DAILY MESSAGES Series I 601) Accomplishment for us is spirit controlling
matter. Presently matter controls spirit and mind. The necessary first step
of success for us will be matter not controlling spirit and mind. 602) Before we accomplish spirit controlling
matter, we can try spirit controlling life or mind. Spirit controlling mind
or matter not controlling spirit are effective first steps of accomplishment
from either end. 603) Its extension in life and in daily
activities will be, wife
not trying to dominate husband, subordinate not trying to influence
the boss, mind being incapable of desiring
things to which it has no right, man trying to take another man's
point of view, not trying to get the better of a
situation through a trick or strategy. 604) Self-giving is one giving himself to
another so that the other may expand. Now man is expanding his reign through
ego. For him to realise that the Divine should expand in human life and for
that purpose his coming forward to give up his own enjoyment of thought or
habit, is self-giving for him. 605) At the point it is enjoyable it becomes
self-giving. Till then it remains self-sacrifice. 606) One indication of our being in Mother's
Consciousness is to feel that all our sacred sentiments, and all the values
that we cherish are not only silly but truly a bar. In the measure you are
able to shrink before affection or loyalty or honesty, you have moved into
Her Consciousness. Man seeks satisfaction of his petty desires, whereas
sticking to the noblest of values will keep him away from The Mother. 607) Mental interest in an idea, confusion,
doubt, unsatisfied desire, unmet vital needs like spite, will prevent SILENCE
settling as long as they are there. Either they should be exhausted or
dissolved. 608) Aspiration is not found in most, even in
young age. What idealism is found is a sublimated version of ambition.
Crossing the youth, most people do not find even ambition in themselves. What
is found in middle age and after is
mental occupation or preoccupation, nothing more. 609) Trying to create aspiration in such a man
is like reviving a dead body. Life, as we know, does not need aspiration for
survival. Aspiration is like its other compeers faith, adoration,
concentration, patience, integrity, etc. Therefore it is non-existent in
normal human beings. 610) What is considered shameful in everyone's
eyes becomes a matter of pride and joy in view of the exceeding personal
gratification that overcomes the social emotion of shame. Such an emotion
towards the Divine is devotion consummated in spite of shame, rather by
shame. Acme of devotion turns shame into an enjoyable pride. 611) People who were at the feet of great souls
often used to say about their shortcomings, "I have been at His Feet for
decades. Well, it is natural that a little dark spot is in me still." It
will be rather appropriate to put it, "Having sat at HIS Feet all these
years, it did give several little openings into Light." 612) Freshness is indicated by a surge of fresh
energy in any part. 613) Outside the motive and its power,
personality has very little else. That may be why the Gita asks for the
surrender of motives that combine knowledge, will and emotion. 614) Without giving up the preoccupation of the
mind, concentration, consecration, surrender, and aspiration will be
short-lived. Giving it up voluntarily is not natural or possible. Mind moving
to a higher idea and developing concentration on it will enable the
preoccupation to give up its hold on it. 615) The psychic recognising the Divine in
action and feeling the touch pleasantly, is Gratitude. 616) Fullness is a state where the sensations
are overpowered by the incursion of excess energy. Coming from an outer
circumstance, it is a passing phenomenon. Rising from inside, it is an
abiding factor. 617) From outside it comes from an event. From
inside it comes from a higher idea or a deeper inspiration. (Refer 627) 618) Fullness saturated is richness. 619) Spirit coming to the surface or discovery
of Nature in the depth is Reality grasped in a wider fashion. That makes for
spiritual fullness. 620) Children and youth feel a fullness issuing
out of excess physical energy that is not fully absorbed by growth. A rising
star experiences fullness because he is unable to utilise all the energies
released by the excess of social opportunities. Mental fullness is from the
new ideas that submerge the existing mental structure with fresh energy. 621) As Man exists in several layers -- surface
mind, depth, emotions, physical centre, subtle parts, causal body, the ego,
the psychic, the Purusha, the Ishwara, etc. -- Mother exists in all
corresponding layers of Mother's Consciousness. Her response is to the depth
and plane from where he calls. Also, having gone into a certain depth, say the
psychic, he still has the capacity to carry into it the habits of his surface
mind and call from it, thereby neutralising the opening he had by a flaw in
