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DAILY MESSAGES Series I 851) His theory that 12 accomplished sadhaks
will be able to transform the world is partially analogous to the phenomenon
of a dozen members of the nation's elite accepting any fashion and thereby
ensuring its spread fully. 852) Finding out a corresponding effort in the
vital to mind understanding without thinking and thus reaching the higher
mind, will help the vital receiving the higher mind. It may be the vital
acting without issuing force. 853) Not to enjoy what is given to you by the
stage of development you are in or to wish to enjoy what is prohibited is
unpardonable. [As you do not go through fully, it remains unconsummated.] 854) The selflessness becoming Selfishness is a
spiritual progress. 855) In the attraction for the opposite or the
one who hates lies the secret of evolution in the vital. The same is
intellectual curiosity in the mind. At each stage this phenomenon has its
version. At a few stages before the Absolute reveals in the physical lies HIS
intolerable ecstasy which SHE calls unflinching rapture. 856) The Absolute in the physical is still the
Absolute in the subconscient. Beyond it lies the Inconscient in us of which
we are made. The Absolute also reveals itself there. 857) Man presently is the opposite of God. His
attraction for God is aspiration. 858) Evil, error, wrong, etc. are stages of
transition, says HE. While you are in it, or part of it, it is painful. From
outside it is seen as a transitory stage. While you are in it and rise in your
consciousness above the plane you are in, they reveal themselves as MARVELS. 859) To give another what he most seeks but
cannot reach is material generosity of
spirit in life. To deny the other what he most aspires for while his
discipline denies it to him, is the spiritual generosity of matter in life. 860) Man's misdirected life creates a disease,
sometimes a chronic one, which lodges in the body and gets deeply established
over the years, defying the cures the latest medical discoveries have brought.
The MOMENT the body rises to the realisation that it has to be got rid of,
the disease is overcome and it disappears. An age-old administrative
tradition is cancelled forever by an order from above. These are the
parallels in life to HIS statement, "Matter will be transformed by a
change of our view." 861) It is superstitious to believe the
non-existent. It is equally superstitious to refuse to recognise what exists,
or believe in what refuses to disappear. One is a stupidity that is unable to
outgrow the one-time experience, the other is the stupidity that refuses to
grow into the future. 862) Superstition is the knowledge of the
physical emotion arising out of the faith in having once seen a reality. To
apply a particular factual truth to a general phenomenal truth is to be
superstitious. 863) It is not at all difficult to surrender the
ego. It is very, very difficult for the ego to surrender itself. 864) Consecration is surface life submitting
itself to depths and is evolutionary in that sense. Calling is the being
beckoning the Being in an offer of becoming one with it and in that sense it
is spiritual evolution. 865) Man seeks God pressed by outer necessity or
inner aspiration. Occasionally God compels man through direct inner
communication to seek HIM. 866) The first is the vital man, the second is
of the higher vital or psychic. God takes initiative to compel only the
Avatar. 867) The fresh end of growth is the point of
flowering which is anxious to pollinate and cross-pollinate. In the individual
as well as the society, the fresh end of growth is marked by the desire to
communicate which is negatively gossiping and positively educative
information. That is why the word of mouth communication is so comprehensive. 868) He who wants his work -- book, idea,
project, etc. -- to spread all over the nation must inspire the movement of
'word-of-mouth'. It can be done positively too. 869) To do so successfully, he must be one who
aspires for the social growth and expresses it in his personality. 870) The conditions for the word-of-mouth
publicity are, 1) the
individual must be in tune with that growth; 2) his life or work must touch that wave; 3)
the necessary link between him and the social aspiration must be made
in practice; 4) his work or product must reflect that
social growth and his own aspiration;
5) and finally, all the four
elements must tune in to form an integral whole. 871) To be in touch with Mother at that point of
internal growth brings one all the five conditions needed for that purpose. 872) A knowledge of this principle can still, in
some fashion, help forge a strategy. 873) To realise the truth of the Lila is a
mental realisation of the Absolute as relative. To do so vitally, one should
have the sensation of the Lila taking
place around him, better still in his own self. The sensation can be vital or
physical. 874) When the realisation passes on to the
Inconscient in us, the sensation ceases giving place to a fullness that is
denser than matter, indicating the Supramental substance forming inside. The
intolerable ecstasy or unflinching rapture shows at this stage of
transformation. 875) People living in conditions of great change
or sudden growth or frequent incidence of Grace often get token gifts,
unexpected higher results. They will be in proportion to their receptivity,
not in proportion to what the atmosphere can give. But their real value lies
in its being an indication of the atmosphere and more so its capacity to give
an opening to that atmosphere. 876) On a day when aspiration is intense, you
can see a great number of people calling on you. That aspiration rising further will witness the phenomenon
of not only the total absence of callers, but some members of the household
