DAILY MESSAGES
Series II
751) Efforts
to surrender thoughts or feelings are ineffective or stiff when a central
light remains uncreated. p 752) Consecration
becomes a possible exercise only when we centre in the jivatman and catch
hold of every movement of prakriti to be offered by it to the Transcendent. Without that centre it
is a futile exercise. p 753) One index of patience is not to be
disturbed by the impatience of others. µ 754) An
idea can become Real-Idea when the Force in the idea becomes conscious. p 755) Making
a mental idea Real-Idea is one aspect of yogic practice. p 756) Emotions
accepting an idea makes the idea more powerful but does not make it Real-Idea, since the force
in the idea is not yet compelling. p 757) When
the Force in the emotion becomes conscious and integrates with it so as to
allow each a right to compel the other, an
emotional idea becomes Real-Idea. p 758) As
one in the grip of an irresistible desire is unable to know of the world outside, we should forget
the world in the grip of aspiration. p 759) Our present is not grateful for the past
labours which made this possible. That
being the case, how can we complain against
the ingratitude of others? µ 760) Gratitude is the present appreciating our
past endeavours that made the present
possible. µ 761) Even when we recognise our strengths in the
past, we refuse to be grateful for our
past weaknesses that brought catastro-phes over our heads while the truth is
our present owes as much to them. µ 762) In this sense, gratitude is the inability
to be sorry for our low past. µ 763) By extension, we can say gratitude is our
inability to complain against others. µ 764) Refusing to complain, refraining from
regret, we recognise the Hand of God in every act. Recognition of His
Presence is Grati- tude. & 765) Deficiency
in our aspiration is due to the fact that it is the mind, based on its
conceptual appreciation, which aspires for The Mother. p 766) Concepts are dry and the aspiration based
on them is shallow and short-lived. µ 767) It is the emotion that can aspire with
intensity though for short spells. µ 768) Body when it appreciates, accepts fully and
its aspiration is of the highest intensity and is there forever. Its
substance is ever-living while the
emotional intensity appears only when the vital energy gathers. Mental
concept comes forward when memory
brings it back. µ 769) Knowledge
of the whole being of The Mother, apart from including the aspirations of its
past, is enriched by the fact of their being integrated. An extra dimension
appears during the process of
integration. This dimension is centred in the psychic generating sweetness by the absence of
disharmony. p 770) Sweetness
is enriched harmony which is native to the psychic by virtue of its integrating the
experiences of the past, thus
eliminating the note of disharmony. p 771) Parts
of the being are at loggerheads which come down to disharmony when the parts
are compelled to cooperate. Willing
cooperation of parts generates harmony. Unity of the parts enriches
the harmony. Integration completes the
process of unity generating sweetness. Hence the psychic is sweet. p 772) Physical needs, vital desires and mental
perches are all to be fully met, if a man is not to work at cross purposes
with himself. Presently man’s ills arise because they leave part of his energy unoccupied through part of his
needs remaining unmet. µ 773) Mother’s
higher life, being centred in the psychic, does not leave even a drop of his
energy unutilised because only when all the
energies are focussed does the psychic emerge. p 774) Also
the psychic in the front keeps all his moments full. p 775) Man is basically lazy as well as capable of
making the maximum progress. & 776) Man seeks only that progress which comes
through enjoy- 777) Each individual has combined both these
urges into a strategy suited to him as guidance for life. This becomes his
motive, even a dominant motive. µ 778) The collective man responding to national
emergencies or a new product responds
from this centre of motive. µ 779) The motive of the collective man is
determined by the then available
collective security and the highest socially approved of ambition or aspiration. µ 780) Social institutions like marriage or
academic degrees, products like car, personal emotions like submissive
loyalty, prestige, and patriotism
have, in the past, been symbols of social
revolutions that brought great progress. µ 781) In the past these symbols developed over
the centuries. Now it is possible for the society to accept such a symbol in
one year. µ 782) When
the thought of The Mother is more absorbing than any other thought; the
emotion of seeking Her is more engrossing than any other emotion; when the act of becoming The
Mother is more challenging and
attractive than any other act, aspiration shapes inside. p 783) A prayer is answered by the deity to which
it is addressed. But alongside there
is another truth of the force of personality at the point of its full organisation which has almost
the power of a deity. Who has answered
the prayer varies. µ 784) All prayers within the limits of this
personality are, at their peak, answered by this organisation. Those which
lie outside this limit are answered by the deity through this organisation. µ 785) Prayers that remain unanswered either do not
rise to the level of this personality organisation or do not reach the deity
breaking through this limit. µ 786) There are intense prayers which can reach
any height but remain unanswered because within the personality there will
be another element cancelling the
prayer. µ 787) Calling
Mother is our effort as long as it rises from any depth of the surface mind.
Crossing that level, calling becomes non-stop and self-initiating. p 788) When
Mother becomes more fascinating than the thing that attracts you most, the bhakta is born in
you. p 789) He says surrender means giving up of the
being, consciousness, power and delight by the individual to the Divine
Being. These four aspects are the end aspects of Existence, Consciousness, Force and Bliss. If the human
soul that offers the surrender stands apart from these four aspects, the
Absolute that receives the surrender stands apart from the above four
aspects. & 790) Yogic
trance takes the consciousness away from the gross body and its senses.
Concentration in our yoga takes the centre of consciousness from the surface
mind to the inner mind, rendering trance superfluous. p 791) Knowledge
of the past in the negative areas of personality is unwelcome as long as one
perceives life as two strands, negative and positive. It is most welcome and
helpful to those who have crossed moral and psychological notions of life and
see Life as a single whole. p 792) Obsessions develop not because of the
overwhelming power of the force —
money, sex, fear — but by the overwhelming attraction of these things to the personality. µ 793) An
information or fact coming into the ken of mind if received by the
apperceptive mass as it is becomes opinion. An analysis of the incoming
material by the speculative mind can extract the idea in it. When
consecrated, the incoming thought reveals the light inside us which it was
moving to. p 794) Expectation arises when energy overcomes
essence, essence of experience or
essence of equality. µ 795) Imagination is the faculty that captures
the real possibility of the future. Fantasy is the capacity of the mind that
can derive satisfaction from the unreal possibilities of the present. µ 796) At
each moment the will can be good, bad or neutral. To endeavour to make each
will good will enables Mother to act better in us. p 797) At least I know one man whose heart
overflowing with goodwill unconsciously increased his income 10-fold and by
the time he was about to realise it,
it became three times higher. Maybe we
can say that there is no greater joy than having constant good will. µ 798) Concentrating
in the vital, Mother’s consciousness generates all known generous emotions during the
period of concentration. They become permanent when the vital itself seeks
Mother. Our aim is the whole being should seek Mother, possess Her and be
possessed by Her. Concentration in the vital is a first step. p 799) He
who enjoys the 죺\®, touch of Mother on his being cannot enjoy
anything anymore. p 800) Mother’s
consciousness makes delight the delight of the evolving soul that has felt
the touch of the Self even as manifestation makes Bliss delight in the act of
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