DAILY
MESSAGES Series III 251) Strategy
is to devise the most effective method. A specific prayer gives relief
immediately where emotions are oppressed, whereas a general prayer brings a
wider, greater relief when the nature of the problem is general. Prayer
evokes a response according to the nature of the problem as well as according
to the constitution of personality. A working rule will be to start at one
end and move on till the most effective point is arrived at. 252) A
bankrupt in the USA will still be left with his phone, insurance and car.
That is the minimum he gets in a nation of material plenty. A rich man going bankrupt in India will be
treated deferentially when he walks out of the court. This is the maximum one
can get from a country of minimum wealth. 253) Culture
is the highest discipline in society. A rich, calm sweetness of joy from
equality of the inner being is the highest possible discipline in yoga. 254) The
maximum a man of minimum value can get from Mother is to double his status in
every respect. The minimum a person of maximum value can get from Her is to
be the leader of his emotional world. For the very best of people, the
maximum they can get in the world is the present maximum this world can
offer. 255) A
very desirable change has come for the oppressed, not for the oppression.
Oppression still survives but is an instrument of the previously oppressed. 256) The
greatest secret discovered after a life-long search may be the plainest
common sense. 257) The
heart that gives a full response to a formula such as 'Let Thy Will be done'
grows rich in responding to Mother and flowers in richness. 258) That
prayer when the thing prayed for is forgotten is the best of prayers. 259) There
is no surer indication of intention than the hints of the subconscious. 260) The
greatest of accomplishments attainable by long protracted work or the
greatest of siddhis yielded by years of tapas can be attained by prayer
without the arduous processes. 261) No
formula, arrangement, agreement, contract, procedure, even law, however fair
and rational, will ever bind the vital to voluntary compliance. Not even the
final authority can enforce such a law if the collective vital resents. 262) That
prayer or concentration that helps you withdraw from the plane of the problem
or the atmosphere of it, solves the problem surely and fully. 263) Great
energy trying to express becomes irresistible. Irresistibility reversed
issues energy greater than anything man knows. It is the energy of evolution. 264) The
eternal problem before man is he is anxious to justify himself, his evil and
dishonesty. Standing before God, ignoring what he is, he is asking for
rewards and he always goes further to ask for rewards for what he is, i.e.,
his evil. 265) Rest
is a valid concept for organisms that deplete during work and get
replenished, not for ever-living systems like breathing or the sun. In a
system that increases in energy by exercising, rest is an invalid concept.
Man, when he crosses the line, changes from the first type to the second. 266) Every
spiritual status, psychological poise, social elevation that we anxiously
seek, is a status another is anxiously giving up in favour of another,
better or different. So too, what you shun, another seeks. Shunning is
growth, seeking is aspiration. Thus every position in Life is Divine to
someone. The All-Existence in us can be aware of it and enjoy too, seeing the
entire world as a marvel. That which we shun now, we sought earlier. 267) The
moment we decide not to be occupied with a thought or a sensation or much
worse with a work, but to turn to the thought or sensation of Mother, the
finite begins to turn into infinite. That becoming enjoyable or increasingly
enjoyable, the finite finally becomes the infinite. This is giving up
enjoyment of occupation in favour of enjoyment of evolving. Gsn•® EnºÄ® AØÓ ÷|µ® ]Ô¯x ö£›¯uõS®. 268) In
the Superconscience and Inconscience there is total self-absorption, not in
the intermediate stages. Self-absorption that is self-oblivion has long been
enjoyed by great rishis and holds a charm for the aspiring soul. In Purna
yoga, the corresponding state of 'self-absorption in spiritual evolution'
becomes self-aware, conscious, self-initiating movements of evolution which
is the Lord in action amusing Himself. 269) Enjoyment
of Life as the evolving God is Integral Yoga. 270) The
'censor' falls silent, loses its energy, structure, dissolves as the thought
falls silent, mind attains silence, moves to Nirvana and disappears. 271) No
discipline however great can be equal to surrender. Discipline is the
capacity to control initiatives and impulses. Surrender is to give up the
energies behind them and give up the capacity to discipline them. Discipline
is a mental organisation of capacity. Surrender is the soul's awakening to
its origin. 272) Meanness
provoking generosity is its way of seeking a relationship. Betrayal
practising its art on trust is the beginning of its evolution out of itself. Contraries
evolving into unity appears to us as provocation or betrayal etc. P¯ø© Ph¢x E¯¸®. 273) To
go below the surface, man has to undo God's act of creating the surface and
making man centre himself there. Hence the power and importance of
consecration, a tool, to accomplish it. 274) Socially
the highest goal is to serve another, to serve humanity. Spiritually the
highest goal is to serve God, not humanity. He who brings the social goal
into the spiritual field ends up serving neither, but acquires the wisdom
that when two planes mix, they cancel
each other. 275) Infinity
is positive as well as negative. God expands infinitely. Man repeats the
finite infinitely thus making him negative infinity or the boundless finite. ©ÛuÝ®, CøÓÁøÚ¨ ÷£õÀ •iÁØÓÁß.
