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DAILY MESSAGE Series V 951)
He who aspires
to see the marvel of the wonderful world of delight, must first be able to
thrill at every sight around him.& 952)
Gratitude is
the first step in the sequence of which the marvel is the last. & 953)
For the
selfless man, the selfish man is an abhorrence. Selflessness is incomplete
without selfishness. For God's vision, Selflessness includes selfishness as
it is necessary for the totality at the mental stage. & 954)
Cherishing the
past is like reading the text books of grammar school now. µ 955)
Consecration is
to act on the Many through the One. Thus, the one in the Many reconciles
itself with the One. Surrender enables the Being in the Becoming to emerge. & 956)
Mother is the
One in the Many; the Many in the One. & 957)
The Many and
the One are reconciled in The Mother. & 958)
Bitterness in a
sweet relationship only enhances the sweetness according to the law that any
intensity in a plane only goes to increase the central characteristic of that
plane. µ 959)
In this selfish
society only selfish strength can survive. Selflessness is an illusion here.
Idealism, rationalism, public service and goodness, etc. can survive only
under the umbrella of selfish authority. µ 960)
To pursue
ideals of kind without providing protection for them earlier will not achieve
the ideal but will certainly gain the knowledge that it is impossible. µ 961)
Love does turn
into hate when the situations change, but only within ego and not outside.& 962)
During periods
of transition, man vigourously espouses future ideals while equally
vigorously protecting the status quo which is their very antithesis. p 963)
The present is
a period when low social values are fast losing their foundations. Even the
lip service to future values has vanished giving place to every practice that
comes by money. µ 964)
No individual,
no institution, not even a movement can protect the vanishing values. Only
the Force can establish them first destroying the present society. p 965)
The individual
is in no position even to think out an answer except to put himself in the
hands of the descending Force. So vast is the descending Force, so formidable
is the existing establishment that not only his own entire setup but his own
entire subconscious is pervaded by the very opposite of what he is striving
to establish. p 966)
Experience
gives the confidence to do a thing by oneself. Inspiration enables one to
solve another's problem personally. Mastery is to generalise the personal
inspiration with the expertise of experience. To evolve a universal strategy, one who is inspired
should have the expertise of field experience. In other words, MASTERY issues out of intuition gaining the faculty to
present itself in an ordered knowledge rationality requires. µ 967)
Faith is will
relying on knowledge. p 968)
Sensitivity is
enlarged capacity of sense without its acquiring a higher understanding. µ 969)
Enjoyment as it
increases in intensity and is near crossing the plane becomes pain or
torture. So, we can say the greatest enjoyment is the most intense torture
justifying the saying 'Torture is enjoyment in the reverse.' Even that
torture is only for the surface. Even there, for the inner being, it is
adventure.& 970)
The soul's
experience is the process of Self-discovery. & 971)
Form is the
knowledge of force that is Ignorant. Force is the power of Form.& 972)
Family, education,
market, army, government are cultural, educational, commercial, military,
administrative institutions of the society whose services are incomparable.
Guru is a spiritual institution who brings to the disciple the entire
spiritual tradition. All these institutions are in the gross social plane
whereas the guru is in the subtle plane. Mother is such an institution in the causal, subtle
planes brought to us in the gross plane by her avatarhood. Calling HER non-stop is
the ultimate LUCK in yoga. p 973)
The most
beautiful artistic moment of human intimacy when subjected to social morality
becomes a hideous wrong. A vision of consciousness finds in the ugly and the
hideous Love as well as Beauty. p 974)
What we call
Individual is a person who can release himself from one and reach another
end. The centre of individualisation is what we term Individual, which is
really the Eternal. & 975)
A few may
concede a conscious Society. Will anyone conceive of a conscious Nature? HE says Nature is a conscious Being.& 976)
Surrender of
thought is silence, that of mind is nirvana. He needs the surrender of being
and its powers. Surrender of dharmas that the Gita asks for leads to moksha.
