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Vital Beings and Their Interaction in the Evolutionary World on the Material Plane · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  According to Sages and Rishis who have investigated the issue
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  deeply, the Earth, the material manifested world we live in, is
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  the place where evolution of consciousness takes place and
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  thus where the psychic being develops to carry the progress
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  in this evolution at the individual level through from
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  lifetime to lifetime. It is said that even the gods
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  need to take birth in this world in order to progress.
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  Otherwise they are what we may call static beings with a fixed
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  place in the hierarchy of the manifestation.
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  This brings us then to the interaction between beings who
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  are native to one of the vital domains, but which interact with
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  beings on the earth plane. These vital beings are
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  themselves static, non evolutionary beings and they
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  thus do not possess a soul or a psychic being.
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  Their interactions are based on the fixed propensities and built
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  in needs and desires that they harbour.
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  In some cases they feed off of the energies produced by their
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  action. In other cases they find
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  enjoyment in the reactions they elicit.
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  Many human beings treat animals as a source of food and they
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  also control and train animals in many cases as a source of
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  entertainment. We can see something analogous
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  with respect to vital beings that invade the human domain for
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  sustenance or enjoyment. In the case of full scale
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  possession. They essentially take over the
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  instrumentation of the body, life, mind complex, but
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  eliminate the psychic being and its evolutionary purpose.
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  They want to use and eventually discard the frame without
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  concern for any evolutionary purpose.
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  In that instance, the body, life, mind that they occupy is
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  no longer an evolutionary being, but a static formation taking a
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  physical shape in the material world.
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  Identifying these circumstances, however, is not easy and
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  requires considerable study and investigation.
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  In most cases, other than the most extreme, such as we saw
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  with the situation of Hitler, who was clearly possessed and
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  controlled by a vital entity. The disciple asks, have these
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  vital beings a psychic being? The mother answers quote no.
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  I said that the first thing they have to do to Incarnate is to
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  drive away the psychic being of the person whom they possess.
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  That may happen from the very birth.
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  There are children who are almost still born.
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  They are taken to be dead and suddenly they revive.
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  This means that a vital being has incarnated in them.
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  I have known such cases. This may happen also in the
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  course of an illness. Someone is very ill and
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  gradually he lets go the contact with the psychic being.
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  Then in a swoon or some other similar state, he cuts the
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  contact entirely and the vital being rushes into the body.
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  I have known cases of this kind also.
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  Or it may be a slow action. The vital being enters into the
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  atmosphere of the person, goes on influencing him and finally
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  brings about illness attacks, specially mental illness.
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  Then a time comes when the connection with the psychic
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  being is entirely cut and the vital being takes possession of
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  the body. There are cases of people
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  falling very ill and coming out of the illness altogether
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  different from what they were. Very often it is this that
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  happens. End Quote reference Sri
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  Aurobindo and the Mother, The Hidden Forces of Life, Chapter
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  5. Occult Forces, pages 1:14 to
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  1:15.