DAILY MESSAGES

Series I

 

751)   To be good is non-egoistic; the desire to be good is egoistic.

 

752)   Concentration in the present yields full joy; thinking of the future or past is a source of frustration.

          All situations of frustrations are only stages in our progress to joy. Education that is discipline, hospitalisation that is trauma are penultimate stages to graduation and good health. One can tolerate them in the hope of a bright future; better still, concentration on education can turn into an enjoyable discovery of intense joy. It is more difficult to discover the same joy in the post-operative pain, but it is still true. Psychologically, one can discover an intense joy in the events of betrayal and in the process of betrayal when looked at, not from the sufferer's point of view, but from the point of view of the person who betrays.

 

753)   God has no problems to solve. He is exercising Himself to evolve His manifestation in wider areas and is enjoying the process of evolution that is manifestation.

 

754)   Man has problems to solve as long as he does not understand. In the areas he understands, he ceases to perceive problems and strangely there will be no problems to perceive, i.e. the problems dissolve by the changed perception of man.

 

755)   Changed perception dissolves the problems in the mind; changed sense perceptions generate joy in the nerves; changed physical sensitivities bring about an inner and possibly outer transformations.

 

756)   Mental recognition of this outer possibility is to recognise difficulties as opportunities.

 

757)   Physical experience of this outer touch is to sense God's touch in the hands that strangle your throat.

 

758)   As long as you long for something or take initiative to reach something, God comes to you as strangling hands.

 

759)   When the initiative ceases and turns inwards, life's touch is a caressing marvel.

 

760)   It is better to seek Mother inside instead of simply turning inward. Seeking Mother inwardly by the soul can be blissful; seeking Mother by the inner movements of the mental and physical parts will be delight.

 

761)   This seeking begins as an effort, becomes delight through a middle stage of bliss.

 

762)   At a further stage when your being is an evolving centre and no longer a centre of effort of the ego-surrounded nature, Mother in Nature moves towards it in a process of evolution of the spirit in the universe. Its indication is a growing fullness inwardly.

 

763)   Its consummation begins when the individual soul loses its witness poise, spills over to being the Ishwara, starts spreading into the world being to universalise himself.

 

764)   Mind conceives of the Infinite. When the vital feels the Infinite as a Force or the body senses the Infinite as a substance even as the Mind knows the Infinite as a concept, it helps us know the Absolute as relative or the relative as the Absolute.

 

765)   அக்ஷயபாத்திரம் is the Infinite in Matter while the boon given by gods to heroes that he who fights them will find his own strength passing on to the hero, is the Infinite in the vital.

 

766)   As HE proceeds in the Life Divine, HE raises the level of His concepts. In the beginning HE addresses the intellect as we have, later HE speaks of the reason turning into intuition. In the later half, HE describes the Absolute. Obviously the reason cannot conceive of the Absolute. As His presentation rises, the reader must rise in his centre of reception, without which HE remains uncomprehended.

 

767)   HE does give us, in the course of the writing, the higher comprehension needed in the later chapters.

 

768)   It is clear HE moves from addressing the intellect, to the perception of THAT, to the spiritual perception in the thinking mind of the Absolute.

 

769)   To achieve this successfully, HE does three things, 1)  He gives the reader the necessary new faculties, 2) He creates new linguistic phenomenon of contradictory phrases, comprehensive conceptions and pleads for reversal of consciousness in receptivity and 3)        He creates a higher order of spiritual truths that cannot be expressed even in Sanskrit, such as 'glad laughter of the soul'.

 

770)   In writing to the rational intellect about mysticism, HE evolved the existing prose (not merely the English prose, but the prose of the language itself) and evolved the faculty of writing itself, the art of communication to a level where this feat can be achieved.

 

771)   It is not the intellect of the physical mind that conceives of the Infinite in Mathematics. It is done by the touch of the Absolute in the thinking mind. The reader will be able to follow The Life Divine not from the brilliance of the physical mind but by the infinite expansiveness of the thinking mind.

 

772)   The lazy person, the dynamic man and the Purna yogi undergoing physical transformation are all godheads but of different levels. The one is a godhead in the descent, the surviving Inconscient, the other the godhead of the evolving vital. The yogi is the evolving godhead in the ascent at its acme.

 

773)   Loyalty is arrived at through torture by betrayal (wife of.............) Akalya was a stone for ages before her dissipation became chastity. Draupadi came to head the list of chaste women after 1000 years of indulgence, and was cursed to be the wife of five emanations of Shiva.

 

774)   Body is transformed through illness and torture.

 

775)   Torture is the human version of unflinching ecstasy or intolerable ecstasy.

 

776)   Civilisations were born through war, ravage, arson, looting, etc.

 

777)   Conditions of near madness, sometimes full madness, precede mental clarity.

 

778)   Madness, confusion, betrayal, torture, insensible cruelty, illness are the necessary media through which mind, vital and body are transformed.

 

779)   The Avatar arrives in the midst of circumstances wherein He will be betrayed and tortured. He tries to organise these forces as a nucleus for the future.

 

780)   Even He refrains from giving a rational explanation of some of His acts, though He could rationally explain mysticism.

 

781)   Total confusion, utter bewilderment for the mind, betrayal, tortured emotions for the vital and illness and insensate cruelty for the body are necessary stages for transformation.

 

782)   There are several lines of Inquiry we can hold before us with advantage in reading The Life Divine.

          The earliest of seekings remains to be the last.

 

783)   An organisation of several principles operating through one is the medium to let the other principles evolve.

 

784)   Moving from thought to consciousness, unsolved problems of thought are solved.

 

785)   Mind always requires to return with greater force to abandoned projects of enquiry.

 

786)   Moving to the depths from the surface is the occult secret HE was looking for.

 

787)   Reason turns to intuition when it disengages from the senses.

 

788)   It is the destiny of Man to bridge the gulf between Inconscience and Superconscience.

 

789)   Satchidananda tries to express the objectless Ananda in the objects.

 

790)   The part is greater than the whole. Complete minus complete is complete even in the physical plane.

 

791)   Ignorance is a greater power than knowledge.

 

792)   Time eternity creates all that the Timeless eternity conceives.

 

793)   Existence lies in the Non-Existence.

 

794)   Consciousness evolves from Inconscience.

 

795)   The Individual is part of the world-being which is part of the Transcendent being.

 

796)   Supermind is the nature of Satchidananda.

 

797)   The Absolute and the relative exist in one another.

 

798)   Any consciousness growth has to be in the inner being.

 

799)   Spirit moves Matter.

 

800)   Evaluate your own personal life in the light of the above and other similar truisms.

 

 

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