ally and feel they have entered heaven. To them, the new life is lucky. In the USA they belong to the poorest section of the population. Once they are there, there are innumerable opportunities which they can avail of and make a success of their lives. Entry into USA is to be lucky. Becoming a citizen and making the most of those opportunities is to organise luck. Very poor relatives of very rich industrialists generally do not have access into their family lives. Sometimes such access into their functions and families is accorded to them graciously.

Humility is not acquired, but one must be born with it, may be the first response to the above title. There is a truth in that belief. But we may know that several such statements -- a leader is born, intelligence does not grow, the throne is not for us, you must be born into the royal family - are giving way to the modern realities. In modern times, all kinds of people are becoming heads of state, PhD is awarded to people not innately intelligent based on training. It means leadership and intelligence are acquired. Humility too can be acquired if one is very serious about it.

Luck is the prized possession of human life, entirely not in our hands. This is our longstanding belief.  As we choose an academic course, take a degree, pursue a profession and shine there, we can plan to acquire luck and succeed in it. Such a procedure has three stages in it. 1) Understand your Personality, 2) Acquire humility, and 3) Learn to convert humility into luck. It means luck is a product of Personality. Luck is a material result outside. The most common event considered to be lucky is a prize in the lottery.

In the picture called 'American President', the President falls in love with a lady who came to a committee meeting. After returning home, her former boyfriend Richard calls her. She abuses him and asks him not to call her anymore. He calls again and she virulently abuses him. He jokes that he is the President of the US and promises to call her again. Just then the real President calls her. She mistakes him to be Richard and abuses him on the phone, asking him if he thinks he is the President himself. The President is unnerved, but he still wants her.

In our tradition, the body is described as a repository of darkness. Psychologically, the body is the subconscious. Sri Aurobindo says several religious traditions believe that the Body is a Rock of Offence.  To Him, the body is the crown of creation. All of us believe we are GOOD. It is a universal truth. Occasionally we meet with someone who believes himself to be not good or reliable. He is one who is aware of his body or the subconscious. Such people will have a penetrating insight. Their judgement of men will be unfailing.

Reading a serious philosophical BOOK certainly has different levels of appreciation. The Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo's magnum opus is NOT a book for reading in any sense of the word. Now that He has written it as a book, of course, it is to be read. He addresses the book to the European intellect. At that level, the book is logical, reasonable, and intelligible.

Memory is often identified with intelligence. They are two different faculties, as the ink and the ballpoint pen are materially different. Memory acts on the basis of the context and previous experience, not necessarily aided by intelligence. We often assume that ineffective memory is blunt intelligence. Give two items to your clerk, he will do the first and forget the second. It makes us furious. Watch next time yourself, you will do exactly the same thing. It is not neglect or willful disobedience. It is lack of experience.

Manners are of the surface. It means nothing to us, except a pleasant exterior for the social occasion. Behaviour is to believe in the valid truth of manners. A man of really false consciousness inside always speaks the truth on social occasions, because he believes truth must be spoken to others. In our society, such a person is a rare specimen. It will raise him sky high. But, in all serious affairs of life, life will reward him for what he is inside - falsehood, and not for his external truthfulness.

Man lives in his ego. The Rishis withdraws into the Purusha, during meditation. The Psychic being is a new spiritual concept to the world. When Churchill joined the British Cabinet, his aunt wrote him advising him to run his department and not the entire Cabinet. Ego has the philosophy that what it is is sacred, and everyone should worship it. An egoistic corrupt official does not expect his family and department to condone his guilt. He insists that they proclaim him to be a personification of integrity. That is the rationality of ego.

The Mother said Sri Ramalinga Swamigal had what was described to Her as Grace Light. A poem of the Swami was read out to Her in translation. She said, "When I heard the poem, I felt he was in contact with the Supramental light."  Sri Aurobindo also mentioned the same. Supermind was known to the Vedic Rishis. As a matter of fact, the phrase 'Supermind' is what Sri Aurobindo had taken from the Vedas. He was not satisfied by the word. Supermind was never a goal for the yoga in India. Moksha was the goal. Sri Aurobindo had the goal of reaching the Supermind.