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DAILY MESSAGE Series V 701)
The human
choice of today is the choice of the social individual. µ 702)
The secret of
youth is to be active inside. µ 703)
Spirit moves
matter. 704)
Concentration
increases if one is able to deny the expression of his energies in normal
impulses. & 705)
Consecration
and calling evoke ready answers from Mother when She is called from a
consciousness that is unable to go out in impulses.
p 706)
Intellectuality
is the endowment of the ego. Even Jnana yoga is the achievement of
intellectuality. To get rid of ego, one should move away from
intellectuality.& 707)
To reason with
emotional persons is unreasonable. µ 708)
Concentration
for clarity, consecration for results. & 709)
It is the
Purusha through the ego and its intelligence that makes the Force conscious. & 710)
Maximum
accomplishment is possible in the least disturbance of the set up. Hence
austerity, violence, frustration are to be avoided by the method that aims at
the maximum accomplishment. p 711)
Rhythm and
balance generate harmony that ensures the maximum result for a given energy. & 712)
The reach of
the thought is limited to the known experience. Subtle thought overreaches
one's own experience. Silent thought in subtlety tries to reach the whole
universe. & 713)
Surrender
begins when one moves from Becoming to the Being of the Becoming. & 714)
The first joy
of discovery for man is the joy of discovering the psychic. After that, it is
for the psychic to discover. & 715)
Disgust is the
negative attachment to that which disgusts you. p 716)
The psychic is
the Being of the Becoming. & 717)
Works of art or
poetry are created by concentration, which is temporary partial Ignorance.
So, permanent total Ignorance must be able to produce a greater wonder. That
view of the mind must be able to see the marvel the stone is.
p 718)
Ridicule is
God's device to remind man of his origin. µ 719)
A false mean
accusation is the most powerful reminder of the falsity of surface values. It
is God's powerful action to wake in man who cherishes the surface values. µ 720)
Ego is
necessary for involution. To overcome ego is also necessary for evolution. & 721)
The first ever
stable joy man tastes comes when his centre moves to the psychic. While vital and mental joys are transitory, psychic
joy is ever-present. & 722)
The physical
attraction for the female ends in conception, the vital attraction is
passionate. Romance is the attraction of the mind. Love issues when the
attraction rises to the spiritual level. µ 723)
Taking the
right initiative is best. Not to take that initiative is better still. p 724)
The temptation
to offend another pointing out his weakness is irresistible. It is the
strength of weakness. µ 725)
To recognise
the strength of others is noble. To recognise the strength behind another's
weakness is to awaken one's own strength of the soul. & 726)
Finite ego
giving way to the infinite Eternal in the body is supramentalisation; in the
life it is infinite abundance that is Mother's luck; in the mind it is
multiple genius. p 727)
The equilibrium
of forces in each plane is understood as laws of that plane. 728)
The selfish man
evaluating others as selfish is worse than his own selfishness. µ 729)
For any
revolutionary change in the world or in oneself, if the outer material
conditions are not ready and it is beyond man's power to make them ready, or
when the inner man is not ready, things have to wait for a better time to
come. The first and second world wars rose in such conditions. After that MAN was able to forestall the III War. Now is the time
for Development. The material conditions are more than ready. It is possible
for man to rise to the occasion and usher the world into Peace and
Development. p 730)
When the Force
organises itself in involution, freedom plays a positive, constructive,
creative role. At the point where involution reverses itself into evolution,
the play of Force is naked and ruthless. Once the reversal takes place, the
Force organises itself at a higher level freely without the freedom being
granted to it. It is a self-existing Freedom. & 731)
The role
of freedom is constructive in
involution. In evolution freedom is self-existent. At the point of reversal,
Force is naked and ruthless. & 732)
The progress
for physical ego is the death of the body, for the vital ego the loss of its
achievements, for the mental ego the dissolution of its opinions.& 733)
Partial
personality prepares; the whole man acts. µ 734)
Physical
objects, vital capacities, mental opinions have their egos. Objects losing
ego release vital energy. Capacities losing their ego rise to become talents.
Opinions likewise become ideas. Absence of ego takes one to the next higher plane
which is a path of accomplishment. µ 735)
When one
reaches his maximum, he expands. His incapacity to expand at lower levels is
because of his capacity to expand at a higher level. µ 736)
A man's value
lies in the centre from which he functions -- physical, vital, mental or
spiritual. Progress for him is to rise within his own plane from one level to
another -- again physical, vital, mental, spiritual.
p 737)
Present
corruption is a negative expression of the newfound affluence. µ 738)
The greatest
potential for man is his soul, his greatest obstacle his ego. Progress is to
transform the ego into the psychic. & 739)
Smallness
distinguishes itself by its utter oblivion of the great opportunities waiting
later and total interest in the petty present. µ 740)
Faith is a ray
from the Supreme which gives the receiver the power of Supermind. -- Sri Aurobindo & 741)
One who fully
understands His Trilogy -- for the complete mental understanding of it, not
the practice of it too -- is sure to be rewarded with multiple genius. p 742)
The process of
involution is by extending the being to consciousness, splitting it into two,
losing the higher in the lower till the consciousness and being disappear.
Evolution is to trace the path back by becoming energy, energy finding its
hidden knowledge which, becoming first conscious, ultimately discovers its
being before disappearing into its original Unmanifest eternal state.& 743)
Protection can
be invoked, can be prayed for, but the best of protections is to be in Her,
letting Her do as She pleases. Identification is the highest
protection. 744)
Conscious
concentration leads to consecration. Unconscious concentration fortifies the
ego. Doing what we don't like is conscious concentration
in the physical substance. Orthodoxy gives the capacity to do what one does not
like by authority. & 745)
In an
organisation, central authority is more widespread and the impersonal
authority of rules and custom is minimal. In a family it is the reverse. µ 746)
One is lucky if
aspiration arises at the end of a life long effort, as aspiration is the
first faculty of spirituality. & 747)
This is a
creative moment. The right choice will open into a world of wonders. It must
be preceded by commensurate energy which is equivalent to all the energies we
can withdraw from our occupation and preoccupation.
p 748)
Conventions
compel man to be civilised. Social manners are forged as instruments for that
purpose. µ 749)
Enthusiastic
work gives expected results. Efficiency is to do the work seriously even when
you are not interested. Presently this is done by authority. This is physical
efficiency. Mental efficiency is to transfer that outer authority to the
inner understanding. Information, opinion, knowledge can do it. µ 750)
In a fast
changing society its established part is always left behind. That member of
the establishment who comes forward to absorb as much of the new changes as
he can will be the leader of the moment. µ |
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