... achievement. 6 August 1937 Page 638 The Supramental Evolution, the Ashram and the Hostile Forces With Sri Aurobindo and the Mother so close to us here, how is it that we continue to fall into darkness and sorrow—even into struggles with the hostile forces? You are right. The hostile forces, their attacks, their suggestions ought now to be superannuated, out of date, out of place here... said that she never upheld the hostile forces, nor was she their Mother. The hostile forces are upheld not by the Mother but by something in the sadhaks themselves which opens the doors to them by concentrated egoism, mental arrogance, vital revolt and many other things, e.g. lying, sex etc. I remember how I was suddenly betrayed into the hands of the hostile forces when I came to the Budhi house... evolution is the evolving or slow manifestation of life, mind and conscious supermind out of matter with its original Inconscience. Avidya is one thing and the intervention of the hostile forces is another. Even if the hostile forces go back to their own region, they will certainly wage war against the transformed divine world. The only way for God to save us from this would be for him to put some pressure ...
... The inertia gives room and power for the hostile forces to act. The Hostile Forces and Universal Forces No, they [ the hostile forces ] do not create universal forces; they are themselves moved by them and move them. The Hostile Forces and the Spiritual Consciousness From the higher mind upwards, all is free from the action of the hostile forces. For they [ the higher planes ] all belong... The Opposition of the Hostile Forces Letters on Yoga - IV Chapter I The Hostile Forces and the Difficulties of Yoga The Existence of the Hostile Forces Whenever anything has to be done, there are always forces that want to interfere. I suppose they want to show that smooth walking and the "wide unbarred and thornless path" belong only to the Vedic... Africa as in India, that wherever Yoga or Yajna is done, there the hostile forces gather together to stop it by any means. It is known that there is a lower nature and a higher spiritual nature—it is known that they pull different ways and the lower is strongest at first and the higher afterwards. It is known that the hostile forces take advantage of the movements of the lower nature and try to spoil ...
... " (The Mother, M C W, Vol.7,p.366) Such is then the beneficial contribution made by the hostile forces in the life of sadhana of a sincere sadhaka. Of course, it is not that they voluntarily seek to do good to the sadhakas. If they did, they would not have been called adverse or hostile forces. But notwithstanding their evil intention, the fact remains that, through divine dispensation, their... But how do these hostile forces attack? What are their modes of action? And how to distinguish between the mechanical action of an ordinary weakness of nature and the intentional action of an adverse force? For the fact remains that normal human defects are one thing; they are only the working of the lower nature of the Ignorance. But the action of the hostile forces is a special intervention... We end this chapter with a passage from the Mother's writings which indicates the way a sadhaka should proceed in order to always score a victory over the hostile forces: "The only way to fail in your battle with the hostile forces is not to have a true confidence in the divine help. Sincerity in the aspiration always brings down the required succour. A quiet call, a conviction that in this ...
... The Divine and the Hostile Powers Letters on Yoga - I Chapter III The Hostile Forces and Hostile Beings The Existence of the Hostile Forces The hostile forces exist and have been known to Yogic experience ever since the days of the Veda and Zoroaster in Asia (and the mysteries of Egypt and Chaldea and the Cabbala) and in Europe also from old times... this sense that we speak of hostile forces—those which stand in the way of coming out of the Ignorance and attaining to the consciousness of the Divine. It is again true that those who have a complete and living faith in the Divine and a perfect sincerity in their vision of the Divine everywhere and a pure sattwic nature need not trouble themselves about the hostile forces—for from them the forces... nature. The teaching about the hostile forces (Asuri Rakshasi forces) is necessary for those who have a divided consciousness or a more rajasic temperament—for if they are not on their guard they may fall into the control of undesirable forces of Desire and Ego— rākṣasīm āsurīṁ caiva prakṛtiṁ mohinīṁ śritāḥ 2 Yes, they [ the hostile forces ] have their own world and, if they ...
... to the divine Work. And usually I have heard many people speaking of "hostile forces"—for instance, "the hostile forces of illness which attack me". This is too personal a point of view, it may not be the result of hostile forces; you call them hostile because they attack you. But in fact, when one speaks of hostile forces it means forces hostile to the divine Work or the divine Will. So, if they... the hostile forces conscious of the function assigned to them, that is... No. He has said in the book that they have assigned it to themselves. He has said in the text: "The hostile forces have a certain self-chosen function," that is, it is they who have decided to do this. But what do you want to ask? Why have they been given these functions? No, I asked whether the hostile forces were... the function assigned to them. Because that would mean that the hostile forces help in the spiritual accomplishment. There is nothing that finally does not help. If they did it deliberately, they would no longer be hostile forces, they would be collaborators. For you must take care of one thing, you must not speak of "hostile forces" when thinking of forces which are hostile to us . These forces ...
... take the attitude of Shakti taking Bhoga through them, but that is only a way of saying. People indulge in lower movements, yield to hostile forces and at the same time pass as yogis. Even, the Vedantic attitude is often made an excuse for yielding to the hostile forces. "All this is Maya, illusion, there is no virtue, no sin, no good, no evil," they say and give themselves up to lower vital forces.... Disciple : But are the lower movements of nature themselves not hostile ? Sri Aurobindo : No, but they offer an opening to the hostile forces and the hostile forces use these lower movements for their own purpose. Disciple : As regards the degrading effects of the sexual act, does marriage and legal sanction make any difference ? Sri Aurobindo : Absolutely none. These... act become absolutely different from the human. Disciple : My original question was whether the attack of the hostile forces can be utilised by the Sadhaka ? Sri Aurobindo : Yes ; by conquering it. The Sadhaka acquires knowledge of the action of the hostile forces and of the defects in his own nature which invite the attack. Disciple : Does he acquire anything more than the ...
... as well. To strive of set purpose to move from the lower egoistic to the higher spiritual life is to provoke these hostile forces, and unless one has the strength to defeat them, the progress in the sadhana must be retarded or rendered impossible. With reference to these 'hostile' forces, Sri Aurobindo writes in the course of some of his letters: Normal human defects are one thing - they are... action of the hostile forces is a special intervention creating violent inner conflicts, abnormal depressions, thoughts and impulses of a kind which can be easily recognised as suggestion e.g. leaving the Ashram, abandoning the yoga, revolt against the Divine.... The lower nature is ignorant and undivine, not in itself hostile but shut to the Light and Truth. The hostile forces are anti-divine... beyond its true meaning and deduce from it a suddenly extreme and logical conclusion which is quite contrary to our knowledge and experience. It is natural, I suppose, and part of the game of the hostile forces; it is so much easier to come to vehement logical conclusions than to look at the Truth which is many-sided and whole. 61 I thought it was understood that what I wrote to you about persons ...
