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Resisting and Overcoming the Negative Universal Forces That Try to Control Our Reactions · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  All consciousness, all energy, all material substance is
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  essentially one, although it takes different forms in the
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  external surface consciousness. Vibrational patterns move across
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  the universal creation, and forms respond to them if they
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  are able to vibrate within the range of the vibrations.
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  Human beings can respond to vibrations within a particular
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  limited range, which means the colours we see, the sounds we
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  hear, are not the entire spectrum of colour or sound.
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  Some beings can see and hear colour and sounds in different
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  ranges than the human, in some cases partially overlapping the
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  human frequency range and in others totally independent of
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  that range. If we apply this knowledge to
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  the movement of energy within human beings, we see that
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  virtually every human being has the capacity to vibrate to any
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  force that works within the human range, including those
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  that may be subliminal to our conscious awareness.
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  Thus, a force of anger or fear or attraction or love, for
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  instance, can be experienced by anyone when those forces are
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  active and vibrating powerfully enough to be picked up by our
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  receiving apparatus of the senses, including the mind, on a
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  direct basis. For this reason, when the forces
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  that can provoke anger, hatred, lust, greed, hunger, envy, or
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  any other movements that we may want to remove from our being
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  are active in our environment, we sometimes feel like we are
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  compelled to respond. If we analyze this, however, we
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  find that the universal nature of these forces and their
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  vibratory force implies that they are not an embedded,
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  unchangeable part of our own personality or character.
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  Rather, they are external forces throwing their patterns onto US.
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  Once we recognize this and understand that we do not
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  manufacture these forces, but are simply allowing them access
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  and permitting them to vibrate us in harmony with their energy,
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  it becomes easier to separate ourselves from them and take
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  steps to either reduce the impact of the vibration when it
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  is active or refuse its ability within us to take over the being
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  and manifest actively like a transmitted infection.
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  We see in the history of humanity that people have
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  approached this issue in various ways.
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  Some individuals have developed the power to withstand extreme
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  energetic forces acting generally.
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  They may do this through the practice of stoicism and the
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  systematic practice of non response.
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  When these forces arise, they may do it by training themselves
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  to handle ever more pressure without it breaking their will.
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  Over time they can develop a quite considerable force of
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  resistance. We even see this with certain
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  medical doctors who have such a strong aura around them that
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  they can visit and treat people with highly infectious diseases
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  without themselves becoming I'll.
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  It is the same principle now transferred from the physical
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  body to the vital or mental being.
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  In other cases, individuals train themselves to experience
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  the vibratory pattern, thereby knowing what is active in their
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  surroundings or in their circle of acquaintances.
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  But through experience, training, and separation of
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  their awareness from the vibrations that arise, they do
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  not promulgate, but rather to some degree even can neutralize
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  these vibrations. For those who have a habit of
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  response to any of these forces, it is like leaving the door open
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  and letting them enter and have free reign.
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  The habit of response needs to be addressed so that one does
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  not simply become whatever is vibrating.
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  There is an interesting story of a man who attended a Nazi rally
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  in Germany in the 1930s. He was an intellectual, a quiet
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  soul who did not agree with the Nazi philosophy.
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  The energy in the crowd was so intense, however, that when they
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  started screaming and expressing their hatred and violent
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  energies, he found that he himself was screaming with them.
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  He later expressed surprise that he would be taken away by the
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  force that he opposed, yet it became clear that the intensity
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  and focus in that circumstance were simply more than he was
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  able to resist. He needed to do more inner work
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  to clear that reaction from his being.
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  Of course, the same understanding can be used to
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  accentuate forces that support the spiritual aspiration through
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  a process of tuning, receptivity and acceptance of those energies
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  that bring peace, harmony, goodwill, light and knowledge
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  into the being. Once one recognizes how these
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  forces work and achieves the separation of the witness from
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  the active nature, we gain the capacity to tune to the energies
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  we desire to accentuate and tune out those we want to rid from
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  our being. The Mother observes.
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  Quote seekers are always told if you want to get rid of
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  something, say that it is outside.
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  This is only an impression, but it is easier to get rid of a
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  difficulty if you have the impression that it is outside
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  you. What is inside is also outside,
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  and what is outside is also inside.
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  The secret lies in knowing how to place it just where it is
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  most convenient for the immediate action.
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  If you have a serious difficulty in your character, for example,
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  the habit of losing your temper, and you decide I must not get
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  angry again, it is very difficult.
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  But if, on the other hand, you tell yourself anger is something
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  which circulates through the whole world, it is not in me.
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  It belongs to everybody. It wanders about here and there,
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  and if I close my door it will not enter.
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  It is much more easy if you think it is my character.
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  I am born like that. It becomes almost impossible.
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  It is true. There is something in your
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  character which answers to this force of anger.
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  All movements, all vibrations, are general.
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  They enter, they go out, they move about, but they rush upon
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  you and enter into you only to the extent you leave the door in
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  you open. And if you have besides some
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  affinity with these forces, you may get angry without even
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  knowing why. End Quote.
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  Reference. Sri Orobindo and the Mother
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  looking from within. Chapter 4.
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  Ordeals and Difficulties, pages 86 to 87.