Daily Messages                                                                             

Series IV

 

101)          Faith is man seeking the Divine; Grace is the Divine seeking the man.

102)          Faith is born only when the seeking for a rational channel for the action of grace vanishes.

103)          Mind’s capacity for generation of thoughts indicates its unreadiness to receive Silence. At this stage mind can rise to Silence by a method, but not receive it from above.

104)          One can initiate oneself into surrender only at points where his parts of being are at a maximum intensity.

105)          Should surrender be practised at points of less intense life, he should be, in his being, as intense even in routine matters.

106)          What is true of surrender is true of any new faculty man acquires, especially at the next plane.

107)          All the attainments of yoga, moksha, silence, Vedic immortality, bliss, jnana, etc. are also part of HIS yoga not as goals, but as landmarks in the passage.

108)          The essential difference is His yoga gives it to the sadhak from above, as Silence descends, whereas in the tradition it is achieved as a goal from below.

109)          In the tradition, man through his effort rises from below.

110)          Here, man surrenders and the Divine takes up his yoga, naturally from above.

111)          Surrender is no mere act. It is rising from the human plane of action to the Divine’s.

112)          Consecration that leads to surrender is based on the knowledge that it is the Divine, not man, who is the origin of acts.

113)          Consecration is action based on knowledge that the Divine is the source of action.

114)          Aspiration is the awareness of the embodied being of the Divine in life.

115)          Tapas is the action of one who recognises the Divine in heaven or above, not in life.

116)          Integral knowledge begins when one recognises himself in the opposite.

117)          As the emotions of the mental man mature by submission to knowledge, the evolving man submits to the opposite.

118)          Knowledgeable submission to the opposite gives equality.

119)          Joy in reaching the opposite for union is the emotion of an evolutionary impulse.

120)          Positively that joy helps to evolve; negatively that joy helps to overcome illusions.

121)          Romance is unleashed by that joy in the physical trying to evolve to the vital.

122)          Joy in accomplishment issues out of the evolution of the part into its whole.

123)          Bliss turns into delight when the evolutionary joy emanates from the finite that turns into the Infinite.

124)          Bliss belongs to the consciousness; delight to the substance.

125)          He who wants immaturity to mature must be willing to evolve from the horizontal expansion to vertical growth in his own plane.

126)          To pull one out of selfishness, it is not enough you are selfless. It is necessary that you are not dogmatic about selflessness.

127)          Selflessness that recognises the value of selfishness in its own domain can raise it out of it.

128)          Generous spending of a poor man is primarily his way of raising himself in his own eyes to a higher status.

129)          Hoping to achieve it in another man’s opinion has the reverse effect.

130)          While the first relieves him of his money and strengthens him in his illusion, the second builds up opposition and ridicule.

131)          Hospitality passes through the same stages and causes embarrassment to all concerned at every point.

132)          True generosity is not only generous in spending and hospitable in emotions but creates a solid sense of mature behaviour in all who deal with him.

133)          One indirect sign of true generosity is its capacity to achieve enormously not only by his organisation or wealth, but purely by the strength of his personality that is equal.

134)          Generosity cannot be true without equality and maturity.

135)          Generosity being an expression of matures emotional strength; it is always accompanied by its other expression, accomplishment.

136)          All expressions of generosity or expansiveness of one who has not accomplished are efforts to rise to that strength.

137)          Watson’s years with Sherlock Holmes gave him not even the least part of Holme’s ways. Genius is not something to be learnt by the physical mind.

138)          The only part in man that can benefit by the proximity of a genius or an avatar is the psychic, not the mind, not even the thinking mind.

139)          He who benefits will benefit irrespective of the distance. A closed person does not benefit by proximity.

140)          The sun’s rays emit light and heat only when they impinge on a surface, not when they travel.

141)          A base of equality turns faith into grace.

142)          In life as well as in spirit, true strength is indicated by life seeking a man,  uõ÷Ú Á¸Áx uµ©õÚx.

143)          The measure of success of any work is fully indicated by the measure of its not seeking support, rather the measure of support that gravitated to it.

144)          Achievements begin and end inwardly. The outer is only an expression.

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145)          Each man has around him a point of crux, a symbol, a knot which is his real centre. All his achievements are determined by it or by his handling it.

146)          As grace precedes faith, faith is preceded by equality. Before that is perfection.

147)          Purification, liberation, perfection, equality, faith and Grace are the grades.

148)          The weakness of the great man and the weakness of the small man are really weaknesses of the same description. The one prevents accomplishment and the other preserves the status quo.

149)          * The spiritual unity of equality uses all opposites and yet escapes from them.

150)          Friendship in its best sense is a devotion of the vital based on the mental value of selflessness in the context made possible by its mutual existence. It is clearly distinct from companionship in social contexts.

 

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