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The Potential Occult Influence on Consciousness of Relics, Photographs and Reading of Books · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  An experiment some years ago showed that stones that came
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  from a temple where ongoing worship had been taking place
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  held and radiated in energy not found in stones that had not
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  been subjected to the influence of constant prayer.
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  Just as stones absorb heat vibrations and then radiate them
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  back later, the psychic and vital energy of the prayers gets
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  absorbed and radiated back. Many people have reported a deep
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  spiritual or religious experience when visiting certain
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  temples or viewing certain icons.
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  If we reflect on the implication of this, we can see that the
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  idea of relics, that is, a small piece of hair or nails from an
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  individual who has had infused into him substantial spiritual
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  energy over time has a conceptual basis.
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  The experience of individuals who come into contact with those
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  relics validates this concept with practical experience.
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  Both religious and spiritual traditions speak to the reality
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  of the force that radiates through the presence of the
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  relics. A somewhat similar experience
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  arises from the energy that people can receive through
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  photographs. The visual sense picks up the
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  vibratory pattern of the individual photographed, and
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  this is communicated in an occult manner and can influence
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  the inner response. When people read books, they
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  tend to focus primarily on the sense of the words and in some
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  cases, the meaning behind the external sense.
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  What is implied between the lines?
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  However, there is another element altogether.
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  This is the element of the communication of an energy of
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  consciousness through the concentration of the reader on
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  the writing and a receptivity to open to the status of
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  consciousness, the standpoint and the energy of the person who
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  did the writing. By reading not just with the
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  mental capability but with the receptive psychic sense, it is
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  possible for an individual to contact the consciousness of the
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  writer and thereby gain, at least partially, the experience
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  that the writer had at the time of writing.
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  This is particularly true for writing that holds a high
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  energetic vibratory pattern that demands more of the reader in
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  order to gain a more complete understanding of what is being
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  communicated. Many people have experienced
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  that during the reading of Sri Aurobindo's Savitri, a legend
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  and a symbol, that they have spontaneously been transported
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  into a different state of consciousness.
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  They report seeing and hearing in the background, so to speak,
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  all manner of visions and sounds.
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  They report a wide range of spiritual experiences, and in
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  many cases they experienced profound episodes of new
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  understanding and insight. The extent of the impact depends
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  both on the intensity and power of the consciousness that
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  created the object and the receptivity, openness, and
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  capacity for holding the concentration of the individual
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  interacting with that object, the mother observes.
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  Quote Everything is contained potentially.
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  Each element of a whole potentially contains what is in
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  the whole. It's a little difficult to
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  explain but you will understand with an example.
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  When people want to practice magic, if they have a bit of
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  nail or hair, it is enough for them, because within this
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  potentially there is all that is in the being itself, and in a
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  book there is potentially not expressed, not manifest, the
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  knowledge which is in the person who wrote the book.
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  Thus Sri Aurobindo represented a totality of comprehension and
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  knowledge and power, and every one of his books is at once a
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  symbol and a representation. Every one of his books contains
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  symbolically potentially what is in him.
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  Therefore, if you concentrate on the book, you can through the
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  book, go back to the source and even by passing through the book
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  you will be able to receive much more than what is just in the
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  book. End Quote.
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  Reference. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother
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  Powers within, chapter 10. Obtaining answers and Solutions,
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  page 93.