DAILY MESSAGES                                                                                                           

Series III

 

   101)       Knowledge understood is science; formulated for action it is technology. The technological power, political power, etc. have behind them their own appropriate formulas. The mathematical formula of Sri Aurobindo of which HE wrote on 16th August 1935, gives us the evolutionary formula for spiritual evolution.

 

   102) The artist who draws a figure has it in his mind. His hand is guided by the mind. The Artist who makes water out of hydrogen and oxygen is guided by His intention. After an artist draws the picture of a child or a table, we can explain that because the outline of the picture conforms to the outline of the object; the picture emerges. This is the effect, not the cause; the cause is the picture of the child in the mind of the artist which is occult to us. To  acquire that mental picture, the artist must be born in us.

 

     103)   In all our daily activities, the process expresses itself subconsciously, rather the knowledge of routine acts held in the subconscious expresses as complete acts. What the sub­conscious creates is what we already know. The Divine crea­tion is the creation of Superconscience where He self-conceives. But the process is the same for both.

                   Man, wanting to create an opportunity for himself, cannot create out of his subconscient possession, nor does he need to new-create like the Divine. Man's opportunities are in this world, presently enjoyed by so many others. For him to create opportunities consciously, he needs to know the opportunity as well as he knows his subconscious endowment. Then he will be able to create.

                   New Creation: Man can also create for himself opportuni­ties that are not there in the world which is not like the creation of the Divine. Creation of new ideas, forms of new literature, new organisations will come under this head. For this, neither the subconscious ability, nor the conscious capacity described above will serve the purpose directly.

                He needs to extract the essence of the subconscious abili­ty and apply it to a new situation and create there by the same process a new thing, in a new way.

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            104)            When a social relationship is neither pleasant nor useful, it falls away. A psychological relationship turning sour and harming the inner being cannot retain its original intimacy though it lingers in the outer social form. A spiritual relationship can still survive unpleasantness or inner harm but cannot survive when it becomes a vehicle for the hostile influence. How far it can survive in external forms will be decided by the fact of its capacity to lend the outer forms for its inner harm.

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            105)            Hypothesis of consciousness emerging out of inconscience:

               

                This leads to:       

                the infinite variation emerging out of the mathematical accuracy

                   of  mechanicality;

                knowledge emerging out of ignorance;

                love emerging out of hatred, chastity out of prostitu­tion;

                sweetest of feminine friendliness emerging out of cranki­est of

                        wilful stupidity.

 

106)        Response from the human end of evolution is sour whereas the response from the evolutionary end is expansive joy.

 

107)        Growing human self-awareness is increasing misery; growing divine self-awareness is evolutionary joy of transformation.

 

    108)    Walking in the crowded bazaar, every moment we find our need to move ahead mixed with dirt, danger, possibility of theft or loss; so in Life, every event is a mixture of great divine opportunity and human misery or tragedy. The choice is at every minute, nor can we give up the journey.

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   109)     Every minute man seeks joy from a forked road situation. The level of joy depends upon the level of his life, i.e. his strength of concentration. Raising the level is yoga.

 

   110)     Joy, Delight, Ananda can be described as the joy of knowing more. This is a joyous sensation of knowing; maybe the joy of sensing more is greater. Joy of knowing is greater than joy of being.

                                Satchidananda is joy of being.

                                The Absolute seeking the joy of being produced Satchidananda.

                                The joy of self-discovery, having lost oneself in the opposite, is joy of  creation.

                                Creation turns the joy of being into joy of (sensing more) knowing.

                                Hiding and self-discovery make possible raising the level of knowing.

                                Evolution of the being of Bliss may be the joy of sensing more.

 

   111)     The Absolute's seeking joy, joy of being in Satchidananda and joy of knowing in the evolution of ignorance into knowl­edge is the cause of this creation. It has the possibility of its seeking the joy of sensing by evolving the Ananda Maya Purusha.

 

   112)     ÷¯õP ÁõÌUøP and its success depends upon the extent to which one seeks the    joy of knowing more of his own life and through it, Life.

                Knowledge and the seeking of it is joy.

                Pain is preserving ignorance.

                Seeking is ever present through preserving.

                Direction of seeking decides -- joy or pain.

          ußøÚ¯Ô¢x ÁõÌøÁ AÔÁx ÷¯õP ÁõÌUøP.

 

113)        Fiction holds the interest in spite of our knowing that it is our creation and fully non-existent. Joy issues as much out of real situations as unreal. In either case, joy is real. The intensity of joy increases from plot to character to character of life.

