DAILY
MESSAGES Series III
51) The tapasvi concentrates on
higher and higher levels of spirit. The sadhaka of Integral Yoga starts with
the aspiration of the being and moves towards consecration and surrender.
Aspiration is his conscious effort, while consecration is effortless
aspiration and surrender is possible when the effortless aspiration
intensifies into enjoyable self- giving in adoration, resulting in delight. 52) Among
the most serious devotees of the Mother, not withstanding their professions,
the one major expectation is the self-same ideal of an ordinary man,
vi., upward social movement, enjoyment
of the moment, a rise in prestige. The context and garb may change, not the
content. A conscious seeking of the higher life and adherence to its norms
are conspicuous by their absence. A¢uìx ©mk÷© C»m]¯®. 53) Going
into the inner being below the surface, we meet the psychic which is less
negative than the manomaya purusha, and
the door of nirvana. The psychic is less negative because it leads to
evolution. That which is not negative or positive is the DISCIPLINE on the
surface and depth which takes up the thread of evolution straight without
needing a method or key or clue which the psychic is. 54) Man
lives every moment. He dare not stop living which is not possible for him. He
lives in his emotions, not by thought. The moment the ideal of his thought
rises above the reality of emotions, he is out of harmony and hastens to sink
back to the emotional foundation. When the ideal offers no such foundation beyond the momentary minutes, he
lapses into reality of dissipation or fantasy. Man's
life is emotionally real for every minute. When the rising emotions of his
ideal do not last beyond a few hours or a few minutes, he takes refuge in the
reality of dissipation. EnºÄ J¸ {ª-å®, C»m]¯® öPg\ ÷|µ®.
55) Faith brings in Grace;
absence of faith in one's capacities brings in Super Grace. Recognising
Mother's slap,öÁzvø»¨ £õUS Ga]À, perverse guru's black magic,
disciple's desire to bless, unfaithfulness’ stolen pleasure as aspects of
marvel, one is qualified to enjoy delight of self-giving in every cell of the
vital. Often Mother offers their counterpart
opportunities of enjoyment
as wiping off Karma predicted by horoscope,
triumvirate, repatriates,AøǨ¤ß ]Ó¨¦, suicide by black magic, flood of orthodox devotees, urge
for service of GOODWILL. Having already enjoyed this much, one is qualified
to reach the vision of the marvel.
56) The world as a Marvel: Self-offered
Service to ungrateful, mean selfishness; stingy superiority complex;
incapable greed; hardworking thieves; pure evil on a self-elevated pedestal;
calculated unscrupulousness; false, mean, unfaithful ingratitude; proud,
pampering weakness; mafia; crucifier makes one vitally eligible to discover
the MARVEL the world is.
57) Man's aspirations are emotional, but he styles
them spiritual. Below him is the man of physical needs. Spiritual life needs
the base of spiritual aspirations. Do we really aspire for the Divine? If so,
when, for how long, in what terms? Prayer itself cannot constitute that
aspiration. Aspiring fro the Divine as one does for money or woman, can be
called spiritual aspiration. In the mass of men, such an aspiration is
absent.
58) Clarity of
thought on the base of a weak vital can never hope to achieve anything in
life, not even the first step it can take. With Mother, it too can achieve
several things, maybe almost all, but cannot consummate the whole.
59) The Absolute, Lila, Play, Ananda,
Surrender, creation, self- discovery, reversal of consciousness,
consciousness emerging out of unconsciousness, Spirit moving matter,
Transformation, THE SECRET, the infinite's self-conception, material
particles carrying psychological qualities, occult sense, original ignorance,
ignorance greater than knowledge, realising the Absolute in the physical,
evolution of the Spirit, Maya, the Process etc. -- The Absolute is characterised by its capacity to
choose one more form of delight. -- Delight is the sensation of the Absolute of itself
in creation. -- The Absolute's choice of creation unexplained is
Lila. -- Play is the act where the original intention is
held back from the activity. -- Involution is the ability to lose self-awareness. -- Evolution is the intention to regain
self-awareness. -- To consciously reverse an unconscious act is
reversal of consciousness. -- Reversal of consciousness is the beginning of
discovering oneself, Self-discovery. -- Reversal of consciousness coming on its own by the
strength of atmosphere is Transformation. -- Capacity to initiate Transformation consciously is
the Secret. -- In the beginning that capacity is seen as the
Infinite's self-conception. -- Spirit creates matter and later evolves out of it.