the mechanism of calling. 622) In the descent, knowledge seeks to become
ignorance. In the ascent, ignorance rediscovers the original knowledge it
was. 623) Self-awareness reveals both these
processes. The perception of any of the Purushas or Jivatman will not reveal
it because they are largely silent. The psychic that collects the essence of
our experiences can reveal it. 624) It hurts our sentiment to be happy or
smiling in an atmosphere of sadness. In truth, sadness and the smiling
happiness are physical sensations in the opposite direction. The human
atmosphere permits one, not the other. There is no sadness in the psychic,
nor the happiness of the physical sensation. In an otherwise sad situation,
the psychic feels a sweet, quiet attitude, which does not express as an
inappropriate smile. 625) Surface life: All our thoughts, feelings, and movements
constitute our surface life. Ours is a surface personality. Its life is
surface life; the body and all its existence belongs to the surface. 626) There is a subtle part belonging to our
thoughts, feelings and sensations. They belong to the subtle life. The subtle
life and life in the depth are different. Though thought itself is subtle, it
has two parts, gross and subtle. 627) Fullness is not given to parts, unless it
is the fullness of the part. It is the Absolute that is Full in the
unmanifest state. A greater fullness which is our seeking is the FULLNESS OF
THE ABSOLUTE IN MANIFESTATION. (Refer 617-621 & 633). 628) It is made possible by the vibration of
LOVE and the principle of surrender. 629) Japa is oral, rather the physical part of
the mantra. Those who cannot rise above the physical resort to japa. The
truth of the mantra when felt as an emotion begins to work which is
aspiration. Rising further conceiving the mantra in the mind, moves the
physical organisation that governs the world, making things happen at once.
This way we release the mind from the overburden of physicality. [Mother's resort to japa is to handle the
physical material after the mind and the vital are transformed]. 630) The customary neutrality of life is
disappearing, says Mother. The least positive efforts produce great results
while the smallest lapses, catastrophes. We know that if we are not
progressing, we start decaying. In the initial stages of a plane, life admits
of positive, neutral, and negative sectors while at the final stages either
you are here or there, never in the middle. Either you are married and are
part of the society or fall out of it, never is there a neutral zone there. 631) For those who sincerely feel that the
Divine is the only solution, calling for a few minutes produces miraculous
results. To initiate such a call, one should move to the Divine in himself.
Being in the surface mind, one cannot voice such a call nor can he feel that
the Divine is the only solution. 632) Substance has become denser and more
concrete than Matter. Life has lost its neutrality. These are two symptoms of
the Supramental Consciousness acting on earth. [Peace has become Golden
Peace. Individuality has become Nothingness.] 633) Fullness is reached when man resists the irresistible.
Indulgence in petty desires given up makes for fullness. Sealing the leakage
of energy at the bottom helps in filling up the plane we are in, thus
enabling the fullness to gather in momentum (Refer 617-621 & 627). 634) Jnana yoga or Rajayoga base themselves on
concentrated pure energy withdrawn from the outgoing movements through the
senses. The enormous energies that accumulate inside, because they are
purified, lead man from pure mind to pure spirit. Purna Yoga's base is all-inclusive
concentration, wide massive opening, dissolution of ego by surrender. Their
general expression is fullness. Stopping the expenditure of energy in a lower
plane is giving up dissipation. This enables fullness to collect in the plane
we are in. Purifying the energy so collected by consecration and surrender
brings in richness. Saturation of richness opens the next higher plane which
is evolution. Thus fullness, purification, richness and intense aspiration to
rise are the components of Purna Yoga. 635) The above is man's part which he does not
come forward to do or when he does come forward finds it too much. Mother
helps even here. When you call HER, the call includes the fullness, richness
and intensity. It summarises the whole yogic effort. That call is from the
surface, overcoming the ego. Hence it is an effort. This call maturing slips
into the inner being and depths and very slowly it rises by itself. That is a
fuller call, a higher order of self-giving. By its intensity it becomes the
Supramental vibration. It passes through several stages of inner being, the
subtle being, the subliminal, the subconscious. Stated differently, it moves
from the surface to the depth to the psychic and rises through the grades of
the spiritualised mind. It can be mind, vital, physical and each stage has
its consciousness and substance. Thus the physical matter is the very last.
