly consecration is the
penultimate stage for a consecrated living. 5
29) The Absolute enjoys in losing
itself and finding itself. There is the Absolute in matter, but matter itself
is Absolute. The Absolute that is matter struggling to remember itself is the
taste of ignorance. In Man it becomes the psychic. The psychic has only
knowledge, but no power. The human being has the choice of psychic. To choose
between life and psychic is the human choice.5
30) Hell that needs to be passed
through to reach heaven ceases to be hell and allows heaven to move towards
man, when he inwardly changes from ignorance to knowledge. 5
31) The need to consecrate the
thought disappears when memory leaves the consciousness. 5
32) The infallible human choice
requires that 1) it must be a self choice; 2) effective work that produces the
result coupled with a view of the whole; 3) the choice must be in the subtle
plane; 4) knowledge of the choice must reach the physical; 5) it must be
value-based; 6) it must be made from No. 3, the physical mind; 7) it must be
from the positive side. 5
33) Man has the choice of the
psychic and prakriti. The first gives him the
joy of emerging knowledge. The latter gives him the taste of ignorance. 5
34) The psychology of the spirit
expressing in the material is yoga.5
35) All perversions of human behaviour
must be seen in the light of the seed of Truth in them that is trying to
express itself according to its own circumstance, not as they appear to be. 5
36) Past civilisation was
materially productive. Present civilisation is materially creative. Future
civilisation must be mentally creative. The spiritually creative civilisation
is of the Supermind. 5
37) For the choice to be right, the
borderline between status and adventure must be crossed. J
38) Ego is the central person whose attitude
is selfishness and meanness is the strategy. J
39) For a work to yield results,
one should feel it; it is not enough to know it. J
40) As long as you choose the work
you like, you will have success and failure facing you. For him who chooses to
take interest in work given to him, there is only success. 5
41) Crossing the mind, sin changes
into an enjoyable act. 5
42) The highest ideal man can follow is
within the limits of his survival. As the ideal makes him vulnerable, he has to
limit himself. Otherwise, it is possible for the yogi to keep a pleasant
relationship with his detractors, rivals, enemies as well as the very hostile
forces. J
43) Human choice is made by the clarity of
emotions based on complete physical security. J
44) The divine end of expectation
is His initiative through life to bring the object of expectation towards us. 5
45) Silent will is not secrecy. It is a will
self-sufficient to itself, without expressing it to another. J
46) Hourly consecration that
reminds itself is unfailing. 5
47) Mind can think only one thought at a
time. Supermind receives innumerable thoughts simultaneously. &
48) A book of interest and one that is
wearisome are reflections of Becoming. The Being of
the Becoming finds even a wearisome book interesting. The Jnani
who is in the Being does not interest himself in reading or any other act of that
kind.&
49) Capacity to cure physical
ailments is Supermind touching the physical. 5
50) One minute of psychic awareness
is more difficult than one hour of trance. 5
51) The social maximum is the individual
minimum. The individual maximum is the
social minimum. J
52) Constant remembrance is the
earlier stage of being conscious.5
53) He who has imperfectly completed the
ascent and is in the process of descent, by the law of contradictions, will
face the corresponding step in the ascent. E.g. when he who has acquiesced in
mild corruption becomes the instrument to eradicate corruption, he will face in
his son the desire to become rich by corruption.J
54) Mother’s Consciousness raises the
level of innate intelligence. It also gives appropriate higher skills and
talents. &
55) To be conscious is to be
conscious of one’s soul. For the devotees, it means he must be conscious of The
Mother inside. 5
56) When life does not instantaneously
respond, it means the time has not come. J
57) An act is the unit of life. An act of shooting
a ball into the ring is a result of gravitation, an expression of Newton’s law
of motion. It is determined by the skill, energy, and experience of the player.
It is governed by the part of the ball, the ring, the other players, the
spectators and every thing in its universe. J
58) This yoga does not need a
concentration that shuts off the senses, but one that will take the sadhak away from the surface and into the subliminal. &
59) The thinking ego falling silent can
move to the Purusha. This is moving from Time to Timelessness. You can be
either in Time or Timelessness. How to go to the Psychic from Purusha? Or from Prakriti?
Move from Time to Timelessness without losing hold of Time. Thus you do
not move to Purusha, but to the psychic which is in the simultaneous integrality of Time and Timelessness. &
60) The greatest advance science
can make now is to know mind as they know the body. 5
61) The eternal freedom expresses itself
as choice in action. 5
62) When one stops thinking and
stops acting, one moves from Time to Timelessness. 5
63) To know mind, ego, Time, Infinity, memory
as we know the body, history and geography will make our partial knowledge
complete. J
64) Transformation of Matter: Instead of Mind seeing Divine through senses,
if the Supermind in matter sees the Divine through Force and not Form, Matter
will reveal to itself as Sat. &
65) Human choices exercised in adversity,
being those of the physical, are the valid choices. J
66) Creative men take a material or
a circumstance and produce more than what it ordinarily brings out. To create
infinitely out of NOTHING is
spiritual creativity. 5
67) Wrong could not come where all is
light and love. &
68) There is no
choice in Time or Timelessness. You are overpowered by the plane and forced to
be there. Only in their simultaneous integrality is
there the choice, the choice to be there, master of both Time and Timelessness. 5
69) The Force acts only when our attention
is turned away. It is a supramental realisation that
can allow the Force to act when one is still conscious. &
70) Punctuality makes one think of work and
more importantly, of the other men with respect to work. It widens the
personality thus. J
71) Intelligence is the youngest and
brilliant child of material Energy. –
Sri Aurobindo &
72) The ideas of the next century
expressed through the attitudes of obedience of the previous century will help in
receiving the FORCE now. 5
73) The yogic surrender Sri Aurobindo
speaks of is an act. At some stage, it ripens into an attitude, an inner
attitude through which all acts flow. It is then one is said to have the yogic
consciousness. &
74) The body learns. This means it gives
its stored power to the process of comprehension thus making knowledge
power.
For
integration, the body should think and mind should act while the emotion should
energise both.
Sri Aurobindo wants the psychic to
be materialised, the body supramentalised and mind
and emotions turn into light and love.&
75) The Many seek; the One exists. 5
76) Revolutions in society come to be stable
when the social organisations, customs, usage, culture and their individual versions
absorb the spirit of the revolution and restructure themselves. This is
eminently reflected by the literature of those periods. Conversely, literature
can anticipate the revolutionary fervour and lead the society for a bottom up
effort, which when accepted by it will change revolution into social evolution.
J
77) He who reaches moksha reaches God
above; he who reaches the psychic becomes God on earth. &
78) Is divine Love unemotional? Or
does that emotion turn into devotion? Is the highest vibration of Love felt in
the physical gratitude that thrills the body? 5
79) It is the ego that takes
initiative. Its initiatives are for self-preservation. In its absence, the soul
is awake, but does not take initiative. It lies in wait for the higher
impulsion. 5
80) One
man’s perfection can save the world.
Sri Aurobindo
One man’s choice can open the opportunity for the Millennium.5
81) Expectation is reliance on the external. J
82) Egolessness
can be seen if one is capable of no sorrow or disappointment. &
83) He who vainly sought for the
hand of human friendship all his life, scarcely is
able to know that the Divine has been waiting for his Love to be accepted all
the while. 5
84) Durability is consciousness
self-involved in its substance. 5
85) Civilisation is social manners replacing
social control. Culture is conscience replacing social manners. J
86) Each happening is a deep experience.
&
87) Human depravity is God’s most
powerful weapon to demolish the human selfish sensitivities so that Becoming of
Nature will yield place to God’s Force of transformation through double
opening. Depravity destroys barriers to
double opening. 5
88) When essential knowledge is
acquired, it helps one forget the details. Essence itself can be lost when it
turns into its own potentials.
The
Being expresses its truths and powers. Details are the powers, the truths are
the potentials. One can transcend the truths too by identifying with the Being.
5
89) Effort implies denial of comfort. J
90) To accept the responsibility of
irresponsible people is consciousness responsibility. 5
91) The choice to be most
successful must be made from faith which alone can have all the positive
energy. Shakti, Viryam, deiva
Prakriti are the earlier stages of effective energy. They are energies of
temperament, emotions and vital psychic. 5
92) Willingness to change from
objective analysis to subjective synthesis is the first break from physical
mind. 5
93) The objectivity of the scientist is
physicality of mind. J
94) Goodwill for oneself overlooks
the ill will of others, even humiliation or punishment since work needs to be
done overlooking those barriers. Good will for others that can similarly
overlook the same barriers when no benefit is to be derived, accomplishes in
the heart a niche for The Mother. 5
95) When there is a need to act, do not
act, call Mother. &
96) Mother is far away from us for our
call to be effective. But Her Presence is closest to us in the person of the
rival, the refractory child, the hateful gossiping member in our society. As
long as we refuse the close presence, Mother remains far away. &
97) Implicit obedience of loyalty
is spiritual manners. 5
98) When there is an occasion to think,
stop thinking and call Mother.&
99) Jails are not places to be abhorred and
shunned. Our peaceful life in the town is made possible because all the
criminals are shut up in the jails. J
100) To
the human eye, the accused and the convict in the jail are sinners who deserve
our sympathy or compassion. To the All-vision, the world-being is one. One part
of it, perhaps the better, comes forward to express the negative side of the
world personality so that the positive side can grow in other individuals. The
sinner makes the virtue of the virtuous possible. He is not to be condemned and
shunned. He is our other opposite part which is indispensable for our growth. 5
101) Man can become what he aspires for.
§ The highest aspiration of man is social
acceptance. Social acceptance can be at various levels.
§ What can make a man aspire for social
acceptance at the highest level? When
man knows it is achievable by him through his present equipment, he will aspire
for it.
§ A practical ideal can be made out for
him. He would like a PRODUCT to accomplish it.
§ Better than the product is an INFORMATION.
§ Ideas are more powerful than
information. The theory is a collection of such ideas.
§ Computer is such a product.
§ Practical concept of Infinity is such an information.
§ Beyond this is the aspiration to outgrow
the society. J
102) Character is the psychological
organisation (in the individual) of the society in the individual.
The psychological organisation of
the society in the individual is his own character.
Psychological potential energies of
the society find their expression in individuals of strong character as
Personality through their unorganised energies.
J
103) Life
is complex, not complicated. What is complicated for mental knowledge is really
a rich complexity to a supramental vision. &
104) Lila is self-discovery, but not the
discovery of the self that hid. The self that hid in itself was pure self. That
which it discovers is the self of matter. Between hiding and seeking, the spirit that
was hidden evolved. The self discovery of the spirit is indeed the process
of spiritual evolution. &
105) Imagination is purposeless. It is
purposelessness that gives any value for imagination. Imagination is the
carefully executed replica of Avidya. &
106) For temperament
to enjoy another temperament, there is a condition of one liking the other. He
who has risen above temperament can enjoy any other temperament without any
condition. J
107) When a
man gives himself fully, he can do so only to one thing. God consists of unity,
Truth, Goodness, Knowledge, Will and Love. For man to give himself fully to
God, he has to do so six times over. Only by moving to Supermind where all the
six are united can man give himself fully to God. 5
108) Prophesy is to make the Infinite finite.
Not to prophesy is to allow the Infinite its own course. The great prophet is
one who sees the course of the finite before it becomes the Infinite. J
109) Every man exerts
his uttermost in pursuit of possible enjoyment.J
110) Mental faculties are infinite.
Each has innumerable rules. All can be brought under as few rules of wisdom as
one chooses, as they have all issued out of one centre of Life. 5
111) Man is capable of believing his mortal
enemy to be a trusted friend, if he is capable of sweet behaviour. Human life
is skin deep. We see how others are
cheated. It is difficult to see how we are taken in. J
112) To make the
temporary permanent is the illusion of the sentiment; to make the permanent
temporary is the ignorance of the physical. J
113) The
formless Vast is not the spaceless infinite. Form is prior to Space. &
114) Not to
seek comforts and conveniences by the values of life, to seek them by the
values of Mother and express Mother in that seeking is aspiration.
Any
discussion of this conversion either with oneself or others will be endless. When it ends, it will end on the old note – Mother should make my
needs available; not that I should accept Mother’s values.
Ego
– Mother should work for me.
Psychic
– I should serve Mother. 5
115) Mantra: The depth from which a mantra is chanted
determines the power, not so much the mantra itself. 5
116) He who does not start with the
work cannot begin this yoga. Once he does so, he is not permitted to give up work for the rest
of his life.
Consecration
of work is the first step of yoga; and that is the final stamp of it too. 5
117) The difference
between wealth and poverty in old age is the difference between discipline and
dissipation in young age. J
118) Material benefits given to someone will
not be recognised until they are threatened to be taken back.
Matter being valuable only by touch
will not generate sentiments, especially sentiments of gratitude. It may be
that the entire property one now owns is something he got as a gift. Still, it
is incapable of evoking gratitude or even recognition. In most cases, memory will
be missing.
Matter has no feeling, much less
thought. How can it be grateful, which is a mental emotion? J
119) Disciplines, if accepted halfheartedly, have a way of undermining themselves. This
is so because discipline has a personality and cannot be made to cancel itself
without its consent.
Any trait has a personality. If you
want to get rid of it, better convince it of self-dissolution which we do when
we are stronger than the trait. It is better to do it by knowledge than by strength.J
120) All-inclusive concentration which is
the first step in this yoga comes only by the divine call, not by any human
effort.
As long as the attempt to understand
either by thought or by the silence of mind is there, the human effort lingers.
It is enough to prevent the call or sanction. &
121) Gossip is popular mostly for the reason
that one feels superior to the man about whom he gossips. He feels he is
sitting in judgement over someone. Another reason is in passing on to others
the vile acts of someone else, the speaker indulges
his own low tastes.J
122) The
world has not known the all-inclusive concentration Integral Yoga needs. One
can develop it if he is Sri Aurobindo or The Mother,
not otherwise. The easiest way to acquire it is to identify with them fully in
an attitude of surrender. &
123) One symptom of higher consciousness is the
emergence of personality from the idea of guilt. J
124) Love and affection that would not change
into hate are true, but they do not grow into attachment, nor are they capable
of being focussed on to one person. Always love retains its character of
impersonality. J
125) As
courage is the quality of the Force expressing itself expansively in action,
equality is the quality of the Infinite expressing itself in the plane of
Timelessness at infinite speed. 5
126) Purposeful purposelessness is
the subtle in the gross plane. Evolution will be complete only when the causal
plane descends into the gross.
Purpose gives thought
grossness. Thought, as in Shakespeare, becomes subtle and therefore immortal
when it leaves the domain of Purpose. 5
127) Any
problem in this wide world can be reduced to one human trait such as
selfishness or energy or wisdom since all such traits meet in the one centre
that is
128) Hurry and divine impulse
resemble each other. One is on our initiative and the other on the divine
initiative. 5
129) Short term goal leads to haste
and hurry. Long term goal generates patience. 5
130) The petty
idealist fanatically chases a fad. The practical idealist patiently discovers
the spirit that moves Matter which is mastery perfect in creation. J
131) Supraphysical
can be powerful. It is not Supramental. &
132) The ideal is for
ideal conditions. Unideal conditions only foster
their own conditions. The practical idealist is one who tries to live by the
ideal in unideal conditions in spite of them. J
133) There
is no darkness in the world except for the human senses. There is no suffering
in the world except for the human ego. — Sri Aurobindo
There is no death or dissolution in
the universe except for the created forms. &
134) The uneducated
man’s modern information will have the clarity and precision of a story written
with only pronouns, omitting proper nouns. J
135) The poor man
generously spends. When he becomes rich, his generosity disappears and gets
transformed into frugality. Poverty and generosity go together partly because
there is an illusion that generosity will secure him status. Beyond these
social definitions lies character. It always prevails. J
136) Mother enters our life as luck.
When a devotee enters the life of another, it is luck that enters into the life
of the latter. 5
137) We seek
Her to fortify human life. She comes to us to establish Her
life in us, destroying human life. &
138) The Infinite emerges in life as
abundance. 5
139) He who takes for granted unforeseen luck
and wants to build on it without further effort, meets with what is known as disappointment.
J
140) As power issues out of light
(Consciousness-Force), light is more powerful than power and can create it,
whereas power cannot create that light by itself. 5
141) Thought is important, but it is
emotions that accomplish. Still, what matters is the result of action. The
unconscious man is unable to think; the egoistic person thinks egoistically.
What matters to the world is the
unegoistic conscious action that yields the right results. 5
142) The Theory of Development is to the
Society what the operating system is to the computer. J
143) The
atom represents the physical ego; the cell represents the vital ego. &
144) Peace of mind stays permanently only
when the ego disappears.&
145) Mother who can supramentalise the world in one day does not do so because
that way the Lila would be cancelled. 5
146) There
is no intrinsic evil. Evil exists only for the ego, and its ethics, its mental,
vital values and the egoistic social, cultural sensitivities.
Evil disappears from the horizon of one who has shed his ego.&
147) Not all people have great good qualities. When such people
come to Mother, the very opposite qualities rise so that the maximum progress
can be made. Instead of making that progress, invariably people leave MOTHER. J
148) The imperfection
of aspiring perfection is spiritually complemented by the perfection of
depravity. J
149) More than trying to wean
ourselves away from life, it is worth turning our thoughts to Grace. To be able
to see Her in each act is to move away from karma. 5
150) There
is nothing in the world that is not Ananda, a pure enjoyment by the object.
What we see as pain is only subliminal JOY. When man moves to the subliminal,
pain vanishes from his perception. &
151) There
is no evil or suffering in the world to be abolished. Man needs to shift from
the surface to the subliminal depth to enjoy the delight without distortion. &
152) Man is in life; the saint is in
God; the sadhak should live in God in life. One moves
from mind to Purusha to psychic in the above process. 5
153) Sri Aurobindo says that the contents of
an immortal work are not lost in translation even as the soul preserves itself
in a new birth in another body. &
154) The difference between the yogic
attainments of the past yogas and Integral Yoga is
the same difference between the power of a person over the population while he
is in a government post and when he is out of it. J
155) Arrogance is stupid, but stupidity itself
is the arrogance of matter. J
156) Man loves or punishes. God loves and punishes.
He can punish lovingly; His love can be punishment.
Wisdom is compassionate discipline. &
157) Replacing lower qualities by higher
qualities is to become civilised. In fact, man rising from below changes his
situation from being a victim to being a perpetrator. That is the first step he
takes.
Man, trying to civilise himself by replacing hatred with love, starts
hating those who hated him.
The victim choosing to victimise others is the first step in his moving
to the higher order of behaviour. J
158) All great
negotiations are in silence. J
159) The
difference between ego and mind is that mind thinks to understand, but ego
thinks by coordinating understandings so that it may defend itself and preserve
its entity. &
160) The scientist who knows the
immense value of his microscope and telescope is unable to conceive of the
greater value of insight and intuition that reveal the inner kingdoms where you
can see what those instruments reveal outside. 5
161) Thought denied becomes energy;
energy denied expression becomes an act; the act when not allowed turns into
the silence of status, thereby creating greater thought and energy for action
at higher levels. 5
162) Man moves to a revolutionary system only
through the values of his present system.
