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DAILY MESSAGES Series VI 301) The offerings we give the Divine are
as useful to Her as the stones the vital being offered to throw.5 302) In the institution founded on the
principle that ego has to be dissolved, the one ruling impulse is the
pre-eminence of ego.5 303) Dr. Thorne and Mary illustrate that
the greatest wealth and status can seek the lowest. It is the social best of
those times. Now MOTHER gives the world’s best for a similar
disciplined culture and value.5 304) Man’s creations can be greater than
his size, not his essential value.5 305) Values are the psychological instruments
of the individual for social progress. J 306) If you want to deliver grace, you
should be capable of two extremely opposite attitudes. One is the capacity to
go behind the absence of response endlessly and the other the capacity not to
respond when you are chased endlessly.5 307) Not to give the small man the due for
his great service is an absolute rule. Man’s unwillingness to give the due
for any work is also an absolute rule. J 308) Life functions by the awareness of
the physical sensations. Our knowledge of ethics or spirituality is
information in the mind. It would rule the world when it is accepted by the
physical sensations. Knowledge in the physical is effective. For
Mother to be effective in our life, our knowledge of Her must be accepted by
the body.5 309) If my thoughts should be accepted
by the world or at least my world, they should have been accepted by my
physical first and then my body should possess them as the representative of
the world. & 310) Vehemence of character alienates
people. Vehemence of character for a value exhibits sweetness in its
expression. People gravitate towards one who combines
strength of value and sweetness of temper. J 311) The resourcefulness of the rogue
touches the negative infinity.5 312) He who has transcended his conscience
must bind himself to it more than others, not because conscience is binding,
but because he can illustrate his adherence to it even when he disregards it.
J 313) It is one of the touches of Wisdom to
see how man retains God’s touch when he denounces him most; and how man is
farthest from Him while his worship is in the acme. J 314) At every step of involution,
provision is made for evolution. To know that helps one to understand The
Life Divine.5 315) Evolution is to move from the
divided part to the united being.& 316) The mind that refuses to
understand what it does not like, is the VITAL mind. & 317) Man, who knows that he is unable to
change, wishes everyone else to change. He who has changed knowing how
difficult it was, still expects others to change.5 318) Ignorance, inertia and division
stand in the way of matter responding. Ignorance can be overcome by
knowledge, inertia by inspiration. To overcome division, one has to shed ego.
& 319) If all traits are DIVINE, what
future does oblivion build? Maybe it is the greatest GLORY that it
will achieve so that one may be oblivious all his life.5 320) I have been longing to have a story
written illustrating the principles of Mother, especially that great good
fortune will knock on the door of one who is good, efficient and cultured.
Anthony Trollope has written Dr. Thorne exactly on those lines. It
cannot be excelled. J 321) To cherish nostalgia is necessarily
backwards. The only exception is the occasion to attempt a greater whole in
the accomplishment.5 322) The falsehood in human personality is
so deeply rooted that anyone who vows to give up lying forgets his vow in no
time.5 323) Progress of yoga is only at the
most sensitive points of the personality, not in the routine acts. & 324) Overpowering life circumstances are
for the soul that needs to be disciplined from outside. A mature soul gets
intractable life circumstances which can be controlled by him. He can
choose to discipline them or submit to them as a self-discipline.5 325) Sri Aurobindo wants us to discover
Brahman in Supermind. The Indian elite is capable of doing so in Mind and the
masses can do it in Life. The Westerner did so in Matter. Discovery of
Brahman in Matter is science and prosperity, in Life it is infinite
prosperity and everlasting peace, in Mind it is subtle knowledge of
supramental evolution. These are the steps HE wants us to skip and
evolve as the Supramental Being. Let
us do it at any ONE level.& 326) When the consecration of a single act
can raise you hundreds of folds, how can you complain of poverty? 5 327) India led Asia to Freedom. Now she
must lead Asia in Prosperity so that later she may lead the world to
