Daily Messages Series 1 Pt. 585 & Pt. 586
Daily Messages Series 1 Pt. 585 & Pt. 586
585) Mother rewards the patience of man according to his swabhava, character. She does it in both the opposite ways, according to the emphasis he lays. When an impatient man lays emphasis on the result, the result is endlessly postponed. It is not so much Mother as the Law -- when a miser lays emphasis on Mother during a bargain, SHE, through the refractory behaviour of the other man, gets the bargain settled in favour of the miser for half the price he was originally willing to pay out of his miserliness. 586) Wisdom is to discover -- the truth in commonplace statements or proverbs -- emotionally what you know mentally -- fully what you know all along as valid truth -- the intense reality in individual life of what is a general cultural possession. -- the truth of every opposite to our daily beliefs -- the mental restraint against physical irresistibility -- the truth of impersonal statements personally -- the impersonal truth in personal experiences -- how the other man feels -- the justice in the injustice done to us -- the injustice of our just actions -- that conscience is the adversary -- knowledge in Ignorance