DAILY MESSAGES Series VI 101) Man
can become what he aspires for. § The highest aspiration of man is social acceptance.
Social acceptance can be at various levels. § What can make a man aspire for social acceptance at
the highest level? When man knows it
is achievable by him through his present equipment, he will aspire for it. § A practical ideal can be made out for him. He would
like a PRODUCT to accomplish it. § Better than the product is an INFORMATION. § Ideas are more powerful than information. The theory
is a collection of such ideas. § Computer is such a product. § Practical
concept of Infinity is such an information. § Beyond this is the aspiration to outgrow the
society. J 102) Character
is the psychological organisation (in the individual) of the society in the
individual. The
psychological organisation of the society in the individual is his own
character. Psychological
potential energies of the society find their expression in individuals of
strong character as Personality through their unorganised energies. J 103) Life is complex, not complicated.
What is complicated for mental knowledge is really a rich complexity to a
supramental vision. & 104) Lila
is self-discovery, but not the discovery of the self that hid. The self that
hid in itself was pure self. That which it discovers is the self of matter. Between hiding and seeking, the spirit that was
hidden evolved. The self discovery of the spirit is indeed the process of
spiritual evolution. & 105) Imagination
is purposeless. It is purposelessness that gives any value for imagination.
Imagination is the carefully executed replica of Avidya. & 106) For
temperament to enjoy another temperament, there is a condition of one liking
the other. He who has risen above temperament can enjoy any other temperament
without any condition. J 107) When
a man gives himself fully, he can do so only to one thing. God consists of
unity, Truth, Goodness, Knowledge, Will and Love. For man to give himself
fully to God, he has to do so six times over. Only by moving to Supermind
where all the six are united can man give himself fully to God. 5 108) Prophesy
is to make the Infinite finite. Not to prophesy is to allow the Infinite its
own course. The great prophet is one who sees the course of the finite before
it becomes the Infinite. J 109) Every
man exerts his uttermost in pursuit of possible enjoyment.J 110) Mental
faculties are infinite. Each has innumerable rules. All can be brought under
as few rules of wisdom as one chooses, as they have all issued out of one
centre of Life. 5 111) Man
is capable of believing his mortal enemy to be a trusted friend, if he is
capable of sweet behaviour. Human life is skin deep. We see how others are cheated. It is
difficult to see how we are taken in. J 112) To
make the temporary permanent is the illusion of the sentiment; to make the
permanent temporary is the ignorance of the physical. J 113) The
formless Vast is not the spaceless infinite.
Form is prior to Space. & 114) Not
to seek comforts and conveniences by the values of life, to seek them by the
values of Mother and express Mother in that seeking is aspiration. Any
discussion of this conversion either with oneself or others will be endless.
When it ends, it will end on the old note – Mother should make my needs
available; not that I should accept Mother’s values. Ego
– Mother should work for me. Psychic
– I should serve Mother. 5 115) Mantra: The depth from which a mantra is chanted
determines the power, not so much the mantra itself. 5 116) He
who does not start with the work cannot begin this yoga. Once he does so, he
is not permitted to give up work for the rest of his life. Consecration
of work is the first step of yoga; and that is the final stamp of it too. 5 117) The
difference between wealth and poverty in old age is the difference between
discipline and dissipation in young age. J 118) Material
benefits given to someone will not be recognised until they are threatened to
be taken back. Matter
being valuable only by touch will not generate sentiments, especially
sentiments of gratitude. It may be that the entire property one now owns is
something he got as a gift. Still, it is incapable of evoking gratitude or
even recognition. In most cases, memory will be missing. Matter
has no feeling, much less thought. How can it be grateful, which is a mental
emotion? J 119) Disciplines,
if accepted halfheartedly, have a way of undermining themselves. This is so
because discipline has a personality and cannot be made to cancel itself
without its consent. Any
trait has a personality. If you want to get rid of it, better convince it of
self-dissolution which we do when we are stronger than the trait. It is
better to do it by knowledge than by strength.J 120) All-inclusive
concentration which is the first step in this yoga comes only by the divine
call, not by any human effort. As
long as the attempt to understand either by thought or by the silence of mind
is there, the human effort lingers. It is enough to prevent the call or
sanction. & 121) Gossip
is popular mostly for the reason that one feels superior to the man about
whom he gossips. He feels he is sitting in judgement over someone. Another
reason is in passing on to others the vile acts of someone else, the speaker
indulges his own low tastes.J 122) The
world has not known the all-inclusive concentration Integral Yoga needs. One
can develop it if he is Sri Aurobindo or The Mother, not otherwise. The
easiest way to acquire it is to identify with them fully in an attitude of
surrender. & 123) One
symptom of higher consciousness is the emergence of personality from the idea
of guilt. J 124) Love
and affection that would not change into hate are true, but they do not grow
into attachment, nor are they capable of being focussed on to one person.
