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Daily Messages Series
IV 801) When evil is organised or deep-seated or the scars from evil attack are of third degree, one is capable of suspecting benevolence to be foul play. 802) When the finite surrenders to Mother, it becomes infinite. 803) Mother is the bridge between God and the world, the Infinite and finite. 804) Power has the capacity to receive benefits without being obliged for it. 805)Sherlock Holmes removes the sensation from the facts and reaches intuition. 806)Observation, fund of information, resourcefulness, presence of mind, love of adventure, disregard for convention, ever-increasing energy, utter truthfulness, non-egoistic humility, gentlemanliness, inability to respond to sensation, discretion in the extreme, innate goodness are faculties that help mind restore its lost connection with Supermind. 807)The above faculties instinctively put the man in touch with the plane of life in mind and prevent him from pursuing a ‘rational’ course as would be suggested by the social context. 808)The products that were harbingers of civilisation such as money, radio, car, TV, computer, language, Internet symbolise these qualities mentioned above. 809) Often they are products, often they are institutions. Leadership, family, money, Internet are institution like education that helped society evolve. 810) Institutions and products are mental. Man is not; his use of the institution decides the result. 811) It is possible that in future products and institutions that cannot be used negatively may arise. 812) In the second phase, life, losing neutrality, throws itself on the positive side. 813) Maybe in the third phase the institutions and in the fourth phase the products will lose neutrality. 814) Neutrality in man may mean his capacity to choose either side. 815) Man can lose neutrality and become a decisive instrument of evolution. 816) Presently values prevent man from choosing the negative side. The man himself can rise to become one who is incapable of a negative choice even without the instrumentation of values. 817) Values are powers of consciousness. Man, in his evolution, can move from a power to the original consciousness. 818) Principles and powers issue out of consciousness. In the reverse movement Man can move away from the principles and powers to the consciousness. 819)
Surrender is an instrument
that inheres all the faculties mentioned above which help man lose
neutrality, reach consciousness and allow the river of man to expand into the
820) Surrender can be unconscious when the result is the only aim. Man resorts to this in moments of danger. 821) Only conscious surrender leads one to yoga. 822) Danger makes the man conscious of life; aspiration of God. 823) As there is a silent will, there is a SILENT ACT. 824) The size of the population and the level of development are in direct proportion. 825) Globalisation is the expression of the global social will finding its birth. 826) Moksha is moving from a lower part to a higher part; transformation is to move the part to the whole. 827) The silent act has behind it the Silent Being. 828) The Silence of the Silent Being expressing itself outwardly is the most powerful field of objective life. 829) The field finds expression in the subliminal life. 830) Man acts on his own, does not voluntarily seek the cooperation of other. 831) Democracy insists on collective action which is eternal. 832) Neither the family, nor partnership, nor even friendship has matured enough to provide the individual a form which could enable him to seek cooperation, without an element of compulsion. 833) Man’s recognition of the significance of cooperation with others indicates his readiness to step outside of mind. 834) The sadhak may seek solitude, not the man in life. For him, function where people get together are moments of human intensity that heighten the emotions. In one form or another it is inevitably sought after. 835) When the heart is eaten away by the canker of an unpardonable act of another for a lifetime, it is better to reflect whether at some time you were not capable of the same crime. 836) What one was capable of at an earlier time, he will be equally capable of now. 837) It is mind’s way to find fault with another for his own short comings. 838) He who is able to see his own defect in another’s deficiency and realise that it is only a reflection, has moved away from mind. 839) Insensitive compromise becoming sensitive comprehension is progress of consciousness. 840) A drop of Mother’s Consciousness in the mind lifts it up to Supermind momentarily. 841) It is not given to man to practise all that he know. If only he practises all that he can, his life will be one of continuous progress. 842) The man who emerges out of Ignorance into Knowledge in any measure is God evolving; while he who refuses to do so is God involving. 843) Silence in the being is patience in the nerves. 844) Silence can mature and express in the nerve itself when it becomes power of silence. 845) To be awake in the substance is to be subconscious. 846) To comprehend integral yoga even at the level of concepts, all the terms of the mental plane that describe life and body are to be known. All the powers such as knowledge, love, force etc. exist in all the planes that are spread between being and matter. There are subdivisions in the planes and subordinate expressions of these powers suited to those sub-planes. 847) Ananda expresses as Love in the soul, beauty in mind, joy in the nerves, thrill in the body, peace in the silence of higher mind, sight in the illumined mind, delight of Supermind and consciousness in consciousness. 848) Ananda in the plane of consciousness and being is inherent and is not perceived differently. 849) The creative urge in Being expresses as consciousness first and Ananda later. 850) The conceptual extension of a power over all planes helps mind restore its relation with the Supermind. |
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