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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