DAILY
MESSAGES Series III 301) Consummate
artists, athletes, craftsmen have an eye of observation that catches the
least little flaw automatically. A novice remembering Mother in work is
given that capacity of observation. 302) Impulses,
opinions, attitudes, motives are finite forces in their structure, direction
and action. After transformation they only lose their fixity of every type
but continue to do duty as before. Then motives become urges that can change
direction, attitudes flexible forces, opinions thoughts of an open mind and
impulses quiet expressions of energy lying in wait to be released into
action. 303) If
the actions of a confirmed fool are analysed from the point of view of
evolutionary organisation and the right role is assigned to him, we will
discover that his actions are the same as our conclusions dictate. "Democracy
is the Brahman in action in social political organisation." 304) The
Perfect Perfection HE speaks of is not the perfection of an austere
ceremony; it is the rich, full, dangerous perfection of the wild growth of a
tropical rain forest infested with poisonous animals, ferocious tigers and
the wealth of the forest. 305) The
merest method will yield full results instantaneously when the motives are
pure. 306) Marriage,
by definition, is a social, psychological, ethical, sentimental union that
is a bondage for life. Joy of emotional union is by definition not in any of
these planes, rather any of these planes or their forces are capable of
stamping that Joy out of life. No wonder the institution of marriage is
joyless. 307) Consecration
surely brings results. Instantaneous results issue when the impulses of one's
basic characteristics are consecrated. 308) The
intensity of excited emotions rising to levels of sophisticated quiet
sweetness turning into benevolence of equality is felt by the lingering
sensations of erstwhile nervous being as a state of having lost the very
capacity to feel emotions. £õ\•®, ÷ÁP•® \õuøÚUS›¯øÁ. 309) Achievers seek emotions of their own level. They rear
their heads as patriotism, poetic imagination, emotional oblivion in the
intimacy of the beloved, passionate sympathy for the suffering humanity,
elevating compassion or even dissipating indulgences. 310) The
growing sense of discovery is a sense of growth. To have a growing sense that
constantly outgrows the perceptions of sin, weakness, shame, disgust, evil,
etc. is a sign of evolutionary growth. 311) Partial
perception seeks; matured vision awaits the Touch of the Eternal. 312) The
emerging infinite ardently seeks the object or situation which the finite
avoids in fear. In a finite field it is rewarded with success or failure both
of which excite the seeking infinite to further adventures. Beyond the line
the failures lose their inhibitive limitations offering the seeker ever-increasing
measures of expansive growth of enjoyment. ]Ô¯x £¯¢x »S® ö£õÊx ö£›¯x ¸®¤ |õkQÓx. 313) How
can the same act be a step towards death and a vehicle for progress? That is
the difference between the finite and infinite and is true of all the acts
when they cross the line. The last thing that sticks as an obstacle is the
physical sensitivity. ©µnzøu ÷|õUQa ö\ÀÁ÷u,
•ß÷ÚØÓzøuz u¸® P¸Â. 314) When
Grace descends on the finite, the finite becomes infinite. Hence the great
endless expansion. If the finite chooses to insist on being what it is, the
finite does succeed, but the infinite also makes itself fully felt by letting
the finite destroy the possibilities opened by Grace by infinite speed. ]Ô¯x +
A¸Ò = ö£›¯x A¸Ò ]Ô¯øu¨ ö£›¯uõUS®. 315) Emotional
experience converts conception into perception. Material physical experience
changes perception into sensation. As even in the mind these three components
are there, an emotional thought can generate perception and the brain
realising the thought can give the sensation. Imagination can help accomplish
both. 316) Socially
survival, rising, and maintaining the attained status are the problems for
the individual. Society at large has the same problems. Psychologically too,
the problems are similar. Hence human problems are ones that are of movements
in either direction of progress or deterioration, hastening the progress,
preventing the sliding down. 317) A
fully conscious Will generates Good. Evil results when part of it becomes
unconscious. 318) Truth
is of Existence; Good is of Consciousness; Beauty is of Ananda. 319) Silence
and Peace are of the Spirit, rather more of the Spirit than of anything like
Truth, etc. 320) When
