24 April

Some days in the life of great men and Avtars have a very symbolic importance. The Mother came first time Pondicherry on 29 march 1914 and got the Darshan of Sri Aurobindo. She understood it is the place where she is to do work whole the life. But due to circumstances of first world war she had to leave Pondicherry on 22 february 1915.

A question arises that do circumstances affect Avtars too. The answer is that outwardly it looks so but inwardly Avtars accept circumstances themselves to destroy them or to transform them.

In the life of Lord Krishna an Asur comes to kill him in the form of a big boa. And Lord Krishna enters to its stomach through its mouth with his friends willingly and knowingly and reaching in its stomach He expands himself. The stomach of boa was tore off to death. So He kills Asur by his own way.

When The Mother comes in 1914 she requests Sri Aurobindo to write something. Sri Aurobindo was not interested in any work of writing. But on the request of The Mother he accepted to write. A magazine named by ‘Arya’ was started and Sri Aurobindo wrote so many essays in series which we get in books form nowadays i.e. ‘The Life Divine’, ‘The Synthesis of Yoga’, ‘The Human Cycle’, ‘The Fundamentals of Indian Culture’, ‘Essays on The Gita’, ‘Secrets of Vedas’ and ‘The future Poetry’ etc.

Now if we take it as a symbol it was not the publication of Sri Aurobindo’s thoughts. It was a direct attack on forces of falsehood. When such a time comes these negative forces collect themselves to resist the work of positive side. And it resulted in first world war. Due to circumstances created by first world war The Mother had to leave Pondicherry. Outwardly The Mother accepted the circumstances but inwardly it is sure that it was just to destroy or transform the bad effects of first world war.

So when The Mother came to Pondicherry on 24 April 1920 as final arrival, she herself told for the incident:

‘‘My return to Pondicherry was the tangible sign of the sure Victory over the adverse forces’’.

The Power of Discrimination

When we sit in meditation we find gradually that all thoughts are coming from outside. We see that we are not the creators of thoughts. We are just giving them our own colours and our own words.
But when we become strong in doing meditation we can see them before they enter in our minds. And then we can discriminate them in two parts. One of them is coming from Truth and second is coming from Falsehood.
This discrimination power is with us but we have to exercise it. We can exercise it by two means. First is meditation and second is to follow truth in action in our day to day life. Even after findings in meditation we should have to follow in our action the right path. By meditation we can know the difference between Truth and Falsehood quicker than action path. But it goes totally useless if we do not follow according to our findings. In action path to differentiate between Truth and Falsehood is more tough because an action path seeker does not have a big capacity to think over what is right and what is wrong. Whatever he takes as Truth and follows as a humble seeker then one day he gets a clearcut understandings of the Truth. A man of meditation can be a winner in talks but if he does not follow on his findings one day he will be a looser.
The power of discrimination is always with us. It is on us to discover it by following one of these paths or by following at once both the paths

Peace

Our mind always wants peace. But It is a fact that our vital does not want a continuous peace. It feels a boredom by continuous peace. So it pressurizes our mental and physical to do something by which this peace could be broken. Sometimes our mental does not comes under the influence of our vital and give some suggestions to vital to calm down. But it may be when we have made a strong mental. But in most cases it is defeated. Sometimes it may be successful in calming down vital but feels an unrest itself.
Our physical is mostly made up by inertia. So it hinders vital but it takes a high taste in vital activities. So almost everytime it is a defeated player.
Man is a mental animal and it has highest mind in comparison to all other animals in the world. But a vast majority of manhood is dominated by vital. Although the mind of man is getting stronger and stronger day by day but when vital allures it, it forgets all its strength.
What can we do? Obviously mental is higher than vital in quality but it is not so stronger to win vital. We should search in our heart. There we will find a psychic ( soul ). This psychic can easily win our vital as well as our mental which sometimes gets stained by our vital. Then we will get a such type of peace which will be willing accepted by our vital.

Something on Love

I want to write something on Love. In beginning we love our mother and then our father. After that we love our siblings, because at toddler age our home is just like a whole world for us. When we grow some more we love our friends and relatives. And one step forward we love our country. And at last we love humanity. Here we can add that we can love animals and flowers too. If our parents give us some teaching we love God too.
But I say you to think some deep and then you will accept that you love only yourself. Whoever hurts you, you diminish your love towards him. Your love always wants a love in reply. You hesitate to say this because if you say this you may be called a selfish person by other persons.
Is it wrong to love a person with a selfish interest. Everybody will say that it is certainly very wrong to love a person with a selfish interest. But why? Because if you are loving a person with a selfish interest you are not loving him but you are loving yourself. And this is not love. This love may be converted in a repulsion at a time when we do not get love in response.
Then what is the solution. The solution is very simple. Love everybody with seeing God in his/her heart. And it is the secret of secrets that when we love a person with seeing God in his/her heart, He/she will give love in response.

Read the Mind

. Read Your Mind
Normally our mind guides us and we do whatever it says. But there is a thing in us which can control our mind. We want to search it but in beginning we don’t find it. But this search gives us a very loving thing. We see that our mind has been divided in two parts. Now one is seeing while the second one is instructing ( desiring ) to do something .
But this is not a very thing for which we want to search. After a time this seer mind will be helpless to restrict this instructing ( desiring ) mind. In outer world we can see it too. A time comes when nobody accepts the words of our seers ( saints ). Or a very few accept the words of seers but this little amount does not help to constitute a good society.
Our need presses us to search a more. A time comes and we find Overmind. It is totally beyond our mind. If we live in Overmind we get a high quality of peace and a high power too.
But we have a vital and physical portions too. This vital-consciousness sometimes gives us such a strong desires that Overmind is unable to fulfill them. It ( Overmind ) sends its moral teachings to us but our vital is not ready to accept it. And Overmind is quite unable to win our Physical-consciousness. Its tendency of laziness is very hard to overcome by Overmind. And when it raises some doubts with the help of mind then it is quite impossible for Overmind to overcome them. Some questions like ‘ is this world false’ or ‘who has made this universe’ are very hard to reply by Overmind.
Now our mind again searches for the solutions. Now it gets the Supermind. It may solve our all questions.