... May 30, 1958 ( On Hostile Forces ) I have noticed that in at least ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, it is an excuse people give to themselves. I have seen that practically, in the case of almost all the people who write to me saying, 'I am being violently attacked by hostile forces,' it's an excuse they are giving. It means that certain things in... in their nature do not want to yield, so they put all the blame on the hostile forces. As a matter of fact, my tendency is more and more towards something in which the role of these hostile forces will be reduced to that of an examiner—which means that they are there to test the sincerity of your spiritual quest. These elements have a reality in their action and for the work—this is their great ... occult point of view, these hostile forces are very real, their action is very real, quite concrete, and their attitude towards the divine realization is positively hostile; but as soon as you go beyond this region and enter into the spiritual world where there is no longer anything but the Divine in all things, and where there is nothing undivine, then these 'hostile forces' become part of the total ...
... these suggestions. It is better not to trouble about the hostile forces. Keep your aspiration strong and sincere and call in the Divine in each thing and at each moment for support and in all that you feel keep yourself open to us. That is the easiest way to the Divine. If you begin to concern yourself about the hostile forces, you will only make the path more difficult. Write to X ... two things is sufficient in itself—and in proportion as they grow, even the existence of the hostile forces becomes less and less of a phenomenon of the inner life—though they may still be there in the outer atmosphere. Reliance on the Power or Force About the contact with the world and the hostile forces, that is of course always one of the sadhak's chief difficulties, but to transform the world... 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 ...
... and death had to be drained or transformed into the Divine Realities which that source essentially had always contained, even in spite of their distortion. The Hostile Forces This may be an occasion to bring the ‘hostile forces’ on the scene, including the ‘Titan kings’ and a numerous brood of lesser rank, so active in the wings of the visible world and of our inner theatre, and so powerful... disciple: ‘The hostile forces exist and have been known to yogic experience ever since the days of the Veda and Zoroaster in Asia (and the mysteries of Egypt and the Cabbala) and in Europe also from old times.’ 11 And he warned Nirodbaran: ‘Man, don’t talk lightly like that of the devil. He is too active to be trifled with in that way.’ 12 The origin of the hostile forces is known to us.... attacks of hostile forces of every breed. As early as 1924 Sri Aurobindo had already told some disciples in passing: ‘You do not know how strong they are. I alone know it, you have only a glimpse of it.’ 16 The figure of speech, becoming of a gentleman, is as a rule rather the understatement than the exaggeration. He also wrote: ‘Wherever Yoga or Yajna [offering] is done, there the hostile forces gather ...
... which belong either to a lower truth or to ignorance and error— there are also the hostile forces whose whole aim is to maintain the reign of Darkness, Falsehood, Death and Suffering as the law of life. Are there hostile forces in every plane of our being? The main strength of the hostile forces is in the vital — but there are some in the lower ranges of mind and smaller beings... awakened to them and call them in, they will act. Page 4 What effect has fear regarding the hostile forces? If you are afraid of the hostile forces when they try to come, you expose yourself to their power. How do the hostile forces manage to time their attacks on us accurately and put into our minds formations which attract us? They find... through the Cosmic Shakti that the Divine creates." Has the Cosmic Shakti any-thing to do with the hostile forces? She has to do with everything in this world, good, bad or indifferent. If the Cosmic Shakti has come from the Divine, why is the world such as to allow the hostile forces to reign in it? Page 2 It is the nature of this world because it is ...
... influence; there are no hostile forces or beings there. But there are others—and they are many—that can be touched or penetrated by the vital forces. The mind-plane that belongs to the physical world, the physical mind, as we usually call it, is more material in its structure and movement than the true mind and it is very much under the sway of the vital world and the hostile forces. This physical mind... spoken. What are the conditions in the psychic world? How is it situated with regard to the hostile forces? The psychic world or plane of consciousness is that part of the world, the psychic being is that part of the being which is directly under the influence of the Divine Consciousness; the hostile forces cannot have even the remotest action upon it. It is a world of harmony, and everything moves... you are capable of passing into a higher condition, you begin to see that you are an instrument of the one consciousness; you take a step upward and you rise to a higher conscious level. Do hostile forces attack one on the mental plane as they do in the vital world? Page 60 It is difficult to give a precise answer without going into a number of explanations into which we cannot now ...
... The Opposition of the Hostile Forces Letters on Yoga - IV Chapter IV Accidents, Possession, Madness Accidents There is no such thing as a mere accident. There is some—perhaps a very slight—unconsciousness in the physical and it is taken advantage of by these small beings of the vital physical plane—who are more mischievous than consciously hostile... (spirit) in charge of the formation. It sometimes happens that by a carefully formed formation like this and through the instrumentality of a third person whose movements they control, the hostile forces get through the conscious guard and bring about an accident like this. 1 It is through Page 800 the subconscient that they manage to do it, for the subconscient has not yet either... usually reduced to something minor in their results. That is right. These accidents happen only to disturb you. You must not allow yourself to be disturbed. Yes—it is because they [ the hostile forces ] know that Peace is the basis and if that is there in full, all the rest will come. So they want anyhow to prevent it. Possession by Vital Forces It is one thing to see things and quite ...
... that, in the Divine scheme of things, the . action of the hostile forces is used only as "a testing process, so that nothing may be forgotten, nothing left out in the work of transformation. They will allow no mistake". But when the goal has been reached, the handicaps in the race will not be needed. Taking a long view, the hostile forces are allowed to exist "because they are necessary in the... peace; visions true and false; visions and spirituality; Jeanne d'Arc's visions; meditation and surrender; freedom and karmic fatalism; what books to read, and how; function of the intellect; hostile forces; reason and faith; cause of natural disasters; vampires, what they are; money power, its true role and its current misuse; diseases, microbes and sanitary arrangements; universal will and individual... a place within and operate securely from there. Even the lower mind - or the physical mind which is in alliance with the lower vital consciousness and its movements - can be infected by the hostile forces and degraded to their level of perversity and evil. What is our armour against such forces and their cancerous insinuations? The Mother's advice is severely practical: ... keep as quiet and ...
... The Opposition of the Hostile Forces Letters on Yoga - IV Chapter II Attacks by the Hostile Forces Attacks Not Uncommon I do not see how I could say that you were not fit for this Yoga when you had and still get the experiences that are characteristic of the Yoga. The obstacles in the consciousness and the attacks are no proof that a man is not fit... about to be effected in the individual or the general consciousness. There are always hostile forces that try to stop or break the experience. If they come in, it is a sign that there is something in the being, vital or physical, that either responds or is too inert to oppose. The hostile forces do not need a cause for attacking—they attack whenever and whoever they can. What one has to... terms as Rakshasi Maya or the attacks of kamā, krodha, lobha ,—they don't trace these things to their sources or watch how they come in—but the thing itself is known to all. Naturally, the hostile forces are always on the watch to rob what they can of the things received by the sadhak—not that they profit by them, but they prevent them from being used to build up the divine in life. Attacks ...
