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 of making him cynical. p

 

 

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