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The Action of Vital Entities in Human Life for Their Own Sense of Enjoyment · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Human beings love subjecting others to practical jokes, but
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  very likely we are not the only beings who suffer from this
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  malady. Many people have had the
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  experience related here by the Mother about searching for
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  things, sometimes looking in the place where those things are but
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  not finding them. Then later, they suddenly become
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  visible again. We could interpret this to be
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  inattention of some sort, or a lack of thoroughness in the
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  search, or a distraction at the time of the search, or even a
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  fading in and out of existence of these things.
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  But the mother had her own experience which brought her to
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  understand that there are in fact some small, vital entities
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  who live in close proximity to our world and who take joy in
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  hiding things from our view and then revealing them later.
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  The mother notes quote. One of the most common
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  activities of these intolerable little entities, which are in
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  the human physical atmosphere and amuse themselves at men's
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  expense, is to blind you to such an extent that when you look for
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  something and The thing is staring you in the face, you do
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  not see it. This happens very often.
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  You search in vain, you turn everything over, you look into
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  all possible corners, but you don't find the thing.
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  Then you give up the problem, and sometime later, precisely
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  when the hand over the eyes is removed, you come back to the
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  same place, and it is exactly there where you have looked
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  quietly lying there. It had not stirred, only you
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  were unconscious, you did not see.
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  This is a very, very frequent amusement of these little
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  entities. They also take pleasure in
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  removing things. Then they put them back.
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  But at times they also don't put them back.
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  They displace them. Indeed, they have all sorts of
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  little diversions. They are intolerable.
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  Madame Blavatsky made much use of them, but I don't know how
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  she managed to make them so amiable because generally they
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  are quite unpleasant. Reference Sri Aurobindo and the
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  Mother, The Hidden Forces of Life, Chapter 5, Occult Forces,
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  pages 1:12 to 1:13.