... beyond the hostile forces. यो विश्वाभि विपश्यति भुवना सं च पश्यति । स नः पर्षदति द्विषः ॥४॥ 4) He who looks upon all the worlds and sees them wholly, may he carry us through beyond the hostile forces. यो अस्य पारे रजसः शुको अग्निरजायत । स नः पर्षदति द्विषः ॥५॥ 5) Fire who is born brilliant on the further shore of this world, may he carry us through beyond the hostile forces. ... 1) Send forth the word to the Fire, the bull of the worlds, 1 may he carry us through beyond the hostile forces. यः परस्याः परावतस्तिरो धन्वातिरोचते । स नः पर्षदति द्विषः ॥२॥ 2) He who shines beyond the desert across the supreme Beyond, may he carry us through beyond the hostile forces. Page 445 यो रक्षांसि निजूर्वति वृषा शुकेण शोचिषा । स नः पर्षदति द्विषः ॥३॥ 3) He ...
... lower nature. But I must pause here a little to stress an experience of mine which grew from day to day till I could not deny its vivid, concrete reality. I refer to what Gurudev called the "hostile forces". I had, indeed, read about the Buddha's Mara, heard about the Christian Devil and speculated in my fanciful way about ghosts and spirits and monsters which figured in the Tantric writings of... to us in ordinary life, the depressions do not get us down as they do here — with the veritable downrush of a deluge or the cataclysm of an avalanche. The reason is that in ordinary life these hostile forces do not need to be as active or organised as they are in Yoga — their Page 59 métier being to thwart all Godward endeavours, and in ordinary life people are seldom concentrated... fear of becoming homeless refugees?" This in itself would not have been so cataclysmic, if I may exploit such a purple word, had not these forces of Nature found the too-willing support of the hostile forces which are sworn to oppose God-seekers everywhere. That is why all spiritual guides have emphasised the urgent need of purifying our emotions so that we may, at every cross-road, side always with ...
... the protection she has granted us can be pierced by the hostile forces. The Mother has often said that the protection is not unconditional. Quite often it acts in spite of us, but there are bound to be occasions when some part of us goes out of the radiant atmosphere she puts around us and then an opportunity is given to the hostile forces to break in. Merely to keep Savitri with us or put the symbols... with us, if we keep uttering Sri Aurobindo's and the Mother's names, if we have their symbols affixed on our doors or are wearing them, if we carry the Mother's Blessings Packet with us, can the hostile forces still come to us and try to lead us astray? If Yes, then in what and where is the protection from them? Only in our own minds and hearts? One has heard the story of an evil force having taken the... Aurobindo and daring to come to the Mother herself. For her it was child's play to find it out, but what happens to those on a low plane? For, despite the protection the above things offer, if the hostile forces can still dare come to mislead and harm people, where is the progress? Is it that the soul only has to be advanced - nothing else is really protected? And then is it not also that the more advanced ...
... wound by the hostile forces? If they are sufficiently open to the Divine it can be done—but most sadhaks have too much egoism and lack of faith and obscurity and self-will and vital desires,—it is that that shuts them to the Mother and calls in the action of the hostile forces. Those who cannot reject their lower nature fully are made to suffer at the hands of the hostile forces and get wounded... it could give the decisive push. But in most cases desire or will behind the thought-force would be necessary. 26 August 1936 Page 619 In Conversations the Mother says about the hostile forces: "If you have overlooked in your own being even a single detail, they will come and put their touch upon that neglected spot and make it so painfully evident that you will be forced to change" ...
... Eastern Man still knows this, but he has let this authentic feeling be stultified by worn-out forms of thought and superstition. We have seen the important role the hostile forces play in the world people consider their own. The hostile forces dominate and govern this world of Ignorance in which the human beings are as blind and powerless as marionettes. They have been permitted to do so by the Supreme... for whom everything exists and moves within the Unity-Consciousness, this evolutionary world included. Our world is a materialized, elaborated gradation of evolution, and in the present stage the hostile forces, all of them offspring of the Four Asuras , still play their indispensable and irreplaceable role. Seen from a distance, all this is a sort of dismal fairy tale, The Lord of the Rings but... Truth-Consciousness develops, the Mother said. We remember her words that even those who think they are acting against the Great Work are in fact collaborating. In the intensified action of the hostile forces she saw the acceleration of the process of transformation of which the duration had been reduced to the minimum by her and by Sri Aurobindo, in order that humanity would have to suffer as little ...
... the most adverse , to that manifestation. It can be done, but you cannot expect to be easily done. February 1935? I did not at all mean that Krishnaprem himself was used by the hostile forces. These forces can use anything for their Purpose by combining it with others to make part of a total suggestion. They can use what is in itself quite harmless or Page 225 true... they would begin to cite all the hostile criticisms or non-appreciation of Anāmi and my own poetry and Arjava's. That is the way they make a case—and very often a pretty strong case too. The hostile forces exist and have been known to yogic experience ever since the days of the Veda and Zoroaster in Asia (and the mysteries of Egypt and Chaldea and the Cabbala) and in Europe also from old times. These... also, of this intervention and pressure at its source for the reason I state. Those in the Ashram who have developed the inner view of things on the vital plane have plenty of experience of the hostile forces. However, you need not personally concern yourself with them so long as they remain incognito. Yes, I gave force to Nishikanta, but as I wrote I did not include him because he is new and emergent ...
... Whom have I called? If they were not, they would not be representative of the world which has to be changed. And this gambling fight is more against forces unseen than seen. We eat hostile forces, breathe them, feed them, exchange them, do everything except see and trample them—swarming micro-organisms! So is all life on earth—a complex of seen and unseen forces and an obscure and ignorant... ignorant struggle. These forces drag us down from today's ecstasy to tomorrow's valley of depression and next day's abyss of doom. In Barinbabu's world gods and goddesses are seething, in ours hostile forces! After all there are plenty of people here who are going pretty well; why emphasise only the comparatively few who have fallen out or are in serious trouble? Each has his difficulties, no doubt... railways is, with all apology, a little off the point. Firstly I have dared yoga. Why not go on daring—instead of wailing because there is no safety? In railways etc., the journeys are safe hostile forces are not so villainous. But even after Herculean efforts, the path of yoga is not a jot easier. You ought to read the Matin . Every now and then a tremendous collision and holocaust. I admit ...
... be no definite time-limit. Disciple : What was the nature of the attack you got last. Sri Aurobindo : Whenever I am about to finish a definite stage in Sadhana the conscious hostile forces come and first raise up anything in the being and show it to me "Look here, this you have not conquered." They can also attack. Page 300 Disciple : Is this idea of the... establish the higher Consciousness in every atom of the body, otherwise what happens is that something escapes your view in the hidden depth of the lower physical being which is known to the hostile forces and then they can attack through that weak point. They can create a combination of circumstances which would give rise to the thing not worked out and before you can control them they are already... your head will fall off". Disciple : It would be a blessing if the head fell off. Disciple : If this conquest of the physical plane is once achieved, would it mean the defeat of the hostile forces in cases where there might be no opening to the yoga ? Sri Aurobindo : You come back to the same question of humanity in another form. That is to say, you want to know whether this victory ...
