DAILY MESSAGES Series I 901) Stolen pleasure is sweet is the lower version
of the higher profound truth of Lila that self-concealing and self-discovery
are the greatest joys to the embodied being. 902) Evil is a necessary stage of transition,
but knowledge of the evil takes you out of it. Only as long as that knowledge
is lacking, one is in the grip of evil
or has to face it in life. 903) We fully appreciate only what we enjoy, it
being real to our nerves, i.e. we have a vital realisation of it. The rest is
conceptual comprehension, an observation, a truism, an abstraction etc. For
the Lila to be real to us, we must realise the Absolute in the vital, because
only to the Absolute Lila is real now. Only to the Absolute Lila is real
now. Only the vital is real to us. Only when the Absolute touches the
vital, Lila will be real to us. 904) One characteristic of the Supramental force
is it does not repeat. For this reason, we can find the strategies, methods
etc. we used successfully last time, not working the next time. If it works,
certainly it is not the Supramental force that we are using. 905) Self-concealment and rediscovery are the
sources of greatest joy, says HE. Overcoming difficulties offers greater
opportunities for joy. This can be done consciously or unconsciously. Giving
up your rights to children, wife, inferiors and enjoying their use of it and
even misuse, is a conscious practice of this principle, whose acme is seen in
Ishwara surrendering to Shakti. Problems and difficulties represent our
unconscious self-concealment. 906) Man plays the game, rather is part of the
game, unconsciously. God does it consciously. With man both the parties, man
and life, are unconscious while with God, man alone is unconscious. The game
will be over when both the parties become conscious. 907) We must evaluate our life and values in
terms of Mother's values. That helps us to move towards Her. We evaluate
Mother in terms of our human values which prevents us from progressing beyond
our human best. 908) The great of the soul that have appeared
from time to time have brought us messages which man will take many more
centuries to fully absorb, since inwardly they were truly great. In their
outer lives they partly belonged to their time. Common man today often excels
them in their outer social life. 909) What we see as injustice, unfairness,
crookedness, evil, wrong, error, failure are all the conditions of life and
work. An above average person doing any work of this level treats them as
incidents in his work and it does not bother him. Those who are below average
doing a work meant for the above average are victims of evil etc., fitting
the description that the touch of the Not-self is too much for him,
generating pain. 910) The evolutionary adult does not feel
encumbered or dismayed or non-plussed by evil, etc. It is the unfit for
survival who gives that response. 911) To see life as a MARVEL, one should be
above the stream of evolution. 912) Your depths think or feel. Eliminate both
before offering gratitude to HER. Otherwise it will be from the surface. Deep
feeling or thinking alone can give place to deeply felt gratitude. 913) The exhaustion of receptivity of the being
is expressed by the pain in the right hand. For those whose main function is
writing, it shows in the palm and fingers. 914) Gratitude is fully offered on an occasion,
if we move to the next higher intensity of gratitude. 915) A decade of crusade -- outer in the field,
inner in the feelings --brings another decade of physical work to exhaustion
to confirm and concretise what the inner crusade achieved. 916) Ten years of work qualifies the man for ten
years of thought. 917) Thinking on Life prepares one to think of
HER principles. 918) No more crusade, no further drudging, not
even with the intellect or with the inner faculty. Now you can understand
without thought, enjoy without sensing, accomplish without moving. 919) Accepting ideals of the future is possible
for the mind but the emotions hesitate and the physical vital sensitivity
revolts -- abolition of property rights, free life for women. When the consciousness
changes, the hesitation disappears but the sensitivity lingers till the
environing social consciousness changes. 920) To overcome such hesitation and lingering
sensitivity, Man sometimes resorts to overdoing his ideal. 921) Such reaction and overdoing -- power in
raghukalam, abolition of child marriage -- will have a grotesque repercussion
till the inner consciousness is transformed at the physical level with
respect to that issue. 922) What the passage of time enables the
society to accomplish in change of consciousness, yoga helps to accomplish by
self-awareness, thus enabling us to overcome Time in a small measure. 923) Man mourns not only the loss of his
possessions; he also mourns the misfortunes he has lost. Having reached the
next level, but not having weaned himself psychologically from the previous
level, he mourns the loss of these endowments of the previous level. 924) Vanity is enjoyment without intensity;
possessiveness is intense enjoyment; accomplishment is intense fullness. 925) The serious man looks down upon those who
seek silly pleasure in preference to sedate quietness. When his own
sensitivity is wounded, the serious man does not seek the compassion inside
that can dissolve it but the human sympathy that embalms the wound and helps
its preservation. 926) Personality yields full results only when
