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The Law of the Rebound in the Practice of Occultism · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  As with physical laws and laws of physics, laws of nature,
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  there are laws of occultism which operate when there is
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  vital interchange between people on an occult level.
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  Knowledge of these laws is essential both to protect
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  oneself and to ensure that occult powers are not being
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  misused or misapplied. Practicing occultism is not
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  something that can be taken up lightly or without proper
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  training and preparation, and the consequences can be
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  significant. Spiritual aspirants are mainly
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  advised not to focus on nor engage in such practices as they
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  tend to distract from the focus on spiritual development and
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  because they tend to be based in the energies of the lower
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  chakras, tend to bind the individual at a relatively low
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  level of energetic development. One of the laws or secrets of
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  occultism is described by the Mother as the Law of Rebound.
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  Essentially, this means that if a particular occult formation is
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  created and does not achieve its target, it comes back upon the
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  person who created it in the 1st place as something of a
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  boomerang effect. There are lessons to be gained
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  here for protection from such formations.
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  To the extent that the target of such a formation is able to
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  maintain a pure, clean and high vibratory level, such formations
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  will not succeed on them and thus the sender will wind up
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  suffering the consequences. The target must be receptive to
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  the energy of that formation in order for it to work on him.
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  From the point of view of a creator of such a formation,
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  there must be real care taken to ensure that it is a necessary
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  and suitable formation that meets the energetic receptivity
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  of the recipient. The great Tibetan Yogi Millarapa
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  was subject to the jealousy of a local village priest late in his
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  life. The priest determined to arrange
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  to have Millarapa poisoned, and in carrying out that intention
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  he offered a village woman money to provide poisoned Kurds to
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  Millarapa. When the woman approached,
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  Millarapa as a fully realized soul at that stage knew what was
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  taking place, and he told the woman that she should first
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  insure that she was fully paid by the perpetrator.
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  The situation proceeded where Millarapa agreed to eat the
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  poisoned Kurds and manifest his bodily death.
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  The priest came to witness the situation and he saw Miloruppa
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  sitting calmly. Miloruppa advised him that he
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  was carrying an intense amount of pain, but through his yogic
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  practice he was able to keep it under control.
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  The priest did not believe any of this and asked Miloruppa to
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  transfer the pain to him so he could see for himself the
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  reality of it. Miloruppa refused, indicating
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  that it was more than the priest could bear, but he would
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  transfer just a fraction of the pain to the door, which then
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  started creaking and groaning under the intensity of the
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  energy. The priest asked for forgiveness
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  in doubting the yogic realizations of Millarapa.
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  In this case, the priest created a formation which ordinarily
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  would have rebounded upon him, but out of his vast compassion,
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  Melarepa accepted the formation and refused to have it rebound
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  upon the priest. His higher compassion opened the
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  door for the priest to make progress spiritually, which
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  would not have occurred had it simply been allowed to rebound
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  upon him. There are innumerable tales in
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  the text about occult formations that are targeted and sent and
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  which fail to find or fulfil their targeted intentions and
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  the suffering that the creator of the formation then had to
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  undergo. Those who try to manipulate the
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  vital forces for various forms of self-interest or personal
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  gain in some form frequently overlook the law of rebound and
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  the consequences of attacking those who have the natural state
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  of high spiritual vibrations to maintain an aura of protection
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  around themselves, the Mother observes.
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  Quote in occultism there is the rebound.
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  You send out a bad thought, it returns to you as an attack.
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  That is exactly one of the reasons why you must have a
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  complete control over your feelings, sensations, thoughts.
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  For if you become angry with someone or think badly of him,
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  or if still worse you wish him ill, well in your very dream you
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  see this person coming with an extreme violence to attack you.
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  Then if you do not know these things, you say why I was right
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  in having bad thoughts against him.
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  But in fact, it is not at all that it is your own thought that
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  comes back to you, and the person may be absolutely unaware
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  of all that has happened for. And this is one of the commonest
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  laws in occultism. If you make a formation, for
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  instance a mental formation, that an accident or something
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  unpleasant should happen to a certain person, and you send out
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  this formation, if it so happens that this person is in a very
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  high state of consciousness, does not at all wish anything
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  bad, is quite indifferent and disinterested in the affair, the
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  formation will come up against his atmosphere and instead of
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  entering, will rebound upon the one who has made it.
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  In this way serious accidents have taken place.
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  There were certain people who practiced that low deformation
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  of occultism which is called magic, and they had made
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  formations through magic against someone, but this person
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  happened to be far above this and could not be touched by
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  those formations, so they returned upon those people
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  fatally. If they had made a formation of
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  death, it would have been they who died.
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  End Quote Reference Shriorobindo and the Mother, The Hidden
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  Forces of Life, Chapter 5, Occult Forces, pages 123 to 124.