DAILY MESSAGES Series VII 201) Getting rid of thoughts that man is best done by not responding
to sense impressions, as the thoughts that originate in the body reach the
mind through the sense. That is why in the stillness of the physical being
Silence is able to sustain itself. Sri Aurobindo demands that Silence while
one is fully active physically. 202) He who
has taken to yoga has absolutely nothing to do. He cannot act except through
his ego. Even the efforts at yoga are only exercises of ego. Surrender is not to be done by an effort of
any description. All that he has to do is to kneel before the descending GRACE and gratefully allow it to act
. Such an ability is not a human
capacity but is one of the awakened SOUL. 203) • x÷µõP® ö\´¯õ©À ÂìÁõ\zøu ÁͺUP •i¯õx. • öPõkø© ö\´¯õ©À Aߦ ö£¸Põx. These are the truths of divided life. Identification with the other in higher life intensifies
loyalty, not by betrayal but by playing hide and seek. Separation caused by hiding
creates an intense longing for reunion. 204) The best
way to deal with meanness, even when you want to give generously is to put
him on LAW and stick to its terms, and any
generosity should be de facto. 205) Man is
not as charitable to another as he is to himself; the yogi is not so
indulgent to himself as he is to others. Both are different versions of
the ego. 206) As consecration needs a lot of energy, when we are tired we wait
patiently for energy to revive. Until then we relax. It rarely occurs to
us that we can consecrate the tiredness. Such a thought will release the
energy to do it. 207) Problems we meet with are mostly social. The developed individual
who has outgrown society has psychological problems. The spiritual
individual discovers that his spirit has no problems and he is free to seek
liberation. He who seeks the
spirit in life also knows that his spirit has no problems for itself; he tries
to solve the social and psychological problems of others spiritually so that
the SPIRIT may be at rest. 208) It is true that one need not do anything after he has
surrendered, but to surrender he must actively offer all of his personality. True
humility does invite Grace which wipes out all one’s ability, even as it had
dispensed with karma. Faith removes karma. Humility removes abilities. One
brings in Grace, the other makes Grace into Supergrace. 209) Our conscious knowing a future result acts as an obstacle and
cancels it. Our subconscious knowing readily fulfils itself. When the mind is
transformed, not only the conscious knowing will not be an obstacle, but it
will act as a help. 210) Enjoyment is to express energy. To express the energy so that it
accomplishes is higher enjoyment. Infinite enjoyment is to express energy
in such a way as to increase it. 211) What is
to be culturally enforced will not come off by itself in the absence of that
culture. A loan given must be taken back. It will not come back by itself. It
requires a social enforcement. In its absence, to lament that such a behaviour is not
forthcoming is only lack of awareness of social behaviour. Pure
selfishness will accept any amount shamelessly, but it will not strike it to
do a good turn in return. Before selfishness develops shame, it will
endlessly take, but will never think of returning. 212) In the
long and arduous effort of man to give up something, if it happens to be his
central characteristic, it will be evident that ultimately he will be
reinforcing what he professes to give up. 213) The present is ever present, not merely a present moment. 214) Mercenary
meanness of the social elite is seen as cultured goodness by the entire
society to which the newly rich are anxious to belong. Status
is primary, wealth is secondary and is only a mean to status. In Doctor
Thorne, Mary is adored for her being the heiress by all those who shunned
her earlier for low birth. No one sees the meanness of that adulation. 215) He who can go a little inside can know that what we call an
external circumstance is only what we called from inside. 216) The
visible material benefits for those who have never had them generate an
intense hope that saturates their depths which to them is ultimate faith.
Complete superstition of the lowest generates faith of the highest order. 217) The Force that comes down is an impersonal universal force; our
actions are the finite, precise, individual acts of a single person. For our
acts to receive the Force, they must acquire that wide impersonality. 218) The
physical that takes or for that matter gives does not remember, as it has no
faculty for that. The mind remembers what the physical takes and is loyal on
behalf of the body. 219) The
underworld in the society is the kitchen where our excellent social dinners
are cooked. 220) The
thoroughness with which SELFISHNESS reaches the potentials and distant possibilities is always
devoid of any sense of shame. Shamelessness
is endowed with thoroughness. Shamelessness is incapable of
self-restraint. 221) The
effort required for a certain enjoyment, whether it is real or illusory, is
the same. 222) One can see the love in betrayal when he is aware of the buried
aspiration in himself calling the distant vibration of Love behind the
apparent betrayal. He who knows betrayal is a faster friendship has the
mental vision of God as knowledge. It crosses into the evolutionary
splendour when he is aware of that in him which started the movement. 223) When words are rightly employed they can deliver a telling blow.
