DAILY MESSAGES Series I 501)
When a difficult work defies solution, we are generally alert all
through the day which helps. But if you can locate the block and remove it,
the rest is unnecessary. [No attention is necessary for the clock after it is
wound]. 502) In
shifting to the Mind from the vital, the test is no further sensation must be
there. Sensations can be physical, vital or mental. In fact, it is a shift
from manas to buddhi. 503) It
is always Mother who comes to us. She lies dormant inside and is periodically
pushing towards us. Each time She stirs, life responds positively and
pleasantly towards us. Instead of seeking Her who makes for us, we respond to
the pleasant externals. What comes, stalls. Moving towards the external
response is irresistible. The inexorable LAW acts. 504) Discipline
is never learnt by oneself. It is always learnt only when enforced. It can
either be tyrannically enforced or gently enforced, but enforced it must be. 505) Those
who do not want to enforce discipline or cannot enforce discipline, cannot
have an organisation unless they recruit people of discipline. 506) Yoga
is done by people whose self-discipline is learnt earlier than their birth. 507) To
expect people to learn self-discipline is to expect water to move up the
gradient. 508) No
family will take shape where the head of the family does not enforce the
family discipline. No family can survive when the center of the family
constantly undermines family culture which is discipline. This happens in
high families seeking alliance with low cultures. Among Mother's Miracles is
one where such families do endure. 509) As
we read only when we are interested, so we should read Mother's books only
when there is aspiration. 510) Desire
is a concentrated power of the vital. Desire can be overcome either by a
higher mental power or by a superior physical organisation capable of
achieving what the desire can achieve. 511) Ego
is an inward-going limited organisation, needed to achieve within limits. It
can be overcome when the same capacity is acquired in a limitless situation.
It is done by a limitless positive vital energy or wide view of the mind that
is energised. 512) Mind
is divisive and is an instrument to function effectively through division.
One can transcend Mind if something in him perceives the unity of the things
outside him. 513) Ignorance
is an extreme capacity of consciousness to forget its origin so that in
action the full concentration will be there. It can be overcome when we can
be conscious of our origin. To fully overcome Ignorance we must be conscious
of our origin in activity. 514) Space
is divided substance felt by the consciousness through the sensation of the
mind. To go out of space one must be capable of being conscious of himself
directly, not through the senses or the mind. Time is of the same description
but is subjective. To go out of Time, one must go beyond the duality of
subject-object, i.e. be conscious of the object as subject. 515) Capacity
for comprehension is an extension of existence to Real-Idea. Not to extend
oneself like that leads to the sensation of original Ananda and self-aware
consciousness. Comprehension turns the self-aware consciousness into
Real-Idea. 516) Not
to be conscious is to exist. Not to exist is to lose the structure of
existence into non-existence. 517) To
act is to live in Nature. Not to act is to live in the essence, i.e. the
spirit. 518) Man
centered in the actions of desire can move up to Non-Existence either through
action via Supermind or through essence via Overmind or one of the Purushas. 519) Psychic
is the soul part capable of functioning as Mind with memory -- even the
memory of the past life -- but not with a will to execute. It has the
capacity to remember, understand, guide, but not the capacity of deciding,
acting or dominating. 520) Progress
comes by awareness. Social progress comes by social awareness, i.e. when the
entire social consciousness takes up a technological advancement or a type of
organisation. The individual progresses to the extent the society advances,
not on his own. 521) Individual
progress comes by individual awareness permitted and endorsed by social
awareness. The individual cannot progress against the society or without its
endorsement. The only scope for the individual is to persuade the society to
accept his enlightenment. 522) The
next stage of progress is for the individual to become a law unto himself,
regardless of the society. The society should come to accept the choice of
the individual's organisation even as it did with his worship, thought and
political choice. 523) That
way conformity gives way to independent individuality thus enriching the
collective whole. 524) Except
in organised production, the individual's way of life must allow him to steer
clear of the compelling collective conformity. That is, most things will be
produced by the organised sector while the individual will choose his own way
of life. Materials will be collective, life style will be personal. 525) Society
accepts not individuals, but individuals who are accepted by the society.
That individual who carries the weight of society by the force of his
personality or the force of ideas is the Leader. 526) One
test of being conscious of something is to check how much we remember that
work while in another work. Taking up hourly consecration, unconscious people
will forget after half an hour that they had taken it up. 527) To
be conscious is to be conscious of the soul. The tapasvi is conscious during
his dhyana. He is unconscious while he is awake. 528) A
realistic yogic beginning demands three things: 1)
Complete parting with the past; 2)
Turning around 180 degrees; 3)
Forging along the future without let or hindrance. Most
fail in giving up the past, since it recurs as thoughts or feelings or
habits. To cross that hurdle is difficult. The next two are equally difficult
or more difficult. As a rule difficulty increases with the advancement in
yoga. 529)
Convincing the mind of the futility of past beliefs is a great help kn
partkY with the past. Chewing the cud by recurring feelings is a greater
hazard. This can be cut by a determination not to indulge. Still the
insistent habit will recur. HE advocates a greater tenacity in persistence
than the repetitiveness of the physical as the only solution. 530) Every
man is active, dynamic, forceful, organised, alert including the lazy man.
