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The Individual Sadhak and His Relation to the Movement of Universal Forces · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Forces that operate in the world are not necessarily hostile,
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  even if their effect on any particular individual appears to
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  be extremely negative. These forces operate on a large
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  scale to carry out their own role and fulfillment without
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  specific regard to whom may be impacted.
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  When an earthquake or a tsunami strikes, for instance, it is not
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  aimed at a particular person who happens to be among those
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  affected. Similarly, large scale vital
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  forces such as the fear that spreads as part of a pandemic,
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  are also not generally directed at specific individuals, but are
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  simply vibrating at their own frequency and spreading out.
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  Those who are receptive to the vibration then feel it, and in
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  many cases they take up and resonate with that vibration.
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  Because we tend to identify ourselves with the specific ego
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  personality within which we are living and acting, we take the
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  impacts personally. In many cases, if we are unable
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  to observe the movement of these energies from outside, we
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  attribute them to something that belongs to us that we create
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  within ourselves. When we try to address the
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  consequences and impacts of these energies, we then struggle
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  with them as we treat them as somehow part of ourselves,
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  rather than recognizing that they are part of a much larger
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  play of forces that are constantly moving through the
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  manifested creation. There are of course also highly
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  conscious beings who live and act primarily at different
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  frequency levels than we are capable of within our human
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  range of perception. In some cases they can overlap
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  our frequencies and create energies and harvest energies
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  that ordinarily are part of our range of perception and action.
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  In some cases they have a specific agenda, sometimes to
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  harvest energy that they use for their sustenance, and even in
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  some cases they may exercise purely constructive or
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  destructive energies for their own enjoyment or to carry out
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  their agenda. This is not dissimilar to the
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  way humans capture other species and hold them captive and make
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  them perform for our enjoyment. The harm we cause to these
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  species and the restriction of their lives is rarely a concern
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  for us when we undertake these acts.
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  Similarly, conscious beings at a different level of manifestation
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  may find their enjoyment in making us react and respond to
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  their prodding. From a practical standpoint, for
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  the sodic attempting to make progress in his spiritual
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  pursuit, it is always best to distance oneself from whatever
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  forces or energies arise, so as to not struggle as if it is an
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  embedded part of oneself. Thus, we see the benefit of
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  attaining the poise associated with the witness consciousness,
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  observing the external nature even at the level of the
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  individual, whether or not one can observe the movement of the
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  force from outside oneself. From this standpoint, all active
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  energies are treated as outside oneself, A disciple asks, do
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  these hostile forces generally come from outside or inside?
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  The Mother observes. If you think or feel that they
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  come from inside, you have possibly opened yourself to them
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  and they have settled in you unnoticed.
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  The true nature of things is one of harmony, but there is a
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  distortion in certain worlds that brings in perversion and
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  hostility. If you have a strong affinity
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  for these worlds of distortion, you can become friends with the
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  beings that are there and answer fully to them.
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  That happens, but it is not a very happy condition.
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  The consciousness is at once blinded, and you cannot
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  distinguish the true from the false.
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  You cannot even tell what is a lie and what is not.
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  In any case, when an attack comes, the wisest attitude is to
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  consider that it comes from outside, and to say this is not
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  myself and I will have nothing to do with it.
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  You have to deal in the same way with all lower impulses and
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  desires and all doubts and questionings in the mind.
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  If you identify yourself with them, the difficulty in fighting
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  them becomes all the greater, for then you have the feeling
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  that you're facing the never easy task of overcoming your own
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  nature. But once you are able to say,
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  no, this is not myself, I will have nothing to do with it, it
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  becomes much easier to disperse them.
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  End Quote. Reference Srioro Bindu and the
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  Mother Looking from within. Chapter 4, Ordeals and
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  Difficulties, pages 92 to 93.