Latest / Sri Aurobindo Studies / Occult Forces Surround Us and Can Act Upon Us

Transcript

Occult Forces Surround Us and Can Act Upon Us · Sri Aurobindo Studies

• 0:01
  The human range of perception is bounded on both sides and thus
• 0:06
  forces that are active in ranges above or below our own field of
• 0:10
  perceptions are able to act without our ability to directly
• 0:15
  know what they are doing or interact with them consciously.
• 0:20
  To the extent that they wield influence on our lives, it is
• 0:24
  something that takes place for us basically unconsciously.
• 0:28
  Additionally, there are forces that act on the various planes,
• 0:33
  which encompass ranges outside our ability to perceive and
• 0:38
  ranges within our frame, but which are obstructed to us
• 0:41
  because of the wall of protection that the physical
• 0:44
  body and the vital energy field or aura provide for us.
• 0:50
  These forces thus do not act with their full power and result
• 0:54
  in the material world to the extent that their vibrational
• 0:58
  impact is partially blocked or watered down by the gross
• 1:03
  physical sheath. Some of the forces at work in
• 1:07
  these other planes or realms are what we would consider to be
• 1:10
  Maleficent to us, hostile or at least contrary to what we see as
• 1:15
  our own interests and needs, while others may be beneficent
• 1:21
  and help us grow and thrive and potentially provide some level
• 1:25
  of protection from those that are inimical to us.
• 1:30
  Some of the forces, particularly vital forces, feed on vital and
• 1:35
  emotional energy that we throw off, So their interest lies in
• 1:40
  provoking us to anger, rage, lust, passionate outbursts, et
• 1:45
  cetera, in order to harvest the energy we expend.
• 1:51
  Sri Aurobindo describes the action of these forces in
• 1:54
  Savitri. The following passages take up a
• 1:58
  description of some of them which are more forcefully
• 2:01
  opposed to us, and which need to be understood and fended off if
• 2:06
  we are to remain unharmed. On the inner path of Yogic
• 2:10
  development, Sri Aurobindo writes in Savitri A Legend and a
• 2:15
  Symbol. Book 6 Canto 2 Quote There is no
• 2:21
  visible foe, but the unseen is round U.S. forces intangible,
• 2:27
  besiege touches from alien realms.
• 2:31
  Thoughts, not our own, overtake us and compel the erring heart.
• 2:37
  Our lives are caught in an ambiguous web.
• 2:42
  End, Quote, and quote. A grisly company of maladies
• 2:48
  come licensed lodgers into man's bodily house, purveyors of
• 2:54
  death, and torturers of life in the malignant hollows of the
• 2:58
  world, in its subconscient cavern passages.
• 3:03
  Ambushed they lie, waiting their hour to leap, surrounding with
• 3:08
  danger the siege city of life admitted into the citadel of
• 3:12
  man's days. They mine, his forces and maim
• 3:17
  were suddenly kill. End Quote Reference
• 3:23
  Shriyorovindo and the Mother, The Hidden Forces of Life,
• 3:27
  Chapter 3, Hidden Forces around page 54.