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Vital Vibrations and the Response to Them · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We are able to perceive and respond to specific frequency
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  ranges. Anything above or below the
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  frequency ranges to which we are attuned does not register with
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  us consciously, although there may be some subtle impact and
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  energetic action that takes place.
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  Even so, we see that in the case of the opera singer who can
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  shatter glass when she reaches a certain note and pitch, that the
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  glass vibrated only when that frequency was attained and
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  otherwise remained stable in its constitution of being a vessel
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  of glass. Sympathetic strings on a sitar
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  are made to vibrate each to a particular frequency, thus
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  providing the range of sounds. Similarly, when vital vibrations
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  of fear, desire, greed, compassion, aspiration, or pity,
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  any vital vibration is active, it only raises up activity in
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  those individuals who are tuned and ready to receive and respond
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  to them. It is this secret that underlies
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  the philosophical approach of the Stoic, who habituates
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  himself to not respond to vital vibrations that otherwise put
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  other individuals into action. We can see something similar in
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  the physical body when it comes to the force of illness.
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  When a disease is virulent, it not only has its physical
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  action, but IT projects through humanity a vibration of fear or
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  panic. The fear effect that occurs in a
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  plague or pandemic can cause tremendous disruption to the
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  natural vital envelope protecting the body and thus
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  actually is part of the process of infection.
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  An observation of an actual event illustrates this
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  principle. A number of people had gathered
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  in Washington, DC in 1971 to protest the US involvement in
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  the war in Vietnam. A demonstration occurred outside
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  the HHS headquarters. Health and Human Services.
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  President Nixon arranged to have the peaceful demonstrators
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  surrounded and arrested. When the police showed up armed
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  with Billy clubs and helmets and Shields and with their motorized
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  transport vehicles, and surrounded the demonstrators, a
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  palpable sense of fear surged through the crowd.
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  One or more people, however, seem to be able to overcome that
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  fear, and they began to chant OHM.
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  The crowd quickly took up the chant and instantly the fear
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  dissolved and the people were at peace with the situation.
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  They were arrested, driven away and locked up, but did not any
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  longer have the panic reaction with which they first reacted,
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  the mother observes. Quote.
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  When we say that great waves of passion pass through people and
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  that they are not generated in them but pass through them, it
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  is perfectly true. But if there was someone
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  absolutely immune from all possibility of passion, they
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  could pass by for centuries. He wouldn't even feel them.
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  He could see them, see them passing as one sees a storm
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  passing in the sky, but he would feel nothing at all.
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  When the vibrations inside oneself answer the vibrations
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  from outside, it means that they are there.
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  Otherwise no vibration can enter.
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  There are examples like this. For instance, a crowd is seized
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  by panic. Well, it is always possible that
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  there are one or two persons who resist the panic, who are not
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  touched, are outside it. They can save the situation.
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  This has happened many a time. The reason why a movement of
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  vibration, a forceful movement, is contagious is because the
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  ground for contagion is there. End Quote Reference Shrioro
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  Bindu and the Mother, The Hidden Forces of Life, Chapter Eight
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  Life A Mass of Vibrations, pages 185 to 186.