Only that the expressions are different. Looked at from the point of view of
self-expression, the most useless man and the great leader are equally
dynamic, each in his own way. To know this is wisdom.( ÔjÉc]eVÉ
) 531) The
strength of the elephant comes from its constitution, not from the leaves it
consumes. The strength and stamina of each member of the species are decided
by the constitution of its frame and not by the food it consumes. 532) Man
responds most not to the increase of his energy, capacity, strength, wealth
or happiness but to the increase of his enjoyment, prestige, popularity all
of which are attributes of his ego. 533) Respect,
affection, gratitude are often seen as real. They are certainly real within
certain limitations or conditions. To change these renders them futile.
Respect, affection or gratitude arising genuinely and not out of the
circumscribed situations are rare. Such people will exhibit these qualities
to one and all and irrespective of the circumstances. 534) Trying
to reason with the vital is unreasonableness (explaining to another how it is
right for him to lose; or to convince a wife). 535) Perhaps
the highest level of human reasoning of a good man is to realise the utter
cosmic truth in the Aphorisms about relieving another of his pain or
altruism. To conceive that altruism is only ego and does no good to the
other, one should transcend mind. 536) Discipline
for one is dissipation for another. A poor man has to discipline himself into
not spending while a rich man has the discipline of spending. What hurts one
expands another. Sexual purity can either be a discipline or the opposite. 537) While
you are a devotee, only good things in life will come to you. When you take
to yoga, all that happens to you must be received as good things by you. 538) The
complete detachment of the selfless yogi from his human relationships and the
total oblivious self-centeredness of the selfish man have one thing in common
-- intensity of concentration on the self. Only that they are Self in one
case and self in the other. 539) When
an impossible thing (e.g. recovery of a damaged liver) becomes possible, a
sensitive observation gives rise to the sensation of wonder and gratitude. To
accept the good result is the first summary stage. To see how our trust in
the Divine has opened newer ways and feel that emotion is gratitude. To be
able to perceive the minute changes that is the process, the changes that
made the recovery possible is jnanam, knowledge of the process. 540) Life
and its opportunities are enjoyed by people according to their organisation,
attitudes, motives and goals. There are grades in that benefit. Sri
Aurobindo's gift of Grace is similarly received at different levels depending
upon their equipment. To know the various grades of receptivity and their
circumstances and fix where we are is a rare knowledge of practical value. 541) Opportunities
are what we create by our attitude, what we want to enjoy and work for. The
economic opportunities of today are because we use more items and have so
chosen the life. Future is for greater economic opportunities because the
world will be using more goods and services. 542) A
discussion to convince one with money that he should invest in your project
is an arduous one. Consultations
with a partner to persuade him to give up his rights voluntarily for the sake
of common good are endless, mostly infructuous. Persuasion
of a subordinate or a wife to whom you feel loyal and affectionate to act to
preserve your honour or prestige is a vain exercise fruitful to keep you in
eternal tension. Vichara, ÙIejÉ, that discovers how man organises
his own folly and enjoys that forever is jnana, ]eVÉ. To persuade your
personality to practise that jnanam is tapas or yoga. 543) "A
King Idea or a Master act...makes miracles commonplace." To
conceive that I am the source of trouble the other gives me is a King Idea.
To give away the project to the partner who wants to push you out is a Master
Act. To move to non-thinking Quiet, to understand what defies thought, to
believe that calling Mother from a shade deeper will not only bring
understanding but the solution also, are King Ideas or Master Acts. 544) The
graded importance of methods:- The
best is consecrated work that expresses your highest consciousness. The next
best is to think out what that work is and what is the basis in thought for
it. When
you are not capable of it, reading comes next. Dhyana
is the next in order. Japa
is the further alternative. 545) Mind
rejects anything less than PERFECT, rather mind is unable to exult itself in
anything less than Perfect while body accepts anything and is satisfied by
what is more than average. Mind
is an idealist, body is practical. Perfect Idealism will meet the needs of
practicality when it crosses into Supermind. 546) To
put every activity of Life in terms of yoga is to practice yoga in thought.
Doing it in terms of Mother, it is Integral Jnana Yoga. By
Nishkamya, Integral Karma Yoga cannot be done. It can be done only by
expressing the Divine Consciousness in the work. Purna bhakti yoga cannot be
done by enjoying the Divine. By enjoying the
divine in the emotion only it can be done. Purna Hatha yoga is not
done by purifying it alone but by divinising it. 547) Understanding,
appreciation of a work, enthusiasm for it or aspiration to attain it will
come only when we are of that plane. Mind is not moved by emotional acts,
rather it looks down upon them. The evolution He speaks of is in the evolving
spiritual plane and we are in the mind. Hence the lack of appreciation. 548) The
world is governed by a physical organisation. We are not part of it. We
approach it through our mind. Hence it is not self-evident to us. 549) 'I
cannot resist it.' 'I cannot stand it'
_ $V=K leÅkeL, $ÊVeÀ zÒäeL. As
long as one is capable of these responses, yoga is out of bounds for him. 550) If
nothing is irresistible to you, the environment will lose the capacity to
take initiative to harm you, i.e. it will lose the irresistible charm for
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