DAILY MESSAGE Series V 651)
As integration
is spherical, the correspondences that are vertical cannot go hand in hand with them in a
tabular column. p 652)
The double
opening of this new evolution does not permit a vertical tabular column of
correspondences in two aspects only. p 653)
Silence rising
in thought, mind, higher mind, illumined mind, intuitive mind, overmind and
Supermind has its corresponding versions in the surface, inner, subliminal,
psychic in mental, vital, physical and further in their subtle and causal
parts. p 654)
Classification
is the last word of science and study. But creativity transcends it. µ 655)
HE, when the Lila unrolled, found it Himself. To keep
its totality and integrality, HE became the
playground and the player. Never for a moment did HE allow either the totality or the integrality to vanish or
diminish. Thus HE kept his Eternity and Infinity in Time and Space. & 656)
The employee,
the self-employed, the government servant, the public worker, the writer, the
thinker, and the industrialist all have common traits and have
correspondences between them. But it defies a fixed rule of one to one
correspondence, as they are also disparate. µ 657)
Sri Aurobindo
offers to the social person an unfailing success, to the conscious individual
the capacity to achieve any goal he chooses and to the spiritual individual
the capacity to evolve into a Supramental being. & 658)
The divided
being's experience in seeking union is pain in the plane of evil. Hostility
is the division in the plane of the spirit. p 659)
Effective work
and expansive understanding gives unfailing success. µ 660)
Opportunities
are NOT physical at all till man makes his choice. Once the
mind chooses, the vital and physical reshape themselves into opportunities.
Man chooses either to create opportunities outside or the opposite. The
determinant is not the external physical but the inner spirit that expresses
through the mind. p 661)
Man often
serves the cause of an evil or a system that he ardently fights against as
his subconscious is wedded to that self-same evil or system.
p 662)
Censor is the
indication of mind's presence. & 663)
By expecting
people to come or expecting a result, one develops an expectation that leads
to frustration. Expecting Mother makes one rich. Still it is better to shed
expectation and replace it by aspiration. p 664)
All human
relations including human love are bargains of the part for the whole,
because it is the love of mind. Mind, being an agent of division, cannot
express love that is of the whole. p 665)
It is not
tapas, austerity or discipline that Mother needs, but an opening of sincerity
on the part of the sadhak, as She has come on earth as a bridge between That
which seeks delight and the human soul into which it is sought.& 666)
Mind raising
its awareness as censor, expectation, thought, etc. is its own way of being
conscious as mind. All that cannot be stopped. They will stop at one stroke
if we are aware of mind's origin, the Supermind. The shortest cut to
Supermind is to be aware of Mother in mind whose mission is to abridge
evolution. p 667)
Man can wean
himself away from evil, not good. p 668)
Longing to be
known as a good man is, after all, longing to be in life.
p 669)
Social
consciousness anywhere in the world has not matured to the point of
recognising its obligation voluntarily to services rendered. µ 670)
The lure of the
establishment can take the form of a higher ideal. µ 671)
Man cannot
serve humanity except by deserting it. µ 672)
When you try to
get rid of mind, its resourcefulness in justifying itself is infinite. µ 673)
Robust
manliness, is, for purposes of yoga, still manliness, an effective bar to
yoga. p 674)
If you want to
step into yoga, no human ideal is better than another. Every human ideal is
an effective bar to yoga. p 675)
The highest
human ideal is an active bar to Her Consciousness.
p 676)
I am sincere to
Mother. 677)
Nostalgia that
cherishes time, will not help the yoga that tries to transcend Time.
