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
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