DAILY MESSAGES                                                                                                           

Series III

 

201)        As the Absolute is the ultimate for creation, our present position is the ultimate for certain activities which we have consciously created and preside over. To know our relationship with those activities will help us understand our relationship with the Absolute.

 

202)        The deeper centred we are, the greater is the enjoyment of living. At the greatest of depths, we identify ourselves with God in us and see our own life as a marvel. To discover that the other man has a point of view enhances our appre­ciation of his life. As we progress in our endeavour to discover he is a soul, our appreciation of his life increas­es. When we are able to appreciate everyone's life as he himself enjoys it, the world becomes a marvel.

 

203)        For one to see the other as a soul, he must have withdrawn the mental and vital attachment from the other.

 

204)        Our irresistible charm and irresistible disgust have the same nervous impulses in the opposite direction. Even the objects that attract or repel are similarly constituted in the essentials.

 

205)        The only rationality of men is to irrationally accept a leader and approve of his rationality when he is so.

 

206)        There is a joy in knowing what no one else knows, a greater joy in withholding information from others. That reaches its climax in self-concealing. The Self concealing itself from itself is therefore the greatest of joys.

 

207)        To know that the course of events is not determined by the surface but by the depth is human wisdom. Our perception moving from the variance between them to their correspon­dence is Divine knowledge, knowledge of the marvel the world is.

 

208)        Man is self-forgetful god; tapas restores his memory. The backward, primitive citizen is equally a self-forgetful true citizen who is restored to his citizenship by his effort at social development.

 

209)        In the plane of life, death exists. Successful effort to overcome death there results in deathlessness. Crossing the plane of life and mind, one enters into the plane of con­sciousness where neither death nor life can exist. Immortal­ity belongs to that plane.

 

210)        Ignorant enjoyment of illusions, sentiments, traditions, superstitions generate sloppy, coarse emotions. Cultured enjoyment of sophisticated emotions is true, genuine, rich, being on the verge of saturation of emotions that leads to knowledge. Crossing into the spiritual plane, the enjoyment of the silent Being in stillness is Bliss. Enjoyment in manifestation that permits spiritual evolution is Delight which alone can make the disgust of man of people who delight in disgracing him or who delight in acts of disgrace by virtue of their being so. This is so because the cheat ( v¸hß ) enjoys the act more for its deceitfulness than for the act itself. The 'self-concealment' in the act sought by him as secrecy generates that joy for him.

 

211)        An act is neutral. Its character arises from the attitude. Also the level from which it is committed decides its char­acter. The same act can be good, bad or indifferent depend­ing upon the level of the act and the attitude.

 

212)        On examining radical changes in behaviour that we observe in ourselves or in others, they will reveal themselves to be radical on the surface. Radical changes in the depths do not occur in life, but are seen in yoga.

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213)        The local chieftain who ruled as an unquestioned leader, after the advent of democracy, expects to be elected una­nimously. It is the normal human folly expressing through human nature. Often, between us and the vision of the mar­vel, there exists this folly in hundreds of ways. The car­dinal value of democracy is not to leave the leader uncon­tested.

 

214)        Loyalty to a deserted comrade, sympathy for one who has betrayed are sentiments very much valued in life. The physi­cal substance tenaciously repeating its habit after it has been overcome by the consciousness is seen in this fashion.

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215)        Sri Aurobindo says that the level of intelligence the human mind has attained now was attained even in prehistoric times. It means two things: 1) humanity is trying to reach that peak in every individual, and 2) whoever makes an effort will surely reach that peak as it is there in poten­tial.

 

216)        Flattery does go to the head. Loyalty, to such people, is defined in their real emotions as the other person under­standing their unpardonable weakness as their cardinal strength.

 

217)        When the ace bargainer decides not to bargain but to give in, he bargains the measures of his giving in.

 

218)        Heights of magnanimity coexisting with aspects of meanness is tolerated by the world or even ignored, but is never understood. It is only Wisdom that understands it, under­stands that the trait of meanness exists in the same person not in spite of his generosity, but as its  representative.