the Will moves into the domain of the mind it becomes Light, Love in the
heart and power in the body, joy in the vital. 321) Infinity
and Eternity are of Space and Time. Hence they are the objective and
subjective extension of Consciousness. 322) Bliss
and Delight are static and dynamic aspects of Satchidananda sensing itself;
the unmanifest and manifest conditions of infinite Freedom. 323) The
great impersonal truths the world knows today are the ones great men realised
in their lives as personal truths from life experience. J¸Áº Pshøu E»P® Põq®. 324) The
fundamental major determinant of accomplishment by great men is the energy
level meant for the work and the final determinant is their
character-organisation, i.e., expressed external manners in human interaction
and decision-making. ö£õ[Q ÁȲ® \Uv _£õÁzuõÀ
\õvUS®. 325) The
man of passion, idealistic sentiments that consume, emotions that overpower,
finds those that are incapable of them unevolved. Either by age or by
outliving these experiences or by frustration, he comes to have no energy or
impulse for the god-like urges he once had. 326) The
unorganised unprofessional entrepreneur refusing professional help indirectly
raises his level of self-confidence and brings his rewards of professional
advice. The agnostic who refuses to pray rises in the scale of personality
strength attracting the results of prayer. 327) Vast
differences in behaviour in irrevocable relationships often baffle. In the
ultimate scheme of things each man's behaviour is of supreme importance to
him and is a field of enjoyable evolutionary growth of inner self-discovery
of the hidden spirit. In this sense, no man is of any consequence to the
other. He who seeks a wider goal goes deeper into his subconscious and
reaches out to corresponding external relationships to consummate it. The
tapasvi, centred in his soul, forcibly gives up family and life. Purna Yogi,
accepting all life, refuses to break any one of the relationships given to
him until they outgrow their use and fall off by themselves. 328) He
who releases Mother's Energy at will is one who is in touch with Her. Energy
is released if the act is conscious; if unconscious, the released energy is
not felt but the work gets completed. The rest is theoretical preparation for
a practical result. 329) Intense
prayer over the years to overcome the disgusting infidelity at last was
answered. The disgust was no longer there. The mind now goes back to all
those details with the same intensity as when it was disgusting. Disgusting
or non-disgusting, the mind sticks to its round of indulgences. 330) One
man is perfectly capable of enjoying the very same situation which is
disgusting to another. The same man can be found to enjoy a situation that
was earlier disgusting because of altered conditions. Altered
circumstances give rise to altered emotions, even the opposite ones. Âñ¯zvØS ¸]°Àø». `Ì{ø» ¸]ø¯z u¸®. 331) To
punish other people by your standards that are different is to punish others
for your ignorance; or punish your ignorance vicariously. 332) When
a problem is solved normally there is relief which is natural. The best yogic
response is "Once more Mother has prevailed." 333) Hides
as God; emerges as Man. 334) Social
tragedies when they occur for no fault of ours, are psychologically
tolerable; psychological tragedies can be spiritually explainable;
spiritually there are no tragedies. 335) Body's
interest is based on interest/need; vital's interest on energy; mind's
interest on understanding; spirit's
interest on its spiritual significance; Supermind’s interest on the
perception of its soul; Ananda on the joy; consciousness’ interest on its
being conscious; Being's interest on its being; The Absolute's interest on
its being the relative determined by Itself. 336) The
world reveals itself as a marvel to HIM who has created; or to the man who
has grown to HIS perception, not to him who remains the thing created. 337) Gopala
Krishnan's relationship with anyone is impersonal. He enjoys the relationship
without personally equating him with the other, whereas all the others see a
personal equation or the absence of it in any relationship. Also, by his
being a rustic villager, he has the need of urban contacts. 338) Everyone
has a centre of reference towards which his progress moves. It is social,
psychological, ethical, yogic etc. Purna yoga needs NO methods in the sense
that one, having taken it, continues to live as before, shifting the centre
of reference upwards. Life continues to be what it is; only the centre moves.
