... speaking here principally of the adverse forces because our present chapter has for its subject matter: (i) What is meant by a hostile Force? (ii) Do hostile forces really exist? (iii) How do they act in the sadhaka' s consciousness? (iv) And how to frustrate their inimical action? Although not tangible to the normal consciousness of man, these adverse forces and beings do really exist and... stronger, your aspiration clearer." (The Mother, Ibid., p. 34) (6)"When the world is ready to receive the new creation, the adverse forces will disappear. But so long as the world needs to be tempted, kneaded, churned in order to be prepared, the adverse forces will be there to be the temptation and that which strikes you, pushes you, prevents you from sleeping, compels you to be absolutely... 4, pp. 251-52) It is thus clear that the life of sadhana is not always sunlit and the sadhaka has to pass through many difficulties and ordeals; and all this is due to the fact of these adverse forces and beings mounting almost a ceaseless attack on the sadhaka' s consciousness. So it is very much essential for the smooth progress of sadhana that every sadhaka should know the ways of attack ...
... which felt responsible for the prolongation of those adverse forces and beings and offered them up in a great... it was more than an aspiration, it was a sort of holocaust, so that the adverse forces might disappear, might no longer have any reason to exist, no longer need to be there to point out all that has to change. The adverse forces were necessitated by all these negations of the divine... ing vision. It's almost like a reversal of attitude. Actually, people have always taken themselves for victims hounded by adverse forces—the courageous fight back, the rest lament. But increasingly there has been a very concrete vision of the role the adverse forces play in the creation, of their almost absolute necessity as goads to make the creation progress and become its Origin again. And... And there was such a clear vision that one should accomplish one's own transformation—that's what we must pray for, what we must work out—rather than demand the conversion or abolition of the adverse forces. And this is all from the terrestrial, not the individual standpoint (for the individual standpoint, it's quite clear): I am speaking from the terrestrial standpoint. And there was the sudden ...
... for some time. It is almost like a reversal of attitude. Indeed, men have always considered themselves victims harassed by adverse forces; those who are courageous fight, the others complain. But I have an increasingly concrete vision of the role that the adverse forces play in the creation, of the almost Page 118 absolute necessity for them, so that there can be progress and for the... the creation to become its Origin once again—and such a clear vision that instead of asking for the conversion or abolition of the adverse forces one must realise one's own transformation, pray for it and carry it out. This is from the terrestrial point of view, I am not taking the individual standpoint. We know the individual standpoint; this is from the terrestrial point of view. It was the sudden... consciousness which felt responsible for the perpetuation of these adverse beings and forces and which offered them in a great aspiration—more than an aspiration, a kind of holocaust—so that the adverse forces might disappear and have no further reason to exist, so that they might no longer be there to point out everything that has to be changed. Their presence was made unavoidable by all these things ...
... cases out of a hundred this [attack by adverse forces] is an excuse which people give to themselves. I have seen that practically almost all who write to me: "I am violently attacked by adverse forces", give this as an excuse. It is because there are many things in their nature which do not want to surrender, so they put all the blame on the adverse forces. In reality I am turning more and more... point of view, these adverse forces are very real, their action is very real, completely concrete, and their attitude towards the divine realisation is positively hostile. But as soon as you pass beyond this domain and enter into the spiritual world where there is nothing other than the Divine, who is everything, and where there is nothing that is not divine, these "adverse forces" become a part of the... more towards something where the role of the adverse forces will be reduced to that of an examiner; that is to say, they are there to test the sincerity of your spiritual seeking. These things have their reality in the action and for the work—and it is a great reality—but when you have gone beyond a certain region, all that reaches a point where it is no longer so distinct and clear-cut. In the occult ...
... The Gods, Superior Beings and Adverse Forces Words of the Mother - III Adverse Forces Each time that we have made a decisive step in our spiritual progress, the invisible enemies of the Divine always try to take their revenge, and when they cannot injure the soul they strike the body. But all their efforts are in vain and will finally be defeated, for... for the Divine Grace is with us. We must never give a chance to the adverse forces to do their mischief—they take advantage of the slightest unconsciousness. It is jealousy, selfish dissatisfaction and hurt vanity that open the doors of the consciousness to the hostile attacks by pulling one out of the Divine's protection. It is only by refusing to allow these wrong movements to take... clutches of these furies. They attack my abdomen, thighs and knees. Pray Page 21 to give me the promised advice, so that I may be able to get rid of them completely for ever. These adverse forces are connected with sexual desire. They live on the energy wasted when the act takes place. And even a thought, a mental or vital desire is sufficient to let them come in and settle in the atmosphere ...
... battle; its very attempt raises all sorts of adverse forces and one must be ready to face difficulties, sufferings, reverses of all sorts in a calm unflinching spirit. The difficulties that come are ordeals and tests and if one meets them in the right spirit, one comes out stronger and spiritually purer and greater. No misfortune can come, the adverse forces cannot touch or be victorious unless there... when they see that a sadhak is making too much progress for their taste. But they can do nothing against a clear and steady will and a faithful perseverance. A progress made often stirs the adverse forces to activity, they want to diminish its effect as much as possible. When you get a decisive experience of this kind, you should remain concentrated and assimilate it—avoiding self-dispersion and... any cost. It was another part of your vital that would have liked to take that attitude, but this smaller part prevented it and brought in a confusion and a mixture which was rather used by the adverse forces to turn you away from belief in or hope of the goal. This confusion of mind and vital you must get rid of—you must call in the true reason and the higher vital to cast out these movements. A higher ...
... Page 184 My beloved Mother, can the adverse forces act effectively against the terrestrial evolution without using a human being as an intermediary? It is not impossible, but it is easier for them to find a human instrument. It is good to be confident and to have a living and steady faith. But in the matter of the adverse forces, it is good to be always vigilant and sincere. ... it is always the same trap of the adverse forces; if, instead of expressing their advice under cleverly perverted forms, they were to speak of things as they are, it would come to something like this: "Continue to drink in order to stop being a drunkard" or better: "Continue to kill to stop being a murderer!" One must never be afraid, and if the adverse forces try to lodge themselves in your lower... who wanted to suck my blood; I wanted to stretch my left hand to him so that he could do so. If you start feeding the adverse forces, they will exact more and more and will never be satisfied. Y told me that very often he becomes an instrument of the adverse forces. Much of this is his own imagination ; if he thought less of these so-called vital beings, most of them would be immediately ...
... cleansed a hundred times. The peace is something that is clean in itself, so to get it is a positive way of securing your object. To look for dirt only and clean is the negative way. 64 The Adverse Forces There is yet another difficulty. The vibrations coming from people or from the universal vital are not the only ones trying to disturb the seeker (actually, distinguishing between these two... having totally forgotten his main purpose, his efforts, his goal, as if everything had been swept away, left devoid of meaning, disintegrated. These are what Sri Aurobindo and Mother call the adverse forces . They are highly conscious forces whose sole aim, apparently, is to discourage the seeker and divert him from the path he has chosen. The first sign of their presence is easily perceptible: joy... vibrations of disorder that we call "our" sorrow or "our" troubles have the immediate result of weakening or disintegrating our protective "field of snow," which means that the door is wide open to the adverse forces. They have a thousand and one ways of attacking us – for we are indeed under attack – and the more determined we are, the more relentless they become. This may seem like an exaggeration, but only ...
... around you to prevent adverse forces from coming upon you or an accident from happening, that is to say, even if you lose consciousness, because of the protection Page 165 even your lack of consciousness will not produce a bad result immediately. But if you go out of the protection and are not all the time vigilant, then either you will be attacked by the adverse forces or an accident will... there is a resistance or revolt in it or when there is some part in you that does not respond to the protection; or even there may be something there that almost willingly and wilfully calls in the adverse forces. It is enough if there is a slight movement of this kind in you; the hostile forces are at once upon you and their attack takes often the form of illness." Questions and Answers 1929-1931... if you do not happen to be particularly ill-willed, after some time the Force acts: after a few minutes or hours or at the most some days you are cured. Now, in the case of special attacks of adverse forces, the thing gets complicated, because you have not only to deal with the will of the body (note that I do not admit the argument of those who say: "But as for myself I do not want to be ill!", for ...
... movement), one feels a sort of anger, rage, one wants to destroy, one wants to damage. This is the movement of the adverse forces. Unfortunately, this is quite spontaneous in many people, and even in children... the instinct to destroy and spoil. Well, it is the presence of the adverse forces. And these are forces which come directly from the vital world and incarnate on earth in human consciousness, and... harm; the spontaneous movement was completely against this. But this is rare. Still, it does exist. This happens because the world as it is at present is still largely under the influence of the adverse forces, particularly the vital force which is dynamic and generally makes you act. This force is largely under the influence of the adverse vital, that is, forces which like to hurt, destroy, damage.... with this hatred, the will to destroy and damage, to spoil, mar, deform, Page 232 disfigure. One step more and it is the will to inflict suffering. And all this is the influence of the adverse forces, which acts quite spontaneously in the inconscient, in the subconscient, in half-consciousness. It is only the pure and luminous consciousness which can oppose this and prevent it from acting. ...
... that the adverse forces—which of course are responsible for all difficulties—that the adverse forces are tolerated in the world in so far as they serve to make the world completely conscious. This indeed is true. But it seems to me a very human way of putting it because it could be said that as long as the world is not perfectly conscious, this allows the existence of these adverse forces. That is... it is—if you like I can tell you—it is the last hope of the adverse forces to triumph against the present Realisation. If one holds on fast during these months, after that they will Page 459 not be able to do anything very much, it will be a crumbling resistance. That's it: it is essentially the conflict of the adverse forces, the anti-divine forces which are trying to push back the divine ...
... result or sign of ego." 40 Adverse Forces* Besides internal factors related to the constitutional make-up of the individual, yoga psychology speaks of certain external forces which are involved in some of the psychological disturbances, especially those of a more serious or psychiatric nature. These are spoken of in Integral Yoga as Adverse Forces or Beings of the vital * These... possessed by such vital Forces, leading to different types of psychiatric disturbances as explained in the following statements: "Loss of balance produces disorder in the consciousness and the adverse forces use that loss of balance for attacking and wholly upsetting the system and doing their work. That is why people become hysterical or mad or filled with the desire to die or go away." 41 "Insanity... state of psychological well-being because it is not only free to disturbances of the physical, the vital, the mental, the subconscient and ego-consciousness, but also immune to the action of the Adverse Forces. REFERENCES 1. Collected Works of the Mother, Vol. 14 (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1978), p. 292. 2. The Synthesis of Yoga, Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library (Po ...
... realises the Divine, does one no longer have enemies? Ah, indeed! Why? I believe it is rather just the opposite. Is it because there are adverse forces? Yes, surely. The earth is full of adverse forces and of men who respond to these adverse forces; usually, the more one realises the Divine, the more enemies does he have around himself. Do they act against the Divine? Oh, yes! At least... Stronger still! Sweet Mother, did not Falsehood try to incarnate? He sent emanations upon earth but I don't think that was with the purpose of But why is man a centre of attraction for the adverse forces? He is so limited! Yes. Also they do not usually work upon one man. But they try to get hold of the earth-atmosphere, you understand, and without getting hold of men, they can't get hold of ...
... everything holds together, in a very concrete, palpable way, the "outside" and the "inside". Théon, for his part, insisted very much on adverse forces, while Sri Aurobindo didn't talk about them. So when I came here I asked him, "But do hostile beings and adverse forces exist?" He said to me, "Yes, they exist, but in order to master them it's easier to regard them as being outside, rather than inside... inside as a part of your nature." He insisted on the One: everything is the One distorted to a greater or lesser extent, even the "adverse" forces. What we call "adverse forces" are, at bottom, distortions of consciousness. When those distortions Page 48 predominate in a being, that is to say, when his nature obeys distorted influences and no longer responds to the divine influence, we may call ...
... and if so, of what kind? If it is only a negative condition, then you have to go on aspiring steadily till something does come down. It is a condition of sheer darkness. The adverse forces did fry to introduce active disturbance — ego. sex, dissatisfaction etc. — but they could not succeed. For wherever I may be, fallen or besieged, the Mothers protection always follows me. It is... does it still allow one to work as usual? Yes, in this case it is not a tamas of the vital but a tamas of the mental physical which remains inert and passive. The adverse forces have pushed up the whole of my lower nature in its naked form. It is through inertia, sex, ego etc. that their attack is directed so furiously. If I were to imagine a picture of hell I think I... subconscient and as your physical mind and vital still respond you are not able to stop the disquietude. When they respond no longer, then there will be no disquietude. Certain adverse forces are trying to create an active protest. Page 16 So long as that is possible as a result of the inertia, the inertia will always insist — for to create an active resistance ...
... holocaust - so that the adverse forces might disappear and have no further reason to exist, so that they might no longer be there to point out everything that has to be changed. It was for the Mother a "very intense experience", and took the form of a total offering of "all the faults I have committed" to the Supreme so that they might be wiped out, and the adverse forces might find their occupation... thought highly of themselves; and she added disarmingly: ...this is an experience which I have been having for some time.... ...I have an increasingly concrete vision of the role that the adverse forces play in the creation, of the almost absolute necessity for them.... It was the sudden vision of all the error, all the misunderstanding, all the ignorance and obscurity, and even worse, all the... As long as it is possible for a human consciousness to feel, act, think or be contrary to the great divine Becoming, it is impossible to blame anyone else for it; it is impossible to blame the adverse forces which are maintained in creation as the means of making you see and feel all the progress that has yet to be made. It is no use thriving on a dichotomous division of world-existence into the ...
... flawed Consciousness - that "keeps us down to our unregenerate nature Page 305 and prevents change and transformation in it". It is unconsciousness that permits the entry of the adverse forces into our domain, and winks at the processes of inner erosion and corruption. On the other hand, to grow conscious is to acquire right discrimination, or viveka as we might put it: to be able... into activity for its own satisfaction. 24 The intellect isn't tabooed in Yoga, certainly not in the Integral Yoga; only, it has to be kept in its own proper place. Now, how about the adverse forces? What are they? How does one identify them? Some years later, in the mid-thirties the Mother was to specify these marks of identification of an adverse force: 1st sign: One feels far away... from Sri Aurobindo and me. 2nd: One loses confidence, begins to criticise, is not satisfied. 3rd: One revolts and sinks into falsehood. 25 Again, how are we to grapple with such adverse forces, and throw them out? Evil suggestions come to Macbeth from the Witches, then from Lady Macbeth, and finally in the form of a dagger: Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle ...