Always love retains its character of impersonality. J 125) As
courage is the quality of the Force expressing itself expansively in action,
equality is the quality of the Infinite expressing itself in the plane of
Timelessness at infinite speed. 5 126) Purposeful
purposelessness is the subtle in the gross plane. Evolution will be complete
only when the causal plane descends into the gross. Purpose
gives thought grossness. Thought, as in Shakespeare, becomes subtle and
therefore immortal when it leaves the domain of Purpose. 5 127) Any
problem in this wide world can be reduced to one human trait such as
selfishness or energy or wisdom since all such traits meet in the one centre
that is Man. 5 128) Hurry
and divine impulse resemble each other. One is on our initiative and the
other on the divine initiative. 5 129) Short
term goal leads to haste and hurry. Long term goal generates patience. 5 130) The
petty idealist fanatically chases a fad. The practical idealist patiently
discovers the spirit that moves Matter which is mastery perfect in creation. J 131) Supraphysical
can be powerful. It is not Supramental. & 132) The
ideal is for ideal conditions. Unideal conditions only foster their own
conditions. The practical idealist is one who tries to live by the ideal in
unideal conditions in spite of them. J 133) There
is no darkness in the world except for the human senses. There is no
suffering in the world except for the human ego. — Sri Aurobindo There
is no death or dissolution in the universe except for the created forms. & 134) The
uneducated man’s modern information will have the clarity and precision of a
story written with only pronouns, omitting proper nouns. J 135) The
poor man generously spends. When he becomes rich, his generosity disappears
and gets transformed into frugality. Poverty and generosity go together
partly because there is an illusion that generosity will secure him status.
Beyond these social definitions lies character. It always prevails. J 136) Mother
enters our life as luck. When a devotee enters the life of another, it is
luck that enters into the life of the latter. 5 137) We
seek Her to fortify human life. She comes to us to establish Her life in us,
destroying human life. & 138) The
Infinite emerges in life as abundance. 5 139) He
who takes for granted unforeseen luck and wants to build on it without
further effort, meets with what is known as disappointment. J 140) As
power issues out of light (Consciousness-Force), light is more powerful than
power and can create it, whereas power cannot create that light by itself. 5 141) Thought
is important, but it is emotions that accomplish. Still, what matters is the
result of action. The unconscious man is unable to think; the egoistic person
thinks egoistically. What matters to the world is the
unegoistic conscious action that yields the right results. 5 142) The
Theory of Development is to the Society what the operating system is to the
computer. J 143) The
atom represents the physical ego; the cell represents the vital ego. & 144) Peace
of mind stays permanently only when the ego disappears.& 145) Mother
who can supramentalise the world in one day does not do so because that way
the Lila would be cancelled. 5 146) There
is no intrinsic evil. Evil exists only for the ego, and its ethics, its mental,
vital values and the egoistic social, cultural sensitivities. Evil disappears from the
horizon of one who has shed his ego.& 147) Not all people have great good
qualities. When such people come to Mother, the very opposite qualities rise
so that the maximum progress can be made. Instead of making that progress,
invariably people leave MOTHER. J 148) The
imperfection of aspiring perfection is spiritually complemented by the
perfection of depravity. J 149) More
than trying to wean ourselves away from life, it is worth turning our
thoughts to Grace. To be able to see Her in each act is to move away from
karma. 5 150) There
is nothing in the world that is not Ananda, a pure enjoyment by the object.
What we see as pain is only subliminal JOY. When man moves to the
subliminal, pain vanishes from his perception. & |
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