DAILY MESSAGES
Series II
701) Your level of problems as well as the level
of joy or sorrow is decided by your
knowledge that decides the attitudes towards
life. µ 702) Change your attitude based on a higher
knowledge, and you will find problems
disappearing, sorrow changing to joy and even
disgust disappearing. µ 703) That which achieves in man is not the mind,
but the soul. It can achieve anything
if it chooses. µ 704) We evaluate a thing and feel it is
impossible; and it remains an
impossibility. This is the perception of the mind. µ 705) We meet a possibility and ardently desire
its consummation. Often it is
accomplished; often it remains unattained. This is mind accomplishing according to its
capacities. µ 706) When we do want something to be
accomplished and deeply long for it, it gets done. This is the soul coming
forward to endorse the mental perception. µ 707) When man consents to the elevation of
mental perception of possibilities
according to his capacities, to the soul’s vision of actualities, the
impossible becomes possible. µ 708) While
the Inconscient and the Superconscient can recharge themselves — or they need no recharging —
during their active waking existence,
the conscient needs to go into rest for that purpose, since the conscient is
an active existence away from the Whole which others are. p 709) Pressed
by circumstances, Man runs to Mother. This is unconscious surrender.
Surrender is the conscious choice of Mother as against life and its human
ways. p 710) Prakriti
enjoys in repeating and for that purpose refuses to learn. The psychic learns at the first instance
and refuses to repeat. p 711) To be able to solve every problem or get
any work done through consecration or
prayer is the culmination of one round of effectivity that is faith, but it
forms the first stage of accom-plishment. µ 712) Its next stage of accomplishment will be
not to feel sad or disappointed or to feel a grudge against anyone. µ 713) It completes at the mental stage when there
is no issue that does not explain
itself in its native character. µ 714) Its spiritual version is equality at that
level which is incapable of reaction. µ 715) Enjoyment is the savour of existence or
even creation. Austerity makes for higher enjoyment. Overdoing neither is
good. Enjoyment overdone is dissipation. Austerity outreaching its limits
tends to be insensible. µ 716) Evolution
takes place at the level of forms. It can also take place at the level of
consciousness. Man’s conscious effort is
evolution. Grace acts from above and hastens evolution that moves
from below. To evolve so as to make
the Grace respond and respond constantly is yoga. HER personality abridges, rather
abolishes man’s effort when he surrenders to HER. p 717) To
know Mother as an evolving Force that is conscious in its evolution and one which can totally
eliminate his effort is to know
Mother. To be attracted to that is aspiration. To direct his initiatives towards Her Force is
consecration. To know this at the
level of the spiritual term in the physical consciousness is surrender. p 718) Discovery yields joy. The greater the
hiding the higher is the joy. Self-absorption and self-forgetfulness yield
the greatest of joys as they are the greatest of hidings. & 719) When
friends split into two teams and challenge each other, pitting their physical
skills against each other, the physical challenge enhances their vital
intimacy. p 720) Mind
discovering a new knowledge thrills in the discovery of it. A greater thrill
for the mind is the discovery of vital friendship. The greatest known joy issues
out of the deepest discovery possible for the mind which is discovering the
hidden physical knowledge, rather
discovering the knowledge hidden in its own physicality which is the sexual
act. p 721) A deeper hiding than that is the spiritual
term in the physical consciousness. Discovery of it is supramental evolution
or evolution of the spirit which makes for the highest joy possible in creation. Sri Aurobindo calls it
self-discovery of the spirit which hides
into itself by self-absorption. This is the Lila of creation. & 722) Friends
splitting into two teams each challenging the physical skill of the other is
a sport to us. The Absolute splitting itself into two poises challenging its
own skill in discovering itself naturally yields the greatest possible joy to
itself. p 723) The honesty of the subordinate is in
proportion to the authority of the boss. µ 724) The honesty of the subordinate in the
absence of the authority of the boss is socially available honesty or the
individual’s particular honesty. µ 725) The physical organisation of the world acts
on the basis of material honesty. µ 726) Impatience
hurries because it can hardly wait. Patience has the speed of creation and knows no waiting.
p 727) I know no waiting because I have lost my
impatience. µ 728) Patience
is a waiting in silence that generates activities of the highest speed. p 729) Socially a man can make greater progress by
seeking greater opportunities but it
is not true for psychological progress. µ 730) He who seeks psychological progress cannot
take initiative to seek higher opportunities since each higher advantage he
seeks comes with an equal higher
disadvantage. The only new opportunities for him are those that seek him. µ 731) Petty desires have a way of appearing as
the highest cherished ideals and irresistibly too. That happens when part of
the personality, however tiny it is, remains petty. µ 732) Till the Jivatma is realised, one can only
aspire or sacrifice his works and not
initiate himself into surrender. Surrender begins after the realisation of
Jivatman since it is the Jivatma that is to surrender to the Paramatma. & 733) All-inclusive
concentration required for purna yoga differs
from the ordinary concentration we know, as capacity differs from skills, and wisdom differs from academic learning.
p 734) One
source of tragedy issues out of the mind’s faith in the passing phenomenon as
an eternal reality, the best example of which is the death of the body.
Vitally the world knows as tragedy the failure of romance, a fleeting
phenomenon or even a non-existent illusion. p 735) We
must disregard the ‘negative side’ of the Absolute in our dealing with the evil, sinful, substandard
events of life so as to allow the
Absolute in ourselves to realise itself, even as we disregard the blemishes
and shortcomings of the authority when we want the authority to help us. p 736) It is a sign of stupidity when
understanding comes to you while
speaking out. This is a trait of the physical mind which remains as
long as intellectuality survives. µ 737) Subconscious attachment to the parents is
due to the fact that we are a physical part of them. µ 738) Subconscious vital attachment exists
between stronger vital characters and
weaker vital characters. This is due to the vital’s desire to grow stronger. µ 739) Mental attraction towards wider ideas is
subconscious. µ 740) Attachment or attraction becomes
subconscious when the need to survive or grow is too big for the conscious to
be aware of it. µ 741) The higher can act only in the absence of
the action of the lower. The spirit
cannot act as long as the mind acts by thinking. µ 742) Thought is the activity of the mental
substance — the physical brain — even
as the movement is the action of the body. µ 743) When
mind does understand the intention of Grace and is willing to act readily on
that basis, it finds in itself a strange impulse to the contrary which makes
the knowledge, Ignorance. Mind starts applying the same knowledge to its
opposite, justifying itself on a social basis or psychological basis. Naturally
the knowledge gained is neutralised. p 744) It is natural to the mind to act as above
since it is an instrument of ignorance and a partial instrument too. That is
why it has the strange logic that what is proper in the right context will also be proper in the wrong context.µ 745) Even if you have not been loved since your
birth, you can love because Love is eternal and good in itself. The same is
true of loyalty, affection, confidence, honesty, goodness etc. µ 746) Eternal
qualities are there in us because the Eternal is there in us, not because the
transient individual responds to it. The Eternal alone can respond to the
Eternal. p 747) To be heart-broken is to discover the
unreality of emotional truths. A minor
version of it is to long for the realisation of such truths. µ 748) Human relationships are formed on the
bedrock of vital necessities and realities that are real only as long as the
vital energy subsists. Vital energies
are short-lived spurts and need to be replenished periodically in different fashions that do
not admit of constancy. Hence they are not made to admit Eternal values. µ 749) When you realise that no one deserves your
confidence, it means the life of the
ego is transitory and cannot uphold higher
values. µ 750) This
knowledge should lead one to shift away from the ego to the psychic instead
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