... the adverse forces, who do not want that change and progress should occur in their dominion on Earth. It was so at the time of the Vedic Rishis; it was so at the time of the Mahabharata ; it is so today in the experience of anybody who sincerely steps upon the path of yoga. “This yoga is a spiritual battle,” wrote Sri Aurobindo to a disciple, “its very attempt raises all sorts of adverse forces.” ... no spiritual path, and certainly no religious one, has even tried to attempt it. As every aspirant is soon to find out: “This yoga is a spiritual battle; its very attempt raises all sorts of adverse forces.” The battlefield, however, is we ourselves, we composite, complex human beings. It is a “war of our members” in which every member, like every creature, has the right of its highest possible ...
... point of view, those adverse forces are very real, their action is very real, completely concrete, and their attitude towards the divine realisation is positively hostile. But as soon as you pass beyond this domain and enter in the spiritual world where there is nothing other than the Divine, who is everything, and where there is nothing that is not divine, these “adverse forces” become a part of the... the total play and they can no longer be called adverse forces. It is only a posture that they have taken; to speak more exactly, it is only a posture that the Divine has taken in his play.’ 15 (We always return to our first premise: there is nothing but That.) All the same, it may be a play from the viewpoint of the Divine, but to the beings incarnated on the Earth, including the humans, that play ...
... kept here, outside the Asram, so that I can, by constant surrender to the Mother, rise above the difficulties of this environment and control the adverse forces that now touch and move and affect my lower nature? You think too much of adverse forces. That kind of preoccupation causes much unnecessary struggle. Fix your mind on the positive side—open to the Mother's power, concentrate on her protection... The Mother's Help in Difficulties The Mother with Letters on the Mother Natural Disasters, Adverse Forces and the Mother's Help Is it true that earthquakes are inevitable phenomena in the process of the Divine Manifestation on the earth and the transformation of matter? Not at all. The method of the Divine Manifestation is through calm and harmony ...
... world is essentially formed of beings hostile to the divine work, and those who open themselves to these forces without any control are naturally under the influence of the adverse forces. So, one can't say what these adverse forces are. It would be easier to say what they are not. Page 305 ( Speaking to the children in the first row ) Do you have a question? You have a question? And you... mind and heart have become one-pointed and concentrated in the single aspiration to the Divine." So?... Sweet Mother, what are the adverse powers of the subtle physical? What are the adverse forces? There are as many of them as there are elements in the world. Only, unless they express themselves physically, we do not see them. So we are not aware of them. But I told you the other day that ...
... you know, it was... a collapse. It clearly came to teach something that could never had been learned before. But it's always on this that the adverse forces base themselves—always. All the adverse suggestions, all the adverse Page 110 forces, all the ill will, all the disbelief—it's all based on this: "Yes, but HE left." And I know—I know in my deeper consciousness—that he left because... happen, it feels as if... ( gesture hanging in midair ). It can switch all at once from a consciousness of eternity to a consciousness of absolute fragility. On top of this, there are lots of adverse forces, of adverse suggestions (some made of ignorance, others of ill will) that come and harass.... I don't believe them—it doesn't believe them, but it doesn't have the assurance that would allow it ...
... sedimentation: "Ceux qui viennent a moi avec l'intention d'obtenir des faveurs sont déçus, parce que je ne détiens pas de pouvoirs." 1 And what's almost fantastic is that a whole ARMY OF ADVERSE FORCES WERE REDUCED TO SILENCE—immediately. And the atmosphere was clarified, relieved. Page 250 Then, taking a good look, I understood that it is that mixture in people's thoughts, in people's... It was so concrete! I have never felt it so concretely, something seemed to have been completely swept away. But how is your renouncing or your having no powers sufficient to sweep the adverse forces away? No, it's the fact that I ANNOUNCED it. That you announced it? No powers—I knew very well I had no powers! And I couldn't have cared less because I understood perfectly well that... thought about it: "Why?" And I was positively told: "You MUST NOT wield powers, because that's not the way things should be done." I do understand, but... But there was a whole mass of adverse forces (I saw all sorts of things, I don't want to go into details) that were trying to PREVENT me from declaring it. And I had to make an effort ( Mother makes Page 251 a gesture of driving ...
... Playground Talk of June 10, 1953. ) What is it about? Page 147 Attacks by adverse forces and Asuras. Oh!... ( Laughing ) That's a convenient way of putting the blame on others! Do you think we should publish it? Certainly. It's helpful. When now people tell me about attacks by adverse forces, I always feel like saying to them, "The adversity is within you!" I think it's a... they can't do anything against you. It's absolutely obvious. It's imperfections that give them power. So if we shift our standpoint as Sri Aurobindo did, we'll see, as he said, that the so-called adverse forces are tolerated because they are useful to awaken people to the need for transformation, to the urgency of purification. ...
... like that, but a want of vital balance which the adverse forces use. Even if they were doing no sadhana it would be the same. About 'loss of balance' and the adverse forces using it in some sadhikas here: Will you kindly elaborate your statement? Loss of balance produces disorder in the consciousness and the adverse forces use that loss of balance for attacking and wholly ...
... the first call came, the early hesitations, the decisive turn and the first visit, the impact of the first darshan and pranam, the quick flowering of consciousness in the Ashram atmosphere, the adverse forces on the sly and the constant need for vigilance, the mounting of the offensive against the ego, the vicissitudes of the struggle, the sudden forced-marches and the unexpected set-backs, the whole... language. She has progressed far in her sadhana indeed! It is not, however, roses, roses, all the way. There are unpredictable its moments of depression, there are the attacks by the ubiquitous adverse forces, and life even in the Ashram, life even in the immediacy of the Mother, becomes inexplicably difficult, and Vasudha pours out her anxieties, uncertainties and agonies at the Mother's feet. And... grows"! 57 Nor was the fact of a few defections an argument in favour of postponing the whole supramental adventure altogether. On the contrary, the recent apparently heightened activity of the adverse forces was itself an Page 275 XII indication of the progress of the Yoga pursued in the Ashram: ... wherever Yoga or Yajna is done, there the hostile forces gather together ...
... taking shape on the terra-firma powered by faith and sincerity and ardour and receiving constant inspiration from the Mother. There were the scoffers and critics of course and there were the adverse forces erupting all the time and throwing up a variety of false and enervating suggestions, questioning the very basis of the Ashram and discounting the possibility of the supramental descent. But the... always a psychic origin.... I have heard a great deal of Indian music, a great deal; I have rarely heard Indian music having vital strength, very rarely. 24 The talk on 10 June is about adverse forces again - how to locate and tackle them, how to keep out of their way, how to shake them off once and for all. The snag is an atomic falsity, lodged somewhere within which, like a sly fifth columnist... without. If one were alert and wise, the attack could be turned into an opportunity to identify this inner falsity and throw away the Quisling and the invader at once. However, whereas these adverse forces are but the denizens of the vital underworld, the human being with a soul of his own stands on a wholly different footing: In a human being, there is the divine Presence and the psychic ...
... 306-7, 513ff, 539, 784 (cf 192-3) and the 'psychic presence' 334-5, 557 the irrevocable plunge into the Divine 305, 308 getting out of the Karmic cycle 309 grappling with adverse forces 310ff, 557 place of adverse forces in the cosmic scheme 311, 526 vital beings, vampires 311-2 individual initiative and universal Will 314 psychological perfection 323 the five psychological perfections... of 'this Truth-Power' 715 publishing her Notes on the Way 719ff experiences: incommensurable, incommunicable 719, 739 sensitising the material consciousness 720 'a bombardment of adverse forces' 722 'vibration of Ananda' 735 (see also 717-8) Terrace Darshan: 24 November 1965 737 22 January 1966 740 experiences 'consciousness of dead on earth' 741 direct perception of ...
... enter a domain higher than the mind where one is in direct contact with the Light either of the Overmind or the Supermind. 15 In another talk, the question posed is about the nature of the adverse forces, and the way they try to influence human beings. If we are not vigilant, we are apt to be invaded by beings of the vital world — a world of ill-will and disorder, basically an anti-divine world... this tremendous effort of goodwill has ended only in deplorable failure and left the world in the same state of misery and corruption and falsehood. It is on the same plane as the one where the adverse forces are ruling that one must have a greater power than theirs, a power which can conquer them totally in that very domain.... This force is the supramental force. 17 In the message, there is... the Integral Yoga, rather like Virgil guiding Dante through the triple worlds in The Divine Comedy. It is seldom a sheerly sunlit path or the primrose path of easy success, for the invisible adverse forces are always around; but Grace too is near at hand. On 3 April there is a reference to the old religions and humanity's current needs. All great world religions had begun with mystic God-vision but ...
... Questions and Answers (1953) 10 June 1953 "Attacks from adverse forces are inevitable: you have to take them as tests on your way and go courageously through the ordeal. The struggle may be hard, but when you come out of it, you have gained something, you have advanced a step. There is even a necessity for the existence of the hostile forces. They... to manifest, but its own desire, then it steps beyond its zone of action, it gets perverted, it deforms everything and succeeds in creating catastrophes. Sometimes we do not notice that the adverse forces are attaching us; why don't we? Page 100 You do not notice it! That happens when you are not alert, when you are not attentive, when you are busy with altogether external things, the... quietly from below. So you do not know at all what is happening to you. When you are aware of it, it is already there, thoroughly installed, quite comfortably. Sometimes one cannot distinguish adverse forces from other forces. That happens when one is quite unconscious. There are only two cases when this is possible: you are either very unconscious of the movements of your being—you have not ...
... it is possible that if he is allowed to do it, the defeat will come sooner. It is perhaps for this reason that at the time great things are about to be accomplished—it is at this time that the adverse forces are most active, most violently active, and apparently the most fully successful. They seem to have a clear field: it is perhaps in order that things may be more rapidly finished. ( Long silence... when they do not succeed, well, it is that the Grace has not left them. But mostly it will be after their death that there will be a difference, because those human beings who have allowed adverse forces to take hold of them and govern their lives, as soon as they leave their body, they are just swallowed up, that's all! They have already cut off the connection with their psychic being, so their... don't know any longer, can't do anything any longer, I am altogether an ordinary being!" And then, "But this is not at all good, it was much better before!" And Page 247 so, as these adverse forces are countless—these entities exist in thousands and thousands, you see, they are there swarming around people, only waiting for an opportunity to be able to rush into someone—immediately one reabsorbs ...
... irresistible control—even in the worst, some things are impossible. And without this presence, if the being were controlled exclusively by the adverse forces, the forces of the vital, this impossibility would not exist. Each time a wave of these monstrous adverse forces sweeps over the earth, one feels that nothing can ever stop the disorder and horror from spreading, and always, at a certain time, unexpectedly... flame. That is enough. And it is around this nucleus that one organises oneself, slowly, slowly, progressively. And once it is there it never disappears. It is only if you have made a pact with the adverse forces and make a considerable effort to break the contact and not notice its existence, that you may believe it has disappeared. And yet a single flash suffices for it to come back. If you have had ...
... illusion and a falsehood, that leaves, as Sri Aurobindo used to say, the field free to the sovereign sway of the adverse forces. If you escape from the concrete reality to seek a distant and abstract one, you leave the whole field of concrete realisation at the full disposal of the adverse forces—which have taken hold of it and more or less govern it now—in order to go away yourself to realise what Sri... effort of goodwill has ended only in deplorable failure and left the world in the same state Page 4 of misery and corruption and falsehood. It is on the same plane as the one where the adverse forces are ruling that one must have a greater power than theirs, a power which can conquer them totally in that very domain . To put it otherwise, a spiritual force which would be capable of transforming ...
... enrich our realisation with the booty torn from the powers that oppose us." Page 400 Yes. What is this booty? All the adverse forces at work in the world. The world as it is today is in its greater part under the influence of the adverse forces. We call them adverse because they do not want the divine life; they oppose the divine life. They want things to remain as they are, because... animal kingdom, you see, and this ordinary human world which it has created—if we give up all this as an illusion incapable of expressing the Divine, then this is so much left in the hands of the adverse forces which try to keep it, no doubt, for their own ends. Whereas if we consider that all this may be at present deformed but that in its essence and origin not only does it belong to the Divine but ...
... the new creation, the adverse forces will disappear. But so long as the world needs to be tempted, kneaded, churned in order to be prepared, the adverse forces will be there to be the temptation and that which strikes you, pushes you, prevents you from sleeping, compels you to be absolutely sincere. A being that is absolutely sincere becomes the master of the adverse forces. But so long as there ...
... of others upon oneself and even to do it deliberately; the instance of the Greek king Antigonus and his son Dimitrius is a famous historical case in point. Yogis also do this sometimes; or else adverse forces may throw illnesses upon the Yogi, using those round him as a door or a passage or the ill wishes of people as an instrumental force. But all these are special circumstances connected, no doubt... for cure. Increase of illness or physical suffering is not the result of the force. The Lower Nature, the Hostile Forces and Illness Attacks of illness are attacks of the lower nature or of adverse forces taking advantage of some weakness, opening or response in the nature,—like all other things that come and have got to be thrown away, they come from outside. If one can feel them so coming and... does not right itself, you must keep me informed from time to time. There is a general suggestion in the air about catching dengue or influenza. It is this suggestion that is enabling the adverse forces to bring about symptoms of this kind and spread the complaints; if one rejects both the suggestions and the symptoms, then these things will not materialise. That is how illnesses try to ...
... the vigilance of the consciousness and its will. The repetition of the response does not increase the difficulty—it only retards the clearing out of the invading forces. Whatever point the adverse forces choose for attack, however small it may seem to the external human mind, becomes a crucial point and to yield it up may be to yield to them one of the keys of the fortress. Even if it is a small... harmony, not through a catastrophic upheaval. The latter is the sign of a struggle, generally of conflicting vital forces, but at any rate a struggle on the inferior plane. You think too much of adverse forces. That kind of preoccupation causes much unnecessary struggle. Fix your mind on the positive side—open to the Mother's power, concentrate on her protection, call for light, calm and peace and purity... are from the hostile forces—but their way of testing is to take advantage of any point of weakness and push with all their force at that point to break down the sadhana or else to hurl all the adverse forces on the consciousness while it is still in process of transition and not yet mature so as to shatter all that has been done. It is not a true test but mere destruction replacing the constructive ...
... him. But if he can have total faith in her, if he can keep her love and compassion close to his heart, then he can overcome all obstacles and difficulties. The adverse forces cannot harm him in any way. The adverse forces attack only those who have taken to the divine path. That is why the first condition for" "taking this" path is to be full of fearlessness and courage. (77) ... imposes anything on anyone. Page 329 (76) M other once said that the one whom she accepts and envelops in her spiritual embrace, his destiny is invisibly stamped. And when adverse forces see this stamp they understand at once that this person has been accepted by the Divine. And then they begin their terrible assaults on him in order to waylay him from the divine path or to ...
