object:23.10 - Observations II
book class:Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
author class:Nolini Kanta Gupta
subject class:Integral Yoga
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Do not look with greedy eyes upon what others possess, if you do not want to lose even that which you possess.
Reduce the whole consciousness to the zero-point to the zero of consciousness, not the zero of unconsciousness. Then only the positive term, the Divine Consciousness, will begin to form.
The Divine Force does not act in vacuo. Here it acts in the midst of teeming ignorances: so the net result is at best half and half which is the present world.
The lesser half must know how to integralise itself in order that the Fullness may be full here below.
At a point one must go beyond strivings.
Do not strive or struggle, there must be no tension or tautness, it should be all relaxation.
Tranquillise yourself. Allow the Other to take your own place. Leave it all to That.
This too is not achieved but simply happens - through the Grace.
"Wherever you see hope, faith, courage, trust and tranquillity, there you will see Me."
Good rarely becomes better, bad easily becomes worse. Facile descensus Arno.
Suffering is the ransom paid by the Spirit for Nature's Ignorance.
Of all beings man is the most suffering. Animal's is the physical suffering alone while man has a threefold suffering: (I) physical (adhibhautika), (2) psychological (adhidaivika), (3) spiritual (aidhyatmika) - the spiritual suffering is the most painful.
Face the difficulty that is come to you, face it at once without delay. Try to resolve it then and there. If you avoid it, set it aside, it will come back to you with an inexorable insistence and a power infinitely greater. The difficulty will be much more difficult and the solution infinitely more painful.
Chastity (in woman particularly) does not mean faithfulness to one person (as it is generally supposed in India). It is not a physical act but an inner condition. Even as tapasya does not mean physical austerities, it is a mode of being, a movement of the consciousness.
Chastity is freedom from the physical and vital obsession, a natural and spontaneous self-control, in a pure ingathered steadiness.
The behaviour of others towards you will be correct in so far as your behaviour towards them is correct.
You cannot change the opinion of people by a counter opinion, you have to change it by a counter-fact.
Learn to encircle your pain with the golden ring of a smile.
Bad thoughts act always instantaneously and the effects tend to become as bad as possible. Good thoughts remain inoperative, almost barren, even like the beautiful and ineffectual angel spoken of by Mathew Arnold, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.
For good thoughts seldom have a vital basis, they are merely mental. While bad thoughts have this basis; indeed, they spring from that source.
The height and the depth are of equal measure; they have the same distance to travel, only the direction is different. In mathematical jargon, the tensor is the same, the vector different. If you fall to any depth, you can rise to the same height.
God has fallen from the Supreme Consciousness down into the abyss of inconscience: he is rising to the same peak with a new victory.
The destiny of man is governed and worked out by a Power beyond human calculation. That Power is dynamic today to a degree unknown heretofore. We have only to give ourselves up in the hands of that Power, allow it to act in us and around us - recognise its action and be grateful to the Divine Providence. That is the only way to deliverance out of this present turmoil. In that way lies our utmost happiness and the supreme achievement.
There is a core of tears in mortal things, said a Roman poet. There is a core of immortality in mortal things, says an Indian Rishi.
There is so much pain and suffering in the world. How can the world bear it? Because there is a perennial spring of delight behind. Each moment's pain is being washed away each moment by the upsurge of the healing waters of delight.
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