... over for the time, by this lower vital being and this external personality. Whatever there may be in these higher parts, aspiration to the Truth, devotion or will to conquer the obstacles and the hostile forces, it cannot become integral, it cannot remain unmixed or unspoilt or continue to be effective so long as the lower vital and the external personality have not accepted the Light and consented to... pettier forms, they become still more false to the Truth, incongruous, grotesque, and at the same time can be viciously harmful, though in a smaller groove. There is no better way of calling in hostile forces into the general work or of vitiating and exposing to their influence one's own sadhana. On a smaller scale these defects of vanity, arrogance and rajasic violence are present in most human natures... and steadily rejected, then it can be overcome. Rejecting Wrong Movements of the Lower Vital The lower vital in most human beings is full of grave defects and of movements that respond to hostile forces. A constant psychic opening, a persistent rejection of these influences, a separation of oneself from all hostile suggestions and the inflow of the calm, light, peace, purity of the Mother's power ...
... 1934: ‘There is usually a descent [at darshan time], but there is also a great opposition to the descent at these times.’ 5 In the first volume of the Talks With Sri Aurobindo we read: ‘The hostile forces have tried many times to prevent things like the Darshan, but I have succeeded in warding off all their attacks. At the time the accident to my leg happened, I was more occupied with guarding the... happen?’ he answered: ‘It was because I was unguarded and something forced its way into the subconscient. There is a stage in yogic advance when the least negligence will not do.’ 7 The hostile forces are, as we know, real and conscious beings. They exist in a double hierarchy. There is, on the one hand, the hierarchy descending from the Asuras (mental and higher vital) downwards via the Rakshasas... Man. But there were other diabolic forces incarnated on the Earth and, as they are all big, unyielding egos, they fought each other even as they fought everybody else. One of these other hostile forces, and perhaps the most ruthless of them all, was Joseph Stalin. It has already been mentioned that, according to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Stalin was not an ordinary human, but a directly incarnated ...
... your nature, they would retire and leave you." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 5 May ) The best way of facing hostile forces is always to aspire, always to remember the Divine. And never to fear. Mother reads a question asked during the talk in 1929: "Do the hostile forces generally come from outside or inside?" Questions and Answers 1929 ( 5 May ) They come from outside the ... March Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 3 March 1951 "There is even a necessity for the existence of the hostile forces. They make your determination stronger, your aspiration clearer. "It is true, however, that they exist because you gave them reason to exist. So long as there is something in you which answers to them, their intervention... an impression, but it is easier to get rid of a difficulty if you have the impression that it is outside you. However, I have just told you the opposite, that if nothing "in you" answers to the hostile forces, they will never attack you. Therefore, what is inside is also outside and what is outside is also inside! The secret lies in knowing how to place it just where it is most convenient for the immediate ...
... about it and he said: 'The hostile forces had tried many times to prevent things like the darshan but I had succeeded in warding off all their attacks. At the time the accident to my leg occurred, I was more occupied with guarding the Mother and I forgot about myself. I didn't think the hostiles would attack me. That was my mistake.' Explaining what is meant by 'hostile forces' Sri Aurobindo writes:... writes: 'These hostile forces exist and have been known to yogic experience ever since the days of the Veda and Zoroaster in Asia (and the mysteries of Egypt and the Cabbala) and in Europe also from old times. These things, of course, cannot be felt or known so long as one lives in the ordinary mind and its ideas and perceptions...but once one begins to get the inner view of things, it is different. One begins... conscious forces or are supported by a consciousness or consciousnesses behind.' Elsewhere he says: 'The lower nature is ignorant and undivine, not in itself hostile to the Light and Truth. The hostile forces are anti-divine, not merely undivine; they make use of the lower nature, pervert it, fill it with distorted movements and by that means influence man and even try to enter and possess or at least ...
... in the Ashram: ... wherever Yoga or Yajna is done, there the hostile forces gather together to stop it by any means. It is known that there is a lower nature and a higher spiritual nature - it is known that they pull different ways and the lower is strongest at first and the higher afterwards. 58 The hostile forces exploit the lower nature and try to retard or destroy the Yoga. Didn't... life, my vision, and my valuation of things, persons, actions in general and my relation with the Mother in particular. 31 But of course things are not settled quite so easily, for the hostile forces are always about, ready with their insinuations and sly intimations. Romen was thus only too apt to veer between "depression and happiness, discipline and erratic tamas". Page 268 ... fight one's way through all difficulties and obstructions. Sri Aurobindo had referred to this recurrent problem in Yoga: To have weaknesses of the lower nature is one thing - to call in the hostile forces is quite another. Whoever does the latter .. .is going towards the opposite camp - for the marks of the hostile Force are contempt of the Divine, revolt and hatred against the Mother, disbelief ...
... go. But in their anxiety for the world's welfare, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were perhaps a little careless of themselves and the hostile forces suddenly struck. 15 Sri Aurobindo himself explained thus the cause of his accident: "The hostile forces had tried many times to prevent things like the darshan but I had succeeded in warding off all their attacks. At the time the accident... Yoga at the individual and even collective levels was making steady progress. The Mother's sudden and serious illness in October 1931 had been a set-back of course, a temporary triumph for the hostile forces, but presently the divine dispensation visibly reasserted itself. The whinings, grumblings and philosophic doubts punctuating several of the letters written by some of the intellectuals among the... was more occupied with guarding the Mother and I forgot about myself. I didn't think the hostiles would attack me. That was my mistake." 16 The Mother was asleep - and all was quiet, the hostile forces were able to slip through and cause his fall. In Nirodbaran's words: The forces must have been very sly - clever indeed to have chosen the time when the Mother had retired, the Gods ...
... possible. Then why do people choose one century? 12 April 1935 It seems something very striking and luminous has happened today. Have you achieved some great victory? How many millions of hostile forces have you crushed? At evening meditation the Mother had an appearance sparkling like gold beams. On other days she looks tired, tired of the job, and would like to give it up saying, "Oh, you sadhaks... had been a less neurotic company, it could have been done quietly. As it is there is the Revolt of the Subconscient. In one letter you wrote that you were able to push on; in another that the hostile forces were out of date [ p. 639 ]. That was a year ago. When we read this we thought that it would be merry Christmas henceforth. But now I again feel a bit despondent because you speak of the confounded... going to burn up all our impurities by his blazing flame as Hanuman did Lanka or what? If you expect to become supramental overnight, you are confoundedly mistaken. The tail will keep the H.F. [ hostile forces ] at a respectful distance and flap at you until you consent to do things in a reasonable time instead of taking 200 centuries over each step as you seem to want to do just now. More than that ...