... Mother and himself were actively waging a continuous war against the adverse forces. "The fact that it was being waged from a closed room made it no less real and serious." She said once that illnesses in their case are much more difficult to cure than in the case of sadhaks because of the concentrated attack of the adverse forces. I may mention in passing that the Mother was not only vigilant regarding... enveloped her with an aura of protection against the dark forces. His accident was due, he said, to his being busy protecting the Mother and unmindful about himself, under the assumption that the adverse forces would not dare to attack him. "That was my mistake," he said. The Mother herself could take any risk, launch upon any adventure, for she had entire faith and reliance upon Sri Aurobindo's mighty ...
... 1955 the Mother said: “It is the last hope of the adverse forces to triumph against the present Realisation. If we [i.e. the people who practise the Integral Yoga] can stand firm during these months, they won’t be able to do much afterwards, their resistance will crumble. This is what it is about: it is the essential conflict of the adverse forces, of the antidivine forces, who are trying to push back ...
... ‘General: Earth, India, Ashram and individuals … It is the last hope of the adverse forces to triumph against the present Realization. If we can stand firm during these months, they won’t be able to do much afterwards, their resistance will crumble. This is what it is about: it is the essential conflict of the adverse forces, of the anti-divine forces, who are trying to push back the divine Realization ...
... The Opposition of the Hostile Forces Letters on Yoga - IV Chapter III Dealing with Hostile Attacks Fear of Attacks Yes, the adverse forces take advantage of any perturbation of that kind [ mental anxiety and fear when something bad happens ]—for it opens as it were a passage to their action. Fear is the one thing that one must never feel in face of... rejecting the suggestion and saying, "It is written 'Thou shalt not tempt (put to a test) the Lord thy God.' " He ought to have jumped and if he got smashed, it would only have proved that the adverse forces were greater than the Divine Force! If an adverse Force comes, one has not to accept and welcome its suggestions, but to turn to the Mother and refuse to turn away from her. Whether one can ...
... the claim of its ego and puts itself between her and the work or between her and other sadhakas, then whatever its natural power, it deviates from the true way, spoils the work, brings in adverse forces and wrong movements and does harm to those whom it imagines it is helping. When these things are transferred to the smallness of the lower vital nature and the external personality and take lower... one "solution" of this kind of struggle,—to recognise these feelings for what they are, unregenerated movements of the old vital nature, and to reject these vital suggestions as suggestions of adverse forces that want to push you out of the straight path. If the mind of the sadhak supports these vital movements, if any part of his nature accepts and cherishes them, then, so long as he allows them to ...
... irresistible control—even in the worst, some things are impossible. And without this presence, if the being were controlled exclusively by the adverse forces, the forces of the vital, this impossibility would not exist. Each time a wave of these monstrous adverse forces sweeps over the earth, one feels that nothing can ever stop the disorder and horror from spreading, and always, at a certain time, unexpectedly ...
... effect on me as that produced by the photographs of the German atrocities during the war over there. It is obvious that these things are directly under the influence of certain adverse forces, but we know that the adverse forces are, so to sneak, authorized to work — precisely by this feeling of horror — to hasten the awakening of the consciousness. And so that experience, which was very strong, which ...
... merely saying: "nothing will happen" that an accident can be avoided. Your mental formation may be strong, but the contrary formation is at least as strong as yours—and we must never tempt the adverse forces. Page 14 I ask you to discard all obstinacy and to be perfectly sincere . Go and see with no preconceived idea. Go and see honestly, carefully, all round the place; consider that... 19 But what was this darkness? I could not recognise myself during the last four hours. I was stiff, I was burning with heat, all was gloom. The exact symptoms of an attack from adverse forces. I was imagining that Mother will throw away this book in disgust, or that Sri Aurobindo will write two pages asking me to quit the Ashram or at least to stop work from tomorrow. Mother ...
... with this feeling that... yes, that Truth is something miraculous, which has only to show itself to prevail. It would be like that—without the adverse forces. The universe would be like that, if it had not been for the deviation of the adverse forces—I see it very clearly. The perversion, the cold-blooded and cruel perversion of sheer malevolent will keeps it from being like that. That's what ...
... against him. ) My dear child, For the last months you have been fast progressing spiritually, and I would like you to take all these attacks as an outward expression of the usual tests that the adverse forces make to fortify and intensify the sadhana. It is teaching you to have an absolute faith and confidence in the Divine Grace, because when they will be complete and perfect, all sorrow and all anxiety... to take for her. Let her purify the outer being, and abolish the ego, by a complete and perfect consecration to the Supreme Divine, and the obstacle will be removed. Page 400 The adverse forces are allowed to act only in order to compel us to make ourselves pure and receptive enough for the descent and the union. With love and blessings. 30 December 1964 X is a poor man ...
... interesting thing came up—yesterday, I think. (All these experiences come to show me the difference, as if to give proof of the change.) Someone had had a dream about me whispered to him by the adverse forces for specific reasons (I won't go into the details). He was much affected by it, so he wrote down the dream and gave it to me. I was carrying his letter along with all the others, as I usually do... been produced, its effect—the whole functioning of all the forces. As I read along and it went on unfolding, I did what was necessary for him (he was present at the time) in order to undo what the adverse forces had done. Then at the end, when I had finished, said everything, explained what it was all about and what had to be done, something SO CATEGORICAL came into me (I cannot verbalize this kind of ...
... materially by time and space. 3 January 1968 How is it that ordinarily the richer one is (materially), the more dishonest one is? It is because material wealth is controlled by the adverse forces—and because they have not yet been converted to the Divine Influence, though the work has begun. That victory will form part of the triumph of Truth. Wealth should not be a personal property... identified, when one turns towards the creation, one sees and knows that the Divine alone exists both in the Essence and in the manifestation. 16 October 1968 Is immunity to the attack of adverse forces possible without transformation? Immunity does not come automatically from transformation. One has to cut off all connection with the manifested world in order to be immune. But in any ...
... and your body." Sure enough, W got a fever, a sort of discomfort all over, and all kinds of suggestions that sprang up from below. I must say it left me pensive.... To go and do battle with the adverse forces in their own domain, to provoke them, is indeed a peculiar method.... I told W (and in any case I'll see to it that the other two periods don't go the same way) that I would keep those gentlemen... of a certain power, so if you want that power, you have to go and fight them, don't you? Page 214 It had rather seemed to me that they should be kept at a distance. With Théon, the adverse forces and hostile beings were often mentioned, they occupied a big place in self-development and in action. As for Sri Aurobindo, he used to say that that notion was useful mostly from the psychological ...
... with a tragic fate. It had the same impression on me as the horrors of the Germans during the war over there. These things are obviously under the direct influence of certain adverse forces, but we know that the adverse forces are, so to say, permitted to work—through the sense of horror, in fact—in order to hasten the awakening of consciousness. So then, that experience, which was very strong and was ...
... come to an agreement with the Chinese—that's the last straw!—to help Pakistan massacre people. Yes, one has the impression that America is doing the politics of the adverse forces. You'd say they're working for the adverse forces.... ( silence ) Do you know that the President of the United States [Nixon] is going to China? Yes, can you beat that! And they're not trying to make a ...
... for a time, but if the force is strong, quiet and persistent, it will get the better of the resistance - unless something in the consciousness supports the illness or is open too much to the adverse Forces, for in that case the struggle may be a long one. Why could I not succeed in opening my self for the cure of the eyes as much as for the sciatica? Because it is more material... in the course of Nature. I suppose they must be necessary, since they always come in sadhana. Do you mean that an experience is followed sometimes by a movement of the hostile or adverse forces? Very often. The stress of the inertia is the general obstacle; it may be overcome in one thing, it may not be overcome in another. Your physical mind applies conceptions in a ...
... Aurobindo while passing from his sitting-room to the bathroom (probably revolving some lines of Savitri ) fell with his right knee striking the head of a tiger. Perhaps there was jubilation among the adverse forces crying, "Our enemy has fallen!" Sri Aurobindo, however, remained unperturbed and tried to get up. Failing to do so he lay down quietly expecting that the Mother would come in soon. As was natural... were, and poor as I was in knowledge, strength and experience. True, things appear simple enough in the presence of a superior authority, but troubles gather as soon as he turns his back, for the adverse forces try to test, as it were, the novice, the uninitiated. So I clung to him like a child and entreated him not to leave me in mid-stream. The Mother also pleaded on my behalf with the result that he ...
... thing. After recovering from the critical period of darkness (attacks, depression, helplessness etc.) this fact comes out: I have exaggerated rather too much my difficulties. The adverse forces seem to have used a double method to regain their lost territory. First they got in by the back-door and when they Page 121 were thrown out they used the second: throwing... thing is to be able to call down the force from above into the physical — otherwise to remain perfectly quiet and undisturbed, expect its coming. We should know that often the adverse forces magnify our difficulty by their mere power of suggestion. They now tell me it is impossible to come out dynamically. Yes, it is that. The suggestion is put in order to discourage ...
... all in white), such a pinched face, very ... (how can I express it?) emaciated, as though you were suffering. (Mother remains silent for a long while, then replies:) Quite evidently, the adverse forces are not only trying to convince everyone but me too, that this is how it’s going to turn out. But I have as yet had no indications. I have asked to be forewarned, not for reasons of... It... question in my friends’ consciousnesses — they are sincere, devoted, they believe me, love me, but there is a question. It is subconscious, not even formulated, but it is exactly the field of the adverse forces: the physical Mind, the suggestion, medical or whatever it may be, which sticks and sticks. You can say what you want, you can believe, love and know in your clear and awakened consciousness ...
... on the right as well as on the wrong side. Well. ..... Z [a worker from the Institute who is complaining]? Yes.... It is "the fault of the adverse forces," it is so easy. The Agenda will hammer him until he understands that the adverse forces are the Lord who wants us to progress and break through our little walls — or break our foot, if we refuse to toe the line. And all those stories ...
... Aurobindo were seated was taken up and down a good deal till the driver brought it to a stop at the highest peak. But, then, they hadn't yielded to the sly suggestions of failure put forward by the adverse forces; they hadn't succumbed to doubt; on the contrary, they had persevered in fair and foul weather alike. As for Paul Richard, the inevitable happened at last: unable to accept the proffered felicity... ceased at once, and peace reigned once again in Sri Aurobindo's place. Subsequently, Vathal's wife seems to have come to Sri Aurobindo and thrown herself at his feet and craved for his mercy. The adverse forces unleashed by the fakir and turned back from their intended destination were after Vathal now, and he was desperately sick. Sri Aurobindo however, took pity on the woman, and forgave the culprit ...
... materially by time and space. 3.1.1968 How is it that ordinarily, the richer a man is {materially), the more dishonest he is? It is because material wealth is controlled by the adverse forces —and because they have not yet been converted to the Divine Influence, although the work has begun. That victory will form part of the triumph of Truth. Wealth should not be a personal... identified, when one turns towards the creation, one sees and knows that the Divine alone exists both in the Essence and in the manifestation. 16.10.1968 Is immunity to the attack of adverse forces possible without transformation? Immunity does not come automatically from transformation. One has to cut off all connection with the manifested world in order to be immune. ...
... scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane. That is why I am not alarmed by the aspect of the world around me or disconcerted by the often successful fury of the adverse Forces who increase in their rage as the Light comes nearer and nearer down to the field of earth and Matter. If I believe in the probability and not only the possibility, if I feel practically certain... long as the Overmind intervenes (the principle of the Overmind being a play of forces, each trying to realise itself as the Truth) the law of struggle remains and with it the opportunity for the adverse Forces. 10 November 1933 You say [in the preceding letter] that the Overmind, as a result of a pressure of the Supramental, is "letting through a greater Light and Power." Does this mean that a ...
... you are having great difficulties over the money question. Remember that money as a general power is still in the hands of the adverse forces, Mammon or Amrita's grand Titan. The favourable force can only come in waves which must be realised at once, otherwise the adverse forces will intervene and create all difficulties. Also it will not do to relax effort or turn it elsewhere when things seem to promise ...
... before you are very peaceful. Practice that inner peace, make at least a small beginning and go on in your practice until it becomes a habit with you. Source Attacks from Adverse Forces Attacks from adverse forces are inevitable: you have to take them as tests on your way and go courageously through the ordeal. The struggle may be hard, but when you come out of it, you have gained something ...
... has begun to be more and more recognised—it is the reason why the statements of different people about the same physical fact differ widely. Especially when there is a depression or a pressure of adverse forces the impression given to the senses is often distorted or modified in the sense of the depression or of the suggestion made—of that we have had innumerable instances. But apart from that it is... blessing which is current in the Asram is perfectly irrational, false, even imbecile. I have a hundred times written to people that the whole thing is wrong and rests on a false suggestion of the adverse forces made in order to create a disturbance. The Mother does not refrain from smiling or vary her smile or her Page 549 manner of blessing in order to show displeasure or because of anything ...
... can move in the midst of plague and cholera and never get contaminated. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - IV: Illness and Health Attacks of illness are attacks of the lower nature or of adverse forces taking advantage of some weakness, opening or response in the nature,—like all other things that come and have got to be thrown away, they come from outside. If one can feel them so coming and... the forces of growth and progress and the forces of destruction. When there is an accident, an accident that has lasting results, it is always the result of a more or less partial victory of the adverse forces, that is, of the forces of disintegration, disorganization. The Mother Questions and Answers (1954): 27 January 1954 ...
... realisation here below. The intellect or, generally speaking, the mind gives the form; the vital puts in the dynamism and life-power; the material comes in last and embodies. How is one to meet adverse forces—forces that are invisible and yet quite living and tangible? Page 33 A great deal depends upon the stage of development of your consciousness. At the beginning, if you have no special... quiet and call down peace and a deep inner quietness. Hold yourself firm and call with confidence and faith: if your aspiration is pure and steady, you are sure to receive help. Attacks from adverse forces are inevitable: you have to take them as tests on your way and go courageously through the ordeal. The struggle may be hard, but when you come out of it, you have gained something, you have advanced ...
... suspension of the progress 16 May 1915 The reaction continues. Nothing is precisely lost except for a diminution of the Sraddha; but the forward impulse has ceased & in sharira & karma the adverse forces seem to be triumphant. Asamata of satyasatya which hitherto gave such acute trouble has disappeared. Asamata of siddhi asiddhi has revived and is the sole asamata remaining; but it is neither... On the whole the Suddhi, Mukti, Bhukti are nearing final completion & the purely subjective siddhi. Only in the subjective-objective siddhi the victory is still delayed & in the objective the adverse forces still hold most of the ground except in the physical Ananda, where victory is now assured. 20 May 1915 Dasyam is now becoming all-pervading and intense Sraddha Bhagavati is almost complete; ...
... hold of this or that excuse but really it comes for its own satisfaction and not for any particular reason. All depression is bad as it lowers the consciousness, spends the energy, opens to adverse forces. After you went from here it seems that the vital difficulties which you were emerging from here came back with your return to the atmosphere and that was the cause of the violent depression... The depression again was the cause why everything went wrong and the arrangements made fell through or took a wrong turn. For depression prevents the Force from flowing through and calls in the adverse forces and gives them a chance to destroy the helpful formations that are made. All the trouble and difficulty you have had will disappear or be minimised if you shake off this tendency to depression ...
