DAILY MESSAGE Series V 901)
Human life we
are most occupied with and concerned about is a life of repetition by the
physical consciousness that needs to be expunged from our central existence. p 902)
Life is of
millions of threads hanging vertically and rotating at both ends in opposite
directions. The centre tightens into a knot which is human suffering. A
reversal of directions at both ends will dissolve that artificial suffering;
even at one end will suffice. p 903)
Sheepishness is
the brilliance of the maturing physicality that is crossing the border into
vitality. p 904)
Those values
that survive adversity are real values. & 905)
Integral
knowledge is that which can understand any aspect of life from every other
aspect or in terms of every other aspect.& 906)
Sri Aurobindo
speaks about a yogi who lived in this region and taught that the body will
disappear into light. It is a reference to Ramalinga Swamigal. µ 907)
All
administered progress is occult to the receiver. All progress from below
without help from above is occult too to him. As long as man is in mind, any
progress will be occult to him. µ 908)
Every time we
complain that the Force has not worked is the invariable occasion when we
fail to call Mother and dwell on the problem. Surely if you don't call, the
Force fails. & 909)
Don't
concentrate on the problem, call MOTHER. 910)
An
inexperienced man can become a chief minister, not a chief secretary. Even if
he could, he could not function there. Moksha transfers the individual soul to the
Superconscience where it cannot function. For it to function, it must evolve
into Superconscience. & 911)
Japa of the
mind is incapable of moving the body. But when you reach the body, japa of
the body-mind is necessary to move the body. Japa moves what cannot be easily moved. It moves
things in its own plane, not in a deeper plane. & 912)
Integral Yoga
cannot be done by the help of a personal guru. Master and Mother are there in
the atmosphere to answer our prayers; they are inside us to guide our yoga.
Only those who know of The Mother can avail of the atmosphere. Only those who
are adults in yogic experience can avail of the inner Guru. & 913)
The human guru
is of no avail in this yoga. Only those who have a formed yogic personality
can reach the inner guru. & 914)
To receive Her
Force constantly, one should be creative all the time. In most men a single
creative moment does not appear in a whole life time. Therefore man stands at
a distance and worships Mother. p 915)
As long as hate
is there in any form or in any measure, Love has no chance to be born in that
heart. & 916)
Pursuing a
smaller possibility either leads to a small result or makes the greater
possibility infructuous. Mature men wait for the ripening of the greatest of
possibilities. & 917)
The King gave
the physical security of law and order. Democracy has extended the rule of
law so much that the individual can exercise his individuality. Sri Aurobindo
requires the security from hostile forces for Truth to be followed by the
individual. It is the security at the physical, social, subtle
levels that ensures the progress of man. & 918)
The ultimate
weapons of ego are selfishness, desire and pride. The weaker expressions of
them are insecurity, greed and vanity. The ego is not constituted to be
ashamed of them at any time. The person who is not the ego has to wean
himself away from these, which is an endless task. Instead, if the person
takes refuge in Mother, he automatically weans himself away from all these
petty versions of the shell of ego. & 919)
Raw desire is
callous, shameless, self-forgetful and is only focussed on its own
gratification. Money, power and woman bring it powerfully to the surface. p 920)
Money culture
keeps all the raw desires on the surface forever, for money is the symbol of
the surface remaining raw. µ 921)
Sense of
boredom belongs to the surface mind. It is not there in the subliminal. & 922)
When Grace
acts, man does not change, but the atmosphere changes in his favour. The work
is accomplished for him. When he changes work is accomplished for God. p 923)
The desire to
please another in a weak man is an expression of his own inability to please
himself by accomplishment. µ 924)
Altruism is
defenseless against the greed and strength of the beneficiary whose greater
capacity is to destroy the benefactor. µ 925)
Sri Aurobindo
says that if people knew what kind of person he was, they would wonder about
his later life. We believe that as an avatar He achieved that much. The Truth
is anyone who has the mind to choose Grace at every step can achieve like Him
hereafter. That is His boon to us. Physical plane rewards
effort. 926)
One can learn
from a genius a lot. But there is no strategy to acquire his genius. Sri
Aurobindo attained Supermind by surrender and has given that strategy to the
world. It is a strategy by which one can get from Sri Aurobindo all the
spiritual wealth he has. & 927)
Our totality
extends to two extremities. To know that extreme limit, especially the lower
