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The Subconscious Basis of Our Individual Being, Part 2 · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  As if the genetic prenatal and neonatal influence and the
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  habits and customs of the society into, which one is born,
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  is not sufficient, burden to have to deal with, as it rises
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  up from the sub-continent levels of our being.
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  We also have to address the current influences provided
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  through peer pressure. Interactions with others on a
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  daily basis. And the mental and vital force
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  exerted by those with whom we come into contact.
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  Many people have come to appreciate that.
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  Being in the presence of certain individuals is draining on their
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  energy. In other cases, when feels an
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  intense pressure, which may be mental emotional or vital when
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  one is around certain people, In other instances, after a meeting
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  with a particular individual, when they suddenly have a strong
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  craving for food or drink what occurs here is that the
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  sub-continent exchange of energies impinge has on one
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  subconscious being and triggers and inner response.
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  Note that the response may not exactly correspond to the
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  specific feeling conveyed by the individual with whom one has
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  been interacting. As it is, triggering something
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  already embedded in the being thus interacting with someone
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  who is greedy for money. In a very intense way, may not
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  trigger Greed for money but raised May raise up some other
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  form of Desire such as food for those who are extraordinarily
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  insightful and clear the actual Force working in the other
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  individual can be noted and understood.
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  But in most cases these things, Happen, without direct
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  awareness. And many people simply do not
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  associate the later. Rising up of some felt need
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  desire or pressure as having been a direct consequence of the
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  earlier interaction. When an individual visits a
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  party or perhaps a nightclub or other venue, where vital desires
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  and impulses are active and energies are high.
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  There may be a reaction of lowered, inhibitions a rising up
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  of various lower vital energies such as sexual desire, and the
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  atmosphere Can Feel Like It Is permeated by those forces.
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  Individuals who are sensitive can quickly pick up the
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  vibration of a particular situation in this way by seeing
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  what energies are being provoked and what Rises up internally
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  even if they have controlled themselves over the expression
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  of the impulse. The impression so created may
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  also not rise immediately. If there is conscious control
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  being exercised but baby but may come up in dreams.
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  Conscious control is loosened. On a more subtle level, some
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  individuals use their vital force to try to overpower or
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  intimidate or bully others. They create such an intensity in
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  the atmosphere that people feel like they are being palpably
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  attacked. This is another sign of the
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  subtle and subconscious action of vital energies that are
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  stirred by those with whom we have any interaction.
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  The mother observes quote you live surrounded by people.
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  These people themselves have desires, stray wishes, impulses,
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  which are expressed through them and have all kinds of causes,
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  but take in their Consciousness and individual form.
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  For example, to put it in very practical terms.
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  You have a father, a mother brothers sisters, friends
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  comrades. Each one has his own way of
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  feeling. Willing, and all those with whom
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  you are in relation to expect something from you.
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  Even as you expect something from them that something they do
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  not always express to you, but it is more or less conscious in
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  their being, and it makes formations these formations,
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  according to each one's capacity of thought, and the strength of
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  his Vitality are more or less powerful, but they have their
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  own little strength. 'The, which is usually much the
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  same as yours. And so what those around you
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  want desire hope or expect from you enters in this way and the
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  form of suggestions very rarely expressed but which you absorb
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  without resistance and which suddenly awakened within you is
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  similar desire, a similar will a similar impulse.
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  This happened from morning to night and again, from night to
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  morning for these, Things don't stop while you were sleeping but
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  on the contrary are very often intensified because your
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  Consciousness is no longer awake watching and protecting you to
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  some extent. And this is quite common.
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  So common that it is quite natural and so nature that you
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  need special circumstances and most unusual occasions to become
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  aware of it. Naturally it goes without saying
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  that your own responses, your own impulses, your own wishes
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  have a similar influence on others and all that.
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  All this becomes a marvelous mixture in which might is always
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  right? And quote reference SRI
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  aurobindo in the mother living with him, the yoga approach to
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  psychological health and growth, disturbances of the
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  sub-continent collective, subconscious influences.
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  Ages 111 to 118.