276) One
of the several sons of a father who was paralysed served him faithfully. He
was paralysed later. The son's dominant trait was betrayal. Betrayal aspiring
to grow into loyalty, offers loyalty to a body whose capacities have betrayed
it. 277) Aspiration
fills the being, consecration makes it rich fullness, surrender concretises
the emotion into substantial strength. 278) Life
is fully surrounded by lapses, dangers and tragic forces as Life is an
organisation emerging out of such a chaos. Above the line similarly, life is
surrounded by positive powers, luck, great opportunities and forces that can
raise man to greater heights. It is so because there, out of a great
organised plenty, Life carves out a small niche it can handle. 279) An
analogy for the above: A small man worming his way into a big family and
maintaining himself by his ability, service and presence of mind against
every member of that establishment, depicts human life. A rising star being
solicited to work in a local organisation for their prestige is the position
of Mother's devotee in life. 280) The
whole weight of personality often expresses through seemingly small acts of
behaviour known as manners or their absence. True manners, if reflecting a
deeper truth of the person, become cultured emotions of psychological
generosity. 281) It
is such acts of manners that often decide the course of one's life, viz. take
one to Mother or away from Her. Such persons presiding over a nation, their
manners decide the course of that nation. 282) Progress
is only for those who conserve the energy, Mother's or psychological or
social. All those who fail invariably belong to that category of people whose
motto is maximum utilisation of that energy in a minimum period of time,
i.e., the same day if immediate circumstances are unavailable. In that case,
the mind 'enjoys' it fully the same moment by propping up one's ego. Social
assertion, psychological importance instantaneously felt destroy the progress
by absorbing the new found energy. 283) Human
observations, opinions, impressions are far from true. Half the observations,
three-fourths of opinions and a little more of their impressions are not
FACTUALLY true in the plane of his existence. When he projects himself to the
next plane, all of them are not only wrong but often the reverse. 284) The
exercise of tracing the descent of creation from Sat to matter step by step
as HE has described is comprehension enough of the Book. The tracing of
ascent is an easier job till one comes to the psychic and justifies its
entrance into the scale and continuing it back to its origin, possibly
explaining the rationale of Vedic, Vedantic, Buddhist, and Shankarite
positions. Together the descriptions of the ascent and descent comprise the
construction of the BOOK. 285) The
mind sees the world full of contradictions; to life it is full of sufferings;
the body does not see except through the eyes. The psychic sees the right
against wrong. Since it is able to see the wrong, the world cannot be a
marvel to it. To the soul, the world is prakriti. Only the evolving God in us
sees the world as a marvel. He does so when HE has sufficiently evolved as
God. Aئu® Bß©õÄUS® öu›ÁvÀø», ¤µ®©zvØSz öu›²®. 286) One
may be bothered or disgusted by the activities or attitudes of a friend or a
crew or a wife. Knowledge of survival here can lead to effective functional
relationships. In such cases there is no known psychological knowledge that
can result in a happy emotion. Only a yogic knowledge can discover their joy
in their doings and give you God's delight in creating them, since at that
moment one becomes God in that context. It is part, an external part, of
self-hiding. 287) It
is a knowledge of Self-discovery for which HE created that context which is
HIS world. The beginning of that knowledge is to know in response to what in
him that external context was brought into his life. That transforms disgust
into delight, contraries into complements. 288) Unconscious
life senses selfish joy. It is a conscious life that can participate in the
joy of other souls that includes the joy of one who strangles your neck. 289) Psychic
is fire; but a fire that gives chill,
a cool fire perhaps! 290) Teaching
English to an illiterate, lending money to rogues, asking people to offer
their money to a greedy crook, pleasing a perverse, mean QµõUQ, are acts of self-initiated self-hiding. Their success
yielded the joy of psychological satisfaction, not spiritual delight of Self-
discovery. 291) Impulses
like thought, irritation, expectation are intractable. To deny them
expression is most difficult. Still, to catch hold of them, trace them to
their roots and deny them capacity for generation is a rewarding
psychological exercise that would yield yogic capacity of consecration. 292) Vanity
gathers on the surface, even in the depths. One is social, the other
psychological. In those that aspire for higher social status, social vanity
arises. It is confined to matters of no moment. Those whose parents lost
status or wealth inherit the psychological vanity that readily gives up
age-long inheritance for a momentary gain. 293) Each
level of existence from youth to age, ignorance to knowledge, low to high
etc. has its own set of phrases in speech, impulses in thinking, sensitivities
in mind and physical, values guiding motives, opinions, attitudes, motives,
energy-releasing initiatives. One can construct a 5 point or 3 point or 10
point scale of them. By locating on the scale where one is, one can endeavour
to move ahead. 294) It
is pure Grace that a nation gets the right leader, we get a partner or a
spouse, parents beget good children, children get right parents, employer
gets employee, landlord gets tenant. It is a higher expression of Grace that
one recognises them as such. One becomes a constant recipient of Grace when
he sees each act is an act of Grace. 295) To
recognise a bad leader, naughty child, etc., as an act of Grace, one becomes
a source of Grace. 296) While
speaking, people listen to themselves, or react. To be able to listen to
another's point of view genuinely, one has to recognise him as a person worth
listening to. It is the social version of spiritual seeing that the other is
a soul. 297) When
the being launches itself into action, it becomes successively motive,
attitude, opinion and finally expresses these as corresponding impulses.
Before surrender becomes possible, one needs to disengage oneself from these
successively in the reverse order. 298) Disengage
from the impulses and dissolve them. 299) Next
is opinion, followed by attitude, and motive comes finally to be so
dissolved. 300) The
being is now naked before the Being of which it is a part, making surrender
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