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DAILY MESSAGES Series I 651) What resists in all these planes is our
will of passive existence which dumbly becomes an occupation or
preoccupation. And it is all-pervasive and is the final determinant.
"What You will" releases us from it and ushers us into bliss. Our
maximum available energy will be exhausted in a few seconds invoking
"What You will." Vol. 12 and 13 of Agenda describe Mother's
efforts at the level of transforming Matter itself, not the material
consciousness. 652) To sum up, to be able to say, "What
You will" and feel the Bliss is the acme of human surrender. 653) Mother says God is there behind the desire. God is there behind the foremost
point of human activity. SHE found God behind the vital
purusha and the Vedic Rishis found HIM behind the physical purusha. Purna
Yoga requires us to evolve to the psychic being and discover God behind the
psychic not by giving it up, as in the case of the vital being, but by
evolving it further. 654) Men do make real advances in the journey
towards the Divine but the leading motive being egoistic, they subordinate
the gains of the real advancement to the purposes of the ego. Thus the
progress even when it is there, serves the opposite purpose. 655) If done rightly, "Thy Will be
done" , etc. will dissolve the ego, says Mother. What is the right method? As there is a sincerity in speech,
motives, a sincerity towards the Divine is required to aspire for His Will to
be done. Repeated orally, it becomes a sound and soon tires. Repeated from
the depth without the accompanying sincerity, it is frustrating and soon we
forget it. We must know at each moment our will appears as an opinion,
preference, urge, or impulse. To invoke the Divine we must first disinherit
our will and as against our will, there must be an inner preference to the
Divine Will and then it will be right. Such a repetition will touch the inner
divine sincerely and evoke a response. (refer 657) 656) We work with the hands, understand with the
mind. As the one who works with the mind is better than the one who works
with the hands, we must learn to work with the spirit inside. Instead of
working for external results, if one works for inner growth, the vista of
endless progress opens up. 657 Repetition of 'Let Thy Will be done' can
give an unconscious opening and even then there will be unconscious response
in all planes -- glorious vision of Mother in the subtle vision, mind
relenting more, vital losing its old force, the brute physical splitting into
positive and negative forces and their appropriate versions in the material
plane like the object of our will being removed afar in the physical, its
unheard of refractory response, a new understanding in the society, or in us,
or in the plane of the object. Persistence, aspiration, curiosity for
original understanding can make them gradually conscious responses whose
culmination is "The world is a Marvel." (refer 655) 658) The process of unconscious awakening and
transition from the unconscious into the conscious will find itself fully
reflected in outer events, mental thoughts, vital urges and physical
sensations as if Life is holding a mirror to the inside. 659) Reasoning is a bar to accomplishment.
Accomplishment issues when the Force of accomplishment saturates the vital.
Reasoning draws away part of the essential energy. The right place of
reasoning is long after the accomplishment, not prior to it. 660) He speaks of conscious evolution of the
Spirit. Evolution is the final term of a
scale of which the first term is survival. Survival--Growth--Development--Evolution,
is the full scale. This scale applies equally to every member of our being,
the physical, vital, mental, spiritual. What are we presently aware of? We
are aware of the survival of the body. We are not aware of its growth,
because growth of the body is subconscious in us. From a status of not being
aware of the growth of the body, man should move to the conscious evolution
of the spirit to do this yoga. 661) It is better we comprehend all the four
terms of survival, evolution at least in one level of our existence. It is
most easily done in social evolution, the vital plane. That will be a real
beginning. 662) A perceptive conscious Intelligence can
very well see the movements of the organised society as governed by the laws
of the land which an unconscious citizen often misses or fails to perceive.