... The Mother's Help in Difficulties The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Mother's Help and the Hostile Forces There are times when I think myself to be a simple vessel and imagine that things coming from the outside have no importance, for the adhar can be purified and what is not wanted can either be thrown out or allowed to end in a natural way.... the Mother and stop his progress. As for Y , if he said and thought a thing like that, it explains why he has been suffering in health so much lately. If one makes oneself a mouthpiece of the hostile forces and lends oneself to their falsehoods, it is not surprising that something in him should get out of order. 7 January 1932 I see now the damage I have done by my disobedience in work. I must... have to leave the Asram. Later, while in this condition I passed by Y's room and felt that the Mahakali forces of the Mother were around me; I also felt that her very name would create fear in the hostile forces. As I thought of her with feeling, suddenly all was clear. It is the Force that attacks everyone in the Asram who can at all be attacked in this way—the X form is merely an appearance which ...
... with the hostile forces is not to have a true confidence in the divine help. Sincerity in the aspiration always brings down the required succour. A quiet call, a conviction that in this ascension towards the realisation you are never walking all alone and a faith that whenever help is needed it is there, will lead you through, easily and securely. Page 34 Do these hostile forces generally... 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 make your determination stronger, your aspiration clearer. It is true, however, that they exist because you gave them reason to exist. So long as there is something in you which answers ...
... leaves no traces. Illness is always an attack of contrary forces in Nature—but not always of what are specially called the Hostile Forces or intended to frustrate aspiration. A desire is an ordinary force of the lower Nature, though it may be used by the Hostile Forces. Hostile [ source of illness ] here means hostile to the Yoga. An illness which comes in the ordinary course as the result... this heat is clearly distinguishable from illness. Whatever force is sent is 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 ...
... an experience Mother had on November 13 in regard to the disciple's difficulties ) Truly speaking, perhaps one is never rid of the hostile forces as long as one has not permanently emerged into the Light, above the lower hemisphere. There, the term 'hostile forces' loses its meaning; they become only forces of progress, they force you to progress. But to see things in this way, you have to get out... state of perfect Harmony beyond all attacks that will become possible with the supramental realization. It is what all those who are destined for the supramental transformation will realize. The hostile forces know it well; in the supramental world, they will automatically disappear. Having no more utility, they will be dissolved without our having to do anything, simply through the presence of the ...
... unsuspected and up to now been dormant, and in humanity a terrifying inner Shadow stood up which very few humans had the discernment or the courage to recognize as their own. A massive descent of hostile forces from the occult vital worlds corresponded to this awakening of the vital powers inside humanity. ‘Monstrous forces have swooped down upon the Earth like a hurricane,’ wrote Mirra in her diary on... jockeying for positions in the ‘War Game.’ 39 And the Mother would say many years later: ‘The First World War was the result of an enormous descent of the forces of the vital world – the hostile forces of the vital world – into the material world. Even those who were conscious of this descent and consequently armed to defend themselves against it, suffered from its consequences. The whole world... – all that pain, all that suffering, everything – would hasten the preparation of the Earth and the Descent of the Force. And that went on consciously throughout the war.’ 56 ‘All the hostile forces in the spiritual world are in a constant state of opposition and besiege our gains; for the complete victory of a single one of us would mean a general downfall among them,’ wrote Sri Aurobindo ...
... there would not be so many. 7 October 1935 Constantly thinking of the hostile forces and fearing them is a very dangerous weakness. As you say, it is the adverse force itself that must be conquered and destroyed, otherwise it will always find people to manifest it. 28 May 1936 Hostile forces are tolerated in the world only because they put man's sincerity to the test. The... day that man becomes integrally sincere, they will pass away, for there will no longer be any reason for their existence. 13 March 1949 Tonight again there is a severe attack of the hostile forces. My sleep has completely vanished. I pray to you with utmost sincerity to liberate me from the clutches of these furies. They attack my abdomen, thighs and knees. Pray Page 21 to give ...
... difficulties which the hostile forces raise in our path. To smile at their doings instead of raging at them or feeling depressed is to make them realise how little importance we give them. Failing in their attempt to upset us, they themselves are disappointed and get exhausted. The smile is, in addition, a secret message from us to what stands behind the apparent hostile forces. For behind them and under... which bring up our weaknesses and challenge us to be strong. Of course this does not mean that we should look for difficulties. But when they come we must feel Sri Aurobindo manipulating what the hostile forces believe to be their own working. The Lord takes advantage of every crisis to create for us a short cut towards our own fulfilment. And when we have the vision of the Supreme hidden within His seeming ...
... which the hostile forces raise in our path. To smile at their doings instead of raging at them or feeling depressed is to Page 385 make them realise how little importance we give them. Failing in their attempt to upset us, they themselves are disappointed and get exhausted. The smile is, in addition, a secret message from us to what stands behind the apparent hostile forces. For behind... which bring up our weaknesses and challenge us to be strong. Of course this does not mean that we should look for difficulties. But when they come we must feel Sri Aurobindo manipulating what the hostile forces believe to be their own working. The Lord takes advantage of every crisis to create for us some short-cut towards our own fulfilment. And when we have the vision of the Supreme hidden within His ...
... That is what has happened also in Motilal Roy's case. The remedy is to increase the stability and purify the being by removing all hostile forces. Calmness is the essential nature of the Purusha. It is Purusha. Every thought and action must be discriminated and hostile forces eliminated, so that the being may be purified. The process is necessary and is sometimes perilous. Even before the purification... physical, vital and mental experiences and higher experiences are very much disturbed by similar experiences and moving forces outside oneself. Their relation must be understood and by discrimination, hostile forces coming from cosmic nature must be conquered. Then when purification is completed, there will be liberation of mental and vital being and mental and vital forces. This is ordinarily called Moksha ...
... takes refuge in this light — my white light — then he has a protection or an incomparable help, he can conquer everything without letting anything touch him. Because, when one is in this light, the hostile forces, as soon as they come in contact, disappear immediately. Not a single contrary force can stay in this white light. Then one is in the Divine’s hand, enveloped by Him. It is the highest possible…... vulnerable. Suppose,… this is another case. At night, I protect everyone; I try my best to keep you all under my protection, so that you may not have bad dreams, so that you are protected against the hostile forces, so that you do not fall into an absolute inconscience. That is why, at night, I watch over you all constantly and this is the time when anything can happen, because you remain open to all sorts... throw in the air and the harmful forces that constantly try to destroy us. It makes the atmosphere clear and limpid and in a way cleanses the atmosphere of all these impurities. There are also the hostile forces who live in the atmosphere and they are afraid of water, and as soon as it rains they flee, and if they cannot, they are dissolved. That is why there is a sort of peace that is established in the ...
