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Causes and Avoidance of Accidents · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  An accident avoided an individual related the following
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  incident. He was driving with a passenger
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  through Yellowstone National Park in the USA some years ago
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  during the summer season. In a van late in the afternoon,
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  he had a sense or feeling of an impending accident involving a
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  bison, although there were no bison insight anywhere.
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  So he was driving extremely slowly and cautiously.
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  A park Ranger driving behind him was visibly impatient, but he
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  did not change his driving speed.
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  The Ranger passed him and speed down the road.
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  A couple of miles later. Suddenly a massive bison ran in
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  front of the vehicle he was driving and he slammed on the
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  brakes. It was a near miss.
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  That the Bison looking into the windshield of the van from only
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  a few inches away. Had he been driving any faster,
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  an accident would have been unavoidable.
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  As it turned out, the pressure on his vital envelope that
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  created the feeling protected him from what would likely have
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  been a fatal accident, a disciple inquires.
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  What are the causes of accidents?
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  Are they due to a disequilibrium?
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  The mother responds. Quote if one answers deeply,
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  outwardly. There are many causes, but there
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  is a deeper cause which is always there.
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  I said the other day that if the nervous envelope is intact,
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  accidents can be avoided and even if there is an accident, it
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  won't have any consequences. As soon as there is a scratch or
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  a defect in the nervous envelope of the being, and according to
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  the nature of this scratch, if one may say so, its place, its
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  character, there will be an accident which will correspond
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  to the diminution of resistance in the envelope.
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  I believe almost everybody is psychologically aware of one
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  thing. That accidents occur when one
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  has a sort of uncomfortable feeling when one is not fully
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  conscious and selfpossessed when one feels uneasy in any case.
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  Generally people have a feeling that they are not fully
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  themselves, not fully aware of what they are doing.
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  If one were fully conscious, the consciousness wide awake
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  accidents would not occur. One would make just the right
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  gesture, the necessary movement to avoid the accident.
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  Hence, in an almost absolute way, it is a flagging of
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  consciousness. Or quite possibly it may be that
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  the consciousness is fixed in a higher domain, for example, not
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  to speak of spiritual things, a man who is busy solving a mental
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  problem and is very concentrated upon his mental problem.
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  Becomes inattentive to physical things and if he happens to be
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  in a street or in a crowd, his attention fixed upon his
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  problem, he will not make the movement necessary to avoid the
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  accident and the accident will occur.
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  It is the same for sports, For games you can observe this
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  easily. There's always a flagging of the
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  consciousness when accidents occur.
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  Or a lack of attention a little. Absent mindedness, suddenly one
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  thinks of something else. The attention is drawn
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  elsewhere. 1 is not fully conscious of what one is doing,
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  and the accident happens, as I was telling you at the
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  beginning, if for some reason or other, for example, lack of
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  sleep, lack of rest, or an absorbing preoccupation.
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  Or all sorts of things which tire you, that is to say, when
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  you are not above them. If the vital envelope is a
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  little damaged, it does not function perfectly, and any
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  current of force whatever which passes through is enough to
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  produce an accident. In the final analysis, the
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  accident comes always from that. It is what one may call
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  inattentiveness. Or a slackening of
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  consciousness. There are days when one feels
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  quite not exactly uneasy, but as though when we're trying to
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  catch something which escapes. One can't hold together.
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  One is as though half diluted. These are the days of accidents.
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  You must be attentive. Naturally, this is not to tell
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  you to shut yourself up in your room.
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  And not to stir out when you feel like that, This is not what
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  I mean. Rather, I mean that you must
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  watch all the more attentively, be all the more on your guard,
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  not allow precisely this inattentiveness, this slackening
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  of consciousness to come in end, quote reference Sriorobindo and
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  the mother. How are many cells Practical?
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  Yogic Psychology, Chapter 2, Planes and Parts of the Being,
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  pages 18 to 20.