DAILY MESSAGES                                                                                                           

Series III

 

     51) The tapasvi concentrates on higher and higher levels of spirit. The sadhaka of Integral Yoga starts with the aspira­tion of the being and moves towards consecration and sur­render. Aspiration is his conscious effort, while consecra­tion is effortless aspiration and surrender is possible when the effortless aspiration intensifies into enjoyable self- giving in adoration, resulting in delight.

           

52)      Among the most serious devotees of the Mother, not with­standing their professions, the one major expectation is the self-same ideal of an ordinary man, vi.,  upward social movement, enjoyment of the moment, a rise in prestige. The context and garb may change, not the content. A conscious seeking of the higher life and adherence to its norms are conspicuous by their absence.

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53)      Going into the inner being below the surface, we meet the psychic which is less negative than the  manomaya purusha, and the door of nirvana. The psychic is less negative because it leads to evolution. That which is not negative or positive is the DISCIPLINE on the surface and depth which takes up the thread of evolution straight without needing a method or key or clue which the psychic is.

 

54)      Man lives every moment. He dare not stop living which is not possible for him. He lives in his emotions, not by thought. The moment the ideal of his thought rises above the reality of emotions, he is out of harmony and hastens to sink back to the emotional foundation. When the ideal offers no such  foundation beyond the momentary minutes, he lapses into reality of dissipation or fantasy.

            Man's life is emotionally real for every minute. When the rising emotions of his ideal do not last beyond a few hours or a few minutes, he takes refuge in the reality of dissipa­tion.

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     55) Faith brings in Grace; absence of faith in one's capacities brings in Super Grace. Recognising Mother's slap,öÁzvø»¨ £õUS Ga]À, perverse guru's black magic, disciple's desire to bless, unfaithfulness’ stolen pleasure as aspects of marvel, one is qualified to enjoy delight of self-giving in every cell of the vital. Often Mother offers their counterpart  opportunities  of  enjoyment  as  wiping  off Karma predicted by horoscope, triumvirate, repatriates,AøǨ¤ß ]Ó¨¦, suicide by black magic, flood of orthodox devotees, urge for service of GOODWILL. Having already enjoyed this much, one is qualified to reach the vision of the marvel.

 

     56) The world as a Marvel:

            Self-offered Service to ungrateful, mean selfishness; stingy superiority complex; incapable greed; hardworking thieves; pure evil on a self-elevated pedestal; calculated unscru­pulousness; false, mean, unfaithful ingratitude; proud, pampering weakness; mafia; crucifier makes one vitally eligible to discover the MARVEL the world is.

 

      57)                    Man's aspirations are emotional, but he styles them spiritu­al. Below him is the man of physical needs. Spiritual life needs the base of spiritual aspirations. Do we really aspire for the Divine? If so, when, for how long, in what terms? Prayer itself cannot constitute that aspiration. Aspiring fro the Divine as one does for money or woman, can be called spiritual aspiration. In the mass of men, such an aspiration is absent.

 

      58)                    Clarity of thought on the base of a weak vital can never hope to achieve anything in life, not even the first step it can take. With Mother, it too can achieve several things, maybe almost all, but cannot consummate the whole.

 

      59)                    The Absolute, Lila, Play, Ananda, Surrender, creation, self- discovery, reversal of consciousness, consciousness emerg­ing out of unconsciousness, Spirit moving matter, Transfor­mation, THE SECRET, the infinite's self-conception, material particles carrying psychological qualities, occult sense, original ignorance, ignorance greater than knowledge, re­alising the Absolute in the physical, evolution of the Spirit, Maya, the Process etc.

 

             --                The Absolute is characterised by its capacity to choose one more form of delight.

             --                Delight is the sensation of the Absolute of itself in crea­tion.

             --                The Absolute's choice of creation unexplained is Lila.

             --                Play is the act where the original intention is held back from the activity.

            --                 Involution is the ability to lose self-awareness.

            --                 Evolution is the intention to regain self-awareness.

            --                 To consciously reverse an unconscious act is reversal of consciousness.

            --                 Reversal of consciousness is the beginning of discovering oneself, Self-discovery.

            --                 Reversal of consciousness coming on its own by the strength of atmosphere is Transformation.

            --                 Capacity to initiate Transformation consciously is the Secret.

            --                 In the beginning that capacity is seen as the Infinite's self-conception.

            --                 Spirit creates matter and later evolves out of it. So psy­chological qualities are carried by material particles.

            --                 Spirit's turning into matter and vice versa is occult to the sense of matter.

            --                 By original ignorance manifestation rose, again it returns to the unmanifest by losing it.

            --                 Each subsequent stage in creation is greater than the previ­ous. Ignorance succeeds knowledge.

            --                 Realising the Absolute in the physical is the beginning of the return.