Surrender of being dissolves the ego. & 977)
It is not
concentration on the thought or on the mind or being that helps. It is the
concentration away from them and on the Divine that helps. & 978)
Man's one
instrument is ego. His egolessness begins as altruism. Even his surrender is
an effort of ego. How can man use an instrument he does not have? He has to
detach himself from his ego. What does that mean? He has to shift himself to
the psychic. WHO? The mental person, a product of nature, should
become the psychic person or soul-person. The starting point thus is the
psychic part of the mental person, represented by equality which transcends
Sattwa guna. p 979)
Logical
intelligence bases itself on facts presented. Supermind develops intuitive
intelligence that bases itself on the undisclosed intention behind the
presented facts. & 980)
On the surface
we relate to another's words. Words do not reflect his mental consciousness
fully. The supramental thought belongs to the substance of the being of the
speaker and is able to reach the thought of the substance of the listener’s
being. & 981)
Poison, snake: The
distance between two structures makes them inimical even as a slow moving
vehicle is dangerous to a fast moving one. Each in its place is a beauty of
its level and has its own perfection. Hence the beauty of the cobra. 982)
Silence: Oral -- absence of speech 983)
All the
difficulties in sadhana arise from the fact that we are on the human side.
First change to the Divine side at the point where we are, and then the
sunlit path begins. That change is called transformation, reversal of
consciousness or surrender.& 984)
Man's physical
experience leads to mental education. It is possible for mental men to have mental
experience, thus quickening the pace of learning. The tapasvi further hastens
it by having inner spiritual experiences which dispense with outer physical
or vital or even mental experience. Pseudo idealists try to reverse the
process and offer them mental rationality, bypassing physical experience. The
process prevails and the idealist gets what he misses -- inner first, outer
next for him; outer first, inner next for others.& 985)
The idealism
that tries to do more than nature or tapas learns what it tries to overlook. µ 986)
Spiritual
experience does not make one perfect. It gives an endowment in the area of
the experience. Perfection lies not in the human spirit that is partial. It
is there in the Spirit that can be found in the Supermind. Sri Aurobindo
talks of Perfect Perfection which cannot exist in the spirit mind knows.& 987)
Perfection
presupposes all-inclusive concentration and wide massive opening that lead us
to the discovery of the Universal and the Transcendental inside us. That
Perfection is neither in the outside nor inside, but begins inside and covers
the outside. & 988)
It is THAT inside which includes the outside. & 989)
Trikala
drishti is its endowment, not a
mind constructed inference. & 990)
Crises in life
are attempts to destroy social or psychological forms. & 991)
Man is trying
to create more perfect forms. Life takes the opportunity to destroy the
present form. Only those who are stronger than life can create greater or
higher forms. p 992)
The sincerity
of a person when a new ideal is presented is seen in his capacity to
appreciate its highest new value. Insincerity often resorts to meanness to
refute particularly its forte. µ 993)
The best of
intentions of ego is still egoistic intentions and therefore will not serve
the divine purpose. p 994)
Boredom is on
the surface, not in the depths. & 995)
All the high
values of this society -- honesty, integrity, nobility, etc. -- are values
developed by this society for its own preservation. The values themselves are
high, but their seed is the falsehood of this society like the honesty of
thieves. They have to be given up as the values of this society and regained
as higher values. He who hesitates will perish. Sri Krishna did not hesitate.
p 996)
In practice, it
can be done by allowing the values to preserve themselves by their gathering
around you. Your advancing to them with a sense of nostalgia signals the
doom. p 997)
The question is
not to preserve the values, but to preserve the consciousness. & 998)
Calling Mother
when life is threatened or a sensitivity rises in revolt is still prayer for
a result. Calling Her so that the most ordinary activities can be handed over
to Her in surrender and to feel a JOY in it is the
beginning of consecration. Surrender is difficult, He says. That call to Her which feels the Joy in calling and
that surrender which expands the being in Joy is the surrender acceptable to
Her. He says only that surrender done face to face with the Divine is
acceptable, not any other. & 999)
Social manners
are those that respect society. Good manners are those that satisfy good
conscience. What are God-manners? To receive Him and distribute Him to other souls, is
God-manners. We receive Him as Grace, give Him as Love. & 1000)
The greatest
practical knowledge man needs is,
i.
distinction
between good and bad;
ii.
discrimination between friend and enemy;
iii. the difference between black and white, i.e.
socially black and socially white. p |
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