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The Mother's Force Is the Primary Aid in Overcoming the Force of Desire · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  There is a dual significance to the term the Mother's Force.
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  First, this is the Divine Shakti, which manifests the
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  universal creation and which acts to bring forth the
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  sequential expression of the consciousness involved in
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  matter. At the same time, there is the
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  specific reference to the Mother of the Shrioro Bindo Ashram who
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  so embodied and focused this divine Force that those who came
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  into her presence or aura of influence were profoundly
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  impacted by that force. In his book The Mother, Sri
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  Aurobindo states quote, the superimental change is a thing
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  decreed and inevitable in the evolution of the earth
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  consciousness, for its upward ascent is not ended and mind is
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  not its last summit, but that the change may arrive, take form
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  and endure. There is needed the call from
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  below with the will to recognize and not deny the light when it
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  comes, and there is needed the sanction of the Supreme from
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  above. The power that mediates between
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  the sanction and the Call is the presence and power of the Divine
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  Mother, the Mother's power, and not any human endeavour.
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  And tapasya can alone rend the lid and tear the covering, and
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  shape the vessel, and bring down into this world of obscurity and
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  falsehood and death and suffering, truth and light and
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  life, divine and the immortals. Ananda.
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  End Quote. As the seeker learns to tune his
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  attention and open up his receptivity to the higher
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  forces, he gains direct contact with and benefit from those
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  forces operative there. This attention may be based on
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  coming into contact inwardly with the psychic being or
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  through concentration that opens the higher chakras to direct
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  influence of the spiritual energy, or through a receptive
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  contact with the guru or some individual who embodies that
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  force to such a degree that a link is created and an opening
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  established. Large numbers of devotees around
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  the world have had the experience and reported it that
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  focusing on a photograph of the Mother could put them into a
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  state of deep meditation. Receiving the Mother's blessings
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  could induce a state of distance from the awareness of the
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  physical body and the demands of the vital being.
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  If one is struggling with the force of desire and relying on
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  one's own ability to overcome that force through willpower,
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  discipline, or some form of control, there is a constant
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  battle and an oscillation between the desire and the
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  overcoming of that desire. Many have found, however, that
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  putting oneself into direct and receptive contact with the
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  mother's force took one totally outside the vital desire and its
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  influence, making this a direct and powerful method of educating
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  the vital nature and moving beyond the promptings of the
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  universal vital force that provokes the desire within the
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  being trio, Robindo writes. Quote Desire takes a long time
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  to get rid of entirely, but if you can once get it out of the
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  nature and realize it as a force coming from outside and putting
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  its claws into the vital and physical, it will be easier to
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  get rid of the invader. You are too accustomed to feel
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  it as part of yourself or planted in you.
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  That makes it more difficult for you to deal with its movements
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  and dismiss its ancient control over you.
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  You should not rely on anything else alone, however helpful it
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  may seem, but chiefly, primarily fundamentally, on the Mother's
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  force. The Sun and the light may be a
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  help, and will be if it is the true light and the true sun, but
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  cannot take the place of the Mother's Force.
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  End Quote. Reference Sri Orabindo, Basis of
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  Yoga, chapter 4. Desire Food, Sex, pages 63 to
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  64.