To see that humanity is moved
generally by its conscious awareness led by its organised entity of public
conscience, a greater penetration is required. Only the Poet can excel here
whereas the philosopher may do duty in the first two stages. A Poet,
especially a great Poet, if he is also philosophically inclined can have a penetrating
VISION of the collective conscience evolving in the individual as
psychological motives. A self-aware Yogi whose self-awareness reveals the
inner movements of his soul as well as other souls ascending towards the
Mother of Souls can hope to have the yogic vision of the evolution of the
spirit. That vision, touching the vital
becomes aspiration and ends in surrender through the path of consecration. 663) To be able to feel in a small work the
truth of the high realisation in samadhi is spiritual vision. To acquire
practical mastery over the work to realise that vision is Purna Yoga. 664) The woman alone completes man at all
levels. At the bottom she physically completes him to produce an offspring,
at the top She is the Shakti to Ishwara. 665) Removing the woman from the life picture of
man may be necessary during his periods of preparatory discipline, but man's
integral efforts are impossible without her. 666) The highest power of reason will help us to
develop a reasonable statement that will be convincing to us. Reason is a
light and it can enlighten and do only that. It can never have the POWER to
make another accept. The highest power it may have is to convince the other
of the truth of it. The trick of it is the other man will not be 'convinced'
unless he is able to accept it. 667) The inmost centre of human life is the KNOT
of ego. As one moves towards the Divine, the centre becomes more organised,
the knot is tighter. It is impossible for the near environment not to disturb
it by its touch, as the disturbing touch issues out of a law. The only way to
benefit by the touch is to untie the knot. 668) The higher method among the lower
population never works. Most of our ills issue from considering OUR people
the higher population. 669) Jealousy is the annoyance at seeing a man
acquire something by his desert. Generosity is the aspiration to give a man
what he cannot acquire by his maximum ability. In yoga, jealousy is
transformed into generosity. 670) It is an interesting feature of life that
your best friend and the worst enemy are of the same traits, only that they
have opposite attitudes to you. 671) Every act that is a source of petty desire
can be an occasion for high delight when the attitude is changed and the
consciousness elevated. 672) The smaller the act, the greater is the
difficulty in transforming it. Most of the acts can be so transformed, a few
extremes are to be destroyed, not being capable of transformation. 673) The smaller the act, the lower the act, the
greater is the delight it can issue after transformation. 674) It is by shunning the lower values and
habits that man moves to higher values and practices. Still, having reached
the higher plane, the longing for the pride of lower values will be
significant emotion individually as well as socially. The charm of physical
values remains after entering into portals of democratic power; nor does the
money value disappear after taking to sannyasa. 675) Systems are creative in the beginning,
later get rigid and die. As any system is only a human creation in the circumstance,
it is possible to widen the circumstance a little by a creative idea and make
the system creative for a while. Marriage, religion, private property have
that status now. Even the outmoded system of cruel tyranny by a more outmoded
authority can be brought to life by drawing upon the virtues of tyranny which
are intensity and obedience. 676) The truth that the work of a leader and a
worker is the very same in its essence is known to those familiar with the
inner secrets of things; but the worker is often a failure as a leader for
want of the required strength. 677) And that strength comes either by
experience or inheritance. Another way by which that strength can be acquired
in the nerves is to SEE that at the bottom both are the same, of the same
Brahman. 678) Accomplishment is ensured by 'complete
act'. Capacity to initiate at a level higher than one's greatest achievement,
a 'complete act' brings in a great accomplishment. The greatest of
'accomplishments' is by God when we renounce that capacity to initiate. 679) HIS Constant Grace is there as constant
descent received without fail at all moments of opening. Descent creates the
atmosphere for transformation. It is only aspiration that achieves that
transformation. 680) While descent is non-stop, aspiration is
rare. How we feel when aspiration awakes is described by HIM. To entirely
pull us away from our habits enables aspiration to awake. 681) These Avatars of Sri Aurobindo and The
Mother have come not merely to reveal but to work. In our endeavour with
other people be it agriculture, bank, business or consultancy or even
development, we are to work the ideas into results. It is not given to us to
merely reveal. 682) Because the universe has concentrated in
the individual to fulfil itself, MAN taking to yoga concentrates on his soul,
his life being his universe. 683) The social man avoids the unpleasant in
public; the conscientious person avoids the wrongdoing from his thoughts; the
spiritual man has to eliminate the wrong and the evil from his subconscient. 684) While nothing is unpleasant for the Spirit,
the conscience reacts to the exhibition of evil to its awareness and the
society does not permit the demonstration of the wrongdoing in public. 685) To recognise Grace is gratitude. 686) To recognise Grace in lifeless events
brings the events to life. Recognising Grace in misfortune, Grace is replaced
by Super Grace. 687) As the soul alone can recognise Grace, it
is a moment when the Soul is on the surface. The soul that comes on the surface
is the psychic,as the Soul by itself is incapable of appearing on the
surface. 688) Gratitude is the sensation that relates the
evolving human soul to the evolving Divine Soul in Nature. 689) Gratitude is that movement of the
individual soul trying to fulfil itself by extending into the universe. 690) Universe concentrating in the individual
soul is a movement of compassion. 691) The knowledge that what one is NOW is what
he has aspired for with all his being, precedes the knowledge that he can
become what he aspires for. 692) This knowledge exists at the three levels
of mental, vital, and physical planes. 693) Mental knowledge of this kind gives a
certitude that one can become what he chooses, without his actually becoming
that. Having the mental knowledge, he can work to release the vital energy
necessary for it. 694) Vital knowledge of this type releases all
the energy needed and all that he has to do is to organise that energy into
force and power of achievement. 695) Physical knowledge of this moves into
action for achievement. 696) The dark hard realities of life, when
transformed, are denser substance of more intense Ananda than the static
bliss up above. 697) Obedience is the physical evolution. 698) Worship is the vital evolution. 699) Faith is the mental evolution. 700) Knowledge of the Reality is the spiritual
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