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DAILY MESSAGES Series VI 451) As the biological man seeks the
woman, the social man seeks the new values which are the very opposite of
what is. J 452) The secret of life as well as higher
life lies in knowing how the play generates results – Consciousness with
Consciousness, Being with Being, Ananda with Ananda, Force with Force. Creation
by destruction and destruction by creation are the twin facets of that primal
Secret.5 453) Desire to give away what one is about
to get is considered to be self-giving in the extreme. If it is really so,
what is expected will arrive. If it does not come as expected, the urge is
not self-giving but self-expanding vanity. J 454) The woman has an intuition in
practical affairs where man does not have a similar grip over the facts. J 455) To make a virtue out of a useful and
convenient institution like marriage shows the infinite capacity for illusion
in man.J 456) Power as money can fulfil man
partially, but the woman can fulfil him fully, when she is awake in her
spirit.5 457) Neither money, nor power, not even
the spirit can offer man the ultimate sense of completion or fulfilment as
the woman does. The woman combines in her his opposite, his spiritual
complement as well as the Form his nature seeks completion in.5 458) The most crude expressions of ego
are arrogant stupidity and violence. Ø Pride
and assertion are its less violent forms. Ø It
can move to self-preservation from destruction of others. Ø Competition
and jealousy are its vital forms. Ø Prejudice
and opinion are its mental forms. Ø Memory
is a support to ego in perpetuating Time. Ø As
ego was created at the time of creation of Time, it will survive until Time
is overcome. Memory plays the role of lingering
in Time. Ø Ego
can be given up through self-discipline. Abolition of selfishness achieves
it. Its other components will survive still. Ø Ego
cannot survive below the surface, nor when its finite form is lost. Ø Mind
is overcome by stopping the running thoughts, losing the faculty of thinking,
and by restoring its lost link with Supermind. Ø Time
is overcome by losing oneself in the present and withdrawing from memory. Ø Only
consecration moves one to the depth. Ø Not
to react is possible only when one sees he is the Whole. Ø Withdrawal
of the senses removes the grossness of the ego which helps it to become
subtle. Ø The
deep decision to dissolve the Ego initiates the process.
& 459) The one weapon of the hostile
forces is to upset one’s calm before they start their work. & 460) He who wishes to be loyal to those
who betray is subconsciously trying to outlive treachery.5 461) Two effective ways of understanding
oneself are, 1) to assume you alone are responsible for everything that has
gone wrong in any work you have been involved in, and 2) to assume that it is
because of your participation that any work you were part of has grown into a
success. These are true because ACTION in the world is man-centred
with the two extremes of his positive and negative personalities. 5 462) When there is concentration, it is
best to resort to consecration. In its absence, better to increase
concentration.5 463) Subtle imagination when saturated to
intensity has a great chance of its becoming real in the gross material plane
of physical realities. 5 464) As long as an idea appears in the
mind and evokes an answer to it, it means the mind has not outgrown it. The
levels of consciousness outgrown by the mind do not arise in the mind as
disappearing thoughts. 5 465) To know one’s defects precisely and
in their true dimensions is the real strength of man. J 466) The value of an idea is appreciated
only when the person faces the problem and a question has risen in his mind.