... speaking it is … If you want I can tell you: it is the last hope of the adverse forces to triumph against the present Realization. If we are able to hold on during these [fourteen] months, afterwards they will not be able to do much, their resistance will crumble. That’s what it is about: it is essentially the conflict of the adverse forces, of the anti-divine forces, who are trying to push back the divine ...
... Words of the Mother - III 1958 (2) Inner Realisation Is the Key to Outer Realisation When the adverse forces want to attack those who are around me and when they do not succeed in making them openly hostile to Sri Aurobindo's work or in turning them against me personally, they proceed in the matter always in the same way, with the same argument: "You... plane your life is spoiled, wasted. There is an abyss that you will never fill between the inner experience and the concrete realisation in the world." This is the number one argument of the adverse forces. I know it. For millions of years I have heard the same thing repeated and each time I have unmasked it. It is a falsehood—it is the falsehood. Everything that tends to establish a divorce between ...
... the Supreme. And while I was walking, Durga was there—really, it was beautiful! Durga, with that awesome power of hers, forever bringing the adverse forces to heel—and she surrendered to the Supreme, to the point of no longer even recognizing the adverse forces: ALL is the Supreme. It was like a widening of her consciousness. Some interesting things have been happening in that world [since the ...
... "attacks" from the outside, "adverse" forces; and it can always be explained like that, it was true in a certain way, but it wasn't the true truth, the deepest truth), now the body KNOWS where it all comes from, and it's so marvelous! A marvel of wisdom.... It puts everything in its place, it makes you REALIZE that all that Page 247 play of the adverse forces is a way of seeing things (a ...
... thought it was 'attacks' from the outside, 'adverse' forces; and it can always be explained like that, it was true in a certain way, but it wasn't the true truth, the deepest truth), now the body KNOWS where it all comes from, and it's so marvellous! A marvel of wisdom.... It puts everything in its place, it makes you REALIZE that all that play of the adverse forces is a way of seeing things (a necessary ...
... stitched on the banian but I had to face the curious eyes of people who wanted to pry into the secret of this unusual addition! At another time later on, I told the Mother that some uncanny adverse forces were often trying to attack me during sleep. Then too she gave me a special blessing packet to be kept under the pillow and it saved me from further incursions. I do not recollect if I saw the... I saw during my afternoon nap a very strange animal huge in size, a hybrid of lion and tiger, drooping down as if from loss of vigour. That again meant for me the weakening of the hold of the adverse forces, I realised once more Sri Aurobindo’s remark that behind diseases, as behind everything else, there are forces that work for our weal or woe. Doctors are instruments only in creating such conditions ...
... not put on them, so that the hostile forces do riot bother them, and therefore they arc free from any resistance? Page 144 Whether a pressure is put or not the adverse forces can always make suggestions — but there are a few who do not receive them. Why does our being sometimes resist actively, sometimes passively? When the struggle... has it come about? There are also lots of suggestions. It is because of the struggle in the physical and because there is still something in you that feels the struggle and so the adverse Forces want to press till you revolt. But how is it that any part of you gives any value to the Page 145 suggestions? If no part gives any value then surely they ...
... accepted you because she saw a possibility to change your nature; that is the most important thing. Stop brooding over such things, it creates obstructions in your path and only benefit the adverse forces. I know perfectly well how difficult it is to forget. I too often remember Mithran, but I know what has happened cannot be changed, so I pray that wherever he is let him be happy, and stop dwelling... say, she was born in this life with the adhikara to receive and retain the Divine’s Grace, and, consequently, her uncluttered sattwic mind and pure heart weathered the cruellest attacks of the adverse forces solely on the strength of her faith and at last reached the haven of "splendid soft repose". The last fortnight, Amma lay cocooned in motionless trance. A thank-you gift to Bharatiben, ...
... the hostiles would attack me.' This Darshan and the next have to be cancelled. 1939 Apr 24 Anniversary of her second and final coming - 'the tangible sign of the sure Victory over the adverse forces' - becomes henceforth the fourth Darshan day. - Jul 9 'It is not as a Guru that I love and bless, it is as the Mother who asks nothing in return for what she gives.' 1940 Sep 19 With... failures there is the Victory, behind all its pains, its sufferings, its contradictions, there is Ananda.' 1965 Jan 12 'There has been... particularly since the 1st... a kind of bombardment of adverse forces - a fury' on her body. But, she adds, 'it is not a higher intervention that will change it, it is... from within', by putting in the physical mind 'a Peace which acts directly in this material ...
... the pressure. 14 Obviously it seems to have been a time of rich realisations and even richer possibilities; but also of delusions and wrong movements, resulting in the unleashing of adverse forces in the yet unvanquished lower nature. Like men a little intoxicated, and unable to stand it! Sri Aurobindo and the Mother accordingly decided that the Overmind-power was too upsetting in... this as part of the sadhana, but some few started grousing, and letters of remonstrance flew to Sri Aurobindo or the Mother or both. It was all symptomatic of the Divine struggle with the adverse forces that invariably made entry through the chinks in the psychological armour of the sadhaks. To infect faith with doubt, aspiration with tamasic negation, service to the Divine with rajasic ...
... the most material plane on which blows can still be given by the adverse forces, it is necessary to make a change which can best be done by a change in the inner attitude of the Sadhaks .... 11 Sri Aurobindo and the Mother - the Mother even more than Sri Aurobindo - had to be at the centre of a struggle with adverse forces, and of a work of change and transformation of the old into a ...
... Mexican matter owing to the withdrawal of the aishwarya & vashita long delayed contrary movements, successfully resisted till now or else minimised, are fulfilling themselves. In the evening adverse forces declared themselves. Fever suddenly returned at 10 & remained all night, though without any Page 452 serious pressure except in heat & a sleep slightly broken. Rupa in swapna samadhi ...
... scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane. That is why I am not alarmed by the aspect of the world around me or disconcerted by the often successful fury of the adverse Forces who increase in their rage as the Light comes nearer and nearer to the field of earth and Matter." THE BACKGROUND OF AUROVILLE It is, on the one hand, the process ...
... physical Nature. Aspiration, confidence, idealism, enthusiasm and generosity in self- giving for the spiritual examinations. Vigilance, sincerity and humanity for the examinations set by the adverse forces. And do not think that on one side there are those who pass exams and on the other those who set them. At the same time, according to the circumstances and moments, one is both examiner and ...
... 12 Peck, M.Scott 113fn Physical (being) (consciousness), the 86-87,93,118 and nerves 105 disturbances of 102-05 vital-physical 105 Possession see under Adverse Forces Prakriti (Nature) 132,133,134, 137,138,141,142, 143 Prana 7 Prenatal influences 107-08 Projection 91-92 Psychic (being), the 114, 126, 138,139,140,141 ...
... you and useless to the country. Why do you always come back to this notion of going away or entertain it at all? It is quite meaningless from any rational point of view; it only encourages the adverse Forces which want to take you away from the path, to return to the attack, and it prevents the speedy conversion of that dissatisfied part of your vital which is always kicking against the pricks — ...
... the Eternal Consciousness, a consciousness of complete peace, joy, harmony and happiness. In order to obstruct this, such things come. To be quiet and fearless is the condition in which these adverse forces can do no harm at all. Always with you 8 December 1934 ...
... Mother, A new force of transformation is descending; we have to keep quiet and allow it to do its work effectively. My dear Mother, I pray for quietness and to remain fixed on the Divine. Adverse forces might try to harass us, but may we remain consecrated to the Truth. Yes, in the quietness you will feel that our force, help and protection are always with you my dear child. 21 January ...
... of the degree of Consciousness, isn’t it? Difference creates authority, and fear follows authority — so where is love? Yes, it is like that in the vital world, which is the domain of the adverse forces — despotism and fear are the great tools of the Asuras. But that has nothing to do with the divine world. Indeed, it is the negation of the divine world, it is the falsehood that Truth must destroy ...
... of an Asura. She had vowed that even if she had to descend into hell, she would do so. Though the pages of her diary hardly tell us about it, her stay in Japan was ‘a perpetual battle with the adverse forces’ – not a battle on the human scale, but a battle of superhuman, divine and antidivine forces. K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar writes in his biography of the Mother: ‘The four years Mirra spent in Japan ...
... cost. It was another part of your vital that would have liked to take that attitude, but this smaller part prevented it and brought in a confusion and a mixture which was rather used by the adverse forces to turn you away from belief in or hope of the goal. This confusion of mind and vital you must get rid of— you must call in the true reason and the higher vital to cast out these movements. A ...
... Divine; on the other hand, there is an outcry of disappointment, bewilderment, distrust, perhaps indignation, if there are human difficulties, if there is strain in the body, a swaying struggle with adverse forces, obstacles, checks, illness—and some begin to say, "Oh, there is nothing Divine here!" As if one could remain vitally and physically ln the untransformed individual human consciousness, in unchanged ...
... perhaps inevitable development of things, for which I do not hold anyone responsible, but now that the sadhana has come down to the most material plane on which blows can still be given by the adverse forces it is necessary to make a change which can best be done by a change in the inner attitude of the sadhaks, for that alone Page 120 now can make—until the decisive descent of the ...
... should ever admit any sunderance between us. This attack upon you, the depression and nervous upset and all these suggestions were part of a general attack which has been raging against us from adverse forces for some time past, but I hope that the worst of it is over for you and that you will be able to go on untroubled in your sadhana. It is needless then to insist that she never thought of you ...
... The point raised was whether the accident had been due to what is called utkata karma. Sri Aurobindo ruled out this explanation and referred to the constant battle he had been waging against "adverse forces" that were ever on the alert to baulk him. He did not comment Page 254 further on this kind of karma. I don't recollect anything written by him on the subject. What we may suppose ...
... rheumatism, influenza, filaria and neuritis, a flurrying heart … you name it and she had it. 4 Yet she considered her return to Pondicherry as ‘the tangible sign of the sure Victory over the adverse forces,’ which seems to confirm that Paul Richard had in fact been an important factor which caused her departure from Pondicherry and Sri Aurobindo six years before. Richard’s relationship with Mirra ...
... the unsocial people of the Jews, still at the bottom of the German heart the Christian spirit has remained as vivid as in the Middle Ages. At least, it fights nowhere so forcefully against the adverse forces as in Germany. There is no other Volk that has realized ‘the fruits of the Kingdom of God’ in more beautiful ways than the Germans, and no other Volk that tries in the same measure to produce still ...
... wonderful? October drifted into November. Raw, cold, wet weather gripped London in its remorseless fingers. Days of anxiety and uncertainty lay ahead of me. My restored confidence ebbed away. The adverse forces invariably found their means to destroy my peace. How could I ever win, with the dice so heavily loaded against me? God, if I were capable I would choke the life out of the devil. I felt unhappy ...
... similar), you must not think, and immediately call the Lord or me or both and pray, "here again I am attacked—help me, protect me, let your love and power be like a shield around me to prevent these adverse forces from touching me.” And you go on praying and repeating your call, thinking of nothing else until the attack is over—This is the surest, the safest and the quickest way. And if at any other ...
... will end in the dawn. It is such an important phase that we wish you share in your heart this moment with all of us, praying to the Mother for the future of Auroville and Her Victory over all the adverse forces which are so strongly trying to impede the accomplishment of Her Vision. We thank you for the kind thoughts you send us through Christi. We often think of you. You know we are all very busy ...
... always with you to get rid of the confusion and if you keep quiet you will feel it. Keep faith and confidence, all will be all right. Do not fear it is fear that helps that thing (adverse forces) to come—do not doubt it is doubt that helps it to come—do not expect it in any way—it is expectation that helps it to come. Concentrate only on me and on the certitude of the coming Victory—it ...
... long as the Overmind intervenes (the principle of the Overmind being a play of forces, each trying to realise itself as the Truth) the law of struggle remains and with it the opportunity for the adverse Forces. It is not immortality of the body, but the consciousness of immortality in the body that can come with the descent of Overmind into Matter or even into the physical mind or with the ...
... has always the power to put the mental will or vital push at the service of the Divine. One cannot be sure of the immediate result, for the obstruction of the lower Nature or the pressure of the adverse forces can often act successfully for a time, even for a long time, against Page 85 the necessary change. One has then to persist, to put always the will on the side of the Divine, rejecting ...
... power of the spirit and can recover by this new way of being their own truth and integral nature. This illumination is constantly opposed by the Forces of the lower nature and still more by the adverse Forces that live and reign by the world's imperfections and have laid down their formidable foundation on the black rock of the Inconscience. An indispensable step towards overcoming this difficulty ...
... influences that are acting upon you. If one brings down more force or light than some part of the being is ready for and that part resists—or if there is a struggle between descending and adverse forces in the body, then these things [ a burning sensation etc. ] can take place. The feeling of resistance [ to the descent of the Force ] may be the result of the effort at response. When there ...
... To try to deal with the difficulties of the vital without this contact or presence, is premature and cannot succeed. 20 June 1930 Instead of opening myself to the Mother, I opened to the adverse forces. Then like a friend the Mother showed me my mistakes. But why does my outer nature make me wander Page 383 here and there? Why doesn't the Mother protect me with her Force at the time ...
... use closing the eyes; but one can always do the work in a concentration in which the inner being is turned towards the Mother while the outer does the Mother's work. 12 February 1933 The adverse forces have been active the last two days, but each time they came I sent them away. The report about X was false, but the information confused me and brought wrong suggestions of all kinds. When ...
... carried away [ ] 3 by the brilliance and splendour and delight of his experiences, he can easily wander far from the highest way. But the Forces and Beings that are behind them are sometimes adverse Forces, sometimes the lesser Gods of the mental and vital planes. In either case they try to occupy and use the instrument, but for their own purpose, for the play of the Ideas and Forces they represent ...
... and imperative. When it intervenes, it has a kind of divine or supramental sanction behind it and is like a fiat against which there is no appeal. What is done cannot be reversed or undone. The adverse forces may try, may even touch or invade, but they retire baffled and it is seen as soon as they withdraw that the past ground has remained intact—it is felt even in the attack. Also the difficulties ...
... The Mother's Presence The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Mother's Presence and the Adverse Forces X writes: "One thing I do not understand. Though I feel the Mother so near to me, these forces still dare to come and disturb me. How is this possible?" Please tell me what to reply to him. The forces can always be there so long as there is not ...
... 19 February 1934 Of course, one must use these external means and there one must be careful so as to have as many factors as possible on one's side and give as little handle as possible to adverse forces. But no outward action can be for us sure of success unless behind it is the growing Yogic vision and Yogic power. We have had ourselves serious difficulties from the outside, petitions made against ...
