DAILY MESSAGES

Series VII

401) To take one impulse -- grudging or complaining -- that has been denied expression and turn it into its very opposite will open the entire mind to its universality.

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402) Thinking is a higher faculty than emotion. Emotion becoming devotion, excels thought. The emotion of intelligence that the poet expresses and its puny version of sentiment is superior to emotions.

Spiritual emotion is best expressed by gratitutde. Its simpler versions are affection, loyalty, honesty, etc.

When psychic emotion acquies intelligence, it alone can excel emotions.

These are unknown to human relationships. It is vain to search for them there. The stupid idealist awaits them in vain.

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403) There is a value for an ineffective person as an instrument. What we foolishly endeavour to accomplish, they thwart.

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404) Many a time the frontiers of human knowledge have moved up. Each time it appeared to be final. That is the sensation and vision of the physical. Man, in this respect, is physical.

The vital is unable to see the mental. The physical emphatically feels it is final.

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405) The value of land rising in vast nations like the USA is by urban migration. In India urban migration is not the prime cause. The prime cause is increasing population. More than that, the cause is the rising value of man.

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406) Look at ANY act from the seven ignorances and try to emerge out of them within the ambit of that act, relying only on The Mother. It will be done. Thus, the supramental consciousness is brought down into an act.

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407) When inquiry is once started, it cannot stop, as it releases knowledge which is Light; it goes beyond the consciousness. How can the inquiry be stopped until it reaches the end?

408) To be a strong devotee of great goodness, one needs the ability to rear a child without abusing, frowning, or feeling frustrated.

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409) The excellent behaviour we see in the West is a far cry from us, Indians. Still it is only behaviour, not character. It never reveals the inside where they remain as uncultured as others are.

Is it possible for us to leap from where we are, skip that thin veneer of good behavour and acquire real goodness? It is, if we express the Light inside.

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410) A moral society remains moral by resorting to immoral methods in the extreme.

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411) Gossip is the instrument for preserving negative values of the society through mean methods. And its success is great.

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412) Any ideal of man today needs its purity to be defended by violence, thus revealing the twin facts of mental idealism and the survival of physical brutality. Only that ideal that needs no brute force, or vital deceptiveness or mental prevarication for its survival is an ideal that has spiritual adulthood.

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413) Systems advance unorganised activities. For organised activities to advance, any system is a bar. They should resort to a coordination not based on work but on inner appreciation of work.

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414) Man who gives up unilateral extension of one work that succeeds will not have people of opposite character in charge of his projects.

Learning the inner restraints removes the outer obstacles.

415) That one should be happy all the time even in doing routine things has been an axiom in all periods of life. Except that it helped to hold the flame of an ideal aloft all the time, the misery it caused to life is endless.

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416) To look for the higher perfection in the lower plane is the ‘aspiration’ that moves the conscience of man.

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417) The mind taking an extreme position based on its ideas alone directly leads to suffering of the body. Body is famished with starvation as the mind foolishly divorces itself from the body. [Jane Eyre’s leaving Rochester and becoming a beggar is an instance.]

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418) The social collective overcomes the individual vital shortcomings in a subsequent generation and laughs at acts it frowned on earlier, feels the right of the other man in doing something for which he would have been murdered for earlier, showing the latent capacity in man. In yoga, one has to do so now by thought energised by Mother’s consciousness, as She offers those alleviating circumstances.

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419) Strength is that which deters the opposing forces from the thought of opposing.

Even the opposing forces wanting to serve your cause is another expression of strength.

When a section of the population comes to adore the fresh ideas and defends them, not by old methods but by ones that are new, the very first base is created.

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420) -- Values are organised spiritual knowledge reduced to skill that resemble formulas. Even at the Overmental level they survive, though that plane offers the energy to overcome the values. It offers opportunities also readily.

-- As it is still in Ignorance, higher work is to be done by apparently sinful acts expressing negative values.

-- The capacity to dispense with values in any plane and dispense with negative acts of sinful appearance belongs to the supramental consciousness in any plane -- vital or mental or even physical.

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421) Energy gained must be spent to complete the cycle. Man loves to spend it on woman, who alone is his complement. When spent at a lower level, it is dissipation, while at the same level it is a support and energises.

The physical man finds the physical woman easily. The vital man too finds his equal, but not so easily. The spiritual man is denied the woman, except at his peril. Still, those men fall a frequent prey to women sent to them.

Is the spiritual man permitted to meet his compeer, as women are forbidden entry into Spirit? If so, would he not be entirely destroyed by that choice as the act is that of the animal? Could Spirit exchange at its own level refraining from the animal act?

