DAILY MESSAGES           

Series II                   

601)   The food we eat, the human relationships we have, the books we read determine our aspiration; but this is true only of the surface person. The depths remain unaffected by them. &

602)   It is not incentives but only ideals that will serve to cross a plane. As a strategy it converts into forms of the present plane, not the content of the next plane. µ

603)   Content is higher in the real sense; but when you are in one plane and want to achieve there, the content is more powerful than the form. µ

604)   In a period of transition from one plane to another, ‘content’ of the next plane is feeble in this plane. It is the form of this plane that can achieve in the absence of content of this plane. µ

605)   Available reality is better than non-existent unreality. µ

606)   Reason and reasonableness will not serve for people to move from mind to vital or from mind to spirit. They are in the vital which functions on the basis of strength and must move to spirit which exists on the basis of strength. In neither case will reasonableness work; rather it will torpedo the work. µ

607)   The first step in yoga is not a method but an attitude; an attitude that withdraws his identification with the vital, so that he may realise the Pranamaya Purusha. µ

608)   The highest realisation too depends upon the smallest acts, especially the attitudes they express. µ

609)   No endowment however high can let Grace act in spite of the inappropriate attitudes in the smallest of details. µ

610)   Those great things that do happen, in spite of what we are, are the maximum our refractory attitudes can permit. Rather they do happen when refractory attitudes are diverted because of our unconsciousness. µ

611)   An individual is a powerless component of the Party that is Power. An individual is much more powerless than the Society of which his party is a part. The surface mind represents the individual. The subliminal represents the universe. The one is a stone before the other which is a mountain. HE is the whole of which the universe is a millionth part.

         It is not difficult to conceive that before HIM man is less than dust. p

 

612)   The desire to prove your bonafides or anything arises from the trust that the other is mental, is not true. Problems of life are vital and they cannot be solved by a mental approach. µ

613)   He who expects others to be reasonable, himself will not be equally reasonable. Those who are unequal to the work try to prove the reasonableness of the work. µ

614)   Ignorance is the ability of the Inconscient. As the inconscience is acquired, ignorance is also acquired. p

615)   A disciple’s greatest joy is that he is used by the master. His greatest privilege is when he is misused, abused and thrown away. &

616)   Known services elevate; unknown services transform. p

617)   The psychic is the Mother in the ascent. The Mother is the psychic in the descent. p

618)   Holding a grudge against life for its low values or admiring life for its high value is the same, in the sense that you are wedded to the old life, not torn away from it. p

619)   For the evolving soul the OLD LIFE does not have one single aspect that could be retained because the entire old life is vital life and our entire effort is to overcome that. p

620)   Outgrowing the need or charm of forms, social or psychological, is maturity. µ

621)   Maturity’s outer, higher Form is Wisdom. µ

622)   Maturity is the essence of knowledge when the details of the experience dissolve. µ

623)   Human wisdom losing its Form becomes divine Wisdom in content. µ

624)   Wisdom is the point where Force joins back Consciousness. p

625)   Human perfection is to arrive at perfect expression in a plane of imperfect construction. µ

626)   Divine Perfection is in a plane of perfect constitution and construction so that the expressions will be naturally perfect. p

627)   The perfect Perfection HE speaks of is not to attempt to bring the Divine Perfection into human conditions but to raise the human consciousness to Divine consciousness and then try to express that perfection. p

628)   To an unegoistic look, Existence reveals itself as Energy. &

629)   The Infinite turning into the finite is creation, while the finite transforming itself into the Infinite is evolution. &

630)   The rudeness of the small to the great is its aspiration to be great, expressed as a social attitude. µ

631)   All yogas and all their methods finally reduce themselves to one thing: concentration. Each yoga chooses its own point of concentration in us. Purna yoga concentrates on the psychic being. p

632)   Yoga reduces itself to concentration because the universe concentrates itself in man and creates the soul by concentration. Man’s continuing the concentration of the universe is Yoga. p

633)   Pain is the response of the outer atmosphere to the yearning of the inner being for progress before it develops self-discipline. The inner being seeks the boon of pain from the outer life to grow through self-discipline. p

634)   The duty of a sadhak is not to solve the problem created by his ego; but to dissolve his ego. p

635)   Intellectual statement is an account we give to our intelli-
gence.
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636)   It is unreasonable to reason with unreasonable people. People who act from the vital, or act for selfish ends or people who try to understand a new concept from an old attitude are unreasonable. µ

637)   The most common expectation of weak people when treated fairly is to demand the other man’s patronage to destroy him or to subordinate him. µ

638)   A man who finds himself telling himself the same instruction, as, ‘Haste won’t do’ for 20 or 30 years must understand that the progress from mental understanding to vital acceptance takes 20 to 30 years. µ

639)   Being able to change from “My attitude is right” to “I must accept the right attitude” is a good example of change of  attitude. µ

640)   To be able to be ashamed of harbouring hatred of one who betrayed you for selfish reasons or lack of self-control, is the beginning of the vital coming to perceive the Absolute in oneself. p

641)   To avoid one whose contact brings about catastrophes is common sense. Yoga demands a patience which will make the man go away by himself. To avoid is to take initiative. p

642)   In very strong men capable of great accomplishments, a petty desire rearing its head in any area may defer the accomplish- ments. µ

643)   Rationalisation helps us escape Grace; rational understanding is an obstacle in surrendering a thought. p

644)   The higher discipline of one member of a family or group does not by itself generate proportionate discipline in other members. Rather, it tends to increase the tendency to dissipation in others by the stress created in the general atmosphere. µ

645)   Should a group benefit by the higher consciousness generated by the higher discipline of one member, the only known way is the other members should voluntarily choose higher discipline. µ

646)   Accomplishment comes to those who understand, accept and submit to the prevailing conditions of work; never does it come to those who demand of the environment compliance to their expectations, because the environment never behaves so. µ

647)   Work is prepared inside, executed outside. A problem is created when the outer execution out-reaches the inner prepara- tion, the magnitude of the problem being represented by the measure of the excess. µ

648)   Parents fondly hope that their children will overcome their weaknesses in due course and resort to supporting them. Leaders do so to their followers; spiritual leaders may harbour such a hope about the masses. All these end up strengthening the weakness, often directed against the leader, parent, etc. µ

649)   Strength fostering weakness is preparing an adversary by arming him. µ

650)   Weakness positively responding to strength is only in the measure of its readiness to rise by self-restraint which is theoretically possible, but rare. µ

 

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