... should ever admit any sunderance between us. This attack upon you, the depression and nervous upset and all these suggestions were part of a general attack which has been raging against us from adverse forces for some time past, but I hope that the worst of it is over for you and that you will be able to go on untroubled in your sadhana. It is needless then to insist that she never thought of you as ...
... divine Will in the elephant wants you to move!" Mother passes on to another question: illnesses. During the talk in 1929 someone asked whether illnesses were not due to microbes rather than to "adverse forces" or to fluctuations of yoga. Mother answered: Page 208 "Where does Yoga begin and where does it end? Is not the whole of your life Yoga? The possibilities of illness are always there ...
... were a necessity for attaining an inner purification and the liberation from ego. The ego is at once the result of their action and the cause of their prolongation. When the ego disappears, the adverse forces will also disappear, having no longer any reason for their existence in the world. With the inner liberation, with a total sincerity and perfect purity, all suffering will disappear, because ...
... there is a resistance or revolt in it or when there is some part in you that does not respond to the protection; or even there may be something there that almost willingly and wilfully calls in the adverse forces. It is enough if there is a slight movement of this kind in you; the hostile forces are at once upon you and their attack takes often the form of illness. But are not illnesses sometimes the ...
... most difficult task. Each time that you try to draw a little of this money away from its present custodians, you have to undertake a fierce battle. And yet one signal victory somewhere over the adverse forces that have the hold upon money would make victory possible simultaneously and automatically at all other points also. If in one place they yielded, all who now feel that they cannot give money to ...
... always, the adverse powers have put their hold on this most precious thing. It is the energy of the vital that enters into dull and insensitive matter and makes it responsive and alive. But the adverse forces have distorted it; they have turned it into a field of violence and selfishness and desire and every kind of ugliness and prevented it from taking part in the divine work. The one thing to be done ...
... the inner readiness, you must insist now on one, now on the other, but never forget either of them. Page 22 Generally, all progress made on one side is set off by an attack of the adverse forces on the other. So, the more you advance, the more vigilant must you become. And the most essential quality is perseverance, endurance, and a... what shall I call it?—a kind of inner good humour ...
... details, without its inflicting the shadow of a pain on you; on the contrary, sometimes it can fill you with ecstatic joy. And it is exactly the same thing. But in one case, you are open to the adverse forces you want to reject from yourself, and in the other you are not, you are already too far away from them to be affected by them any longer; and so, instead of feeling the negative side they represent ...
... and you have to be much more attentive and have a much sharper discernment to realise that these movements which seem to come out from you are not really yours but come from outside. But with the adverse forces, if you are in the least sincere and observe yourself attentively, you become aware that it is something in the being which is responding to an influence, an impulse, a suggestion, even something ...
... I shall also add that there is another quite indispensable condition in order not to have recourse to reason any more; that is to open no door, no part of the being to the suggestions of the adverse forces. For if you are not completely liberated from the habit of responding to adverse suggestions, if you give up your reason, you also give up reason itself, that is, common sense. And you begin to ...
... beforehand, or otherwise with egoistic intentions; to people who begin to do yoga for reasons of ambition or vanity it happens very often that they put themselves under the influence of certain adverse forces. And there are also many people who are under certain influences in a way... how to put it?... one can't call it accidental, but... for example, there are psychic beings who choose a certain ...
... And so, if we are not able to win the victory...? Does this mean that the possibility of transformation will be delayed? Delayed perhaps by several centuries. This is precisely what the adverse forces are trying to bring about, and so far they have always succeeded—in putting off the thing. Always they have succeeded. "This will be for another time", and the other time... perhaps after hundreds ...
... article, that's another subject. Anything else? Why does one feel afraid? I have been told—and this was one of the teachings of a very old tradition—that, it was the influence of the adverse forces upon earth that had created fear, for it was their way of acting on human beings. But animals also feel fear. So that takes away a little from the strength of the argument, for I don't think the ...
... is a kind of link like a thread of light joining the being that has gone out with the one that remain behind—if this link is protected, nothing happens. But if it is not protected, there may be adverse forces, not only full of mischief but with much ill-will also, which could come and cut it. And then, once it is cut, you Page 191 may try as hard as you like, but you cannot get back into ...
... possible. Once you have done all this, you may add either a prayer or an aspiration in accordance with your nature, to ask for the consciousness and peace and to be protected against all the adverse forces throughout the sleep, to be in a concentration of quiet aspiration and in the protection; ask the Grace to watch over your sleep; and then go to sleep. This is to sleep in the best possible conditions ...
... the only way out. That I have been telling you since two or three days, like that constantly. Now? 11 May 1967 * There is a rush of adverse forces. A mad rush. But the Response has started coming-it is just a small beginning. In everyone it was as though a hurricane-it has not gone completely. All that was believed to have been conquered ...
... can mean in certain cases, when one is master of one’s concentration and knows where one goes—still this already requires a fairly great discipline—it may be that it is a particular attack of adverse forces, of bad wills, coming either from certain beings or from certain domains; but it is not necessarily attacks; it can simply be that one has opened one’s consciousness in a place that’s not very ...
... of all powers—integral in the sense that it applies in all cases. It is even more powerful than the power of purification which dissolves all bad will and which is, as it were, the master of the adverse forces, but which has not the direct power of transformation. The power of purification first dissolves in order to allow the transformation afterwards. It destroys one form in order to be able to create ...
... has to become all the more... (how to say it?) complete, as the struggle is more material. There has been for some time past (particularly since the first of January) a kind of bombardment of adverse forces—a fury, you know. Then you must remain like this ( Mother becomes immobile like a statue ), that is all. And when physically you have been shaken, you must not ask too much of the body, you must ...
... Notes on the Way 9 June 1971 There is a rush of adverse forces. A mad rush. But the Response has started coming—it is just a small beginning. In everyone it was as though a hurricane—it has not gone completely. All that was believed to have been conquered and repulsed, rushes back again—in the most unexpected persons—in all forms, but especially ...
... Pessimism is the demon's weapon and he senses his situation Page 256 ( gesture of shaking ). Well, if what I see as possible is realised, it will be truly a decisive victory over the adverse forces—naturally, he defends himself as best he can.... That, it is always the devil; as soon as you see even the tail of pessimism, it is the devil. That is his great weapon. Page 257 ...
... scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane. That is why I am not alarmed by the aspect of the world around me or disconcerted by the often successful fury of the adverse Forces who increase in their rage as the Light comes nearer and nearer to the field of earth and Matter. 94 * * * May, 1933 ... But what a floundering confusion the intellect of ...
... tradition, that is, the Vedic and Chaldean lines; a tradition which seems to have been at the origin of these two known traditions, in which it is said that when, as a result of the action of the adverse forces—known in the Hindu tradition as the Asuras—the world, instead of developing according to its law of Light and inherent consciousness, was plunged into the darkness, inconscience and ignorance that ...
... come, and AFTERWARDS I would realize it was Durga's day), and each time I used to tell Sri Aurobindo, "Look—today this (or that) thing has been cut off at the roots." That's how it works with the adverse forces—yes, like something being uprooted from the world. Whatever has already spread out keeps going and follows its karma, but the SOURCE is dried up. That's Page 305 also what happened ...
... stupidity, what can we call 'destruction'? Only the form is destroyed, the appearance (that, yes—all appearances are destroyed, one after the other). It is also said (it's written everywhere) that the adverse forces will either be converted—that is, become aware of their own divinity and become divine—or be destroyed. But what does 'destroyed' mean? Their form? Their form of consciousness can be dissolved ...
... thought about it and the only answer I could get is that at least we are here in the Ashram to manifest the Divine upon earth. But there remains one question: if everything is divine, even the adverse forces, and if everything has been created by Him and He can do everything, then how is it that He takes so much time and uses such roundabout ways? What joy does He get in creating unconscious things ...
... and pure Love imaginable. This Power is the origin of that Love, and it is in the Supreme. ( Mother sits at the organ ) And it has always been said that That and That alone could bring the adverse forces to a halt. ( Music ) Page 415 × Satprem did not keep the full text of his reply, still under the erroneous ...
... effects—far from it. Sometimes it's an altogether INSIGNIFICANT intrusion of falsehood, for some quite insignificant reason—what is commonly labeled a stupidity. This stems from the fact that the adverse forces are always lying in wait, ready to rush in at the least sign of weakness. The incomprehension generated by doubt (the kind of doubt that always results from an egoistic movement) is very dangerous ...
... so ferociously—now I understand, because I am being attacked in the same relentless fashion. Actually, it springs from everything in material consciousness that can still be touched by the adverse forces; that is, not exactly the body-consciousness itself but, one could say, material substance as it has been organized by the mind—the initial mentalization of matter, the first stirrings of mind ...
... automatically set in order ( gesture indicating that Mother automatically purifies and masters the vibrations coming to her ). But there are times—especially when it coincides with a revolt of adverse forces who don't want to give up their domain and enter into battle with all their might—when I must admit it's hard.... If I had some hours of solitude it would be easier. But particularly during the ...
... Page 218 You are quite right. About 1962 I hear that you have flu—that won't do. You must rest —but a rest of concentrated force , not of diluted non-resistance to the adverse forces. A rest that is a power , not the rest of weakness. Cheer up, my child, shake off the bad influence. With my love and blessings. 7 January 1963 Mother, I would very much like ...
... Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960 August 10, 1956 Note written by Mother in English. My Lord, through me thou hast challenged the world and all the adverse forces have risen in protest. 1 But Thy Grace is winning the victory. × In fact, following the 'Supramental Mani ...
... × Later, Mother specified: 'These are elements in the material substance entirely possessed by adverse forces and opposed to the transformation.' × On the previous day, January 21, Saraswati Puja, Mother ...
... The Gods, Superior Beings and Adverse Forces Words of the Mother - III Kali, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi, Mahasaraswati When people speak against you, I feel as if a big flame with many tongues is arising in me and the person in front becomes docile. It must be Kali's force which you evoke. I want to ask you a question concerned with my reaction to ...
... hostile force can cross it. If you put that light on a hostile force, he simply melts away. But the diamond light cannot be used indiscriminately in all cases, because human beings who shelter these adverse forces get very dangerously affected. Of course I am not speaking of material diamonds. 2 Page 40 What is the relation between the Supramental Light and the solar light? The solar ...
... The Gods, Superior Beings and Adverse Forces Words of the Mother - III The Gods Those who still believe in gods can certainly continue to worship them if they feel like it—but they must know that this creed and this worship has nothing to do with the teaching of Sri Aurobindo and no connection whatever with the Supramental Realisation. 1964 ...
... blessings are always with you. Proper rest is a very important thing for the sadhana. 2 March 1942 You must rest—but a rest of concentrated force , not of diluted non-resistance to the adverse forces. A rest that is a power , not the rest of weakness. To Rest Before Sleeping There is no end to the discoveries that you can make in dreams. But one thing is very important: never go to ...
... There remain only the diseases that come from outside, like diseases that are contagious through germs, microbes, bacilli, all that business, viruses—that's still under the aspect of "attacks from adverse forces," it's another plane of action. But there is a point where it all meets.... I would like, oh, I would very much like to discuss certain things or certain details of the body's functioning and ...
... something comes along as if to prove to you that it's all an illusion! And it's growing more and more acute, more and more acute. There is always a Voice (which I know very well, it's the voice of the adverse forces tempting you), which comes and tells you ( same hammering gesture ), "See, see how mistaken you are, see how you delude yourself, see what a mirage it all is, see..." And then if you listen, you're ...
... indication, the gesture to be made. Page 235 When Sri Aurobindo was here, every year at the time of Durga's battle, I used to receive from him the very clear indication of the aspect of the adverse forces that had to be vanquished and subdued. (It was very interesting, and I generally noted it down, but I don't know where all that has gone.) It went on like that for thirty years. And after his departure ...
... receiving consciousness. But it will slowly be either transformed or eliminated. The same thing with the Vital. The Vital took a very bad turn, of course; it's the Vital that has contained all the adverse forces and all difficulties. Well, it's the same thing: it was the first means to pull Matter out of the Inconscient. But once it has done its work... we might say ( smiling ), we'll do without these ...
... ( same gesture like a rising tide of snakes ), you see them come like that.... From the basest to the most violent. There was also, in relation to those possibilities of magic and also to "adverse " forces, a vision of it all as being a part of the great Play ( gesture from below ), but... This Immensity, luminous and smiling, an immensity... ("immensity" is a word—"infinite" too is a word), ...
... where she had gone to deliver a speech for the prize distribution (or something of the sort), and they threw a bomb at her. But this time, she was unscathed. You see, that was the method of the adverse forces to prove the creation was bad: they weren't satisfied with the creation and set about doing that—that's what they have been doing on a big scale. But it proves nothing! They have established death ...
... Auroville. I am giving them to you so you'll know. How is the situation? Oh, horrible! A mess! Page 129 Stories to make your hair stand on end. It's like a concentration of adverse forces wanting to create as much confusion as possible.... And what is amusing is that they're coming from all sides [asking Mother's advice] except Pakistan—Pakistan doesn't ask anything, but otherwise ...
... the devil. Pessimism is the devil's tool, for he feels his own situation is... ( shaky gesture ). You know, if the possibility I see materializes, it will really be a decisive Victory over the adverse forces—naturally they fight back as best as they can. But that's always the devil, as soon as you see even the tail of pessimism, it's the devil. That's his great tool. ( long silence ) Page 143 ...
... completely lost... That day I wrote in my spiritual diary: I have almost finished the last paintings of Savitri . I know how I have undergone severe ordeals. I am totally surrounded by the adverse forces—their atmosphere and vibrations are lethal. All the paintings have been done amidst dreadful struggle and suffering. The strife between two opposite Forces—the divine Force and the anti-divine ...
... how could I accept the Mother's word as infallible? Added to everything else, she had warned me: As for the attacks, it is a longstanding affair. My conscious mind fiercely opposed the adverse forces. But at the same time I felt there was no hope, no bright future for me, so long as this wild whirl of suggestions lasted. Again I fell back into despair. In the ordinary life I had failed to ...
... give you, but on your side you must not miss the opportunities given to you to meet me—one word, one contact, one glance can be deeply useful to clear your atmosphere and protect you against the adverse forces—these enemies know it and that is why they are trying to keep you away from me. Do not listen to them. In the evening I attended her translation class. The tension was relieved. ...
... the very night I came from the Mother... Receptivity? Very funny that every time I make a resolution regarding poetry or sadhana, something happens and ties me down. Why? Probably the adverse forces get frightened and put in an undercut or overcut to knock you out of tune. I was proud that I was immune to illness! But a mere cold pulls me down, and that too at Darshan time! Again Fate ...
