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The Concrete Reality of Spiritual Force and Its Action · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  There is a clear divide between those who have actually
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  experienced the action of spiritual or yoga force and
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  those who have a mental conception of spirituality but
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  have not had a strong experience thus far that makes the theory
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  into something real and actual for them.
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  Once the experience is there, it is impossible to deny its
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  authenticity or power, and it is no longer a subject of internal
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  debate as to whether it is real. Many people report experiences
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  that include the rising up of an energy from the basis of the
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  spine area through the crown of the head and the illumination
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  and insight that occurs when that experience takes hold.
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  Similarly, many report the sensation of a drilling force
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  from above through the skull that brings changes to the
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  mental view, the expression of willpower, emotional reaction,
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  vital response, and even brings physical changes with it.
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  Long experience documented in yoga scriptures down through the
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  ages describe the need to prepare the body for the advent
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  of the yoga force and the risks and downsides of bringing into
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  that power without a solid basis to hold it and not either spill
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  it or become imbalanced as result of its advent.
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  Large numbers of people have experienced the power of a
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  location that is filled with devotional force.
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  A researcher actually documented the difference between stones
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  that had been long in a particular temple and absorb the
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  energy there, and similar stones that were not kept in a place
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  that was considered devotional and where long years of prayer
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  had not taken place. Curlean photography of the
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  stones showed a distinct strong aura radiating from the stones
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  that came from the shrine, while there was no discernible
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  radiation of force from the non immersed stones.
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  This tends to support the idea that certain invisible forces
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  operative on the spiritual level can actually be captured and
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  stored in physical matter. Certainly, if one looks at the
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  stories told of great rishis, Saints, gurus, seers, shaman and
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  yogi's down through the ages, there is a clear pattern of an
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  active spiritual force that can impact lives and even physical
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  health and Wellness. In the book Called To Heal, the
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  author recounts a story of an individual in Africa who came
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  from a background of traditional healing, but who tried to avoid
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  taking that path, preferring to have a career outside the
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  healing field. She experienced endless numbers
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  of life and health crises and eventually was advised that
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  until she took up her destined healing path, she would not
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  succeed and her health would be at risk.
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  When she accepted her destined role, her life became one of
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  growth and joy. Some occult force was working
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  within her life to move her toward a destined role as a
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  traditional healer, Shrioro Bindo writes.
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  Quote concrete. What do you mean by concrete?
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  Spiritual force has its own concreteness.
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  It can take a form, like a stream for instance, of which
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  one is aware and can send it quite concretely on whatever
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  object one chooses. This is a statement of fact
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  about the power inherent in spiritual consciousness.
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  But there is also such a thing as a willed use of any subtle
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  force. It may be spiritual, mental, or
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  vital to secure a particular result at some point in the
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  world. Just as there are waves of
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  unseen physical forces, cosmic waves, et cetera, or currents of
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  electricity, so there are mind waves, thought currents, waves
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  of emotion, for example, anger, sorrow, et cetera, which go out
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  and affect others without their knowing whence they come, or
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  that they come at all. They only feel the result.
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  One who has the occult or inner senses awake can feel them
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  coming and invading him. Influences, good or bad, can
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  propagate themselves in that way.
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  That can happen without intention and naturally, but
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  also a deliberate use can be made of them.
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  There can also be a purposeful generation of force, spiritual
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  or other. There can be, too, the use of
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  the effective will or idea, acting directly, without the aid
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  of any outward action, speech, or other instrumentation which
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  is not concrete in that sense, but is all the same effective.
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  These things are not imaginations or delusions or
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  humbug, but true phenomena. End Quote.
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  Reference Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, The Hidden forces of
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  Life, Chapter 7. Spiritual Forces of Help and
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  Succor, page 165.