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DAILY MESSAGE Series V 801)
Man seeking
stupendous progress should locate his KNOT and undo it,
whether it be a confusion or a grade. 802)
An occasion for
marvel turns into one of catastrophe when the being fails to emerge, while
the becoming is ready for that emergence. p 803)
Catastrophe is
the marvel of becoming insisting on the
leisurely enjoyment of its own infinity before it.
p 804)
Nature insists
on enjoying every moment of the infinity before it. The being fulfilling its
urge by refusing to emerge in the ripest moment is catastrophe. & 805)
Not only the
thumb print, but every event is unique. It has its own unique application of
general rules. Lack of appreciation of the uniqueness of the event inevitably
produces the opposite result of catastrophe. p 806)
Marvel and
catastrophe are the opposite sides of the same event of becoming. Being
emerging, the becoming is marvel. Catastrophe issues when the becoming is
ready for the emergence of being and the being fails to rise to the occasion.
p 807)
When man
refuses the positive knowledge God offers him through life, God becomes a
criminal to teach him the same knowledge negatively. The criminal and harlot are saints giving man
knowledge of God negatively. & 808)
The
indignities, calumny, hostility, and ridicule a pioneer faces today are the
civilised versions of murder and torture of erstwhile centuries. He is lucky
to be heckled, not murdered. In the past, the pioneer was surrounded by thugs
who murdered for the joy of murder,
whereas today it is only a band of pickpockets who rob his purse and shower
jibes on him. p 809)
God's Love
comes to us as human anger because we are irritable.
p 810)
Wisdom is
totally helpless when experience asserts. Complete folly asserts its past
failures. God behind wisdom meets his counterpart behind complete folly. Human wisdom behind justice, beauty, truth,
goodness, fairness, magnanimity is fated to meet God's wisdom behind cruelty,
ugliness, falsehood, evil, injustice, meanness, etc. God does not tolerate
the narrow human wisdom and exposes its insufficiency by appearing behind
their opposites. 811)
Brahman is the
being, Maya is the Consciousness. a. ----- Sri
Aurobindo & 812)
Sri
Aurobindo says that man can determine his evolutionary status. In the
industrialised countries man determines how long he can live. There he
chooses the level of his wealth. Devotees can see that they can create luck
in their lives as many have seen at some period of their lives. 813)
The robber
baron and the pirate smuggler have had their heydays in history. In certain
parts of the world in certain periods, they did rule. The corrupt politicians
and the unscrupulous businessmen are ruling the roost today. The world looks
up to them. The spiritual man never lived a social life. At
whatever station he is, potentially he has the greatest social power
hereafter. µ 814)
Physical
exercise, nutrition, health care, knowledge of health habits, disciplined
vital, positive mental emotions, and spiritual values of patient equality
have their impact on health and longevity. Each of them has a potential to
override its corresponding determinism. The least of them is physical
exercise that nullifies the physical determinism of the natural deterioration
of the body. The highest issues from the inner spiritual equality. A
combination of these qualities is worked out now by us unconsciously. A
conscious selection can always be made. When physically living in Mother's atmosphere, one
gets it for his body automatically. Anyone who works out a good combination
of them can choose his life span and until the last date he will be in fine
fettle. When the end is to come, it can always come suddenly by any chink of
personality which abounds in us. p 815)
Normal man's
life can be compared to cultivation by
rainfall. Civilised life is parallel to irrigated cultivation.
Psychologically self-aware life is like modern cultivation. Spiritual life
has the potential of drip irrigation of the Israeli farmer who has taken
agriculture to scientific precision. µ 816)
Every man has
in his atmosphere all the circumstances from which he needs to learn or to
benefit. What matters is the opening to them. µ 817)
Each man has a
personality, physical or vital. He is that constantly. He can reach at
something else like remembering Mother by effort for a short while and revert
to his own personality. The only thing he can be constantly is the person
he is, not anything else, not even remembering Her. He can remember Her constantly if he
changes to Mother's personality. p 818)
What man
constantly is, is his subconscient personality; not what he momentarily
seeks, like Mother's remembrance. Man, who wants to be something constantly, must
acquire it as a subconscious possession, not merely as conscious endeavour. p 819)
Selfishness can
be cultured or rudely boorish. In either case its one demand of anyone is:
give up what you have and leave me to myself. µ 820)
Affection is
practically attachment based on attention. It is more based on proximity than
sentiment or even blood relationship. µ 821)
Stubbornness
that is often mistaken for faith still yields results with Mother initially
since it is the faith of the physical. µ 822)
Constant
initiative at condescension is the urge of those who have fallen from their
status; it is pronounced in the next generations. µ 823)
Relics carry a
powerful atmosphere. When samadhi flowers arrive at a place for the first
time, the same power can be seen. In response to deep devotion, samadhi flowers reveal
the atmosphere of relics. µ 824)
Surrender can
be practised from either end, inner or outer. It is best done from both ends.
