DAILY MESSAGES Series VII 401) To take
one impulse -- grudging or complaining -- that has been denied expression and
turn it into its very opposite will open the entire mind to its universality. GvµõP ©õÖ® ©Ú® Gmhõu E¯µzøuG® Gmk®. 402) Thinking
is a higher faculty than emotion. Emotion becoming devotion, excels thought.
The emotion of intelligence that the poet expresses and its puny version of
sentiment is superior to emotions. Spiritual
emotion is best expressed by gratitutde. Its simpler versions are affection,
loyalty, honesty, etc. When
psychic emotion acquies intelligence, it alone can excel emotions. These
are unknown to human relationships. It is vain to search for them there. The
stupid idealist awaits them in vain. ©øh¯ß C»m]¯® ÷£]ÚõÀ CÀ»õuøuz ÷ukÁõß. 403) There is
a value for an ineffective person as an instrument. What we foolishly
endeavour to accomplish, they thwart. Gøu²® AȨ£x CÀ»õuÁÝøh¯ C¯»õø©. 404) Many a time the frontiers of human knowledge have moved up. Each
time it appeared to be final. That is the sensation and vision of the
physical. Man, in this respect, is physical. The vital is unable to see the mental. The physical
emphatically feels it is final. EÒÍ÷u Eh¾US •iÄ.. 405) The value
of land rising in vast nations like the Âø»Áõ] HÔÚõÀ ©Ûuß {ø» E¯¸®. 406) Look at ANY act from the seven ignorances
and try to emerge out of them within the ambit of that act, relying
only on The Mother. It will be done. Thus, the supramental consciousness is
brought down into an act. GÊÁøP°ÛßÖ GÊÁx GÊa]. 407) When
inquiry is once started, it cannot stop, as it releases knowledge which is
Light; it goes beyond the consciousness. How can the inquiry be stopped until
it reaches the end? 408) To be a strong devotee of great goodness, one needs the ability
to rear a child without abusing, frowning, or feeling frustrated. SÇ¢øu Áͺ¨£uõS®. 409) The
excellent behaviour we see in the West is a far cry from us, Indians. Still
it is only behaviour, not character. It never reveals the inside where they
remain as uncultured as others are. Is
it possible for us to leap from where we are, skip that thin veneer of good
behavour and acquire real goodness? It
is, if we express the Light inside. Gmhõuøu GÊa] Gmk®. 410) A moral
society remains moral by resorting to immoral methods in the extreme. uÁØøÓ \› GÚ¨
÷£õØÖ® ©Ûu EÒÍ®. 411) Gossip is
the instrument for preserving negative values of the society through mean
methods. And its success is great. P¯ÁÝUS øP {øÓ¯ öÁØÔ. 412) Any
ideal of man today needs its purity to be defended by violence, thus
revealing the twin facts of mental idealism and the survival of physical
brutality. Only that ideal that needs no brute force, or vital deceptiveness
or mental prevarication for its survival is an ideal that has spiritual
adulthood. Áß•øÓUS
CÛ ÁõÌÂÀø». 413) Systems advance unorganised activities. For organised activities
to advance, any system is a bar. They should resort to a coordination not
based on work but on inner appreciation of work. Aø©¨ø£U Ph¢u AÇ÷P AÇS. 414) Man who
gives up unilateral extension of one work that succeeds will not have people
of opposite character in charge of his projects. Learning
the inner restraints removes the outer obstacles. 415) That one should be happy all the time even in doing routine
things has been an axiom in all periods of life. Except that it helped to
hold the flame of an ideal aloft all the time, the misery it caused to life
is endless. EßÚu »m]¯zøu²® EuÔz uÒÐÁx
Bz©õ. 416) To look
for the higher perfection in the lower plane is the ‘aspiration’ that moves
the conscience of man. BºÁ® Gߣx AvP£m\ \õuøÚ. 417) The mind
taking an extreme position based on its ideas alone directly leads to
suffering of the body. Body is famished with starvation as the mind foolishly
divorces itself from the body. [Jane Eyre’s leaving Rochester and becoming a
beggar is an instance.] ]Ô¯
EÒÍzvß ö£›¯ »m]¯® ]uÖ® C»m]¯®. 418) The
social collective overcomes the individual vital shortcomings in a subsequent
generation and laughs at acts it frowned on earlier, feels the right of the
other man in doing something for which he would have been murdered for
