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Adaptation of the Body to Support the Manifestation of a New Power of Consciousness · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  In his Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramount's Yogananda details a
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  number of events he witnessed were experienced personally
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  whereby a spiritual master was able to materialize his form and
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  communicate with the disciple from a great distance, and where
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  various yogis were able to perform acts of materialization
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  of various material objects. His experiences are not isolated
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  but are similar to those reported by others.
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  On a number of occasions, Milarepa was noted to be able to
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  fly through the air as well as materialize his body in multiple
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  places concurrently and provide instruction to disciples
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  concurrently at those widely separate locales.
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  If we look at the operation of the chakras, we can see that
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  there is essentially a dual system of action within the
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  human body. First, the external system of
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  organs and material operations, requiring input of material
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  sustenance in order to function and involving an entire
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  machinery to operate all the various systems of the body.
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  2nd, the energetic system of the chakras that receive energy at
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  various vibrational frequencies and use this energy to manifest
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  actions, capacities and developments on the level of
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  consciousness. We can conceive the possibility
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  that the chakra system could eventually replace entirely the
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  need for the organ systems, and that as new powers of
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  consciousness manifest more fully, human beings could
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  actually create the forms they need to operate in the world in
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  which they are active for any purpose.
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  Using these powers of consciousness and the ability to
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  manipulate material substance using this energetic power, we
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  can thus conceive of beings that operate primarily on an
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  energetic level and only take form and a specific form when
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  required for whatever they intend to accomplish, while
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  being left free and flexible within realms of consciousness
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  that do not require fixed material formations in order to
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  operate. Indeed, the scriptures of the
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  world abound with stories of interaction between beings of
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  light and human beings. We can conceive the possibility
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  that these beings primarily operate at energetic vibrational
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  levels outside our normal range of perception, but are able to
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  modulate their vibrational pattern when it becomes
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  incumbent upon them to interact with human beings within our
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  current limited range of perception.
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  The question arises as to why then it is not possible for
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  human evolution to move to this more energetic and flexible mode
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  of existence in order to more completely and accurately
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  express the new forms and powers of consciousness as they arise
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  through the evolutionary process.
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  The Mother observes Quote. In the very, very old traditions
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  there was a tradition more ancient than the Vedic and the
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  Chaldean, which must have been the source of both.
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  In that ancient tradition there is already mention of a glorious
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  body which would be plastic enough to be transformed at
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  every moment by the deeper consciousness.
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  It would express that consciousness.
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  It would have no fixity of form. It mentioned luminosity.
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  The constituent matter could become luminous at will.
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  It mentioned a sort of possibility of weightlessness
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  which would allow the body to move about in the air only by
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  the action of willpower and by certain processes of control of
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  the inner energy and so on. Much has been said about these
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  things. I don't know if there ever were
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  beings on earth who had partially realized this, but in
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  a very small way there have been partial instances of one thing
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  or another, examples which go to prove that it is possible.
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  And following up this idea, one could go so far as to conceive
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  of the replacement of material organs and their functioning, as
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  it now is, by centers of concentration of force and
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  energy which would be receptive to the higher forces, and which,
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  by a kind of alchemy, would use them for the necessities of life
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  and the body. We already speak of the
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  different centers in the body. This knowledge is very
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  widespread among people who have practiced yoga.
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  But these centers could be perfected to the point where
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  they replace the different organs by a direct action of the
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  higher energy and vibrations on matter.
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  Those who have practiced occultism well enough, in its
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  most integral form, it could be said, know the process of
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  materialization of subtle energies and could put them in
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  contact with physical vibrations.
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  Not only is it something that can be done, but it is something
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  which is done. And all that is a science.
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  A science which must be used for the creation and setting an
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  action of new bodies which will be able to manifest the Super
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  mental life in the material world.
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  End Quote Reference Srioro Bindo and the Mother Powers within,
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  Chapter 16 body pages 1:30 to 1:31.