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Small Vital Entities and Their Action in Human Life · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The mother relates two stories here about interactions she
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  personally had with some small entities.
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  One group were of goodwill and acted to remind her of things
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  when she was otherwise distracted.
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  She was able to pay attention to their hint and ensure that all
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  worked out properly. It takes a great deal of
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  quietness of the mind and development of a sensitivity to
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  the touches of these vital entities to be able to recognize
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  the hints and make use of them. The second experience was
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  clearly a type of practical joke that an entity tried to carry
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  out at Sri Aurobindo's expense. How else can we explain three
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  different clocks stopping at the same time in three different
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  rooms? Sri Aurobindo obviously had some
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  power of action on that subtle plane and soon the clocks were
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  up and running again. A somewhat similar experience
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  occurred some years ago when a manager of a company came to
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  work and found that the chair he used in his office had
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  disappeared. It was apparent that some entity
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  had taken the chair away. As a practical joke, he caused
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  to be announced over the PA system of the company that if
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  the chair was not back at his desk within one minute, the
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  person responsible would lose their job.
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  All in good fun and the spirit of the day.
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  Of course, the chair returned quickly.
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  In this case, it was a practical joke carried out by a human
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  individual and the specific person was identified and the
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  action was clearly defined. Yet we cannot explain away the
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  two stories related by the Mother as having a specific
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  human cause. The Mother observes quote.
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  I had the experience among innumerable instances, but
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  precisely of two very striking cases of two opposite things,
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  only it was not the same beings. There are little beings like
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  fairies, who are very sweet, very obliging, but they are not
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  always there. They come from time to time when
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  it pleases them. I remember the time I used to
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  cook for Sri Aurobindo. I was also doing many other
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  things at the same time. So I often happened to leave the
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  milk on the fire and go for some other work or to see something
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  with him to discuss with somebody.
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  And truly I was not always aware of the time I used to forget the
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  milk on the fire. And whenever I forgot the milk
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  on the fire, I felt suddenly. In those days I used to wear a
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  sari, a little hand catching a fold of my sari and pulling it
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  like this. Then I used to run quickly and
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  would see that the milk was just on the point of boiling over.
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  This did not happen just once, but several times and very
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  clearly like a little child's hand clutching and pulling.
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  The other story is of the days Shiorobindo had the habit of
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  walking up and down in his rooms.
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  He used to walk for several hours like that.
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  It was his way of meditating, only he wanted to know the time.
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  So a clock had been put in each room to enable him to see the
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  time at any moment. There were three such clocks.
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  One was in the room where I worked.
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  It was, so to say, his starting point.
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  One day he came and asked what time is it?
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  He looked and the clock had stopped.
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  He went into the next room saying I shall see the time
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  there. The clock had stopped and it had
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  stopped at the same minute as the other, you understand, with
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  a difference of a few seconds. He went to the third room, the
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  clock had stopped. He continued walking three times
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  like that, all the clocks had stopped.
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  Then he returned to my room and said but this is impossible,
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  this is a bad joke, and all the clocks one after the other
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  started working again. I saw it myself, you know, it
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  was a charming incident. He was angry.
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  He said this is a bad joke and all the clocks started going
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  again. End Quote.
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  Reference Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.
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  The Hidden Forces of life Chapter 5.
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  Occult Forces, pages 113 to 114.