Followers of an idealist follow him only for his present social value. J
163) If the feelings
receive the incoming message, the message will turn out to be true. J
164) When a problem is unmoved by
prayer, the person is not all right. To pass without reading, to earn without
going to work, to luxuriously spend borrowed money, to dominate people with
Mother’s Force may be his ideals. “I don’t do my work. Rather I am against
everything good. But Mother should complete my prayers” will be his basis,
rather his ideal. His prayers will not be answered. This is not known as
prayer. These people deserve punishment. Life will punish them. They sometimes
stubbornly continue such prayers. Then Grace will wipe them off. 5
165) The selfish man who never conceived of
doing anything to anyone, thinks all that people around are getting is because
of him. This is so because he conceives of himself as the whole world.J
166) The
secret of Mother seeking us is man is becoming God. &
167) This is
a world where there is no effort to raise man to God. This Force tries to raise
subman to Godhead. 5
168) One who
realises Brahman by knowledge is known as Brahma Rishi.
Knowledge is the seat for it. Knowledge sees only a part of Brahman. Man can
know the whole of Brahman only through the Brahman inside him. For the Brahman
in man to emerge, it should begin in the psychic and reach the
Supermind. &
169) The
chaste wife submits to her husband. The sadhak
submits her mind, feelings and God to Mother. One is the rule of life. Next is
the freedom of yoga. Chastity is the austerity of life. Yoga is the
austerity of Freedom in God. 5
170) Mind accomplishes by interest. Detached,
it accomplishes more. Taking to work in that detached mood, man accomplishes
like God. J
171) One can trust a good man. A
good man taking to Mother needs no prayer. 5
172) We call one of
pleasant behaviour a good man. J
173) Prayer welling up from the
heart not occasioned by a problem, is bhakti. 5
174) Man deserts, not God. Relying
on the God in man, neither God nor man will ever desert you. 5
175) “From the moment Krishna entered my bosom,
my thoughts that reached him never returned,” says the poet. If one can say
this of Mother, he becomes a devotee. J
176) The
weight on the head presses down on the head. Worry depresses the vital. Life
and body are the weights on the mind. None of them weigh down the soul. When the mind accepts Mother, we shift from
mind to the soul, and the weight lifts off our parts. We float in the air. 5
177) To
see the finite mind as the infinite Brahman is given to the Supermind.
Mind says, ‘This is my pen.’ Brahman
created the pen. Supermind makes the man write with it. The Upanishads say,
“The Brahman of the pen makes the Brahman of the man do the Brahman of
writing.” 5
178) If we
do a work as punishment, the body will not receive Mother’s energy. To simply
accept the work as an inevitable duty will not create any feeling. If we do it
without understanding, even the mind will not receive the Force. 5
179) May my material values be
transformed into spiritual values.5
180) To know injustice
as God’s justice is knowledge. To accept that is patience. He who patiently
accepts that knowledge and adores it in practice gets a luck that lies beyond
ordinary justice. J
181) To enjoy work for
its own sake, one should see the work as a compliment of one’s own personality.
Then as the personality is infinite, work opens itself to infinite dimensions
and yields God’s delight which can rarely be given by the result, however great
it is.
The delight seeking work is greater than result-oriented work. To work for a result ends in victory or failure. When work itself
is the reward, the duality disappears. J
182) Love or affection brings others’ luck to
us. Hatred gives our luck to others. J
183) Insistence is outside the pale
of spirituality. Truth turns into falsehood by insistence. 5
184) Subjective: Sat – Chit – Ananda
Objective: Satyam – Jnanam – Anantam &
185) True emotion of love cannot confine itself
within the boundaries of manners. It is predatory. To be proud of such exploitation
is to receive that love properly. J
186) When
the perfected part tries to take a view of the whole, it would be a perfect
view of the whole. By aspiring for
perfection in the part, one attains the perfection of the Whole. 5
187) It is a
misfortune not to come closer to Mother when our prayer is answered. She
answers our prayer so as to open a door between the human being and the Divine.
J
188) Neither in
frustration nor in jubilation can we remember Her. It is growing faith and aspiration that keeps Her memory. It is not given to all people to remember
Mother. Certainly, remembering Her all the time is not
for one and all. 5
189) Life longs for
the destruction of the enemy. Mother’s life longs for the progress
of even the enemy.
That enemy whose attitude is that of
life meets with a more complete destruction.
Destruction is also a part of a wider
creation. He who destroys himself thus, moves to that plane. 5
190) When we see the
opposite tendency as the effort of Nature to accomplish the double opening of
the new evolution, we embark on transforming wrong, evil, falsehood and error,
thus moving from sensitive sentimentalism to being a neutral instrument of
psychological transformation.
Sacred human sensitivities are swept away by the whirlwind of God’s
social transformation. J
191) We are angry with
bad people. The truth is, we will be more angry with
good people. We believe that good people are creating greater mischief. J
192) If we can accept the ununderstandable as God’s will, we have a heart that Mother
loves. To see justice behind what we
dislike is possible for the psychic.
The body that accepts an impossible work deserves supramental
conscious- ness. 5
193) If
everyone’s wants are satisfied at home, poverty will be abolished. When we have
enough energy to remember Mother all day, the soul loses its karma. 5
194) It is courageous
to own one’s shortcomings.
To accept the presence of jealousy is magnanimous. To convert jealousy
into magnanimity is transformation. J
195) We
see the omen and know the end. A devotee sees the omen and changes it as it
should be. 5
196) Consecration being an inner
process cannot be begun outside in everyday acts. The outer end is the point
where the inner consecration ends. 5
197) It is mean to
point out one defect overlooking nine endowments. To appreciate one strength overlooking nine defects is magnanimity. J
198) The
body that is free of falsehood will be fragrant.5
199) When
life deserts someone, all intimate persons too desert. Grace acts through a
person of good will and saves his life. Man is not grateful to him or does not
give him the news of his having been saved. Instead, his longing is to convey
his success to that intimate person who had deserted him. Such men are selfish and
treacherous.
When Grace alone saves, man seeks
support from selfish treachery that has deserted him. Our gratitude is due to
Grace that saved us, not to betrayal that has deserted us.
Man loves the one who betrayed, not
the Grace that saved.5
200) In
each man there is the ideal and pride of doing what in the previous era was
wrong, sinful and shameful. This is the reversal social phases undergo. Unless and until we are able to conceive,
perceive and sense the joy and beauty of what we now know to be sinful and a
shame, we have not reversed our consciousness to fully appreciate Mother.5
201) As the biological
chip implanted in the body gives man all the knowledge he needs to acquire, the
new MONEY SYSTEM can give man all the money he now
earns or can earn. J
202) The vital loyalty
enjoys intensity, not purity. Purity in loyalty belongs to the mind. Impurity
never sticks to the physical. J
203) Physical key for supramentalisation, the vital key for LUCK
and the mental key for the knowledge of luck and physical immortality:
Mental key: silent alertness in the subtle plane of
selfless self-existent goodness. Vital key: total protection in the
subtle plane to
the knowledge of unfailing success and infinite abundance.5
204) Life
is created by Mind energising the Force and losing itself in the Force. This is
an intentionally created tangle. Man-woman relationship symbolised by marriage
is the symbol of life’s knot.5
205) In
human life we seek security and avoid risk. In Mother’s life we must give up
everything before we go after any goal.5
206) Expression of thought stands in
the way of serious thinking. Thinking prevents understanding. Understanding is
a bar to knowledge. Knowledge dilutes power for action. Action makes us less
conscious. Consciousness makes pure existence not so pure. Existence takes us
out of the realm of the Unmanifest Eternal, Infinite
status.5
207) Nothing expands intelligence like the
effort to understand stupidity. The finest of idealisms is best served by
insolent, offensive depravity to shed its human limitations. J
208) Depravity transforms idealism
into a field of action of Real-Idea. Real-Idea emerges from narrow idealism
through the DOOR or organised
depravity. Idealism and depravity are the two hands of God by which HE lifts
man out of his sacred smallness into HIS Vast
Truth that is RIGHT.
Let idealism invite depravity and
emerge into Supramental Truth.5
209) The
inner voice rises when the outer submits to the inner. We can cross mind when
it feels utter fulfilment. 5
210) Obstacles start as lack of
knowledge, temperament and skill. Later they arise as obstacles of the
atmosphere. Next, they show as friends turning into enemies. That cycle will be
completed when the family turns against you. The very last stage is the inner
barbarian. For him who has conquered that too, the cycle starts in the reverse
course. Initially it is by cooperation of those around,
finally it ends in the cooperation of the rival or the enemy. When that comes
forth, that cycle too is complete. Beyond that lies the territory of yoga.5
211) The
shock is received at one point of emotions and later it is spread over all the
parts when it is not so acutely felt.5
212) Knowing Mother thrills. He who
knows Mother inside will awaken in the soul. Perfection lies in that awakening
that thrills.5
213) If
body is the ultimate, life-span will be determined by the horoscope.
If life is the ultimate, luck will be
decided by life. If mind is final, the new world will not take birth. If there
is no determinant, earth will become a paradise. Even for the incapable, that
attitude will bring luck.5
214) He who works for others’ success will
succeed. He who desires others’ defeat will be vanquished. J
215) If it is true
that the other man needs us, to validate it is selfishness. It is gratitude to
receive the other man’s participation in our life even though it is to his
advantage. J
216) Only
those who do not know the spiritual mystery of friendship will break their
hearts at betrayal. 5
217) The
high and low struggle hard to survive. If one saves money, another tries to
steal it. Untold sufferings belong to life. When transformed, it becomes
unflinching rapture, intolerable ecstasy.
Unbearable suffering + Mother =
Intolerable ecstasy.5
218) Many
think. Is there one who touches the feelings?5
219) Man accepts the status quo. The
devotee creates the non-existent. 5
220) The selfish man
has problems of selfish conflict. The true, unselfish man has compassion for
his suffering fellow man, but does not interfere in his selfish ways. He who
thinks he is unselfish but really has exalted his selfishness to subtlety,
tries to do good to his fellow men, expecting them to outgrow their
selfishness. He expects vital selfishness to become mental rationality. God
works in the reverse. His altruism is crushed and he is branded as a selfish
man. Nature is a conscious Force which, in this way, makes subtle selfishness
realise its folly.
If man is audacious enough to try to educate nature, nature educates him
out of his folly.
Mind’s endeavour to educate the vital results
in the mind learning that it is impossible. Mind can educate the vital if it reaches the
mental part of the vital through strength. Education follows experience. Any
attempt to reverse it will fail. True education begins inwardly, not outwardly.
The only rule of progress is inner first, outer next. J
221) Harmony among those who are
important to work, practical results in our project, sweet humble emotions to
others all make a person wholesome. It endears him to Mother. 5
222) Any problem,
except the one that is not solved by anyone, can be solved if looked at from
its own angle. Even the remaining problems can be so solved by the same method
by persistence. There is no problem that cannot be solved if seen in its own perspective.
J
223) A blind insistence creates a
problem. Mental man creates a problem for himself by moving down to the vital
or physical. The stupid man looking at
his problem from his own stupidity, refusing to see it as others see it, is
faced with an impossible situation. When an intelligent man faces a similar
impossible situation, it is the same stupidity of refusing to look at it from
the other side. If this is not true, he must be looking at a problem so far not
solved by the world. Any problem solved by another can be solved by everyone if
he does not insist on refusing to see from the other side. 5
224) A force
hidden in the opposite is compelled to find itself. The opposition party will always assert. &
225) Unconditional acceptance of
life and its tyranny is the only way of survival. Unconditional acceptance of
events as His marvel is the way of yogic vision. 5
226) Legal justice, social justice,
psychological justice, karmic justice are partial justices. Absolute justice is
behind each of them or all of them and is most evident in injustice. &
227) Perfection of the part; partial
realisation of the whole; the whole in the part; the past finding itself in the
whole; the whole realising the part as itself; the wholeness of the whole in
itself and as such in the part are several versions of the Spirit in creation.&
228) Edward Witten
would prefer to spend his time discovering the formula for family happiness
rather than trying to discover the origin of the universe.
q Happiness is what the lower vital
seeks.
q Happiness needs mastery.
q Mastery is inward, not outward.
q Not to bite off more than one can chew
is the formula.
q The family is a vanishing institution.
q To seek happiness there is a low
ideal.
q The female offers biological attraction.
q To see the biological ideal will help.
q Mental ideal in a biological institution
creates unhappiness.
q The family was a social ideal.
Therefore, one can have social happiness, not psychological happiness.
The
formula for family happiness is efficient, good manners.J
229) Sometimes
one relaxes, even indulges so that later concentration will gather. J
230) For skills to
mature into capacity, the horizontal must open up. No individual skill can rise
to its corresponding capacity vertically. J
231) No nation can essentially progress on
alien inspiration. J
232) When
unconscious development begins, it opens up the opportunity for the lowliest.
Conscious development opens it at the higher end. 5
233) Continuous concentration is a fad, is an impossibility like continuous eating.J
234) When the
sweetest thing palls, know you are physical. 5
235) The
world already taking up your ideas shows your effectivity in the subtle plane. &
236) The stiff pride
of a poor man who resents help and the obsequious seeking of it are on the same
plane. Still one is preferable to the other as the latter is lower still. J
237) If NOT seeing Mother awaiting us in our
work is not blindness, what else is? &
238) Imperfection can be the best
instrument to destroy perfection. 5
239) Establishment is the enemy. J
240) A policy not
taken to its logical conclusion or practical expression can lend itself to its
opposite purpose. J
241) A friend who will
not come all the way is a potential enemy. J
242) Men destroy the cause they are not able to
serve fully. Should man drop out of a cause and NOT betray it, it is higher loyalty,
even divine loyalty. J
243) Mother’s Avatar is like jumping
off the cliff with a parachute. Unless the mission is fulfilled, the body is
crushed. 5
244) Who has
not seen Mother waiting for us wherever we go, for whatever purpose? &
245) The
kingfisher that returns with no food becomes the food for its young ones.
Mother sacrificed Herself thus to us. &
246) Age has maturity. When it is coupled with
deceit, youth can rarely escape it. Grownup children can testify to that. J
247) How to persuade man not to
compete with others as he does so with himself? Man can be jealous of himself. The
vibration being universal does not spare even his own
self. 5
248) It rarely strikes the idealist who has
weaned himself away from the boisterous joys of social functions to enjoy the
cultured serene joys of sophisticated living that he, in his situation, is not
different from the others. J
249) Formula for Prosperity:
Physical — Borrow technology
Vital — Imitate organisation
Mental — Accept their ideas
Spiritual — Create
new ideas and borrow VALUES. J
250) There is no event from which one cannot learn. J
251) Man increases his enjoyment of a thing,
imagining that he does not really want it. Therefore he refuses. What man
most refuses is what his heart is really after. The attraction of a philanderer
overcomes even that subconscious reverse behaviour. The woman irresistibly
courts him. Psychologically she is attracted to his falsehood. Physically it is
her evolutionary urge to conceive for him who has enchanted her heart. J
252) Oblivious selfishness is best seen by
those who send telegraphic messages without return addresses and are disappointed
in not receiving a reply. They blissfully assume that their address must be
known! J
253) Desire to shun company is desire for
distinction. In the weak it leads to distinction; in the strong it brings wider
recognition. J
254) Mind uses reason. Brahman reveals
to integral experience. Intuition relates both. Starting from reason one can go
to intuition and finally complete it by integral experience. 5
255) Man acts to preserve his survival; he acts
more readily to fulfil his least silly desires. J
256) No member of the orthodoxy – Hindu,
Christian, Muslim, Buddhist – when he realises his spiritual individuality in
life, need find himself in any social stratum other than the top.J
257) Blindness in the devotees
indicates they are blind to Grace. 5
258) Each man has
something to boast of. Let him take that skill or capacity and implement it in
his own life by the highest value he knows. He will rise to the top of his
profession. J
259) The meanest of
men who cherishes psychological meanness can by a social effort pass for a
perfect gentleman. J
260) To think that a
person will be interested in his own self is folly; to know that he may be more
interested in his own silly desires appears to be wisdom. J
261) To trust a
treacherous character in the guise of friendship and to offer egoistically
proud fools what they do not deserve are the same. J
262) Short term goals are not in preference to
long term goals, but are even at their expense. When the long term goal is
restoring a broken betrothal and the short term is the wedding function, the
short term does prevail. J
263) It is not the
whole truth that a clear wrongdoing like Lizzie’s diamond possession will bring
unpopularity to her. It is also true that it may make her very admired by Lady Glencora. J
264) If only man would listen to others,
unashamedly people would ask him to destroy himself because that is the only
thought uppermost in men’s minds.
Man cherishes the idea of destroying
a rival. He would want his rival to accept his advice for self-destruction. J
265) The token work is
the material link between the subtle spiritual power and the material world
where it should be achieved. J
266) The longer the
heart waits to be rewarded, the sweeter is the reward of the heart that accepts
it. J
267) Unwillingness to respond to opportunity of
grace is silent opposition of the meek and insecure. J
268) They say nothing
succeeds like success. If so, if you are after success, pay
attention to success, since there is no greater response than to attention.
J
269) Grace comes to one directly or
through goodwill, or even ill-will. As long as you are open to Grace, it shall
come to you. 5
270) To be satisfied with little or less in the
name of austerity or simplicity is a subconscious perversity acting
hypocritically, not an idealistic discipline. J
271) Subconscious ego is capable of
refusing good or even Grace, just because it is offered. 5
272) He who stipulates how Grace
should come to him, denies it. 5
273) Service to evil disqualifies a
person from receiving Grace, even if it is done to a wife or husband or parent
or child. Still, in extreme cases, the person can serve as a channel of Grace
to others. 5
274) In a
family or an organisation, a person may have an endowment. Grace will pass to
all those through that person. No Grace will come to them if they refuse that
channel. 5
275) Our
own birthdays are spiritual openings for growth. Our rival’s birthdays are
occasions for the destruction of opposition. 5
276) Family happiness – formula: Look at an
issue from the other man’s point of view till it becomes your own point of
view. J
277) The
great man, rather the great souls of the world have seen the wholeness of
creation in the parts where their interest lay. The saints have realised the
whole in part. Sri Aurobindo realised the whole as a whole and expressed it in
his integral experience by bringing the Brahman to the material physical world.
&
278) Brahman created the world for Delight.
The Superconscient felt it as static bliss. Jivatma sees the bliss as pain but remains unaffected. Ego
receives the Delight as pain. &
279) It is a backward
society where man is respected for his strength or wealth or even knowledge.
