DAILY
MESSAGES Series III 601) Organisations are run from a central
authority which comes from above and is received as external force. Culture
maintains itself from inner sensitivity. 602) Creation of a social organisation
that is self-existent and self-maintaining is the greatest possible challenge
to Freedom that is the final law and the last consummation. 603) The joy the Absolute seeks in Lila is
on a par with that organisational challenge Freedom sets itself. 604) Doubt is the mechanism by which the
whole refuses to make the part final. It is like the handle of the knife
which enables the blade to cut. 605) The finite is either in the ascent or
in the descent. To be in both simultaneously is to be the Infinite. £Sv ]Ô¯x, •Êø©
ö£›¯x. 606) An analogy for four levels of
knowledge: A knowledge by identity
-- to be a partner of equal status. A knowledge by intimate direct contact -- to be a PA and cashier without rights. A knowledge by separative direct
contact -- to be an employee of the company
distant from the brother owner. Wholly separative knowledge by
indirect contact --
to be away at a distance thinking of
the rich brother. 607) If my husband is incapable of loving
me or capable of loving another, instead of reacting which makes me a social
creature, I should endeavour to develop new forms of my conscious (being)
force of existence -- attitudes -- which would appreciate God’s intention in
my husband. p. 98, Life Divine 608) Process
and powers needed to move from one plane to another:
To move from the vital to the mental, senses that naturally react
should desist from reaction and report their message to the mind to decide.
The power to do so comes from ceasing to be sensation, a surrender of the
present propensity. 609) Life is a field of progress, progress
through expansion and cooperation as well as opposition, the last being the
widest of opportunities for progress. 610) Man overcomes opposition or avoids it. Overcome he must,
but avoiding it is of no real use as it would repeat elsewhere. 611) That circumstance or human
relationship which man cannot avoid offers him the greatest opportunity for
progress. Partnership, marriage and relationships arising out of duties are
of that description. The guideline here is to accept what is common to both.
(p. 98, LD) 612) Reality of the non-existent is
folly.
To make that a way of life and even an ideal is complete folly.
`߯÷©
•iÄ Gߣx ©hø©. 613) Physical folly searches for the
non-existent, emotional folly longs for it, mental folly believes in it with
fervour. 614) Folly has two ends, the outer and
inner. As long as the outer is followed, folly persists. Turning the light
inside, it dissolves. 615) Analysis of the outer folly has a way
of developing it while the same effort inside can help to dissolve it. 616) In that sense folly can be described
as an effort to dissolve an inner faculty by outer method. 617) Attachment to folly and desire to get
rid of it exist simultaneously. So man preserves it inside and tries to give
it up outside. Sincerity is to turn the effort inside. 618) The above phenomenon is otherwise
expressed as perfection in one place is not possible till perfection in other
places is attained. 619) The same is seen in the truism:
mental effectivity must be preceded by emotional perfection as mind and
emotion are in one sense outer and inner domains. 620) Mind and emotion, the higher and lower,
the other man and myself, outer and inner, light and darkness, quantity and
quality have a running thread common to all. 621) He who wants to see THE MARVEL the world
is, must first see his own life as a marvel. 622) HE says man has the incurable habit
of expecting everything to follow human rules. By extension, man imposes the
rules of his own plane on those who are above and below and generates fertile
confusion which feeds his sadness and failure. 623) Punctuality is a mental discipline of
physical work and energy. 624) What we repeat does not matter; from
what depth we repeat matters. 625) Assassination arises when the goal of
the ideal rises far higher than the psychological readiness to accomplish.