... and logical conclusion which is quite contrary to our knowledge and experience. 7 Sri Aurobindo thought that such deviations and derailments were part of the stock-in-trade of the hostile forces, and one had to guard against them. There was the further difficulty that, although Sri Aurobindo was apparently answering his correspondents at the mental level, the replies really came from... the Mother and the sadhaks open to him and advancing their mission and, on the other hand, the scattered isolated pockets of doubt, dissidence, darkness, negation and even revolt in which the hostile forces found a favourable soil for their anti-divine work. Writing on 15 March 1937, Sri Aurobindo made a reference to this dichotomy: When people with a little perceptiveness come from outside... consciousness will begin to get dulled, forces of the vital world will take advantage, and quite unawares you will be carried far into wrong tracks .... 35 Among other suggestions of the hostile forces is the denial of the very possibility of physical immortality. But the Mother's reasoning against this 'orthodoxy' is unassailable: It [the body] must become aware of the immortality of ...
... is what has happened also in Motilal Roy's case. The remedy is to increase the stability and purify the being by removing all hostile forces. Calmness is the essential nature of the Purusha. It is Purusha. Every thought and action must be discriminated and hostile forces eliminated, so that the being may be purified. The process is necessary and is sometimes perilous. Even before the purification... physical, vital and mental experiences and higher experiences are very much disturbed by similar experiences and moving forces outside oneself. Their relation must be understood and by discrimination, hostile forces coming from cosmic nature must be conquered. Then when purification is completed, there will be liberation of mental and vital being and mental and vital forces. This is ordinarily called Moksha ...
... comradeship, the dark ocean on whose waves we toss for a brief hour. From the great night without, a chill blast breaks Page 26 in upon our refuge; all the loneliness of humanity amid hostile forces is concentrated upon the individual soul which must struggle alone, with what of courage it can command, against the whole weight of a universe that cares nothing for its hopes and fears. Victory... ' Well, fathers may not, but Gurus?" "No, Sir," Gurudev retorted, "I don't eat your fish. I have oceans of fish at my disposal and have no need to consume your little sprats. It is Messrs. Hostile Forces who do that — the dasyus, robbers." He was always like that — had never any weakness for lording it over the weak whom he actually invited to "discuss things" familiarly with him. And he... sea-water and court prison. In my despair, I wrote to Gurudev that I had decided to go to prison, giving up Yoga, the more so as I could not bring myself to believe in his fantastic doctrine of the "hostile forces". I challenged him to prove his thesis and mocked at the idea of invisible phantom forces, such as he posited, swaying sensible (?) men like us. This time, I imagine, Gurudev wrote without a ...
... pishachas , the little beings which revel in causing the greatest possible mischief and making life miserable for everybody. Why are these hostile forces there in the cosmos – in a world which after all is fully and totally Brahman? To explain how the hostile forces had come about, the Mother told a story to the children of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram School, insisting that it was no more than a parable... the Second World War seemed no longer sufficiently substantial to be worthy of serious consideration by some leading historians, while its extreme forms left the theologians tongue-tied. “The hostile forces exist and have been known to yogic experience ever since the days of the Veda and Zoroaster in Asia (and the mysteries of Egypt and the Cabbala) and in Europe also from old times”, wrote Sri Aurobindo ...
... Dasgupta. He asked: "You have said that in 1955 the hostile forces will try to give a tremendous blow. If we prove incapable of getting the victory, will the transformation at which our Yoga aims be considerably retarded?" The Mother replied with a grave face: "It will be retarded for many centuries. It is just this retardation that the hostile forces are attempting to bring about. And in spiritual... about "inner dislocation". She had added: "Occult forces must not speak about how the things will happen." Now it was suggested that too much talk and publicity had been made and in consequence hostile forces had queered the pitch. One of those who were Page 119 most worried was a pious old man named Acharya Abhaydev who was in sincere sympathy with Sri Aurobindo's work. On a ...
... forces. That is why faith and equanimity are indispensable. Page 90 We have to have the faith that in spite of our ignorance and errors and weaknesses and in spite of the attacks of hostile forces and in spite of any immediate appearance of failure the Divine Will is leading us, through every circumstance, towards the final realisation. This faith will give us equanimity; it is a faith that... revolts such as afflict the rajasic man on his way. Page 98 Types of Faith Mental faith combats doubt and helps to open to the true knowledge; vital faith prevents the attacks of the hostile forces or defeats them and helps to open to the true spiritual will and action; physical faith keeps one firm through all physical obscurity, inertia or suffering and helps to open to the foundation of... be put into every part and atom of the being so that there may be no possibility of a contrary vibration anywhere. You must keep the faith always that however the lower nature may rise or hostile forces attack, victory will be yours and the transformation is sure. Keep firm faith in the victory of the Light and face with calm equanimity the resistances of Matter and human personality to ...
... forces or beings of the mental, vital or subtle physical worlds. There are some that simply want to utilise, there are others that want to possess, oppose or destroy and are known by us as "the hostile forces". 14 April 1936 What does the author of Yogic Sadhan mean by saying "when the man himself becomes God" [ p. 1378 ]? He means "when he becomes identified with the Divine", or "when he... knowledge and its wilful distortions or reversals of the Truth as the verity of things. It is the powers and personalities of this perverted and perverting consciousness that we call hostile beings, hostile forces. Whenever these perversions created by them out of the stuff of the Ignorance are put forward as the truth of things, that is the Falsehood, in the Yogic sense, mithyā, moha . Page 103 ... of Nature? (2) Whether, during the process you describe (the "return" of the forces and so forth), it was not the Hostiles attacking all the time. There are some who are never touched by the hostile forces. The normal resistance of the lower Nature in human beings and the action of the Hostiles are two quite different things. The former is natural and occurs in everybody; the latter is an intervention ...
... Page 80 Sweet Mother, some people make sacrifices and offerings to hostile forces. Are these also received by the Divine? You mean sacrifices like those I have just spoken about, from people offering something for altogether selfish ends? No, people who offer sacrifices to hostile forces. To hostile forces? But they don't know they are hostile! Or as they do here, when they take ...
... the earth will be completely free of the presence of hostile forces. It represents a great progress for the earth. Sweet Mother, how can the hostile forces be converted? Well, if they want to, why can't they? There is nothing in Page 436 the universe which doesn't have one single origin—that is, a supreme origin—the hostile forces like everything else; and if they give up their revolt ...
... sort of disequilibrium and chaos. Does this mean that it is preparing for the manifestation of a new force, for the descent of the Truth, or is it the result of the action Page 326 of hostile forces in revolt against this descent? And what place does India occupy in all this? It is both at the same time—a chaotic means of preparation. India ought to be the spiritual guide who explains what... organised quite naturally and spontaneously. 3 November 1965 Page 328 Sweet Mother, Why does one feel afraid? Where does fear come from? Fear is an invention of the hostile forces who have created it as the best means of dominating living beings, animals and men. Those who are pure —that is to say, exclusively under the Divine influence—have no fear. 10 November 1965... of good and evil, a moral entity or rather an element of goodwill which tries to keep the individual on what is commonly known as the straight path. This element acts as a defence against the hostile forces which can quite easily take possession of one who has disregarded the advice of his conscience. But all this is a mental approximation of the Truth. It is not the Truth itself. 15 February ...
