DAILY MESSAGES Series VI 501) Thoughts are generated in the world
even as products are created by the market. We choose some of them and
accept. We call them our own thoughts. As we produce some products for the
market, we also create some thoughts for the world. There we are original
thinkers. J 502) India’s Freedom was won in the subtle
plane in 1910. Had she taken to armed revolution, she would have freed
herself before the first World War. Sri Aurobindo says HE knew the
truth behind ahimsa, but He did not want to spell it out. India becoming free
before 1914, based on the truth of violent revolution, would have prevented
the two world wars. India was steeped in darkness and needed to exalt her
darkness by spirituality and ahimsa. Hence the world passed through two wars
before India became free. That way, Nature permitted falsehood to have her
sway. Now, it expresses in corruption. Should Indian spirituality rise in its
truth, corruption will vanish all over the world. Just now India enjoys
her puny prosperity as corruption. It is the physical dissipation of
spiritual grace. J 503) Human life does not permit ready
fulfilment of all its desires. Assuming it does, it is obvious it will soon
come to an end. So, the mechanism of absence of fulfilment of desires
provides for the prolongation of life. Is there a higher balance where life
is endlessly prolonged at will while the aspirations are fulfilled
unfailingly? The longer he seeks for a life of successfully fulfilled
aspiration, the higher his aims should rise. Desire and ego should give place
to aspiration and the psychic. Desire moves towards its defeat. Ego struggles
towards its dissolution. Only the evolving psychic enables the body to be
transformed so that life never comes to be terminated and aspirations never
meet with failure. Immortality is a life of
harmonious enjoyment. 5 504) Several KEYS: 1) The key to the physical
leads to the birth of the Supramental being. 2) The key to the vital gives
a life of LUCK either to the individual or to the collective, stopping
short of the physical immortality of supramentalisation. 3) The KEY to the mind
opens the knowledge of the practical concept of infinity that can become the
power of vital life without shutting the door on the physical. 5 505) For the thinking mind, the joy of
existence is the discovery and the penetration of the mystery of creation
that comes with knowledge. 5 506) God enjoys Self-discovery. Man
enjoys repetition, energy, understanding. As long as he enjoys any of them,
he cannot move further. When he stops understanding, step by step he moves to
the supramental intuition. At this point God’s joy is in determination.
Beyond lies the joy of consciousness and being. The joy of self-discovery
is for the Being when it gives up the joy of being. & 507) Self-discovery for Man at any
given moment is to discover what he really enjoys whether it is repetition or
understanding. To know that one does not want to know appears to be the
self-discovery that awaits MAN. & 508) Man
loves the very opposite of what he seeks. His goal lies in neither what he
seeks or its opposites, but in their becoming complements. By seeking it in
either, he is human. By seeking it in both, he rises to the godhead. & 509) Judge
another at his best. Give another man your very best. Trying to give anything
less will drain you and take you to his level. Often such a giving will not
reach the person. If it does, it will be used to destroy you. J 510) Only when the field is full of
crops do we need a fence. The fence is the crop protecting itself. So also
evil is the good that circles its own perfection. Good needs protection only
when it is rich. The fence is not frowned upon by
the crop as it protects it. Even so, evil is the fence that circles the good
for its own protection.& 511) That patience which issues from the
knowledge that evil is after all good, is lasting patience. 5 512) The key to the vital is to know life
at its most sensitive, live front and have a mastery over it in one’s own
affairs. 5 513) The key to the mind: Silence and a thought capacity to know ALL
the answers to the issues presented to it with respect to one’s own
mental life. 5 514) Problems arising out of physical
inability give pain to the body. Mental agony arises when one refuses to do
physically what he can out of a value. Confusion is mental inability. J 515) The idea that one knows more than
others is not so much an egoistic idea as one arising out of the ignorance of
what others know. J 516) The mind’s faith in the medicine
makes the medicine effective. Its faith in the doctor often saves the life.