The women who are barred entry into Spirit by the tradition are out of bounds to spirituality in any other context as animality has no role to play in spirituality. Showing animality the door, the woman has only the role to play in man’s life as Shakti when he rises to Ishwara. Outside that, man and woman are subject to all the rules of yoga.

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422) Imagination helps fulfil. Fantasy fulfils itself thus preventing real fulfilment.

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423) Mind’s ignorance becomes complete when it identifies itself with the body. The soul’s discovery is complete when it discovers the soul in the body. The discovery of the Absolute begins when the mind becomes conscious; it becomes complete when it discovers the evolving soul it is in the body and further the same in the earth.

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424) Patience becomes qualified for that attribute only when the physical sensation partakes of it.

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425) Gradations in affection, goodness, etc. are of no avail as the opposites always surface when the limits are crossed. What prevails exists beyond the borders.

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426) To know that one’s mind is closed -- all minds are closed -- is the sign of an open mind. To be able to see how it got closed and how it now remains closed is certainly a mental perception humanity does not have now.

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427) To acquire the knowledge of subtle truths is not so difficult as to make one’s vital accept it. In India that knowledge is there. Europe and the US have not acquired it as yet.

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428) To bring oneself to fully share the joy of one who offends him by his betrayal since he was once capable of a similar act is the act of awakening the thought in the vital.

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429) A rational man understands an explanation and acts on it. A vital man remains unmoved by a rational explanation. He moves to action when he sees the result. The physical man will not be convinced even by the results.

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430) Any high principle is fully understood only when you understand it in one of the daily acts.

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431) Instead of feeling sorry for what we are, let us endeavour to discover the marvel we are, as spiritually, it is the only truth.

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432) The mind that successfully stopped thinking tried to evaluate the results of that stopping, thus reactivating the silent mind.

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433) Patience deserves that name only when an occasion for anger or annoyance turns into one of understanding that generates a smile at the other person’s situation.

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434) One can stop calling when Mother enters us and stays permanently.

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435) Family exists only at the physical level. Nowhere has family prevailed vitally, as it does with the physical facts in its plane. The family of the Divine Soul is at the supramental level. Sri Aurobindo asks us to rise from the physical to the supramental plane, as the Force necessary to accomplish that has descended.

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436) Secrecy is the human version of exclusive concentration which puts off behind it all the rest.

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437) Inability to give up friends because of close relationship is a physical trait.

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438) Replacing the hold of a certain undesirable influence on you by Mother is a complete relief. To replace a good influence by Mother is greater still. Yoga is to replace ego by the psychic.

439) Living in Mother’s atmosphere for a long time will upgrade all the parts of our being and many faculties too. One such faculty, intellectuality, will be upgraded to Thought, which means the mental sensation is upgraded into mental perception or even conception partly. As a practical fact, The Life Divine which was clear in parts earlier may now reveal more of itself.

440) Very able efforts have been made to pervert high principles into low tricks. Maybe we can try the reverse and it may purify the mind.

441) Literature becomes great or immortal not by the plot, not even by the characters but by the atmosphere the poet is able to conceive of. Sometimes great litearture can rise even in spite of the stature of the poet who writes it.

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442) Earthquake and volcano eruption are earth’s call to man to live in harmony with her.

443) Pollution is the language of the environment that tells man of his disturbing the balance that exists between him and the environment.

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444) In truth, all bodies are one. Can we at least grant that all minds are one? If not, can we say that all mental interests are one?

445) It is not wise to attempt more than what one can accomplish. Self-preservation is, of course, the first rule. To try to preserve the Self instead of the self is the best compromise for the present.

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446) The human is determined by the character of the act. Having risen above the human level, man determines the character of the act.

447) Strength in a field denotes only strength and does not imply anything beyond that.

A rich man cannot be expected to be wise or a wise man to be good.

Strength of any description is isolated and stands by itself.

448) The inner sun revealing is a high spiritual siddhi. Beyond it is the knowledge that comes from consciousness. That is then two steps beyond consciousness.

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449) When devotion is ripe, one can see the mind calling Mother itself acts as a bar for Her to enter. Beyond that stage, the calling should give way to silent vital aspiration that refuses to go into words.

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450) Courtesy compelled by an obligation cannot express the loveliness of courtesy. When one is courteous because that is the only way he can behave, courtesy expresses its best savour.

Courtesy that wells up from inside brings out its own intensities, not when it is circumscribed.

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