& 825)
You acquire the
full strength of that to which you fully surrender. That is why surrender
makes man god. & 826)
When an
unreliable partner becomes reliable, the work becomes a success. When an
uncontrollable impulse becomes controllable, yoga at that level becomes
possible. p 827)
God seeks a
higher delight than bliss in creation. Therefore he creates contradictions,
splitting one into two opposites. The truth is hidden in the opposites. The
conflict of their surfaces generates a struggle of intensity to bring the
hidden truth out. Thus the static bliss changes into active delight. & 828)
The process of
creation is the process of creating Ignorance out of knowledge. Evolution is
knowledge emerging out of Ignorance.& 829)
One becomes human
in the measure of his reliability. µ 830)
Selfishness is
incapable of conceiving of selflessness even in others. µ 831)
Any leader
achieves in the measure of his inner reliance on God. Anyone around him
achieves in the measure he relies on the leader. µ 832)
When
purposelessness descends to purpose, it is the subtle power trying to achieve
in the gross plane. Hence failure is not on the agenda. µ 833)
Perverse,
malicious meanness is the vital counterpart of the tyrant who enjoys
torturing innocent victims. The torture is physical, the meanness is vital. µ 834)
Harmony in
human relationships gives the strength of each to the other, disharmony gives
the weakness to the other similarly. µ 835)
Life
continually exchanges forces carrying capacities. By moving from disharmony
to harmony, the exchange of weakness is replaced by that of strength. p 836)
Sri Aurobindo
says that Nature which has an immense capacity for wastes, is a scrupulous
miser when she is set on a purpose. It is analogous to the sculptor who
apparently wastes enormous chunks of stone, yet when he comes to carving a
figure is careful not to chip a shade more than is necessary. & 837)
The man who
understands the process is closer to achieving it. µ 838)
Civilisation in
the first phase creates potentials and in the second phase creates the
capacity to convert that potential into results. µ 839)
Experience and
knowledge create potential. Action and organisation convert the potential
into results. Civilisation creates potentials for civilisation. It
is a measure of higher civilisation to know how much potentials are converted
into results. µ 840)
It is the sense
of sin that ushered in the first phase of civilisation; the second phase is
one when it is overcome. As the army
is the physical instrument and money the vital institution, SIN is a
psychological device to progress. µ 841)
For a few
centuries the service done by maps, records, manuals, log books and printing
has been immense. Of these,
dictionaries and directories do an outstanding service. In future, the
world needs their compeers in psychology. Audio-video directories that list
from literature and history examples for every human trait like jealousy or
sweetness is one such. An audio-video dictionary for every psychological term
such as attraction, repulsion, goodness, equality will do a great service in
future. µ 842)
The abominably
wrong man realises when his victim has gained more than he. He expresses his
change of heart as, "Somewhere, somehow I missed a clue." µ 843)
To evaluate the
other man's real strength in terms of tricks or subterfuges is one way
meanness exercises itself. µ 844)
How can an
empire state be called democracy? Britain and France do not qualify to be
democracies just by their form of government. Territorial aims disqualify a
nation to the democratic ideal. Democracy is the recognition of every other
man's right to equality at birth, not by someone granting it. Rights exist by themselves and are not granted by
condescension. Democracy is the self-existent right to equality. µ 845)
One should
reach his central will before consecrating individual acts by smaller wills. & 846)
He who wants to
give up human relationships and take to Mother must first give up his ego and
centre himself in his psychic. It is ego that seeks human relationships for
the purpose of domination of some type. & 847)
When man's
senses give up impressions and seek only facts, science emerges. By giving up
the sense instrumentation altogether, his reason changes into intuition. & 848)
How can there
be any gratitude in one who shields ingratitude? µ 849)
The origin of
all culture is the physical environment, not the inner equipment. µ 850)
Consecration
activates the soul centre by each act of consecration. & |
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