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Empowering Thought Forms Through Linking of Will and Emotion · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Perhaps the biggest impediments to the exercise of the occult
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  powers native to the human condition is our lack of
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  willingness to acknowledge these powers for what they are and our
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  lack of attention and focus on understanding, developing, and
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  exercising them. When extraordinary circumstances
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  arise and we actually concentrate our minds, things
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  may take place that we do not associate with the direct action
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  of our minds. Perhaps they occur out of
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  sequence with our action or at a distant place, or in an
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  unexpected manner. One way or the other, we fail to
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  see the cause and effect relationship and thus we deny
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  the reality of the action itself.
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  It takes serious effort of observation and training to both
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  identify and employ these powers in a fully effective and
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  powerful manner. Written questions put to the
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  Mother, then a sub question quote.
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  Without conscious occult powers, is it possible to help or
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  protect from a distance somebody in difficulty or danger?
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  If so, what is the practical procedure?
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  What can thought do? End Quote, the Mother responds.
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  Quote. We are not going to speak of
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  occult processes at all, although to tell the truth,
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  everything that happens in the invisible world is a cult by
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  definition. But still, practically there are
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  two processes which do not exclude but complete each other,
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  but which may be used separately according to one's preference.
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  It is obvious that thought forms a part of one of the methods,
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  quite an important part. I have already told you several
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  times that if one thinks clearly and powerfully, one makes a
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  mental formation, and that every mental formation is an entity
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  independent of its fashioner, having its own life and tending
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  to realize itself in the mental world.
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  I don't mean that you see your formation with your physical
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  eyes, but it exists in the mental world.
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  It has its own particular independent existence.
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  If you have made a formation with a definite aim, its whole
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  life will tend to the realization of this aim.
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  Therefore, if you want to help someone at a distance, you have
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  only to formulate very clearly, very precisely and strongly the
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  kind of help you want to give and the result you wish to
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  obtain. That will have its effect.
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  I cannot say that it will be all powerful, for the mental world
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  is full of innumerable formations of this kind, and
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  naturally they clash and contradict one another.
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  Hence the strongest and the most persistent will have the best of
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  it. Now, what is it that gives
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  strength and persistence to mental formations?
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  It is emotion and will. If you know how to add to your
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  mental formation and emotion affection, tenderness, love, and
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  an intensity of will, a dynamism, it will have a much
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  greater chance of success. That is the first method.
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  It is within the scope of all those who know how to think and
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  even more of those who know how to love.
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  But as I said, the power is limited and there is great
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  competition in that world. Therefore, even if one has no
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  knowledge at all, but has trust in the Divine grace, if one has
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  the faith that there is something in the world like the
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  Divine grace, and that this something can answer a prayer
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  and aspiration and invocation, then after making one's mental
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  formation, if one offers it to the grace and puts one's trust
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  in it, asks it to intervene and has the faith that it will
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  intervene, then indeed one has a chance of success.
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  Try and you will surely see the result.
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  End Quote. Reference Sri Orobindo and the
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  Mother powers within. Chapter 2.
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  Power of Thought, pages 18 to 19.