Man seeks intensity. Whatever offers intensity is popular. The reason why functions such as weddings are popular is because a wedding is the most intense occasion in the life of a family. Occasionally we hear a comment in a wedding, "The parents of the boy act as if it is their own wedding." In weddings where none of the normal problems are present, there emerges an urge to celebrate the occasion, an occasion for intensity. The nature of intensity is such that it is welcome whether the occasion is positive or negative.

People who get up before 6 am will be active throughout the day. They are not unconscious people.  When you get up in the morning, if you are tired, it means your sleep was unconscious.  If you have been having a big idea as the First Waking Thought, it will come to fruition. If someone who is working as a lower subordinate in a government office sometimes thinks, rather it occurs in his mind on its own, especially as the first thought, that he is an IAS officer, he would become one.

Indira Gandhi was asked in the Indian Parliament, "Why is it that Indians who flourish in any country do not do so in India?"  The Jews, the Chinese and the Indians are known to prosper wherever they are outside their native lands. The Jews are industrious, passionate about their faith and extraordinarily intelligent. No wonder they prosper. The Chinese, apart from being industrious in the extreme, are clean to perfection. They are from a subtle civilisation and are loyal to their partners once they forge a partnership.

In our tradition, illness is understood to be the result of past karma. A lady was suffering from asthma for over a decade. In an affectionate family, illness is an occasion for attention. People overcome their resistances and offer unusual help. In other families, where no one feels any emotion for another, it becomes an occasion for the patient to develop immeasurable endurance. Occasionally, someone at home will attribute motives to the sufferer.

There are patient listeners. Others interrupt while you are talking. Often the two are found talking simultaneously, neither listening to the other. In the West, no one interrupts when one is talking. People wait for the other to finish and ask, "Shall I speak?" At home, when the family gathers, one can see two people talking at once, or all talking simultaneously. An American embassy official went to a university and invited several professors, having arranged a distinguished scholar to deliver an address.

It is a truism in life and much more so in Spirit that when we give up our due, the rightful right, what the Spirit considers our desert will come. I can tell myself I should give up my wrong desire, but it will not work. To give up my desire has always been an impossibility to me. How can I bring myself to give up my right which I deserve? But life demands that of man when it wants to reward him abundantly. In Spirit, that is the first rule.

Lumumba was the Prime Minister of the Congo. One of his main qualifications was he was a graduate. At that time there were 13 graduates in that country. When Indian Freedom was negotiated, it was noted that the five leaders on the Indian side - Gandhiji, Nehru, Patel, Jinnah and Liaquat Ali were all barristers from the Inner Temple.

God is difficult to reach. It is years of tapas that get one a glimpse of God who gives the tapasvi the boon of moksha. This is only one aspect of God.  There is another aspect of God that longs for Man's coming to Him. That aspect is God goes to all places we go ahead of us. It envelops all around and lies in wait for our CALL. Man waiting for God's call is what we know. That is usually known as the CALL. Man does not know HE is after the awakened soul. HE is after Man to awaken his soul.

Men injuring themselves in a workshop or workspot is common. It is inevitable. There are some workshops where a newcomer hurts himself; others will say, "No one gets hurt or injured here." To a skilled workman, his tools are sacred. Those tools do not offend the workman as they are his extended fingers. Men who treat the tools as objects often cut their fingers. Farms infested with snakes have long periods, maybe years, when there are no snake bites. The farmer worships his lands, crops, his work, his tools. Snakes living in such fields are not killed when sighted.

There is no valid Theory of Creation except what Sri Aurobindo has given to the world. Applying that theory to society, politics, culture, yoga and poetry, He wrote "The Human Cycle", "The Ideal of Human Unity", "The Foundations of Indian Culture" and "Savitri". Theory of Social Evolution outlined by The Mother's Service Society is an extension of this theory to social development. As Sri Aurobindo's knowledge is total, complete, integral and comprehensive, every phenomenon of history, politics, literature, life, etc. must be explained by this theory.