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DAILY MESSAGES Series VI 401) To think of Mother when choked means
She is all over us. & 402) The fluent liar who is prolific in
his lying belongs to life. He goes from life to matter because of his
mercenary nature. J 403) Time is abridged by technology by
speed. Mind can abridge Time by changing its conception. & 404) He whose physical being rises to
pure existence is capable of Truth. & 405) He who goes after something will go
on seeking all his life. Seeking itself will be the reward. What comes to us is
ours. When we seek inside, the world will seek us.5 406) Ignorance is better than
knowledge. & 407) Earth is superior to paradise.
& 408) Man is superior to the Gods. & 409) To see the small as great is yogic
vision. & 410) To see darkness as intense Light
is drishti. & 411) To know that evil is a great Good
is knowledge. & 412) To oppose the goodwill of the devotee
or to abuse God soils one’s soul. J 413) Luck is for one who is wedded to
Truth. J 414) The greatest courage is the
realisation of one’s own defects. To pardon those who humiliated us, one
needs yogic equality.5 415) To know that the robber came for the
sannyasi’s utensils because God needs them is to have a heart where God
abides.5 416) To hate, dislike and remove from
one’s periphery the thing that one most adores is possible for man. J 417) He who believes he alone knows all
expresses a great yogic secret inversely or perversely. The wise man comes to the unpardonable
attitude that he alone knows and no one else knows anything. It is a pity
that it is true.5 418) One who is too conscious of his
capacities will express it in shirking work. J 419) Man does not seek Mother. When he
thinks of Her, his mind will not go to Her. Mother who does not come to
him as his desires and needs is of no use to him. His own desires are
important for him even in the shape of Mother. Man takes the fulfilment of
his desires as his faith. Man calls his desire devotion. As one seeks desire, if he seeks Mother, She
will respond. We have the power to realise anything. Mother can be realised.
Luck can be achieved. But we seek only our desires. Desire changing into
aspiration makes man a devotee. There is nothing man cannot realise if he
intensely seeks it. By seeking only Mother, the heart will be blessed with
Grace. 5 420) Help leads to trouble. What we give
may be money or sympathy. One’s yoga is not helped by others. Help must be returned with interest. When you
want to take, you will lose what you have. What you earn alone is yours. Whatever you receive must be returned in
greater measure. Our own possession will not generate trouble. Memory is man. We cannot join others, because
no one will admit us. As long as we wish to join others, we will meet with no
one who admits us. Mother alone will take us in. We can join others only through Mother. There is only one thing. It is Love. There is
only one Person. It is Mother. Man’s giving ends in trouble. To give to
Mother is offering. It will bring everyone, including Mother.5 421) We understand another person at once.
Even at the age of fifty, we do not understand ourselves like that. J 422) God is the Love and the Beloved. & 423) The miserable man cannot be saved
without his misery creating scars in the saver. His yoga offers to transform
misery into joy.5 424) Ananda is luck, it is the Ananda of
Brahman. It is Mother’s Luck.5 425) One’s patience annoys others. When
Patience saturates itself, it becomes sacred. It will make the impatient
patient. This is Mother’s Patience.5 426) Constant thought of constancy moves
from words to settled emotions of deeply seated sentiment. Then enjoyment
is ever-living and also ever-increasing in intensity. J 427) Man is physical even in his mind,
perhaps in spirit too. It is not in him to give up anything unless it is
taken away from him. He does give up desires, attachments, etc. before he is
ripe enough for that detachment violently. Rationality requires
voluntarily giving up things or persons whose nature he understands has to be
given up. Voluntary weaning away from low consciousness reveals
rationality that has power over the physical. o Man
gives up out of selfishness. o Selflessness
demands giving up the low. o Maturity
gives up voluntarily. o Immaturity
waits for it to be taken away. o Maturity
gives up the wrong, takes on the right on the very first understanding. J 428) Adoration of the feminine heart goes
to the charming face, not a capable head or an upright character. Not all
men can escape that illusion even after they discover how odious that
adoration is. J 429) The Life Divine pours His
