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.
EÓÄUS E°›¸¢uõÀ Ax }iUS®. 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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•i¯õx.
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. Pøu¸]US®, £õzvµ® µ]US®,
ÁõÌÄ CÛUS®. 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
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.
CÀ»õuøu EØ£zv ö\´²® vÓø©,
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.
©Ûuß E¯º¢x CøÓÁÚõP •i¯õx, ©Ûuß ©õÔ CøÓÁÚõP ÷Ásk®.
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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¤µv£¼¨¦.
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.
AÁÒ uõÎøn øPU öPõsk
©QÌ¢v¸¨£õß.
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.
ö£sø©US ©ÛuøÚ öu´Á©õUS®
öu´ÃP® Esk.
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
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