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DAILY MESSAGES Series VI 551) The charm of the male for the
female starts with the plant, survives in the animal, romanticizes itself in
the human and consummates itself in the Ishwara. The Ishwara enjoys the act of creation in
his Shakti. The Shakti, having travelled through involution and evolution
returns to Ishwara to consummate her mission. Together they return to the
Absolute. & 552) When you fully learn the essence
of a certain experience, it goes out of your mind completely. Complete
knowledge gives complete forgetfulness.
The past, lingering as a memory, is a sign of imperfect knowledge from
that experience. & 553) Where knowledge is imprecise and
imperfect, it is customary that people insist that their own wrong knowledge,
which they have been used to for a
long time, is right. Right, for them,
is their own habit, not the true right form. J 554) A man cannot be always positive or
positive to all people. He can be so to those whom he chooses. One who is
positive to all is no longer human. J 555) A work’s progress is dependent on the
rise of emotions in the doer. If not about that work itself, at least emotion
for some other thing must rise. It is emotion that achieves, not the body or
mind.J 556) Conscious enjoyment is full and
manysided, truly all-sided. Therefore, it moves up constantly. Unconscious
enjoyment is partial and each bout has to be compensated before the next
rises.J 557) To be God’s instrument we must
receive His Grace and give it as Love to all. We refuse to receive grace and
become finite. The finite is unable to practise self-giving to the other
finites or the infinite not-self which turns out to be selfish or fear. He
who is selfless and altruistic tries to give his knowledge or sympathy or his
own possessions which can only help his ego grow. Give we must, not our own possessions but love,
which we receive as Grace from the Divine. 5 558) Mother respects our freedom to act
and insists on our choice. We use that freedom with a vengeance. 5 559) To speak or to think is to be in
Time. To be silent is to be in Timelessness. To be able to think, speak or act from Silence
is to be in the simultaneous integrality of Time-eternity and
Timeless-eternity. To speak makes things clear; to think makes
understanding clear; to be silent makes for higher understanding; to think in
silence makes the human act divine. 5 560) When a man acquires power, more
people are able to accept him and his ideas than before. When a man acquires
supramental power, all whom he deals with will readily obey him in life, if
not in yoga. 5 561) When the mind loses its curiosity,
the vital loses its zest for life or the body fails to generate excess
energy, it means the soul has decided that it cannot use this embodied being
any more. Then OLD AGE sets in, senility follows, ailments get
lodged in the body. As long as the mind wants to learn or the vital wants to
live or the physical is energetic or the soul wants to use the being, there
is neither old age nor death. It is possible to arrive at such a situation
even at a young age. 5 562) Loyalty’s best expression is
faithfulness to the wife. One who is incapable of being unfaithful is a
mental man of idealism. He who enjoys his loyalty is one who lives his
idealism. It is a feminine virtue to be instinctively
loyal. Physical purity comes from previous
generations. Mental purity comes from previous births. Pure body and an
impure mind is the formative stage of a mental soul. Pure mind and an impure
body shows incomplete formation.5 563) Chastity is the beauty of the soul. Chastity of the body and mind belongs to the
great soul or unformed goodness. 5 564) Process of transcending mind and
reaching Supermind: Conceptual
– work out the process of Being, Consciousness, Ananda, Truth changing into
Non-Being, Inconscience, Insensibility, Falsehood. Do the same for Goodness,
Beauty, Delight, Power, Eternity, Infinity, Immortality, Peace, Silence for
