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- 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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