March. 21,
2002
(by Karmayogi)
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All that Mother aspires for
man can be achieved by him if he follows the old, age old wisdom of Truth.
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If that is that SIMPLE, it
only means knowing is not knowledge and that knowledge too is not power.
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Can we then say power alone
matters, nothing else?
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Knowledge of the body in the
cells acts at once.
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Knowledge that is not power
is not full knowledge.
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Knowledge and will fusing
becomes true power.
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When the outer becomes inner,
speed rises phenomenally.
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Knowledge is a part; Unity,
Truth, Goodness, Power and Love complete knowledge.
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Manomaya Purusha is the Spirit of Life–Spirit; for
divine life, the supramental being must be born.
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We must move from Time to
Simultaneity.
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We must enter into the depth,
cross the inner mind, abandon the surface mind or allow the subliminal to
surface.
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Our parts of Being must
unite, know the other planes of existence, cross over Time, shed ego and leap
beyond the cosmic Self to know the Absolute.
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Discover the Infinite in the
finite.
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Realise the relative is the
Absolute.
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See the contradiction as the
aspiration of the subliminal.
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Discover the points of
reconciliation of Matter and Spirit in the cosmic and transcendental
consciousness.
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Know the mental psychic and
let it grow into the physical psychic and Ishwara.
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Let the ego dissolve,
psychic emerge and spread all over the universe.
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Mother and The Sri Aurobindo
can be stated in 15 or 20 more ways too. None of them are known to the past.
How can we say the knowledge of the future is in the past?
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It is true none of these
are part of the past. It is equally true that the knowledge required in the
future is in the past.
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The knowledge I speak of is POWER
that realises which divides in the consciously known facts and principles on
one side and the values and strategies called for to help those principles
yield the end results. The past knows those values and strategies in toto. This
is known as the wisdom of the world and without exception ALL aspects of
this vast great wisdom are enshrined in the proverbs of all nations as well as
in great literature. Even the lowest type of literature speaks of them and they
are taught to children as stories.
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What then is NEW in
Sri Aurobindo?
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We know man has developed so
far unconsciously and the future is for conscious development.
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In an episode of “Yes, Prime
Minister” called Party Games, Jim Hacker who was a junior Minister in the
Cabinet suddenly and unexpectedly becomes the Prime Minister. In his life as
well as in the life of the
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If one wants to do the same
thing in Mother’s consciousness, all that he needs to do is NOT to move away
from Mother’s consciousness and work as the characters in this play work.
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When a token work is
proposed, devotees err in 90% of the places in as many ways and in as many
strategies and feel that Mother’s Consciousness is too exacting and is
impossible. This episode shows all this is honoured in life FULLY at its
own level.
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It is clear that devotees who
cannot rise to the heights of life, cannot rise to the heights in Mother.
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Let me give the significant
points:
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Jim Hacker occupied the 4th
or lower place in the British Cabinet.
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His permanent Secretary was
one of the three senior secretaries in the civil service.
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The Cabinet Secretary called
Humphrey for a meeting over dinner and gently disclosed his intention to retire
six months early and said Humphrey’s name was in the top of the list of
probable candidates.
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In the next breath, he is
told that his is the only name in the list. Humphrey moved to his new post, and
suddenly Jim acquired a shade of higher respect to his own Permanent Secretary.
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A few days later the Prime
Minister declared his intention to resign on New Year, the same time the
Cabinet Secretary would be retiring.
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Jim Hacker was approached by
two aspirants to the PM’s post. Jim was in a dilemma, as support to one is
enmity of the other.
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The Home Secretary who was
the Deputy Leader of the party was charged with drunken driving and out of the
race.
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Humphrey called the Chief
Whip of the party and showed him one leaf in the file of each of the two
present aspirants, one accusing of involvement with an Argentine woman and the
other of an illegal financial deal.
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They decided that both the
existing aspirants were thus disqualified and decided on Jim Hacker as the only
available option.
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Jim was called into the
meeting and shown the relevant pages of the files.
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A day earlier Humphrey spoke
to Bernard in general terms and indirectly suggested to him, in his capacity as
Hacker’s private secretary, that he should plant a seed of this possibility in
Jim’s mind, which Bernard does.
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Jim did not catch the suggestion
at first. At its repetition, the potential greed came alive and caught the idea
but it remained inconceivable.
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Humphrey’s pretext in calling
Jim was he was at that time the party chairman.
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Humphrey and the chief whip
asked Jim to think of a third candidate.
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Jim rose to the occasion,
modestly putting himself in the background.
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The three of them silently
decided on their chosen course.
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Now both the aspirants must
withdraw.
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That job was given to Jim.
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Jim was told a candidate must
be a killer too, which idea Jim accepted.
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Jim eliminated both after a
deft handling.
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It was not enough they
withdrew. They should support Jim.
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Jim was told to explain to
the two aspirants that it was not enough they withdrew but both needed the protection
of the one who knew their secrets.
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Jim secured their support.
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It was not enough the field
was free but Jim needed an excuse, a boosting occasion in the eyes of the
public to deserve the post. He had already been told by Humphrey how to create
a situation that would put him in the limelight.
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Jim tried and succeeded.
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He became the PM and acquired
in the eyes of Humphrey a shade of higher respect this time in his turn.
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It is significant that no one
at any stage openly mentioned the work on hand. It was all done implicitly.
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One whose stature is high and
well deserves the post may thus be spoken to or spoken of.
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When the small rises to
heights or a new ideal is to enter into the portals of power, outspoken
expressions that are in the gross plane will not serve the purpose. It needs to
be done in the subtle plane which will not permit of explicit expressions.
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The job of eliminating the
rivals was given to Jim as he was a non-entity rising. To a person who is
already above, this would not be given.
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Reading the episode or seeing
the film with the rules of subtle life in mind will amply justify my view.
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One who desires to take up a
Token work must quality himself as Jim qualified himself for the post of PM.
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By doing the work from the
centre of Mother’s consciousness with the rules of life carefully and
dexterously followed, one is bound to discover the infinite in the finite.
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It is a JOY to know
the sincere loyalty of the civil service to work, master, and truth and they
are all the time aboveboard and without blemish.
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Sri Aurobindo says the
intelligence we see now in the very best was in there in the primitive man. The
form was already there.
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Along with the intelligence,
the strategies of work that complete it were there, as it was another form of
work intelligence.
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What was not there was the
higher consciousness. HE says Nature’s work will be over if the progress on all
the six fronts – Unity, Truth, Goodness, Knowledge, Power, Love – are over.
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Not only Sir Humphrey, but
wherever any work is well completed, e.g. in the battlefield, in a church, at home,
or in a company, one sees the presence of this intelligence and these
strategies.
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As the selfish man’s
efficiency is the same as the unselfish man’s efficiency, the only difference
is of the point of reference.
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To move towards the Supermind,
man has all the endowments he needs except the higher consciousness.
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The higher consciousness is
attained by the aspiration to move above which means moving away from the ego,
selfishness, Time, Mind and the surface.
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When people move from
agriculture to manufacture or from there to service, they carry all their
skills with them to be employed in a different context. The changing context
does not change the Spirit of work.
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Those to whom I present the
idea of a Token Work, should have the Spirit of work and if they do not have
it, they should acquire it. Please note it has nothing to do with Mother. It
has everything to do with work.
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