In the mouth of a speaker, words speak volumes. In the hands of a writer, the
right word is a bullet. The poet conveys the message through words. The
word of a devout person can reveal Mother. 224) Liveliness
is to relate to another or an event from the point of view of his life. What
makes one live is his ability to look out of himself, his outlook. 225) The human being’s light is material light. Its knowledge is that
the earth goes around the sun. The true light is spiritual. The truth about
the sun and earth is they do not move. 226) Kmk›ø© Gߣx |õmøh BЮ E›ø©. The
right to rule the nature comes down to us as the right to vote. 227) One
musician opens up the interest of everyone in the audience and exchanges live
interest through music. Human relationship, by its own thoughtfulness and
resourcefulness opens thousands of interests in the other and holds a live
interchange of energetic energy at its acme. Taking it to the physical level
and consummating it there is the finest hour of creative friendship. 228) To
return meanness to generosity is the meanest in man. 229) Spirituality, like every other thing, has no future, if it is not
collective. 230) Only
when one fully knows the long distance travelled to enjoy the present peace
and security will he be able to appreciate the potentials for the future. 231) Whether
it is social transformation or a change in the psychological life-style, when
the NEW becomes fully established, it
discovers that it is established only as a tip of the iceberg, while the old
remains below the water intact. 232) Consecration never fails. We fail to consecrate either out of
unconsciousness or lack of concentration. 233) The courtesan who schemes to take as much from the customer as
possible at the first visit, acts not from her profession but from the total
economic insecurity she is in. He who is able to appreciate her from her
point of view loves her and she is sure to return it. 234) Whatever the human longing is for, it is only to find fulfilment
in Him. All aspirations are
aspirations for the Divine. 235) When we are not lost in work and are able to observe ourselves,
the separation of Being and Becoming starts. 236) It is a
great stride forward for the world to have shifted from the individual to the
collective welfare which was enabled by every technical advance -- travel,
press, news, education, population growth enabled by higher agricultural
production, etc. etc. -- which prompted Sri Aurobindo to point out that the
Gita has nothing to offer this new collective aspiration. Does the
individual now think it possible to reverse the trend? 237) Instructions
are always one-sided. Discussions with the subordinates who receive
instructions are not permissible, but, on occasions are charmingly resourceful.
Instructions that are imaginatively resourceful to include the benefit of
discussions are really creative instructions. 238) When the
touch of human meanness is exhausted by experience, it leads to divine
generosity, especially for the devotees of The Mother. 239) Great
writers communicate their great experiences through words powerful. Greater
writers communicate what they have felt in the depths to the reader without
putting it in words. 240) That the
eternal greatness directly depends on the finite smallness is the lynch pin
of yoga and the pivot for personal progress. 241) The
woman’s reaction to man’s unfaithfulness issues from vital insecurity while
the man reacts to the woman’s behaviour from the physical sensitivity of
outraged honour. 242) ö\õÀ¾US AP¨£hõu ]¢uøÚ ©ÚzvØS›¯x, EnºÄUPÀ», ]¢uøÚUS AP¨£hõu AÔÄ ©ÚzøuU
Ph¢ux. Ax ö©ÍÚ®, JÎ ‰»® bõÚzøu öÁΰ¾®,
EÒ÷Ͳ® |õk®. Verbalised thought is vital. Understanding of any type
belongs to mind. Only inner intuition of knowledge of the outer objects inside
is supramental intuition. 243) Grace as
Money: Well, if collective spiritual
progress is the only future ideal, what then are their social and individual
bases? World peace and PROSPERITY are surely on the agenda. When money comes in through Grace, it
sustains the spiritual quest while ensuring the peace in the social, physical
world. 244) Our
deepest consecration is from the depth of the surface while the subliminal is
out of its reach. Hence, the purest of prayers or consecrations of ours
brings the possibility of subconscious desires to be fulfilled.245) Sri Aurobindo and The Mother spoke of the
intolerable ecstasy and unflinching rapture when the physical substance opens
to Grace. Should anyone follow their path and arrive at the same point, can we
say their achievement will act as a protection now and the further facts of
the descended Supramental Force would have pushed the frontier further? 245) Sri Aurobindo and The Mother spoke of the intolerable ecstasy and
unflinching rapture when the physical substance opens to Grace. Should anyone
follow their path and arrive at the same point, can we say their achievement
will act as a protection now and the further facts of the descended
Supramental Force would have pushed the frontier further? 246) Smile is
the physical aspect of the soul’s vision of the marvel as confined to the
object before. 247) To think of oneself is ego. To consider the past is to be in
Time. Memory binds us to mind. Time, mind and ego are of the finite
surface. ußøÚ {øÚ¨£Áß AP¢øu°À ÁõÌ£Áß.
Ph¢uøu {øÚ¨£Áß Põ»zvÀ EøÓ£Áß. {øÚÄÒÍÁß ©ÚzvØS›¯Áß. Põ»•®, {øÚÄ®, uõÝ® ÷©À ©Úzvß ]Ô¯øÁ. Memory keeps us on the surface. Ever-present memory of
everything is of the subliminal. Self-forgetfulness is bliss. Self-aware
oblivion is Delight. All-aware self-forgetfulness is higher Delight. 248) Work and
Results: 1.
Man works hard, no results issue. 2.
One man’s hard work gives all the results to his rival. 3.
Man works hard but results come elsewhere. 4.
Hard work directly brings adverse results, but wider results of similar
nature issue elsewhere, often higher. 5.
Personal work brings impersonal results. 6.
Impersonal work brings personal results. 7.
Personal work results in impersonal advancement. Man,
in one of these stages, should move to what? 249) When the
physical is unable to swallow a vital--hostile--emotion or a mentally
inimical idea, it destroys the other when strong or destroys itself if weak. 250) Responsibility
is the knowledge of physical sensitivity. ö\õµønUS öuÎ÷ÁØ£kÁx ö£õÖ¨¦. |
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