It is the faith of the soul that makes one immortal. & 517) Surrender waits till thoughts
cease. & 518) The beginning of yoga starts with
surrender which is offered by the awakened soul to the inner Divine. It is
preceded by other steps as follows: v consecration v all-inclusive
concentration v a formidable will
that seeks consecration. v sincere
aspiration of the inner Divine for the ALL. v a call of the
Transcendent to the Individual. All those who have come to Mother
have that call one way or another is some measure. & 519) Yogic energies for life have to fill
the entire plane of life, not only the point that receives, even as the water
that enters the reservoir cannot raise the water level at the point of entry
until it raises the level of the whole. Maybe
when the recipient is selfish and resists self-giving, he may rise faster. At
least the energies of Integral Yoga are not available in great measure for
selfish benefits. 5 520) Before you think and formulate the
thought, the impulse of the vital makes several moves. Life outside also
moves many times. Here we see the speed of life far greater than the mind’s
thinking.5 521) When you call Mother, the ego
recedes. Ego is the obstacle; it operates in the planes of mind; Nature
includes both. Only when all give way will Mother remain there forever. 5 522) Information is knowledge. Knowledge
is power. Power confers rights. Rights are self-existent. Rights are not to be granted. Rights are taken
and exercised. Information is the first link of the chain
whose last link is self-existent right that leads to endless prosperity. Life is infinite. It is for man to choose. Life cannot compel man’s choice. Man’s choice
can compel life to submit. Finite man can choose to be infinite in
resources. It is the choice that makes the
man. 5 523) It is a subtle axiom that there are
no coincidences in life. As no disease rises in the body by chance, no event
occurs in life by chance. J 524) As consecration and surrender are
whole acts that embrace all the six aspects of life – unity, knowledge, will,
love, Truth and Goodness – they cannot be made by partial personalities on
the surface. Conditions for becoming complete personalities are many, such as
never giving out information, not expecting, patient reticence, quiet
efficiency, non-initiative, equality, etc. 5 525) It is the restlessness of the
physical being that expresses itself in all planes as haste, hurry,
impatience, tension, irritability and expectation. 5 526) Our fullest education issues out of
the context of the greatest enjoyment. 5 527) A disease is the result of
deterioration of general health expressing in one part or organ. Cure is to
handle the part or the pathological expression of the part to set the
conditions right in the whole. J 528) The key: either one stumbles on it unconsciously or
he rises to the next higher plane in thought and theorises the process to
secure the key. Otherwise the key lies only with those who have accomplished
for whatever reason. J 529) In all ages, the most productive
section is the vanguard. The proletariat was revolutionary in an industrial
society. Now it is the underprivileged population. Hence the rising expectation
is the vanguard, not the proletariat any more. J 530) When “Let Thy Will be done” is
repeated, it leaves a residue of our will always. When the residue
disappears, man crosses the mental barrier. 5 531) The Power, the Happiness, the
Light, the knowledge, the Bliss, the Love, the Peace that flow from the
Divine Grace are denied to rulers, to earthly success, philosophy,
satisfaction of desire, human relationships and death. & 532) To separative existence, all those
who are not friends are foes. J 533) A truant member of an organisation
not in tune with it can be spoken to by a wise man who appeals to his
enlightened self-interest and restores his harmony with the whole. When this
truant member comes in contact with the founder of the organisation, his
truancy disappears and harmony is restored by itself. Mind acts like the wise
man, Supermind acts like the founder. J 534) Until one starts transformation,
he is only a devotee who is silently waiting in Her atmosphere. One does not
come into touch with Her Force until he starts transformation. It is Mother’s Force always,
whether it is involution or evolution. It is transformation that changes life
force into Mother’s Supramental Force. Mother comes to you in
transformation. Until then, you seek Her. & 535) For a plane to give up a vibration,
its impulses must give it up. 5 536) When reason is partial, it tends to
emphasize itself exclusively with the result that life forces it to do the
very opposite. 5 537) The uncivilised man avoids education
and frowns on it, as he values the freedom from it. He seeks to know by
experience what education gives. He who thinks to know what can be learned by
silence is the uncivilised one in spirituality. 5 538) Logic is the mental perception of the
laws of material existence.J 539) Neither Being nor the Becoming can
feel the joy of self-discovery. It is only the Being of the Becoming that
constantly feels that Joy. & 540) Outrage issues out of not only gross
injustice, but also by the fact that one is cornered. In fact, in the latter
occasion, the intensity of outrage is more acute. J 541) Gross thought is what we initiate;
the subtle thought occurs by itself. 5 542) It is ordinary activities that often
initiate great inspirations. J 543) One wise man entering an organisation
of innumerable factions, can disillusion the smallest victim and proceed to
do so with each higher level, until he can expose the very ideal of the
organisation. Factotums, intriguers, pillars of the
organisation, stalwarts will all, one by one, give way to the incoming
wisdom. Not only intrigues will fall, but practical idealism as well as idealism
will meet with a downfall, never to rise again. J 544) Death is the only punishment for
uncivilised public behaviour in an uncivilised nation ruled by a dictator.
Uncivilised activities rear their heads only in a civilised nation ruled by
law. The fact that uncivilised behaviour exists in
public or private shows the nation is civilised and is ruled by law and not
brute force. J 545) We now understand that modern medical
technology, if available in earlier times, could have saved countless
millions. Similarly, there is a comprehensive diagnosis which may yet be
developed, which, if resorted to now, could save many more lives. The fact
is, no one need die of a disease, if only the diagnosis and treatment are
based on the understanding of the whole person. J 546) He who cannot preserve what he has
cannot go ahead. He who cannot risk what he has cannot go ahead.
One is for the below average and the other for
the above average.J 547) Love cannot be received by those who
measure it in terms of its material benefits.
A thing is of value not for its own sake; but for the use value of the
receiver. J 548) In asking for opening, SHE really
asks for the double opening which opens the inner mind below and the
spiritualised mind above. & 549) Physical affection is incapable of
mental rationality. It is a rare adventure to raise physical affection to
mental sentiment. It resists such conversion. Physical affection through
physical psychic can become Love. It is achieved by surrender. Frustrated
affection turns into hatred. Hatred is the ego of physical affection. J 550) The ideal is to be honoured, not
lived for those who come from a family of no tradition or culture, struggling
for survival. In their more meaningful acts, they will be mercenary. If the
foundations shake, the personality easily becomes one of a ‘cad’. When youthful idealism dies and man sees
his survival is often shaky, he begins to degenerate into a cad. Not many are endowed with manhood. In the face
of questionable survival, manhood does not serve. J |
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