by Mother’s Service Society
Oct. 9, 2001
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Having known Mother for a long
time, one often feels that he has not made any progress by knowing Her. Some
say, “There was an initial spurt, later it subsided.”
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When Mother is
all, how can one not feel the change?
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In times of prosperous
transition, we see most people benefit and a few remain unaffected.
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There are others who see the
treasure Mother is, but She remains a treasure untouched.
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The truths of social transition
will clarify these positions.
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Some changes
like the Russian Revolution of 1917 compel everyone to accept the new way of
life.
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Events like
Indian freedom of 1947 remove the fetters of slavery. Those who consciously
avail of the freedom prosper beyond measure and others do not understand what
is happening.
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The advent of
T. V. attracts everyone by its value of entertainment and the social pressure
of spreading new fashion compels everyone to avail of it.
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Brave men await
opportunities of danger and rush at them, and when they succeed become world
famous.
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There are
pioneers and followers.
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There are
social changes that are compelling like having a telephone when it is first
spreading without which life is impossible.
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There are
others like education which if missed push you down to a lower level, but one
survives.
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It is not
difficult to imagine the other ways of change.
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Here, the question is for one
who knows Mother’s spiritual abundance and his own unchanged status even though
knowing all about Her.
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Maybe he will
answer to one of the descriptions of the above mentioned social changes, as all
are there in Mother.
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We know the agents of
achievement. They are energy, aspiration, choice, decision, dynamism, skill and
a variety of aspects representing oneself as well as society.
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The desired change requires all of them. No one who does not have even ONE of them can hope for it.
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Such changes and their
requirements can be conceived of in a graded fashion with spiritual
transformation at the top and physical survival of the unfittest
at the bottom.
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All phenomena we witness in the
society are in-between. Among them some can be considered,
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Meteoric rise
to national prominence.
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Moving from the
middle class to the upper class.
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Daily wage
earner changing into a small proprietor.
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A life of
problems losing all its problems.
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A young man
rising to international fame by writing a book.
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A technology
making one very rich.
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All one’s rich
experience suddenly changing into rewards.
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These changes will easily go into
a scale of physical energy to spiritually rich mental ideas.
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One can choose any avenue to
rise by qualifying for it.
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I have chosen a
phenomenal increase in income, as it has two advantages.
§ Being a goal of life, it is integrated at its own level and cannot suffer from the defects of being partial.
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It is almost the easiest
situated at the low end of the scale in the vital plane.
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One great value of this accomplishment is, as it is an
accomplishment in life, it keeps open the doors of progress for the man to rise
further if he chooses.
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The aim of this article is to
show how such a goal can be comprehensively achieved and how even one of the hundred
ways too can accomplish it, if chosen with full understanding.
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Done RIGHTLY, the progress cannot be
anything other than of infinite dimensions in its own social context.
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This needs no argument at all,
as those in the society who have risen from an untouchable family to national
Presidency have done this, of course unconsciously.
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The process is to do consciously what hundreds of men have done
unconsciously.
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In its simplest form, it can
be stated as “Avail of all opportunities with a vengeance till the last drop of
your energy is exhausted.” This gives infinite expansion.
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At the other end the principle
is, “The difference between two at the top level and the bottom level is after
all ONE item of efficiency taken to its extreme.”
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Consider two
friends of comparable talents, one of whom is a local lawyer and the other a
person who has risen very high in the scale. We find the explanation to be one
from the list below.
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Well, he pays
full attention to his profession and I have not.
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He always looks
for fresh knowledge and benefits by it.
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He practises what he believes.
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He works hard
and I do not like work.
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If you go about collecting all
the thousand possible explanations, they all reduce to one of the principles
stated below.
One of the standards of efficiency fully accepted and implemented makes the difference between life and death.
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It is possible
to create a comprehensive scale of efficiency as determined by energy,
direction, organisation, values at the physical, vital, mental, spiritual
levels so that we will have before us hundreds of paths of efficiency rising
from below.
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Any two people of comparable
capacities differing fifty times in accomplishment can always be cited on ONE
of these scales at two ends.
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Studies
undertaken extensively will justify this theme.
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My own conclusion experimented with many token cases and from observation
over fifty years, corroborated by the study of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother is,
It is easy to raise oneself fifty times by a full-throated effort of perfect efficiency even in one level.
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