• Every man takes life as it comes and is generally defensive against the exigencies that life can develop for or offer one.
• The adventurous, the strong, and the great rise over the crest of the waves of Life because danger is their trade, because they enjoy bringing their very best out, if not challenging life.
• Life gives its rewards to the collective as well as the individual according to the intentions of Nature who has the slow deliberate joy of enjoying the infinity before her.
• History tells us of the stress under which Napoleon, Cae

• At some point in their lives, men level off. Beyond that they watch with interest the lives of dynamic people for their own inner satisfaction.
• Such a levelling off comes after middle age generally. Others find it early in life even before they start. A substantial percentage of people never begin.
• Human life generally can be divided into the dull physical, the active social and the dynamic personal lives. All these three divisions do not cross the mental life of Number 3.

• All that we know to be good today is the creation of the Mind.
• The Mind has its ranges. It is good for us to know the Mind fully.
• The capacity of the Mind to create illusions is the philosophy of Shankara who is hailed as a greater intellect than Buddha. The film, The Matrix depicts forcefully the physical aspect of the Mind.
• The Mind is not defined by Man as he is not outside it. He is inside Mind, a part of it. He is a function of the Mind.

June 22, 2002 

• Nature is in movement.

Wayne Angell [1] (Oversavings in Japan) puts the problem in a nutshell as if he has horse sense. I am sure there must be a sprinkling of people with common sense even among the economists. Wayne is one. This article is not an occasion for him to speak out his common sense.

• Sri Aurobindo never explained why He chose Surrender as His method.
• As we know that surrender yields the end result in the beginning, it would be right for us to know how it is so.
• Is there anything we need to know about surrender that we have not known till now?
• Surrender gives the person who surrenders all the power of him to whom he surrenders.

• A tourist understands the nation he visits when he understands the laws of that land as far as they relate to his travel.
• When he wants to stay there for a longer time, this knowledge of life may not be enough, and he has to know that culture.
• A writer of fiction needs to go further and understand human nature.
• A great poet understands human nature as one expression of the universal nature.
• A creator of the science of astrology knows the very constitution of the constellations in terms of the minute details of human life.
• To call an a

• Sri Aurobindo speaks of a discovery of man which will really culminate in His yogic goal.
• It is the power of the Spirit which will move Matter.
• This happens when Matter is discovered as the Delight of existence.
• Though this is the final goal, one can start working in this spirit even in the beginning.
• In a language we are already familiar with, it can be called to work as Silent Will.
• Though silent will is a part of the whole work, it is an important part and a power

Man is finite. His actions are infinite. It is the Infinite that has become the finite Man. But while acting, the finite man has not relinquished his infinity. Every finite action has its infinite invisible residue.  This is an inescapable rule of life in society. The greatest of leaders arise sometimes from the lowest social stratum for this reason. Any work done in any plane leaves a powerful substantial residue in other planes. Often these powers are accumulated around the other visible expressions of the projected work.