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
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