Ideas are valueless in the absence of a real life context that compels mind
to thought. J 467) When concentration flags, look at the
mental impulses and consecrate them, then the intensity of concentration will
increase.5 468) Receptivity of Mother’s Consciousness
in the body makes it lose its physical rigidity and gives a longer life. J 469) The best of thinkers when they come
to meet life are taken in by vital beings that can deliver them some petty
results. When thinkers who are not charmed by the likes of clairvoyants
attempt rationality, they may rise above the prevalent superstition of the
scientists. 5 470) The longer the devotee lives, the
deeper his receptivity.5 471) Readers mistakenly identify the
writer with his characters. A character rises to his own stature only when
his trait becomes impersonal knowledge in the writer. It is also true, like
Milton’s Satan, that the author’s personality best comes out through his best
character. 5 472) Analogies fabricated by one who does
not understand the basis rightly, will not only fail to serve the purpose,
but may pervert the original intention. Right analogy illuminates; inappropriate
analogy distorts. J 473) Consecration slows down involution
and finally wipes it out, leaving the field free for evolution.5 474) Progress begins with ACTION. Rule No. 1 of psychic
education initiates one into progress. Greater
progress lies in not feeling a complaint inside. The
above are included in negative progress. The first step of positive progress
is to be aware of it every moment.Its measure of success is seen in the
immediate outside life. One can initiate himself into the first step of progress
only when he takes to the four consecrations. 5 475) Luck means nonstop work in Mother. 5 476) Can one who lies come anywhere near
to Mother? 5 477) He who is lost in the moment, however
efficient he is, will never be able to build for the future. J 478) It is right to hasten when the
opportunity waits. When no such opportunity awaits, to press forward will
cause a recoil. The power of Patience
to rush forward never fails.5 479) The world is ruled by likings and
dislikings. It runs en masse after what it likes and frowns on what it
dislikes. Scope for rationality is yet to rise in the society. J 480) He who needs money for spending
meaningfully, will earn endlessly. & 481) The capacity to try and accomplish
something by the very method that will destroy it shows that one is still in
the plane of mind and its ignorance. 5 482) The opposition to any change mostly
tries to strengthen it physically, vitally help it to release greater energy
and offers a greater understanding in the mind. J 483) The great achievements of one who is
outside the Establishment are negatively resisted and positively recognised
by Silence. Appreciation here is not the order of the day. J 484) Rebels arise from outside, not
inside. The only instance in history is Gorbachev destroying the Communist
party from inside. Gorbachev is a unique rebel who destroyed the system
from inside. J 485) The greatest of compliments one can
get from the ignorant public is that you are ignorant. A greater one is that
you are wicked. The ignorant public initiating the movement to destroy
someone is the finest stamp that he is truly a great soul, maybe tending
towards avatarhood. 5 486) He who knows the level or point where
he levels off, has a future possibility of growth. Whether he continues to
progress or not, he is the evolving godhead at that point. 5 487) The route for Indian prosperity is to
discover Brahman in Life.5 488) Discovery of Brahman in Life,
includes discovering Brahman in Matter. 5 489) Yoga brings the outer and inner
together into one unified whole at a higher level of created existence. & 490) No one will fail to achieve a work
when he pushes his mind away.J 491) No devotee can escape LUCK if
he does not stop for a minute from working. 5 492) Indolence is the physical version of
the unconsciousness of the soul in trance. 5 493) Each time man misses an opportunity,
Mother opens a greater one which is more difficult to avail of. 5 494) Work uncomplainingly consecrating it,
and LUCK will seek you.5 495) How can you not be happy if you
stop complaining? & 496) Man who attempts surrender achieves
the same to a higher, finer version of his desire. 5 497) Inspiration energises, whether it is
right or wrong. Intuition illuminates, right or wrong. 5 498) Efficiency is to redirect the
outward energies inside. Effectivity
is to redirect the outward impulses inward. Spiritual
prosperity is infinite; material prosperity is finite. Prosperity
is spiritual, not material. Accomplishment
is in the Being, not Becoming. & 499) Knowledge moves down to the physical
consciousness and substance as physical sensation and sensitivity when it
becomes power and effective. Knowledge
begins as an unrelated observed information and ends as power of the
individual over the collective. Any progress is to move on this scale
further. 5 500) • Faith, grace and supergrace. • Gross,
subtle and causal planes. • Problems,
opportunities and self-choice. •
Subconscious, conscious and Superconscious. •
Subliminal, inner being and surface. • Ignorant
seeking, conscious seeking and what comes by
itself. • What comes
by itself through ignorance and consciousness. • Problems
belong to life, opportunities belong to mind, grace belongs to Spirit. • These
several trios need not necessarily have a fixed
correspondence. & |
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