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114)        The poet creating out of Parabrahman in himself is litera­ture. God creating out of Parabrahman that is Himself is the material, subtle, causal worlds. Man can create out of the depths of his devotion (that is Mother's creative vibration) everlasting enjoyment in the world that is luck for him.

 

115)        Self-discovery is for the God-seeker; discovery is for life. Self-discovery begins after discovery is over. For man in life, it is self-discovery; for God it is Self-discovery. Man is on the path of becoming God when he moves from self-discovery to Self-discovery. The external man of human effort is at discovery; inner man strives after self-discovery.

 

116)        The infinite in us sees infinite opportunities everywhere; the finite sees no room to move around; when it moves it sees infinite difficulties all around.

 

  117)      The joy in sensing an opportunity is less than that of accomplishing. One is sensational and the other is physical. Physical joy in the ascent is relief, in the descent is Joy on the borders of Love.

 

     118)      How would he, who sees the world as a marvel, respond to a child that by its pranks is about to hurt itself or to lose the opportunity of becoming a good kid?

                 

             a) The presence of one who sees the world as a marvel will restrain the child from such pillage. The child will not stop the pranks if he is one who is trying to discover the marvel the world is.

             b) He will comprehend the child, the environment he is in ONLY when he loses the personal attachment to the child. As long as that attachment remains, all that he discovers will help him see the reality of that attachment and its intensity.

                 c) Once that attachment is dissolved,

                                                G he will see the inner determinism -- the Karma -- of the                                                          child at work,

                                                G he will see the power of his perception influencing that                                                          karma,

                                                G he may even see the child overcoming its karma and not                                                      spoiling itself in deference to his still lingering subcon-

                                                scious wish, even after the attachment is given up.

                                                G At that point, his wishing to rescue that child will                                                                       positively save the child and fully dissolve his attachment                                                         or negatively reinforce the attachment that was lingering.

 

                Instances of adult children (or parents) who seek the ruin of parents, spouses having been unfaithful out to destroy the other, when experimented upon from the yogic conscious­ness, will reveal the truth here. A more powerful instance is the guru or sishya who has turned hostile. In all these instances the world continues to be a marvel but his own perceptions change flavour.

 

     119)   Energy of the rising expectations  p. 303, The Life Divine

               

                The energy of the rising expectations of the masses is the indispensable social condition for the structure (ethnic, organisational and social structures) of the social sub­stance to evolve into its opposite of material prosperity and mental peace (from present poverty in the Third World and violence in the West).

 

        120)                Employment is created out of human imagination -- Cleveland

               

                'A creation out of itself in the boundless finite of the material universe', p. 303 (The Life Divine)

               

                Society creates out of itself in innumerable social inven­tions ('boundless finite') of the human universe.

               

 

                Social evolution on a parallel to the evolution of the world described on p. 303, The Life Divine

               

 

Action of the social energy

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Means of the social evolutionary manifestation.

Boundless finite of numberless social inventions and innovations

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The infinity of evolutionary possibilities of society.

The apparent inconscient irrationality of the ethnic, backward, pugnacious energy of the society.

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An indispensable condition for the present family, ethnic, tribal, social structure to evolve into material prosperity and cultured peace.

The truths and powers of the social fabric in human disguise.

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The basic general or fundamental determinants we see in societies.

The appropriate forms and vehicles of the truths or powers residing in these fundamentals.

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The particular determinants -- the unaccountable variations from the general social stuff.

The principle of free variation natural to social expansiveness.

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Aspect of unthinking irrational chance we see in the sudden social changes.

The principle of truths, real powers of the infinite imperatively fulfilling themselves.

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Aspect of mechanical Necessity we see in society.

Constant principle of mathematical architecture, of design, of effective arrangements of numbers, of adaptation of means to ends, of inexhaustible device and invention that is constant experimental skill and automatism of purpose.

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The principle of truths, real powers of the infinite imperatively fulfilling them-selves in an aspect of mechanical Necessity.

 

 

 

      121)  Subconscious yoga:

                The intensity of emotional identification with the Master and The Mother will decide the extent of the receptivity or benefit. The same rule is true if one wants to receive from the atmosphere. This is true of the subconscious benefit from the society. Subconscious benefit gives the minimum the relationship can give as the maximum possibility.

                   In the conscious effort of a citizen we see the maximum possibility of his becoming the President whereas the mini­mum he is assured of is he will not be arrested without a warrant.

