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Accessing Universal Vital Forces Directly or Through Vital Interchange With Others · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The mother clarifies a distinction between receiving
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  the universal vital forces directly and receiving them
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  through a vital interchange with other individuals.
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  These two methods represent two entirely different statuses of
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  consciousness. To receive the universal vital
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  forces directly, a wide and receptive consciousness is
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  needed. Many people do not appreciate
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  that this is an actual palpable experience of wideness, not
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  restricted to a mental status. As the yogic practice develops,
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  it is possible to have glimpses of this experiential state and
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  eventually to live constantly in that wideness, not limited to
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  the awareness of the physical frame of the body.
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  Most individuals, however, identify themselves with the
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  physical body and its limited frame.
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  In such cases, they do not openly and consciously receive
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  the universal vital forces. Although these forces are
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  constantly active and working on a subliminal level, they engage
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  for the most part and interchange with other
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  individuals similarly situated and draw in vital energies from
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  those other individuals and pass along the vital energies they
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  are holding to their associates. The mother describes the
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  limitations and the issues involved with such a process.
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  The mother observes quote. But those who draw back upon
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  themselves, who turn and double up on themselves, cannot do
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  this. One must live all the time in a
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  very vast and very expansive consciousness.
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  I don't know if you understand the word.
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  It means something which extends very homogeneously and quietly,
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  as when the tide is at its height and the water spreads
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  like that quietly. That's the impression.
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  The vital must be like that. Then one is open to the
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  universal forces. But if, for example, one has the
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  very bad habit of exchanging vital forces with one's fellow
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  man, then one loses the capacity altogether.
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  So unless one is in relation with someone, one receives
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  nothing at all. But naturally, if you receive
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  forces through others, you receive at the same time all the
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  difficulties of the other person, perhaps sometimes his
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  qualities also, but these are less contagious.
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  This indeed is something that shuts you up most, some people,
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  unless they have more or less social relations with others,
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  relations of friendship, conversing, and then it goes
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  still farther, they don't receive any forces, and this is
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  how they receive them. But this always makes a soup.
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  The forces one receives are already half digested.
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  In any case, they don't have their primal purity, and this
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  effects your own capacity. End Quote.
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  Reference Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, The Hidden Forces of
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  Life, Chapter 4, Cosmic and Universal Forces, pages 94 to
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  95.