DAILY MESSAGES

Series I

 

551)     In the evolution of irresistibility to self-discipline and to equality, it moves, as in other cases, from physical irresistibility to vital and mental irresistibility. Sometimes the physical irresistibility comes through the initiative from outside. If that is so, in the later phases too the vital and mental irresistibility will have the same character of coming from an external initiative. Having lost your own initiative is good; but, for perfection, it is also necessary not to respond to an external initiative.

 

552)     The moment you understand that what happened just now, irrespective of its character, is Grace, you shift from mind to the psychic. Anger shifts you from mind to the vital and that is why to counteract anger you are asked to think.

            Accept the IDEA that the other man is made of the same SELF you are made of, you will find yourself shifting to the Supramental Consciousness.

 

553)     When individual human love changes into the divine love, it finds the secret mystery of the form of Infinite sending forth its call as the divine Flute Player.

 

554)     Education determines the social status. During the process of education,  the million attractions of that stage are compelling. Success in education is only to those who keep away from those attractions with discipline. Once the education is over, the boy rises to a higher status in life and will be unable to mix with those drop-outs freely because of their inferior culture and status.

            The social stratum with which it is not possible for him to mix  after the completion of education offers irresistible attractions by the hundreds during the process of education. The same is true for the devotee.

 

555)     It is true that all prayers are answered, no disease attacks, no problem is insoluble for the devotee. For him who takes to yoga, any prayer may remain unanswered, any disease may occur, even the smallest problem may defy solution.

 

556)     Sincerity can be explained as capacity to recognise one's rasi (native trait) and willingness to reverse it. Another way is the urge to utilise his capabilities and capacities to the maximum. It is also the ability to resist the irresistible. To be able to see the extreme contradictions in his life and endeavour to reconcile them is also sincerity.

 

557)     Nothing in this world can be accomplished that does not minister to man's self-interest, ego and selfishness. Nothing can be so accomplished for the Divine. No work for the Divine can ever be done by ministering to anyone's ego or yours. It can be done only by the destruction of ego. The only ego you are at liberty to destroy is yours.

 

558)     Life response can be studied from every aspect of action and movement. Time required to complete an act, completion of sequence of events, completion of all acts required, energy, force, organisation, skill, result, the grades through which the act should pass, space needed, emotions to be fulfilled, nuances to be present, requirements of the atmosphere, comprehension that is to be present and whether the act meets the requirements of its age (the longer the act is in gestation, the fuller it must meet the requirements of that space of time).

 

559)     Growth in man is pronounced, evolution is subconscious in the species or race. Sri Aurobindo says that the Spirit is evolving in the subliminal. The Life spirit has evolved the Manomaya Purusha but that is not the end. He asks for the evolution of the Spirit in the individual. The spirit itself should be conscious of its evolution in Man, revealing itself in the psychic, and move towards the Ishwara.

 

560)     All intensities are short-lived.  War for a government, wedding for a family, thinking for the untrained mind, concentration for the novice, intense exhibition of loyalty for the unemotional are short-lived intensities.

            At the next level, it becomes the routine, recurrent necessity. Making the rare intensity the unremitting routine, one rises to the next level.

 

561)     Survival, growth, (development), evolution:

            Survival demands all the skills required by the plane of existence at the minimum fullness, whereas development demands them at their maximum saturation. Growth is a stage in between. Development raises the individual through the different stages within the plane.

            Increasing skill and capacities through wider experience results in development, whereas evolution proceeds on the increasing intensity of essence of experience gathered in the deeper recesses of personality.

 

562)     Tale-bearing, which is a negative individual habit, is the positive state tool for successful espionage essential for the survival of the government.

 

563)     Irresistible interest is there in expressing skill which degenerates into dissipation which expresses energy. No interest will issue in acquiring the skill which is drudgery.

 

564)     It is the higher plane that evolves or gets the first touch of the pressure of evolution. For example, the mind can be interested in growth or development or evolution, not the vital or the physical. All social upward movements are mental. It is the mental interest that goads the physical to labour.

 

565)     The mind above energising the physical leads to the growth or development within the plane. The mind in the physical plane leads the evolution. The mind in the surface physical consciousness helps acquire the skill.

 

566)     The mind in the physical -- the 7th stage -- learns the subconscious skill while that mind obeying the Mind -- 3rd stage -- is the primary stage of the learning process.

            The 7th stage learns the skill.

            The 7th stage obeying unwillingly the 3rd stage is growth; it becomes development when the obedience is willing.

            Evolution is possible when the spirit behind the 9th stage rises to lead the being.

 

567)     The old Indian society in the 19th century supported the social forms of caste, hierarchy, etc. In post-independent India the old hierarchy and the form of caste have given way, thus breaking the social form. Mother in forming the Ashram has broken the conscious psychological forms of fear, inferiority, etc. Yoga can be undertaken when the subliminal, subconscious Forms are broken.

 

568)     Concentration for this yoga is the awakening of the unconscious Force to consciousness. Consecration is its journey towards the central vision.

 

569)     All-inclusive concentration is the Force all over the being waking up.

 

570)     Wide massive opening is the total willingness of the entire being to allow the awakened Force to travel and join the centre of consciousness, rather the Force awakening to the awareness that it is the consciousness.

 

571)     The successful effort to reach the psychic is also indicated by one having drawn all the essence of his experiences in the past years. Its measure is a measure of the psychic emerging.

 

572)     The insistence of the tenacious past can be graded into 9 parts of our being, the mental by the formation of a thought, the vital as the first presentation of the move as an impulse and the physical by its silent repetition without the sensation of an impulse or the accompaniment of an idea.

