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DAILY MESSAGES Series VI 151) There
is no evil or suffering in the world to be abolished. Man needs to shift from
the surface to the subliminal depth to enjoy the delight without distortion. & 152) Man
is in life; the saint is in God; the sadhak should live in God in life. One
moves from mind to Purusha to psychic in the above process. 5 153) Sri
Aurobindo says that the contents of an immortal work are not lost in
translation even as the soul preserves itself in a new birth in another body.
& 154) The
difference between the yogic attainments of the past yogas and Integral Yoga is
the same difference between the power of a person over the population while
he is in a government post and when he is out of it. J 155) Arrogance
is stupid, but stupidity itself is the arrogance of matter. J 156) Man
loves or punishes. God loves and punishes. He can punish lovingly; His love
can be punishment. Wisdom is compassionate
discipline. & 157) Replacing
lower qualities by higher qualities is to become civilised. In fact, man
rising from below changes his situation from being a victim to being a
perpetrator. That is the first step he takes. Man, trying to civilise himself by
replacing hatred with love, starts hating those who hated him. The victim choosing to victimise
others is the first step in his moving to the higher order of behaviour. J 158) All
great negotiations are in silence. J 159) The
difference between ego and mind is that mind thinks to understand, but ego
thinks by coordinating understandings so that it may defend itself and
preserve its entity. & 160) The
scientist who knows the immense value of his microscope and telescope is
unable to conceive of the greater value of insight and intuition that reveal
the inner kingdoms where you can see what those instruments reveal outside. 5 161) Thought
denied becomes energy; energy denied expression becomes an act; the act when
not allowed turns into the silence of status, thereby creating greater
thought and energy for action at higher levels. 5 162) Man
moves to a revolutionary system only through the values of his present
system. Followers of an idealist
follow him only for his present social value. J 163) If
the feelings receive the incoming message, the message will turn out to be
true. J 164) When
a problem is unmoved by prayer, the person is not all right. To pass without
reading, to earn without going to work, to luxuriously spend borrowed money,
to dominate people with Mother’s Force may be his ideals. “I don’t do my
work. Rather I am against everything good. But Mother should complete my
prayers” will be his basis, rather his ideal. His prayers will not be
answered. This is not known as prayer. These people deserve punishment. Life
will punish them. They sometimes stubbornly continue such prayers. Then Grace
will wipe them off. 5 165) The
selfish man who never conceived of doing anything to anyone, thinks all that
people around are getting is because of him. This is so because he conceives
of himself as the whole world.J 166) The
secret of Mother seeking us is man is becoming God. & 167) This
is a world where there is no effort to raise man to God. This Force tries to
raise subman to Godhead. 5 168) One
who realises Brahman by knowledge is known as Brahma Rishi. Knowledge is the
seat for it. Knowledge sees only a part of Brahman. Man can know the whole of
Brahman only through the Brahman inside him. For the Brahman in man to
emerge, it should begin in the psychic and reach the Supermind. & 169) The
chaste wife submits to her husband. The sadhak submits her mind, feelings and
God to Mother. One is the rule of life. Next is the freedom of yoga. Chastity
is the austerity of life. Yoga is the austerity of Freedom in God. 5 170) Mind
accomplishes by interest. Detached, it accomplishes more. Taking to work in
that detached mood, man accomplishes like God. J 171) One
can trust a good man. A good man taking to Mother needs no prayer. 5 172) We
call one of pleasant behaviour a good man. J 173) Prayer
welling up from the heart not occasioned by a problem, is bhakti. 5 174) Man
deserts, not God. Relying on the God in man, neither God nor man will ever
desert you. 5 175) “From
the moment Krishna entered my bosom, my thoughts that reached him never
returned,” says the poet. If one can say this of Mother, he becomes a
devotee. J 176) The
weight on the head presses down on the head. Worry depresses the vital. Life
and body are the weights on the mind. None of them weigh down the soul. When the mind accepts Mother, we shift from
mind to the soul, and the weight lifts off our parts. We float in the air. 5 177) To
see the finite mind as the infinite Brahman is given to the Supermind. Mind says, ‘This is my pen.’