                   Becoming a supramental being and a cosy comfort protected from the hostiles are the maximum and minimum for the con­scious effort and the subconscious relationship.

 

   122)     The scientist's insisting on experimental knowledge in preference to intuitive knowledge is akin to parents in­sisting nowadays on knowledge through experience for their children as against formal education.

 

     123)   Behind intense adoration lies high idealism, a non-existent state by definition. Realism does not permit adoration. It admits of appreciation. When realism rises to heights of idealism, adoration upgrades itself into self-giving.

 

     124)   Linguistic ability permits translation of a text or summarising it or making critical notes of it, without fully comprehending its import or with no comprehension at all. Linguistic ability is to the contents of the text what social appearance is to the inner psychological content.

 

        125)                The disgust felt at a bitterly low person and the sweetness felt at an intensely high person are from the SAME spiritual intensity of the being, finding expressions through opposite cultural determinisms. By shedding the cultural sensitivity it can become pure intensity. When cultural determinism is replaced by spiritual determinism, the bitterness, disgust, sweetness will give place to aspiration.

 

        126)                The outer disgust is made possible by our own inner sen­sibility and does not similarly bother others without that relationship or sensibility.

 

        127)                Concentration demanded in yoga is exacting, one pointed, singled-minded that can withdraw from the senses in self- forgetfulness. Consecration requires All-inclusive concen­tration that saturates the purified awakened senses in action. In a wide massive opening, the being becomes eligi­ble for that concentration.

 

        128)                Blood relationship is thick in the family, but thinly ex­tended to the community. At the soul level, the entire humanity is related and it extends to all beings and things in spirit.

 

     129)   Pity is felt for oneself; sympathy goes to all in the blood relationship. Only compassion extends to all humanity. Grace extends beyond that too to inanimate objects.

 

 130)       Consecration of acts is asked of us by Mother. Consecration of vital existence while not acting is consecration of life that is a steady flow from the life centre to the soul centre.

 

 131)       The Divine Mother's Feet on the face opens the soul in each cell and fills the being with fullness. The power of those feet is not less in the dream or even in imagination.

 

     132)   Human love crosses the border to touch the divine love when abuse is as sweet as adoration.

 

     133)   To discover that a weakness of which one is ashamed of is really one's greatest strength is the ability for transfor­mation which ushers him into the state of transformation.

 

    134)    To move from a routine personality of occupation in the mind to serious dwelling on the Divine is inwardly indicated by dullness of nerves giving place to stillness of mind felt as peace in the nerves.

 

    135)    Avatars descend to announce a great opportunity. They take birth to reveal.  Mother and Sri Aurobindo came not only to reveal, but to work it out themselves. The book Life Divine  is so constructed that each chapter gives the reader also the capacity to understand the following one. He has not only brought, but prepares you to receive. This is one of HIS secrets of writing. A careful analysis of His arguments reveals this secret.

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    136)    As in any field, enjoyment is on many levels of relief, comfort, convenience, pleasure, happiness, joy, delight, bliss. God enjoys Being as Bliss. Man enjoys the vital as pleasure and hopes for mental happiness.

                   Delight is active Bliss not so far available on earth which God seeks through spiritual evolution. He offers it to man and its embodiment is Mother. Adoration of Mother yields that delight which man can seek in life through living Her principles.

         AßøÚ BÚ¢u APµ®.

     137)   Reading maturing in the mind is indicated by Silence. Silence is born in the mind when the thought is fully ab­sorbed.

 

       138) The highest positive enjoyment of anyone is the royal road to his progress.

 

    139)    Consecration succeeds for a fleeting moment when we under­stand that it has to be there during all moments. The success­ful moment lifts you out of Time. Its success all the time helps you overcome Time and walk into Timelessness. This is true of any ideal of the next higher plane.

 

    140)    Sensitivity that stings one into utter shame loses its sting and even becomes commonplace, occasionally issuing joy in the act that stung you earlier when it becomes the daily occurrence in the environment. Mind seeing the silly nature of that earlier sensitivity can make one laugh over it. To find it is God's marvel, the knowledge of the mind should rise to a light in the soul.

 

    141)    Each act from being a routine dull one before turning into God's marvel should reveal the other side as He describes -- the mathematical architecture, of design, of effective arrangement of numbers, of adaptation of means to ends, of inexhaustible device and invention, a constant experimental skill and an automatism of purpose.

