DAILY MESSAGES

Series I

 

351)   Thinking is mental desire.

          As the vital reaches through the desire what it does not possess, the mind reaches through thinking what it does not understand.

 

352)   All yogas concentrate on the individual moving from prakriti to purusha and then seek various levels of liberation for the Purusha.

          Purna Yoga concentrates on the soul in prakriti and endeavours for its evolution from spiritual awareness to spiritually creative power through spiritual force, i.e. from the psychic to the Supramental through the spiritual transformation.

 

353)   Each plane evolves the next higher plane till the evolution is complete. The last stage is the TRUE and is called the true physical or true vital etc.

          E.g. the material physical plane has its subtle part as each plane has its own subtle part. The physical evolves the vital and mental and finally the spiritual. When the spiritual term in the physical is evolved overriding the earlier rulers of the mental, vital and physical, the plane becomes the TRUE PHYSICAL. This is also subtle, but is of a different order than the subtlety of the first level.

 

354)   What prayer accomplishes for the moment, organisation of consciousness ensures automatically.

 

355)   A powerful beginning of consecration is possible only when the WILL is stronger than the urge for thought or sensation.

 

356)   Men lose all their energies in responding, rather reaching to those around, i.e. their meaningless personal attendants. Capacity to FULLY ignore them psychologically helps achieve in life.

 

357)   The highest aspiration that can be realised in a man is indicated by the greatest enjoyment he seeks.

 

358)   Man grows only in Freedom. That it is Freedom is confirmed by the ability of others around him to grow. That ability is brought out by his relationship with others. The relationship expresses Freedom when it encourages others to express themselves. Others tend to be expressive, if they find the listener can receive from them. The listener is able to encourage others when he spots in the speaker an area from where he can learn. That comes from true humility.

 

359)   True humility is to be aware of the divinity in others which tries to teach you through ignorance.

          Humility is the awareness of Ignorance behind our knowledge and Jnana behind others'  Ignorance.

 

360)   Caustic jokes, remarks, and conversation scorch the initiative of others and are expressive of the opposite of humility, the Ego.

          Not to be aware of one's caustic nature is unconscious Ego.

 

361)   Sri Aurobindo's writings are of cosmic dimensions. To grasp that, the intellect must be exercising itself in that dimension.

 

362)   As the asuras possess the money when spiritual seekers shun it, in human relationship the gap between any two if not filled in by Truth, is filled in by Falsehood, i.e. when the man of truth out of politeness restrains, the man of falsehood asserts.

 

363)   Man of Truth asserting positively in relationship with a false man is not to allow him to assert by the silent expansion of his personality.

 

364)   Calling in Mother into a problem brings in all the Divine energies required to solve it even as a repairman brings all the tools and skills needed to set right a broken machinery.

 

365)   The physical can do only one thing at a time. It concentrates on details. The mental can handle several things at the same time because it handles the essentials.

 

366)   The human maximum is reached when the personality opens up, moves into the depths and integrates with the work on hand which is now found in parts in world leaders of thought or action. YouTube Discussion | Daily Discussion on July 3, 2023

 

367)   The human maximum is the devotee's minimum.

 

368)   The devotee reaches his maximum in LIFE when he integrates himself at his maximum with Mother's consciousness in LIFE.

 

369)   The devotee's maximum is the sadhak's minimum.

 

370)   The sadhak integrates with Mother for HER in Yoga as Life and not in life for individual purposes.

 

371)   The sadhak's maximum is Mother.

 

372    Man feels a fullness when his energies overwhelm him excited about something. Spiritual fullness is for one who is excited about God.

 

373)   There are people to whom a good act done will at once lead to several life responses of similar nature. There are others to whom a bad turn delivered will release equally a chain of good life responses. And these people may be anyone, from a distant acquaintance to a family member. The extreme case is one's own self.

 

374)   The constitutional Ignorance breaks down when we move to the psychic centre.

 

375)   God walking on earth would be witnessing HIS own Lila and would not disapprove of anything HE sees. Lila is done by the Immanent God in men and matters whose atmosphere maintains the equilibrium. HIS physical Presence changes the atmosphere in favour of Good or Evolution. Either HE acts or the atmosphere activated by HIS Presence acts in favour of Good or Evolution.

 

376)   Unless the entire mind is ready for consecration in some measure, a single act cannot be fully consecrated.

 

377)   Man acts from his vital mostly. For him to make a progress, he must  cease to act vitally and act mentally. This is a process we know. Can we raise this to act from above the mind, the intuition or the Supramental Consciousness? YouTube Discussion | Daily Discussion on July 5, 2023 //     YouTube Discussion | Daily Discussion on July 6, 2023  //  YouTube Discussion | Daily Discussion on July 7, 2023

378)   For a mental man the logical step of progress is to try to act from the higher mind, i.e. to understand without thought.

 

379)   Mother offers to those who have faith in Her, the capacity to act from HER consciousness, i.e. the Supramental consciousness, if they call Her and concentrate on Her and deny their own impulses. It may last only a few seconds, but She makes it possible.

 

380)   In making the progress, it does not seem to be so difficult to commission the higher power as to willingly give up the mentality, the vitality, the physicality.

 

381)   Process of Progress: YouTube Discussion | Daily Discussion on July 10, 2023

          -- A work must be earmarked for progress.

          -- Our usual impulses must be understood as a block.

          -- Decision must be there to readily give them up.

          -- Willingness must be there to call in Mother.

          -- One must be Sarvarambha parityagi.

          -- The length of this determination is the measure of his progress.

 

382)   A practically useful point of beginning. YouTube Discussion | Daily Discussion on July 11, 2023

          HE says the greatest joy lies in self-concealing.

          Can we identify the practice of it just now, in a daily activity of ours such as learning to cook a new dish, trying to work a new machine. Here the self-concealing is unconscious.

 

383)   Discovery of self-concealing in fresh minor adventures is the beginning of self-discovery.

 

384)   Moving from unconscious self-discovery to conscious self-concealing completes the movements.

 

385)   Mother offers the highest point to start with. It may be short-lived. Starting lower may be wide spread. But the point of discovery of self-concealing is the beginning.

 

386)   Symptoms of self-discovery: YouTube Discussion | Daily Discussion on July 11, 2023

          Irritation:  unwillingness to give up the present faculty

          Joy of energy:  sign of sense of discovery

          Joy of expansiveness:  joy of discovery

          Conscious awareness:  crossing the border

 

387)   The experiment is best done at the border line. The border line is indicated by habits not insisting.

 

388)   Completing the experiment all along the border line is serious interest in yoga or self-discovery.

 

389)   To understand 'yo  yach  shraddhaha', one should understand what he now aspires for and how he has come to this station in life.

 

391)   To have any positive fulfilled in a negative is the first glimpse of realisation of knowledge.

 

392)   The power to convert pain into Ananda does not lie in the mind but in the consciousness behind the mind.

 

393)   We do see man converting Ananda into pain by an entrenched attitude not merely of the mind but deeper still in the consciousness.

 

394)   Man is not really disturbed by people of low consciousness at his own plane, but by people outside his plane. YouTube Discussion | Daily Discussion on July 13, 2023

 

395)   Man seeks Silence in other yogas. Here Silence seeks man.

 

396)   As the most stupid man is deeply convinced of his great intelligence, we often think of one most unyogic quality as our yogic capacity.

 

397)   Luck comes as gratitude.

 

398)   Surrender to Mother is surrender to the values important for Her.

 

399)   He who comes to break his yoga too often is doing his best.

 

400)   Nothing is so obvious to the selfish man as his selflessness.

 

 

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