 

573)     At different ages men intensely enjoy different things. Play, food, relationship, property, power are some of these things. The bhakta enjoys adoring God similarly. At a time when the heart of the devotee turns away from these enjoyments to HIM in a similar adoration, the bhakta in him is born.

            When the most intense enjoyment issues from the adoration of God, devotion is born. It is the path from the human to the divine life.

 

574)     One indication of the death of ego is death becomes emotionally unreal.

 

575)     Sri Aurobindo speaks of God laughing at the soul's surprise at the disappearance of its woes on its forgetting. This can be used as a method to solve one's problems.

 

576)     Carried to its logical conclusion, this method can offer us the release of the soul from its bondage. Its counterpart in our yoga is to seek the soul's (psychic's) forgetting the ways of this life, not the life itself, which lands us in moksha.

 

577)     Help and service are social conceptions without having ultimate validity. One can serve another meaningfully only within the limits of its being serviceable to his own self, i.e. as part of his self-interest. There is no real 'service' beyond that.

 

578)     Service is there and it is not to another for the sake of the benefit of the second person.  Service, to be meaningful, must be impersonal, i.e. to the Divine in the other, not to the ego in the other.

 

579)     The Divine in us alone can serve and that service is to the Divine in the other. Human relationships exclude service and friendship outside the scheme of VALUES of the concerned human beings. Inside the scheme of values, friendship and service do exist as expressions of culture and do not contradict the above Law.

 

580)     That is why VALUES are the medium through which man becomes divine. The universe of MAN comes to him through his values and the values we speak of here are the spiritual-mental values while the physical, vital values enable man to survive, grow and evolve.

 

581)     Vital preference and opinion combine to create attitude. Thought, feeling and will together create motives according to the Gita.

 

582)     The spectrum of the prism, the sadness of the victim, the death sentence for the accused and the physical body are concrete realities to the observing child, the victims and the human mind. Inverting the prism, the spectrum vanishes, sadness turns into joy when the news that caused it is interpreted in the opposite way, the opinion of the judge renders death sentence powerless. Concrete realities like the physical body become a vibration of energy when man moves from thought to consciousness.

 

583)     The intellect can touch the Absolute, perhaps because it is made of the Absolute. Only that we must move in the intellect to its part or poise that relates to the Absolute.

 

584)     The higher the aspiration, the stronger will be the elements that are to be rejected. As long as the latter are less than the aspiration, things will move.

 

585)     Mother rewards the patience of man according to his swabhava, character. She does it in both the opposite ways, according to the emphasis he lays. When an impatient man lays emphasis on the result, the result is endlessly postponed.  It is not so much Mother as the Law -- when a miser lays emphasis on Mother during a bargain, SHE, through the refractory behaviour of the other man, gets the bargain settled in favour of the miser for half the price he was originally willing to pay out of his miserliness.

 

586)     Wisdom is to discover

                -- the truth in commonplace statements or proverbs

                -- emotionally what you know mentally

                -- fully what you know all along as valid truth

                -- the intense reality in individual life of what is a general cultural possession.

                -- the truth of every opposite to our daily beliefs

                -- the mental restraint against physical irresistibility

                -- the truth of impersonal statements personally

                -- the impersonal truth in personal experiences

                -- how the other man feels

                -- the justice in the injustice done to us

                -- the injustice of our just actions

                -- that conscience is the adversary

                -- knowledge in Ignorance

 

 

587)     Irresistible impulse turns into overpowering Force when transformed through consecration.

 

588)     Property, money, family, etc. give material, psychological security. The higher truth is they ensure material, psychological insecurity, rather they function like the security of the addict in the drug.

 

589)     To seek personal salvation is the last trace of spiritual egoism. To seek to serve another or the world is the last trace of mental ignorance, expressing the shades of egoism of the selfless soul.

 

590)     To discover the egoism of our egoless acts is to be really egoless.

 

591)     You become what you aspire for is a spiritual truth. Its extension can be whatever comes into your psychological environs indicates the maximum you can achieve by inner effort.

            Things enter into the physical, social, psychological and spiritual environs indicating several levels of possibility in your life. Required effort in the plane the thing enters will enable you to reach it or possess it -- physical effort in the physical plane, etc.

 

592)     Irresistibility is outside the pale of spiritual endeavour where all movements are brought under the control of spirit. The right transformation for irresistibility is irresistible aspiration of that plane. Only when it loses the character of irresistible force does it become conscious; till then it will be unconscious.

 

593)     The indication that you have the call, you are chosen, you are meant for yoga is your mind should turn to Him when you are not working, and even through the work the mind should outreach the work to think of HIM.

 

594)     Aspiration means irresistible reaching out of our parts to HIM, not thinking of HIM sometimes.

 

595)     Irresistible, overpowering aspiration of any part, opens that part to give us relief or release.

 

596)     Irresistibility of the whole Being in reaching him gives, not release,  but the maturity of the soul that ripens the Being.

 

597)     To be irresistible is to be unconscious. To be conscious means the Force that is irresistible should be under our conscious control.

 

598)     To desire, to reach out, to spite, to react, to respond are all human initiatives, not the Divine moving us to action. When the Divine moves us to action even that will be irresistible for our human parts.  There will be no struggle but the joy of being overpowered will be intensely felt all over.

 

599)     Perfection too can be of two levels. The higher level of perfection takes you to the next higher level while the lower level of perfection effectively prevents it. E.g. perfect knowledge leads to the soul search while perfection of worldly enjoyment prevents even knowledge effectively.

 

600)     It is Grace that does everything for us, even those things that we initiate and do. When man wants to go away from Grace, Grace can act to prevent him from that folly or help him go his own way and ruin him thoroughly. Grace does both to perfection.

 

 

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