One should be respected for his culture. J
280) Imitation becomes innovation
when the inner springs are released by the outer touch. 5
281) Condescension is the aim of weak substance
with strong consciousness. J
282) Unconscious development opens up
opportunities for the oppressed to rise and assert. Assertion leads to
development; humility opens up greater development. Conscious development calls
for repentance, reversal of attitudes. J
283) Learn the lesson – “Desire to
give out of self-giving as well as desire to take out of selfishness are the
same.” Self-giving to be true must be Self-giving, the Self in us giving to the
Self. 5
284) He who insists on offering now, when he
learns the lesson, will not even agree to give when requested. J
285) To put oneself at
the disposal of the other is a type of self-giving, maybe the best type. J
286) Access to seats of power is an expression
of inner power. Its higher version is humility. J
287) It is
not easy to behave like a gentleman. Should one be psychologically a gentleman,
he is one step into the
288) For one who
brings his own vital under the control of his own mind, his family will be a
source of happiness to him. J
289) Man cherishing evil or at least
evil-minded persons, in spite of their evil tendency, is his link with the
other side.5
290) Every development
opportunity tries to destroy the existing set up at some point or other. If
resisted, it leads to clash. J
291) Whatever be
his situation, he who looks up is right; he who looks down is not. The last
rung of the ladder is that which helps him to discover the inner god in outer
life. 5
292) Their
words are nothing if they are not literally
293) Development occurs when the physical
pressure is replaced by mental urge for progress. J
294) The world has
leaped from mind to Spirit seeking moksha. HE has attempted rising from mind to
Supermind gradually and bringing it back down. That is the only possible method
for social development. So far, the privileged leaped to power and prosperity.
Democracy has opened the route of power to the lowest. We must orchestrate
Man’s rising to full power; and
295) Family happiness will be secure and
everlasting if we remember two things:
1) the family is a social unit; 2) other family members expect the same
out of us as we do from others. J
296) Mental perversions express as life
problems. J
297) Indigenous formula for prosperity:
1) Devise values and skills to achieve from
your own culture and spirituality what Westerners have achieved.
2) Draw upon the subtle life power to solve
crises and create opportunities.
3) Let the Indian discover the spiritual
individual to become effective in Indian democracy. J
298) A person may be good to you or not;
still, it is possible for Grace to come to you through him. If he is good,
Grace will also come to him because he is a channel. 5
299) Those who are in the periphery of
Her atmosphere are beckoned to avail of Her Grace as Luck.5
300) The capacity to please another and
the wish to give joy have a touch of the Divine in them.5
301) The offerings we give the Divine
are as useful to Her as the stones the vital being offered to throw.5
302) In the institution founded on the
principle that ego has to be dissolved, the one ruling impulse is the
pre-eminence of ego.5
303) Dr.
Thorne and Mary illustrate that the greatest wealth and status can seek the
lowest. It is the social best of those times. Now MOTHER gives the world’s best for a similar disciplined culture and value.5
304) Man’s
creations can be greater than his size, not his essential value.5
305) Values
are the psychological instruments of the individual for social progress. J
306) If you want to deliver grace, you
should be capable of two extremely opposite attitudes. One is the capacity to
go behind the absence
of response endlessly and the other the capacity not to respond when you are
chased endlessly.5
307) Not to give the small man the due for his great service is
an absolute rule. Man’s unwillingness to give the due for any work is also an
absolute rule. J
308) Life
functions by the awareness of the physical sensations. Our knowledge of ethics
or spirituality is information in the mind. It would rule the world when it is
accepted by the physical sensations.
Knowledge in the physical is effective. For Mother to
be effective in our life, our knowledge of Her must be
accepted by the body.5
309) If my thoughts should be accepted by the world or
at least my world, they should have been accepted by my physical first and then
my body should possess them as the representative of the world. &
310) Vehemence
of character alienates people. Vehemence of character for a value exhibits
sweetness in its expression.
People
gravitate towards one who combines strength of value and sweetness of temper. J
311) The resourcefulness of the rogue
touches the negative infinity.5
312) He
who has transcended his conscience must bind himself to it more than others,
not because conscience is binding, but because he can illustrate his adherence
to it even when he disregards it. J
313) It
is one of the touches of Wisdom to see how man retains God’s touch when he
denounces him most; and how man is farthest from Him while his worship is in
the acme. J
314) At every step of involution,
provision is made for evolution. To know that helps one to understand The
Life Divine.5
315) Evolution
is to move from the divided part to the united being.&
316) The mind that refuses to understand what it does
not like, is the VITAL mind. &
317) Man,
who knows that he is unable to change, wishes everyone else to change. He who
has changed knowing how difficult it was, still expects others to change.5
318) Ignorance,
inertia and division stand in the way of matter responding. Ignorance can be
overcome by knowledge, inertia by inspiration. To overcome division, one has to
shed ego. &
319) If all traits are DIVINE,
what future does oblivion build? Maybe it is the greatest GLORY that
it will achieve so that one may be oblivious all his life.5
320) I
have been longing to have a story written illustrating the principles of
Mother, especially that great good fortune will knock on the door of one who is
good, efficient and cultured. Anthony Trollope has written Dr. Thorne
exactly on those lines. It cannot be excelled. J
321) To cherish nostalgia is
necessarily backwards. The only exception is the occasion to attempt a greater
whole in the accomplishment.5
322) The falsehood in human personality
is so deeply rooted that anyone who vows to give up lying forgets his vow in no
time.5
323) Progress
of yoga is only at the most sensitive points of the personality, not in the
routine acts. &
324) Overpowering
life circumstances are for the soul that needs to be disciplined from outside.
A mature soul gets intractable life circumstances which can be controlled by
him. He can choose to discipline them or submit to them as a
self-discipline.5
325) Sri
Aurobindo wants us to discover Brahman in Supermind. The Indian elite is capable of doing so in Mind and the masses can do it in
Life. The Westerner did so in Matter. Discovery of Brahman in Matter is
science and prosperity, in Life it is infinite prosperity and everlasting
peace, in Mind it is subtle knowledge of supramental
evolution. These are the steps HE wants us to skip and evolve as the
Supramental Being. Let us do it at any
326) When the consecration of a single
act can raise you hundreds of folds, how can you complain of poverty? 5
327)
328) Those who have betrayed the ideal are the greatest enemies
of new followers of that ideal. J
329) Of
all the ignorances, the one which mistakes the wrong
force as right is the most interesting or most characteristic. Perhaps it is
the most catastrophic. J
330) Leadership
is to have our own power of leading in the vital as a representative of the
collective that needs leadership. J
331) Mind
divides the Force in the form of substance. Beyond the atomic existence, the
force cannot allow itself to be divided since so divided, it must go back into
its original status of being, which is evolution. The dividing mind, while
in the process of involution, cannot act as the instrument of evolution and
turn the substance into being. &
332) Material
objects absorb Mother’s atmosphere, not fully. They need a human intervention
to give results.5
333) The only sensation for the devotee
is physical sensation of Love.5
334) Man’s
offering to God is a distant echo from the farthest point of existence –
physical – of a tittle of what God has poured on him
for ages. For something to be known as offering, at least man has to come
forward to give his all. Only then can he set about withdrawing his vital
mental hold on it. The crassest ignorant expects offering. Its
physical personality asks for it. God does not mind doing that too, to bring
grace to man. In extreme cases, HE even
steals it from man.5
335) Tradition
is traditional superstition. J
336) Man
lives his life by his own self-conception limited by the external circumstances.
In the measure he widens his self-conception, the environment is overcome. He
is so constituted to overcome the entire range of environment.5
337) Man
expands on hearing the uttered word in praise, not the unuttered understanding
of great merit. Word pleases, not
values. J
338) Marriage
reveals the social depths of human nature. Psychological depths will not be
seen until all social supports are lost or withdrawn.
Marriage is
an institution that gives self-knowledge to man. Maybe it stops at social
self-knowledge or goes up to psychological self-knowledge. It has no reach to
reveal to man the spiritual self-awareness. Only yoga can do so. J
339) If the fit should be on me, let
it be a fit for self-awareness.5
340) To read and understand the facts, one requires the
intelligence of literacy. To read and understand the arguments, the intelligence
required is academic. Higher intelligence is needed to know the process of the
author’s thought. Intelligence, as we understand, has no useful purpose
beyond this point. J
341) When mind knows Time is its own
creation, it acquires the ability to rise above its mastery. 5
342) Nothing
expresses the awakened soul as the Smile. J
343) Leadership
is a miniature universe packed with power. Thinkers discuss most of its
external expressions. Its inner essence escapes definition.
The real
leaders sense its presence. The real thinker defines its power in terms of the
other aspects given to him by theory. J
344) The
man who eats a great quantity of coarse food does not enjoy it half as much as
the one who eats a fourth of that quantity of a sophisticated meal. Enjoyment increases as the level of
consciousness increases. To grieve for the absence of it at lower levels is a
biological superstition.
It is not
the animal act but the sweetness of exchange of finer emotions that is the real
enjoyment.
Who in the
metropolis would regret not owning landed property in the village?
Enjoyment
rises in value in proportion to man’s ability to wean himself physically from
the act. J
345) Enjoyment
can be constant when it moves to emotions and spirit. Surely it cannot be
constant if one remains in the physical plane.5
346) Each human contact for me is what I have been and am to
another. J
347) The physical man trying to raise his status often puts his
feet on the table, symbolising his inner aspiration. J
348) Mother makes any subconscious endowment we have
effective in life. Activating the low consciousness of our ego neutralises it
and even wipes out the basic endowment we had.5
349) There
are several movements of Nature that converge at a point of an act, such as
Lila, enjoyment, accomplishment, absolute justice, efficiency, involution,
evolution, etc. All these movements have the dual capacity to express
themselves in any direction fixed by the person. The directions are social,
personal, evolutionary, survival, growth, etc. Social evolution or human
development is determined by the CHOICE man makes. J
350) In bringing one person to appreciate another, man feels he
depreciates his own self. J
351) “Instructions”
occupy a significant place in management since each person receives the
instructions according to his own predilections. Successful instructions now
are successful by virtue of custom and usage, not by virtue of the clarity of either
party.
Capacity to
give instructions rightly qualifies one to be an excellent manager; capacity to
receive them rightly is given to a rising star who will be a future leader. J
352) Waste
is a social conception during periods of scarcity. There is no waste anywhere
else.5
353) Man’s
impulse of surrender is to the opposite.5
354) The finite man adores himself with
infinite energy. Should he shift the adoration to the God in him, he becomes
God.5
355) The story of the three Poles fixing a bulb shows the
infinite scope for progress at any time. J
356) As man moves away from several of his elementary functions,
he also moves away from many elementary relationships. His stage of
development is determined by the measure of his moving away. J
357) Man’s
capacity for nostalgia, past loyalties, desire to settle ancient scores, his
value for venerable tradition are only of his physicality and ego. They have
nothing to do with his ideals or values. J
358) Human
emotions and opinions will NOT change
for ages. The Divine descent will help them change. 5
359) The energy of youth is raw and
rough; that of the Spirit is sweet.5
360) Nothing makes the accomplishment or the ensuing
enjoyment so great as surrender does. &
361) Rare
souls see God. Rarer souls see the same God in Nature. Sri Aurobindo stipulates
that the sadhak must see God and Nature uniting in
him, i.e. he sees his own actions as a point that unites God from above and
Nature from below. &
362) The world needs a thinker whose
context is not the nation or a sector like politics or commerce, but human
existence. Such a thinker also needs a human faculty that is wider than the
mind which is an instrument of Ignorance. 5
363) Money
acquired in greater measure than for direct use, is a fetter like anything
else. J
364) Contagion,
infection, imitation etc. are most intense at the opposite poles. J
365) Tyranny
is enjoyment of expression of authority and energy more than love of cruelty. J
366) Any vibration of Nature, even sex,
can go behind for a time, even a long time, but not permanently unless
sublimated or transformed.5
367) Devotion
devoid of desire fulfils itself, even as oblivious desire to the very depths of
the body never fails to fully satisfy itself.5
368) In human life, only certain
diseases are contagious or infectious. In higher consciousness, all diseases are
infectious, even as the higher consciousness enters us without our knowledge.5
369) C.D.
Deshmukh said the movement of secession in Tamilnadu is the voice of the dying culture that opposes.
We see that phenomenon in its obverse and reverse forms in the Sanskrit names
becoming popular in Tamilnadu and the Brahmin culture,
especially their slang being taken over by the erstwhile anti-Brahmin groups.
It happened in public speaking in the 60s. J
370) Deep
emotion of a devout person is devotion. In response to it, Mother moves into
that centre.5
371) Betrayal
in friendship only expresses that the growth cycle of the relationship is
completed. J
372) Jealousy
disappears in the measure one’s energy is drawn off in his own development and
society prevents expression of jealousy by its culture. J
373) Social
life can at best give only social knowledge. At higher levels knowledge is
psychological. Pure knowledge transcends both.5
374) Dissatisfaction
is a negative emotional aspiration. J
375) Simplicity
of mind is determined by itself, not by the material opulence of the
environment. J
376) Luxury
or simplicity is relative. J
377) The only role of the relationship between the small and the
great is the small should go at the expense of the great. J
378) Social
support means the individual ego should be propped up.J
379) The miser, at a moment when life showers on him its bounty,
tries to preserve his miserliness. J
380) Devotees
constantly conquer space by getting
things done at a distance without traversing it, but miss the truth as they mistake
it to be a prayer answered.5
381) When hostile forces are overcome, they are
contained necessitating our being on the alert. No defence or alertness is required
if they are transformed. &
382) Trying
to please others is the surest way of displeasing oneself.J
383) Superstition
is the strength of vital life. J
384) Fairness
is a function of available freedom. J
385) Oblivious
people by their very best will achieve oblivion. J
386) Moving
from mental thought to mental consciousness, one sees that Time and Space are
conquerable.5
387) Evolution
is experience replaced by education.5
388) One who knows the subtle forces,
the causal plane, and their symptoms will never fail to see the results of his
work, however distant their expressions are.5
389) Constant
emotion of constancy having moved to the substance becomes devotion generating
powerful currents of immortality that can even neutralise poison. J
390) —
Man knows by the sense covered mind.
— The jnana yogi sees in his trance by his mind freed from the
senses.
— The sadhak can see from the mental psychic freed from the
surface during his waking hours.
— The supramental being sees with the newly created faculties of
the body – the physical psychic.
— You are what you see or that from
where you see. &
391) Rationality
accepts one’s own defects as true. He who does it himself is said to be RATIONAL. Him we call a rational man.5
392) How can one be a devotee without
working or consecrating?
5
393) For the pioneer who leads the society, having outgrown it in
essence, to long foolishly for its approval is a retrograde step. J
394) Sensitivity
is an organisation in the physicality of each plane according to its mental
values. Thus it carries the maximum intensity of forces that can be harnessed
between the mind and physical in that plane. J
395) Any intense event in life raises
the sex vibration in us. Any intense event in the life of devotion raises
aspiration.5
396) Rank
tries hard to preserve its external forms, only when they are about to lose it.
J
397) • To
destroy ego externally is revolution.
§ To destroy ego from inside is evolution.
§ Evolution of ego’s dissolution is transformation.
§ The Ego that realises the value of spiritual transformation is
one who passes through self-immolation.
§ Objectivity gives one that knowledge.
§ Ego that dissolves itself does not move to the Purusha but
becomes the Psychic.
§ Purusha emerges when ego separates itself from its activity.
§ It is the being of the Becoming that can
dissolve ego from
inside. &
398) There are people who understand work; others understand
people. Those who understand both are fitted for recruitment of staff. J
399) Mind
grows through imagination by anticipating the future possibility. It also
‘grows’ through fantasy by learning to discard the non-existent.5
400) The
heart expands in gratitude to present Rs. 100 to one
who has completed a work for you that would otherwise cost Rs.
1,84,000. 5
401) To think of Mother when choked means She is all over us. &
402) The fluent liar who is prolific in his lying belongs to
life. He goes from life to matter because of his mercenary nature. J
403) Time
is abridged by technology by speed. Mind can abridge Time by changing its
conception. &
404) He
whose physical being rises to pure existence is capable of Truth. &
405) He
who goes after something will go on seeking all his life. Seeking itself will
be the reward. What comes to us is ours. When we seek inside, the world will
seek us.5
406) Ignorance
is better than knowledge. &
407) Earth
is superior to paradise. &
408) Man
is superior to the Gods. &
409) To see the small as great is yogic vision. &
410) To see darkness as intense Light is drishti. &
411) To know that evil is a great Good is knowledge.
&
412) To oppose the goodwill of the devotee or to abuse God soils
one’s soul. J
413) Luck
is for one who is wedded to Truth. J
414) The greatest courage is the
realisation of one’s own defects. To pardon those who humiliated us, one needs
yogic equality.5
415) To know that the robber came for
the sannyasi’s utensils because God needs them
is to have a heart where God abides.5
416) To hate, dislike and remove from one’s periphery the thing
that one most adores is possible for man. J
417) He
who believes he alone knows all expresses a great yogic secret inversely or
perversely. The wise man comes to the
unpardonable attitude that he alone knows and no one else knows anything. It
is a pity that it is true.5
418) One
who is too conscious of his capacities will express it in shirking work. J
419) Man
does not seek Mother. When he thinks of Her, his mind
will not go to Her. Mother who does not come to him as his desires and needs
is of no use to him. His own desires are important for him even in the
shape of Mother. Man takes the fulfilment of his desires as his faith. Man
calls his desire devotion.
As one seeks desire, if he seeks Mother, She will
respond. We have the power to realise anything. Mother can be realised. Luck
can be achieved. But we seek only our desires. Desire changing into
aspiration makes man a devotee. There is nothing man cannot realise if he
intensely seeks it. By seeking only Mother, the heart will be blessed with
Grace. 5
420) Help
leads to trouble. What we give may be money or sympathy. One’s yoga is not
helped by others.
Help must be returned with interest. When you want to
take, you will lose what you have. What you earn alone is yours.
Whatever you receive must be returned in greater
measure.
Our own possession will not generate trouble.
Memory is man. We cannot join others, because no one
will admit us. As long as we wish to join others, we will meet with no one who
admits us. Mother alone will take us in. We can join others only through Mother.
