May 31, 2002
v The theme
of this paper is the Time is ripe for humankind to receive the knowledge of Luck
as a Formula and if given, the world will accept it, if not readily like wild
fire, then gradually in a few years which by itself,
— will
eradicate poverty, ignorance, and disease.
— will
convert all psychological complexes into centers of energy of happiness.
— will
render earth a peaceful abode for happy affluent humanity advancing 3000 AD to
now.
v This paper
will enumerate the theoretical assumptions that are justifications of these
expectations.
v What will
spread like wildfire as fashion spreads are
— The appeal
to individual Freedom as Tom Peters advocates. It is an appeal to an idea, but
the most powerful of appeals the world has seen.
— The magic
of Harry Potter to children, as children are the only awakened part of
population and magic to them is Spirituality. Magic is the spirituality of
the vital.
v Since 1872
when Sri Aurobindo was born and 1878 when The Mother was born, 120 years have
abridged 500 to 1000 years of progress in human freedom, dissolution of
colonies, discoveries of technologies that abridged space and time, raising the
least of men into full manhood, etc.
v Society,
organisations, individuals do not fully utilize all the opportunities they
create for themselves. Presently only less than 50% of created opportunities
are used.
v This can
be explained by the fact that the very long lists of deficiencies and
sufferings will be very short or will disappear altogether, if all the known
remedies are used. Just as historically nations have been blind to veritable
dangers, now they are unconscious of opportunities.
v These
opportunities are in the outer world. To avail of them by outer efforts will
take centuries. Outer opportunities will readily avail themselves of an inner
effort.
v If this
inner effort is reduced to a readily available form in each sector of life, we
can expect the population to respond fully and quickly, if not miraculously and
instantaneously.
v The subconscious
knows what it does perfectly as if it acts by a FORMULA.
v The will
that implements the knowledge of the mind fumbles, but the same will when
guided by the knowledge buried in it works perfectly as if it is the
subconscious intelligence.
v We know
the phenomenon of our not being able to be rational in the other man’s case as
in our own. People who accept their own mythologies question the mythologies of
others.
v Man who is
perfectly efficient in survival, ceases to be so in growth. Common sense in
old life is refused to new ways of life.
v He who is
truthful in speech is not so in practice.
v No one
passes the test of “Don’t repeat the errors”.
v Our
attention energises the problem. Detachment dissolves.
v Life
changes the FORM, retains the essence of content.
v Revolutions
erupted as the writing on the wall was ignored.
v The
Decision must be in Quadrant I.
v Centre
yourself not in the Becoming but in the Being of the Becoming.
v Nothing works
when the atmosphere is not ready or ripe.
v Methods
can use the atmosphere, but cannot create it.
v Transport,
education, etc. are the social powers man has created.
v Powers in
man are social, psychological and Spiritual.
v Our theme
is MAN has all the powers he needs to solve all his problems, to create
Luck and exceed the performance of 2002 A.D.
— He does
not fully utilize the powers he has created.
— Those who
draw more on the social powers rise. Those who lag behind are those who are
unable to draw upon or are not drawing upon those powers.
— Such
unutilized powers are in society, in psychology and above the fabric of
psychology.
— Should
that possibility be reduced to a FORMULA, people will avail of it.
— To
recognize the existence of such powers and to have a willingness to draw upon
them are the two halves of work.
— The Theory
of our Formula is the outer power that takes long to be commissioned is at once
called into play from inside. The secret we offer is release the
outer power from inside.
v Man also
uses physical powers such as magnetism and gravitation that are invisible and
subtle.
v Powers of comprehension
and culture too stay organised in the atmosphere, not the physical but the
subtle atmosphere.
v The poet
draws on cultural and psychological power in the subtle atmosphere for his own
creation.
v The
magician uses mental powers, though temporarily.
v As law,
dharma too comes to man’s rescue, if less regularly.
v The
potential created by a society, an organisation, a family or an individual is
always for more than can be utilized. Therefore there is always an excess to
be drawn upon. This excess is available in two dimensions, horizontally as
the lowest organisational possibility and vertically, as the spiritual
possibility. After 1947, Indians who bought the companies of British found a
treasure house in them. One company in which ten crores of rupees was invested
was found to contain a fringe benefit of 500 crores.