 

    142)    When you observe an act in this detail from conception to execution the act reveals its original force of self-conception. An act passes through observation, choice, conception, consent, interest, sensation, energy, organisa­tion, execution. One's characteristics express fully at all these stages. Reliance on Mother at all these stages is Purity. Passing through all these stages in Purity makes the act a marvel.

 

       143) Mental appreciation of a relationship emotionally expands and when it wants to move to the physical,  it seeks to give a material present. The material present is that which consummates the long process of sweet human relationship mind began. The present by itself is a social token or an expression of a complex.

 

       144) Pleasant behaviour and proper conduct in the same person is rare. It is obvious that both in combined strength have no capac­ity to give a spiritual opening, but no spiritual opening in substantial measure will be there in their absence or in the absence of similar traits. In exceptions, spiritual capacity in the extreme is seen with no regard to their presence or absence.

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       145) Life brings to us our own traits, e.g. a selfish man meets with selfish people. One who seeks discipline is asked to serve people of his own qualities. This is a method of life to exhaust a vibration. To serve another of his own traits is to exhaust that vibration in the external. At its extreme it even turns into its opposite -- selfless man serving a selfish person -- thereby exhausting the fullness of that vibration.

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       146) If one who is capable of knowing or realising or having a siddhi of the Absolute continues to think of the Absolute, his thought will lead him nowhere. Beyond a point, the thought could be a bar. The Absolute can be reached only by the Absolute in the mind. That which can take us to the gates of the Absolute is the spirit, not the mind, much less the thought. The spirit either as the soul or psychic can take us to its borders. The spirit emerging in the mind's silence or the psychic coming forward by consecration are the first steps towards this goal.

 

   147)     A vast surrender is his great strength.

 

                The light in the prakriti rising and seeking the Psychic is consecration.

                Purusha, the Silent witness, coming to give orders becomes Ishwara.

                Consecration by which the prakriti submits to Purusha is the surrender of Prakriti.

                This is done by the light in the prakriti rising and domi­nating it.

                The dynamics of action acquire proportions of Silence, Light, Love and Power.

                Thereby the powers of the Infinite -- Silence, Light, Love, Power

                -- replace the powers of the finite.

                Next, consecration raises itself to surrender.

                The light that emerged out of prakriti is the purusha of prakriti.

                That Light offers SURRENDER to prakriti giving prakriti the power of Purusha.

                Now prakriti, the finite, acquires the powers of the Infi­nite.

 

                Silent Purusha; finite prakriti -- Ishwara; obedient prakri­ti -- prakriti offering surrender through consecration acting through the powers of the purusha, viz. Silence, Love, Light, Power -- Purusha in the prakriti surrendering to Prakriti through a vast surrender making prakriti wield the Infinite itself instead of its powers -- this is also the process of

 

                                Knowledge emerging out of Ignorance;

                                Spirit evolving from silence to activity.

                                Ishwara, the giver of commands, receives HER COMMANDS.

                                The chaste wife becomes  ÷»õP©õuõ.

 

                The female -- the woman -- the wife -- devoted chaste wife -- ÷»õP©õuõ is the evolution she passes through. The female is an organism, the woman is the social female, the wife creates the family, by devotion and chastity she is spiritual, BY ACCEPTING THE SURRENDER OF THE LORD, she becomes ÷»õP©õuõ.             

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  148)      Meticulous correction of memorised composition that cannot do any good to anyone will do all the spiritual good to the subconscious physical of the teacher who corrects it. That work came to him to give that perfection.

 

     149)   Of the trio money, woman, and power, only the woman has a soul. Money is social and vital and its attraction for the human ego is spurred by its capacity to bring status. Power is of the same plane but exercises a greater power on the vital nerves. Money and power are incomplete in one aspect, but are powerful forces of attraction to the ego, not equally powerful tools in self-perfection. Woman, having a soul, though devoid of the capacities of money or power, can offer perennial attraction to man if ever she opens to him in her soul for the purpose of being his complement. Of the three attractions to his ego, only she has the capacity to be his complement if she chooses. Thus, when she chooses so, she becomes the vehicle for transformation from his ego.  Having thus chosen, his finding a soul complement in her opens the way to realise all in each or each in all, a status of Supermind.

                                The woman whom all spirituality shunned as a devil is born with a soul capacity to lead him to Supermind.

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      150)  Personal relationships with men of hostile forces lived to outline those vibrations come to an end in several ways at several stages -- material, subtle, causal. The subtle relationship coming to an end is often marked by the consum­mation of a work they were trying to neutralise. And it falls on their birthdays.

 

 

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