There is only one thing. It is Love. There is only one
Person. It is Mother. Man’s giving ends in trouble. To give to Mother is
offering. It will bring everyone, including Mother.5
421) We understand another person at once. Even at the age of
fifty, we do not understand ourselves like that. J
422) God
is the Love and the Beloved. &
423) The miserable man cannot be saved
without his misery creating scars in the saver. His yoga offers to transform
misery into joy.5
424) Ananda
is luck, it is the Ananda of Brahman. It is Mother’s
Luck.5
425) One’s
patience annoys others. When Patience saturates itself, it becomes sacred. It
will make the impatient patient. This is Mother’s Patience.5
426) Constant thought of constancy moves from
words to settled emotions of deeply seated sentiment. Then enjoyment is ever-living
and also ever-increasing in intensity. J
427) Man
is physical even in his mind, perhaps in spirit too. It is not in him to give
up anything unless it is taken away from him. He does give up desires,
attachments, etc. before he is ripe enough for that detachment violently. Rationality
requires voluntarily giving up things or persons whose nature he understands
has to be given up. Voluntary weaning away from low consciousness reveals rationality
that has power over the physical.
o Man gives up out of selfishness.
o Selflessness demands giving up the
low.
o Maturity gives up voluntarily.
o Immaturity waits for it to be taken
away.
o Maturity gives up the wrong, takes
on the right on the very first understanding. J
428) Adoration
of the feminine heart goes to the charming face, not a capable head or an
upright character. Not all men can escape that illusion even after they
discover how odious that adoration is. J
429) The Life Divine
pours His consciousness into us whether we read it,
speak it or speak about it.5
430) Cultural
values are the sensitivities of social organisations. They help to concentrate
the social forces for their progress. J
431) A
family or an organisation that accepts Mother will have Her
protection in an organised fashion, if not as an organisation.5
432) Democracy
that offers the ultimate opportunities to the weak, the poor and the
underprivileged opens up infinite opportunities for all evil forces to express
their resourcefulness.
Mother offers to all those who try to avail of the
opportunities of democracy full protection from the play of the evil forces.
For Mother’s present protection to become a social
organisation, the society should accept Mother.5
433) Diseases
lie dormant in us. They are cured by prayer or medicine only when they come to
the surface. The idea, ‘Transformation of the body needs the disease’ is based
on this principle. We can transform the body if our concentration on it is as
intense as when it is diseased. Such a transformation is offered to man who
has faith in The Mother in his physical substance.5
434)
Every value is related to every other value. That is
why rewards or punishments come in areas where no attention is paid. J
435) To fully cover the negative side
is to fully conquer the forces of that side.5
436) Men
who have attained the goal they sought often are unaware of it, for want of an
outer symbol. Nehru and Indira were not at all aware of the monumental advances
they made in Indian development directly, as well as in laying the necessary
foundations, because the GNP never measured it.
Mother felt sorry for not remembering Him after fully
identifying with Him.
Long after the work is accomplished in the subtle
plane, he who does not see it in the surface wonders about his ideal.
Often the achievements are seen in the reverse. When
the accomplishment is all but perfect, as it does not show visibly and he has
no subtle perception, men can be dejected or frustrated, or may even despair.
The music master sees the job lost, not the hearts
won.5
437) Man
cannot remain what he has been after knowing Mother, even as the earth cannot
remain dark after sunrise.5
438) Equilibrium, not ethics. J
439) Life
is lived successfully by equilibrium and harmony of forces, not by their being
right or wrong. Not the moral right, but their sufficiency in harmony makes
life possible. J
440) Whatever one looks up to in desire, he is sure to miss. It
can come to one only when it feels attracted to him. The surest way to escape
wealth is to adore it without longing. J
441) Man
can know the level of his own personality by those personalities that attract
him and those of whom he disapproves. The former is his goal,
the latter is what he is not able to wean himself away from. J
442) The practical concept of Infinity
has several expressions. One of them is for the individual to know he is equal
to the society in its capacities.5
443) He
who understands Lila or its version in his own life and feels the joy of
knowledge emerging from his ignorance understands Sri Aurobindo. &
444) An unformed person clings to formed forces of the society
such as power or money. This happens when he has greater energy than usual.
Sherlock Holmes is a genius in action. All his life he struggled to preserve
the tradition. From a revolutionary point of view, we can consider him unformed
and informed of vast reservoirs of energy. J
445) To create anything in any plane
and establish it securely, one has to ORGANISE all
the (12) spiritual aspects of that plane and win their endorsement from the
next higher plane. Social stability is secure because peace, prosperity, law, education,
enjoyment, etc. are fully organised and the mind endorses them accordingly.5
446) Stationary
life that needs no shifting of places is overcoming Space, through its nearest
expression. Mind that refuses to go to the past or future is its counterpart
that overcomes Time in a similar measure.
Overcoming Time in the right sense of the word is to
be ecstatic in the present. A similar experience in Space may forget totally
and blissfully the external world.
Its real indication is the dissolution of the ego or
its beginning. 5
447) He
who condemns the leader he admired all along condemns his own character! J
448) Trying
to revive relationships outgrown is to invite catastrophe.J
449) Reversal
of consciousness of His Yoga is practised in the society by the population
serving the underprivileged
450) The
Establishment that was warm to a rebel begins to be cool when the work of the
rebel begins to take shape. J
451) As the biological man seeks the woman, the social man seeks
the new values which are the very opposite of what is. J
452) The
secret of life as well as higher life lies in knowing how the play generates
results – Consciousness with Consciousness, Being with Being, Ananda with
Ananda, Force with Force. Creation by destruction and destruction by
creation are the twin facets of that primal Secret.5
453) Desire
to give away what one is about to get is considered to be self-giving in the
extreme. If it is really so, what is expected will arrive. If it does not come
as expected, the urge is not self-giving but self-expanding vanity. J
454) The woman has an intuition in practical affairs where man
does not have a similar grip over the facts. J
455) To make a virtue out of a useful and convenient institution
like marriage shows the infinite capacity for illusion in man.J
456) Power
as money can fulfil man partially, but the woman can fulfil him fully, when she
is awake in her spirit.5
457) Neither money, nor
power, not even the spirit can offer man the ultimate sense of completion or
fulfilment as the woman does. The woman combines in her his opposite, his
spiritual complement as well as the Form his nature seeks completion in.5
458) The most crude expressions of ego are arrogant
stupidity and violence.
Ř Pride and assertion are its less violent forms.
Ř It can move to self-preservation from destruction
of others.
Ř Competition and jealousy are its vital forms.
Ř Prejudice and opinion are its mental forms.
Ř Memory is a support to ego in perpetuating Time.
Ř As ego was created at the time of
creation of Time, it will survive until Time is overcome. Memory plays the role of lingering
in Time.
Ř Ego can be given up through self-discipline. Abolition of selfishness
achieves it. Its other components will survive still.
Ř Ego cannot survive below the surface, nor when
its finite form is lost.
Ř Mind is overcome by stopping the running thoughts, losing the faculty of
thinking, and by restoring its lost link with Supermind.
Ř Time is overcome by losing oneself in the present and withdrawing from
memory.
Ř Only consecration moves one to the depth.
Ř Not to react is possible only when one sees he is
the Whole.
Ř Withdrawal of the senses removes the grossness of the ego which helps it
to become subtle.
Ř The deep decision to dissolve the Ego
initiates the
process. &
459) The one weapon of the hostile forces is to upset
one’s calm before they start their work. &
460) He
who wishes to be loyal to those who betray is subconsciously trying to outlive
treachery.5
461) Two
effective ways of understanding oneself are, 1) to assume you alone are
responsible for everything that has gone wrong in any work you have been
involved in, and 2) to assume that it is because of your participation that any
work you were part of has grown into a success. These are true because ACTION
in the world is man-centred with the two extremes of his positive and
negative personalities. 5
462) When there is concentration, it is
best to resort to consecration. In its absence, better to increase
concentration.5
463) Subtle
imagination when saturated to intensity has a great chance of its becoming real
in the gross material plane of physical realities. 5
464) As long as an idea appears in the
mind and evokes an answer to it, it means the mind has not outgrown it. The
levels of consciousness outgrown by the mind do not arise in the mind as
disappearing thoughts. 5
465) To know one’s defects precisely and in their true dimensions
is the real strength of man. J
466) The value of an idea is appreciated only when the person
faces the problem and a question has risen in his mind. Ideas are valueless in
the absence of a real life context that compels mind to thought. J
467) When concentration flags, look at
the mental impulses and consecrate them, then the intensity of concentration
will increase.5
468) Receptivity
of Mother’s Consciousness in the body makes it lose its physical rigidity and
gives a longer life. J
469) The best of thinkers when they
come to meet life are taken in by vital beings that can deliver them some petty
results. When thinkers who are not charmed by the likes of clairvoyants attempt
rationality, they may rise above the prevalent superstition of the scientists. 5
470) The longer the devotee lives, the
deeper his receptivity.5
471) Readers
mistakenly identify the writer with his characters. A character rises to his
own stature only when his trait becomes impersonal knowledge in the writer. It
is also true, like
472) Analogies
fabricated by one who does not understand the basis rightly, will not only fail
to serve the purpose, but may pervert the original intention.
Right
analogy illuminates; inappropriate analogy distorts. J
473) Consecration
slows down involution and finally wipes it out, leaving the field free for
evolution.5
474) Progress
begins with ACTION. Rule No. 1 of psychic
education initiates one into progress.
Work uncomplainingly, nonstop if you want progress.
Greater
progress lies in not feeling a complaint inside.
The
above are included in negative progress. The first step of positive progress is
to be aware of it every moment.Its measure of success
is seen in the immediate outside life. One can initiate himself into the
first step of progress only when he takes to the four consecrations. 5
475) Luck
means nonstop work in Mother. 5
476) Can one who lies come anywhere
near to Mother? 5
477) He
who is lost in the moment, however efficient he is, will never be able to build
for the future. J
478) It is right to hasten when the
opportunity waits. When no such opportunity awaits, to
press forward will cause a recoil. The
power of Patience to rush forward never fails.5
479) The world is ruled by likings and dislikings.
It runs en masse after what it likes and frowns on what it dislikes. Scope
for rationality is yet to rise in the society. J
480) He
who needs money for spending meaningfully, will earn endlessly. &
481) The
capacity to try and accomplish something by the very method that will destroy
it shows that one is still in the plane of mind and its ignorance. 5
482) The opposition to any change mostly tries to strengthen it
physically, vitally help it to release greater energy and offers a greater
understanding in the mind. J
483) The great achievements of one who is outside the Establishment
are negatively resisted and positively recognised by Silence. Appreciation here
is not the order of the day. J
484) Rebels
arise from outside, not inside. The only instance in history is Gorbachev
destroying the Communist party from inside. Gorbachev is a unique rebel who
destroyed the system from inside. J
485) The greatest of compliments one
can get from the ignorant public is that you are ignorant. A greater one is
that you are wicked. The ignorant public initiating the movement to destroy
someone is the finest stamp that he is truly a great soul, maybe tending
towards avatarhood. 5
486) He
who knows the level or point where he levels off, has a future possibility of
growth. Whether he continues to progress or not, he is the evolving godhead
at that point. 5
487) The route for Indian prosperity is
to discover Brahman in Life.5
488) Discovery
of Brahman in Life, includes discovering Brahman in Matter. 5
489) Yoga
brings the outer and inner together into one unified whole at a higher level of
created existence. &
490) No
one will fail to achieve a work when he pushes his mind away.J
491) No
devotee can escape LUCK if
he does not stop for a minute from working. 5
492) Indolence
is the physical version of the unconsciousness of the soul in trance. 5
493) Each time man misses an
opportunity, Mother opens a greater one which is more difficult to avail of. 5
494) Work
uncomplainingly consecrating it, and LUCK will
seek you.5
495) How can you not be happy if you stop complaining?
&
496) Man
who attempts surrender achieves the same to a higher, finer version of his
desire. 5
497) Inspiration
energises, whether it is right or wrong. Intuition illuminates, right or wrong.
5
498) Efficiency
is to redirect the outward energies inside.
Effectivity is to redirect the outward impulses inward.
Spiritual prosperity is infinite; material
prosperity is finite.
Prosperity is spiritual, not material.
Accomplishment is in the Being, not Becoming. &
499) Knowledge moves down to the
physical consciousness and substance as physical sensation and sensitivity when
it becomes power and effective. Knowledge begins as an unrelated observed
information and ends as power of the individual over the collective. Any
progress is to move on this scale further. 5
500) •
Faith, grace and supergrace.
• Gross, subtle and causal planes.
• Problems, opportunities and self-choice.
• Subconscious, conscious and Superconscious.
• Subliminal, inner being and surface.
• Ignorant seeking, conscious seeking and what
comes by itself.
• What comes by itself through ignorance and consciousness.
• Problems belong to life, opportunities belong
to mind, grace belongs to Spirit.
• These several trios need not necessarily have
a fixed
correspondence. &
501) Thoughts
are generated in the world even as products are created by the market. We
choose some of them and accept. We call them our own thoughts. As we produce
some products for the market, we also create some thoughts for the world. There
we are original thinkers. J
502)
503) Human
life does not permit ready fulfilment of all its desires. Assuming it does, it
is obvious it will soon come to an end. So, the mechanism of absence of
fulfilment of desires provides for the prolongation of life. Is there a higher
balance where life is endlessly
prolonged at will while the aspirations are fulfilled unfailingly? The longer
he seeks for a life of successfully fulfilled aspiration, the higher his aims
should rise. Desire and ego should give place to aspiration and the psychic.
Desire moves towards its defeat. Ego struggles towards its dissolution. Only
the evolving psychic enables the body to be transformed so that life never
comes to be terminated and aspirations never meet with failure.
Immortality is a life of
harmonious enjoyment. 5
504) Several
1) The key to the physical leads to the birth
of the Supramental being.
2) The key to the vital gives a life of LUCK either
to the individual or to the collective, stopping short of the physical
immortality of supramentalisation.
3) The
505) For the thinking mind, the joy of
existence is the discovery and the penetration of the mystery of creation that
comes with knowledge. 5
506) God
enjoys Self-discovery. Man enjoys repetition, energy, understanding.
As long as he enjoys any of them, he cannot move further. When he stops understanding,
step by step he moves to the supramental intuition.
At this point God’s joy is in determination. Beyond lies
the joy of consciousness and being. The joy of self-discovery is for the Being when it gives up the joy of being. &
507) Self-discovery
for Man at any given moment is to discover what he really enjoys whether it is
repetition or understanding. To know that one does not want to know appears to
be the self-discovery that awaits
508) Man loves the very opposite of what he
seeks. His goal lies in neither what he seeks or its
opposites, but in their becoming complements. By seeking it in either, he is
human. By seeking it in both, he rises to the godhead. &
509) Judge another at his best. Give another man
your very best. Trying to give anything less will
drain you and take you to his level. Often such a giving will not reach the
person. If it does, it will be used to destroy you. J
510) Only when the field is full of crops do we need a
fence. The fence is the crop protecting itself. So also evil is the good that
circles its own perfection. Good needs protection only when it is rich.
The fence
is not frowned upon by the crop as it protects it. Even so, evil is the fence
that circles the good for its own protection.&
511) That patience which issues from the
knowledge that evil is after all good, is lasting patience. 5
512) The key to the vital is to know
life at its most sensitive, live front and have a mastery over it in one’s own
affairs. 5
513) The
key to the mind: Silence and a thought
capacity to know
514) Problems
arising out of physical inability give pain to the body. Mental agony arises
when one refuses to do physically what he can out of a value. Confusion is
mental inability. J
515) The idea that one knows more than others is not so much an
egoistic idea as one arising out of the ignorance of what others know. J
516) The mind’s faith in the medicine makes the medicine
effective. Its faith in the doctor often saves the life. It is the faith of the
soul that makes one immortal. &
517) Surrender
waits till thoughts cease. &
518) The beginning of yoga starts with surrender which
is offered by the awakened soul to the inner Divine. It is preceded by other
steps as follows:
v consecration
v all-inclusive
concentration
v a formidable will that seeks consecration.
v sincere aspiration of
the inner Divine for the
v a call of the
Transcendent to the Individual.
All those
who have come to Mother have that call one way or another is some measure. &
519) Yogic
energies for life have to fill the entire plane of life, not only the point
that receives, even as the water that enters the reservoir cannot raise the water
level at the point of entry until it raises the level of the whole.
Maybe when
the recipient is selfish and resists self-giving, he may rise faster. At least
the energies of Integral Yoga are not available in great measure for selfish
benefits. 5
520) Before you think and formulate the
thought, the impulse of the vital makes several moves. Life
outside also moves many times. Here we see the speed of life far greater
than the mind’s thinking.5
521) When you call Mother, the ego
recedes. Ego is the obstacle; it operates in the planes of mind; Nature
includes both. Only when all give way will Mother remain there forever. 5
522) Information
is knowledge. Knowledge is power.
Power confers rights. Rights are self-existent.
Rights are not to be granted. Rights are taken and
exercised.
Information is the first link of the chain whose last
link is self-existent right that leads to endless prosperity.
Life is infinite.
It is for man to choose.
Life cannot compel man’s choice. Man’s choice can
compel life to submit.
Finite man can choose to be infinite in resources.
It is the choice that makes the man. 5
523) It
is a subtle axiom that there are no coincidences in life. As no disease rises
in the body by chance, no event occurs in life by chance. J
524) As
consecration and surrender are whole acts that embrace all the six aspects of
life – unity, knowledge, will, love, Truth and Goodness – they cannot be made
by partial personalities on the surface. Conditions for becoming complete
personalities are many, such as never giving out information, not expecting,
patient reticence, quiet efficiency, non-initiative, equality, etc. 5
525) It
is the restlessness of the physical being that expresses itself in all planes
as haste, hurry, impatience, tension, irritability and expectation. 5
526) Our fullest education issues out
of the context of the greatest enjoyment. 5
527) A disease is the result of deterioration of general health expressing
in one part or organ. Cure is to handle the part or the pathological expression
of the part to set the conditions right in the whole. J
528) The key: either one
stumbles on it unconsciously or he rises to the next higher plane in thought
and theorises the process to secure the key. Otherwise the key lies only with
those who have accomplished for whatever reason. J
529) In all ages, the most productive section is the vanguard.
The proletariat was revolutionary in an industrial society. Now it is the
underprivileged population. Hence the rising expectation is the vanguard, not
the proletariat any more. J
530) When
“Let Thy Will be done” is repeated, it leaves a residue of our will always.
When the residue disappears, man crosses the mental barrier. 5
531) The
Power, the Happiness, the Light, the knowledge, the Bliss, the Love, the Peace
that flow from the Divine Grace are denied to rulers, to earthly success,
philosophy, satisfaction of desire, human relationships and death. &
532) To separative existence, all those
who are not friends are foes. J
533) A truant member of an organisation not in tune with it can
be spoken to by a wise man who appeals to his enlightened self-interest and
restores his harmony with the whole. When this truant member comes in contact
with the founder of the organisation, his truancy disappears and harmony is
restored by itself. Mind acts like the wise man, Supermind acts like the
founder. J
534) Until one starts transformation, he is only a
devotee who is silently waiting in Her atmosphere. One does not come into touch
with Her Force until he starts transformation.
It is
Mother’s Force always, whether it is involution or evolution. It is
transformation that changes life force into Mother’s Supramental Force.
Mother
comes to you in transformation. Until then, you seek Her.
