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Vital Beings Utilize Vital Drives to Control Human Action for Their Own Benefit and Enjoyment · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Vital beings, by their very nature, take advantage of our
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  ambitions, desires, greed and fears to convince us to interact
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  with them, and they then use their responses for their own
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  enjoyment or nourishment. The more we are motivated by
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  these vital drives, the easier it is for such beings to toy
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  with us, as a cat will toy with a mouse before finally
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  delivering it to its death. Spiritual seekers are generally
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  enjoined not to give in to these vital reactions so as to avoid
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  distractions. The preliminary purification
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  practices, Yama and Niyama are intended not primarily as some
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  kind of code of morality or ethics, but as a training to
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  help the seeker avoid the drives that can waylay him along the
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  path. Such interdiscipline and
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  strength could be a huge benefit for people generally, not just
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  those undertaking a spiritual discipline, the mother writes.
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  Quote. In some cases vital entities
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  really get hold of you and there it is dangerous.
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  But fortunately these cases are not very frequent.
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  Then it becomes very dangerous. A very long time ago, when I was
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  in France, I knew the case of a man who, through practices of
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  this kind, had put himself into contact with a vital entity.
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  This man happened to be a gambler, and he spent his time
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  speculating and playing roulette.
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  He spent part of the year at Monte Carlo playing roulette,
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  and the rest of the time he lived in the South of France and
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  speculated on the Stock Exchange.
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  And now some being was really using him.
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  It was through automatic writing using him.
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  And for years it gave him absolutely precise exact
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  indications. When he played roulette, it used
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  to tell him bid on this number or this place and he would win.
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  Naturally. He just worshipped this spirit
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  which gave him such sensational revelations.
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  And at the exchange it also told him, speculate on this or on
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  that, and gave him all the indications.
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  This man became colossally rich. He used to boast to all his
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  friends about the method by which he had grown rich.
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  Someone put him on his guard, told him be careful, this
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  doesn't look very honest. You should not trust this
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  spirit. He fell out with this person.
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  A few days later he was in Monte Carlo.
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  And he always played for high stakes, you see, since naturally
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  he always won and would break the bank.
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  He was much feared. Then the spirit told him stake
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  everything, everything you have on this he did and at a single
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  stroke lost everything. And yet he still had some money
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  left from his Stock Exchange speculations.
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  He said to himself it is bad luck.
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  Again, he received a very precise indication, do this as
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  usual and he did it. He was completely cleaned out
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  and to finish the job, the spirit told him just for the fun
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  of it, now you are going to commit suicide, put a bullet
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  through your head and he was so much under its influence.
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  He did so. That's the end of the story, and
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  this is an authentic story, so the least one can say is that it
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  is dangerous. It is much better not to indulge
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  in occupations of this kind. No, Either they are rather
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  senseless amusements, or else they are unwholesome
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  occupations. End Quote.
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  Reference Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, The Hidden Forces of
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  Life, Chapter 5, Occult Forces, pages 1:30 to 1:31.