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The Power of Mastery · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We operate on multiple levels at the same time.
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  There's the external level comprised of actual physical,
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  vital and mental actions we undertake.
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  We speak, we express ourselves through gestures and body
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  language. We undertake physical activities
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  at the same time. However, there's the unspoken
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  energetic vibration that we create and send out, which
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  impacts others without words, without physical gesture, simply
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  by vibrating and interacting with the vibrational field of
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  others. The true power of mastery comes
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  not from external influence, persuasion, education, use of
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  physical, vital or mental power to dominate others, but from the
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  ability to vibrate and radiate an intense field that is able to
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  neutralize, change, or overcome the vibrational pattern with
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  which it interacts. We can get a hint of what this
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  means when we observe that in some individuals there is an
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  intense mental atmosphere that surrounds them and which dampens
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  any raucous energies. When people enter their
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  environs, they tend to feel the mental force and it moves their
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  own vibrational levels to interact with that force.
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  We also see instances where an individual has such a deep sense
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  of peace and silence surrounding him that it is noticeable to
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  others. A number of people noted that as
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  a palpable experience when they happened to visit with Shrioro
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  Bindo. For instance, there are numerous
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  reports of people experiencing a surge in devotional or spiritual
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  force in the presence of various masters.
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  People have also reported similar occurrences with the
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  Mother at the Shriora Bindu Ashram, and they would report,
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  for instance, being awakened out of sleep with an electric energy
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  and a surge of devotion. At times of key events in the
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  life of the ashram. In the face of such energetic
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  forces, contrary energies are submerged, overwhelmed, reduced
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  or even eliminated. The Mother writes quote to
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  control something. A movement is simply to replace
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  by 1's presence without words or explanations, the bad vibration
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  by the true One. This is what constitutes the
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  power of mastery. It does not lie in speaking, in
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  explaining with words and explanations, and even a certain
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  emanation of force. You may have an influence on
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  someone, but you do not control his movement.
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  The control of the movement is the capacity to oppose the
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  vibration of this movement by a stronger, truer vibration which
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  can stop the other one. I could give you an example.
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  You know a very easy 1-2 people are arguing in front of you.
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  Not only are they arguing, but they are on the point of coming
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  to blows. So you explain to them that this
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  is not the thing to do. You give them good reasons for
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  stopping, and they come to a stop.
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  You will have had an influence on them.
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  But if you simply stand before them and look at them and send
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  out a vibration of peace, calm, quietude, without saying a word,
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  without any explanation, the other vibration will no longer
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  be able to last. It will fall away of itself.
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  That is mastery. The same thing applies to the
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  cure of ignorance. If you need words to explain
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  something that is not true knowledge.
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  If I have to say all that I do say for you to understand me,
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  that is not mastery. It is simply that I am able to
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  exercise an influence on your intelligence and help you to
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  understand and awaken in you the desire to know and discipline
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  yourselves, et cetera. But if by looking at you without
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  saying anything, I am not able to make the light enter into
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  you, the light which will make you understand, I won't have
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  mastered the movement or the state of ignorance.
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  End Quote. Reference Sri Aurobindo and the
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  Mother, Powers within, Chapter 11.
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  Power of Control, pages 97 to 98.