&
535) For a plane to give up a
vibration, its impulses must give it up. 5
536) When
reason is partial, it tends to emphasize itself exclusively with the result
that life forces it to do the very opposite. 5
537) The uncivilised man avoids
education and frowns on it, as he values the freedom from it. He seeks to know
by experience what education gives. He who thinks to know what can be learned
by silence is the uncivilised one in spirituality. 5
538) Logic
is the mental perception of the laws of material existence.J
539) Neither Being nor the Becoming can feel the joy of
self-discovery. It is only the Being of the Becoming that constantly feels that
Joy. &
540) Outrage issues out of not only gross
injustice, but also by the fact that one is cornered. In fact, in the latter occasion,
the intensity of outrage is more acute. J
541) Gross
thought is what we initiate; the subtle thought occurs by itself. 5
542) It is ordinary activities that often initiate great
inspirations. J
543) One wise man entering an organisation of innumerable factions,
can disillusion the smallest victim and proceed to do so with each higher
level, until he can expose the very ideal of the organisation.
Factotums,
intriguers, pillars of the organisation, stalwarts will all, one by one, give
way to the incoming wisdom. Not only intrigues will fall, but practical
idealism as well as idealism will meet with a downfall, never to rise again. J
544) Death
is the only punishment for uncivilised public behaviour in an uncivilised
nation ruled by a dictator. Uncivilised activities rear their heads only in a
civilised nation ruled by law.
The fact
that uncivilised behaviour exists in public or private shows the nation is
civilised and is ruled by law and not brute force. J
545) We now understand that modern medical technology, if available
in earlier times, could have saved countless millions. Similarly, there is a
comprehensive diagnosis which may yet be developed, which, if resorted to now,
could save many more lives. The fact is, no one need
die of a disease, if only the diagnosis and treatment are based on the
understanding of the whole person. J
546) He
who cannot preserve what he has cannot go ahead.
He who
cannot risk what he has cannot go ahead.
One is for
the below average and the other for the above average.J
547) Love
cannot be received by those who measure it in terms of its material
benefits. A thing is of value not for
its own sake; but for the use value of the receiver. J
548) In
asking for opening, SHE really asks for the double opening which opens the inner mind below
and the spiritualised mind above. &
549) Physical
affection is incapable of mental rationality. It is a rare adventure to raise
physical affection to mental sentiment. It resists such conversion. Physical
affection through physical psychic can become Love. It is achieved by
surrender. Frustrated affection turns into hatred. Hatred is the ego of
physical affection. J
550) The ideal is to be honoured, not lived for those who come
from a family of no tradition or culture, struggling for survival. In their
more meaningful acts, they will be mercenary. If the foundations shake, the
personality easily becomes one of a ‘cad’.
When youthful idealism dies and man sees his survival is often shaky, he
begins to degenerate into a cad.
Not many are
endowed with manhood. In the face of questionable survival, manhood does not
serve. J
551) The charm of the male for the female starts with
the plant, survives in the animal, romanticizes itself in the human and
consummates itself in the Ishwara. The
Ishwara enjoys the act of creation in his Shakti. The Shakti, having travelled
through involution and evolution returns to Ishwara to consummate her mission.
Together they return to the Absolute. &
552) When you fully learn the essence of a certain
experience, it goes out of your mind completely. Complete knowledge gives
complete forgetfulness. The past,
lingering as a memory, is a sign of imperfect knowledge from that experience.
&
553) Where
knowledge is imprecise and imperfect, it is customary that people insist that
their own wrong knowledge, which they have been used to for a long time, is
right. Right, for them, is their own
habit, not the true right form. J
554) A man cannot be always positive or positive to all people.
He can be so to those whom he chooses. One who is positive to all is no longer
human. J
555) A
work’s progress is dependent on the rise of emotions in the doer. If not about
that work itself, at least emotion for some other thing must rise. It is
emotion that achieves, not the body or mind.J
556) Conscious
enjoyment is full and manysided, truly all-sided.
Therefore, it moves up constantly. Unconscious enjoyment is partial and each
bout has to be compensated before the next rises.J
557) To be God’s instrument we must
receive His Grace and give it as Love to all. We refuse to receive grace and
become finite. The finite is unable to practise self-giving to the other
finites or the infinite not-self which turns out to be selfish or fear. He who
is selfless and altruistic tries to give his knowledge or sympathy or his own
possessions which can only help his ego grow.
Give we must, not our own possessions
but love, which we receive as Grace from the Divine. 5
558) Mother
respects our freedom to act and insists on our choice. We use that freedom with
a vengeance. 5
559) To speak or to think is to be in
Time.
To be silent is to be in Timelessness.
To be able to think, speak or act from Silence is to
be in the simultaneous integrality of Time-eternity
and Timeless-eternity.
To speak makes things clear; to think makes
understanding clear; to be silent makes for higher understanding; to think in
silence makes the human act divine. 5
560) When a man acquires power, more
people are able to accept him and his ideas than before. When a man acquires supramental power, all whom he deals with will readily obey
him in life, if not in yoga. 5
561) When the mind loses its curiosity,
the vital loses its zest for life or the body fails to generate excess energy,
it means the soul has decided that it cannot use this embodied being any more.
Then OLD
562) Loyalty’s
best expression is faithfulness to the wife. One who is incapable of being
unfaithful is a mental man of idealism. He who enjoys his loyalty is one who
lives his idealism.
It is a feminine virtue to be instinctively loyal.
Physical purity comes from previous generations.
Mental purity comes from previous births. Pure body and an impure mind is the
formative stage of a mental soul. Pure mind and an impure body shows incomplete
formation.5
563) Chastity
is the beauty of the soul.
Chastity of the body and mind belongs to the great
soul or unformed goodness. 5
564) Process
of transcending mind and reaching Supermind:
Conceptual – work
out the process of Being, Consciousness, Ananda, Truth changing into Non-Being,
Inconscience, Insensibility, Falsehood. Do the same
for Goodness, Beauty, Delight, Power, Eternity, Infinity, Immortality, Peace, Silence for their opposites. A full conception of the lower
becoming the higher will give the mental consciousness the full potentiality to
transcend mind.
Practical : practise of any of them starts giving the
power to reach Supermind; practise of all of them yields the supramental consciousness.
Fullness: The body consciousness admitting this
knowledge and agreeing to this practise is the fullness of supramentalisation
of the SUBSTANCE. &
565) Truth
to Falsehood:
I – Truth – Truth Consciousness – Conscious of
its own fact.
Harmony, unity,
energy – inertia, Falsehood.
II – Truth – Truth Consciousness – Conscious of its own fact – energy of action – losing energy
and becoming inert (Falsehood is the potential energy of lack of action and
awareness.) &
566) Subjective
and Objective conditions are interchangeable because they are one; Time and
Space are interchangeable. Matter – energy on one side and Time and Space on
another side are inter-convertible as they are all four different conditions in
a chain of successive changes. &
567) How does the movement from action to the psychic
take place? Object – Analysis – Ego – Purusha – Psychic.
When we are lost in an act, we are the object.
Detachment makes for analysis. Thinking shifts the centre to Ego.
Silence takes him to Purusha. When moving from the Timeless to simultaneous
Time and Time eternity, the psychic emerges. This is the Being
of the Becoming.
The Being, i.e. the psychic, rises to the Supreme Ishwara through
silence, light, intuition and intuition inside.
To rise to the Absolute from there, it must cease to manifest. From
there it can choose to manifest at the Supramental level or down to the level
of Matter.
As in the ascent one moved from thought to knowledge inside, so in the
descent the order is reversed. E.g. coming to Silence, he acts from the higher
mind. From there he begins to think and talk, to act in the mental plane, but
presided over by the inner Silence. &
568) To receive Grace and use it for smaller purposes
is involution. To let Grace impact on the small so
that it rises is evolution. &
569) In the great man, his routine
responsibilities become subconscious, leaving his conscious energies free to
maintain his greatness.
In the small man capable of potential
greatness, the routine work remains conscious and he remains small. 5
570) Matter
is God in the descent. The Supramental Being is God in the ascent. &
571) It
is no longer religious worship but spiritual illumination, says Mother. As long
as we ask, ‘What shall I do?’, ‘What is the rule or dharma which we should
follow?’, it is to follow another’s awakening and
therefore it is religious worship. When we surrender and let the Divine act, we
allow the spirit in us to awaken.&
572) Every obstacle, injustice, or evil doing is an
occasion for getting over the ego. &
573) Even
infinite energies on an unorganised finite organisation cannot produce more
than three or four times expansion. If the organisation has no measuring rod for
work and is impressionist, he may not feel any progress at all. At best, he may
feel the work has become streamlined. 5
574) Constant
remembrance is no exalted, noble phrase. It is memory becoming Mother. Beyond
memory lies consciousness and beyond consciousness lies substance.
Constant presence in the substance is to be God. The same remembrance in
the consciousness enables one to become God. When memory develops the same
remembrance, it achieves as God achieves. &
575) Man
reaches a point in his life where his actions or thoughts cease or if they ever
issue, issue out of a source that is no longer a cause. Such a joy is causeless
joy, such an action is an action that moves the world. To be in touch with a causeless joy is to be
spiritually free. &
576) To fashion the strategy by which people and society will
move at once is the ultimate in development. To do so, it is necessary to
prepare the society or the society should be prepared. It is a rare adventure
to prepare an immature society by fashioning that strategy. J
577) Moving
from thought to silence is moving from the gross plane to the subtle plane. 5
578) Patience
is the ability to wait for any action till all aspects of a work are known.
When all aspects are fully known, the work moves into action by itself. Before
that, one takes initiative to act. 5
579) To discover one’s soul and help others discover
theirs is the only service man can do. &
580) The boat of man moving upstream in
the river of life is yoga. It is a nonstop effort of
greatest strain. A moment of respite
pushes the boat downstream. 5
581) The practice of self-giving in the
beginning will end up in self-enrichment. In the final stages, self-giving
practised genuinely will enrich the plane of life where it is practised by
enriching everyone there.
5
582) When we refuse to trust Mother, we
really put ourselves into the hands of life which decides according to our
karma. Better to put ourselves in Her hands.
When you arrive at a dead end it is
always a resistance or refusal of Grace, not a confusion or incapacity. 5
583) The ignorance that makes human
life miserable is understood to be as one of NOT knowing.
That ignorance by which one wilfully ignores what he knows very well makes for
certain destruction and acts as the protective cover for the first type of
ignorance.5
584) If Love is born in you, give it to the Shakti, not
to a woman. Shakti alone can receive it, as she has generated it. The woman can
receive only a physical, vital version of it unless she herself raises herself
to become Shakti.
One secret of this yoga is to receive Grace and give it out as Love.
Grace cannot express itself as (human) love. &
585) Energy
is the Immutable’s self-chosen movement.
Eternal movement results in force.
Self-chosen movement is energy. &
586) Matter–Energy
in Being becomes Time and Space in consciousness, obeying the rule of reversal
of consciousness. This can be reduced to a formula or several formulas if by
concentration mind is raised to consciousness and Being. &
587) Man
thinks of Mother in times of crises. A great crisis drives him to call Her. A devoted heart thinks of Her
involuntarily. He who loves to call Her and enjoys
calling Her is a bhakta. A sadhak
longs and yearns to call Her. Devotion turns into sadhana when the memory of Mother becomes sweet and one
cannot exist without calling Her, as calling is then
his breath of life. &
588) Surrender
begins after the realisation of the individual soul dissolving the ego.
Consecration leads to that. One starts with aspiration. It is aspiration of all
the parts all the time that is capable of maturing into consecration. Opening
in all parts and sincerity in the central being can result in that aspiration.
As this new evolution needs a double opening, one has to wait until the whole
being opens. Opening, sincerity, aspiration, consecration and surrender are the
landmarks in yoga. &
589) Mathematics
is the very first codification of the mental formulation of consciousness.
Physics and mathematics represent two branches of knowledge and naturally get
intertwined at their origin. J
590) Equality
is only for a SILENT mind. 5
591) Accomplishment
in life requires risking all that one gained until that point. Yoga demands
that you come forward to lose entirely what you gained or created until now.
&
592) When
a real strength does not cross the plane you are in, pushed to its extreme, it
will turn into a weakness in another area. The principle here is strength is only
one aspect. Real growth is growth of all aspects and into the next plane. In
its absence, increasing the intensity of one aspect will have opposite results. 5
593) Silence
results when activity is destructured. Peace issues
when Existence dissolves. The Absolute created the Self-conscious Being through
Peace. &
594) Mother
always gives ‘more than what we ignorantly asked for.’ For the elite, She denies what they ask for and gives what they never knew
to exist. For the chosen, She offers what they never
could have conceived of as possible, since it is from the realms of new
creation. &
595) Sri
Aurobindo has told in The Life Divine how the world was created and why. The Absolute choosing for one more joy, in the exercise of its
prerogative of being infinite, decided on the course of self-concealing so that
self-discovery would yield that intended joy.
The creation proceeds from the
Self-conscious Being until it converts itself into inconscient Matter through the intermediate stages of
Consciousness, Supermind, Mind and Life. His arguments are fully rational, and
explanations are logical. In the course of these explanations, He goes to the
root of the matter and explains fully Being, Consciousness, Supermind, Mind and
Matter. They are from the side of construction or creation. We can best
understand those terms as well as terms like ego, Time, infinity, mind, life,
sensation, feeling, thought, plane, etc. only from the side of our experience.
We cannot find it in the book. To know the above terms clearly and concretely,
even as we know the terms body, town, pen, etc., is necessary for a full appreciation
of his philosophy.
He has given the theory of
creation with rational clarity and logical consistency. We have to extend it to
practical appreciation evolving practical concepts.
A practical concept of Infinity
is the first real touch of His philosophy. &
596) Concentration
is to shift the centre of comprehension to a deeper level. 5
597) When the letter of the law was butchering President Clinton,
the spirit of the law was raising the rate of his popularity. J
598) Intensity
can change directions. 5
599) An individual Idea becomes public opinion long before any
semblance of its becoming an organisation. At best, some organisation espouses
that Idea. Thus, slowly public opinion becomes the opinion of public
organisations when it may become a movement. The movement creates the first
organisation through national law. J
600) The talents in others that
surprise us are three fourths training. The inborn part of it also lends itself
to training if there is superior interest. 5
601) By nurture a value is developed widely in the population. By
oppression the same value develops in purity and intensity in a few
individuals. J
602) Societies
exist in several hierarchies even as do individuals. Physical, vital, mental,
spiritual is one such gradation. Rural, urban, city, metropolis is another.
Individual, family, community, caste, society, nation may be another.
Disciplines as dictated by conditions of living such as self-discipline, family
training, social beliefs, and cultural values give birth to graded values.
Experience that results in practically useful values
that can be described as technologies – personal, family, communal, social,
national, international – develops determined by the practical organisation at
each level. Several of them become determinants in certain lines of development
such as hygiene and sanitation which determine longevity, education determines
prosperity, medicine determines enjoyment. Longevity,
prosperity, education, and equality are the physical, vital, mental and
spiritual results of various such combinations. What is true of the collective
is equally true of individuals. Newer determinants of any level can rise at any
time so that the urge to overcome such limitations is self-generated. Therefore,
we see spiritually developed potential in a poor, false, ignorant community.
Opulent societies shape themselves sometimes even without elementary habits of
hygiene such as bath. Promiscuous communities have wiped themselves out in many
places while the same trait generated societies of physical goodwill or
families of spiritual purity.
Formation of communities and development of individual personalities
thus shed the shackles of physical, moral, and mental inhibitions.
603) To live alone is to live with Mother alone.
Seclusion is the life with all one’s world in the subtle plane. &
604) Human
progress that takes one to divine service, usually passes through human service
which is the service of the ego, though in the spiritual plane it is not
exactly the rule. 5
605) A friend is one who is in tune with our thoughts and acts on
that basis. It means he must be the source of the unthought
requirements coming to us unasked. J
606) Selflessness
of the human being is the selfishness of the Supreme, God. To give up the
selfishness of the ego, one should move to the selfishness of the Supreme, God
and do it without hesitation or shame. &
607) It is difficult for the Westerner not to work. It is equally
difficult for the Indian to work. J
608) Progress
means widening basic receptivity. J
609) Immediate
success is the entire success. J
610) What can be communicated is NOT knowledge, but results can be passed
on to others. J
611) Fashion
catches on by the easiest – smallest – higher effort. J
612) No
knowledge that is not sought for will be communicated effectively. J
613) The lazy Indian can change with difficulty, but those who believe
that their own laziness is a blessing to the community have no known scope for
progress. Self-immolation may be the order of the day. J
614) Forgetfulness
is the symptom of consciousness feeling the impossibility. 5
615) Man
deciding not to take outer initiative works inside and the ripe moment arrives
– outside and inside. It is indicated by the greatest inner urge for action
which he is not free to express. 5
616) The irresistible impulse of
Ignorance to instruct knowledge is perversity. Its insistence is
depravity. Depravity is impersonal
perversity. 5
617) Science
and Technology: One who is in the field
of science can move either to the side of knowledge or its practice. As long as
knowledge dominates its use, it will retain the flavour of science. As soon as
the tail begins to wag, the body science dies its natural death.
Be a scientist who practises technology, not a technician who learns his
science from his own work. J
618) The key for any plane is known to
the fully formed psychic of that plane. 5
619) Man
WANTS to change his environment to his
liking. Only his changing so as to exactly fit into the environment will lead
him to the discovery. 5
620) For the best in one to surface,
culture and flower, the worst in him must be submitted to iron repression. When
the man has to cross into
the next plane, this iron repression must be self-chosen. 5
621) As Matter was created by Mind, today the world is run by the
information mind gives the population representing matter. From the early days,
the world was governed by the force of information – the group – circulated.
Today it is factual, scientific information that dominates, but it fully
retains the power of gossip. Not only with that information but all information that rules today retains
the characteristic of gossip. J
622) Man’s
primary intense motive still is to tyrannise and tease others. J
623) A wise man becomes cultured too if he is
unable to say anything that he would regret later. For one to say those things now of
which he would be proud later, he should become good in addition. J
624) The role played on the stage is
Becoming while the person is Being. Mistaking the role as final, one grieves;
stationing himself in his own person, he is griefless. 5
625) Birth
means a superior soul, superior by the experience of each life, taking on a
more inferior body and mind so that it may discover a greater truth of
creation. 5
626) Mother
acts through human identification to complete a work in spite of the
undeserving behaviour of the recipient. It does not act against the undeserving
individual, though it can when it so chooses, but mostly acts in spite of that
unhelpful attitude. 5
627) Simplicity
ennobles profundity. The simple man readily receives profundity given through
simplicity. Profundity is a non-starter. Simplicity never comes to age.
Profundity in the garb of simplicity is universally recognised as
pleasant prosperity.
Conceive profoundly, state simply. J
628) God
has come down to divinise
629) When
we aim at another’s understanding, we try to explain in his terms. He
understands our idea in his own terms. Appreciation is to accept another’s
situation in terms of our own motives and attitudes. Nothing new can thus be
understood or appreciated.
§ Sri
Aurobindo is new to the world.
§ It should make a man give up his
own understanding and appreciation.
§ He
must come forward to break new ground, go to new depths.
§ He
must give up the surface and accept the depths.
