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The Need for Preparation of the Being Before Exploring Occult Worlds and Domains · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  When an individual leaves the relative safety of the physical
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  being and traverses other domains and interacts with other
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  beings, including vital beings both beneficent and Maleficent,
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  he is faced with the reality that the vibrations which he
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  carries with him or that resonate with him draw to him
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  beings and forces that are themselves able to respond on
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  those levels. Thus, if an individual goes into
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  a vital domain with all kinds of desire, passions, or fears, he
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  is bound to interact with beings who either feed upon such
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  vibrations or who act to stimulate such vibrations.
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  This can create tremendous psychological suffering for the
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  individual. Many have reported encountering
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  powerful entities whose very form invoked fear in them.
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  Goethe in Faust has a scene where Doctor Faust invokes the
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  Earth Spirit and was able to manifest that spirit through the
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  intensity of his seeking and the power of the formulas he
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  recited. He felt he was the equal of the
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  being because he could call it forth.
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  Yet when it manifested, it was so overwhelming that he cowered
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  in fear and tribulation. He was not prepared for the
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  being he encountered. We see in the Yoga Sutras the
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  requirement to undertake purificatory disciplines
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  preliminary to any strenuous yogic practice.
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  These purifications are not intended to be moral rules, but
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  are intended to prepare the human instrument, physical,
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  vital and mental, for the advent of forces, powers and beings far
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  beyond what he normally encounters, while insuring that
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  he can hold the force that comes and he can be protected from
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  beings that are attracted. In order to take advantage of
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  his naive and basically arrogant view of his ability to meet any
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  being, handle any force and respond to any situation when he
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  has little if any experience of the magnitude, power and
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  vastness of the forces and beings that act in various vital
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  mental or spiritual domains. There are too many instances of
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  seekers who went prematurely into these domains, unprepared
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  and became imbalanced in their minds and emotions, disrupted in
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  their vital energies, were harmed or weakened in their
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  physical being, the mother writes.
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  Quote only. As I have already told you, it
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  is not very prudent to venture into these domains without a
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  previous initiation and above all a purification of nature
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  which prevents you from entering there, all weighed down and
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  deformed by your desires, your passions, egoisms, fears and
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  weaknesses. Before undertaking these
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  activities one needs a complete preparation of self,
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  purification and widening of the consciousness which is
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  absolutely indispensable. End Quote reference Shrioro
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  Bindu and the Mother, the hidden forces of Life, Chapter 5.
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  Occult Forces, page 110.