When the centre dissolves it becomes a centreless reference or a
referenceless life. At that point the Absolute is realised at the plane where
centre dissolves. 339) A
society's level of civilisation, a family's level of culture, the level of a
person's worth or value are decided by the lowest level of their existence, a
level below which they are unable to fall. 340) Fact
is an event in material space, not necessarily related to thinking. Thought
is a mental process of relating facts together and its results. Idea is a
result of mental effort on its own, not related to facts. Real
idea is one that can translate itself into actuality by its own inner
validity. Pئ, |õn¯® ÷£õÀ ußøÚzuõ÷Ú
§ºzv ö\´x öPõÒÁx \zv¯ 㯮. 341) Our
prayers that are unfailingly answered begin to fail at one point, the point
where our faith ceases to be in the Grace but shifts to the reality of human
experience. However much we try to push the border line, it slips or the mind
fails to go back to prayer. Man, at that point, fixes his limits of faith; it
is not as if faith fails at some point. £õºøÁø¯¨ ö£õ¸zux £»ß. 342) Self-restraint
based on austerity that led to growth to the next level is always inevitably
followed by an overwhelming indulgence in that which he denied himself
earlier till that vibration is exhausted. No continuous progress based on
austerity succeeding austerity is ever possible. Austerity, enjoyment that is
indulgence followed by austerity at higher levels seems to be the rule.
Progress continues when the indulgence is within limits, leaving an excess of
austere strength. ©õØÓ® ÷uõØÓzvØS›¯x. 343) 'Destructive
service' offered to an institution such as removing the founder of a
university as her Pro-Chancellor, was returned by the institution or by that
very Pro-Chancellor as constructive service to the original sponsor. Service
evokes service, in the very spirit in which it was (is) offered. 344) The
conscious occupation of the surface mind becoming the subconscious routine is
a measure of the yogic poise. 345) The
possibilities are finite when our mind looks at an object from the point of
view of that object whose physical definitions are finite. The object and its
possibilities begin to lose their finite nature when the mind looks at the
object from its own (mind's) point of view. Should we view an object from
inside, from the Absolute's point of view, the possibilities grow to being
infinite. 346) To
accept a person (not necessarily as a guru) means to accept him as he is in toto
which means to be able to understand all his lowest acts as the best of acts.
If accepted in the right spirit, he will turn out to be one like Nell in The
Old Curiosity Shop. Discrimination and 'acceptance' do not go together. 347) The
Infinite changes into the finite; Being, Consciousness, Ananda change into
Non-Being, Inconscience, Insensibility; the Absolute does not change into its
'opposite' or anything because it is the Absolute. Only its manifestations
undergo the changes. 348) We
ardently adore several capabilities in others and equally condemn several
propensities in yet others. What we adore or condemn is of the same
structures of different intensities and direction and occultly present in
us, too. Manifestation is a small expression based on large suppression while
the character or structure of both remains the same. Brahman is the same in
suppression as well as expression. 349) As
there are many routes to the Absolute, even in opposite directions, the goal
of success can be reached by a dozen methods, some of which will look like
avowed paths of failure. The right method, essential ways, perfection,
innovation, tradition, expansiveness and many others will lead to great
success; only that the inner energy that issues should overflow the measure
of our operations. 350) Accepting
a Master or Guru who can lead you to the inner Guru, you should be able to
adore every one of his actions, notwithstanding their real merit, not
hypocritically but with the understanding that when his actions and your
appreciation of them are in tune, the inner window will open. To accept the
man on the street like that is to become the evolving Godhead in the human
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