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Universal Forces, the Chakra Energy Centers, and the Utilization of the Forces · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Each individual has his own unique types and levels of
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  receptivity, and these too can vary over time.
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  The universal forces are constantly there, but if an
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  individual is closed off, unresponsive, then he does not
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  gain the full benefit of that force.
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  The ancient description of the energy centers in the subtle
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  body. The chakras holds that we
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  receive energies through an ascending series of centers, and
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  each one has its own characteristic action and
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  expression. In other words, the universal
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  force is converted into specific types of energy based on which
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  chakra is able to open and receive it, and to what extent.
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  Some paths of yoga actually work to move energy from the lower
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  chakras that govern drives such as sex, desire, greed, power,
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  etcetera, and channel those energies through the higher
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  centers which govern things such as compassion, expression, will,
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  intellect and spiritual focus. One can look at the chakras as
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  representing different vibrational intensities and
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  levels. People make use of the energy
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  not simply based on the chakras but also based on the
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  predominance of a particular guna, Thomas, rajas or sattva at
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  the time the energy is received. Chakras can also close off or
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  shut down, and this is particularly true when there is
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  trauma involved and the individual draws in as a form of
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  protective device. Generally, there is some amount
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  of energy flowing through various chakras at any point in
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  time, although the higher chakras governing will,
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  intellect and spiritual development may remain closed or
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  mostly closed for people focused almost entirely on the external
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  life and channelling energy thereby through the lower 3
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  chakras. For the most part, spiritual
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  aspirants have a special responsibility as the chakras
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  open and they become receptive to forces that are working
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  towards spiritual development. If they utilize the force to
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  fulfill desires of various sorts, channelling the energy
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  out through the lower chakras, they tend to suffer
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  consequences. This includes individuals who,
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  for instance, take up spiritual practices and then use the
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  powers that result to exalt themselves through fame, acquire
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  wealth, or obtain sexual satisfactions.
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  The force tends to withdraw eventually from such
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  individuals, and they wind up in many cases broken physically,
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  vitally, and mentally. In some cases, they see the
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  effect of their misuse rebound upon them in very consequential
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  ways. On the other hand, those who
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  become receptive to the forces that enhance spiritual progress
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  and who use those forces to continue to develop and grow
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  spiritually, find that their capacity to receive them tends
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  to expand and there is an ever increasing action that takes
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  place as they tune themselves to the higher vibrational patterns
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  that act through the higher chakras.
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  The mother writes Quote. Each person has a different
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  receptivity. No2 receptivities are the same
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  in quality and quantity, but specially in quality one enters
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  into contact with very pure, very intense forces, what could
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  be already called converted forces, that is, universal,
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  vital forces which are in contact with the Divine and not
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  only receive the Divine, but aspire to receive Him.
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  So if you absorb these forces, it gives you a great strength
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  for progress. It is in this that the quality
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  is much more important. And for the quality of the
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  universal vital forces it depends naturally a great deal
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  on what one is, but also much on what one does.
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  If one uses these forces for a purely selfish action of a base
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  kind, well, one makes it almost totally impossible for himself
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  to receive any new ones of his. Fine equality all depends on the
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  utilization of the forces one receives.
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  If, on the other hand, you use them to make progress, to
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  perfect yourself, it gives you it increases your capacity of
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  receiving enormously, and the next time you can have a lot
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  more. All depends in any case
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  principally on the use made of them.
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  There are people for instance, who are short tempered by nature
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  and haven't succeeded in controlling their anger well.
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  If with an aspiration or by some method or other they have
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  managed to receive some higher vital forces, instead of this
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  calming their irritation or anger because they have no
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  self-control, it increases their anger, that is their
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  irritability. Their movement of violence is
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  full of a greater force, a greater energy, and becomes much
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  more violent. So it is well said that to be in
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  contact with universal forces does not make one progress.
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  But this is because they make a bad use of them.
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  Yet naturally, in the long run, this bad use diminishes the
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  capacity of receiving. But it takes time, it is not
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  immediate. So it is very important to put
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  yourself in a good condition to receive the higher forces and
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  not the lower ones. And secondly, when you have
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  received them, use them for the best thing possible in order to
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  prepare yourself to receive those which are of a higher
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  quality. But if you open yourself,
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  receive the forces, and afterwards, being satisfied with
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  having received them, you let yourself fall into all the
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  ordinary movements, Well, you close the door and the force no
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  longer returns. End Quote Reference Sri
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  Aurobindo and the Mother, The Hidden Forces of Life, Chapter
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  4, Cosmic and Universal Forces, pages 96 to 97.