So psychological qualities are carried by material particles. -- Spirit's turning into matter and vice versa is
occult to the sense of matter. -- By original ignorance manifestation rose, again it
returns to the unmanifest by losing it. -- Each subsequent stage in creation is greater than
the previous. Ignorance succeeds knowledge. -- Realising the Absolute in the physical is the
beginning of the return. -- Involution is Spirit turning into matter. Matter
returning to spirit is evolution. Hence
evolution of the Spirit, or Spiritual Evolution -- Maya is the faculty of the Absolute that fulfils
its intention. -- The first half of Maya limits; in the latter half,
Maya reverses itself as transformation. -- The two halves of
Maya constitute the Process. -- Delight is the sensation of the Absolute where the
Absolute senses the finite emerging out of the limitation into its own hidden
Infinity. The Sensation is the greatest because the field is from
the finite to the Infinite. Infinite scope enables infinite sensation
that is delight. -- Though moving to consciousness, ego expanding to
the ends of the universe, matter outgrowing death into immortality, time
becoming Timeless, growth, development, evolution, skill formation, education
etc. have this character in their own measure. Spirit evolving has wider
scope, the self- conception has the widest of amplitudes. Gøu²® ö\´²® vÓø©²øh¯x ¤µ®©®. § GÀ»õz vÓø©ø¯²®
Eøh¯x ¤µ®©zvß vÓø© §
¤µ®©® GÀ»õÁØøÓ²® ußÝmöPshx, Auß GÀ»õz vÓø©PøͲ®
÷\º¢ux.
60) The perfect cheat enjoys
cheating. Any
ability becoming perfect yields the highest enjoyment. The
Divine withholding the Secret has the delight of creation. The
capacity to withhold the Secret makes the play possible. Stupidity
becoming perfect yields the greatest fulfilment in life. It is true of every
faculty. Realising it is reversal of consciousness turning human fulfilment
into Divine fulfilment that is delight.
61) However advanced one is in the same plane, one cannot become a
guide to another in the same plane. Only when he crosses over does he become
eligible. 62) To
call the Divine when you cannot is prayer; to call HIM to do what you can
perfectly do is consecration that develops into surrender. To do it for him
is consecration. To let HIM do it is surrender. The ego can usurp that too. 63) An
unsolved problem sometimes remains unsolved even when we pray. Prayer
changing into consecration solves it. Sometimes even consecration is defied.
In such cases, look for areas where you have the ability to accomplish and
start consecrating that too, it will be solved. Consecration
succeeds when prayer fails. Surrender
succeeds where consecration fails. Failure
fails with surrender. 64) Surrender
is the ability to give up to the Divine what you can do with ease and
perfection. Fantasy is the wish to enjoy the results of what you cannot even
conceive as a possibility. In the measure fantasy survives, surrender is made
impossible.
65) To know a circumstance
brought about a solution when Grace has acted though it after creating the
circumstance, is to push away Grace. We must know that Grace acted and the
circumstance is a grace. To know the difficulty is grace will remove the
difficulty forever, to know a circumstance is grace will remove the need of
circumstance any more for Grace to act. From then onwards Grace will act
directly. At that point, Grace becomes Super Grace. Beyond that one becomes a
source of Grace or Grace itself. 66) Parabhraman in Shakespeare writing about
ordinary plots, creates at the plane of life forces intensely interacting.
Therefore it evokes a response from others. Purna Yoga acts from Parabrahman
in the plane of evolutionary forces. Therefore what descends here is the
forces of evolution, not the universal popular response as in Shakespeare.
67) Life response is the
mathematical formula of Sri Aurobindo (Agenda '65, p. 187) whereas the
Process is the mathematical formula for matter. The one is in the plane of
life and the other is in the plane of matter.
68) Surrender changes involution
into evolution. Therefore the Force of Transformation is so great. To release
that force is possible for only two, Grace and Surrender. Their action is
momentary since the field is unprepared.
69) Idealistic progress divorced
from monetary gain is either illusory or austere. Maybe its rare possibility
exists in partial fields which all life is. Even in such cases, direct
prestige benefits or indirect monetary gains used to be there. In
a total approach like ours, it is foolish or silly to wish to exclude money
gains in progress, because progress is all-round. In actual fact, man
responds ONLY to monetary gains and ONLY through that accepts the ideal. In
my experience I have not met the exception, nor have I heard of its
existence.
70) A full-throated effort not
meeting with success merits the description of failure. The failures we hear
of in life are mostly or almost belong to another category. Man enjoys after
achieving something. Trying to enjoy a thing before achieving anything goes
by the name failure. The name it deserves is not failure, but the folly of
illusion. 71) C¸}º ¯ݻP® responds only to CÛ¯ö\õÀ.* This
applies to ordinary social, psychological
solutions, not where a hostile vibration is present. Merciful destruction
ruthlessly meted out alone will either eliminate their opposition or even
transform them. Even in cases of transformation, they will only offer to
throw stones.
72) A good man responds to unselfish
opportunity; while others respond to selfish incentives. By responding to the
Divine's call which is an opportunity to destroy selfishness and ego, one
becomes a sadhak.
