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Understanding the External Medium of Communication and the Inner Force Within the Communication · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  There are hidden forces, vibrational patterns that move
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  between people that remain unseen but have their effect,
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  similar to the way that we do not observe electricity but we
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  do observe its effects. These vibrational patterns
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  operate without any overt external medium, simply through
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  communication of the vibrations from 1 vital being to another.
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  It is however, also true that all our external acts carry with
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  them as a medium of the interchange the force that is
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  operative. Thus we get a sense of what is
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  moving through speech, through body language, and through
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  various modes of communication such as art, dance, music and
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  writing. Some of these tend to carry more
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  of the mental impact, while others carry more of the vital
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  impact. When an individual consciously
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  intends to communicate something to another individual through
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  the written word, for instance, he focuses his attention on
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  developing the nuance and turn of phrase that will precisely
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  embody the force to be communicated.
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  Thus the written word has the power in many cases to
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  communicate the force of compassion, of goodwill, of
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  love, or the force of anger and rage, or some mental force that
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  draws the mind to a single point of concentration.
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  The power of words, particularly when combined with meter, is
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  particularly potent, as can be seen when one hears the chanting
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  of the Vedas or the Upanishads. Sri Aurobindo mastered this art
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  of communicating an essential vibrational force to readers of
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  his epic poem Savitri, a legend and a symbol.
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  Many people have recounted the experience of reading Savitri
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  and having some extraordinary experience of consciousness as a
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  result. In some cases an almost trance
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  like state arises, in others a feeling of great inward movement
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  of awareness, Instill others an incredible sense of joy or a
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  feeling of the darkness of the resistance of the vital world to
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  the manifestation of higher consciousness of light, freedom
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  and bliss, Sri Aurobindo observes Quote Every letter
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  means an interchange with the person who writes it.
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  For something is there behind the words something of his
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  person or of the forces he has put out or had around him while
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  writing. Our thoughts and feelings are
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  also forces and can have effects upon others.
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  One has to grow conscious of the movement of these forces and
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  then one can control one's own mental and vital formations and
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  cease to be affected by those of others.
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  End Quote Reference Sri Aerobindo and the Mother, The
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  Hidden Forces of Life, Chapter One, Life Through the Eyes of
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  the Yoga in Page 19.