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DAILY MESSAGE Series V 851)
Receiving
without giving leads to retaliation by the receiver. The giver will be
invariably offended. µ 852)
The nervous
timidity before an audience changes with strength to challenge the same
audience. µ 853)
When you go to
Madras spending Rs. 50/- for the bus, you spend another Rs. 50/- from the bus
stand to go home. This is how life offers different versions of its justice. µ 854)
Concentration
by meditation is powerful. Concentration that comes by calling is FULL, which fills the whole being down to its roots. & 855)
Mean
selfishness and great spiritual receptivity can dwell together. & 856)
Irrational
people working part of the system find the system oppressive, while the
efficiency of the system is all but neutralised by their irrationality. Adult
suffrage in a democracy is such a combination. µ 857)
Members of the
royal family feeling they are born to rule is a superstition of the physical
mind. The unambitious humility of the low-born endowed with great potentials
is equally such a superstition. µ 858)
Mother's
knowledge carries power which is carried only by money. p 859)
Man reaching
the Reality through the universe will reach it in its fullness. He seeks it
through the individual and therefore misses the fullness, lands in the
indefinable -- three levels from the Absolute. & 860)
Knowledge for
man is mastery of the environment outside and completeness of the being
inside. & 861)
Vedic
Immortality is the balance they showed us at the physical level of the being.
To them it was supreme infinity and divine universality. & 862)
Progress is to
move from fact to symbol. Once the symbol is created, the whole world is
after that. Money is one such symbol. A greater symbol than that is prestige.
Those who want to release man's energies will do well to minister to his
prestige.& 863)
The unconscious
man, unconscious of his potentialities, is known to be humble. Humility is
the conscious awareness of one's potentialities and not appropriating them to
one's ego. Humility is egolessness, not unawareness of one's
inner value. p 864)
Circumstances
can lead to imaginary potentials of personality. Equally so, other
circumstances can help ignore real potentialities. µ 865)
Man becoming a
victim of circumstances is unconscious. µ 866)
To rise above
the compulsion of the outer circumstances is to be conscious.
p 867)
Existence not
merely concealed itself as non-existence but created the separate ego into
which it fortified its concealment. Hence the secret of existence now is to
exceed the ego. & 868)
Double opening
needs to shift the concentration from outside to inside.& 869)
Human choice is
a choice of VALUES. At each
step to choose a course of the right values out of strength, is the right
human choice. µ 870)
Man never has
any hesitation to assume any new attitude like the drunkard in Shakespeare's
prologue. Only that he must feel the authority for it. µ 871)
Secrecy in a
low atmosphere, and frankness in a strong atmosphere help accomplish. The
reverse is disastrous. µ 872)
Purna Yoga
differs from the traditional yogas even as democracy differed from monarchy,
in that democracy offered everyone the right to become the head of the nation
while Purna Yoga offers everyone the knowledge that is power to become God. & 873)
The tons of
gold ornaments have lost their exhibitionist value in sophisticated
gatherings. The muscle man who by virtue of his muscular strength ruled
nations earlier has lost the power of his muscles in a democracy that votes
its leader to power. In all areas where thought leads the nation, the rich
man has no direct role to play. Gold ornaments, landed wealth, power of muscles as
well as accumulated wealth have no meaning in a world that is lead by
knowledge. When knowledge becomes powerful, they all will disappear. µ 874)
The future,
maybe even the present, belongs to knowledge. It will become a reality when
knowledge becomes knowledge of power. Power that has ruled the earth through muscle and
money has now moved to knowledge. It will further move to Spirit. & 875)
A just and
rational mediator for a party is one who accepts the party's authority. That
is the extent to which parties are willing to be 'rational.' µ 876)
The beginning
of wisdom is to know the unknowable -- Sri Aurobindo & 877)
You cannot know
It, you can become It. By giving up the desire to know It, one becomes It. & 878)
By giving up
the desire to enjoy, one becomes Joy itself. & 879)
By giving up
the desire to master, one becomes not master but Mastery itself. & 880)
The subjective
includes the objective. The objective cannot include the subjective. & 881)
The rubber
snake is harmless. The fright it causes is real when we do not see it is
rubber. It is partially so even when we see the truth. There is no real harm,
no real cause for fright. In another
sense it is an artistic product. Evil is not REAL, it has no harm for man. So is tyranny. But all of
them are real to the mind's perception. This is Sri Aurobindo's explanation
of evil.& 882)
It is the
capable selfish person who prospers in life. Had he been selfless, his wealth
would have no chance to accumulate. µ 883)
Man seeks power
before knowledge because he is physical. p 884)
Human mind
realises the value of anything only in its absence. Hence the opposite is of
value and significance. To recognise that value of contradiction is spiritual
wisdom. & 885)
Man can receive
information but not thought. He has to receive the information and convert it
into thought by his own thinking. The unthinking masses demand their own
thoughts from the leaders and end up unthinking followers. µ 886)
There is only
one process of action or accomplishment. It is the process of creation. It
repeats at all levels. It moves from being to consciousness to Ananda to
comprehension. At that point it becomes creative. & 887)
The ultimate
delight in this creation is the objectless delight in the objects. What is
insubstantial in Satchidananda is made permanent and substantial by matter.
That is the significance of Matter. & 888)
The depth of
concentration is determined by the depth and width of knowledge. & 889)
It takes time,
a very long time, for us to give an opening to Mother. She takes no time to
act. She always acts instantaneously. & 890)
Human affection
at its best can be selfish and therefore is capable of turning into its
opposite, hate, at any time. & 891)
Enjoyment for
man, Mother says, is throwing away the energy. This is so because before the
energy organises itself, it has to saturate the plane with itself. The
process of saturation takes the form of throwing away energy. & 892)
Man is
attracted by an opportunity that carries a difficulty. We see he is attracted
to it in spite of the difficulty. The truth is, it is that difficulty that
attracts him. & 893)
Pain,
difficulties, disease, danger, etc. have an irresistible attraction for man
and they present themselves externally through an opportunity. & 894)
The soul that
longs for an experience of pain makes the mind see its external as an
opportunity. & 895)
When mind sees
a difficulty, the soul feels an attraction to the opportunity it is. & 896)
Seeing the
contrary (difficulty) as complement (opportunity) is the knowledge of the
soul. & 897)
Mind recoils
from problems; soul makes for them. & 898)
What sin is to
a narrow personality is no sin to greatness. It even enjoys doing it. & 899)
Greatness
emerges out of narrowness of sin to enjoy the true occasion of the act. & 900)
To be able to
see it in others is yogic vision. He who perceives that in those who betrayed
him is face to face with the Marvel of this creation.& |
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