At each plane the original difficulty repeats in the same order in greater
intensity. Agenda describes Mother's moving into the physical
consciousness and later into the material substance itself. 636) Each aspect of dissipation has its
counterpart in every part of our being. Sensation in the physical has its
version in the mind as thought, in the values as impatience and expectation,
etc. To control the physical sensation effectively one has to control thought
and impatience necessarily. 637) "Skill in works is yoga." "Intuition is involved in the
act." "Masterword of the
Superconscient is Light. Intuition is there directly." Vedantic Jnana pleads for the
bridging of the intuition above and intuition below. Works done with perfect skill
release intuition from the act. Knowledge understood correctly
reveals the Light as Intuition. Reason exercised without the
encumbrance of senses is intuition. So, perfect skill reaches perfect
knowledge through reason freed from the senses. 638) Skill is to work what knowledge is to
Light. 639) Mother says mind has gone and when the old
ways come back, they come again. What we do decides the plane in
which we are. Thinking keeps us in the mind, feeling in the vital. Thought
ceasing to exist, we go out of Mind, into the Supermind. It must cease in all
forms, even as drishti. 640) Elimination of thought in any form
eliminates mind. From there one can move into consciousness. One who wants to
touch the Absolute must be able to undo in himself the forms and forces of
manifestation and then destructure the substance which expressed as forms and
forces. Done through pure mind and pure spirit, one reaches the Absolute
unmanifest. Done through Supermind and Ishwara, one can land in the Absolute
in Manifestation. 641) The Absolute in manifestation and the
Absolute unmanifest are not separated in space or time. They co-exist, rather
both are the same revealing differently to our different perceptions. That is
why He says, a change in our view can transform Matter. 642) Our moving to the psychic from the mind is
as difficult as a man possessed by desire resisting it and resorting to
thinking of that desire and its consequences. 643) Gods give us, when pleased, what we ask
for. Brahman permits us to aspire and acquire anything we are capable of.
Mother is anxious to give us ALL that we can RECEIVE. 644) Let Thy Will be done, not my will, is the most powerful formula to arrest the
surface being and turn it to the depth. It is most effective when we have a
prayer to make and we discard the prayer, resorting to this, because it is in
context. 645) The quality of one's accomplishment can be
described as the way in which he meets the demands of his lowest impulses. Physical impulses being the lowest
and meeting their demand being through marriage, we can say the married life
and its quality are indicators, if not the full determinant, of his social
accomplishment. 646) When more energy than can be deployed by
our life rises by itself, it turns out to be the overwhelming urge. Directed
towards the seeking of the Divine, it is aspiration. 647) Even when aspiration is fully present at
one level, say the mental, moving towards the other levels of vital
aspiration and physical aspiration, it is exhausted at a point. 648) Beyond that point, one has to consciously
create the aspiration which is labour. Mind simply forgets the aspiration at
that point. If forced, it replies with a moral notion, "It is wrong to
push further" or a neutral resistance of "I do not understand. It
is not comprehensible." 649) Vital is furious if pressed to aspire
beyond the point of exhaustion and has varieties of responses. First it loses
energy and goes limp. Another response is to find its environment unhelpful
or hostile. A stronger response is to disrupt the work or impede the health. 650) The physical cannot simply be forced. It
turns dumb, makes the minutes appear hours. All efforts may meet with partial
success with the physical consciousness, not with the material substance
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