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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 spiritually possible.

 


 

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