consciousness into us whether we read it, speak it or speak about it.5 430) Cultural values are the sensitivities
of social organisations. They help to concentrate the social forces for their
progress. J 431) A family or an organisation that
accepts Mother will have Her protection in an organised fashion, if not as an
organisation.5 432) Democracy that offers the ultimate
opportunities to the weak, the poor and the underprivileged opens up infinite
opportunities for all evil forces to express their resourcefulness. Mother offers to all those who try to avail of
the opportunities of democracy full protection from the play of the evil
forces. For Mother’s present protection to become a
social organisation, the society should accept Mother.5 433) Diseases lie dormant in us. They are
cured by prayer or medicine only when they come to the surface. The idea,
‘Transformation of the body needs the disease’ is based on this principle. We
can transform the body if our concentration on it is as intense as when it is
diseased. Such a transformation is offered to man who has faith in The
Mother in his physical substance.5 434) Every value is related to every
other value. That is why rewards or punishments come in areas where no
attention is paid. J 435) To fully cover the negative side is
to fully conquer the forces of that side.5 436) Men who have attained the goal they
sought often are unaware of it, for want of an outer symbol. Nehru and Indira
were not at all aware of the monumental advances they made in Indian
development directly, as well as in laying the necessary foundations, because
the GNP never measured it. Mother felt sorry for not remembering Him after
fully identifying with Him. Long after the work is accomplished in the
subtle plane, he who does not see it in the surface wonders about his ideal. Often the achievements are seen in the reverse.
When the accomplishment is all but perfect, as it does not show visibly and
he has no subtle perception, men can be dejected or frustrated, or may even
despair. The music master sees the job lost, not the
hearts won.5 437) Man cannot remain what he has been
after knowing Mother, even as the earth cannot remain dark after sunrise.5 438) Equilibrium, not ethics. J 439) Life is lived successfully by
equilibrium and harmony of forces, not by their being right or wrong. Not the
moral right, but their sufficiency in harmony makes life possible. J 440) Whatever one looks up to in desire,
he is sure to miss. It can come to one only when it feels attracted to him.
The surest way to escape wealth is to adore it without longing. J 441) Man can know the level of his own
personality by those personalities that attract him and those of whom he
disapproves. The former is his goal, the latter is what he is not able to
wean himself away from. J 442) The practical concept of Infinity has
several expressions. One of them is for the individual to know he is equal to
the society in its capacities.5 443) He who understands Lila or its
version in his own life and feels the joy of knowledge emerging from his
ignorance understands Sri Aurobindo. & 444) An unformed person clings to formed
forces of the society such as power or money. This happens when he has
greater energy than usual. Sherlock Holmes is a genius in action. All his
life he struggled to preserve the tradition. From a revolutionary point of
view, we can consider him unformed and informed of vast reservoirs of energy.
J 445) To create anything in any plane and
establish it securely, one has to ORGANISE all the (12) spiritual
aspects of that plane and win their endorsement from the next higher plane.
Social stability is secure because peace, prosperity, law, education,
enjoyment, etc. are fully organised and the mind endorses them
accordingly.5 446) Stationary life that needs no
shifting of places is overcoming Space, through its nearest expression. Mind
that refuses to go to the past or future is its counterpart that overcomes
Time in a similar measure. Overcoming Time in the right sense of the word
is to be ecstatic in the present. A similar experience in Space may forget
totally and blissfully the external world. Its real indication is the
dissolution of the ego or its beginning. 5 447) He who condemns the leader he admired
all along condemns his own character! J 448) Trying to revive relationships
outgrown is to invite catastrophe.J 449) Reversal of consciousness of His Yoga
is practised in the society by the population serving the underprivileged 450) The Establishment that was warm to a
rebel begins to be cool when the work of the rebel begins to take shape. J |
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