too will leave the house till the aspiration comes down. 877) Calling becomes permanent when it is
subconscious or when the subconscious calls. 878) Ego is a product of Nature. Psychic is of
the soul. Dissolving ego and moving to the psychic means, moving the centre
of our functioning from Nature to the soul. The very first condition is to
cease from all activities of Nature -- thought, feeling -- on our initiative
and wait patiently for the soul to initiate its acts in our life. 879) To resort to faith when all avenues are
closed is how faith mostly rises in us. When all possibilities are open, the
soul that resorts to faith not merely expresses a faith of a higher order,
but enjoys the relationship with Mother and each further occasion for action
is a further possibility to relate to Mother. 880) Consecration of a problem or an issue is
not so difficult as the consecration of its details. Even when the main issue
is consecrated, the details may defy consecration. This requires a more
detailed faith. 881) 'Servant' and 'service' are concepts that apply to those
whose only pride and satisfaction are service. Personality shapes itself
around the motive of service. It upgrades itself when it becomes loving
service. No personality is complete for the purposes of Integral Yoga if all
the four elements are not present. The Brahmin or the Kshatriya or the Vaisya
mature in their personality only when the element of service turns into
loving service with pride in it. Of all the four elements, this is the most
difficult faculty to acquire and it is more difficult to perfect it, because
it is the lowest member that has to be trained. 882) It is not through austerity but through
saturated maturity that one can meet the Divine in life. 883) Expectation: Mentally it indicates the
possibility around the corner, vitally it is hope that expects, physically it
is a repetition of the past experience. The physical looks for a person even
after death. It is capable of
expecting a person at home when it returns after seeing him off to
another town or even another country. 884) A theme may recur in your thought or
experience several times with different force. Each time the same theme
occurs with a greater force, it may appear to the mind as a new theme. A new, higher experience of an old event
appears as a new experience. 885) Socially, people evaluate you by what you
are today, regardless of what you have been earlier. A newly rich man and a
retired officer enjoy this treatment positively and negatively. Not only
others treat you as such, you tend to consider yourself like this. Taking the
argument further, it is possible for man not to consider himself as man, but
a soul. 886) Man has the instinct to oppose tooth and
nail the very first approaches of Grace, since it does not tally with his
common sense. Rather, it is directly against his common sense. Wisdom is to
discover Grace's approach in what appears to be detrimental to him. 887) The physical organisation HE speaks of is
that which acts instantaneously. The time that passes between two such acts
is the time that is required to prepare the next act. The physical plane
needs this lapse of time but not the vital or mental. Man moving from the
physical to the vital organisation will move several millennia. HE asks us to
directly move to the Supramental organisation. 888) When Delight descends into life, it splits
itself into two halves and we can enjoy it fully only when we enjoy both
halves: they are pain and pleasure. There is no question of enjoying the full
intensity of delight missing the experience of pain. 889) In life to create delight, the positive and
negative sides are required together. They join together to create a life
possibility. In the Individual to create the full delight, both these sides
need to be experienced. 890) At the physical level creation requires the
principles of male as well as female. At the vital level to create the full
intensity of Joy, pain and pleasure are required. At the mental level,
knowledge and Ignorance join together to create Knowledge. 891) Evil, error etc. are not only to be
tolerated as a stage in evolution but when one is in the creative
consciousness, one has to create it as a necessary part of the original good
and enjoy the process of transcending it. To give money to dishonest villagers
is evil pure but the joy of recovery has few parallels. 892) It is the intention that makes it evil or
appear as evil to others, not the act which is always neutral. 893) Submitting to an evil man is worse than
evil, but done in the right spirit yields the experience of overcoming the
inner and outer evil. 894) Transcending moral rules of conduct is
moral evil indefensible in anyone's eyes, but it can have the result of
saving your own life sometimes. Maybe it can save the spouse from perfidy. 895) To feel in the nerves the reality of this
knowledge to the extent of overcoming
the physical sensitivity is the transformation in oneself of the moral
sentiment. 896) Tension generating power, evil making the
good more fully the Good, division bringing greater enjoyment of the hidden
sweetnesses by the rediscovery of the lost unity, until they become so real
that we seek them in our own lives, will remain philosophic concepts. This is
possible only when the inner spirit moves the outer matter. 897) At that point MAN is the self-aware god evolving in him. 898) To understand 'The Destiny of the
Individual' as He explains, this awareness is essential. 899) Lack of precision in physical work like
numbering is an indication that the psychological organisation at the
physical level has not acquired a form that can be forceful. 900) Without the form setting in, the force will
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