Wholesome personalities like Nehru do not attract that violence. Still assassination
is heroic death, õ©µn®. 626) As the physical form of the lowest
and highest member of the species is the same, the FORMS of skill, capacity,
habit, attitude, opinion, idea of the smallest and greatest acts are the
same. The level is different, not the form. 627) The maximum of our accomplishment is
determined by our willingness. To raise that maximum one has to raise his
willingness to take effort. \õuøÚ Gߣx ©Ú®
¸®¦Áx. 628) Rationality is a mental process based
on true facts. People who lie are not mental but vital. They use the
strength of their falsehood. Mother refusing to part with the Mantra of Life
is a non-mental vital assertion of the strength of truth. She never argued
about it with Theon. 629) Consciousness of one level is organisation
at another level. 630) By raising the level of organisation
at the vital level, what emerges is mental consciousness. 631) Opportunities and accomplishment: In the life of one who just survives,
no opportunity arises. If energy of survival is in excess,
opportunities in the same plane arise. Such opportunities must be availed of
by initiative and conscious endeavour. Higher opportunities show up when one
is active in the higher plane, e.g. a mental man’s active engagement in the
spiritual plane. Between the appearance of such an
opportunity and its consummation, the distance is great and it requires to be filled in
by energy organised to perfection. Áõ´¨¦® Áͺa]²® P»¢x Á¸®. 632) Two ideas are useful to accomplish
them: ¨
Collect
all the energies that go out into dissipation and which are bogged down in
occupation and by a single-minded dedication, direct them to achieve the
goal. ¨
Know
the highest peak of your positive enjoyment and direct that very same energy
to raise that level of enjoyment. 633) Prayers voiced are always granted,
often more than we asked for. The unvoiced prayers, the prayers we never knew
could be made were answered in a profuse abundance unknown to human life. Can
we not avail of it and slowly come to forget all prayers. £USÁ®
¤µõzuøÚø¯ £ÇUS®. 634) Selfish men do anything only for
aggrandisement which leads to human misery. The path to divine happiness is
to do anything for the sake of others. 635) Mind’s energy relating to movements
of substance in the shape of forces and forms creates life. This is
involution. Evolution is life by its sensation creating mental perception.
(p. 190) ©Ú® \Uv¯õP
ÁõÌøÁU Pshx. ]¢vUS® áh® ÁõÌøÁU Põq®. APzv¾®, ¦Ózv¾®
AÚ¢uøÚU Põn »õ®. 636) Evolution is, obviously, more
creative than involution. But involution itself has its own creative phases. 637) Involution that is evolution or
evolution that is involution belongs to
Infinity in manifestation. 638) That can be realised inside where we
can withdraw. THAT can be realised in manifest life, too. 639) Brahman the Absolute, Consciousness
that is the creatrix, Ananda the Bliss, Supermind, Silence, That, Infinity,
Being that is the Purusha of knowledge and every aspect of the Divine can be
realised either in itself or in its manifestation. 640) Manifestation, evolution, spiritual
evolution, knowledge emerging out of Ignorance are the various names of
Divine Will,v¸ÄÒÍ®. 641) To realise that v¸ÄÒÍ® in family life, human relationship,
in human affection is the highest goal available for the householder or
sadhaka since in this view they are not different. 642) In sleep or waking we are the partial
being. To be the full integral being we should be awake in sleep. 643) •øÓø¯ ö\ÍP›¯zvØS ©Ûuß £¯ß£kzxÁõß. •øÓU÷PØÓ ö\ÍP›¯zøu |õh©õmhõß.Comfort rules over reason to the
point of making it serve the other. 644) The height of joy one can rise to also
determines the width of his accomplishment. Therefore the greatest of
accomplishments in one’s life can best be reached by seeking one’s joy in the
accomplishment or one’s accomplishment in his joy. \õuøÚ°ß AÍøÁ
\¢÷uõå® {ºn°US®. 645) A successful idealist looks back on
his life with family and friends outside even as the political leader thinks
of his jailmates of yesteryears. 646) Man’s opening to God comes to him as
Krishna at his tricks -- sweetness of the aftermath of devil’s temptation. 647) The first step out of Ignorance into
knowledge is the vision of the world’s marvel, an infinite cascade of delight
and a sense of fulfilment hitherto unknown. AÔ¯õø©ø¯ Âmk
|Pº¢uõÀ, Aئu® öu›²®. 648) HE chose the method of surrender
because the original movement of involution was by self-absorption. To emerge
out of absorption, a self-chosen movement, what was consciously sought must
be consciously given up. That is called surrender. 649) To be able to see complete folly as
great wisdom is to emerge out of Ignorance into Knowledge. 650) Surrender is surrendering the
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