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Mental Formations Mixing With Vital Forces · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  An incident was observed and reported by several
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  people, which illustrates how mental formations can
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  create entities on the vital plane which become
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  visible to those who have eyes to see. The
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  incident occurred in 1981 in California. An
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  individual had come to the West and took the role of
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  a guru and had assembled a number of people around
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  him, young people who aspired for guidance in
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  yoga. He fell under the spell of
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  sexual desire and a desire to control and master
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  others and the control of money. Power,
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  wealth, and sex, the three strong forces of vital
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  desire, had taken hold of him. One
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  of the individuals in the group became aware of the
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  pressure and determined to leave the group. This
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  enraged the leader who assembled the entire group
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  and engaged in an extended rant, attacking the
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  individual and demanding the others choose sides. That
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  is the setting of the experience reported here.
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  Several individuals saw a dark
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  entity surround the guru during the rant. It
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  seemed to come out of him and superimpose itself over
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  his face, projecting itself into the room. It
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  was an angry, lustful, desire -filled entity that
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  manifested itself under the pressure of the situation.
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  It shocked these individuals to
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  such a degree that they later discussed it and
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  found that they had a very similar description of what
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  they had seen. It should be noted that these
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  individuals left the group and went on their own. The
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  person in question was later convicted of sexual
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  and physical abuse of minor children and sentenced to
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  prison for some years. He had also, prior to his
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  arrest and conviction, been accused of forcible rape by
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  several women. Clearly, the entity that was formed
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  around him through the development of his vital
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  desires had obtained such a power over him that he
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  lost all control and sense of balance and proportion
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  in his dealings with others. The
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  formations were so well formed that they could be
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  observed by others and identified for the dark and
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  foreboding nature of their energy. While
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  this is an extreme case, it illustrates clearly how
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  the vital nature and the mental nature intertwine and
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  create strong formations which can take on a
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  visible form which itself impacts and interacts with
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  others on the mental, vital, and even physical
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  levels. The mother observes, quote,
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  People have desires add to the mental formation a kind
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  of small envelope, a vital shell which gives it a
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  still greater reality. These people are usually
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  surrounded by a number of tiny entities which are
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  their own formations, their own mental formations,
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  clothed with vital force, which come all the time to
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  strike them to try to make them realize materially the
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  formations they have made. You
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  have perhaps read the books of Maurice Magre. There
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  are some in the library. He
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  describes this. He had come here, Maurice
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  Magre, and we spoke, and he told me that he had
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  always noticed he was highly sensitive. He
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  had always noticed that people of sexual desires
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  are surrounded by a kind of small swarm of entities
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  who are somewhat viscous and rather ugly and which
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  torment them constantly awakening desire in them.
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  He said he had seen this
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  around certain people. It was like being surrounded
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  by a swarm of mosquitoes. Yes.
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  But it is more gross and much uglier still. And
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  it is viscous. It is horrible. And
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  it turns round and round the person and gives him
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  no peace. And it awakens in him the
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  desire that has formed these entities. And
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  they batten on it. It is their food. This
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  is absolutely true. His observation was quite
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  correct. His vision was very true. It
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  is like that. But everyone carries around
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  himself the atmosphere of his own desires. So
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  you don't at all require that people should tell you
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  anything. You have only to look and you
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  see around them exactly the state they are in. They
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  may want to give themselves the heirs of angels or
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  saints, but they can't deceive you because that
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  thing is there, turning around them. So
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  just imagine. Mother points to all those seated
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  in front of her. You see what you are like. How
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  many of you there? All of you here. And
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  each one has his own little world in this way
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  of mental formations of which some are clothed in
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  vital substance. And all these crawl together,
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  mix with each other, knock against each other. There
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  is a struggle to see which is the strongest. Which
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  tries to realize itself. And
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  all this creates an atmosphere indeed. End
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  quote. Reference. Shri Aurobindo and the
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  Mother. The Hidden Forces of Life.
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  Chapter 3. Hidden
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  Forces Around. Pages 69 to 70.