... about the Mother testing him. The Mother had come into the room meanwhile and had been listening to him. THE MOTHER: Testing is not the practice here. It is the play of forces or at times the adverse forces that do the testing in order to measure your strength. If you refuse to listen to them and remain firm, they withdraw. People have enough difficulties already; why should we add any more? To ...
... very roots, and changed the course of world events without our least knowledge. One is the accident, the second is Sri Aurobindo's passing away. The accident was a great victory on the part of adverse forces. Nolini-da gave an explanation of it, saying that, at that time, in 1938, there was a war-cloud threatening the world. Sri Aurobindo told us later that, for some reason, Mother and He did not ...
... remarkable knowledge, because in order not to risk any hitch, he clung to his son and urged him to come to me so as to make sure of reaching me without mishap, without any interference from the adverse forces, from currents and all sorts of things. He clung to his son, who was quite unaware of it, except that something in him wanted And lovely! A lovely thing. The sight of it filled me with ...
... saying, under an attack of hicoughing, "I shall die if it goes on." I told him, "What does it matter if you die?" At once the hiccoughs stopped. Very often here fears and suggestions bring in the adverse forces which then catch hold of the person. By my blunt statement the sadhak realised his folly and perhaps didn't allow any more suggestions. DR. MANILAL: Is Barin still doing Yoga? SRI AUROBINDO: ...
... you must always believe in these things because they are true. As you gradually feel the Divine's Presence, you will get new strength, new consciousness, everything. Once and for all the adverse forces are bound to submit to the Divine Forces, and the Divine's Victory is certain. Then she kissed my forehead and gave me some flowers. In the evening, when she distributed groundnuts to everyone ...
... You not know now my present way of living? I hardly know what to tell and what not to tell. But You know everything. And now at last I pray to You, "O Mother, make me forget the past, calm the adverse forces. Give wisdom to people and lead them all to the Divine alone. May Your great Will for all the races of the earth be fulfilled. May Your mighty Power be Victorious." Mother, for all hope, joy ...
... have had that here and elsewhere but no one got into a panic or nervous upset. N told me that Mother didn't approve of Y's staying at D's place... Up to that, it is correct. ...because adverse forces may act on D also and harm him. This must be N's own interpretation. The Mother said nothing to that effect. D had already got into a depression by J's visit, next Y's upset, finally something ...
... Now a suggestion says that a preparation for the second plane is on. And I am passing through the intermediate zone, which lies between the two higher planes. Is that why the downward pull of the adverse forces is so strong and obstinate at present? What do you mean exactly by the intermediate zone? It is not likely that the attack is for preventing your rising above the higher ...
... stronger aspiration. Why is the vital depression condemned so much? What is its effect? All depression is bad as it lowers the consciousness, spends the energy, opens to adverse forces. Could this feeling be correct that even my vital wants me to do nothing against the Mother's will? If that were so, transformation would be easy. It could mean that nothing ...
... is so in all the activities. I do not want anybody to get hurt, because I am protecting my children with transparent cocoons, like a glass case put on each one individually, so that the adverse forces cannot touch them. You are so well surrounded by the Force and the Light that nothing can penetrate. It is a complete protection I have put around you all, and in spite of all this, you get hurt ...
... that I had to do my inner and outer work properly and I have tried to execute my responsibility as well as I could. When her body rested she would often go out of her body and fight with adverse forces in the subtle world. Somebody was needed to take care of her body at that time. She told me that she had full confidence in me and that I was doing my work all right. I do not remember about ...
... thought. Very quiet. Then Chandranath asked very gently: 'Dada, you surely have to fight against all sorts of things in the subtle world?' 'Yes, it does happen,' Dada replied. 'All kinds of adverse forces, evil formations. Once I saw that someone had grabbed me from behind and was trying to stab me with a dagger through my chest. I was unable to see his face but I seized his wrist holding the dagger ...
... has to be set right with an operation." When Mother heard about it, she said: "That's enough. Enough has been done. There's no need for an operation." It was on Sri Aurobindo's body that the adverse forces Won their first victory. Or it could be understood in the Page 211 sense that Sri Aurobindo took upon himself the first impact of these forces and thus saved the earth. ...
... scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane. That is why I am not alarmed by the aspect of the world around me or disconcerted by the often successful fury of the adverse forces who increase in their rage as the Light comes nearer and nearer to the field of earth and Matter.” "I know with absolute certitude that the Supramental is a truth and that its advent is in the ...
... most difficult task. Each time that you try to draw a little of this money away from its present custodians, you have to undertake a fierce battle. And yet one single victory somewhere over the adverse forces that have the hold upon money would make victory possible simultaneously and automatically at all other points also. If in one place they yielded, all who now feel that they cannot give money to ...
... one Sadhaka under an attack of hiccup saying "If it goes on I will die." I told him "What does it matter if you die?" and the hiccup stopped! Very often, these fears and suggestions bring in the adverse forces which then catch hold of the subject. By my blunt statement the Sadhaka realized his folly and did not, perhaps, allow any more suggestions. Disciple : Is Barin still doing yoga? Sri ...
... since my coming to India, both this-worldly and other-worldly without any exclusiveness on either side." 44 He has, again, compared his yoga to a battle; and, "its very attempt raises all sorts of adverse forces and one must be ready to Page 23 face difficulties, sufferings, reverses of all sorts in a calm and unflinching spirit." 45 When one dares into the occult or hidden regions ...
... waters of existence... its aim is to arrive at the far-off ocean of light and infinity. 17 A journey and a struggle - no peaceful march, no easy battle, but a prolonged grappling with adverse forces without and within - the fight with the denizens of the Dark, their ultimate flight with the approach of the Dawn - the final conquest, the hymn of victory: in all this, there is a close correspondence ...
... Rishis and Prahladas of ancient India survives still, and from time to time it blazes forth in the latter-day Mahapurushas who come with a mission and are enabled to fulfill it in defiance of all adverse forces. And among the Rishis of our own times, Sri Aurobindo must take the preeminent place. His personality loomed so immense on spiritual India's horizon that he was rather like the great Dayanand ...
... to all; spiritual progress is, after all, a zigzag operation attended with recoils alternating with new advances on a firmer basis. Any marked spiritual progress exposes itself to attack by adverse forces, "for the Page 154 complete victory of a single one of us would mean a general downfall among them". The remedy is to come. "into a more and more universal communion with the Highest" ...
... difficult year and there will be many inner struggles and even outer ones perhaps.... These difficulties may [extend to] perhaps fourteen months.... ... it is essentially the conflict, of the adverse forces... trying to push back the divine Realisation... this conflict... has come to its crisis. It is their last chance... it is upon earth that the first victory has to be won - the decisive victory ...
... Advent of the Truth." III During her conversation on 12 January 1965, the Mother said that there had been for some time past (especially since the year began) "a kind of bombardment of adverse forces - a fury". At such times one had to be immobile, and "when physically you have been shaken, you must not ask too much of the body, you must give it a good deal of tranquillity". But when there ...
... aspiration surge forth more and more frequently. 15.10.1970 In man is it the mind that pevents him from uniting with the cosmic rhythm ? Very often it is the vital vitiated by the adverse forces, and almost always the mind which wants to replace the cosmic rhythm by its own laws. 17.10.1970 Is there an intensity of aspiration which can bring realisation without delay? ...
... that dropped from his lips, the pointed flashes of his quick humour, the silent unassuming distinction of his manner and, above all, his vigilant and subtle protection guarding us against all adverse forces - all these had been our heritage, but could we ever reflect in our passing mirror even the slightest shadow of his wide universal action? His detached greatness, disinterested largeness, limitless ...
... him so ferociously—now I understand, because I am being attacked in the same relentless fashion. Actually, it springs from everything in material consciousness that can still be touched by the adverse forces; that is, not exactly the body-consciousness itself but, one could say, MATERIAL SUBSTANCE AS IT HAS BEEN ORGANIZED BY THE MIND- the first stirrings of Mind in life making the passage from animal ...
... experience, some living faith and divination gives the start and serves as the germinating nucleus of the spiritual life. This tiny nucleus becomes the rock of safety against the blows and buffets of adverse forces. Deriving strength from the recondite sources, it grows and expands, annexing part after part of the being till all or most is retrieved Page 166 from ignorance and egoism, ...
... such dangers. * The Victory is certain and with this certitude we can face patiently any amount of wrong suggestions and hostile attacks. * We must never give a chance to the adverse forces to do their mischief— they take advantage of the slightest unconsciousness. * It is a sincere self-giving that saves one from all difficulties and dangers. * Yes, my child ...
... from inner knowledge that it was essentially an action of the Supermind below, the Supermind above and the psychic being, and all the struggle and difficulty and delay that we see was caused by adverse forces of a consciousness of a self-contradictory nature. I have no inner knowledge to that effect—that it was intended to be worked out by these three forces alone. The whole thing looks like ...
... 1934 I do not think that the difficulty you are feeling has anything to do with your receiving what your husband sends you. It very often happens that when the Darshan day is approaching the adverse Forces gather themselves for an attack individually or Page 524 generally in order to prevent what has to be individually received from being received and what has to be generally brought ...
... built around you and which prevent your opening to the Light and the Truth." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 19 May 1929 ) When we come to the spiritual life with an aspiration, can the adverse forces attack us? Everybody, without exception. Even though they look very nice? Sometimes, yes. Sometimes these are the most dangerous. But how can we know? Ah! The easiest way, when ...
... can mean in certain cases, when one is master of one's concentration and knows where one goes—still this already requires a fairly great discipline—it may be that it is a particular attack of adverse forces, of bad wills, coming either from certain beings or from certain domains; but it is not necessarily attacks; it can simply be that one has opened one's consciousness in a place that's not very ...
... the forces of growth and progress and the forces of destruction. When there is an accident, an accident that has lasting results, it is always the result of a more or less partial victory of the adverse forces, that is, of the forces of disintegration, disorganization. That is to be seen. There are teachings, like that of theosophy for instance, which take Karma in an altogether superficial and human ...
... necessary, in order to lead him there, just where he had to go. Most often the things which you took for accidents or misfortunes or even tragedies or even for the blows of fate, for attacks of the adverse forces, all this, almost all without any exception, was a marvellously perspicacious and admirably executed plan to lead you just where you had to go by the shortest road. Of course this is not always ...
... acts He upsets one completely." It is absolutely wrong. It is not the Divine who upsets you, it is your own imperfection or else it may be just an attack of one of the forces he speaks about—the adverse forces. But if you have no imperfection you cannot be upset. Still, it is certainly not the Divine who upsets you. It is as in what follows this, where it is said: it is not the Mother who is testing ...
... said: "Nay, then, is immortality a plaything to be given lightly to a child, or the divine life a prize without effort or the crown for a weakling?" 2 This comes back to the question why the adverse forces have the right to interfere, to harass you. But this is precisely the test necessary for your sincerity. If the way were very easy, everybody would start on the way, and if one could reach the ...
... of others upon oneself and even to do it deliberately, the instance of the Greek king Antigonus and his son Dimitrius is a famous historical case in point: Yogis also do this sometimes; or else adverse forces may throw illnesses upon the Yogi, using those round him as a door or a passage or the ill wishes of people as an instrumental force. But all these are special circumstances connected, no doubt ...
... transformation can be done. It is for more and more consciousness and more and more strength for consecration that he must ask. 1 December 1929 You can write to him that, if he is in the grip of adverse forces, it is not a condition in which to come to the Asram. Only those are called here and allowed to stay who are ready to profit by the Asram atmosphere. What he can do, if he likes, is to come for ...
... Mother came to the door when those on the list were finished. She could not go back because it was extremely late and it had been a long and exhausting morning spent in a continual struggle with adverse forces and she had to come in, do what still she had to do and come to me to report what had happened. But even if she had intended it for some reason not known to you, your reaction was not the right ...
... s, as he is responsible. Page 432 The work itself is the Mother's and it is the Mother who gives you the work. The suggestion to go, like the desires which support it, come from adverse forces. If you take the right attitude of self-giving, all that will disappear. ...
... sometimes one has to remain quiet waiting for the Mother's light and force to act, sometimes it is necessary to use an active tapasya. But one thing is always necessary, to refuse to accept the adverse forces and suggestions that try to disorganise and disturb the system; for the basis of the Yoga must be peace, quiet, clarity, self-possession and nothing should be allowed to invade and upset the basis ...
... collaborate in this glorious victory, this new manifestation. What more do we need to know? Nothing. So it is with the greatest confidence that we can witness the formidable fight, the onslaught of the adverse forces, which, unknowingly, finally serve in the realisation of Thy plan. We would be wrong to feel anxious because it is not given to us to know how it serves Thy plan and by what means Thou wilt triumph ...
... luminous speculations and is the originator of forms, and there is a mind of pure ideas that have not yet been put into form; these greater mind-levels are free from the vital movements and the adverse forces, because they stand far above them. There may be contradictory movements there; there may be movements and formations that come into clash with the Truth or are in conflict with one another; but ...
... flame. That is enough. And it is around this nucleus that one organises oneself, slowly, slowly, progressively. And once it is there it never disappears. It is only if you have made a pact with the adverse forces and make a considerable effort to break the contact and not notice its existence, that you may believe it has disappeared. And yet a single flash suffices for it to come back. If you have had ...
... penetrated by the vital forces." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 26 May ) Which mental plane are you speaking of? Of the physical mind. Certainly not of the higher mind, for there are no adverse forces there. The reference is to the mind that deals with material things. Are there beings in the mental worlds? Yes, many. They are completely independent; they have their own life, their own ...
... Page 121 certitude, an inner calm, an unchanging force, something which never gives way In that state it will be difficult to do you harm—the forces always try, this world is so full of adverse forces which seek to upset everything...but they succeed in a very small measure, only in the measure necessary to force you to make a new progress. Each time you receive a blow from life, tell yourself ...
... which were a kind of continuation of the first one. Each person carries with himself in his atmosphere what Sri Aurobindo calls the "Censors"; they are in a way permanent delegates of the adverse forces. Their role is to criticise mercilessly every act, every thought, the slightest movement of the consciousness, and to bring you face to face with the most hidden springs of your actions, to bring ...
... according to me that means a lot of damage without much result. This is another big problem. It seems that the only method which can overcome all resistances is the method of Love. But then the adverse forces have perverted love in such a way that many very sincere people, sincere seekers, have steeled themselves, so to say, against this method, because of its distortion. That is the difficulty. That ...
... day can be undone the next. Indeed, the victory can be sure and lasting only when it is total. And all that takes time, much time, and the years pass by inexorably, increasing the strength of the adverse forces. All this time the consciousness stands like a sentinel in a trench: you must hold on, hold on at all costs, without a quiver of fear or a slackening of vigilance, keeping an unshakable faith ...
... to the Truth and to the touch of the Divine Shakti. If you are passive to the suggestions and influences of the lower nature, you will not be able to progress or else you will expose yourself to adverse forces which may take you far away from the true path of Yoga. Aspire to the Mother for this settled quietness and calm of the mind and this constant sense of the inner being in you standing back from ...