73) Longing for a person or
compunction about loyalty after a friend deserted or a spouse turned
unfaithful, is not an emotion for the lost relationship ore the person but an
indication of the lingering social consciousness regarding loyalty or
fidelity.
74) A past act now consecrated
and surrendered will reverse the consciousness and release hurricane like
energy to transform life and consciousness, if the desire or emotion and the
irresistibility with which the original act was performed is truly reversed.
All the rest are palliatives. EÒÍøu Enº¢u ©Ú® E¯ºÁx vsn®.
75) Jivatma
surrenders to Paramatma; but who does the consecration, consecration of
acts, feelings and thoughts? We function as a mental person and he acts on
his own. He is aware as a person, not as light or soul. Being aware of light,
he moves away from wrong to right; being aware of the soul, he moves away
from nature to soul which is consecration. Consecration
is possible in the measure of self- awareness in the acts. It is the psychic
in the act that consecrates it. Normally man is turned outward to the society
and inwardly to himself. Recognising the Divine outwardly and inwardly, the
same man can consecrate. He who consecrates is the awakened
man, awakened to the soul in life. ¤µ®©® ©ÛuÛÀ ÂȨ£x \©º¨£n®. 76) Behind
every activity is energy that is released by a WILL. ¬ Creation is out of substance that is
inherent in energy behind which is the
WILL of Being or Existence; ¬ National development is from
national energy released by the WILL of the nation to progress. ¬ Enjoyment needs energy that is from
the WILL to enjoy. ¬ Physical energy such as magnetism
and gravitation are from the WILL of Matter to exist. ¬ Companies progress by corporate
energy that issues out of the WILL of the founders to succeed. ¬
There is no act, however little, that is not done by energy given to
it by a will behind. It is the will of the atom that compresses the great
atomic energy inside it. ¬
Aspiration (will of the soul) releases yogic energy. Will--Energy--Act
is the process of creation up above and down below. That will is
self-conceived. That
energy is self-organised into action. To
raise the intensity of that will is progress in the world and evolution in
the universe.
77) Aspiration in man is the
representative of the Will of creation.
78) God reaches out by will;
aspiration tries to reach God in the ascent.
79) Will is the God of the
Atheist; aspiration makes the theist God.
80) Unconscious aspiration
leads to bhakti; conscious aspiration to Godhead.
81) Mind responds to bad news
-- lost child, dead accident victim, betrayal, infidelity, etc., either with
belief or fear. Belief confirms the news, fear worsens it. Trusting to Mother
and calling always turns the situation and the news turns out to be good, because the
incoming Mother’s Force is harmonious. Harmony can only create GOOD. |À»x ©mk÷©
|hUS®.
82) The eternal relationless Absolute is the
Self, the pure Existence. 83) The
ultimate solution lies in the law of oneness with others, not oneness with
their ignorance, because thereby wrong action will persist. Oneness with
their souls is the solution for which the prerequisite is discovery of one’s
soul. 84) Forces
of limited good shun evil, whereas evolutionary forces of Good accept evil as
much as good (p. 624, The Life Divine). 85) Growth
needs freedom. Freedom offered for growth is utilised for exploitation. Such
exploitation stopping for whatever reason turns into tangible strength felt
in the vital and seen as light on the face. 86) Behind
failures lies one invariable reason for trying to accomplish in the outer
field and enjoy what one has not inwardly prepared. 87) The
occult unseen method lies in the Force evolving from the Form. It is there in
all daily activities. The application that is sanctioned is seen as the work and the result. Little
do people realise that the process of sanction involves rules, discretion,
custom, judgement, preference, because they remain occult.
88) The PROCESS He describes is
the self-same process of every one of our acts. It can explain Shakespeare’s
creation, abolish the cold war, win the national presidency, or make a shirt.
89) To forestall the hostile
forces in the subtle plane is the hallmark of learning the Process.
90) To persuade pettiness to
dissolve or stand aside is to have compassion at its level of existence.
91) To commission good will to
neutralise ill will is to touch the Consciousness where will originates.
92) To release physical energy
to make the body enjoy the thrill of higher descent is Love of the physical.
93) Devotion in the true vital
can persuade hostility to lose its urge to destroy for enjoyment. 94) Complete
understanding of the stupid urges of another in their origin gives a mastery
over them. 95) Compassion
is the emotion of full understanding of the origin and existence of things. 96) Compassion
that can transform hostility into devotion raises itself to Grace or even
Super Grace. 97) Irresistibility
mastered in the nerves or the physical is mastery over nature that has the
power to transform. 98) Pictures
or photos emanating true forms show the vital opening in the observer. 99) Stupidity
that chooses the wisdom of self-annihilation in preference to opening the
eyes to the wisdom that stares one in the face is perfection of stupidity
qualified to reach the Absolute through that perfection.
100) Love that gives of itself is
rare; rarer is the heart that
receives that Love coming to it. |
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