§ In giving Mother to another, we
cannot expect him to understand or appreciate from his own point of view. We
must help him to give up the old and appreciate the
630) Cleanliness
and orderliness become important because the aim of Conscious Force is to
express itself in perfect Form. 5
631) Intelligence
is the result of Force reflecting on the Conscious-Soul. That which makes the Prakriti understand
Purusha is intelligence. Ego’s action in Prakriti limits itself from the
Soul. This limitation is a reflective relation. 5
632) Force
meeting Force gives rise to Form. Form meeting Form give rise to sensation.
Mental sensation is intelligence. Intelligence reflecting on the Soul is
consciousness. &
633) The finest of human relationships
has a large area of insipid moments, even bitter ones; the worst of
relationships equally is of the opposite character. 5
634) No
country is so poor that it cannot launch itself on development. No man is so
weak he cannot rouse himself to the most pleasurable action that his heart is
after. No situation is, in that sense, past remedy. J
635) The
Agni they spoke of is the purifying Agni – purifying the mind into spirit. Sri Aurobindo
speaks of the Force as Agni. It is the Agni of evolution. &
636) We adore those who accomplish what we cannot accomplish.
Hence who we are can be seen by knowing whom we adore. J
637) We know of superstitions bringing catastrophes
that are wiped out by the first information. Death overtakes the BODY when it emphasizes its
‘superstition.’ Sri Aurobindo says death changes into immortality when the body
sheds its superstition. &
638) Service
is possible only to the God in Man; neither God, nor Man can receive it. Man
offends the giver; God allows man to outgrow his illusion. 5
639) The formula that can change human
motivation into one that can achieve his own social aspiration is the vital
key. 5
640) The
Gita calls for the surrender of Jivatma
so that it may attain moksha. Sri Aurobindo speaks of the surrender of the Being of the Becoming to Being so that evolution may be hastened.
&
641) Human
initiative has the capacity to express elsewhere and in a form not intended.
Also it has the need to balance it out with its opposite. Man is safest when
he shuns initiative. J
642) To see a difficulty as an opportunity is to see the event
from a higher plane. To see a personal opportunity or even difficulty as the
opportunity for the society is to see the individual event from a higher
impersonal perspective. J
643) To thrill in a minor scale, the body twitches. J
644) For one to take the first step in
yoga, the inner being should open. For one to be ready to receive LUCK,
his outer life should turn inwards. 5
645) No
genius, no scientist, no wise man can say that what he knows is the ultimate.
To make a claim of that type restricts the future to the present. This is a
type of stupidity human mind is capable of and even enjoys, in spite of great
achievements in other areas.J
646) He
who achieves concentrates on the next step. He who concentrates on further
possibilities achieves not in the short run. J
647) God
is above. Divine is God above who is present as God below.&
648) Whatever you learn, you learn in macro principles. Whatever
you achieve is by what you learn in micro circumstances. J
649) For whatever reason, if a work is to be shifted to another
plane or another context is to be done from there, it becomes difficult or
oppressive. J
650) The character of a person is a quality which will not easily
lend itself when one wants to represent it in numbers. J
651) One who can read and inspire himself to action is a mental man.J
652) Gratitude
is the youngest of the gods. She is white and pure. Therefore she is dear to
God. When Gratitude is pure and selfless, it is divine. &
653) As
long as the opposition comes from outside, one may be under an illusion of
fighting it individually or collectively. The moment the opposition is seen
inside one’s own set up, it is time to abandon one’s individual stance in
favour of the descending Force. It is
the Force that descends first and creates an individual or collective to
receive it. Neither the individual nor a group can precede the Force. 5
654) When God offers the divine greatness to Man, Man awakens to
the original greatness of himself. J
655) When
something bothers us, we contemplate what to do with it, which helps our strength go to the bothering agent. Rarely does it strike us
to consecrate it at once. 5
656) To surrender, one should be a
master of Prakriti. 5
657) Death
of ‘I’ — On the
surface, the finite ego thinks in Time, making consciousness subjective through
the divisive process of mind.
Ego dissolves when thinking stops.
By ceasing to be subjective, we cross Time.
By giving up the censor, the mind withdraws, becoming a witness.
The silent witness crosses ego and mind, but is still in Time. To cross
the borders of Time, Jiva should become Paramatma. The Jiva, the Many are in Time. The One is beyond Time. The One
in the Many is our goal. &
658) Grace
descends only on some people. Most men receive the first touch only. Just at
this moment, Grace is on you; the question is whether you are going to open
yourself to it, and further, how long will you remain open. He who is permanently
open to Grace or Truth will be fully transformed into the supramental
being.&
659) To be open is to be aware of the soul. To be aware
of the soul, one must not be aware of the mind. To be unaware of the mind is to
be silent. The capacity to be silent at will is opening. Total attraction of
inner life gives the capacity to be silent at will. Knowledge that Shakti
moves, turns you inward. To know that not man, but Shakti initiates is Jnanam. &
660) Ego: The ego of the man concedes divinity to God
so that HE will excel him.
· Ego has no hesitation or difficulty in equating
itself with God.
· There are instances when the ego tried to
destroy God with the powers secured from Him.
· Ego is so small and rigid that it cannot come
forward to dissolve itself.
· The only way the soul can destroy ego
is to withdraw its power
from sustaining the ego.
· Surrender is difficult because it involves the
awakening of soul moving away from ego to allow it to die a natural death.
· Death’s arguments against Savitri
even after he was defeated and darkness lost its strength are the classical
instances of the ego’s persistence. &
661) The determinism of our life is ego; the divine
life is determined by the psychic. Change the determinism from ego to the
psychic, and human life becomes divine life. The ego is human, the psychic is
the divine. &
662) For the minority to submit itself to the will of the
majority, the majority submits itself to the ignorance of the minority. J
663) Man’s
rise, however small it is, touches all whom he relates to emotionally. It is
the emotion of jealousy. Man loves to preserve his emotional equation with his
human environment by jealousy. It is by
jealousy that one preserves his equilibrium of social emotions which is his
vital sustenance. The one institution that is fully sacrificed at this altar is
marriage. J
664) Human
love longs for what is not; Divine Love adores what is.5
665) The world gets the experience
before the knowledge. The process of descent begins when the resultant
knowledge is made the prime mover. Even after knowledge is achieved, the
tendency is not to use it as prime mover but a resultant part as before. When
man makes the shift from the part to the whole, it is a shift from the physical
to the mental. 5
666) Ingratitude
is usually unconsciousness. Rarely does the offended dignity of the
unregenerate vital acquire the outer form of ingratitude.&
667) A
work sanctioned gets postponed when the ingratitude rises assertively. Its
fulfilment does not come until the ingratitude withdraws. 5
668) Wisdom
is to discover THAT whole which is consistent with
669) NO value
that requires violence for its defence is worth its name. NO knowledge
that can be communicated in words is worth receiving. 5
670) The highest is attracted to the high in the low;
the lowest is attracted to the low in the high. &
671) He
who helps as God helps serves the other. Human help destroys the receiver,
turns him against the giver. Help that protects the giver is help. 5
672) A bad act that fulfilled someone’s
desire may not return as a punishment while a good moral act that denied
someone’s desire may come back to you as punishment. 5
673) What we understand as punishment is
the unfulfilled energy once released. 5
674) Energy
released fulfils itself. J
675) The first move is always inside. It is the woman who takes
the initiative with man. J
676) Silent achievements, expressive
enjoyments. J
677) Good
men need someone to adore. Great souls need someone to whom they can offer
total surrender. 5
678) The
greater the depth where knowledge arises, the greater the difficulty
in expressing it.
When man stumbles on the knowledge at the greatest depth, it remains a
secret. 5
679) Something is a secret
not so much because it is not disclosed, but because of its inability to find
expression. A secret is that which cannot go into words. The strangeness and
density of knowledge that prevents its being verbalised makes it a secret. 5
680) Love
and affection grow in a soil where there is no basis for suspicion. J
681) The accomplishment of work is abnormally abridged by acquiring
the appropriate right knowledge. J
682) The difference between slow progress and fast progress is
knowledge. J
683) Knowledge
is the quintessence of effort, energy, time and organisation. J
684) Those whose problems remain unsolved are those who
forget Mother and think of the problems. It develops the problems. They are
unconscious about their forgetfulness. By calling Mother, problems will be
solved. While thinking of the problem, they feel they are thinking of Mother. The
mind will be engaged by thoughts and acts. To put them aside and remember Her is Mother’s Remembrance.
To forget work, thoughts and feelings is to remember Mother. That is the
best indication for that remembrance. &
685) The idealist lives for the ideal. Others speak of the ideal
for their own satisfaction. The ordinary man is incapable of speaking of the
Ideal. The successful selfish man is irritated by the talk of the Ideal. Others
cannot even listen to such irritation. They are inert.J
686) The subconscious collective
becoming conscious through the individual is social evolution. Emergence of
consciousness is evolution. 5
687) Not
to voice others’ defects is good. It is a rare virtue. To see our own defects
in others’ defects is yoga. To know God’s richness in others’ defects is supramental vision. Good habits, good values, and soul
satisfaction are part of devotion. &
688) Man
is ready to lose one eye so that his neighbour will lose both. Man can come
forward to lose both eyes to restore the sight in one of his neighbour’s eyes. That
knowledge is there in the world, but the world has not created a sage who can
inspire people for that. 5
689) We cannot speak out our problems to another or in
the office. There are things that cannot be shared with our spouse. Other
problems do not admit of utterance. They are insoluble. One can speak them to
God. Many will be solved. For some, the reply will be “it is your karma.” There is a gap between God and us, as we seek
Him in the worlds above. We can speak to our soul. There is no gap there. Many
more problems will be solved by the soul. For others, the soul will change into
the witness Purusha. The gap between us and God is not there with Mother.
Mother does not become the Witness Purusha. Mother has accepted life.
· All problems reported to Mother will be
solved.
· Mother does not wait for our report or prayer.
· She does not impose conditions.
· The problems will be solved as soon as
the mind turns to Her.
· It is so because She seeks us. &
690) One who is meant for yoga may choose marriage. He would
listen to the yogic ideal out of the mouth of his spouse – her version of
that ideal.
E.g. 1) One must be detached from objects of
property is an ideal of yoga. The husband’s version of this ideal is, “Give all
your jewels happily to my wife.” It means the wife will realise the ideal in
future.
2) The wife will ask the husband,
“Part with all your property in favour of my family.” J
691) Instruction
fails, silent will will not. J
692) A
good man cannot escape luck. J
693) What we know is not relationship. To seek the world in one’s
emotions is relationship. J
694) Life
seeking you is your desert. Our seeking is desire. Gifts will seek us if we
deserve them. We do not deserve those things that do not seek us. J
695) A
quarter of a million that is tangible will not be so
fascinating as a quarter of a rupee in the palm. J
696) Complaining
is wrong. To voice a complaint is not permissible. A thought of complaint is
impermissible. A heart that complains gives up claims of rich fullness. 5
697) To be busy at the highest level
of enjoyment is the ideal. 5
698) The selfish man trying to give up selfishness is like man trying
to forget hunger. J
699) Restraint
in places where no restraint is possible is LUCK. 5
700) Even the inner voice will be in
Tamil (the mother tongue). The soul understands even a new language. [Mantra of Life was in Sanskrit.] 5
701) The wireless dispensed with wires.
The voice that rises after the thought dissolves will spread without words. 5
702) The mind that gives up speech can
address humanity successfully. 5
703) The
Jnani delights in quiet solitude. The lazy man too
loves idleness. Only God can refrain from taking initiatives. 5
704) Offensive
hatred gives our opportunity to another. J
705) Life
in Mother is a life free from pain. 5
706) Altruism
raises one in his own estimation. To help another, knowing that his poverty or
defect is only a reflection of our own inner status will raise us. 5
707) To eliminate belief in one’s own
capacities and call Mother makes anything possible. 5
708) Tirukural says the
world is known for the fact that he who had lived yesterday is no more today. Mother’s
Grace is known for the phenomenon that he who was non-existent yesterday is
there alive today.
5
709) Man
approaches even the Avatar as he would approach an astrologer or clairvoyant. J
710) Things
are lost because we forget Mother. To get back the object, we need to restore
the lost remembrance. 5
711) When something is lost, he who
declares “I am not going to look for it. Unless Mother
gives it to me, I do not need it” is a devotee.5
712) He
who consecrates all acts of his will have the attitude of securing the lost
object through Mother only. 5
713) If the memory of Mother comes on
its own with an aspiration, the mind will be ushered into peace of mind. 5
714) Educated
cultured families in towns accomplish with a little effort what uneducated
uncultured rural families accomplish with high cost and great endeavour over a
long time. J
715) To be aware of one’s capacities is the best way to lose
them. Our capacities will yield results as long as we are not aware of them. It
is humility to enable the capacities to yield results even after we have taken
note of them. J
716) Cultivable
land converted into house plots can never incur a loss. Man taking to Mother
cannot afford to suffer. J
717) The world transformed will be better than
718) People who are willing to sacrifice their
lives for another are capable of teasing him out of his life. J
719) Luck
has several symptoms. One of them is a humility towards
all. J
720) Do not do what evil acts you
like. Do what good acts you do not like. 5
721) When the competitor is very strong
and is using strong arm methods, will you survive on the strength of Mother? We
will survive and emerge stronger than the competitor as our methods and energy are superior to theirs. Will not your methods be superior
to his, issuing from Mother’s Force? 5
722) Negotiation
and bargain are not only the ways of trade, but the way our emotions work. When
you go after a certain emotion, it makes itself hard to release, while when we
stop, it generously comes out. J
723) Reaction
retains us on the surface. Non-reaction moves us to the depth. 5
724) We initiate things that give us
joy now. HE is against any
initiation. We are unable to refrain from initiative. A right compromise will
be to initiate what will give joy to others. 5
725) The
Life Divine cannot be comprehended by an intellectual effort, but
Thought can know the contents of the BOOK. 5
726) Intellectuality
is the mental effort to organise the sense impressions around a sense
perception. Thought entirely moves away from sense and sense impressions and
goes on to perceive and finally to conceive, while intellect senses. 5
727) Men
are rational enough to rail at the ranking of nations according to certain
standards like
728) What man desires is not to know where he stands on the scale
of values, but that he is on the top or at least in the top ten. J
729) If an employee in a big company is recruited from a class or
caste that believes that it confers blessings on others, he shall certainly do
two things:
1. he will exploit the
company in every possible way and if he can, rob it outright.
2. he will announce
from the housetops that all the prosperity of that company is what he has
conferred upon it. J
730) Language
blending with thought releases the music of that occasion which is mellifluous.
J
731) Language
can blend with thought thus becoming mellifluous, but it is not poetry. Poetry
is language expressing the sentiment not by blending it but by almost
disappearing behind the curtain. It becomes a mantra either by disappearing
or emerging masterfully. Mantra is
the masterful word becoming itself Power.5
732) Thinking
ceases when action falls off. 5
733) Evolution
can always choose its instrument, i.e. can change the instrument at any time.
Still, it prefers to follow the law or rhythm of the plane in which it acts.
The only planes it has created for this creation range between Being and
Matter. Maybe there are only four and their inversions. Each plane subdivides
into these eight again, opening infinity of space and eternity of time within
that plane. Thus, the evolutionary choice remains infinite forever. &
734) During periods of transition, the old mode often appears intransigent.
It is never so except by the full blessings of those in power. Just today,
terrorism has no lease of life anywhere in the world except by the conscious
indulgence of those in power. That which has passed out lives on what it gave
place to. J
735) The pioneers of a movement are
often unable to comprehend insistent obstacles in their way. It is always
subconscious unwillingness, not inability of the conscious. 5
736) Pain
is the ego’s opening to Ananda. Man seeks joys that are like the security of
salaried jobs. The integral joy earth offers is like the insecurity of
self-employment. How can man frown on the incertitude of self-employment? J
737) To think that we KNOW is
folly, as we know without reference to Unity, Truth, Goodness, Will and Love. 5
738) Every plane has its principle of energy. It is
helpful to know them.
Being -- Self-energising.
Consciousness -- Creative urge.
Ananda -- Freedom
from limitation.
Supermind -- Constant presence of the
Absolute.
Enjoying the difference from
God and other
divine souls.
Mind -- Recognising the
truth in the opposite and trying to
unite with it.
Life -- Energised by mind.
Matter -- Controlled by thought of mind. &
739) Intuition
is only one special movement of self-existent knowledge. What are the other
movements? What are the movements of Energy, Force, Form, Ananda, Existence? 5
740) There are no main plots without subplots. J
741) Offensive flattery. J
742) Shameless
absence will lead to shameless seeking. J
743) He
who gets all the help from one person, offers all his appreciation to another
in order to hide his obligation from himself. J
744) Infinite
expansion is temporary when one part of the being opens. For permanent
expansiveness, all the arts of the being, at least, with respect to the issue,
should open up. 5
745) Predictability
is the prerogative of the physical intelligence in the fixed material plane
that does not admit of change in Time. 5
746) One who is personally affected by a general situation is emotionally
identified with that situation. J
747) Now the society gives social education for social survival
through spreading fashions. Is it possible for the society to spread fashion
that gives psychological education not for social survival, but for psychological
progress? J
748) Mother
neutralises human rules to the extent faith penetrates.5
749) Lay
all the rules and honour them; lay all the rules and scrap them; in either
case, you can win as well as lose. Man wins, not rules. &
750) No
one wants to be reminded of his past when it was low; even that is pleasing to
those of perverse modesty. 5
751) The capacity to hurt a benefactor lies with those who can
shamelessly pester others for help. J
752) He
who values only MONEY gets a son who cannot make money at
all. J
753) Light
brings to the surface the dark spots. It has no power to remove them. 5
754) Man
has a way of seeking solace from the one who offended. 5
755) Sarcasm
is abuse. Flattering platitudes can be sarcastic. Abuse can be draped in
affectionate words, too. J
756) Courtesy
calls in a place that delights in discourtesy makes
one make an ass of himself. J
757) Rules
can be learnt, but not as easily followed, especially because new rules are in
the making. J
758) One can get solace if he is
capable of giving it. 5
759) As Indian freedom directly benefited the Harijans,
any progress in the atmosphere will first benefit the most useless people
around you. J
760) The immature man readily and fully
gives himself to an ideal and its organisation only to discover his
insufficiency later. Should there be grace, life prevents him or the movement
rejects him. The mature man, though enamoured of the ideal, sees the
insufficiencies of the organisation and his own self, and keeps aloof. Life
that is aware of his fitness, brings him and the ideal together so that he may
become the organisation itself.5
761) Surrender
makes the Individual Eternal.
§ Surrender is preceded by all-inclusive concentration.
§ In fact, surrender is preceded by consecration
which requires all-inclusive concentration.
§ It is made possible by a mental knowledge.
§ That knowledge is —
the Individual is Eternal.
§ The knowledge that the Individual is Eternal makes
the man Eternal through surrender.
