DAILY MESSAGES
Series II
301) Instead of responding to incoming grace, we
respond to its social reaction with the result that grace goes unheeded. µ 302) The power of the decision at any time sums
up all the opportunities that came one’s way till then. µ 303) If we divide the cream of humanity as
perfect characters with flawless natures and good-natured idealists with an
area of irresistibility, yoga will find the first dead and the latter fit
enough to receive all the yogic rewards in life and not in yoga. µ 304) Those who meet with great success in yoga
are not from the cream of humanity, but from the cream of ripe souls. p 305) Ripe souls in society are mostly misfits, rebels,
refractory individuals or at least with one major social disqualification. µ 306) The disqualification here becomes the key
to enter soulhood. µ 307) When something comes to you asking to be
destroyed, you invoke Mother’s Force to alleviate its ‘suffering’. That way
you will increase your suffering. & 308) For consecration to be effective, our
perception of work should change. Presently we think we are doing things and
when things go out of control, we say it is ‘God’s Will’. It must change to
include our own acts as ‘God’s Will’. p 309) Man is created by God as His Instrument but
the ego made him its own instrument. To restore man to God as His instrument,
yoga resorts to consecration. p 310) All failures of man are not failures of God
because they are the failures of ego. Man’s failures are God’s successes. µ 311) In the measure man refuses to fail, he
becomes God. µ 312) His ego succeeds during the phase when man
has to progress through the growth of his ego. p 313) Consecration in yoga organises the failures
of his ego. µ 314) Before discovering the world as a Marvel,
one must be able to see that it is not he who acts but it is HE who acts always. Conceptually or
as an abstraction we do have that knowledge but it should be our perception. p 315) We identify ourselves with our diseases and
feel a pang when they threaten to go. The subconscious identification with
our misfortunes is so full that we refuse to part with them. p 316) Either when the disease or misfortune runs
its course, or when we reach the knowledge that disease is as good as health
or misfortune is as great a blessing as good fortune, it leaves us. p 317) He who refuses to part with a disease or
misfortune invokes a value in support of it, a value of sentiment like
loyalty or duty to something or someone. That is how the universe comes to us
as values.
& 318) In giving up some habits, persons, and
values after taking to yoga, we follow certain rules, codes, disciplines. We
do not always follow the same practice in taking up some habits, taking to
persons, espousing some new values. Nor do we rigorously follow those rules
in repeating what we already possess as habits or character. µ 319) Realising the Absolute in the body means,
the body should cease to function through sensation and habit and must have
passed through the stages of functioning through emotion, thought,
understanding devoid of thought...Knowledge, Ananda, consciousness and
penultimately through an Existence that is not conscious. p 320) At the final stage, body should have ceased
to function even through Existence in manifest substance, i.e., the
determinism of the Absolute expresses directly without the need of any of the
media created from Existence to sensation. p 321) In that case a clear understanding of each
stage of creation realising every higher stage will be of great help. µ 322) Also, it helps knowing how each level of
creation realises the 12 attributes of the spirit, viz. Silence, Peace,
Immortality, Infinity, Goodness, Truth, Beauty, Bliss, Light, Love, Power, Eternity. µ 323) The Vital realising Love, rather
transforming desire into Love, starts giving instead of taking. p 324) Body realising Light, apart from glowing,
changes its subconscious behaviour into conscious behaviour. p 325) Overmind realising Supermind sees all in
each instead of seeing only each in all. p 326) Overmind seeing all in each is the
perception of the spiritualised mind where the other is seen inside us as a
mental figure. p 327) Body seeing all in each __
realising the Supermind __ is to see the other man standing before
us as we feel ourselves; the other man is felt inside us. p 328) Mind realising Silence is realising the
spiritual aspect of Silence. It is felt as stillness of mind. This is
spiritual silence in the mind. p 329) Mental silence is mind losing its structure
of understanding. p 330) Abolition of Mind is the being losing its
structure of dividing mind so that its function is taken up by the vital. p 331) Abolition of Mind and Vital makes the Body
think and feel doing duty to Mind and Vital. p 332) Abolition of Body is the stage where the
substance of body becomes the supramental substance, where the
supramentalised substance includes all the capacities of all the levels in
between __ body to Supermind __ by dispensing with them
in their original form. p 333) Seeking outer human relations before having
the inner relation with its corresponding aspect is called human initiative.
And it is the sources of all human problems. µ 334) Trying to benefit by the capacity of people
or things that you despise will have the opposite effect, even when the
external attitude is sweet and pleasant. µ 335) Should a person or a thing yield its
material benefit or spiritual blessing, one should have the appropriate
adoration towards him or that. µ 336) Should the socially high benefit from the
socially low spiritually, it should realise it is spiritually low. µ 337) An act of condescension will have the
opposite effect since the socially high being spiritually low makes it lower
than the really low. µ 338) In all acts of receiving, sincerity means
realising its being at the low end. µ 339) Compassion is that strength of spirit which
can give to the undeserving in such a fashion as to benefit it fully and not
permit it to hurt the giver. µ 340) To know how the waste is fully utilised by
the environment is to have the integral knowledge of the material
surroundings. µ 341) True humility is to realise one’s apparent
high position makes him lower than the lowest as he is in a position to
benefit in several ways __ spiritually, mentally, socially and
materially __ from those who are in lower positions. µ 342) As each man in society, better still in
life, needs the service, help, blessings, of every other man in all social
strata, he must realise that in that respect he depends on them. Dependence
is subordination of the lower. µ 343) To have an integral knowledge of the
society that impresses upon us our total dependence on it, is to acquire
social humility of the highest order. µ 344) Spiritually the dependence on the
environment is total. To realise it fully is to achieve spiritual humility. µ 345) Mother who could have been free of the
invading social atmosphere, chose to let it rule, expressing the highest
order of spiritual humility. p 346) The selfish man cannot bring himself to
give. When he transforms his selfishness into selflessness, it is not easy to
find people or causes that are deserving. Hence the giving of the unselfish
man is necessarily indiscriminate. µ 347) As aspiration sets a limit to progress,
rejection too sets a limit to progress. p 348) Aspiration rises in intensity by the force
of rejection accomplished. p 349) In the absence of rejection, aspiration
loses its intensity. Should one succeed in aspiration in spite of absence of
rejection, the benefits will be absorbed by the material that should have
been rejected. p 350) Man is always too indulgent to himself even
in matters of discipline which he has chosen. Rarely we find cases where man
is too severe with himself. This is a folly or blindness created by the
absence of realism. µ |
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