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DAILY MESSAGES Series I 301) Altruism is the human endeavour to excel the Divine in benevolence. 302) An arduous route that is the longest is the shortest one. 303) Practical net result depends upon the immediate relationship and the attitudes therein. [You are able to produce results not based on what you are but how others treat you]. 305) Man is never going to find the secret to a goal that is not REAL to him. When it is REAL it is not certain he will ever find it. It is GRACE that he finds the key to the secret. 306) To seek final fulfilment in anything other than the Lord is ignorance. To seek fulfilment in money or power is a vital hallucination. To seek the same fulfilment in marriage is a social illusion of the man of yesteryears. To seek fulfilment in friendship is psychological delusion. Primitive men seek marriage, unevolved men seek friendship. 307) Any impulse will be transformed if consecrated each time it rises. 308) Mind is never satisfied because it seeks satisfaction in the existing conditions which means trying to construct a whole in conditions of the part. 309) Satisfaction is the saturation of the most developed skill with energy. 310) Fulfilment is the saturation of the most developed value with employment. 311) Unconsciousness becoming conscious is revelation. 312) Body cures itself by releasing the physical power which is the first stage. Supramental transformation takes place when the body releases the power of the spirit which is the ninth stage. 313) Capacity to know the obstacle--value of existing endowments is the capacity to receive the endowments of opportunity. 314) The physical is inert. The physical in movement is the vital expressing in the physical. Skill of the physical is Mind expressing in the body. Spirit expressing in the body is tejas, the light shining through the skin. Supermind expressing through the body is body's capacity to express power and accomplish without moving. 315) Friendship -- family -- life -- personality -- partnership. By valuing profit more than the partner, the partner is lost. Mercenary motive nullifies the friendship. When sadness colours life, it loses its charm. The advent of hesitation neutralises personality. Admiration of the heart going to another dissolves wedlock. 316) From surface to the depth of the being. Mind, vital, and physical exist on the surface and in the depths. If the analogy of cleaning can be resorted to, going from the surface mind to the depth is like sweeping the house. It is like replastering the house when you move so in the vital. The physical admits us to its depths only when the walls are replaced. 317) For MAN to move matter through spirit, says Sri Aurobindo, he must seek an inner perfection of conscious universal integrality of Ananda. In a smaller way, this is the formula for social success. 318) Such a mastery is attained through, among other things, values. To be fully conscious of our work is the mental value. To be happy about it is the emotional value. To have all the skills needed is the physical value. Not to take outward initiative is the spiritual value. 319) We know the reality, not its process. We know the process, not its essence. 320) Knowing the reality, you can blindly aim at it. Knowing the process, you can manipulate the circumstances. Knowing the essence, you can have an entire mastery over it. 321) Humour is at the expense of a person or an event. At its height humour opens up possibilities of thought that issues joy or delight, thereby becoming a creative imaginative faculty of the mind. 322) Constant attempts to enjoy the results that have come by denying enjoyments is the struggle of mortal mind. 323) To identify the cause of any failure in one's own self is Purna Yoga. As someone or something else is always related to our work, it is always possible to identify the cause of our failures in external events or others. 324) To identify the cause of our failures in external events is the sure way to escape self-correction. 325) To identify the same in another is the way the ego constantly builds itself. 326) Desire when successful, gives satisfaction. It coarsens the satisfaction because of its quality. Desirelessness gives fulfilment which raises the level of consciousness to a refined expansive sweetness. 327) Concentration: The maximum intensity of one's concentration is determined by his mental belief, vital urges and physical poise. Ordinarily, one whose thoughts are running is concentrated in his running thoughts. Mind is purified only when the running thoughts cease, pragmatic will is not exercised and reason's moves are denied. Pure mind reached as a result of mental concentration leads to pure spirit, moksha. Psychic concentration is possible only when the available concentration is expended on consecration, the process of relating nature to spirit. High-pitched mental concentration while one is talking or vital concentration while feeling or physical concentration while acting is only possible for the spiritual term of each plane. Concentration for liberation is the concentration on the surface by the surface, while concentration for transformation is the concentration of the psychic in each plane. 328) Mother's birthday is the birthday of every living being into the higher consciousness. 329) Frankness is of several levels: Frankness in -- information -- understanding -- motives -- subtle information, understanding and motives. 330) Overcoming good and evil, man is ushered into the psychic realm. He finds it very difficult. But socially he has overcome the evil of the past generation and now treats it as good, thus overcoming the distinction between good and evil. 331) A project or work is to be initiated only in its plane. It can never be started in another plane. E.g. an emotional work like service can not be begun either by thinking or by planning. A spiritual work like dhyana cannot be initiated by serious thought. Yoga is spiritual and can be started only in the spiritual plane, i.e. by concentration or consecration, not by discussion or thought or puja or ceremony. 332) Mind taking initiative to think of a thing or a person is indicative of the presence of desire for that object. Desirelessness is indicated by the objects moving towards us on their own. 333) Conceptual understanding is only part of a full mental understanding. It is made possible by the linguistic meaning of the words used. Fuller mental understanding requires the grasp of words from their origin, the grasp of concepts from the first principles. 334) Understanding can be classified under mental understanding, vital understanding, physical understanding & spiritual perception. They are all parts of the UNDERSTANDING of the BEING which issues out of identity. 335) The right to tyrannize over another is human justice. 336) Social emotions are for the masses; personal emotion is for the unevolved. Spiritual emotion is bhakti. At its height, emotion even as knowledge shades off into intuition. 337) Blind FAITH is materially rewarded by Mother Earth. Intelligent faith is copiously rewarded by Life. Spiritual FAITH is its own reward. 338) To know the difference between mind, ego and desire in actions, impulses, and motives is a yogic perception. 339) Successful negotiation is to use the argument of strength; failure here is the reasonableness of the weak. 340) Great results, great benefits, and great income come, not necessarily because of great endowments. They can issue out of the atmosphere because of one little advantage. 341) Therefore, the greatest strategy for luck lies in drawing upon the potentials of the atmosphere. 342) Those who receive rewards in proportion to their endowments are builders of the atmosphere like nation builders. 343) Those who are ashamed of repeating 100 times, are not ashamed of a thought repeating in their minds hundreds of times. They are even proud of it. Some cherish it too. That is the stupidity of the surface mind. 344) The Presence of the CALL is indicated by Man stumbling on God in several ordinary events repeatedly till he recognises THAT. 345) Self-awareness: To know oneself evolutionarily, we should know the evolutionary process. Prior to that one needs to have psychological and sociological self-awareness. 346) When you decide not to cut worldly or family relationships but start the first step of yoga viz. consecration, you will see a big chunk of people moving away from you. They are to be shed. Among those who cling to you there will be three categories: 1) Those who are meant for yoga; 2) those who are inimical to yoga, and 3) those whom you are not able to give up. 347) Presence of desire is indicated by the impulse to possess, ego by dualities and mind by the partial human vision. 348) In all matters that are based on PERFECTION like honesty, loyalty, chastity, integrity, there is no beginning even at the lowest level if the value is NOT perfect. This being a yoga of Self-Perfection, it can be started only on the basis of a perfect yogic value, viz. consecration. 349) Consecration is the indispensable first step but it cannot be initiated unless the concentration that precedes it is perfect, in the sense it is all-inclusive leading to a wide massive opening. 350) Three levels of graded effectivity in consecration -- acts, thoughts and impulses. |
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