            --                 Involution is Spirit turning into matter. Matter returning to spirit is evolution.

            Hence evolution of the Spirit, or Spiritual Evolution

 

            --                 Maya is the faculty of the Absolute that fulfils its inten­tion.

            --                 The first half of Maya limits; in the latter half, Maya reverses itself as transformation.

            --                 The two halves of  Maya constitute the Process.

            --                 Delight is the sensation of the Absolute where the Absolute senses the finite emerging out of the limitation into its own hidden Infinity. The Sensation  is the greatest because the field is from the finite to the Infinite. Infinite scope enables infinite sensation that is delight.

            --                 Though moving to consciousness, ego expanding to the ends of the universe, matter outgrowing death into immortality, time becoming Timeless, growth, development, evolution, skill formation, education etc. have this character in their own measure. Spirit evolving has wider scope, the self- conception has the widest of amplitudes.

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     60) The perfect cheat enjoys cheating.

            Any ability becoming perfect yields the highest enjoyment.

            The Divine withholding the Secret has the delight of creation.

            The capacity to withhold the Secret makes the play possible.

            Stupidity becoming perfect yields the greatest fulfilment in life. It is true of every faculty. Realising it is reversal of consciousness turning human fulfilment into Divine ful­filment that is delight.

 

     61) However advanced one  is in the same plane, one cannot become a guide to another in the same plane. Only when he crosses over does he become eligible.

 

62)      To call the Divine when you cannot is prayer; to call HIM to do what you can perfectly do is consecration that develops into surrender. To do it for him is consecration. To let HIM do it is surrender. The ego can usurp that too.

 

63)      An unsolved problem sometimes remains unsolved even when we pray. Prayer changing into consecration solves it. Sometimes even consecration is defied. In such cases, look for areas where you have the ability to accomplish and start conse­crating that too, it will be solved.

                                Consecration succeeds when prayer fails.

                                Surrender succeeds where consecration fails.

                                Failure fails with surrender.

 

64)      Surrender is the ability to give up to the Divine what you can do with ease and perfection. Fantasy is the wish to enjoy the results of what you cannot even conceive as a possibility. In the measure fantasy survives, surrender is made impossible.

 

     65) To know a circumstance brought about a solution when Grace has acted though it after creating the circumstance, is to push away Grace. We must know that Grace acted and the circumstance is a grace. To know the difficulty is grace will remove the difficulty forever, to know a circumstance is grace will remove the need of circumstance any more for Grace to act. From then onwards Grace will act directly. At that point, Grace becomes Super Grace. Beyond that one becomes a source of Grace or Grace itself.

 

    66)  Parabhraman in Shakespeare writing about ordinary plots, creates at the plane of life forces intensely interacting. Therefore it evokes a response from others. Purna Yoga acts from Parabrahman in the plane of evolutionary forces. There­fore what descends here is the forces of evolution, not the universal popular response as in Shakespeare.

 

    67)  Life response is the mathematical formula of Sri Aurobindo (Agenda '65, p. 187) whereas the Process is the mathematical formula for matter. The one is in the plane of life and the other is in the plane of matter.

 

    68)  Surrender changes involution into evolution. Therefore the Force of Transformation is so great. To release that force is possible for only two, Grace and Surrender. Their action is momentary since the field is unprepared.

 

    69)  Idealistic progress divorced from monetary gain is either illusory or austere. Maybe its rare possibility exists in partial fields which all life is. Even in such cases, direct prestige benefits or indirect monetary gains used to be there.

            In a total approach like ours, it is foolish or silly to wish to exclude money gains in progress, because progress is all-round. In actual fact, man responds ONLY to monetary gains and ONLY through that accepts the ideal. In my experi­ence I have not met the exception, nor have I heard of its existence.

 

    70)  A full-throated effort not meeting with success merits the description of failure. The failures we hear of in life are mostly or almost belong to another category. Man enjoys after achieving something. Trying to enjoy a thing before achiev­ing anything goes by the name failure. The name it deserves is not failure, but the folly of illusion.

 

    71)                                                                                              C¸}º ¯ݻP® responds only to CÛ¯ö\õÀ.*                            responds only to             .                                                                                   This applies to ordinary social,    psychological solutions, not where a hostile vibration is present. Merciful destruc­tion ruthlessly meted out alone will either eliminate their opposition or even transform them. Even in cases of trans­formation, they will only offer to throw stones.

 

    72)                          A good man responds to unselfish opportunity; while others respond to selfish incentives. By responding to the Divine's call which is an opportunity to destroy selfishness and ego, one becomes a sadhak.

 

    73)  Longing for a person or compunction about loyalty after a friend deserted or a spouse turned unfaithful, is not an emotion for the lost relationship ore the person but an indication of the lingering social consciousness regarding loyalty or fidelity.

