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Suggestions Coming from the Vital World Also Impact Our Responses · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The vital worlds are generally unseen and unrecognized by us,
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  as they do not take physical form in the same way as our
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  external world within which we live and act.
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  This does not imply, however, that they do not have
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  interaction with our world and the beings, including ourselves,
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  that inhabit this physical world.
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  Almost everyone has the experience of some event that
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  occurs in a dream state or in other circumstances where our
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  mind and senses are shifted away from the focus and attention
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  demanded by the outer world. The phenomenon of astral
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  projection is one such circumstance.
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  When one enters one of these vital worlds there is an
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  interaction with the beings who inhabit the particular locus
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  that one is visiting. These could be fierce and
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  dangerous interactions, but they can also be uplifting, such as
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  interacting with a sage or teacher and being guided and
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  educated in a non physical setting.
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  The physical body and our awake mental attention, combined with
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  a strong vital sheath or or aura are protections for us from the
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  total control by these vital forces.
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  Just as there are circumstances whereby we can enter into one of
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  the vital worlds, so also vital beings from those worlds can and
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  do enter into our world. In some cases it is with
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  beneficent intention, in others it is to seek to create vital
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  reactions that feed their hunger or lust or passionate desire.
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  The physical body and our awake mental attention combined with a
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  strong vital sheath or aura are protections for us from the
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  total control by these vital forces.
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  The interaction of vital beings in our lives adds another layer
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  of complexity to the issue of identifying and overcoming the
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  power of suggestion that arises within us and moves our actions
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  and reactions, the Mother writes.
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  Quote. If that were the end of the
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  problem, one could yet come out of the mess.
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  But there is a complication. This terrestrial world, this
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  human world, is constantly invaded by the forces of the
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  neighboring world, that is, of the vital world, the subtler
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  region beyond the four fold Earth atmosphere, consisting of
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  the four principles, physical, vital, mental and psychic.
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  And this vital world, which is not under the influence of the
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  psychic forces or the psychic consciousness, is essentially a
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  world of ill will, of disorder, of disequilibrium, Indeed of all
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  the most anti divine things one could imagine.
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  This vital world is constantly penetrating the physical world,
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  and being much more subtle than the physical, it is very often
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  quite imperceptible, except to a few rare individuals.
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  There are entities, beings, wills, various kinds of
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  individualities in that world who have all kinds of intentions
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  and make use of every opportunity, either to amuse
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  themselves if they are small beings, or to do harm and create
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  disorder if they are beings with a greater capacity.
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  And the latter have a very considerable power of
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  penetration and suggestion. And wherever there is the least
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  opening, the least affinity, they rush in, for it is a game
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  which delights them. Besides, they are very thirsty
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  or hungry for certain human vital vibrations, which for them
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  are a rare dish they love to feed upon.
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  And so their game lies in exciting, pernicious movements
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  in man, so that man may emanate these forces and they be able to
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  feed on them just as they please.
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  All movements of anger, violence, passion, desire, all
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  these things which make you abruptly throw off certain
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  energies from yourself, project them from yourself, are exactly
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  what these entities of the vital world like best.
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  For, as I said, they enjoy them like a sumptuous dish.
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  Now their tactics are simple. They send you a little
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  suggestion, a little impulse, a small vibration which enters
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  deep into you and through contagion or sympathy, awakens
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  in you the vibration necessary to make you throw off the force
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  they want to absorb. End Quote Reference Shriorobindo
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  and the Mother, The Hidden Forces of Life, Chapter 3 Hidden
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  Forces around pages 6061.