DAILY MESSAGE Series V 551)
Indecisiveness
is decision in favour of the status quo. µ 552)
That which
reminds itself in time is constant remembrance.& 553)
The democratic
sense that seeks for a privilege, is only one-sided. It is unethical ethics
of the ego. p 554)
All the higher
rules are there in our own life, only that they are often inverted. µ 555)
Transition that
is not completed in all details is no transition. µ 556)
Expectation has
its own joy as its raison d'etre. µ 557)
At the point of
transition the rule by which man seeks the higher is "exception is the
rule." µ 558)
Man will
tolerate any crime when it does not disturb the status quo; will justify it
if it serves his purpose. µ 559)
What knowledge
can be given only in silence and in the subtle plane, will be hampered even
when it occurs in thought. If spoken out, it destroys even the future chances
of success. µ 560)
60) Forgetfulness is the experience of
subtle life moving towards full consciousness pulled back by unconsciousness. Lingering unconsciousness is forgetfulness.
p 561)
Desire for the
past to change in one's favour is man's extension of past consecration to the
external life. µ 562)
Organised vital
persons sometimes think that their own thoughts are the express oral
utterances of another. µ 563)
Devotees
repeating 'Let Thy Will be done' sometimes mean that their own wishes must be
fulfilled as the Divine Will. µ 564)
People who miss
an hour in hourly consecration can fully compensate for it by maintaining the
consecration during that full hour. p 565)
Expectation and
reaction are the very first things one has to shed. & 566)
There is a
human choice now which can lead to the heights. & 567)
Generosity
expressed in material terms is powerful spiritually.
p 568)
Not to take
initiative is the inner divine initiative. & 569)
As long as life
does not press action on man, he wishes to rise in his idealism. µ 570)
He who refuses
to take advantage of others will be able to take advantage of the atmosphere
of Mother. µ 571)
What determines
is not so much your ideal as the swabhava. µ 572)
Refusal to go
down from the heights we have attained is a virtue in values but a cardinal
sin in comforts. µ 573)
Human
preferences are the seeds of human jealousy. µ 574)
By attempting
perfect perfection where we are, we are led to Perfection. p 575)
Moksha has
given Satchidanandam. Man has to move to Maya of fixed field of action in his
life. The creative Supermind in him is the value based life. His own mind,
which takes the view of the other, fulfils it. Life that issues out of it can
earn the wealth of the world. His own body can become immortal that way. p 576)
He who asks
Mother to make him sincere, prays for his surrender to be complete, announces
the ignorance of the highest faith. p 577)
The vital
personality who accepts Mother instead of shedding its personality, claims
itself to be Mother's personality. µ 578)
The dark
suffocating atmosphere in places of worship is really the lower atmosphere of
the worshippers. µ 579)
To continue to
work in the face of failure is to take the work to the substance. p 580)
The surface and
inner personalities can either be the same or opposite. p 581)
To be blind to
the defects of one's own children is self-approbation. & 582)
No mental
concentration is possible when the vital is active. µ 583)
Mind's losing
itself and becoming heavy is its way of preparing for a higher concentration. µ 584)
When we accept
Mother, we follow Her, surrender to Her in our own way. Even those ways are
to be surrendered to Her for the surrender to be total. p 585)
Act is
consciousness choosing to exert its will. µ 586)
Each further
threat or shocking news is only the announcement of a possible higher
achievement. p 587)
Opportunities
followed by bad news shows the receiving substance is incomplete in its
strength of formation. p 588)
Hourly
consecration achieved by prayer of remembrance, achieves not by constant
remembrance but by faith in prayer. p 589)
Humility comes
by no part of the being appropriating the achievement to itself and allowing
the pride of that part to swell. p 590)
The
self-righteous man is condemned by the awakened conscience. He who does not
have even a self-justifying motive to his action is hailed by his society as
one of great accomplishment and is admired as such. µ 591)
He who knows
how to choose excels all others whatever their endowments and accomplishments
are. µ 592)
Rarely man
knows what goes on around him. He knows still less about his own motives and
attitudes. µ 593)
The surrender
of the Gita and the surrender of Purna yoga differ as the degree differs from an award. µ 594)
A crown that is
presented is more valuable that a kingdom that is conquered. µ 595)
What pleases in
the company is the thought that you are wanted. µ 596)
A short life of
self-giving is better than a long life of self-aggrandisement. µ 597)
Concentration
on the psychic is concentration in consciousness. Work is concentration in
substance. p 598)
The first step
to becoming conscious is to stop thinking as you are. p 599)
Men of
character or substance do not leave in the world a progeny that destroys. If
they do destroy, they destroy what is to be destroyed. µ 600)
A deprived
generation produces an offspring of dissipating individuals. µ |
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