earlier, showing the latent capacity in man. In yoga, one has to do so now
by thought energised by Mother’s consciousness, as She offers those
alleviating circumstances. ÷|ØøÓ¯ öPõø»²® öPõkø©²® CßøÓ¯ ¸x. 419) Strength
is that which deters the opposing forces from the thought of opposing. Even
the opposing forces wanting to serve your cause is another expression of
strength. When
a section of the population comes to adore the fresh ideas and defends them,
not by old methods but by ones that are new, the very first base is created. GÎø©°ß Á¼ø© Gv›ø¯
|s£ÚõUS®. 420) --
Values are organised spiritual knowledge reduced to skill that resemble
formulas. Even at the Overmental level they survive, though that plane offers
the energy to overcome the values. It offers opportunities also readily. --
As it is still in Ignorance, higher work is to be done by apparently sinful
acts expressing negative values. -- The
capacity to dispense with values in any plane and dispense with negative acts
of sinful appearance belongs to the supramental consciousness in any plane --
vital or mental or even physical. £s¦ £Âzvµ©õÚ vÓø©. 421) Energy
gained must be spent to complete the cycle. Man loves to spend it on woman,
who alone is his complement. When spent at a lower level, it is dissipation,
while at the same level it is a support and energises. The
physical man finds the physical woman easily. The vital man too finds his
equal, but not so easily. The spiritual man is denied the woman, except at
his peril. Still, those men fall a frequent prey to women sent to them. Is
the spiritual man permitted to meet his compeer, as women are forbidden entry
into Spirit? If so, would he not
be entirely destroyed by that choice as the act is that of the animal? Could
Spirit exchange at its own level refraining from the animal act? The
women who are barred entry into Spirit by the tradition are out of bounds to
spirituality in any other context as animality has no role to play in
spirituality. Showing animality the door, the woman has only the role to play in man’s life as
Shakti when he rises to Ishwara. Outside that, man and woman are subject
to all the rules of yoga. ö£Óz uSv²ÒÍÁÒ ö£s. 422) Imagination
helps fulfil. Fantasy fulfils itself thus preventing real fulfilment. • PØ£øÚ P¸Å»®. • ÷Põmøh ÷PõmøhÂk®. 423) Mind’s ignorance becomes complete when it identifies itself with
the body. The soul’s discovery is complete when it discovers the soul in the
body. The discovery of the Absolute begins when the mind becomes
conscious; it becomes complete when it discovers the evolving soul it is in
the body and further the same in the earth. • ¦Â°ß BÇzv¾ÒÍx §µn®. • §µnzvØS›¯x §÷»õP®. 424) Patience becomes qualified for that attribute only when the
physical sensation partakes of it. ö£Öø©US›¯x
§uÄhÀ. 425) Gradations
in affection, goodness, etc. are of no avail as the opposites always surface
when the limits are crossed. What prevails exists beyond the borders. GÀø»ø¯U
Ph¢uõÀ Gv›²ÒÍõß 426) To know
that one’s mind is closed -- all minds are closed -- is the sign of an open
mind. To be able to see how it got closed and how it now remains closed is
certainly a mental perception humanity does not have now. {¯õ¯ìuß
A{¯õ¯zøu EnºÁõß. 427) To
acquire the knowledge of subtle truths is not so difficult as to make one’s
vital accept it. In India that knowledge is there. Europe and the US have
not acquired it as yet. `m_©•® ö£Ó»õ®, HØ£x PiÚ®. 428) To bring
oneself to fully share the joy of one who offends him by his betrayal since he
was once capable of a similar act is the act of awakening the thought in the
vital. EnºÄ ö£Ö® bõÚ® E»Pzøu E¯ºzx® bõÚ®. 429) A
rational man understands an explanation and acts on it. A vital man remains
unmoved by a rational explanation. He moves to action when he sees the
result. The physical man will not be convinced even by the results. AÔÄ®
EnºÄ® AÁÝUQÀø». 430) Any high
principle is fully understood only when you understand it in one of the daily
acts. ö£›¯øu
]Ô¯vÀ Põs£x bõÚ®. 431) Instead of feeling sorry for what we are, let us endeavour to
discover the marvel we are, as spiritually, it is the only truth. ÁõkÁuØS ÁÈ°Àø». öuõÈ¼ß ãÁß Czuø»¨¦ öPõsh ¡À öuõÈ»v£ºUS
