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Effectuating the Formations of Imagination Over Time and Circumstance · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Creating a detailed imagination is the first step in a future
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  realization. The formation so devised will
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  attempt to achieve its actualization in the world, yet
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  it must contend with the readiness of the ground upon
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  which it alights, the preparation of the soil, the
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  proper support along the way, and avoidance of those forces
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  and influences which will tend to either destroy, distract or
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  delay its coming to fruition. The formation struggles to
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  survive, grow, thrive and bear fruit.
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  It may take time. The more far reaching the
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  intended outcome, the longer it may take.
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  Relatively simple desires may not have much difficulty in
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  manifesting. It is similar to the way we
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  receive new ideas in our brains. A neural pathway is developed,
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  and it may take several repetitions to fully form
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  itself. Once it is there, when the
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  vibration rises, it can immediately follow that pathway.
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  Something less common may take some time to work out the
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  situation, and as the mother points out, most people have
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  moved on from that formation by the time it comes to fruition,
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  and they are left dealing with the fruits of a past action that
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  they no longer really want to taste.
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  If we leave behind, however, all the purely personal desires and
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  formations of imagination and move toward the larger scope of
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  the evolutionary destiny of the human race, we may consider that
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  time, past habit, karmic energetic flows, and
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  circumstances may throw up obstacles or delays, and thus we
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  may not ourselves see the fruit of the formation.
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  Rather, future generations will benefit from its realization.
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  Imagine, for instance, that we can create a world of peace and
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  harmony where all human beings live with due care and
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  consideration for all others, and also in balance with the
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  world, environment, and the other beings with whom we share
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  the planet. We do not let our personal
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  greed, lust, or desires intervene in this balance.
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  We create economic and political systems that carry out this
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  intention so that we have no cause for war, gang brutality,
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  or anything that might cause mass migrations.
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  That we bring climate change under control and thus reduce
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  the spread of disease vectors and reduce the intensity of
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  destructive weather events. Imagine a world that we can
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  create, where art and music thrive, where people do not have
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  to be enslaved their whole lives simply to survive, but can
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  follow their ideals, their dreams and their visions.
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  Such a world, you may say, is not foreseeable in our immediate
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  future. Yet there is no reason that
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  given enough time and enough powerful intention behind it,
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  provided by many people who seek such a solution to the darkness
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  and conflict we see in our present world situation, that
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  such a result could not eventuate.
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  Maybe 102 hundred, 300 or 400 years represents the time frame
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  necessary for the changes to take hold and effectuate the
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  foundation of such a world of peace and harmony.
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  A disciple asks then is it through imagination that one can
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  realize desires or aspirations? The mother responds, quote.
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  That means what exactly do you want to say?
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  Imagining that the desire is realized and in this way help
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  its realization? Yes, certainly, quite certainly.
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  And ideals also, the mother replies, quote.
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  Only usually, Yes, almost totally.
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  What people don't have at their disposal is the time it takes.
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  But for instance, if you have a very powerful imagination and
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  build up the realization of your desire, build it up well with
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  all its details and everything, like an admirably made formation
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  existing in itself. Totally, you see?
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  Well, you may be sure that if you live long enough, the thing
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  will be realized. It can be realized the next day,
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  it can be realized the next minute.
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  It can take years, it can take centuries, but it is sure to be
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  realized. And then if to this imaginative
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  power you add a kind of creative vital strength, you make a very
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  living force of it. And as all living forces tend
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  towards realization, it will put a pressure upon terrestrial
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  events in order to be able to realize itself sooner.
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  And it is realized only as I said, there are two things.
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  First, as regards desires, personal circumstances 1 is not
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  very persistent or very steady. And after some time, what
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  interested you very strongly doesn't interest you any longer.
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  You think of something else, have another desire and make
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  another formation. But now the first thing one
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  imagined is very well formed, and after following its curve in
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  space it is realized. But by then the person has
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  started another construction because for some reason or
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  other, the thing doesn't interest him anymore and he is
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  face to face with the realization of his first desire
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  while having already embarked upon the second, the 3rd or the
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  4th. So he is absolutely annoyed.
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  But why? I don't want this any longer?
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  Why does it come without his being conscious that quite
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  simply, it is the result of a previous deed?
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  If, however, instead of being desires, they are aspirations
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  for spiritual things, and one continues his line with a
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  regular progress, then one is absolutely sure to obtain one
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  day what he has imagined. The day may be slightly far off
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  if there are many obstacles on the path.
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  For example, if the formation that you have made is still very
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  alien to the state of the earth atmosphere, well, it takes some
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  time to prepare the conditions for its advent.
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  But if it is something which has already been realized several
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  times on earth and does not imply too categorical a
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  transformation, you may have it quite quickly, provided that you
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  follow the same line persistently.
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  And if you add to this the ardor of a faith and trust in the
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  divine grace, and that kind of self giving to the grace which
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  makes you expect everything from it, then it can become
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  tremendous. You can see things being
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  realized more and more, and the most surprising ones can be
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  realized one after another. But for this there are
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  conditions to be fulfilled. End Quote.
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  Reference Sri Orobindo and the Mother Powers within, Chapter 3,
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  Imagination, pages 32 to 33.