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Drawing on the Universal Energy for Life-Force · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  If we observe the way we receive energy normally, we can
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  determine that the sun is the immediate source of physical
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  energy and it then gets transformed or converted into
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  other forms of energy, including life energy.
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  The first step in this transformation comes about
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  through the ability of plants to turn solar energy into life
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  energy. The plants then store the
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  produced energy, using some of it for growth and some for life
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  activities. Animals in turn consume plants
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  to obtain a share of this physical energy which they need
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  to survive and thrive. Some beings then consume animal
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  flesh to take this energy, now several steps removed from its
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  source. The secret to direct conversion
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  of solar energy into life force and the creation of storage
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  mechanisms for that energy in the form of the physical forms
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  of the plants and animals, is held by the absolute simplest
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  living organisms we know. Somewhere locked away in the
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  coding of our existence, this secret lies hidden.
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  Some individuals have found ways to partially unlock this secret,
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  and they are able to draw their life force directly from
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  universal forces without requiring the medium of food and
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  the conversion steps implied thereby.
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  Paraman's Yogananda relates a tale in his classic text
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  Autobiography of a Yogi, of an individual he met who was able
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  to draw the energy directly from the universe and who thereby
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  needed to eat very little if anything in order to maintain an
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  active life. Many people, mostly
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  unconsciously, have some amount of capacity to draw on the
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  universal forces more or less directly, even if they remain
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  primarily dependent upon consumption of food to provide
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  the basis for their physical existence.
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  They absorb the energy through receptivity and through the
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  breathing process. They absorb prana and distribute
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  it to work within their body. Another secret lies in the
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  mitochondria within the body's cells.
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  This is the energy factor that converts the components absorbed
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  from the food into usable biological energy.
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  This opens up an entire range of speculation about the possible
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  future ability to reduce, or even entirely abandoned, the
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  need for food to convert, store and provide energy in the
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  ascending scale of what is known as the food chain.
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  Once the linkage between a physical processing capability
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  and the utilization of universal force has been broken, we can
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  conceive of a future in which the individual can draw energy
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  directly. It is interesting to note that
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  in a corresponding way, Nikola Tesla envisioned the production
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  of mechanical and useful electrical energy directly from
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  the atmosphere without intervening mechanisms.
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  The example provided by those individuals who have learned to
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  rely on universal forces rather than physical food for their
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  sustenance and energetic needs provide a further hint of our
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  future status. A disciple asks on what do our
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  physical reserves? Energy reserves depend mother,
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  the mother responds. Physical reserves.
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  You mean the reserve of energy? It depends on the capacity to
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  receive the universal vital force, because in fact through
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  food also it is these vital forces one receives, but one
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  receives them from below. But in order to have reserves,
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  you must know how to receive the universal vital forces
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  constantly, and to have a kind of balance in the being which
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  prevents you from spending more than you have.
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  A proportion has to be kept between the receptivity and the
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  expenditure. It is a kind of harmony in the
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  being which must be established only.
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  Some people have an almost instinctive power of attracting
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  towards them the vital forces, or absorbing them the universal
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  vital forces, I mean. And so they make up their
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  expense as they go along. Spending these people can
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  produce much more than others. Some of them, in certain
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  conditions like sleep or a kind of repose or relaxation, can
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  accumulate forces, and later they exhaust them, so to say in
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  their activities, and they must yet once again charge the
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  battery afterwards. This is already a much less
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  favorable condition. End Quote Reference Sri
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  Aurobindo and the Mother, The Hidden Forces of Life, Chapter
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  4, Cosmic and Universal Forces, pages 93 to 94.