v East India
Company of
v Companies
are vital, ideas are mental. Organised ideas make soldiers rule over the world
for millenniums as it did Socrates and Buddha. Armies are physical. Once a
physical organisation is successfully created it can rise to any height and even
world domination as in the cases of Caesar, Napoleon and Chenghis Khan.
v I am now
pleading for the creation of such an organisation in the highest inner heights
of the Individual which can be called higher mental or Spiritual which by its
organisational powers master Life.
v Should
that ever happen, the 21st century will be the century of the
Spiritual Individual even as the 20th century was the century of the
common man.
v Life in general
as well as in particular does not exhaust man’s potential. Therefore, no
problems created by that life can be too many for a higher, inner power of man.
v How does a
man see the existence of that power? As explained before, it can be seen in the
existence of the vast subconscious power that is unfailing on which our social
life is built. Sri Aurobindo’s yoga of earthly paradise, a standing Marvel of
life is based on Man moving his centre of functioning from his own Becoming to
the Being of his Becoming. All revolutions were created when man shut his eyes
to facts of life, which is this subconscious efficiency. The Theory knows all
Decisions from the First Quadrant always succeed. Problems are in dead forms,
not in the living essence. For ages, wise men have declared it is only man who
energises his problems and those problems have no real hold on him. Who does
not know that the man who does not repeat his earlier errors never fails? Truth
knows no failure if it expresses not only in words but in acts. The other man’s
point of view, and the old wisdom have never failed. In supramental terms, the
knowledge inside the will never fails. My proposal is to present a NEW
FORMULA in terms of the everlasting values of the old accomplishment so that
humanity will be able to respond without hesitation.
v Once man
sees the existence of such a power, how can he release it into action, draw
upon it, lay his hands on it for fuller utilization? The secret lies in
commonplace truths. Man knows all problems are of disharmony and therefore he
seeks the solutions in harmony, not in outer harmony that needs long periods of
preparation but in inner harmony. All problems of man are created by his
reactions, ignorance, unconsciousness, superstition, and lack of organisation.
So he moves to inner equality, inner comprehension to master outer ignorance,
inner awakening of consciousness, inner clarity of actual information instead
of bogus impressions that foster fertile superstitions. Thus he moves to
overcome situations created by the lack of organisation outside in life
and he organises himself inside.
v It is
worth repeating how he can arrive at that power.
— As our
problems arise out of the arrears in the past, let him attack his past and
remove the mental arrears.
There will
be no future problems.
— Anyone has
the outer form of religious faith or inner core of personal faith. Let that be
raised one step.
— Human
personality can be measured on scales variously constructed, one of which
is from the capacity to repeat to the capacity for comprehension. Let him raise
himself one notch on that scale.
— In the
collective, the problems present themselves differently. The truth is Social
Potentials remain unexhausted at all levels. At the highest levels it is no
more than 70%. At the lowest levels it can go as low as 20%. In times of social
transition the lowest utilisation doubles in quantity as well as quality. The
knowledge we propose here is direct power, not one that needs to be converted
into power. If presented rationally in
such a fashion that it can be readily practised, say as a FORMULA, the social
response of utilisation of the existing social potentials can rise all over the
spectrum 5 to 10 % more. Should that ever happen, the problems of the world
– poverty, disease, ignorance, violence, depression, inner disharmony, minor
military conflicts, etc. – can be swept away in one stroke.
v Of course,
either in the life of the individual or the collective it is possible ONE
significant problem may defy solution or ONE type of problem may remain
unsolved. Solution to this may need as
much effort as taken hitherto with greater intensity but requires no new
knowledge. Once major progress is achieved, this will be comprehensible.
v There is a
spiritual truth that the all-inclusive concentration has a prior revelation.
The light man now has becomes spiritual light. This is true of all the
spiritual aspects. It reveals the subtle world leaving no scope for ignorance.
v One more
thing. Physical submission of a part to its superior whole changes into
surrender of the whole to the awakened part so that the whole in involution
becomes the whole in evolution which is the Absolute in action.
v
This FORMULA can be repeated in terms of common
sense, organisation, evolution, spirituality, history, wisdom of the ages, or
theoretically. So, it will be 1. avoiding past errors, 2. shifting the
organisation from outside inside, 3. to apply the rules of survival to
evolution, 4. to moving from Becoming to Being of the Becoming, 5. to raise the
subconscious to Consciousness, 6. man can achieve what he aspires for and 7. a
decision that is sound in the outer as well as the inner never fails.
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