the person's happiness is brim full. Presence of compunction of any kind
hamstrings personality from fulfilling itself in action. 927) World fame has come to Amartya Sen for his
thesis on famine. It is one principle of management extended to distribution
of food. There are a hundred other principles like that. Extending an age-old
idea of any field to another field is considered by the world as creativity
of the highest order. About a few thousand such principles await
exploitation. 928) Understanding is a process of knowing in
terms of our existing knowledge. Thinking enables us to know what the
incoming knowledge stands for from its own point of view. 929) The male's attraction for the female is
biological. The husband's desire for the wife's
appreciation is psychological. The man's communion with the woman's
soul is spiritual. 930) The different Purushas are now dominated by
the corresponding expressions of Prakriti. The domination is made possible by
a link principle. Desire in the vital and ego in the mind are such
principles. The dissolution of the links enables the respective Purushas to
dominate the corresponding Prakriti. 931) Mind itself is separate from Supermind by
exclusive concentration that is Ignorance, secondarily fortified by the
formation of the ego. 932) Total consecration cannot begin without the
individual acts of consecration
becoming total. 933) When knowledge is great, practice is low --
unable to control thoughts, though you understand SILENCE of the Absolute --
one hits a wall and remains there for years or forever. One way out of that
difficulty is to examine the very small areas of practice where there still
exists a little scope to cover. By working at it and fully covering it, it
will start moving, though by inches. 934) Faith is to interpret the unknown in terms
of the known. Doubt is to question the known in terms of the unknown. 935) All idealists, passionate followers of a
goal in military or politics or art, all
self-forgetful people who forget themselves in their one-pointed
pursuit are achievers in Ignorance by HIS definition of ignorance. 936) Not to know what we need to know is
ignorance. To HIM Ignorance is conscious unwillingness to know what you are
to the point of becoming unconscious of IT. 937) Celibacy without chastity in the mind,
makes the vital poisonous or perverted. Pure mind expressing it in the body
as chastity or celibacy renders the vital richness materially sweet, almost
making Mother's consciousness emerge. 938) To see oneself as a speck of dust in the
Ocean of life and existence is physical humility. 939) Physical destruction, passionate revolt,
deep hatred, deep-seated disgust, disturbed sensitivity, sad depression,
wounded pride, offended outrage, dislike, disapproval, non-sensitive physical
memory lingering, the dead event refusing to dissolve are the stages through
which the dissolution of ego passes. 940) The offended sentiment is the other side of
the demonstrative vanity. Getting rid of the one, gets rid of the other. 941) Krishnavatar came to destroy the tyranny of
the despot and establish a social dharma. Therefore, even today, those who
read The Gita face the trials and tribulations in the society which Krishna's
birth in the jail symbolised. Those who have overcome that in their
consciousness need not now suffer it while reading The Gita. 942) Good name is in proportion to the distance
between you and the public. 943) Popular approbation is not related to the
public good your service emanates. In the measure your strength of
personality exceeds the capacity in the public for gossip, one's good name
shapes. 944) He said how could there be seclusion when
the whole world crowded into Him. Physical seclusion there may be, but the
being is never in solitude as the physical seclusion brings in the spiritual
proximity of all beings. 945) No discipline that is not total at its own
level, is a discipline that can yield any results. Yoga is a way of life
where discipline is the beginning. 946) The greatest moments of history as well as
the greatest hours of any family have behind them tales of tyranny and
uncomplaining sacrifice. The finer part of it is, those who have been wronged
sorely do not feel it as such and even go to the extent of glorifying the
benefits of those periods. This we describe as the full cooperation from all
or the willing sacrifice. Any nation or family can rise to any height if they
espouse this attitude willingly and happily. 947) Grace does not compel but surely indicates.
Grace that compels issues from inside. HE calls it grace of the spirit. 948) Man is anchored in his "physical
organisation", i.e. his silent subconscious existence which is
dissipation of survival. Even the most rewarding exercise, be it artistic or
intellectual is pushed aside by its insistent preoccupation. These activities
which man pushed aside in preference of his preoccupation, erupt, sprout,
interfere whenever he takes up any serious work that he does not like.
Sometimes even great literature is so produced. 949) Work is organised at several levels and
completes itself at each level where the organisation is complete. They are
the physical organisation of skills,
vital organisation of force, mental organisation of thought and will and the
supramental organisation of Real-Idea. 950) Saturation of organisation at each level
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