... being and develop in it the psychic and spiritual consciousness till that comes down in it which pushes out the darkness from the outer man also. It is not sincerity to express only what the adverse forces suggest or what you feel when you are in a bad condition full of obscurity and a wrong outlook. When you are in the Truth, you feel quite the opposite and it is not insincerity to cling to that ...
... divine; on the other hand there is an outcry of disappointment, bewilderment, distrust, perhaps indignation, if there are human difficulties, if there is strain in the body, a swaying struggle with adverse forces, obstacles, checks, illness, and some begin to say, "Oh, there is nothing divine here!"—as if one could remain, vitally and physically, in the Page 480 untransformed undivinised human ...
... Otherwise the use of the Force, if accompanied by ego-reactions, may raise a corresponding ego-resistance and a struggle. The increase of samata is only a first condition [ for attacks by adverse forces to become impossible in one's work ]. It is when on the basis of samata an understanding Force can be used to make their attacks nugatory that the attacks will become impossible. The Impersonal ...
... have learned how to do it, we can stop them by the will or otherwise. We sense too around us a vital physical or nervous envelope which radiates from the body and protects it, and we can feel the adverse forces trying to break through it and can interfere, stop them or reinforce the nervous envelope. Or we can feel the symptoms of illness, fever or cold for instance, in the subtle physical sheath before ...
... old devices the old nirananda. Hitherto there has been no success except in the external touches. The nearest approach to success has been secured by the return to the old tapatya & struggle with adverse forces to bring about the Aishwarya; this is always attended by confusion of knowledge & then by nirananda, physical discomfort of the struggle in the mind and the failure leading to emotional pain & ...
... Dwayavin consciousness ending in the possession of a world unity in which two forces of the same Being are at strife, both directed by the Ishwara. The attitude of continual struggle with the adverse forces is Page 814 being established in the consciousness. Tapatya is constant against a heavy obstruction. St. विश्र्वस्यैकं परिवेष्टितारमीशं तं ज्ञात्वाऽमृता भवंति । That is ...
... who manifested wanted to convey to you. It seems to have been an onslaught, as you say, an attempted invasion by force and ruse. It is quite true that when there is the opening to the Light, the adverse Forces as well as the lower forces become active when they can do so. The consciousness of the seeker has come out of its normal limits and is opening to the universal as well as upwards to the Self above ...
... wanting to take you there. The plea from inability to do the sadhana has no value whatever. It is merely a plea put forward by the opposing elements in the vital and strengthened by the suggestion of adverse forces. If you say that you find your attachment to husband and son or others is so strong that your soul and your aspiration can do nothing against it and home is the real place for you, then of course ...
... These are formations of the vital plane, sometimes things that try to happen but not necessarily effective. One can observe and understand, but not allow them to influence the mind; for often adverse forces try to influence the mind by suggestion through these dream experiences. Your experience of the peace in the body was a very good one. As for the bad dream, it was a hostile formation from ...
... the material plane, it is therefore a time when intense attacks on that plane are possible. One has to be on one's guard and keep the true Force always round one as a protecting Power. The adverse forces feel that there is something in you that is discountenanced and restive because of the continuance of the inertia and they hope that by pressing more and more they will Page 398 create ...
... it out from the thought and feeling also. And so with all other wrong movements. All these movements come from outside, from the universal lower nature, or are suggested or thrown upon you by adverse forces—adverse to your spiritual progress. Your method of taking them as your own is again a wrong method; for by doing that you increase their power to recur and take hold of you. If you take them as ...
... vision is open; if it develops things of a more definite kind will appear. Write to her again that if she wants to do sadhana, she must get rid of fear altogether; fear opens the door to the adverse forces. She should not listen to people who try to put fear in her. If ugly forms or sounds are seen and heard, one has not to fear but reject them and call in the Mother's protection. If she feels calmness ...
... evolving towards the Divine. They wish to remain what they are and yet amuse themselves with the physical world and physical body. Loss of balance produces disorder in the consciousness and the adverse forces use that loss of balance for attacking and wholly upsetting the system and doing their work. That is why people become hysterical or mad or filled with the desire to die or go away. More ...
... perhaps inevitable development of things, for which I do not hold anyone responsible; but now that the sadhana has come down to the most material plane on which blows can still be given by the adverse forces, it is necessary to make a change which can best be done by a change in the inner attitude of the sadhaks; for that alone now can make—until the decisive descent of the supramental Light and Force—the ...
... consciousness, I find it astounding that such a ridiculous, insignificant being as this piddling woman could have had such power! But there was a great Asura behind her! 1 There were the adverse forces behind. The woman herself was nothing, but she was very receptive to those forces. And he didn't want to break her? Oh, he didn't want to. He was all compassion, goodness, patience... ...
... y than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane. That is why I am not alarmed by the aspect of the world around me or disconcerted by the often successful fury of the adverse Forces who increase in their rage as the Light comes nearer and nearer to the field of earth and Matter."?² "The Field of earth and Matter" - that is the final objective of the scientist of the ...
... almost his whole being when the Asura, with his attendant Rakshasa and Pishacha, so clutches human nature that it becomes one with that occult and rigid reality. Then we have an incarnation of adverse forces, the dark deities, and they shape out a collectivity, a nation, a State with the purpose of goose-stepping on the world and smashing the entire fabric of civilisation. Such a catastrophic invasion ...
... People with quite different characters, all three of them, quite a different position, quite different thoughts .... So I wondered: is this really the action of what's conventionally called the "adverse forces" through people? I am studying that. It's unexpected; I know they are coming, but I don't expect it at all to be that way, it doesn't correspond to anything at all-suddenly, bah! babah!. ...
... ) And what have you brought? Nothing special. Nothing? I would like to know one thing. I would like to know if I still have a work to do. Oh, nonsense ! That's part of the adverse forces. When it comes, you just have to say, "Well, fine, I am just listening to the Falsehood...." You have a whole life of realization ahead of you! I mean something to create. But, of course—of ...
... ( First Mother informs Satprem that the article on "Sri Aurobindo and Bangladesh" has been translated into Hindi and sent to Delhi. ) There's an onslaught of adverse forces. A ferocious onslaught. But the Response is beginning to come—just a very small beginning. In each person there was like a storm, and it's not completely over. Everything you thought was conquered ...
... serpent came, and came in such a way that the body said to itself, "Well! I'd never thought of that" (which isn't true, of course). There are all the theories that explain evil as the action of adverse forces in the universe, but that seems quite childish. And as always it showed something VERY subtle in the play of forces (and how, to try and make it [evil] understood, the notion was born of a "succession ...
... Manifestation, on February 29, 1964. Then she adds: ) ...Provided I can speak. ? Yes, I was kindly informed that I won't be able to speak any more. What do you mean? Oh, the adverse forces always make all sorts of suggestions. I was told that I will lose the use of speech—( laughing ) that'll be all the better for everyone! ( Satprem does not seem too appreciative ) This is ...
... according to that, it was a big victory. But nothing was visible. I didn't say anything to anybody. Even so, several people felt it was the beginning of something. It's a long story.... Some adverse forces had banded together and decided that I was going to die yesterday. And it was true, it happened, there was an attack. In that sense a real victory took place at the balcony. But it was invisible ...
... than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane”, he wrote. “That is why I am not alarmed by the aspect of the world around me or disconcerted by the often successful fury of the adverse Forces [note the capital letter] who increase in their rage as the Light comes nearer and nearer to the field of earth and Matter.” 39 This letter was written somewhere around 1935, but such had been ...
... urgent need of purifying our emotions so that we may, at every cross-road, side always with the right ones as against the wrong. To put it succinctly, we must not allow Page 60 these adverse forces any loophole or handle by sympathising with what we are, alas, too apt to call natural. This may sound easy in theory but it is quite an uphill task in practice, as I found to my bitter cost ...
... upon oneself and even to do it deliberately, the instance of the Greek king Antigonus 43 and his son Dimitrius is a famous historical case in point; yogis also do this sometimes; or else adverse forces may throw illnesses upon the yogi, using those round him as a door or a passage or the ill wishes of people as an instrumental force. But all these are special circumstances connected, no doubt ...
... avoid accidents. Our negligence, hurry and carelessness always bring troubles—too much for You. May we learn to be quiet, careful and on guard always. Yes, we must never give a chance to the adverse forces to do their mischief—they take advantage of the slightest unconsciousness. Always with you, my dear child 27 January 1936 ...
... final Victory of the Divine Light. Yes, fear not. The attack is not on you only but on the whole place, because of the approaching darshan. We have only to say—in perfect peace—to these adverse forces: what you are trying to do is perfectly useless—you can in no way interfere with the victory of the Divine. All love and blessings to you, my dear child 19 November 1934 ...
... 1955 White Roses 01 June 1955 If you call or aspire with fear that you will not be heard and with doubts about the Divine's answer then the adverse forces that are always on the watch, slip into your consciousness through the fear and the doubts and do their mischief. So, you must call with a true and sincere faith. ...
... 1955 White Roses 20 December 1955 Do not give up the enemy (the adverse forces)—resist—I am with you for the fight and we must conquer . ...
... 1962 White Roses 14 December 1962 You have put some serious question about the adverse forces and I want to answer seriously; but that needs time, it cannot be written in a hurry. Be sure that everything will come in its time. True Love is the Master of the world and eventually, it will conquer everything. ...
... and shall continue to give—but the important thing is that you must receive. If you call or aspire with fear that you will not be heard, or have doubts about the Divine's answer, then the adverse forces that are always on the watch, slip into your consciousness through the fear and the doubts and do their mischief. So you must call with a true and sincere faith. Help and Grace are always ...
... 1956 White Roses 17 April 1956 It is these adverse forces of ignorance, unconsciousness and division which are making this world such a miserable place, full of injustice and suffering—But the Divine is at work to overcome these forces and the Victory of the Divine is certain whatever time it may take. Keep a living hope and faith. I want this Victory ...
... what will soon be eighty-three years. I went through a period in my life when the tension was tremendous, because it was psychological and vital as well as physical: a perpetual struggle against adverse forces; and during my stay in Japan, particularly... oh, it was terrible! So at night, everything that had been part of that life in Japan—people, things, movements, circumstances—all of it seemed to ...
... The Gods, Superior Beings and Adverse Forces Words of the Mother - III Krishna and Radha Krishna represents both the universal Godhead and the immanent Godhead, he whom one can meet within one's being and in all that constitutes the manifested world. And do you want to know why he is always represented as a child? It is because he is in constant progression ...
... The Gods, Superior Beings and Adverse Forces Words of the Mother - III Superior Beings The human race tolerates and accepts the existence of superior beings only on condition that they are at its service. 4 February 1965 For ordinary men, the sage is a sort of music box of wisdom into which it is enough to put the penny of a question in order ...
... The Gods, Superior Beings and Adverse Forces Words of the Mother - III The Avatar Avatar—the Supreme manifested on earth in a body. The Avatar: the supreme Divine manifested in an earthly form—generally a human form—for a definite purpose. The Divine, being all-powerful, can lift people up without bothering to come down on earth. It is only if ...
... misfortune. It is in the hour of success that one must be especially vigilant to rise above oneself. Page 80 As soon as you think that you have succeeded in a certain thing, the adverse forces make it a point to attack and spoil it. Moreover, when you think of success, you relax your aspiration and the slightest relaxation is sufficient to spoil the game. The best thing is not to think ...
... obviously the mightiest, the most integral—integral in that it applies to all cases. It's even mightier than the power of purification which dissolves bad wills and is, in a way, master over the adverse forces, but which doesn't have the direct transforming power; because the power of purification Must FIRST dissolve in order to form again later. It destroys one form to make a better one from it, while ...
... perfect harmony, beyond all attacks, that will become possible with the supramental realisation. It is that which will be realised for all who are destined for the supramental transformation. The adverse forces know quite well that in the supramental world they will automatically disappear: having no more use, they will be dissolved without the need to do anything, simply through the presence of the ...
... the form, the appearance is destroyed—and indeed, all appearances are destroyed, one after another. It is also said—it is written everywhere, so many things are Page 98 said—that the adverse forces will either be converted, that is to say, they will become conscious of the Divinity within them and become divine, or they will be destroyed. But what does "destroyed" mean? Their form? Their ...
... conventions that I had not even thought of that. 16 May 1932 ( About 24 April 1920 ) The anniversary of my return to Pondicherry, which was the tangible sign of the sure Victory over the adverse forces. 24 April 1937 "Who are you?" asks the adverse force. "I am the impartial and truthful mirror in which each one can find his true likeness." 25 March 1952 The Supermind ...
... all in white), such a pinched face, very ... (how can I express it?) emaciated, as though you were suffering. ( Mother remains silent for a long while, then replies. ) Quite evidently, the adverse forces are not only trying to convince everyone but me too, that this is how it's going to turn out. But I have as yet had no indications. I have asked to be forewarned, not for reasons of.... It ...
... month). But I was looking at that, and it's in response to my concentration that it came; it came like that: first the vision, then the explanations. There would seem to be a rage among the adverse forces; they feel that something radical is now going on and want to prevent it at any cost—which is idiotic, by the way, completely stupid.... But we might say it's fine, because they actually give an ...
... disappear. There were those monstrous animals: they disappeared materially, but not ... not the principle of the creation. It's since man came with the mind—when the mind was twisted, deformed by the adverse forces. That is really ugly. How can that be dissolved? Torture, for instance, that sort of thing? How can it be dissolved from the earth consciousness so it no longer happens again? How can it be ...
... ( silence ) For three things one should be on one's guard. One is the collective suggestion of "disease"—"disease" is something that doubtless exists, in the sense that there are obviously adverse forces at work trying to disorganize and delay the work; but, for the individual, those so-called diseases... Outwardly they are based on the idea (they call it "knowledge"), on the knowledge of microbes ...
... remarkable knowledge, because in order not to risk any hitch, he clung to his son and urged him to come to me so as to make sure of reaching me without mishap, without any interference from the adverse forces, from currents and all sorts of things. He clung to his son, who was quite unaware of it, except that something in him WANTED him to come to me. And the poor son was crying; I told him, "Don't ...
... lot of damage for little result, if you ask me. No, it is still a big problem. It seems that the only method capable of overcoming all resistances is the method of Love; but in fact, the adverse forces have perverted it in such a way that a large quantity of sincere people, of sincere seekers, seem to be armor-plated against this method, because of its distortion. That's the difficulty. That's ...
... inner calm—a calm that must grow all the more... (how can I put it?) complete the more material the struggle is. There has been lately (especially since January 1st) a sort of bombardment by the adverse forces—a rage, you know. So we have to keep like this ( Mother becomes still like a statue ), that's all. And when one has been shaken physically, one shouldn't ask too much of the body, one should give ...
