DAILY MESSAGES

Series VI                                                                                      

 

351)         “Instructions” occupy a significant place in management since each person receives the instructions according to his own predilections. Successful instructions now are successful by virtue of custom and usage, not by virtue of the clarity of either party.

Capacity to give instructions rightly qualifies one to be an excellent manager; capacity to receive them rightly is given to a rising star who will be a future leader. J

352)         Waste is a social conception during periods of scarcity. There is no waste anywhere else.5

 

353)         Man’s impulse of surrender is to the opposite.5

 

354)         The finite man adores himself with infinite energy. Should he shift the adoration to the God in him, he becomes God.5

 

355)         The story of the three Poles fixing a bulb shows the infinite scope for progress at any time. J

 

356)         As man moves away from several of his elementary functions, he also moves away from many elementary relationships. His stage of development is determined by the measure of his moving away. J

 

357)         Man’s capacity for nostalgia, past loyalties, desire to settle ancient scores, his value for venerable tradition are only of his physicality and ego. They have nothing to do with his ideals or values. J

 

358)         Human emotions and opinions will NOT change for ages. The Divine descent will help them change. 5

 

359)         The energy of youth is raw and rough; that of the Spirit is sweet.5

 

360)         Nothing makes the accomplishment or the ensuing enjoyment so great as surrender does. &

 

361)         Rare souls see God. Rarer souls see the same God in Nature. Sri Aurobindo stipulates that the sadhak must see God and Nature uniting in him, i.e. he sees his own actions as a point that unites God from above and Nature from below. &

 

362)         The world needs a thinker whose context is not the nation or a sector like politics or commerce, but human existence. Such a thinker also needs a human faculty that is wider than the mind which is an instrument of Ignorance. 5

 

363)         Money acquired in greater measure than for direct use, is a fetter like anything else. J

 

364)         Contagion, infection, imitation etc. are most intense at the opposite poles. J

 

365)         Tyranny is enjoyment of expression of authority and energy more than love of cruelty. J

 

366)         Any vibration of Nature, even sex, can go behind for a time, even a long time, but not permanently unless sublimated or transformed.5

 

367)         Devotion devoid of desire fulfils itself, even as oblivious desire to the very depths of the body never fails to fully satisfy itself.5

 

368)         In human life, only certain diseases are contagious or infectious. In higher consciousness, all diseases are infectious, even as the higher consciousness enters us without our knowledge.5

 

369)         C.D. Deshmukh said the movement of secession in Tamilnadu is the voice of the dying culture that opposes. We see that phenomenon in its obverse and reverse forms in the Sanskrit names becoming popular in Tamilnadu and the Brahmin culture, especially their slang being taken over by the erstwhile anti-Brahmin groups. It happened in public speaking in the 60s. J

 

370)         Deep emotion of a devout person is devotion. In response to it, Mother moves into that centre.5

 

371)         Betrayal in friendship only expresses that the growth cycle of the relationship is completed. J

 

372)         Jealousy disappears in the measure one’s energy is drawn off in his own development and society prevents expression of jealousy by its culture. J

 

373)         Social life can at best give only social knowledge. At higher levels knowledge is psychological. Pure knowledge transcends both.5

 

374)         Dissatisfaction is a negative emotional aspiration. J

 

375)         Simplicity of mind is determined by itself, not by the material opulence of the environment. J

 

376)         Luxury or simplicity is relative. J

 

377)         The only role of the relationship between the small and the great is the small should go at the expense of the great. J

 

378)         Social support means the individual ego should be propped up.J

 

379)         The miser, at a moment when life showers on him its bounty, tries to preserve his miserliness. J

 

380)         Devotees constantly conquer space  by getting things done at a distance without traversing it, but miss the truth as they mistake it to be a prayer answered.5

 

381)         When hostile forces are overcome, they are contained necessitating our being on the alert. No defence or alertness is required if they are transformed. &

 

382)         Trying to please others is the surest way of displeasing oneself.J

 

383)         Superstition is the strength of vital life. J

 

384)         Fairness is a function of available freedom. J

 

385)         Oblivious people by their very best will achieve oblivion. J

 

386)         Moving from mental thought to mental consciousness, one sees that Time and Space are conquerable.5

 

387)         Evolution is experience replaced by education.5

 

388)         One who knows the subtle forces, the causal plane, and their symptoms will never fail to see the results of his work, however distant their expressions are.5

 

389)         Constant emotion of constancy having moved to the substance becomes devotion generating powerful currents of immortality that can even neutralise poison. J

 

390)         — Man knows by the sense covered mind.

— The jnana yogi sees in his trance by his mind freed from the senses.

— The sadhak can see from the mental psychic freed from the surface during his waking hours.

— The supramental being sees with the newly created faculties of the body – the physical psychic.

— You are what you see or that from where you see. &

391)         Rationality accepts one’s own defects as true. He who does it himself is said to be RATIONAL.  Him we call a rational man.5

 

392)         How can one be a devotee without working or consecrating? 5

 

393)         For the pioneer who leads the society, having outgrown it in essence, to long foolishly for its approval is a retrograde step. J

 

394)         Sensitivity is an organisation in the physicality of each plane according to its mental values. Thus it carries the maximum intensity of forces that can be harnessed between the mind and physical in that plane. J

 

395)         Any intense event in life raises the sex vibration in us. Any intense event in the life of devotion raises aspiration.5

 

396)         Rank tries hard to preserve its external forms, only when they are about to lose it. J

 

397)       To destroy ego externally is revolution.

§ To destroy ego from inside is evolution.

§ Evolution of ego’s dissolution is transformation.

§ The Ego that realises the value of spiritual transformation is

    one who passes through self-immolation.

§ Objectivity gives one that knowledge.

§ Ego that dissolves itself does not move to the Purusha but

    becomes the Psychic.

§ Purusha emerges when ego separates itself from its activity.

§ It is the being of the Becoming that can dissolve ego from

    inside. &

 

398)         There are people who understand work; others understand people. Those who understand both are fitted for recruitment of staff. J

 

399)         Mind grows through imagination by anticipating the future possibility. It also ‘grows’ through fantasy by learning to discard the non-existent.5

 

400)         The heart expands in gratitude to present Rs. 100 to one who has completed a work for you that would otherwise cost Rs. 1,84,000. 5

 

 

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