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                In ordinary human relationships this incongruity arises when one tries to please another by an extreme act of goodness, but the other comes round to point out an 'unpardonable lapse' according to him.

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                It is not given to man to please another successfully. He can either dominate him or be self-righteous. The motive of pleasing another is the rationality of the vital whose irrationality is exposed by human nature that is divine.

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                Attempting perfection at levels wedded to imperfection reveals the basic flaw.

 

219)        Social progress, its maximum possibility, is fixed by the character of the society. Outwardly it is her organisations; inwardly it is her character.  But its realisation is very precisely determined by the manners of the society. This holds good for the family as well as the individual or even organisation.

 

220)        Idealistic work, fast friendship, intimate conjugal life, devoted public service, spiritual pursuits will have a very solid foundation of material benefits, barring a few shining examples of perfection. Once this foundation moves away for any reason, idealism, friendship, intimacy, devotion or spirit will vanish into thin air. Idealism of any kind is rarely practical.

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221)        The capacity to be offended at the mention of one's defects, is wilful self-ignorance incapable of growth beyond. The maximum growth is possible within the limits of that igno­rance. Greater growth is an illusion.

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222)        Unfulfilled desires when fulfilled open up emotions to the next higher plane of growth. It could even be the plane of spiritual self-fulfilment.

 

223)        Submissive personalities acting in dominating circumstances flatter; in freer circumstances they offend or insult even in ordinary functions. The desire to dominate and offend is most pronounced in them in those situations.

 

224)        In a field of subtle forces, either you dominate or are overpowered. The question of functioning evenly is not given to that plane analogous to one swimming; either he floats by effort or goes down.

 

225)        Mother is evolving consciousness preceded by saturated, organ­ised energy of that plane all of which commences from an abundant spirit of Mother's Energy, an energy released by a force of Mother. That force is introduced by a principle of Mother accepted for action.

                   Man starts dying after  youth which means flagging human energy for survival. Mother starts evolving the man which means release of evolutionary energy.

                   Having taken to Mother, one should abound in energy whichever variety it is; having no energy means he does not belong to Mother in any sense of the word.

 

226)        The greatest strength in one plane usually leads to the next level on its maturation. In rare occasions it can be a weakness in the next level. The process or strategy of transformation seems to be so devised that to create strength in one plane, it starts with a weakness in the earlier level.

                Evolution of life is so devised that all strength needed at the next level is provided here as its opposite weakness.

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227)        Man has been seeking the ultimate and found it as Brahman. It is not as if there is an ultimate and man has reached it.

                For the citizen there are social goals, not for those who are at the top. They create newer social goals for themselves as well as for the citizens. Society is not a fixed mould with a fixed goal at the top. Its mould and peak are fixed by the society itself which is continuously rising. The scope is infinite. So also the psychological values are the creation of man. Man being infinite, he chooses his social, psy­chological moulds and goals.

                There is no ultimate, knowable or unknowable, Brahman or Absolute. Man and the Absolute being Infinite, they, by their choice, fix the ultimate and know it, leaving the rest unknowable. The Infinite does not permit a term or bound to be its ultimate.

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228)        Society rests on a power structure that is compelling. The development of power passes through intermediate stages before it reaches a stage of invincibility. Power develops alternately at opposite poles. Wars, revolutions, unrest, internal turmoil are the social expressions of unformed power aiming at mastery.

                   During the intermediate stage exercise of power evokes resistance from a counter aspect, whereas at a final stage no such resistance is possible. At this stage the right not backed by power is opposed by the wrong backed by power of the underworld.

                   Democracy will come to stay in the world either when the population is civilised enough not to resort to terrorism or indulge in mafia or when the powers at the helm are able to wipe them out.

 

229)        a) He who has moved from the intensity of romance to that of emotion and from there to the same intensity of psychic devotion cannot be charmed again by the earlier stages that are now sloppy emotions.

                b) Should a human relationship survive the transition from romance to devotion, it will find itself united by divine love.

 

230)        A person turning hostile against you or a thing turning rotten and later poisonous such as food stuff have the same rule, the rule of trying to extend their capacity beyond their natural strength.

