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Mental Formations Can Be Enhanced and Empowered by Vital Force of Desire · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  For those who can see vital energies and auras, the driving
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  forces of any individual are quite easy to observe. 1 can
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  observe this frequently in nightclubs where sexual energies
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  are high, and those with particularly powerful formations
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  in this direction can be seen virtually radiating or oozing
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  sexual energy. They choose their intended
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  partner and direct their energy there and more often than not,
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  there is a response and the two meet and carry out their desired
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  activity. Several devotees actually
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  reported a circumstance they witnessed individually and later
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  discussed with each other. There was a group of people and
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  one individual was taking on the role of the guru for these
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  people. One individual had resisted the
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  control and pressure being exerted and declared that he
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  would depart the group. This went against the well
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  developed desire formation of the guru who brought everyone
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  together and proceeded to rant angrily about being betrayed and
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  continuing to pressure everyone to exert pure influence and
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  breakdown the resistance of the individual who was planning to
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  depart. This resistant individual and
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  one other in the group reported seeing a dark entity emerge from
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  the face of the guru figure and emanate out into the room.
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  The atmosphere became filled with the aggressive dark desire
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  filled entity filled with greed, lust and seeking for power.
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  As it was clearly a very well developed formation that was now
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  coming forward under the impulsion of the frustrated
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  desire of the guru, it is quite easy to observe something
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  similar in demagogues who are hungry for power and control.
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  The formations they express are not only very well developmental
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  formations, but they are tied to a strong vital force of desire
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  that tries to overwhelm those who come under their influence.
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  The speeches of Adolf Hitler and others with a similar presence
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  and desire reveal this to dispassionate observers of
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  history. What seems like almost
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  hysterical ranting is the vital entity or entities breaking
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  forth to penetrate the protective vital screen or aura
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  of the listeners in the crowd. There are other ways one can
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  experience these desire bodies of formations, not just through
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  the visual sense. Some people who are especially
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  quiet inwardly can enter a room and can sense through a feeling
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  of sorts the desires playing from each individual in the
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  room. In some cases they see a desire
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  they recognize rising up within themselves, and with that
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  observation they can then direct their attention to the source of
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  the vibration causing it, and thus identify the source of the
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  desire formation the mother observes.
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  Quote people who have desires add to the mental formation a
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  kind of small envelope, a vital shell, which gives it a still
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  greater reality. These people are usually
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  surrounded by a number of tiny entities which are their own
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  formations, their own mental formations, clothed with vital
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  force, which come all the time to strike them, to try to make
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  them realize materially the formations they have made.
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  You have perhaps read the books of Morris Magre.
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  There are some in the library. He describes this.
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  He had come here, Morris Magre, and we spoke, and he told me
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  that he had always noticed, he was highly sensitive.
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  He has always noticed that people who have sexual desires
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  are surrounded by a kind of small swarm of entities who are
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  somewhat viscous and rather ugly, and which torment them
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  constantly, awakening desire in them.
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  He said he had seen this around certain people.
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  It was like being surrounded by a swarm of mosquitoes.
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  Yes, but it is more gross and much uglier still, and it is
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  viscous, It is horrible, and it turns round and round the person
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  and gives him no peace, and it awakens in him the desire that
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  has formed these entities, and they feast upon it.
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  It is their food. This is absolutely true.
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  His observation was quite correct.
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  His vision was very true. It is like that.
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  But everyone carries around himself the atmosphere of his
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  own desires. So you don't at all require that
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  people should tell you anything. You have only to look, and you
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  see around them exactly the state they are in.
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  They may want to give themselves the airs of angels or Saints,
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  but they can't deceive you because that thing is there
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  turning around them. So just imagine, Mother points
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  to all those seated in front of her.
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  You see what you are like. How many of you there, all of
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  you here? And each one has his own little
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  world in this way of mental formations, of which some are
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  clothed in vital substance. And all these crawl together,
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  mix with each other, knock against each other.
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  There is a struggle to see which is the strongest, which tries to
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  realize itself. And all this creates an
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  atmosphere indeed. End Quote Reference Shrioro
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  Bindu and the Mother Powers within, Chapter 2.
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  Power of Thought, pages 16 to 17.