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Our Physical, Vital and Mental Sheathes Are Impacted by Energetic Forces in a Constant State of Interchange · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We tend to live with an illusion of separateness of our
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  individual being from all others.
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  We treat the physical body as a distinct self standing unit that
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  is free and independent, has its own integrity and is essentially
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  isolated in its separateness. This, however, is not quite the
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  actuality of our situation. Instead of being a protected
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  island in the world, our body is actually more of a permeable
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  membrane, taking in energy, vibrational patterns as well as
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  physical air, food and drink and releasing back out again
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  physical waste from our breathing mechanism, sweat and
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  excretions of food and drink, waste, et cetera.
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  In addition to the physical interchange, we also send out
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  vibrations and energies so that the process is a two way
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  interchange. All the time, curly and
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  photography has shown evidence of an energy body surrounding
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  our physical body, which many call the aura.
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  This energy body is the first line of defence against
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  suggestions of illness. For instance, when it is strong
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  and whole, it can help to withstand physical, vital and
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  even mental influences. At the same time, if there is
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  any receptivity to the vibration, it takes up that
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  energetic force and carries it inward to be accepted by the
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  individual and have its impact awaken within, in many cases
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  without the individual knowing how it came about.
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  If we focus for a moment on the vibrational patterns, we can see
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  that the interchange means that we can be subject to the
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  feelings, emotions, willings of others.
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  Many people report feeling drained after meeting a certain
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  individual or spending time in a certain environment.
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  Others feel enthused, energized. In other places.
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  We can see crowds of people align their energies through
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  identification with the speaker or the team or the cheer squad.
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  All of these evidences A receptivity to the vibrations
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  and an active intake of them, whether unconsciously or
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  consciously as the case may be, Thought forms and exercises of
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  silent willpower have a similar impact on the mental stuff of
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  our nature. We can sometimes enter a
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  research facility or a library and feel the concentrated mental
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  energy that is active in that space.
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  Those who attend lectures by spiritual leaders frequently
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  remark on the intensity of the atmosphere as the concentration
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  in the air impacts their own mental awareness.
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  A disciple asks what is the nature of these influences from
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  outside? Could you give us an explanation
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  of their working? The mother writes.
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  Quote Naturally, these influences are of a very diverse
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  kinds. They may be studied from a
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  psychological point of view or from an almost mechanical
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  standpoint, the one usually translating the other.
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  That is, the mechanical phenomenon occurs as a sort of
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  result of the psychological one. In very few people, and even in
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  the very best, at very rare moments in life, does the will
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  of the being express that deep inner higher truth.
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  After a silence, mother continues.
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  The individual consciousness extends far beyond the body.
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  We have seen that even the subtle physical, which is yet
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  material compared with the vital being and in certain conditions
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  almost visible, extends at times considerably beyond the visible
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  limits of the physical body. This subtle physical is
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  constituted of active vibrations which enter into contact or
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  mingle with the vibrations of the subtle physical of others,
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  and this reciprocal contact gives rise to influences.
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  Naturally, the most powerful vibrations get the better of the
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  others. For example, as I have already
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  told you several times, if you have a thought, this thought
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  clothes itself in subtle vibrations and becomes an entity
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  which travels and moves about in the earth atmosphere in order to
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  realize itself as best it can. And because it is one among
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  millions, naturally there is a multiple and involved
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  interaction as a result of which things don't take place in such
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  a simple and schematic fashion. What you call yourself, the
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  individual being enclosed within the limits of your present
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  consciousness, is constantly penetrated by vibrations of this
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  kind coming from outside, and very often presenting themselves
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  in the form of suggestions, in the sense that apart from a few
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  exceptions, the action takes place first in the mental field,
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  then becomes vital, then physical.
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  I want to make it clear that it is not a question of the pure
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  mind here, but of the physical mind.
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  For in the physical consciousness itself there is a
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  mental activity, a vital activity, and a purely material
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  activity, and all that takes place in your physical
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  consciousness, in your body. Consciousness and bodily
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  activity penetrates first in the form of vibrations of a mental
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  nature, and so in the form of suggestions.
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  Most of the time these suggestions enter you without
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  your being in the least conscious of them.
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  They go in, awaken some sort of response in you, then spring up
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  in your consciousness as though they were your own thought, your
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  own will, your own impulse. But it is only because you are
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  unconscious of the process of their penetration.
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  These suggestions are very numerous, manifold, varied with
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  natures, which are very, very different from each other.
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  But they may be classified into three principal orders. 1st, and
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  they are hardly perceptible to the ordinary consciousness.
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  They become perceptible only to those who have already reflected
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  much, observed, much, deeply studied their own being.
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  They are what could be called collective suggestions.
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  End Quote. Reference Shriorobindo and the
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  Mother, The Hidden Forces of Life Chapter 3, Hidden Forces
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  around pages 56 to 58.