§ The Process is knowledge + concentration = consecration that leads to
surrender by which one attains Eternal status. &
762) Nature
develops fresh products by the individual through the social infrastructure,
for its own purposes. Society playing the role of Nature will be great
progress. Society, on the one side, can play the role of Nature and on the
other side give the individual psychological education to hasten social
evolution. J
763) Samples
of heights of irrationality are abundant when one comments on another culture. J
764) All emotional life is one of human relationship. What will
he do, who has scratched the surface and found there is no such thing as human
relationship, even such a thing as a human? J
765) Inconvenience
irks. Psychological inconveniences not only irk but hurt and offend. The
offence stays with us as sensitivities.J
766) The world has twice more opportunities and resources than
her problems require for their solution. Vision is myopic, thought is
irrational and ability to manage is little.
This can be stated with full validity even in the areas where the world
is awake, rational ideas have gained currency and management skills are
developed. Application is dismally poor. J
767) Desire
is difficult to give up; but interest is impossible to forget. Unless
aspiration takes its place, interest cannot be given up. J
768) The opportunity to dominate another does not yield even to
the prudence of retaining the gain on hand. J
769) For the awakened spirit, it is true that anyone can do
anything. Its mental version is anyone
can do anything he learns. The vital can do anything it is inspired by. The
physical can do anything if it is trained. Anything is possible in any plane
if the strategies are appropriate. J
770) When the finite mind tries to
understand Infinity, the Infinity swallows the mind. 5
771) Help
when taken or refused hurts later. God save me from help!J
772) Ego,
realising the value of egolessness, fashions egoless
teaching. When it is offered to others, all that others see is only EGO.5
773) The wider the emotional interest spreads, the wider he will
be affected. One’s sorrows and successes will extend to all his emotional
areas. J
774) The
idealistic pioneer is heartbroken because his model could not be put together
and never took off, little realising the society has vigorously accepted it and
lives it. The conditions for the token are in the physical plane, the
infection of the ideal that spreads fast is in the subtle plane. 5
775) Nature’s
organisation is subtle. Society’s organisation is physical, material. The
spirit’s organisation is subtle mental. The individual is capable of
synthesizing the methods of the society and Spirit in himself,
thus bringing the power of Nature to express the knowledge of the Spirit. 5
776) If the only thing the yogi has to
do is surrender and it is difficult, what is the yogi expected to do? 5
777) When an idea from a friend is reported to others it will not
necessarily evoke a response to its content. It is likely to bring out a
response to the personality of the friend who originally made that statement. An idea carries more the personality of its
author than its own weight. J
778) As
most of the population started with agriculture while only a small percentage
is needed there, society’s use of its organisations, instruments and products
is obtuse. To use each such instrument rightly and precisely hastens the
social progress. J
779) When the ego decides to demolish
itself, it gets fortified and reinforced! 5
780) Society,
as well as the individual, develops simultaneously on many sides, laying
emphasis on one aspect at a given time. Results issue when all sides are
completed. To hasten development, one needs to know where the society now is
and what are the incomplete sides. J
781) The sweetness of the woman comes best out of their ignorance,
often even from their petulance. J
782) He
who wants to hasten the process of social development needs to know it in the
past. Not only the clue, but the full answer is there. J
783) The present emotions of gratitude
lavished on equally pure goodness buried in very low consciousness, did not
bring the rewards of goodness or gratitude, but unmistakably served as a
link with the low and helped it to destroy gratitude and its source.5
784) Disciples
at a great distance start doing things in their daily life in a unique way
departing from the routine, e.g. prefer a food or a phrase of speech or
writing. It is the subtle extension of the Guru’s habits unconsciously
spreading. They may or may not come to know of it in later life. 5
785) Low
consciousness sucks energy and often leads to death. 5
786) One’s
participation in a result will be indicated by any corresponding part. J
787) Even when a great crime is committed, you cannot retaliate,
if there is no retaliation in you. J
788) A
rule and its opposite are true in a higher context. 5
789) The desire to adore one whom you betrayed when he becomes
successful, is the expansiveness of the ever-living smallness. J
790) Company
of low consciousness causes diseases, at least their symptoms. J
791) When a man is generous to a fault
and is incapable of offending for having helped him, HELP itself
will not spare him as the offence will come from another around him. 5
792) A vivid emotional liar often feels an act was done to him
when it was not, since his imagination leads him to it. J
793) When the cultured man is driven to abuse, he stops short of
what he intended to say. The victim is vastly offended as it came from a
cultured man, not knowing what was withheld. J
794) Having contrived a certain result assiduously, one is also capable
of deeply regretting it when it descends. J
795) By taking a look at all one’s thoughts, it is possible to
know one’s mental status. J
796) Pity
is self-pity; sympathy is emotional weakness; compassion is pity for the
suffering collective; Grace is pitiless in wiping off suffering. &
797) People who are compelled to move from
cultured places to uncultured places find emotional life suffocating. It makes them cynical. Movement
of population gives emotional education otherwise unavailable. J
798) Emotions
are vastly energised by the energy of the physical need.J
799) A retarded child rising to the top of the class is a sure
indication of faith in the child. J
800) He
who is in touch with the evolving layer of humanity will have several problems
which others have not heard of. J
801) Energies
collected around an emotionally sensitive issue become seriousness that
prevents one from attending to other works. J
802) When
violent persons are transformed, they become great powers, great enough to rule
a country. J
803) Events
are contagious in the subtle plane even from the rival camp. Only neutral
goodwill is the best bet. 5
804) Man’s
selflessness is the selflessness of selfishness. J
805) Lack
of satisfaction is more keenly felt than felt satisfaction on other scores
because energies are on the move in one and not in the other. J
806) Tradition
splits life into good and bad, nice and dirty. Mother does not. We often see
wrong thoughts shooting in in an excellent occasion
and the opposite. It is an embarrassing emotion that we feel. They
indicate the existence of opposites, rather coexistence. 5
807) The yogi is called upon only to surrender and not
do anything else. Sri Aurobindo said surrender is difficult. He said man cannot
do this yoga; the only thing he can do is to surrender. &
808) Sometimes
we successfully clear a wrong atmosphere and feel the things are safe and have
a feeling of security and safety inside. If there are very tiny lapses, it
means what has gone may come back. Absence of such lapses and presence of
major positive symptoms alone ensure the wrong atmosphere has gone. 5
809) Involution
acts through a self-ignoring faculty as it does through self-absorption. Mind
separates itself from Supermind by it. When the emotions forget to think, they
go down. There is such a factor at the points of transition from Sat to
Matter. &
810) Truth,
goodness, sincerity, etc. are further elevated when elevated from the Mind that
is always capable of withholding the last stages of belief. To do so is to
change the typewriter into a computer or a rich nation into one that is
spiritually rich too.5
811) From the time of Jesus until today, people are attracted by
miracles or prayers answered and do not go beyond. Attraction to material
prosperity in Asia may compel them to fall back on their spiritual treasure.
Attraction to Spirit in the West may upgrade their scientific thinking. A
more immediate possibility is to recognise the new products Nature has given
man through society and technology and use them appropriately, not like
using a refrigerator to store shoes. J
812) Great
social innovations are often put to ridiculous use like the fridge of the Assam
Minister or to a very partial use like the general education for vocational
fitness. J
813) Man
is a doer. Knowledge is something understandable, not doable. For man to
respond to any idea, the knowledge must be turned into a skill. J
814) Jealousy,
even if it has figured in the mind once as thought, is now capable of
preventing the perfection of generosity. J
815) Social
fashions are sought after by the need to survive socially. Spiritual prosperity
in life will be sought after if one sees the advantage in it. &
816) The petulant response of the beneficiary at a time life is
about to crown him, is the way the lack of energy finds expression. J
817) To enjoy as the Lord enjoys, to
see the Marvel, to acquire infinite prosperity are different stages. Still the
higher is always found in the lower, raising the lower to richer expression.
· Infinite
prosperity is available to human life as we see in the West, where it is
accompanied by psychological insufficiencies.
· Man
can still achieve it without these defects.
· This is an achievement in the
physical plane by the mind trying to come out of its limitation.
· Marvel
is the vision in the plane of Forms when the vitiating influence of mind is
overcome.
· To enjoy as the Lord enjoys one
must have moved from consciousness to Being. 5
818) What matters in matrimony or friendship is not the differences
but the basic harmony. In actual fact, the greater the differences
within the scope of harmony, the greater is the intensity of
friendship or marriage. J
819) The
scurrilous gossiper who destroys the reputations of good people acts as the
thin wedge that enters to stay at times of transition. This is how a
negative ‘institution’ serves a positive purpose. J
820) The strong traditions of the society, the deep demands of culture
and character are overcome by two irresistible forces. Crude, plain,
energetic selfishness is one. The other is the impulse of the impetuosity that
always seeks FRESH pastures or the freshness of the pastures. J
821) Even
supramental force here is administered by the ego.
&
822) When
the spiritual Self-giving is received selfishly, it does not hurt. Rather, one
is happy that it is, after all, received in some fashion. 5
823) Society
admires her who adores all children, not so when she adores many men. The soul only
adores and adores
the adorer. 5
824) Unless one is able to give his
emotions to all, they will not be real emotions. We also know that the emotion
which goes only to one is an emotion of loyalty worth having. In one sense,
it is to pack the infinite in the finite. 5
825) At
the end of any work, if meditation overtakes one, the character of the act is
of the higher consciousness and would not permit itself to be evaluated on
moral terms. 5
826) Every movement, every moment has its
two ends of finite actuality and infinite potentiality. So, any act lends
itself for us to move from the one to the other. 5
827) Anything valuable becomes much more so when the
level of cleanliness is increased since it brings the supramental
consciousness on it. &
828) The perfection required by the
higher consciousness is so great that no plate can bump against the door, as it is a
subtle equivalent of an earth tremor. 5
829) Enjoyment
remains enjoyment as long as it is justified and supported by the biological
and sociological substance. Beyond that, it seeks compensation in the opposite.
Centred in Mother, progress continues in right balance. Phineas Finn enjoyed the biological charms of his face
expressed in the admiration of women. It was compensated by the psychological
pain of the accusation of murder. J
830) Whatever the mind
understands, we overlook the direct simple fact that that knowledge is reduced
to mental knowledge – Ignorance. Man insisting on understanding
unconsciously insists on Ignorance. 5
831) Better than calling Mother to solve our problems,
we can call Her to dissolve our ego. &
832) Mental
silence, when achieved in any measure, is the beginning of a variety of
spiritual blessings. Even a feeble attempt at it brings a great incursion of
health and a greater inflow of income.J
833) Incursion
of greater energy without appropriate organisation means the excess will be
wasted. In some measure, the excess energy goes to fortify the existing
organisation – the ego. J
834) The infamous feminine interference is Nature’s
profoundest method of bringing the harmony of the heavens to the abundance of
divine consciousness on earth. It is a move of the Timelessness to the
simultaneous integrality. &
835) Governments
under the sway of the supramental force try their
best to play the role of the welfare state. The Mother in the psychological
plane does the same to the devotee for his well being. The citizen must avail
of the government’s help, the devotee should
emphasize the right side. &
836) To
us, many things like our TV, washing machine, books, computer, etc. are
important. We cannot appreciate only one of them saying it alone must be used
and nothing else. For any man, several relationships are indispensable. But
when we are one of those, we are jealous of all the others the man has. If each
person relates to him from the personal that is impersonal, he would feel that HE belonged only to him, though he
would likewise belong to all in the universe. Personal in the Impersonal
cannot feel jealousy which is egoistic. &
837) Quarrels
belong to the immediate present of the intense emotions. Harmony belongs to the
mind that embraces the past and future wider than the emotional present. 5
838) The wide purposes of Nature are accomplished by
contradictions and a host of strategies such as cause and effect and their
apparent reverse. Wisdom lies in understanding them, but their knowledge
reveals the marvel. &
839) Man
learns from experience in the world. It is to learn from Becoming, an objective
knowledge. For true knowledge is subjective. For living that knowledge as
the Lord lives, one must again be objective, not in the plane of Time but in
the simultaneous integrality of Time eternity and
Timeless eternity. &
840) In a transitional stage, the rebels have all the
power to shake the strongest centre of the establishment. But the strength of
that centre is absolute. Handled deftly, a hurricane can be diverted in a few
minutes without entering the city. It is the power of the substance, while
the rebels are extremely strong in the consciousness. &
841) When a man readily gives up what he cannot do without, it
shows not the requirements of life, but the realities of his psychological
attitudes. J
842) Constant
self-evaluation is a symptom of social thinking or an attempt at inner
observation. J
843) He
who has the knowledge sees the entire essence of that knowledge or even the
entire expression of that knowledge in any well-defined ACT. 5
844) Instead
of understanding the success of the rivals, opponents, or hostiles as a greater
success of oneself, the idealist often is constrained by the belief that he is
losing ground. 5
845) The
urge to renew the acquaintance is not so much occasioned by status as by
temperament – a temperament in the other that is neither defensive nor
pugnacious. 5
846) Is
it possible for one to see his life in the context of his work, his family, his
little world and further, the wider world around him, if not the national life?
If only he finds it in tune with all those layers or segments of life it means
that at some level – say thought or observation or emotions – he has lived
actively as a child of that society. 5
847) Smallness
of no endowment is given the opportunity to heckle greatness and its endowment
only because the relationship is permitted. Heckling is the appreciation of the
Great by smallness. J
848) Man
often has to move from the need of his very physicality to the Silence of the
expansive spirituality. All the areas he lingers in in
the middle provide material for passing literature of the hour. Neither the
great power of physicality nor the infinite expanse of spirituality has so far
lent itself to the art of literature. Literature levels off at universality. 5
849) The novelist displays an
extraordinary skill in presenting the inner motives of his characters which are
not as clear to the characters themselves as they are to the writer. The reader
is introduced into a new world of comprehension of human character that is a
greater self-discovery for himself at each moment. The
playwright lets his own characters speak all this, the skill for which is no
mere human skill. The novelist knows his characters in the zenith of human
characterisation; the playwright knows them as individuals who embody
universalised traits of individual humans. 5
850) Before the marvel reveals, one needs to have
acquired several things:
§ To have quit the planes of Time, Space and Mind;
§ To have reunited Force and Consciousness;
§ As Marvel is still in Form, one need not quit Form;
§ His united Force and Consciousness must be within the plane of Form. &
851) In a complicated
case of mystery, if there is truth at the bottom, there will be some
physical fact or some scope for that Truth to emerge. 5
852) The culture blending with character in the execution of time
honoured tradition is a sight to see. J
853) Wealth
or prosperity may not be apparently related to the measure of Self-Respect; but
Self-Respect cannot definitely grow without an assured basis of abundant
wealth. And in that case, they are in direct proportion. J
854) When
I do not see you in someone, what do I see? I see my own hatred as his hatred
and for that I hate him. There is no hatred in this wide world except in my
separate existence. &
855) My partial vision sees human love and human
hatred. I have not yet learned to see love in hatred. Love that is not seen inside
first cannot be found outside. &
856) The
FORMULA needs everything an act composes of,
such as energy, force, power, skill, attitude, motive, knowledge, an intuition
and every other thing without fail. Even one of them being fully right will
yield the right result once. The
attitude required for the formula is one of self-discovery, the knowledge
emerging out of Ignorance. 5
857) In
a country like England where manners are held high, the deficiencies of lack of
education as well as the urges of the feminine nature do still set limits to
the expression of such high manners.J
858) Mother
offers a growth that is balanced and does not require a
compensation. Mental values through restraint offer most of it. Vital
attitudes that honour mental values are the next best. Physical skill to
perfection is the only solace the physical plane offers. Nature follows karma.
Mother enters our life by fits and starts. In the measure Mother is not
consciously banished from our lives, one can see She maintains the balance at
the level it is allowed. 5
859) What makes human intercourse sweet
and enjoyable is our knowledge of how the other feels. If it is possible to
know how God understands him, human intercourse becomes divine exchange.5
860) One
can give up the past forgetting it. It is to live in Space in the present. Past
takes one to Time. One can go back to the past so that knowledge in Time can be
acquired to exhaustion. More lies beyond. 5
861) Globalisation
is selflessness in extension. J
862) The conformist receives the punishment of his boss or his organisation
as if he well deserved it and thanks them submissively.J
863) The end of involution is matter. Therefore, the
highest accomplishment must be in that plane. The highest accomplishment is the
highest enjoyment which expresses through sensation. The greatest
accomplishment in the yoga of spiritual evolution is the enjoyment of physical
sensation in the descent. &
864) It is noble of a woman not to
live with her husband when she finds her earlier love has not died. It is
emotional nobility in character. This type of emotional luxury too is
decided by her material affluence and social acceptance. 5
865) Learning
from experience is to learn in Space, doing so from the past is to learn in the
plane of Time. But true Knowledge lies beyond Time and Space, maybe not even
there in Being but in the involution of that Being and
its evolution. &
866) Mother
gives you the feeling that She belongs totally to you. You feel all of
yourself is given to Her, only to Her. It is so because our relationship
with Mother is the point at which the Individual changes into the universal. We
may say here the Individual and the universal integrate with each other, the point
where the finite finds its Infinity. 5
867) Freedom: At each level of functioning, the
environment is free to disturb or destroy you. Next, you get over the
environment and master it. Finally, you offer FREEDOM to
the environment and in that freedom you learn to survive. Mastery becomes complete
when it is mastery of the forces when they are consciously offered freedom to
operate. 5
868) Each soul expresses itself more precisely by
developing the individualities of mind, temperament and peculiar preferences. The greater these peculiarities, the greater the involution.
How to condemn it then? As long as the involution is reversed into
evolution, no condemnation is called for. &
869) The disagreeable at one level becomes agreeable at another
higher level. J
870) Enjoyment
rises as it becomes vociferous and demonstrative. High enjoyment silently
enjoys as it moves to the physical from the demonstrative vital. The
physical loves drama when it wants to heighten its silent enjoyment. &
871) Practical
Ignorance goes only when the Original Ignorance goes. Laws of life, Life
Response, solutions to problems, responding to national issues should be based
on the knowledge of Brahman. Only the Supermind is in constant touch with the
Brahman. All other solutions up to the Overmind will not suffice. &
872) The world has conducted several thousand seminars and published
several hundred thousand articles to discover that other men too have points
of view. The collective acquires the knowledge of the individual moving
mountains over two decades. J
873) The goals of high ideals are
sometimes attained by petty artifices; the same artifices successfully sabotage
other high ideals. Great goals being served in whatever fashion by small
stratagems is another expression of the illusion of quality. 5
874) The thinking mind is like using a foot scale for measuring
the world’s girth for the purpose of grasping the Infinite. The scientist,
if he is not aware of the Infinite, has seen the boundless finite. It is time
that he abandons his instrument or at least the project. J
875) A mental idea is sharp even when it is right.
