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Observing, Controlling and Transforming the Forces That Create Our Vital and Mental Actions · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The physical body and the sense of separateness that it creates
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  for us acts both as a limitation and as a protection from the
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  action of the energies and forces that are constantly
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  moving in the universal creation and setting up vibrational
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  patterns to which we may respond.
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  The physical body itself has developed an immune system to
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  ward off various forces that try to invade and break down the
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  body itself. While not perfect, this immune
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  response for the most part helps keep the physical body healthy
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  and functioning despite the presence of endless numbers of
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  forces that take forms such as microbes, germs, bacteria and
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  viruses and use these to enter into the body and then begin
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  their vibrational pattern, which can manifest when they overwhelm
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  the immune system as an illness, a disease, or at the very least
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  a painful reaction. It is not just the physical body
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  that is subjected to the bombardment of these forces.
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  The vital being and the mental being are also subject to being
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  attacked and infected with forces working on those
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  corresponding levels of energy. We frequently do not see the
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  forces as they enter into us, but suddenly we experience
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  hunger or lust or anger or any number of vital responses that
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  arose as a result of some external force setting up a
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  vibrational pattern in our vital being.
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  Or we suddenly have ideas arise that guide us to act in certain
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  ways and to follow certain lines of focus for our minds, and we
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  often have no idea where these thoughts come from, particularly
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  if they're out of the ordinary line of our everyday thought
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  patterns. There is an experience of
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  consciousness where one actually leaves behind the ego.
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  Consciousness enters into a wider and more fluid status of
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  awareness, and one can then see the action of these forces, how
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  they create vibrational patterns, how they find a
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  correspondence within ourselves and others, and how they then
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  develop the vibrational patterns we then recognize as physical,
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  vital, or mental reactions or responses.
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  When we manifest any of these forces, we are simply allowing
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  their vibrations to take over some part of our being and
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  transmit the vibration into the world through the Nexus of our
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  being. While these forces are
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  constantly circulating. Just as we now understand to
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  occur with the physical being and the forces that can cause
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  disease, we can develop our own immune system at the vital and
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  mental levels once we can see and understand the action of
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  these forces. And thus, instead of setting up
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  the corresponding vibration within ourselves which we
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  transmit further, we deadened that vibratory pattern and don't
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  allow it further action through us.
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  A still further step, as discussed by the Mother, is to
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  actually be able to send back a counteracting vibratory force
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  that acts to transform the force rather than simply deny it the
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  ability to act through us, the Mother observes.
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  Quote. If you could always remain in
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  this state of consciousness after some time, provided you
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  maintained within you the flame of Agni, the flame of
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  purification and progress, you would be able not only to
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  prevent these movements from taking an active form in you and
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  expressing themselves materially, but also to act on
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  the very nature of the movement and transform it.
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  But of course, unless you have attained a very high degree of
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  realization, it will be practically impossible to
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  maintain this state of consciousness for long.
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  Almost immediately you fall back into the egoistic consciousness
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  of the separate self, and then all the difficulties come back,
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  the disgust, the revolt against certain things, the horror they
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  arouse in you, et cetera. It is probable, it is even
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  certain, that unless you are yourself completely transformed,
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  these movements of disgust and revolt are needed so that you
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  can do in yourself what has to be done to shut the door.
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  For after all, the problem is not to allow them to manifest
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  themselves. End Quote.
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  Reference Srioro Vindu and the Mother, Looking from Within,
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  Chapter 2. Looking at Oneself and Others,
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  pages 50 to 51.