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The Infectious Nature of Vibrations in Our Social Environment · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Authoritarian states throughout history have understood
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  intuitively the power of collective vibration and
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  suggestion. Nazi Germany created a
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  propaganda ministry that had as its goal continuously repeating
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  certain key phrases to raise up specific emotions and sentiments
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  and then to enforce them through the implicit bullying impact of
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  their control. Both of the levers of power, the
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  police power, the ability to spy and the ability to control one's
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  livelihood, as well as through the street level bullying that
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  occurred through aligned individuals and groups who use
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  brute force, if not to obtain outright support for what they
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  wanted to do, at least to suppress any objections out of
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  fear of repercussions. The experience of Nazi Germany
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  was however not unique and similar tactics have been used
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  to harness the power of a collectivity to either modify or
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  coerce the actions of individuals since true
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  individuality, true independence from the collectivity and the
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  society and environment is actually something of an
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  illusory concept. In his book 1984, the author
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  George Orwell described a ritual used to inculcate certain
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  responses and reactions into the body of the citizenry through
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  the use of the two-minute hate. Even mild mannered, thoughtful
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  and considerate individuals found themselves caught up in
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  the intensity of the moment and would react with rage and hatred
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  on cue. In today's world, we see people
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  being manipulated in this way through political discourse and
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  social media. Some groups of individuals,
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  generally a minority lacking strong political power, is
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  chosen as the object of hatred, and they are then demonized,
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  dehumanized, and made into objects of scorn and hatred,
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  with a resultant uprising of rage and hate crimes that begin
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  to tear apart the very fabric of society.
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  This tends to break people into camps and opposing interests,
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  and anyone who tries to either remain neutral or who tries to
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  bring people together in a more reasonable manner is castigated
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  and ostracized. Fear of losing their friends,
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  their jobs, their involvement in their community.
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  Many remain quiet and simply try to weather the storm, while
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  some, more ambitious perhaps than others, choose one side or
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  the other and engage in the battle.
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  Underlying all of this is the fact that we are not separate
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  islands of consciousness, but are receivers of vibrations and
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  transmitters of vibrations, and we are thus subject to
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  responding to intense vibratory patterns or even less intense
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  but more persistent patterns that continually come to us in
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  one form or another. In most instances, we may not
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  even be consciously aware that we are absorbing and responding
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  to certain vibrations. This lack of awareness is also
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  an element used by those actively attempting to
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  manipulate masses of people without anyone identifying the
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  source of the manipulation. Suddenly it arises all around,
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  on many sides, with many different voices and
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  inflections, and we begin to slowly respond, to, adopt and
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  then disseminate the vibrations that have infected us.
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  It is the rare individual who can stand against this
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  bombardment and hold to a different set of values and
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  ideas in a society consumed with the need to conform to widely
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  held beliefs and emotions in any societal grouping.
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  Of course, not all such vibrational pattern developments
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  are negative. That is why sages and spiritual
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  leaders counsel the benefit of Satsang, the coming together of
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  devotees to share the energy and experience of their spiritual
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  development and thereby strengthen the aspiration, the
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  consecration and the spiritual receptivity of all.
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  While we may be able to identify these forces relatively easily
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  when they are writ large in extreme ways in the society, we
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  do not generally recognize that in fact, this is the normal
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  process that makes up on a day in and day out basis the general
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  way we develop our ideas, opinions, emotions and patterns,
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  the Mother observes. Quote You must understand that
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  you are not separate individualities, that life is a
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  constant exchange of forces, of consciousnesses, of vibrations,
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  of movements of all kinds. It is as in a crowd.
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  You see, when everyone pushes, all go forward, and when all
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  recede, everyone recedes. It is the same thing in the
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  inner world. In your consciousness there are
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  all the time forces and influences acting and reacting
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  upon you. It is like a gas in the
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  atmosphere and unless you are quite awake, these things enter
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  into you. And it is only when they have
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  gone well in and come out as if they came from you that you
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  become aware of them. How many times people meet those
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  who are nervous, angry, in a bad mood and themselves become
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  nervous, angry, Moody, just like that, without quite knowing why?
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  Why is it that when you play against certain people, you play
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  very well, but when you play against others you cannot play?
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  And those very quiet people, not at all wicked, who suddenly
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  become furious when they are in a furious crowd and no one knows
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  who has started it. It is something that went past
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  and swept off the consciousness. There are people who can let out
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  vibrations like this, and others respond without knowing why.
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  Everything is like that, from the smallest to the biggest
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  things. End Quote.
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  Reference Srioro Bindu and the Mother.
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  The hidden forces of life. Chapter Eight Life A Mass of
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  Vibrations, pages 182 to 183.