I think I already told you, there's a kind of golden Force pressing down (gesture); it has no material substantiality, and yet it feels terribly heavy....
Yes, yes.
...it presses down on Matter, to force it, to compel it to turn INWARDLY to the Divine – not an external flight (pointing above)
but inwardly turning to the Divine. And the apparent outcome seems to be inevitable catastrophes. But along with this sense of inevitable catastrophe, there come solutions to situations or events that look simply miraculous.
As if both extremes were becoming more extreme: the good getting better and the bad worse. Like that. And a stupendous Power PRESSING down on the world. Such is my impression.
341 − Democracy was the protest of the human soul
against the allied despotisms of autocrat, priest
and noble; Socialism is the protest of the human soul
against the despotism of a plutocratic democracy; Anarchism is likely to be the protest of the human soul against
the tyranny of a bureaucratic Socialism. A turbulent
and eager march from illusion to illusion and from failure
to failure is the image of European progress.
26 – Sir Philip Sidney said of the criminal led out to be hanged, “There, but for the grace of God, goes Sir Philip Sidney.” Wiser, had he said, “There, by the grace of God, goes Sir Philip Sidney.”
I have not understood the meaning of this Aphorism.
45 – Logic is the worst enemy of Truth, as self-righteousness is the worst enemy of virtue; for the one cannot see its own errors nor the other its own imperfections.
What is the role of logic and reason in our lives?
No real peace can be till the heart of man deserves peace; the law of Vishnu cannot prevail till the debt to Rudra is paid. To turn aside then and preach to a still unevolved mankind the law of love and oneness? Teachers of the law of love and oneness there must be, for by that way must come the ultimate salvation...
“This terrestrial evolutionary working of Nature from
Matter to Mind and beyond it has a double process:
there is an outward visible process of physical evolution with birth as its machinery, – for each evolved
form of body housing its own evolved power of consciousness is maintained and kept in continuity by
heredity; there is, at the same time, an invisible process of soul evolution with rebirth into ascending
grades of form and consciousness as its machinery.
The first by itself would mean only a cosmic evolution; for the individual would be a quickly perishing
instrument, and the race, a more abiding collective
formulation, would be the real step in the progressive
manifestation of the cosmic ...
This talk is based upon Bases of Yoga, Chapter 5, “Physical Consciousness, etc.”. This evening the reading ends with the following lines:
“The subconscient is the main cause why all things repeat themselves and nothing ever gets changed except in appearance. It is the cause why people say character cannot be changed, the cause also of the constant return of things one hoped to have got rid of for ever… All too that is suppressed without being wholly got rid of sinks down there and remains as seed ready to surge up or sprout up at any moment.”
It depends on the emotion and it also depends on what you call an emotion. For example, there is a state where, if you find yourself in the presence of a very precise, very clear psychic movement, a distinctly psychic movement − this happens quite often − the emotion is so powerful that tears come to your eyes. You are not sad, you are not happy, neither one nor the other; it doesn’t correspond to any particular feeling, but it is an intensity of emotion which comes from something that is clearly, precisely psychic.
