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The General Action of Thoughts and Our Need to Observe and Manage Them · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Every thought, every idea, every imagination, every focus
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  represents electrical impulses that are formed and projected
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  into the general mental atmosphere, whether expressed
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  verbally or in writing, or simply formulated in one's mind.
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  Each such formation is either weaker or stronger, depending on
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  its development in the mind and whether and to what extent it is
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  linked to the will or the emotions to provide it
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  additional impetus. Once it is formulated, it goes
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  out into the world and either begins to dissipate and disperse
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  if it is not strongly projected, or else it begins to make itself
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  felt in the mental atmosphere, where it can gain further
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  strength through joining with similar thought forms or be
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  weakened through interaction with conflicting thought forms.
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  This process can be generally compared to the formation of
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  major storms in the weather pattern of the world.
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  Major cyclones, also known variously as hurricanes or
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  typhoons, form in generally warm waters in one of the oceans of
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  the world. Depending on the atmospheric
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  flow and pattern of warm and cold air and humidity present,
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  the storm will strengthen. It moves across the ocean
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  similar to a thought form, going out into the mental atmosphere
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  where it meets with changing conditions of ocean temperature.
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  Air temperature inversion of. Cool air over warm air, the cool
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  air attempting to descend, the warm air attempting to rise, and
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  the flow of the atmospheric winds which either support the
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  storm building up strength or with wind shear, will begin to
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  tear apart the formation, dissipating the storm's energy.
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  Much of this interplay runs through our minds and we are
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  constantly bombarded with thoughts of all sorts that
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  distract us and continually shift our focus so that it is
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  difficult to achieve anything of note or value.
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  Because this tends to occur automatically and even
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  unconsciously. We just let this play of forces
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  take place in our minds unless we develop a form of discipline
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  to observe the thoughts, to quiet the mind, and to train our
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  ability to keep a specific focus without distraction.
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  The mother notes quote. And now to come down to a more
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  ordinary level. Everyone has in him, in a
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  greater or lesser measure, the power to give form to his mental
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  activity and use this form either in his ordinary activity
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  or to create and realize something.
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  We are all the time always creating images, creating forms.
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  We send them into the atmosphere without even knowing that we are
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  doing so. They go roaming about, pass from
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  one person to another, meet companions, sometimes join
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  together and get. On Happily.
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  Sometimes. Create conflicts and there.
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  Are battles for often very often in these?
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  Mental imaginations. There is a small element of will
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  which tries to. Realize itself and then everyone
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  tries to send out his formation. So that it can act so that.
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  Things can happen as he. Wants and.
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  As everyone does this, it creates a general confusion if
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  our eyes were open to the vision.
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  Of all these forms. In the atmosphere.
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  We would. See very amazing things,
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  battlefields, waves, onsets, retreats of a crowd of small
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  mental entities which are constantly thrown out.
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  Into the air. And always try to realize
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  themselves all these formations. Have a.
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  Common tendency. To want to materialize.
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  And realize themselves physically.
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  And as. They are countless.
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  They are far too many for there to be room enough on earth to
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  manifest them. They jostle and elbow one
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  another. They try to push back those
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  which do not agree with them or even form armies in good order,
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  always to take up the available room.
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  Both in. Time and space.
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  It is only a very small space compared with the countless
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  number of creations. So individually, this is what
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  happens. Some people do all that without
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  knowing it, perhaps everybody, and they are constantly tossed
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  from one thing to another and hope, wish, desire, are
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  disappointed, sometimes happy, sometimes in despair, for they
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  don't have any control or mastery over these things.
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  But the beginning of wisdom is to look at ourselves, thinking,
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  and to see this phenomenon, become aware of this constant
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  projection into the atmosphere of small living entities which
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  are trying to manifest. All this comes out of the mental
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  atmosphere which we carry within ourselves.
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  Once we see and observe, we can begin to sort them out, that is
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  to push back what is not in conformity with our highest will
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  or aspiration and allowed to move towards manifestation, only
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  the formations which can help us to progress and develop.
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  Normally this is the control of active thought, and that was
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  what I meant the other day. End Quote reference Srioro Bindo
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  and the Mother powers within Chapter 3 imagination.
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  Pages 27. To 29.