 

    74)  A past act now consecrated and surrendered will reverse the consciousness and release hurricane like energy to transform life and consciousness, if the desire or emotion and the irresistibility with which the original act was performed is truly reversed. All the rest are palliatives.

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    75)         Jivatma surrenders to Paramatma; but who does the consecra­tion, consecration of acts, feelings and thoughts? We func­tion as a mental person and he acts on his own. He is aware as a person, not as light or soul. Being aware of light, he moves away from wrong to right; being aware of the soul, he moves away from nature to soul which is consecration.

            Consecration is possible in the measure of self- awareness in the acts. It is the psychic in the act that consecrates it. Normally man is turned outward to the socie­ty and inwardly to himself. Recognising the Divine outwardly and inwardly, the same man can consecrate.

            He who consecrates is the awakened man, awakened to the soul in life.

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76)      Behind every activity is energy that is released by a WILL.

            ¬ Creation is out of substance that is inherent in energy behind which is the     WILL of Being or Existence;

            ¬ National development is from national energy released by the WILL of the nation to progress.

            ¬ Enjoyment needs energy that is from the WILL to enjoy.

            ¬ Physical energy such as magnetism and gravitation are from the WILL of Matter to exist.

            ¬ Companies progress by corporate energy that issues out of the WILL of the founders to succeed.

            ¬  There is no act, however little, that is not done by energy given to it by a will behind. It is the will of the atom that compresses the great atomic energy inside it.

            ¬  Aspiration (will of the soul) releases yogic energy.

 

            Will--Energy--Act is the process of creation up above and down below. That will

            is self-conceived.

            That energy is self-organised into action.

            To raise the intensity of that will is progress in the world and evolution in the universe.

 

   77)   Aspiration in man is the representative of the Will of creation.

 

   78)   God reaches out by will; aspiration tries to reach God in the ascent.

 

   79)   Will is the God of the Atheist; aspiration makes the theist God.

 

   80)   Unconscious aspiration leads to bhakti; conscious aspiration to Godhead.

 

   81)   Mind responds to bad news -- lost child, dead accident victim, betrayal, infidelity, etc., either with belief or fear. Belief confirms the news, fear worsens it. Trusting to Mother and calling always turns the situation and the  news turns out to be good, because the incoming Mother’s Force is harmonious. Harmony can only create GOOD. |À»x ©mk÷© |hUS®.

 

   82)      The eternal relationless Absolute is the Self, the pure Existence.

 

83)      The ultimate solution lies in the law of oneness with others, not oneness with their ignorance, because thereby wrong action will persist. Oneness with their souls is the solution for which the prerequisite is discovery of one’s soul.

 

84)      Forces of limited good shun evil, whereas evolutionary forces of Good accept evil as much as good (p. 624, The Life Divine).

 

85)      Growth needs freedom. Freedom offered for growth is utilised for exploitation. Such exploitation stopping for whatever reason turns into tangible strength felt in the vital and seen as light on the face.

 

86)      Behind failures lies one invariable reason for trying to accomplish in the outer field and enjoy what one has not inwardly prepared.

 

87)      The occult unseen method lies in the Force evolving from the Form. It is there in all daily activities. The application that is sanctioned  is seen as the work and the result. Little do people realise that the process of sanction involves rules, discretion, custom, judgement, preference, because they remain occult.

 

   88)   The PROCESS He describes is the self-same process of every one of our acts. It can explain Shakespeare’s creation, abolish the cold war, win the national presidency, or make a shirt.

 

   89)   To forestall the hostile forces in the subtle plane is the hallmark of learning the Process.

 

   90)   To persuade pettiness to dissolve or stand aside is to have compassion at its level of existence.

 

   91)   To commission good will to neutralise ill will is to touch the Consciousness where will originates.

 

   92)   To release physical energy to make the body enjoy the thrill of higher descent is Love of the physical.

 

   93)   Devotion in the true vital can persuade hostility to lose its urge to destroy for enjoyment.

 

94)      Complete understanding of the stupid urges of another in their origin gives a mastery over them.

 

95)      Compassion is the emotion of full understanding of the origin and existence of things.

 

96)      Compassion that can transform hostility into devotion raises itself to Grace or even Super Grace.

 

97)      Irresistibility mastered in the nerves or the physical is mastery over nature that has the power to transform.

 

98)      Pictures or photos emanating true forms show the vital opening in the observer.

 

99)      Stupidity that chooses the wisdom of self-annihilation in preference to opening the eyes to the wisdom that stares one in the face is perfection of stupidity qualified to reach the Absolute through that perfection.

 

   100) Love that gives of itself is rare; rarer is the heart              that receives  that Love coming to it.

 

 

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