CWTVKS Volume 2

1) Human Psychology

One who lacks happiness within finds no happiness without. He feels dissatisfied with everything. The most common characteristic of such persons who have no antah sukha is fault-finding and tyrannising over others.

16 October 1948

Those who talk most loudly of their own defects and deprecate themselves are usually the most self-conceited.

9 February I949

Those that fear most are—by reaction—the most cruel.

1 February 1949

Fear ultimately develops into hatred. Fear gives rise to a suppressed anger which later hardens into hatred.

31 October 1948

Fear, anxiety, apprehension—these are very common features of every day life in the world.

7 March 1951

Every one finds, here or elsewhere, what he wants. He sees what he seeks to see—good or bad. Other things do not catch his eye.

29 March 1951

To receive, to treat and to send off people with consideration and politeness is a quality natural to the great.

30 March 1949

In all matters—spiritual and temporal—when any one asks for help or favour, it is graceless, even ignoble, to make him feel that a favour is being done to him. It fills the needy heart with spontaneous feelings of happiness and gratitude if the benefactor disarms him, makes him feel that, after, all what he asks for is nothing much and that the joy of giving on the part of the donor is much more than the joy or contentment of the other.

1 April 1949

It is a fact of psychology that one, who confers favours or obliges another, usually feels like going on bestowing more and more favours. So does an offerer of love, of devotion or of whatever is dear to oneself; he feels an increasing push to offer more and yet more.

28 June 1949

To trust people, to note only the good side of others, is a sign of laksmi-kala, receptivity to forces of happiness and prosperity. Cynicism, distrust and other allied qualities indicate the opposite opening.

17 May 1949

A constant critical attitude to others is usually a sign of unfitness for spiritual life, where the building up of one's inner perfection is the first occupation.

29 October 1948

Is it not better that the eyes are riveted on oneself than that they are always directed on those around?

12 December 1948

There are men who would not tolerate from others even a fraction of what they themselves constantly inflict on those around. It is akin to simian psychology. The monkey delights in playing pranks on others but it violently resents even a casual stone-throw at it.

12 September 1948

It is a healthy principle to make it a point to notice only the good things in the person whose lot is cast with ours. His weaknesses may be remembered after he is gone, so that one does not suffer any pull nor exert any towards the departed.

16 October 1948

Before we criticise others for their ‘bad qualities', it is necessary to look at ourselves and see if none of these qualities are not seen in ourselves at some time or other. The fact is all these ‘qualities’—good and bad—are part of the universal Nature and when these waves come over, they victimise whoever is open to them at the moment. They manifest themselves through them. These ‘defects’ etc. do not specially belong to any particular individual.

18 October 1950

Shared with others, joy gets doubled and grief halved.

11 December 1948

Man is the meeting-point, the juncture of the animal and the Divine.

25 January 1949

There is no man who does not feel that he is special in some way, that he has certain things in him which none else has. This feeling may be loudly expressive in some, cleverly concealed in others; all the same it is there in most. Deep behind this feeling is the truth of a basic nature, i.e. the truth of the Atman. It is the breath of the Atman who is always great that is felt on the surface in this form. And each one representing as he does, in the core of his being, a special facet of the Person in manifestation, is in a sense right in being conscious—though not always in the rightway—of his speciality.

18 October 1950

Each one wants to show himself to be superior to others: people strive in a hectic manner to establish their special distinction. Really, there is no need for this struggle. For, each is a distinct facet, a representation, a presentation of the Universal which itself is an emanation from the Transcendent. Each being is a special ray, meant to show a special capacity. In this sense no one can fill another's place; each is endowed with a distinctness which is denied to others. But it is not fully or equally formed, so as to be easily felt or recognised, in all. Till that is so, men struggle to compete. Once you recognise that you are in fact a special radiation of God and that the others are your other selves, other habitats, the competition and discord are bound to disappear.

17 February 1948

Gratitude is a psychic feeling. Rarely one in a hundred is capable of it. What passes for it in life is usually a pretense of it—something of what has been humourously described as ‘an expression of a lively expectation of greater favours to come’.

19 April 1949

Very often one's thought-movements are contradictory to each other. That is why the will lacks the strength to effectuate itself.

13 April 1949

Imagination is not an unmixed curse. It may be so with day-dreamers. But this capacity to visualise things, to mentally formulate them, can be effectively utilised for practical purposes in occult life.

25 May 1949

To offer bribes is tantamount to taking them. For, to corrupt another for one's own selfish ends is as sinful and unspiritual, if not more, as corrupting oneself. To pollute oneself is one thing, to pollute another for one's selfish purpose is another and much more despicable.

12 May 1949

Those who circulate an opinion coming from others usually share that opinion.

6 March 1949

One who is truly and entirely subjective can hold the whole objective world in his embrace.

19 December 1948

Attachment kills true love.

15 February 1950

To move freely with little minds is to invite their insolent disdain.

12 October 1948

Capacity gives satisfaction or contentment, trpti, not pride, to a healthy mind.

10 September 1948

Self-examination requires courage.

1 February 1950

One without thought has no cares.
One without desires has no grief.

24 September 1949