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Fear: Its Effect on the Vital Sheath and As a Cause of Illness · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Several years ago, there was a worldwide.
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  Pandemic that affected many 10s of millions of people, which was
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  called the COVID-19 pandemic. It provided us a clear
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  opportunity to see the impact of fear on the reactions of people.
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  Panic ensued. Stores closed, Public access was
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  shut down. In many places, people tried to
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  avoid the pandemic by staying at home and minimizing their
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  interaction with other people, keeping their distance, using
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  face masks, protective gear such as plastic Shields, and using a
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  lot of hand sanitizer products. Individual who became I'll were
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  quarantined, and even those hospitalized or dying from the
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  pandemic were prevented from interacting with family and
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  friends. We saw a similar but less
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  complete response to the HIV epidemic, which appeared to
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  impact a much smaller number of people and be confined more to a
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  specific demographics. Anyone who had HIV was basically
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  ostracized by others due to fear.
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  The bubonic plague in Europe in the Middle Ages had an
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  extraordinarily amount of fear attached to it.
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  With towns walled off and closed down, trade halted in many
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  places and people trying to escape the plague infestations
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  by going out to other non infected areas.
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  Albert Camus, in his book The Plague and Daniel Defoe in his
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  book A Journal of the Plague Year, provided outstanding
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  insights to the events and psychological forces at work,
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  including the influence of societal fear on the reactions
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  of people. The extreme fear weakened the
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  vital sheath of most individuals, who thus were more
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  subject to succumbing to the pandemic, and opened up a
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  pathway for the vibrations that brought on the changes to the
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  body that accompanied the illness to actually enter and
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  carry out their task of infection.
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  The fear and the suggestions that accompanied it predisposed
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  the body to respond to those vibrations, thus making the
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  illness more virulent and effective in its penetration
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  through the protective sheath of the vital envelope, Fiorabindo
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  notes quote they the subtle forces of illness first weaken
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  or breakthrough the nervous envelope, the aura, if that is
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  strong and whole. 1000 million germs will not be able to do
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  anything to you. The envelope pierced, they
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  attack the subconscious mind in the body.
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  Sometimes also the vital mind or mind proper prepare the illness
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  by fear or thought of illness. The doctors themselves say that
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  in influenza or cholera in the Far East, 90% get ill through
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  fear. Nothing to take away the
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  resistance like fear, but still the subconscious is the main
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  thing. If the contrary force is strong
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  in the body, one can move in the midst of plague and cholera and
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  never get contaminated. End Quote Reference Shriorobindo
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  and the Mother, The Hidden Forces of Life, Chapter 3,
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  Hidden Forces Around page 74.