Daily Messages                                                                             

Series IV

 

501)         India’s political miracle of federalism that sublimates its ethnic loyalties is the instrument HE chose to act through.

502)         In the absence of conscious instruments, HE resorts to media that are developed by nature or history.

503)         To become willing conscious instruments we need to become passive like nature or impersonal like history.

504)         The Personality of the impersonal qualifies one to be His instrument.

505)         Lower Maya: The senses knowing the sun goes around the earth is an illusion of the senses universal. By no stretch of intelligence can the senses overcome it. Superstition is an illusion of wilful ignorance basically different in character. (Refer no. 8).

506)         Lower maya is the deformation of mind before it fully matures whereas maya is the office assigned to mind – an office to divide, depiece, etc.

507)         Silence and silent Brahman is a state where thought and the impulse to thought are surrendered. When the urge of the being falls silent, loses its impulse, gives up its structure and finds neither the energy nor the power nor its instrument, surrender is born.

508)         Mind’s inability to see all in each after seeing each in all is the definition of lower Maya. (p. 166)

509)         The world exists in several layers with its members immensely enjoying at the level of their own existence. Evolution to a higher type is not always a necessary progress to them, since their own enjoyment is complete.

510)         Nature, at every level, tries leisurely and patiently to evolve the perfect form at that level. She never has any hurry, nor does she need to be hurried by anyone else.

511)         There are moments of evolutionary saltus when it is possible for a few to hasten the evolution of the plane. Those who were destined to work with them may join for an equally good reason. It is up to the other members of the plane to avail of that opportunity, an opportunity to blossom into a higher level of consciousness. It is nobody’s mission to urge them to join.

512)         When the Lord’s breath is abroad, every awakened Man, awakened by past punya, or present awareness, has that opportunity to blossom.

513)         The knowledge emerging out of Ignorance is only when the lid is crossed, not before.

514)         Matter is substance turned into force (p. 260. Essays Human and Divine)

515)         Goodwill can achieve; but gratitude can protect from hostile forces.

516)         The measure of civilisation is the measure of man’s becoming impersonal and unegoistic. The same idea in yoga is expressed as man’s realising that it is the subliminal which moves the surface which is the key.

517)         He who can receive injustice as justice is one meant for absolute justice.

518)         If a pot is split into two halves, how can one be superior to the other. Contraries are two such opposites. One side in its ‘wisdom’ condescending to take the other point of view is no real condescension. Wisdom is to know that it is a part which can only be completed by the other half.

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520)         Each man comes to a point when he has nothing more to change in his views but he continues to try to change which will become an exertion of ego.

521)         Something can be achieved only by ‘my doing’ the corresponding right thing is a belief in human endeavour, not in grace.

522)         With foolishly stubborn people sometimes Mother positively responds to their insistence by saving the journey at the expense of the bridge as in 80 Days around the World.

523)         The same psychological state is positively surrender while negatively it is helplessness.

524)         Completion of one cycle of progress is achieved in the society as well as the individual when the most unpardonable act of heinous crime of one period comes to be considered as the most exalted virtue.

525)         The birth of an effective organisation begins with authority exercised, the full appreciation of the knowledge behind that authority by the members and their emotional endorsement of that knowledge.

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527)         Openness is a state of alertness that is incapable of expectation.

528)         The substance by which WORDS are made has no capacity to carry or convey POWER.

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533)         The hunter cannot resist shooting at his prey with joy. The warden who reared the lion cubs in Born Free cannot bring himself to shoot them. Transformation of human nerves must travel that distance.

534)         A strategy is the knowledge of the motive.

535)         To abolish cruelty, it is no use preaching to one who is cruel. Instead we have to abolish the conditions that necessitate that cruelty. Any trait like cruelty is there in the society necessitated by the society’s need to progress.

536)         Social development is really the development of the collective individuality in the individual.

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539)         To respond with humility to acts of humiliation is an effort of transformation.

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541)         Complaints are voiced only in an atmosphere where there is freedom to complain.

542)         Surrender at one plane is the same as organisation at the next higher plane.

543)         Self-giving reverses the order of direction of taking initiative even in the biological plane. No longer can the female wait if she is practising self-giving.

544)         The power of self-giving is so great that even the infirmities of old age change into the vigour of youth.

545)         The capacity to act is born when words cease. Verbal expression after the action, gives not mental satisfaction, but nervous enjoyment.

546)         Human organisations that run by the discipline enforced by authority mature into cultured collectivities where the outer authority is replaced by the authority of culture that is self-discipline. Abolition of ego in man to function by the psychic consciousness is on a parallel to this organisational change.

547)         When formal namaskaram is raised a shade higher instantaneously brings Her.

548)         Man can only be selfish. Only his selfishness can change its centre.

549)         There is in man the centre of ego and from there he can move to the divine centre. One is the self and the other is the Self. As Self includes the selves of others, there can be no Selflessness.

550)         Sri Aurobindo wants us to move to that centre of the evolving Self which includes all manifestation and the unmanifest in it.

 

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