Spirituality. 5 328) Those who have betrayed the ideal are
the greatest enemies of new followers of that ideal. J 329) Of all the ignorances, the one which
mistakes the wrong force as right is the most interesting or most
characteristic. Perhaps it is the most catastrophic. J 330) Leadership is to have our own power
of leading in the vital as a representative of the collective that needs
leadership. J 331) Mind divides the Force in the form
of substance. Beyond the atomic existence, the force cannot allow itself to
be divided since so divided, it must go back into its original status of being,
which is evolution. The dividing mind, while in the process of involution,
cannot act as the instrument of evolution and turn the substance into being. & 332) Material objects absorb Mother’s atmosphere,
not fully. They need a human intervention to give results.5 333) The only sensation for the devotee is
physical sensation of Love.5 334) Man’s offering to God is a distant
echo from the farthest point of existence – physical – of a tittle of what
God has poured on him for ages. For something to be known as offering, at
least man has to come forward to give his all. Only then can he set about
withdrawing his vital mental hold on it. The crassest ignorant expects offering. Its
physical personality asks for it. God does not mind doing that too, to bring
grace to man. In extreme cases, HE even steals it from man.5 335) Tradition is traditional
superstition. J 336) Man lives his life by his own
self-conception limited by the external circumstances. In the measure he
widens his self-conception, the environment is overcome. He is so constituted
to overcome the entire range of environment.5 337) Man expands on hearing the uttered
word in praise, not the unuttered understanding of great merit. Word pleases, not values. J 338) Marriage reveals the social depths of
human nature. Psychological depths will not be seen until all social supports
are lost or withdrawn. Marriage is an institution that gives
self-knowledge to man. Maybe it stops at social self-knowledge or goes up to
psychological self-knowledge. It has no reach to reveal to man the spiritual
self-awareness. Only yoga can do so. J 339) If the fit should be on me, let it be
a fit for self-awareness.5 340) To read and understand the facts, one
requires the intelligence of literacy. To read and understand the arguments,
the intelligence required is academic. Higher intelligence is needed to know
the process of the author’s thought. Intelligence, as we understand, has
no useful purpose beyond this point. J 341) When mind knows Time is its own
creation, it acquires the ability to rise above its mastery. 5 342) Nothing expresses the awakened soul
as the Smile. J 343) Leadership is a miniature universe packed
with power. Thinkers discuss most of its external expressions. Its inner
essence escapes definition. The real leaders sense its presence. The real
thinker defines its power in terms of the other aspects given to him by
theory. J 344) The man who eats a great quantity of
coarse food does not enjoy it half as much as the one who eats a fourth of
that quantity of a sophisticated meal.
Enjoyment increases as the level of consciousness increases. To grieve
for the absence of it at lower levels is a biological superstition. It is not the animal act but the sweetness of
exchange of finer emotions that is the real enjoyment. Who in the metropolis would regret not owning
landed property in the village? Enjoyment rises in value in
proportion to man’s ability to wean himself physically from the act. J 345) Enjoyment can be constant when it
moves to emotions and spirit. Surely it cannot be constant if one remains in
the physical plane.5 346) Each human contact for me is what I
have been and am to another. J 347) The physical man trying to raise his
status often puts his feet on the table, symbolising his inner aspiration. J 348) Mother makes any subconscious endowment we have effective
in life. Activating the low consciousness of our ego neutralises it and even
wipes out the basic endowment we had.5 349) There are several movements of Nature
that converge at a point of an act, such as Lila, enjoyment, accomplishment,
absolute justice, efficiency, involution, evolution, etc. All these movements
have the dual capacity to express themselves in any direction fixed by the
person. The directions are social, personal, evolutionary, survival, growth,
etc. Social evolution or human development is determined by the CHOICE
man makes. J 350) In bringing one person to appreciate
another, man feels he depreciates his own self. J |
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