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The Vital Envelope Is the First Line of Defense Against Illness · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Most people are not aware of the vital envelope, sometimes called
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  the aura, that surrounds their physical body.
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  Those who experience this vital envelope are sensitive on the
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  vital plane. They are frequently ridiculed
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  for speaking about the aura which they can feel or even
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  observe in others. Western science decided to find
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  a way to test the long proclaimed existence of the
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  aura. Tests were developed to capture
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  the electromagnetic field that surrounds the body.
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  Eventually, a technique called Curlian photography was devised
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  that could actually photograph this electromagnetic field.
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  An individual who had no experience or belief one way or
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  the other about the existence of the aura came into contact with
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  a researcher at Jipmer Hospital in Pondicherry, India some years
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  ago. This researcher was studying
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  cancer and the vibratory pattern it gave off and how it could be
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  cured by projecting onto the mice he was using for his
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  experiments. The vibratory pattern given off
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  by healthy mice. One of the tools he used was
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  curly in photography. After describing his work to the
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  visitor and showing a series of photographs of healthy mice, the
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  cancerous mice and their subsequent recovery, he offered
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  to show the visitor how the Krellian photography actually
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  worked. He took photographs of 2 stones.
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  1 was an ordinary stone, the other was a stone that had been
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  in an active temple for potentially hundreds of years.
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  The ordinary stone had virtually no aura surrounding it, while
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  the temple stone had a strong field of radiance exuding from
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  it. The researcher then went further
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  and asked the visitor to extend his hand.
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  He photographed the hand and showed the result of a
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  noticeable but rather diffused field surrounding it.
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  Then he asked the visitor to chant some mantras.
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  Afterwards, he photographed the hand once again.
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  This time the aura was bright and radiant and extended far
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  beyond the former photographed field.
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  Even for those who have not had personal insight or experience
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  about the existence of this vital envelope, there are
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  several significant points here. First, the aura exists.
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  Second, it can be augmented through focus practice such as
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  long standing prayer, the temple rock, or through use of mantras.
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  The visitors experience, those who have practiced to gain a
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  sensitive awareness, can feel the protective role that this
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  vital envelope plays and the way it can be supported to reject
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  the vibrations of illness that try to attack the physical body,
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  as Sri Aurobindo recounts here. Sri Aurobindo notes quote
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  attacks of illness are attacks of the lower nature or of
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  adverse forces taking advantage of some weakness, opening or
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  response in the nature. Like all other things that come
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  and have got to be thrown away, they come from outside.
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  If one can feel them so coming and get the strength and the
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  habit to throw them away before they can enter the body, then
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  one can remain free from illness even when the attack seems to
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  rise from within. That means only that it has not
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  been detected before it entered the subconscient.
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  Once in the subconscient, the force that brought it rouses it
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  from there sooner or later, and it invades the system.
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  When you feel it just after it has entered, it is because,
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  though it came direct and not through the subconscient, yet
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  you could not detect it while it was still outside.
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  Very often it arrives like that, frontally or more often
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  tangentially from the side, direct, forcing its way through
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  the subtle vital envelope which is our main armor of defence.
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  But it can be stopped there in the envelope itself, before it
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  penetrates the physical body. Then one may feel some effect,
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  for instance feverishness or a tendency to cold, but there is
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  not the full invasion of the malady.
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  If it can be stopped earlier, or if the vital envelope of itself
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  resists and remains strong, vigorous and intact, then there
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  is no illness. The attack produces no physical
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  effect and leaves no trace. End Quote.
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  Reference. Srioro Bindo, Bases of Yoga,
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  Chapter 5. Physical Consciousness,
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  subconscious Sleep and Dream Illness.
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  Pages 104 to 105.