A devotee visited Balcony Darshan of The Mother at 6:15 am. At 8 am, he again had Her darshan, coming in a queue before Her with the sadhaks and visitors. At 5:30 pm the same day She was at the playground where again, sitting in the audience, he saw Her. He returned to his town. Work made him pass through Pondicherry the next day. He availed of this to be at the Balcony Darshan. On his return from work, he had to pass through Pondicherry again. For a third day he had the Darshan of The Divine Mother at the Balcony. His first visit was August 15th, a darshan day. It was a Sunday.

It was an axiom among cultured people that when someone comes by wealth or power, they give him a certain humility which he is not otherwise endowed with. Nowadays, we often see the exhibition of the opposite. The cultural expressions vary very much. In the evolution of consciousness from the physical to mental, we certainly see quite a reversal. The physical man is a brute. To him, might is right. His dharma is to crush the other person, as he is taken as a rival or enemy. The mental man certainly does not resort to liquidating the other, though he too may view him as a rival.

Knowledge is pure, as light issues from knowledge. Science means knowledge. Therefore, science can only be pure. We know science is powerful and has given us comforts in myriad ways. We also know the side effects of scientific technology, viz. pollution. It has given us dangerous military weapons. The philosophy of science being pure knowledge at its origin, must account for the presence of Evil in life. The layman confuses technology, rather scientific technology with science.

The Kshatriya lives for honour and dies for it. One such kshatriya maistry worked under a manager in an estate owned by a rich man. The manager and the owner differed. Contrary to previous agreement, the owner wanted to take over the management himself. Without insisting on his own right, the manager agreed to transfer the management. The maistry was a towering personality in the context. The owner felt that the maistry would work under him, thus making things easy. He proposed to the maistry to switch over to him.

It is in obedience to His inner voice that Sri Aurobindo had arrived at Pondicherry. Not all are endowed with that faculty. It is called vani, asariri. There was a university teacher who had that voice speaking from inside. For some inexplicable reason, he lost it. Once he visited a relative who was on his way to Sri Aurobindo's Samadhi. He also accompanied him without any discernible thought. At the Samadhi, the university teacher also sat, as his relative did. He had not come for samadhi darsan and the visit had no meaning for him.

Missed opportunities are missed forever. Moopanar was not one meant to be a Prime Minister. It came his way and was lost. It was lost forever. Wherever the Spirit operates the invariable rule is, if the small is missed, the great awaits him. Nehru would not give Indira a position in the Cabinet. She was never an MP. After Nehru, she was offered the Prime Ministership. She was one of the two Prime Ministers who ruled for a long time, the other being her father. The British Cabinet was bitterly sour over Churchill and denied him a post in the Cabinet for over ten years.

Someone asked J. Krishnamurthy, the world teacher, what he could do to get rid of his stupidity. Krishnamurthy answered him saying he could remain stupid. Life has its stamp on many fundamental traits and they are not to be changed so easily. The world honours its heroes with titles, insignia, medals, etc. The coward is disgraced by being offered a white feather. A young commissioned officer engaged to a pretty lady faced the orders of his regiment to travel to Sudan to fight. The orders were prefaced by the news that their previous battalion there had been slaughtered to a man.

Communication is complex. Speakers, teachers, writers, employers who give instructions, and lawyers who plead their cases try to communicate their viewpoints. When they fail in their endeavour, they blame it on the lack of understanding on the part of the hearer. A lawyer was faced with a dull judge. As his arguments were not appreciated, he repeated them. Even then, the judge desired one more repetition. The lawyer complied with the suggestion of the judge. No communication was achieved. It is said that the lawyer in frustration exclaimed, "Your Lord, I can only offer an argument.

Knowledge is mental. Knowledge of work such as running a machine is physical knowledge. Knowledge of how to handle people is vital knowledge. All this has its subtle dimensions. A knowledge devoid of this subtle component is incapable of producing the result. A hardworking sincere lawyer often loses his cases. A doctor who is well qualified and painstaking finds most of his patients are not cured. A public speaker who has a wealth of details finds his speech invariably flat. But, there are lawyers who win most of their cases, doctors who invariably cure and speakers who elicit applause.

Every act has its spiritual dimension. Each act has a physical aspect, vital expression, mental component and spiritual dimension. What we cook at home is food. It is physical. What is given to us at the temple is prasad. Physically it is the same food, but as it is offered to the Divine, it is called prasad. Tobacco chewing had given an officer an uncertain intestine. It did not bother him all the time. But after each meal the weakness of the intestine expressed itself as mild discomfort. He visited a devotee, a very ordinary person in every respect.