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The Power of an Integral Immobility · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The general concept of immobility in the face of
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  external pressures is actually not a new discovery.
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  Stoicism encourage people to develop ways to withstand the
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  pressures of the external world and accept those pressures
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  without wilting or breaking under them.
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  For the most part, however, the Stoics still struggle with the
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  forces that assail them. They work to restrain their
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  outer nature from reacting, and with considerable practice they
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  gain a measure of resistance. This comes, however, with the
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  corresponding of the deadening of the general responsiveness to
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  all of life's energies and activities.
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  Some people practice various forms of self-control of their
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  physical, vital and mental impulses.
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  They can achieve, in some cases, a remarkable ability to
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  withstand conditions that most would find impossible to
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  withstand. This includes all kinds of
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  physical conditioning, anger management, and mental
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  disciplines. These do not nullify the
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  vibrations that come in, but modify the response given back
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  to them. One can be disturbed inwardly,
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  but not show it outwardly. The mother takes a more
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  comprehensive view of immobility, which is based not
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  on artificially suppressing the external responses alone, but of
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  actually nullifying the unwanted vibrations internally so that
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  there is no inner reaction at all.
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  When 1 wishes to withstand a particular vibration or force
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  being exerted upon one, she calls this complete stilling of
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  the internal vibrational responses integral immobility.
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  People are frequently asking about psychic attacks, sorcery,
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  malevolent and highly concentrated forces that attempt
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  to overwhelm and destroy an individual.
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  As one cultivates the power of integral immobility, the being
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  sets up what may be considered to be a psychic shield.
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  The alternative approach is to put oneself completely under the
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  protection of a being who has the power to create such a
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  shield, the mother writes. Quote There is a tremendous
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  power in immobility, mental immobility, sensorial
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  immobility, physical immobility. If you can remain like a wall,
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  absolutely motionless, everything the other person
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  sends you will immediately fall back upon him.
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  And it has an immediate action. It can stop the arm of the
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  assassin, you understand. It has that strength.
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  Only one must not just appear to be immobile and yet be boiling
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  inside. That's not what I mean.
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  I mean an integral immobility. End Quote.
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  Reference Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Powers within, Chapter
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  12, Power of Immobility, page 100.