limit and its hideousness is to take a step towards realising the totality. Totality is not for one who is unwilling to open his
lower limits.& 928)
Cronies seek
closeness with the leader. Servants seek approval of the boss. It is not
through service that they seek it or through any means that are right. The
friendliness of the master is taken for approval which they have sought for
long. So, friendliness of the master instantaneously leads to slackness in
the servants. Closeness to cronies means levelling off and resting on the
oars. Cronies and servants are of the social plane. They are not idealists wedded
to a cause for them to use the closeness to serve the ideal better. µ 929)
Emotional
cooperation needs emotional understanding. As man is unable to fully
appreciate his own emotions, it is difficult for the man or the wife to know
the other's emotions. Still, it is possible and desirable if the
constitutional ignorance breaks down. To a great extent it can be thinned by
perfection at the physical level. p 930)
It is the
mentality that is lost in externals. a. --- Sri Aurobindo
& As mind is an instrument of ignorance, using the
externalised thought as its instrument, it can only dwell in the externals. 931)
The ability to
disengage the mind from a work before it is over, enables man to develop
multiple faculties. It is one of the symptoms of genius. Yoga gives that
ability to the sadhak. In that sense yoga takes one past the genius. p 932)
To give another
his desert is noble, but a human law. To give another what he does not
deserve is the way of grace. Mother offers the inconceivable when man
receives it or obliviously misses it. God's denying one's desert is greater
than grace, maybe super grace. & 933)
It is the
founder of an institution who can see its growth, not the members who are
expressions of that growth. Man being man cannot see the lila now until he reaches
the Absolute through the Supreme and the Psychic. & 934)
Body is the
Being. Realising its divinity is to realise the Self-Conscious Being. & 935)
A brave man is
proud of bravery but a criminal hides his crime. A criminal who is publicly
proud of his crime or a public woman who is expansive about her profession
truly represents that vibration. Whether they represent the universal type or
not, they are of that universal vibration. p 936)
When the Being
of the Becoming reaches the Supreme and the Absolute, God is able to see how HE enjoys His lila. Going further and acquiring the nature of the
Eternal and the Infinite, HE becomes His Lila which is Immortality. & 937)
Love, courage
and every other ideal are their own reward. This is what the world knows.
What we do not know is laziness, stealing, crime, cheating and every other
crime too are their own reward. Sin or virtue is followed for its own sake, as each
is infinite in its own constitution. The human spirit is in pursuit of the
infinite in life as in its origin it is infinite. It is fully satisfied as
long as what it follows is infinite and does not care whether it is good or
bad, sin or virtue. & 938)
He who asks for
what is not his due pushes his way to secure his object. µ 939)
Stiffness is
the defensive poise of an incompetent uncultured mind. µ 940)
The levels of
creation and the relationship at each level: Being -- Unity 941)
The first
condition to solve a problem is to forget it, the second is to turn to
Mother. When one is happy to think of Mother, no problems can ever exist in
one's life. & 942)
The body can
forget the worst of sins it committed as well as the best of delights. p 943)
Limits are
there for the giver, the receiver, the atmosphere, the channel, etc. µ 944)
Yoga needs the
change in swarupa, life that is of swabhava. All other changes are brilliant
intellectual shadows that are ineffective in life or being. & 945)
Only that
change that instantaneously expresses in the next act is a true change.& 946)
As the
instructions in the chip can be altered, the genetic code can be changed by
the power of physically conscious knowledge.& 947)
When work needs
to move physical material things, a corresponding token work is necessary.
Change of our own attitude can help change another's attitude. General prayer
can move things unencumbered by attitudes or material things. Still, a prayer
welling up from the appropriate depth can move matter or attitude rarely. p 948)
Selfish
sensation, absence of values, insensitivity lead men to be low, disregarding
their duties. The selfless man, full of values, endowed with keen sensitivity
comes to a point where he disregards values and acts in favour of a principle
higher than human values. Human values are there to be disregarded either by
low selfishness or by higher principles. & 949)
Thought
understands the part, silence a bigger part, intuition the whole. The
Supramental silence understands an object as its own part inside while
intuition seeks an external knowledge directly. & 950)
What is still
unpleasant to the consciousness is ananda to the vision of substance. & |
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