AßøÚø¯ ÂÍUS® ¡À. öuõÈø»
A¤Â¸zv ö\´²® •øÓPøÍ ÂÍUSQÓx. “öuõÈÀ 6 ©õuzvÀ 10 ©h[S C»õ£® ö£ØÓx®, 1 1/2Á¸åzvÀ 9 ©h[ 432) The mind
that successfully stopped thinking tried to evaluate the results of that
stopping, thus reactivating the silent mind. • ]¢uøÚ¯õÀ
ö©ÍÚ® ]ÓUPõx. • ö©ÍÚ®
ö©ÍÚzuõÀ Á͸®. 433) Patience
deserves that name only when an occasion for anger or annoyance turns into
one of understanding that generates a smile at the other person’s situation. ¤Óøµ
AÔ²® CÛø© ö£õÖø©. 434) One can stop calling when Mother enters us and stays permanently. AøǨ¦ APzvØPÀ», ¦ÓzvØS. 435) Family exists only at the physical level. Nowhere has family
prevailed vitally, as it does with the physical facts in its plane. The
family of the Divine Soul is at the supramental level. Sri Aurobindo asks us
to rise from the physical to the supramental plane, as the Force necessary to
accomplish that has descended. Sk®£® Eh¼ß \‰P E¸Á®. 436) Secrecy
is the human version of exclusive concentration which puts off behind it all
the rest. CµP쯮
CÖv B²u®. 437) Inability
to give up friends because of close relationship is a physical trait. EÓÄ
Eh¾US›¯x. 438) Replacing the hold of a certain undesirable influence on you by
Mother is a complete relief. To replace a good influence by Mother is
greater still. Yoga is to replace ego by the psychic. ¤i¨¦ AßøÚUS |©UPÀ». 439) Living
in Mother’s atmosphere for a long time will upgrade all the parts of our
being and many faculties too. One such faculty, intellectuality, will be upgraded to
Thought, which means the mental sensation is upgraded into mental perception
or even conception partly. As a practical fact, The Life Divine
which was clear in parts earlier may now reveal more of itself. `ÇÀ PÛ¢x `m_©zøu Enºzx®. 440) Very
able efforts have been made to pervert high principles into low tricks. Maybe
we can try the reverse and it may purify the mind. uºUP® SuºUP©õ°ØÖ. SuºUP® uºUP©õÚõÀ v¸Ä¸©õÖ®. 441) Literature
becomes great or immortal not by the plot, not even by the characters but by
the atmosphere the poet is able to conceive of. Sometimes great litearture
can rise even in spite of the stature of the poet who writes it. Pøu²®,
PºzuõøÁ²® «Ô Põ»® Aȯõ
C»UQ¯zøu HØ£kzxQÓx. 442) Earthquake
and volcano eruption are earth’s call to man to live in harmony with her. §©õ÷u°ß
¦Ûu AøǨ¦ §P®£®. 443) Pollution
is the language of the environment that tells man of his disturbing the
balance that exists between him and the environment. `Ì{ø»°ß
£õv¨¦ `Ç¼ß AøǨ¦. 444) In
truth, all bodies are one. Can we at least grant that all minds are one? If
not, can we say that all mental interests are one? AøÚÁøµ²®
AߣµõP AÔÁx Bz©õ. 445) It is
not wise to attempt more than what one can accomplish. Self-preservation is,
of course, the first rule. To try to preserve the Self instead of the self
is the best compromise for the present. E°µÒÍÁøµ E»PzvØS ÷\øÁ. 446) The
human is determined by the character of the act. Having risen above the human
level, man determines the character of the act. • Pºzuõ
Põµn©õÚõÀ Pº©® Esk. • |õ÷© PºzuõÁõÚõÀ
Pº©ªÀø». • PõµnzvØS Pº©•sk, Põ›¯zvØQÀø». 447) Strength
in a field denotes only strength and does not imply anything beyond that. A
rich man cannot be expected to be wise or a wise man to be good. Strength
of any description is isolated and stands by itself. ©õ©µzvÀ ©À¼øP §UPõx. 448) The inner sun revealing is a high spiritual siddhi. Beyond it is
the knowledge that comes from consciousness. That is then two steps beyond
consciousness. `º÷¯õu¯® bõ÷Úõu¯®. 449) When devotion is ripe, one can see the mind calling Mother itself
acts as a bar for Her to enter. Beyond that stage, the calling should give
way to silent vital aspiration that refuses to go into words. AøǨ¦US AÁ]¯ªÀ»õu BºÁ®. 450) Courtesy
compelled by an obligation cannot express the loveliness of courtesy. When
one is courteous because that is the only way he can behave, courtesy
expresses its best savour. Courtesy
that wells up from inside brings out its own intensities, not when it is
circumscribed. |¯©õÚ |õPŸP® |À»ÁºUSÒÍx. |
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