... Nose. In that period there was a talk of Lalita's moving to a better flat. The Mother said that the desire for such a place had become very strong in her, a wrong movement. This movement drew adverse forces. The cat, being extremely open to its owner and thus easily affected by that desire, found itself exposed to the attack. With the cat-eaters around, it fell a victim and thus Page 161 ...
... Page 64 the Vedic and Chaldean and constituting their origin. Explaining this tradition she¹ recounts: "... it is said that when, as a result of the action of the adverse forces — known in the Hindu tradition as the Asuras — the world, instead of developing according to its law of Light and inherent consciousness, was plunged into the darkness, inconscience and ignorance ...
... learnt how to do it, we can stop them by the will or otherwise. We sense too around us a vital physical or nervous envelope which radiates from the body and protects it, and we can feel the adverse forces trying to break through it and can interfere, stop them or reinforce the nervous envelope. Or we can feel the symptoms of illness, fever or cold, for instance, in the subtle physical sheath ...
... physical Nature. Aspiration, confidence, idealism, enthusiasm and generosity in self-giving for the spiritual examinations. Vigilance, sincerity and humility for the examinations set by the adverse forces. And do not think that on one side there are those who pass exams and on the other those who set them. At the same time, according to the circumstances and moments, one is both examiner and ...
... live only because Thou wiliest it. We do not die unless Thou wiliest it. 2 March 1934 The anniversary of my return to Pondicherry which was the tangible sign of the sure Victory over the adverse forces. 24 April 1937 What I want to bring about in the material world, upon the earth. 1) Perfect Consciousness. 2) Integral Knowledge, omniscience. 3) Power Invincible, irresistible, ...
... attitude, it means that they are not true sadhaks and have no sincerity in their attitude. In order to make myself more clear, I repeat what I wanted to say: In a year like this one when the adverse forces have decided to attack at the utmost of their capacity, it is required from all those who have decided to fight for the Divine Realisation, to avoid carefully all fear. When I spoke at the beginning ...
... because Thou wiliest it. We do not die unless Thou wiliest it. 2.3.34 1937-04-24 The anniversary of my return to Pondicherry which was the tangible sign of the sure Victory over the adverse forces. 24.4.37 1937-10-23 What I want to bring about in the material world, upon the earth. 1) Perfect Consciousness. 2) Integral Knowledge, omniscience. 3) Power Invincible, ...
... disadvantages. Among the latter is the afflux of people full of the consciousness of the outside world—bringing an oppressive weight of dullness and ordinariness into the atmosphere—also as the adverse forces know that something is to be attempted at this period they become active to stop it. Don't lay too much stress on the 15th which is after all more a general than a personal occasion— for the ...
... over and the futility of a life with- out any shred of response from the Divine—a feeling of utter helplessness and impasse. But I kept on to the best of my ability staving off what you call the adverse forces. I know you are too busy with far more important things Page 246 than such pains of the likes of us. But in case you find an odd minute or two just see if you can do anything ...
... scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane. That is why I am not alarmed by the aspect of the world around me or disconcerted by the often successful fury of the adverse Forces who increase in their rage as the Light comes nearer and nearer down to the field of earth and Matter. If I believe in the probability and not only the possibility, if I feel practically certain ...
... to the Vedic Rishis intimate knowledge of the intricacies of the web of the world as also of the knowledge of inner means by which the entanglements of the web could be disentangled and hold of adverse forces can be loosened and annulled. But the loftiest discovery was that of the One, the mysterious and the wonderful, the eternal, unbound by Time and Space and unseizable even by the highest flights ...
... journey there arises the dilemma of how to choose the right course of action. Besides, there are a thou sand and one lure s and temptations to which the sadhaka is constantly exposed by the adverse forces opposed to the successful completion of his sadhana. How is the seeker going to contend with this ceaseless battle of the path and come out successfully out of all the deceitful traps ...
... ourselves or how to receive. For, although we do not open ourselves to the divine Influence, we keep ourselves all the time wide open to the intrusion and infiltration of all sorts of unspiritual adverse forces: we receive with facility and contentment all that hampers our progress in sadhana. This is the second tragedy striking down many sadhakas. In order to avoid this double tragedy, every sadhaka ...
... that dropped from his lips, the pointed flashes of his quick humour, the silent un-assuming distinction of his manner and above all, his vigilant and subtle protection guarding us against all adverse forces —all these had been our heritage, but could we ever reflect in our passing mirror even the slightest shadow of his wide universal action? His detached greatness, disinterested largeness, limitless ...
... right kind of will-power then, probably they use some fighting or effortful will-power instead of the quiet but strong will that calls down the higher consciousness and force. The adverse forces feel that there is something in you that is discontented and restive because of the continuance of the inertia and they hope that by pressing more and more they will create a revolt. What is important ...
... standpoint it is good that for a time humanity should come out of the religious atmosphere, full of fear Page 110 III and blind superstitious submission by which the adverse forces have profited so monstrously. The age of negation, of atheism and positivism is from this view quite indispensable for man's liberation from sheer ignorance. It is only when you have come out of ...
... experience of mine. If you are all attention to the inner indication and you refuse to be pushed about by the waves coming from outside—movements of other people's will, routine circumstances or adverse forces that do not want the things to be done—I say, instead of being driven hither and thither, if you receive the clear precise inner sign and follow it without evading or hesitating, with a strictness ...
... the day of his doom, the final defeat comes. And very possibly if he is allowed his way the defeat will be hastened. That is why exactly when great things are about to happen, at that moment the adverse forces Page 51 become the most active, most violently active and apparently the most successful. They are given a free field as it were to rush to their doom. Page 52 ...
... Aurobindo. When he was asked his opinion he said; I do not want to take a risk. I have to be careful as I am not sure that some violent movement would not take place in sleep. And there are the adverse forces to be considered. The specialist says ten weeks, Dr. X says six; so we will take a via media that will satisfy both." Disciple : Dr. X always emphasises that you are an extraordinary patient ...
... the Mother asked Sri Aurobindo what he thought. SRI AUROBINDO: I can't take the risk. I have to be very careful as I am not sure that violent movements won't take place in sleep. Besides, the adverse forces have to be considered. The specialist said, "Ten weeks more." Dr. Rao says, "Six weeks in all." We will take the via media. That will satisfy both. NIRODBARAN: Dr. Rao always emphasises that ...
... when without even knowing it, one comes out of my protection. Say, now you are enveloped by my vital light, if you come out of this envelope, if you make a hole in this armour and through that the adverse forces can enter into you; if you do an act involuntarily, whatever it may be, you cross over its line of action, it is this, it is in this way that you make a hole without even knowing it. But if you ...
... change his consciousness … it is an unsurmountable impasse. No one, neither man, nor individuals endowed with extraordinary faculties can do anything or bridge the chasm between the Divine and the adverse forces. It is ignorance which has pushed man into this state. But do not worry. One who has been given the charge, One who is responsible, works to bring man towards the frontiers of a New World; He ...
... terrible and demoniac things! From this standpoint it is good that for a time humanity should come out of the religious atmosphere, full of fear and blind superstitious submission by which the adverse forces have profited so monstrously. The age of negation, of atheism and positivism is from this view quite indispensable for man's liberation from sheer ignorance. It is only when you have come out of ...
... day of his doom, when the final defeat comes. And very possibly if he is allowed his way the defeat will be hastened. That is why exactly when great things are about to happen, at that moment the adverse forces become the most active, most violently active and apparently the most successful. They are given a free field as it were to rush to their doom. Page 335 ...
... experience of mine. If you are all attention to the inner indication and you refuse to be tossed about by the waves coming from outside – movements of other people's will, routine circumstances or adverse forces Page 11 that do not want the things to be done – I say, instead of being driven hither and thither, if you receive the clear precise inner sign and follow it without evading or ...
... respond to the Rishi's appeal, fight and destroy the Rakshasas, and felicitate the completion of the sacrifice. Always when the conscious upward drive is countered by the play and pull of the riot of adverse forces, the call to Divine Grace is alone the sovereign remedy. One more question: To what extent is predestination an adamantine law? If we are to accept the doctrine of Karma - of fate, of ...
... a God... the golden Purusha". The right leg had to be put in plaster, and Sri Aurobindo was conveyed to his bed. Wasn't the writing of Savitri something akin to a struggle with Death? The adverse forces were apparently up in arms, and the accident was thus no mere accident. Nolini Kanta Gupta's explanation was that there were war-clouds over Europe in late 1938 (thanks to the Czechoslovakian ...
... massive and varied contributions to Arya, 404ff; Amrita's first daman, 405; interview to Hindu, 406; Lord Carmichael's offer, 408; correspondence with Mirra, 408ff; on spiritual progress & adverse forces, 410; strategy of supramental Yoga, 410; daily routine in Pondicherry, 411; evening talks with Bharati, 41 1fn; keeping watch on events, 412; on Mont-Ford Reforms, 412; on the War, peace and the ...
... have the right of entry.' In other words, these forces cannot prevent him from entering." Mother said ponderingly: "If what the serpent said was right, if this is truly what will overcome the adverse forces that rule over money, well then, the condition has not been fulfilled." She remarked: "It's an affair between the Asuras and the human species." Rather an insoluble affair, we may say! ...
... es aside, we can say with certainty that the divine Light is definitely more powerful than human obscurity. 2.8.1969 Page 99 Does Durga's lion represent the Divine Power over adverse forces? It can be understood that way. But in the vital there is a lion very much alive who is very often near me and whom several persons have often seen. He is evidently not an animal ...
... democratic parliamentary system of government: they are vigilant; nothing escapes them. The Censors are truly instruments of sincerity", but they are also, as it were, "the permanent delegates of the adverse forces", for they belittle everything, and try to infect us with defeatism: But they always forget one thing, deliberately, something that they cast far behind as if it did not exist: the divine ...
... what seemed like the Mother's slights and frowns were only the eruptions from the sadhak's fevered mentalised consciousness, but even so they could compel the necessary self-introspection. The adverse forces were always on the prowl feeding the mind and the vital with the worms of doubt and discontent and the intimations of failure and disaster. Sometimes such moments of perplexity and inner agony ...
... dawns ... there mounts the scented flame that no storm-wind can force to vacillate" 8 , and even the last closed vault shall open one day. And yet "the formidable fight, the onslaught of the adverse forces"! But there is no occasion to feel disspirited, for the "purer forces" of the Divine will manifest: What opposes is just that upon which it is the mission of these forces to act; it is the ...
... 34 Once, when the sadhak frankly writes that he feels like succumbing to an attraction or temptation as the best way of overcoming it, the Mother calls the suggestion "a trap of the adverse forces". As well conquer the murderous instinct by actually committing a murder! To another sadhak, Mrityunjoy, the Mother wrote that he was in the Ashram for doing Yoga, to cultivate union with the ...
... the Mother's talks went on, and the centre or the point of take-off could be anywhere, but the ramifications were beyond reckoning. On 23 April, for example, there was a reference to the role of adverse forces. In the total scheme, said the Mother, they were there only to test one's sincerity: ...you see, it is a tempering, it is the ordeal of fire, only that which can stand it remains absolutely ...
... have made some progress" by your stay. I too had felt the same thing and told you about it. But, as you know, whenever a definite progress is made in sadhana, there is invariably a sudden raid of adverse forces to oppose or obstruct it. In your case, it was your physical mind that got loose and began to judge and criticise the work done in the Ashram. I am sure you have seen enough of our Ashram life ...
... 2nd January, 1939 Disciple : I think the Mother is testing me. Mother : That is not the habit here. It is the play of the forces, or rather the play of adverse forces, that tries to test the Sadhak. If you refuse to listen to them or remain firm, then they withdraw. People here have plenty of difficulties already. Why, add new ones? To say that we purposely ...
... scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane. That is why I am not alarmed by the aspect of the world around me or disconcerted by the often successful fury of the adverse forces who increase in their rage as the Light comes nearer and nearer to the field of earth and Matter." "I know with absolute certitude that the Supramental is a truth and that its advent is in the ...
... all the activities. First of all, I don’t want anybody to get hurt, because I am protecting my children with transparent cocoons, like a glass case put on each one individually, so that the adverse forces cannot touch them. You are well surrounded by the Force and the Light through which nothing can penetrate. It is an absolute protection I have put around you all, and in spite of all this, if you ...
... Aurobindo replied on 26 June with one of the most detailed and practical expositions of this self-transforming and world-transforming Yoga. Spiritual progress always runs the risk of disturbances from adverse forces, "for the complete victory of a single one of us would mean a general downfall among them". The remedy is to try to come "into a more and more universal communion with the Highest". On the other ...
... have felt Her boundless love and affection carrying me in Her arms and leading me towards the eternal light, urging me to aspire towards a clear perception of my mission and protecting me from all adverse forces, difficulties and internal and external ups and downs of life so that I may move unhindered towards the goals She set before me. I offer this incomplete and imperfect work at Her Lotus Feet ...
... Her faith must be left intact—and we must send force to help her. That is all that we can say at present. If she can by her faith draw down and open to such a force as will counteract the adverse physical forces in her body, then she will survive. Of course it [ cancer ] can [ be cured by Yoga ], but on condition of faith or openness or both. Even a mental suggestion can cure cancer—with luck... T.B. is the result of a strong psychic-vital depression. Sex cannot Page 586 directly cause T.B. though it may be a factor in bringing about a fall of the vital forces and a withdrawal of the psychic supporting forces leading to T.B. The lack of vitality which easily comes as a result of modern civilisation is therefore a very strong contributing cause. Moderns have not the solid nervous... ways. It is better to take the sun-treatment (for the eyes) if you give up your spectacles. It is not a treatment in the ordinary sense, as there are no medicines, but a use of certain natural forces and physical observations to correct the impaired mechanism of the eye. You will have to be careful about your eyes. Reading by night (too much) is inadvisable. There are two suggestions of ...
... of it and look on this as a part of the sadhana. It would be the most effective way to head straight towards spiritual downfall and throw into the atmosphere forces that would block the supramental descent, bringing instead the descent of adverse vital powers to disseminate disturbance and disaster. This deviation must be absolutely thrown away, should it try to occur and expunged from the consciousness... return is due to the obscurity of the physical which always responds to an old habit of the nature (even when the mind has rejected it) and it is this obscurity and subjection to habit that the adverse vital forces take advantage of to repeat the trouble. It is of course the physical that is at once responsive in the most material way to sex-suggestion. What you are doing [ rejecting the sex-movement... discrimination and defence against what is trying to descend" upon you. Have you thought what this would mean if what is descending is something not in consonance with the divine Truth, perhaps even adverse? An adverse Power could ask no better condition for getting control over the seeker. It is only the Mother's Force and the divine Truth that one should admit without barriers. And even there one must keep ...
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