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How to Deal With Hostile Forces · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Forces at work in the world try to effectuate themselves and
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  perpetuate their action. They seek for receptive vessels
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  to manifest and carry out their line of action.
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  As these waves of energy, these vibrations, move out into the
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  world, they naturally come across elements and beings that
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  are not subject to vibration within that range and thus do
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  not react. They also come across those that
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  are able to vibrate to the force that is moving and this sets up
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  a sympathetic vibratory pattern or if passed along, a repeater
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  or signal booster that enhances the impact of that vibration as
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  it continues to move. If we look within ourselves, we
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  can see what occurs. Someone comes and starts
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  shouting in anger about something we may or may not have
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  done that they are upset about. Or someone has their feelings
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  hurt and a conversation gets out of hand.
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  Soon there is a shouting match where even blows can be
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  exchanged. We have responded to the
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  vibration of anger with the sympathetic vibration of anger.
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  Similarly, most people have been in situations where fear is
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  being systematically promulgated, perhaps through the
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  news media reporting or through armed confrontations.
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  In the early 1970s, there were protests against the Vietnam War
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  that took place in Washington, DC.
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  The response of the government was to send highly armed and
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  shielded police into the area to break up the crowds, arrest
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  people, and put an end to the peaceful protests.
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  The same thing took place in the late 1960s in other parts of the
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  country. Many of the participants who
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  were peaceful, law abiding and concerned citizens trying to let
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  their government know about their concerns about the war
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  experienced extreme instances of fear as the intimidation factor
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  raised up the fear vibration within them.
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  Various vital beings provoke responses in order to feed off
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  of the energy released. Pandemic diseases tend to send
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  out a wave of fear across broad swaths of the population.
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  Similarly, an accident in a venue such as a stadium or club
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  tends to spark a panic rush for the exits, and many people are
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  injured in the ensuing crush. It is a quite common experience
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  that is illustrated by these extreme examples, but which
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  occurs daily in most lives. We can observe ourselves
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  vibrating along with the energy that is coming at us, seen or
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  unseen. We are, however, not meant to be
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  puppets, playthings or victims to every force that moves in the
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  world. We have certain capacities we
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  can cultivate to reduce or even eliminate the corresponding
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  sympathetic vibration within ourselves.
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  This is the cultivation of equanimity which the Mother
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  speaks about, the development of calm, peace and equality which
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  Rio Robindo often references. As long as we are capable of
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  receiving the vibration and allow ourselves to be captured
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  by that vibration, we can recognize that we harbour that
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  energy within ourselves. Otherwise we would be
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  unshakeable and the vibration would simply pass us by.
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  It is not by our human strength that we can overcome all these
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  powerful forces. We need to be able to shift our
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  focus and energy to a higher force that will vibrate within
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  us at a level that neutralizes, rejects and in some cases even
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  transforms the vibration as it reaches us.
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  A disciple asks how is 1 to meet adverse forces, forces that are
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  invisible and yet quite living and tangible?
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  The mother writes quote. A great deal depends on the
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  stage of development of your consciousness.
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  At the beginning, if you have no special occult knowledge and
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  power, the best you can do is to keep as quiet and peaceful as
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  possible. If the attack takes the form of
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  adverse suggestions, try quietly to push them away as you would
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  some material object. The quieter you are, the
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  stronger you become. The firm basis of all spiritual
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  power is equanimity. You must not allow anything to
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  disturb your poise. You can then resist every kind
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  of attack. If, besides, you possess
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  sufficient discernment and can see and catch the evil
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  suggestions as they come to you, it becomes all the more easy for
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  you to push them away. But sometimes they come
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  unnoticed and then it is more difficult to fight them.
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  When that happens, you must sit quiet and call down peace and a
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  deep inner quietness. Hold yourself firm and call with
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  confidence and faith. If your aspiration is pure and
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  steady, you are sure to receive help.
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  Attacks from adverse forces are inevitable.
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  You have to take them as tests on your way and go courageously
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  through the ordeal. The struggle may be hard, but
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  when you come out of it, you have gained something, you have
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  advanced a step. There's even a necessity for the
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  existence of the hostile forces. They make your determination
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  stronger, your aspiration clearer.
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  It is true, however, that they exist because you gave them
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  reason to exist. So long as there is something in
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  you which answers to them, their intervention is perfectly
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  legitimate. If nothing in you responded, if
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  they had no hold upon any part of your nature, they would
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  retire and leave you. In any case, they need not stop
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  or hamper your spiritual progress.
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  The only way to fail in your battle with the hostile forces
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  is not to have a true confidence in the Divine help.
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  Sincerity in the aspiration always brings down the required
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  succour. A quiet call, a conviction that
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  in this ascension towards the realization you are never
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  walking all alone, and a faith that whenever help is needed, it
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  is there. We'll lead you through easily
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  and securely and quote reference Sri Aurobindo and the Mother
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  looking from within. Chapter 4, Ordeals and
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  Difficulties, pages 91 to 92.