 

231)        The finest enjoyments, whether The Life Divine revealing itself or the heart opening in utter surrender, are short-lived. Once the peak of opening is outlived, they live in you passively as a prized possession, but do not continue their peak performance.

 

232)        Physical symbols are of value for physical people and have significance in the physical plane. It is a common occurrence that women who run away with another man do not give up their thali(uõ¼) till the married husband dies.

 

233)        Relationships come on their own; we seek them. They are from planes above, below and the same plane. They are of different strengths and attractiveness to the vital. If those that are of the same plane, of the same strength and average attraction have come on their own, they can be severed at will. The stronger for different reasons, in cases where we have sought them, are difficult to sever.

 

234)        Idealism is often mistaken for the disciplined dedication to convention.

 

235)        Procedures are as great  powers in their own realm as prin­ciples are in theirs.

 

236)        Even in giving up procedures, as in a retreating army, there is a procedure to be followed. You can overlook it only at your peril.

 

237)        Popularity, on the lower side, is vital vulgarity. On the higher side, it is spreading a high message to a low popula­tion.

 

238)        Even life of rich content outside the society refuses to be consummated in the sense of releasing Mother's Light. When society comes forward to accord its sanction by conferring its FORM of approval, the same light is released in rich measure.

                   The Absolute can be reached by any of its aspects -- Love, Light -- becoming perfect. So also the merest external Form of society (e.g. thali) can usher real rich content into the Absolute by releasing Mother's Light.

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239)        Survival demands we be unfair to unfairness; manners permit fairness even to unfairness. Manners can survive only by the excess of energy beyond the needs of survival.

 

240)        The sage and the grihastha are like the engineer who shuns the workshop and the mechanic who is incapable of theoreti­cal knowledge. Purna yoga blends the two.

 

241)        Love perfect or Light perfect can reach the Absolute. If so, can perfect folly reach the Absolute too? Or will it end in its own Absolute of Inconscience? Whatever is true, the insistence on perfection in the end does lead to the Abso­lute, because the Absolute is perfect.

 

242)        The good cannot become perfect. At best it can only be the good of conformity, a dull goodness. Perfection is possible only for the Good. The good in the process of becoming Good accommodates the evil which the world knows as compromise.

 

243)        Because it is the discriminating mind that puts up a cen­tralising force of ego, it looks as if the ego must have started in the mind and later extended to the vital and the physical. This is confirmed by the absence of ego in the animal and the plant.

 

244)        The statement that he who chooses the Infinite has been chosen by the Infinite does not seem to be rational when we learn that HE is at play in creation. As the creation has been initiated by Him, the playmate is also chosen by Him through His initiative. This is an instance where in the field of infinity the rules of finite experience have to be reversed.

 

245)        Discovery is for the finite; Self-discovery is for the Infi­nite.

                Discovery gives relief or small joy; Self-discovery, the greatest possible joy.

                For man to seek Self-discovery, he has to find himself as Infinite first.

 

246)        Man always criticises himself for his moral lapses when he meets with failures. Whatever the truth in it, rarely he sees his organisational lapses as the source of his failures. For example, if an opportunity that came to him vanishes, he immediately associates it with his lapses in duty, but he does not know that the opportunity vanished because he spoke of it with full satisfaction to others, thus exhausting the energy needed to accomplish it.

 

247)        What is to be removed may be perversity, irresistibility, essential compromise. Such characteristics show up in daily activities as impulses to comment negatively, unable to withhold an information or pass it on to another, employment of a ploy, etc. In a given act they assume the form of a poignant, minute movement such as giving a secret to the wife or speaking vainly about a distant possibility. These are not unknown to the individual; on the contrary, they are well-known. To locate them is easy. To decide to remove them in all their expressions till their root is removed will bring about the fruition of any great, pending project or create any new possibility within the realm of one's being.

 

248)        Irresistibility is the expression of unconsciousness in the field of action or force.

 

249)        Penetrating insight of shrewdness is the meanness of mind.

 

250)        Evil motive taking mean advantage is one expression of perversity.

 

 

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