p 678)
Mind
universalises when its physical basis too sheds the ego, not just when the
concept of egolessness is understood by its conceptualising part.& 679)
"May my
material values be transformed into values of Being." p 680)
Jnana yoga
needs concentration away from the senses. Purna Yoga's concentration is away
from mind. In fact, it is a concentration away from Ignorance that helps
knowledge emerge. & 681)
Subtle
communication begins when surface communication ends.& 682)
Integral
knowledge is that which knows the Truth of One and the Many lies in
That. To know neither the One nor the
Many is the ultimate but that which includes both is the ultimate, is what
Sri Aurobindo calls integral knowledge.& 683)
The Gita asks
our motive to surrender to Purushothama. Sri Aurobindo demands that Ishwara's
motive be expressed in our life. & 684)
Integral
knowledge can explain any phenomenon in terms of any other phenomenon.& 685)
Great writers
have life knowledge. The greatest writer who ever lived had that life
knowledge as a universal possession.& 686)
A good person
mishandled becomes spoiled. A bad person rightly handled becomes good. Still
good and bad are truly good and bad. Yoga needs good as well as bad and only
in their true synthesis discovers the Good.& 687)
Action from the
true emotional fullness always evokes an instantaneous response from life.
What then is the difference between Life and Mother? The process remaining the same, life that
responds with the presidency of the panchayat differs from Mother who
responds with the Presidency of the nation. It differs in that measure. Life
is finite, while life in Mother is infinite. p 688)
Arriving at the
psychic is to move to the Non-Being without losing hold of the Being. Psychic is the Omnipresent Reality in life.& 689)
A friend is one
who should always pull you up. -- The Mother He is not a friend who will accept your going down.
-- The Mother. & 690)
The idealism of
the inexperienced is ignorant. It disappears at the first touch of reality.
The erstwhile idealist easily turns into a practical realist which means a
law breaker of the worst kind. µ 691)
To be able to
create a new possibility is creation. The greatest possibility is created out
of the opposites. Hence to create its own opposite and discover the original
unity in it is the greatest of creations. That is what our world represents. & 692)
Human
individuality can at best make him a psychological individual overcoming his
social personality. Great poets possess the individuality of the universe. He
who acquires the individuality of Transcendence enjoys being the spearhead of
evolution. He alone can feel the joy of emerging out of Ignorance into
Knowledge. & 693)
Openness is a
measure of progress. Democracy insists on the openness of information. The
ultimate openness is in the subtle plane where you know the other man's thoughts. 694)
Professionals
meeting in a club readily recognise the acquired potentials of professional
knowledge in everyone. Souls meeting in a family do not as easily recognise
the inherent potentials in everyone. A soul recognising it in his own self is
soul-awakening. p 695)
For a fence to
be useful, there should be no small gap in its entire length. To break the
protection of a long fence, it is enough to open a small gap in it. Moving
away from human consciousness into Mother's consciousness is to build a fence
like that. p 696)
The world will
readily accept the Human Choice when we have a man-centered economy. For the
world to accept that economy, we must be centered in the unfailing success of
Life. Knowledge of yoga in us will enable the society to accept the
principles of that life. p 697)
Three choices
for man: Being part of prakriti that seeks the slow
deliberate delight, he evolves with its evolution. Shifting to Being from Becoming, he pulls himself
out of prakriti and ends in the objectless delight above in its origin. Responding to the psychic, he moves to the Being of
the Becoming, directly receiving the objectless Ananda in the object of
prakriti, thus transforming himself. To be a social man or a tapasvi has been the choice
so far. The new choice is to enjoy the results of tapas in society. & 698)
If you are
proud of any past event, you are capable of regretting other events. Freedom
from the past involves not only absence of regret, but also emotions of
satisfaction. Past as well as future bind us to Time. To be in
Time is also to be inside ego. To get
rid of ego, one should be only in the present. p 699)
Man's greatest
endowment in one field is the counter product of his greatest ignorance in
another field. Folly is what man loves to choose and exercise in enjoyment.
It is noteworthy that fools are happy people. This wilful folly, then,
implies great intelligence in another field. Thus, spiritually, folly is a
great endowment. Only that neither he nor his world knows that. God, of
course, knows it. & 700)
What is most
beneficial to him by his values, goals or impulses is the choice man makes. Human choice is the best in the circumstances
according to him. It is the individual human choice that determines the
social course; while it is the social approval that determines the individual
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