Brahman created the pen. Supermind makes the man write with it. The
Upanishads say, “The Brahman of the pen makes the Brahman of the man do the
Brahman of writing.” 5 178) If
we do a work as punishment, the body will not receive Mother’s energy. To
simply accept the work as an inevitable duty will not create any feeling. If
we do it without understanding, even the mind will not receive the Force. 5 179) May
my material values be transformed into spiritual values.5 180) To
know injustice as God’s justice is knowledge. To accept that is patience. He
who patiently accepts that knowledge and adores it in practice gets a luck
that lies beyond ordinary justice. J 181) To
enjoy work for its own sake, one should see the work as a compliment of one’s
own personality. Then as the personality is infinite, work opens itself to
infinite dimensions and yields God’s delight which can rarely be given by the
result, however great it is. The delight seeking work is greater
than result-oriented work. To work for a result ends in victory or failure.
When work itself is the reward, the duality disappears. J 182) Love
or affection brings others’ luck to us. Hatred gives our luck to others. J 183) Insistence
is outside the pale of spirituality. Truth turns into falsehood by
insistence. 5 184) Subjective: Sat – Chit – Ananda Objective: Satyam
– Jnanam – Anantam & 185) True
emotion of love cannot confine itself within the boundaries of manners. It is
predatory. To be proud of such exploitation is to receive that love properly.
J 186) When
the perfected part tries to take a view of the whole, it would be a perfect
view of the whole. By aspiring for
perfection in the part, one attains the perfection of the Whole. 5 187) It
is a misfortune not to come closer to Mother when our prayer is answered. She
answers our prayer so as to open a door between the human being and the
Divine. J 188) Neither
in frustration nor in jubilation can we remember Her. It is growing faith and
aspiration that keeps Her memory. It is not given to all people to remember
Mother. Certainly, remembering Her all the time is not for one and all. 5 189) Life
longs for the destruction of the enemy. Mother’s life longs for the progress
of even the enemy. That enemy whose attitude is that
of life meets with a more complete destruction. Destruction is also a part of a
wider creation. He who destroys himself thus, moves to that plane. 5 190) When
we see the opposite tendency as the effort of Nature to accomplish the double
opening of the new evolution, we embark on transforming wrong, evil,
falsehood and error, thus moving from sensitive sentimentalism to being a
neutral instrument of psychological transformation. Sacred human sensitivities are
swept away by the whirlwind of God’s social transformation. J 191) We
are angry with bad people. The truth is, we will be more angry with good
people. We believe that good people are creating greater mischief. J 192) If
we can accept the ununderstandable as God’s will, we have a heart that Mother
loves. To see justice behind what we
dislike is possible for the psychic. The body that accepts an impossible work deserves supramental
conscious- ness.
5 193) If
everyone’s wants are satisfied at home, poverty will be abolished. When we
have enough energy to remember Mother all day, the soul loses its karma. 5 194) It
is courageous to own one’s shortcomings. To accept the presence of jealousy
is magnanimous. To convert jealousy into magnanimity is transformation. J 195) We
see the omen and know the end. A devotee sees the omen and changes it as it
should be. 5 196) Consecration
being an inner process cannot be begun outside in everyday acts. The outer
end is the point where the inner consecration ends. 5 197) It
is mean to point out one defect overlooking nine endowments. To appreciate
one strength overlooking nine defects is magnanimity. J 198) The
body that is free of falsehood will be fragrant.5 199) When
life deserts someone, all intimate persons too desert. Grace acts through a
person of good will and saves his life. Man is not grateful to him or does
not give him the news of his having been saved. Instead, his longing is to
convey his success to that intimate person who had deserted him. Such men are
selfish and treacherous. When Grace alone saves, man seeks
support from selfish treachery that has deserted him. Our gratitude is due to
Grace that saved us, not to betrayal that has deserted us. Man loves the one who betrayed, not
the Grace that saved.5 200) In
each man there is the ideal and pride of doing what in the previous era was
wrong, sinful and shameful. This is the reversal social phases undergo. Unless and until we are able to conceive,
perceive and sense the joy and beauty of what we now know to be sinful and a
shame, we have not reversed our consciousness to fully appreciate Mother.5 |
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