their opposites. A full conception of the lower becoming the higher will give
the mental consciousness the full potentiality to transcend mind. Practical
: practise of any of them starts
giving the power to reach Supermind; practise of all of them yields the
supramental consciousness. Fullness: The body consciousness admitting this
knowledge and agreeing to this practise is the fullness of supramentalisation
of the SUBSTANCE. & 565) Truth to Falsehood: I – Truth –
Truth Consciousness – Conscious of its own fact. Harmony, unity, energy – inertia, Falsehood. II – Truth –
Truth Consciousness – Conscious of its own fact – energy
of action – losing energy and becoming inert (Falsehood is the potential energy
of lack of action and awareness.) & 566) Subjective and Objective
conditions are interchangeable because they are one; Time and Space are
interchangeable. Matter – energy on one side and Time and Space on another
side are inter-convertible as they are all four different conditions in a
chain of successive changes. & 567) How does the movement from action
to the psychic take place? Object – Analysis – Ego – Purusha – Psychic. When
we are lost in an act, we are the object. Detachment
makes for analysis. Thinking shifts the centre to Ego. Silence takes him to
Purusha. When moving from the Timeless to simultaneous Time and Time
eternity, the psychic emerges. This is the Being of the Becoming. The Being,
i.e. the psychic, rises to the Supreme Ishwara through silence, light,
intuition and intuition inside. To rise to
the Absolute from there, it must cease to manifest. From there it can choose
to manifest at the Supramental level or down to the level of Matter. As in the
ascent one moved from thought to knowledge inside, so in the descent the
order is reversed. E.g. coming to Silence, he acts from the higher mind. From
there he begins to think and talk, to act in the mental plane, but presided
over by the inner Silence. & 568) To receive Grace and use it for
smaller purposes is involution. To let Grace impact on the small so that it
rises is evolution. & 569) In the great man, his routine
responsibilities become subconscious, leaving his conscious energies free to
maintain his greatness. In the small
man capable of potential greatness, the routine work remains conscious and he
remains small. 5 570) Matter is God in the descent. The
Supramental Being is God in the ascent. & 571) It is no longer religious worship
but spiritual illumination, says Mother. As long as we ask, ‘What shall I
do?’, ‘What is the rule or dharma which we should follow?’, it is to follow
another’s awakening and therefore it is religious worship. When we surrender
and let the Divine act, we allow the spirit in us to awaken.& 572) Every obstacle, injustice, or evil
doing is an occasion for getting over the ego. & 573) Even infinite energies on an
unorganised finite organisation cannot produce more than three or four times
expansion. If the organisation has no measuring rod for work and is
impressionist, he may not feel any progress at all. At best, he may feel the
work has become streamlined. 5 574) Constant remembrance is no
exalted, noble phrase. It is memory becoming Mother. Beyond memory lies
consciousness and beyond consciousness lies substance. Constant
presence in the substance is to be God. The same remembrance in the
consciousness enables one to become God. When memory develops the same
remembrance, it achieves as God achieves. & 575) Man reaches a point in his life
where his actions or thoughts cease or if they ever issue, issue out of a
source that is no longer a cause. Such a joy is causeless joy, such an action
is an action that moves the world. To
be in touch with a causeless joy is to be spiritually free. & 576) To fashion the strategy by which
people and society will move at once is the ultimate in development. To do
so, it is necessary to prepare the society or the society should be prepared.