Vital endorsement of it is soft. The body welcoming it makes it powerful. The
spiritual element in the physical consciousness accepting the idea has the
power to make it rich, soft, powerful, full of clarity which absorbs the
external environment into itself as part of the play of Being with Being,
consciousness with consciousness and Ananda with Ananda. &
876) Learning starts as
mental observation, passes through
877) For a life to be conscientious, the determining factors are
prosperity, psychological strength and general social culture. J
878) When the chapters in The Life Divine are looked at
through the PROCESS from each of nine points of the nine levels, it
will create an integrated understanding. That way, any one chapter can give
the essence of the whole book. J
879) Mother’s
family:
· Apart from Truthfulness and dedication to Her,
some basic traits are needed, such as:
· No one should be able to conceive of doing anything that would hurt
anyone else.
· The basic confidence of each in the
other should be there.
· I ask not so much of real goodness as a clearly pronounced tendency to
Goodness. J
880) Human
loyalty in its intensity and PURITY cannot be given to more than one
person, even as the income of a poor family can support only one family. Man or
woman, having given their love to one person, are unable to shift, not so much
out of discipline but because of their inability to find the joy of love in
another relationship. Divine Love is inexhaustible and increases in sweetness
and intensity with increasing occasions to give. &
881) Knowing
one’s greatest strength, one will find himself successful. Knowing his own
greatest defect, he will be very cautious in character. He
who knows both, knows his own self. His failures would have been rare. 5
882) Life
should constantly call you to action, either from outside or inside. Otherwise,
life stops growing and is dull. It is the immediate beginning of inner
death, a distant symptom of the death of the body. 5
883) Knowledge
comes out of experience.
Concentration gives the same knowledge inside.
To discover the knowledge of outer experience
inside, the intensity required is concentration.
Concentration gives the knowledge without passing through the
experience. &
884) The present strength we find in society is the strength of
pronounced selfishness. J
885) Insisting
on the right without ego ultimately brings out that factor in the situation
which expresses that right. J
886) Meditation
is the Touch of the higher consciousness. Whatever work gives you that Touch
is the divine itself. &
887) If there is any impossibility, it issues from the
irresistibility of the immediate charm. J
888) God
has become man. Men have become godly, but not Gods. HE offers all men the opportunity to
become God. &
889) When
an establishment is rejected by the society, the reverence it receives during
its last phases of existence is the measure of its true
value. J
890) The effectivity of objective
action begins after the subjective state is saturated with knowledge. Inner knowledge first, outer action later. Result is the
result of knowledge. 5
891) A crisis is overcome by calling Mother when She is
more with us than the threat of crisis. There will be no crisis if She is more with us than issues of life. &
892) For the employee, the company is the universe. For
his personal life to be identified with the company that is impersonal for him,
it is enough to overcome jealousy.
Seeing the whole impersonal inside the personal is to overcome the
limitations of the personal.
All dualities have their points where they unite. Time and Timelessness
meet in simultaneous integrality. Personal and
Impersonal meet in the other man’s point of view. Form and Formlessness meet in
the universalisation of sensation. Masculine and Feminine meet in Force becoming consciousness. Good and Evil meet in the self-existent Good. Being and Becoming meet
in the Being of the Becoming. Sound and
Silence meet in the creative sound, Om. Movement and
Rest meet in the Being.
Pain and Pleasure meet above the mind. The part and the whole meet above
division, the apprehending mind. Force and Consciousness meet in the Unitarian
consciousness.
Sat and Asat meet in
Brahman and in the Brahman in Sat as well as Asat.
Dualities are in the plane of Force, not in that of consciousness or
Being. &
893) Sweetness
is not objective, it is subjective. J
894) There are two realities, the Spirit and the ego.
Initially Spirit became the ego; now it is time for the ego to become Spirit.
&
895) What is a problem to man is no problem to the Sannyasi; while it is a God-given opportunity to the yogi. &
896) Time
heals whether a wrong done was true or not, as they are truths of Time. Mother
heals and upgrades instantaneously, as She is beyond
Time. J
897) Selfish
love is prevented from consummation even when it acquires selflessness since
that too is of the selfish nature. J
898) The rebel’s joy is at its fullness when he disregards the
rules of perfection he has mastered in favour of spontaneity that keeps him
bound hand and foot to utter freedom. J
899) Rarely has it struck me that YOU are inside. I have been searching
for you all over this wide world. J
900) The phenomenon of the second generation achieving more than
the founder or achieving what the founder failed to achieve is real. It is for
several reasons: 1) The atmosphere
is more fully prepared; 2) the next generation is more inspired by the ideal
than the founder himself; and 3) the atmosphere becomes organisation achieving
more. J
901) To
find a book in a remote town unconnected with its subject, is an indication
that the message of the book is alive and we who are interested in its theme,
know the theme, do
not understand how alive that theme is. J
902) Wealth
has the power of attraction, a pretty face has the
charm of attraction. The rising spark of the soul has its power and charm of
attraction in lone isolated incidents, not in the collective totality as wealth
and a pretty face. J
903) Essence,
not the expression, matters. J
904) When
the thought process sets in, you find no one around with whom you can
meaningfully communicate . Again, when you give up
that process of thought, you are not given the opportunity of communication. But
God reveals to you in the unthinking man as well as great thinkers with whose
new-found status you are in sweet harmony. &
905) Skill
gives the parts; culture the whole. &
906) When
an innocent man is accused of murder, his best bet is his innocence. His most
natural reliance is on the sympathy of the public. For him to relate to and
rely on his own self, its innocence, is for the rishi
to remain concentrated on the Self. &
907) The truth of our Nature is we are more at home
with ourselves than with The Mother and we need Her only at times of crisis. Mother
never moves away from men who like Her naturally, not even for a moment. &
908) The most important decision of a man in his own life is the
most commonplace for the society, as he is one of the crowd. A man is
important if his personal decisions affect the society materially. J
909) Eternal
Self-giving will be possible for one who has attained inner Self-giving. &
910) A commonly prevalent error is to measure quality by the
quantity which at best leads to misleading situations. J
911) The moneyed man is the muscle man
of the earlier century. Over accumulation of a power has its heyday during the
period of its ascendancy, not afterwards. Neither money, nor scholarship in
science will be of any avail now. That which pushes populations ahead as
indicated by globalisation is the widening of the area of action which is an
aspect of harmony. The force that harmonises can be a leader now, not money.
That can be the twin forces of prosperity here and peace of mind there. 5
912) It is great to see human nature
at play. Of course, the play is charming when it expresses through good
manners. Good manners or ill manners, the charm is in the intensity of one
nature seeking another, little knowing what it is. 5
913) Man
is constantly taking initiative from all parts of his being as a way of
existing. This we know is his occupation, though his own intention is, by these
initiatives, to reach the not-self. Sadhana begins
when he gives up all his initiatives. At this point, he can keep quiet which is
a monumental impossibility. The energy cannot be suspended unless one goes back
to the One. The direction can be changed for the energy towards Transformation.
Those initiatives must now be taken towards the Divine. It is Aspiration. &
914) Education
is at many levels.
§ Family gives the cultural and practical instruction.
§ School offers instruction in subjects.
§ Society educates the individual in survival values.
§ Personality learns from all.
§ To raise those levels one step – society giving
culture – is to hasten progress.
§ For the society to take up education of the
individual personality as fashion educates social value, so that the society
starts playing the individual role is the next step.J
915) The spiritual
knowledge and power of the Jnana yogi is attained in
trance. He holds them in his superconscient as man
holds the mastery of his involuntary muscles in the subconscient.
5
916) Silence
& Peace = Joy. &
917) A good man must go to Mother. She comes to one who
is Good.&
918) Not to express opinions will help one not to have
detractors. Not to have opinions will make one popular. J
919) Give
up meanness and enter infinite Prosperity. J
920) Acts
will not fail to repeat, but consequences may be different, even opposite. J
921) It
is a great soul who knows the other man’s wealth is not a great gain; it is a
rare soul that fails to notice it. J
922) Having a defect – jealousy – or
wanting to favour one of the establishment – presidentship
to an IAS officer – can have the same effect on the
atmosphere. 5
923) Harshness
transformed into sweetness is poverty transformed into infinite wealth. 5
924) Having turned off the senses, Mind is able to see
or hear directly. Marvel is the soul’s direct vision when the Mind is turned
off. &
925) Perfection
in the art of enjoyment, positive or negative, brings more and more of
enjoyment. &
926) Life
is enjoyment. Enjoyment is more than accomplishment. He who widens his pure
enjoyment and heightens its intensity can reach Mother more fully. &
927) The motive of the being concentrating on Mother is
all-inclusive concentration. &
928) Anger
is emotional ignorance. J
929) The incentive for the social man
to seek spiritual prosperity in life is the awareness and attraction for the
higher joy in life that selflessness offers. 5
930) The variable expressions of Sachchidananda in
their variation fulfil the requirements of involution. On the return journey,
those variations fulfil the requirements of evolution. &
931) The human mind cannot conceive of the hideous
other side of Beauty, nor the Light side of darkness. These are points of
transition from force to form. Similarly, there are points of inversion into
their opposites. Beyond that lies the whole vision. The Rishi’s
vision is partial. It does not see the other side. The point of inversion in
the act changes sin at that point into virtue. &
932) No
problem constitutes a PROBLEM if it appears on its own. However
small, if it is a symptom, its seriousness must be understood not by its
appearance but by what it represents. And nothing exists by itself, it is always a figure of something. What it
represents is not objective, but it is subjective in you. It is there you can
change a formidable problem into an insignificant one. If the objective
becomes subjective, the problem can cease to be one OR it can be changed into an opportunity.
The objective is an illusion; the subjective
is the Reality. &
933) Relaxation
for us is to be what we really are, which is to indulge our nature, often the
lower nature. J
934) The great of soul feel an imperative need for
total surrender. Often, in their unwisdom, they look
for a human being who can receive that surrender. Only SHE
can
receive it. It is not given to any human soul to receive that privilege. &
935) The vast work done by many systems
and various organisations inside a company is summarised in the values of his
motive. 5
936) Children
of parents of native evil tendency are consciously directed to seek evil. This
is the contribution of parents to the growth of evil in the next generation. 5
937) To
see the infinite past in the present, one needs to know the present in its
infinite dimensions so that he may expand into its termless
territory. Thus, the past is forgotten and the present is discovered as the
Ever-Present Moment. 5
938) The conception of the animal is
purely out of the physical energies. Only in man a part of those energies are
vital. Mind rarely expresses there. The Spirit has no need to express
physically. Human affection, if elevated to spiritual devotion, can express
in conception if they are still physical in their expression. 5
939) Intensely emotional
people can realise Mother when they reach in their intensity of devotion the
same level as to their dearest person. 5
940) Man’s
prayers to fulfil his desires are also granted by God. When he sees that all
his prayers are answered, he moves to a position of asking his evil intentions
to be fulfilled. It falls back on him.
Man is frustrated when God refuses to be his instrument of evil.&
941) The meditation that is affected by food or rest or
movements or noise is one confined to the surface mind. Meditation that
underlies activities and sleep is the one that deserves the name.&
942) Evolution
has created the surface mind where Ignorance is complete. Pain is found only
here. There is pain when moving from the surface to the depth. By moving so
through consecration, there will be no pain. 5
943) The bitch who has earned that name by her loose
morals is only the negative expression of the divine Soul that enjoys every
other soul. &
944) Transformation
is a shift of consciousness and nature to the higher side. &
945) Mischievousness
or innocent intrigues are charming to characters of small intensities. J
946) Society
exists at one level below which and above which exist ways of life entirely at
variance with it. Neither life nor society take
note of these activities. J
947) The common idea that goodness must
be rewarded is not true.
§ A reward of success is amoral. It comes to those
with capacity and organisation.
§ A good man with compunction pays for
his scruples.
§ An unscrupulous man gets the
reward for his energy. This is true. But the reward will come from such fields
that can endorse unscrupulousness.
§ Goodness
and result of work are not directly related. 5
948) Tradition
is preserved by many forces:
a. The
physical refuses to part with what it has.
b. The
new wave does not reach all over the society.
c. Reaction
to the new fashion reinforces itself.
d. The
impulse in the parents to dominate their children finds convenient expression
in the preservation of tradition. J
949) In periods of transition, loyal members out of inevitable necessity
are forced to transgress. Every such act of transgression is truly an act of
patriotism. Standing on the borders
between the human and divine consciousness, life is replete with such
occasions. J
950) Increasing
quantity though it will not change the basic quality does influence the quality
essentially. J
951) When the heart is full, the psychic
is open, calling Mother is a call on the spiritual internet. 5
952) Literature is the autobiography of the
author through the events and characters. Fiction is the author’s psychological
biography.
An author tells us his many traits
and the way he understands his world through the characters.
A writer’s many letters to his
readers are his works. J
953) Man always asks for justice
that is generally found in his own society. When the devotees are confronted
with a crisis, they need the supramental justice. To
find its expression in one of the social actions and give life to it is not
given to the existing forces in the society. 5
954) An act that should offend
sometimes pleases, or at least does not offend. It shows how much our organised
lives are at variance with the roots of life and its realities. 5
955) An act can be initiated and then surrendered. A
thought can be formed for an act and then surrendered. Man can be present at
any level and the rest can be surrendered. All these are partial surrenders
which will not pass the gate. The act, the thought preceding it, the initiative
for it and its impulse all have to be surrendered as what is needed is Total
Surrender. &
956) When you love doing something, try to see whether
you like Mother equally. Try doing it after consecration, and you will like
the work better still. &
957) •
If one attempts to remove harshness and meanness rooted in the substance, it will set an earthquake rolling, not in the
figurative sense.
• Removing meanness is an earthshaking
affair. 5
958) Greater
Silence and meditation come without fail accompanying problems, particularly
when they are great. This is because each is part of the other. We are
offered a choice at each moment.5
959) An atmosphere of gratitude will
ward off the hostile influences.5
960) The mental man understands on his own. The vital man understands
from others’ experience. The physical man waits until he himself understands
out of his own experience. J
961) As the inner richness rises in intensity, one marked impulse
is to run away from it and take refuge in our own old consciousness. That
desire grows into an irresistible temptation. J
962) Any arrangement leaves some area,
sometimes a lot of areas undefined. Work in those areas is to be maintained by
values. More than the arrangements, it is these values that decide the
effectivity of the total organisation. 5
963) Forces
that are denied freedom organise themselves in the very opposite direction to
an intensity equal to the force that denied them freedom. 5
964) When something goes wrong we can pray and get it
right. We can move to God-vision and see, as it is, it is right. Then it RIGHTS
itself. &
965) The smile
expresses a different emotion from that of laughter. It can be easily seen from
where the smile originates and what it expresses. The smile can express a
pleasant social emotion, good manners, felt warmth of the heart or the soul
that is touched or the ego that wants to please. 5
966) It
is one thing to solve a problem by prayer; it is quite another thing to move to
God-vision and see there is no problem. 5
967) Consecration
is to dissolve the ego, not the problems it creates.&
968) The increasing speed of communication increases the abundance
of wealth. The increasing abundance imposes itself on the recipients as free
gifts of the society. Thus money
value is disinherited, paving the way for its disappearance. J
969) Overcoming
circumstances is good for man when he is making egoistic progress. Spiritual
progress requires one to submit to circumstances. Egoistic
progress of endeavour; spiritual growth of non-initiative. &
970) Human
nature does not relish the company of divine consciousness. It enjoys
itself. J
971) The illimitable Ananda which no
individual can make a personal possession is turned into pain by the ego’s
possessive JOY.
Possessive
joy possesses Pain. 5
972) The preservation of the form is
the possessiveness of ego. 5
973) One ridicules others that are like him, not their real
defects. J
974) Seeing the conflicts outside is the
problem. Knowing them inside in their origin is knowledge. Conversion of
that knowledge into experience is yogic realisation. 5
975) Immediate
solutions appeal most. Lasting solutions are best, but they cannot be
immediate. Can we not have lasting solutions yielding results at once? Let the depths accept the lasting
solutions and offer a commensurate patience. The results will be immediate. 5
976) Perspective
is like the coating behind the glass that makes it a mirror. A transparent
glass is like an intelligent mind without the perspective. J
977) Contradictions
are inevitable. They cannot be eliminated, rather should not be given up. Accepting
the contradiction as complementary and growing into harmony is indispensable.
&
978) Consciousness
extended inwardly is Time. By withdrawing the extension and concentrating, we
overcome Time. By giving up the past and pouring ourselves more fully into
the present, Time is overcome. &
979) It is not so much the contact as
the inner sympathy that can affect us when we relate to lower forces. 5
980) Regret
rectifies; reversal fulfils. &
981) For
a clear-headed person endowed with an equality that does not play into the trap
of losing temper, strength gradually develops to which the hostile force or its
instrument one day offers the very opposite argument and submits cheerfully. 5
982) The irretrievable point to which
man comes at the fag end of life would have first appeared in his life very
early. He takes note of it only when he is pushed to the wall. 5
983) It would be infinitely humorous
and even captivating to see, rather to see through, the endless ploys instantaneously
put up by the hostile forces to get their work accomplished. 5
984) To sit quiet is not given to the
mind of running thoughts at any age. A calm mind enables a still body. 5
985) Ignorance
insists. When knowledge comes after Ignorance goes, insistence of the Ignorance
remains. That vitiates knowledge. Giving up insistence makes knowledge free and
the obstacle is removed. 5
986) The next generation is next to two
parents. Knowing the right next step into which that generation moves, one can have endless satisfaction of enormous
achievement. 5
987) Muscle
built the world; money spread life wide and raised it to inconceivable heights;
now man must emerge to fully civilise the world by his own resourcefulness
instead of the other material resources. J
988) Hostile
forces in the guise of attachment are there only to destroy us. 5
989) Consciously acquired knowledge needs to be
saturated at all dimensions for it to move the subconscious in the physical
where it becomes perfect. Complete conscious knowledge is made perfect
subconscious possession in the physical by the wealth of apparently
insignificant details. &
990) The
WOMAN is the
treasure in any society. She is a greater treasure in
991) Love
is not made to order nor is information that is held back. Secrecy breaks
when love appears. J
992) The token projects of national
development can change into those of world development as well as of a higher
character. Practically feasible physical projects can move to psychological
ones and can culminate in spiritual exercises. 5
993) Impermissible
behaviours amounting to betrayal also can be sweet if they are sincere and
innocent. 5
994) Neither sincerity nor
hostility will go unnoticed by insight. Even sincerity discerns them. 5
995) When you defy a valuable idea, the mode of defying will
drive you to value the discarded idea greatly. J
996) A cardinal sin of ill-feeling may be a common factor to two
opposite characters of responsibility and irresponsibility. J
997) More power than culture is a breeding ground for meanness. J
998) Cultural
degeneration into physical sensitivity of pride exhibits greater joy in
refusing what he badly needs. J
999) Death
spreads a wave of exhaustion among all emotionally and physically related
persons. 5
1000) The desire for ignorance to
appreciate your own intelligence is emotional ignorance. 5