It is a rare adventure to prepare an immature society by fashioning that
strategy. J 577) Moving from thought to silence is
moving from the gross plane to the subtle plane. 5 578) Patience is the ability to wait for
any action till all aspects of a work are known. When all aspects are fully
known, the work moves into action by itself. Before that, one takes
initiative to act. 5 579) To discover one’s soul and help
others discover theirs is the only service man can do. & 580) The boat of man moving upstream in
the river of life is yoga. It is a nonstop effort of greatest strain. A moment of respite pushes the boat
downstream. 5 581) The practice of self-giving in the
beginning will end up in self-enrichment. In the final stages, self-giving
practised genuinely will enrich the plane of life where it is practised by
enriching everyone there. 5 582) When we refuse to trust Mother, we
really put ourselves into the hands of life which decides according to our
karma. Better to put ourselves in Her hands. When you
arrive at a dead end it is always a resistance or refusal of Grace, not a
confusion or incapacity. 5 583) The ignorance that makes human life
miserable is understood to be as one of NOT knowing. That ignorance by
which one wilfully ignores what he knows very well makes for certain
destruction and acts as the protective cover for the first type of ignorance.5 584) If Love is born in you, give it to
the Shakti, not to a woman. Shakti alone can receive it, as she has generated
it. The woman can receive only a physical, vital version of it unless she
herself raises herself to become Shakti. One secret
of this yoga is to receive Grace and give it out as Love. Grace cannot
express itself as (human) love. & 585) Energy is the Immutable’s
self-chosen movement. Eternal
movement results in force. Self-chosen
movement is energy. & 586) Matter–Energy in Being becomes
Time and Space in consciousness, obeying the rule of reversal of
consciousness. This can be reduced to a formula or several formulas if by
concentration mind is raised to consciousness and Being. & 587) Man thinks of Mother in times of
crises. A great crisis drives him to call Her. A devoted heart thinks of Her
involuntarily. He who loves to call Her and enjoys calling Her is a bhakta. A
sadhak longs and yearns to call Her. Devotion turns into sadhana when the
memory of Mother becomes sweet and one cannot exist without calling Her, as
calling is then his breath of life. & 588) Surrender begins after the
realisation of the individual soul dissolving the ego. Consecration leads to
that. One starts with aspiration. It is aspiration of all the parts all the
time that is capable of maturing into consecration. Opening in all parts and
sincerity in the central being can result in that aspiration. As this new
evolution needs a double opening, one has to wait until the whole being
opens. Opening, sincerity, aspiration, consecration and surrender are the
landmarks in yoga. & 589) Mathematics is the very first
codification of the mental formulation of consciousness. Physics and
mathematics represent two branches of knowledge and naturally get intertwined
at their origin. J 590) Equality is only for a SILENT mind.
5 591) Accomplishment in life requires
risking all that one gained until that point. Yoga demands that you come
forward to lose entirely what you gained or created until now. & 592) When a real strength does not cross
the plane you are in, pushed to its extreme, it will turn into a weakness in
another area. The principle here is strength is only one aspect. Real growth
is growth of all aspects and into the next plane. In its absence, increasing
the intensity of one aspect will have opposite results. 5 593) Silence results when activity is
destructured. Peace issues when Existence dissolves. The Absolute created the
Self-conscious Being through Peace. & 594) Mother always gives ‘more than
what we ignorantly asked for.’ For the elite, She denies what they ask for and
gives what they never knew to exist. For the chosen, She offers what they
never could have conceived of as possible, since it is from the realms of new
creation. & 595) Sri Aurobindo has told in The Life
Divine how the world was created and why. The Absolute choosing for one more
joy, in the exercise of its prerogative of being infinite, decided on the
course of self-concealing so that self-discovery would yield that intended
joy. The creation proceeds from the
Self-conscious Being until it converts itself into inconscient Matter through
the intermediate stages of Consciousness, Supermind, Mind and Life. His
arguments are fully rational, and explanations are logical. In the course of
these explanations, He goes to the root of the matter and explains fully
Being, Consciousness, Supermind, Mind and Matter. They are from the side of
construction or creation. We can best understand those terms as well as terms
like ego, Time, infinity, mind, life, sensation, feeling, thought, plane,
etc. only from the side of our experience. We cannot find it in the book. To
know the above terms clearly and concretely, even as we know the terms body,
town, pen, etc., is necessary for a full appreciation of his philosophy. He has given the theory of creation with
rational clarity and logical consistency. We have to extend it to practical
appreciation evolving practical concepts. A practical concept of Infinity is the
first real touch of His philosophy. & 596) Concentration is to shift the centre
of comprehension to a deeper level. 5 597) When the letter of the law was
butchering President Clinton, the spirit of the law was raising the rate of
his popularity. J 598) Intensity can change directions. 5 599) An individual Idea becomes public
opinion long before any semblance of its becoming an organisation. At best,
some organisation espouses that Idea. Thus, slowly public opinion becomes the
opinion of public organisations when it may become a movement. The movement
creates the first organisation through national law. J 600) The talents in others that surprise
us are three fourths training. The inborn part of it also lends itself to
training if there is superior interest. 5 |
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