... Karma + x + y + z + a + b + c ad infinitum. Suicides and accidents are supposed to be due to hostile Forces. Not Forces hostile to our work, but hostile to the suicide and to the accidented fellow. She died because "she was hostile to the Divine". So it can't be the action of hostile Forces, for it would be in their interest to keep her alive, so that X may be hampered in his aspiration... Shall we put A on Sudarshan powder? All right. Try some Force please, A is getting disgusted, it seems! Only getting? He is chronically disgusted, to my experience. The hostile forces have made my life unbearable, sucking away every drop of blood gained after much pain and expense. Can't sit outside, even for a minute, under the breezy, starry sky. Their breeding place is in ...
... old nature trying to rise up — they need not be the result of any error. What is this struggle really about? It is between the old lower nature supported by the hostile forces and the new consciousness that began to descend — the struggle is always that. You say the struggle is between the old and the new consciousness. But then what is special in... revolt etc. and it has been the ruin of some. All that you had thrown out of the higher parts and quieted it elsewhere, but it remained sticking somewhere and when correspondence was suspended, the hostile forces took advantage of the fact that you were not allowed to write every day as before to raise up these feelings and you did not repel them Page 119 with sufficient force to put... make a fuss about it, but remained quiet till the empty or dull period was over. From your recent answers I now deduce that I have been misusing the terms "lower forces" and "hostile forces". What exactly is the difference between the two? There are natural movements of the ordinary human nature in the material consciousness which take time to get rid of. Of course we ...
... The Supramental is coming into the world and is bringing on a provisional order – not yet the true order. It rushes where there is an opening ; the opening closes and the hostile forces arise. It may utilise the hostile forces in spite of themselves. There are disturbances in the atmosphere due to-wrong ways. Some can pull the Power with impunity. There will be some effect on humanity but humanity... : No, yet you can help it. Disciple : Would it not create a noise in the world ? Sri Aurobindo : You must not expect to make noise. It is a silent work. Publicity would attract hostile forces. You can take up external work only when it is in you : when you are doing the Sadhana in the mind then outer activities like the Arya and writing, etc., can go on. But when I came down to the ...
... him on the ground that they have a purpose to serve. When one knows the hostile forces also as the working of the Divine, the left hand of God, then the movement of exhaustion of these forces is very quick. Disciple : Was the principle of Vama Marga of Tantra similar to this idea of conquering hostile forces, by "taking them as the movement of the Divine? Sri Aurobindo : I have... working of the left hand of God; it helps the Yogi to rise higher. With one hand He holds him up and with the other gives him a slap. Sri Aurobindo : Yes, it is so. Even what are called hostile forces have to be known and seen as the working of God. If you see what is pushing them from behind you find it is not the hostile force but the divine Power. But it is very dangerous to accept everything ...
... clarity of your letter on Auroville very much. It makes me grasp the sickening hold of the S.A.S. on Auroville even more strongly. Mother's plan for Auroville has become a mocking in the hands of hostile forces and if you have read Agenda VII dated September 21, 1966, you must have realized the vastness of Mother's plan for Auroville as an occult means to avoid another world war and divert the forces... " Now you understand the real perspective. If we start things moving in the right direction, we will completely alter the situation in Auroville itself, instead of playing the game of the hostile forces, which is to delay and hamper the real action by all means. We cannot foresee what will happen then and how the picture will be changed in such a way that all our calculations will be upset... change in my being. It is yet too early and not advisable to speak of it, and it is linked in some way to our recent journey out of India. The change of atmosphere with its usual whirl of hostile forces targeted on me has helped to clarify a number of things — this journey was beneficial, though very tiring and most disquieting regarding a certain "explosive" India. I need not enter into details ...
... that you never see money going in any considerable amount to the cause of Truth. Always it goes astray, because it is in the clutch of the hostile forces and one of the principal means by which they keep their grip upon the earth. The hold of the hostile forces upon money-power is powerfully, completely and thoroughly organised and to extract anything out of this compact organisation is a most difficult ...
... have been the coming together in meditation of so many yet undeveloped people carrying with them a very mixed atmosphere. When that happens or even when there is a general meditation, a chakra , hostile forces are attracted and try to break in. There ought to Page 339 be someone in the group who during the meditation protects the circle. If the meditation is of a psychic character the protection... It is these also that pursue with accidents those who are trying to collect money. I have for some time been aware of their activities and suggestions and they are now almost the only positively hostile forces of which I am aware in the Yoga, the rest being merely the normal obstructions of nature. In my own atmosphere I am able to make their suggestions abortive and minimise their play pending their ...
... and passion in the Prana or disease in the body. To keep up these things by ingenuous justifications and coverings, is one of the usual devices of the hostile forces. Be on your guard against any idea which will make you admit these hostile forces on the same terms as the divine forces. I understand you have said that you must admit all because all is a manifestation of God. All is a manifestation ...
... away from peace and light and the true psychic condition? You were constantly doing that before and it was the cause of all your troubles, putting yourself on the side of the obscure and false and hostile forces. If you want to get free, you must cease listening to them, justifying them, throwing them against the Mother. We are perfectly ready to correct you and have no intention of leaving you to your... starts this kind of thing; for otherwise you will not be truly ready to receive the correction and will start again believing the Mother to be false and deceptive and the rest of it, as soon as the hostile forces can create or invent an excuse. 1 May 1932 I find it rather surprising that you should regard what the Mother said to you or what I wrote as a recommendation to relax aspiration or postpone ...
... 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 make your determination stronger, your aspiration clearer. It is true, however, that they exist because you gave them reason to exist. So long as there is something in you which answers... together, the part that attracted and the thing it attracted; they are sent away and you are absolutely clear. Source The Hole Made by Boasting in their relation with human beings [the hostile forces] take a very wicked pleasure in testing them. For example, if you are not extremely strong and extremely sincere, and you tell yourself, "Oh, I am sure of my faith"—this for instance among many ...
... real temporary defeat on the way to the final victory. It is just this reality of the whole play that makes it no mere jest. The Divine Will actually suffers distortion the moment it touches the hostile forces in the Ignorance. Hence we must never slacken our efforts to change the world and bring about a different order. We must be vigilant to co-operate with the Divine and not placidly think that whatever... differentiate the Divine from the undivine. For, life is a battlefield in which the Divine succeeds in detail only when the lower nature is receptive to its impulsions instead of siding with the hostile forces. And even then the test is not so much external as internal: a divine movement cannot be measured by apparent signs— it is a certain kind of vibration that indicates its presence—external tests ...
... of these may combine to bring about a particular result. These forces work each for the fulfilment of its own drive—they need not be at all what we call hostile forces,—they are simply forces of Nature. It is not a fact however that hostile forces cannot bring a man here—e.g. when Y came back and wanted to enter the Asram, there was clearly a hostile force working that wanted to create trouble, but ...
... Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960 Undated 1958 When the hostile forces want to attack those around me but do not succeed in making them overtly hostile to Sri Aurobindo's work or in making them turn against me personally, they always use the same tactic, with the same argument: 'You may have all the inner realizations you want,' they say, 'the most beautiful ... is concerned, your life is wasted, lost. There is an abyss you will never bridge between your inner experience and a concrete realization in the world.' This is the number one argument of the hostile forces. I know it well—for millions of years I have been hearing them say the same thing over and over again, and each time I unmask them. It is a lie, it is THE Lie. All that seeks to establish a divorce ...
... the difficulty. We are besieged by this enormous world of hostile forces—oceans of forces, churning and combining and submerging each other in gigantic pralayas, 1 then again regrouping and combining. When you see that, it feels as if you had to be the Divine Himself to get over the difficulty. Precisely so! (And it's the hostile forces who help you to see this, it's their role.) You have TO BE ...
... Avatar In Hinduism, the Kalki Avatar is thought of as the last of the succession of Avatars, who will come at the end of the present Kali Yuga. The victor of the last, decisive battle with the hostile forces, he will ride on a white (winged) horse and brandish a sword or scimitar. He will vanquish Yama, or Death, and resolve all opposites as well as overcome darkness. He will be the divine man, at... requires a more complete representation of the human being, it requires the complete male/female Avatar. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, two great warriors in one, waged the last battles against the hostile forces, some of which we know about (e.g. the twentieth century wars), most of which we are ignorant of, as we are ignorant of the totality of their being and action. Their all-important mission as the ...
... true solution.” 20 Only Supermind would do. But the bringing down of the Supermind into the body of the Earth, the complete and radical transformation of our nature, was precisely what the hostile forces were trying to prevent at any cost, for it would mean the end of their dominion over the Earth and humanity. One reads of many masters in several yogic disciplines who possessed the power to... its evolutionary structures. The manifestation of the Supermind had been felt to be imminent in 1938-39, a possibility which may be reckoned as the main reason of the fierce counteraction by the hostile forces: the Second World War. At that point Sri Aurobindo was not even confronted by the possibility of the “fiasco” which threatened his and the Mother’s mission. This may give us at least some idea ...
... search of people who could receive it’ – and with the power to protect this transitional species. Why does the overman need protection? Because the world is in the grip of powerful and cunning hostile forces, anti-divine forces, that will mercilessly do everything within their power to prevent a change in the dispensation and the incarnation of any kind of higher species on Earth. How vicious they... Then came the period of darkest night. For the first time the brain was affected so that she could not control some of her movements. Again she said that she was the object of black magic. The hostile forces easily find an instrument for their intentions in the small, egoistic, very ignorant and often very nasty human beings. ‘One of my legs has been dead for a long time – it’s just beginning to revive ...
... Experiences in Sleep My Pilgrimage to the Spirit May 29, 1930 Q. Do hostile forces attack a person to test him? Why do they attack particular persons? A. Hostile forces attack every sadhaka; some are conscious, others are not. Their object is either to influence the person or to use him or to spoil the sadhana or the work or any other motive of the ...
... then it no longer has any value. 10 April 1933 What is the significance of this picture showing a young girl with her hand on a lion's back? "With the help of the divine power all the hostile forces can become calm and peaceful"—is that it? The lion is the symbol of power. It would be better to say that under the control of the Divine Will, power is beneficent, while without that control... state higher than its ordinary condition. 12 December 1933 Page 19 Would you please tell me the reason for the cyclone? The cyclone was the result of a violent attack of hostile forces. 18 December 1933 Do you think that solely through an intense aspiration one can gain silence of the whole being and do sadhana by that silence? Yes. Can all the impurities of ...
... 15 November 1958 Experience of 13 November 1958 To tell the truth, you are never freed from hostile forces until you come out for good into the Light, above the lower hemisphere. And there the phrase "hostile forces" loses its meaning; only the forces of progress are there in order to compel you to progress. But you must come out of the lower hemisphere ...
... and are all indispensable to the completeness of the result. The three types of examination are: those set by the forces of Nature, those set by spiritual and divine forces, and those set by hostile forces. These last are the most deceptive in their appearance and to avoid being caught unawares and unprepared requires a state of constant watchfulness, sincerity and humility. The most commonplace... examinations of physical nature. Aspiration, trust, idealism, enthusiasm and generous self-giving, for spiritual examinations. Vigilance, sincerity and humility for the examinations from hostile forces. And do not imagine that there are on the one hand people who undergo the examinations and on the other people who set them. Depending on the circumstances and the moment we are all both examiners ...
... of hope is struck in spite of the difficulties envisaged. Though in the latter there is the hint that the labouring God's work would fail if death occurred, this bit of wishful thinking by the hostile forces is not openly accepted and we get the impression that anyhow the task undertaken will be fulfilled: physical death need not bar the final victory, but the expectation is that after a little while... for the ill-omened event! Simultaneously with my failure to keep my wits about me was the action of the Grace. But now on August 8, though a wrong condition during the morning gave ground to the Hostile Forces to attack, there was along with the morning's ultimate stand against them the most naturally cooperative condition - absolute tranquillity - under which the Mother's protection could have most ...
... invisible to us. After a while she packed the blighter off. "He is gone," she said. We asked her: "Why didn't you finish him? Why did you just let him go?" She explained a very important point. These hostile forces take all kinds of forms. And it's no use destroying one form, because the forces themselves cannot be destroyed. They will take another form and come to harass you. But they do serve a purpose:... of the year, may extend to fourteen months.... They will be for all, for the world, for India, for the Ashram and individuals also, more or less equally. It is, I may say, the last hope of the hostile forces — to prevail against the Present Realisation." Now think of the period the Mother has mentioned for the difficulties: fourteen months. Count twelve months of the year 1955 and then ...
... have been the coming together in meditation of so many yet undeveloped people carrying with them a very mixed atmosphere. When that happens or even when there is a general meditation, a chakra, hostile forces are attracted and try to break in. There ought to be some one in the group who during the meditation protects the circle. If the meditation is of a psychic character the protection must be psychic... It is these also that pursue with accidents those who are trying to collect money. I have for some time been aware of their activities and suggestions and they are now almost the only positively hostile forces of which I am aware in the Yoga, the rest being merely obstructions of nature. In my own atmosphere I am able to make their suggestions abortive and minimise their play pending their elimination ...
... shaped nothing evil — it is the lower forces that receive from the Overmind and distort its forms. Can the intuitive mind or the higher mind be influenced by hostile forces? No — but the hostile forces can use the forces sent down from them if they get mixed with the mind or the vital. What is the distinction between the knowledge of the Higher Mind and that ...
... enveloping power that he feels. It does not begin for all in the same way—some only feel it above their heads occasionally descending on them and entering. About the contact with the world and the hostile forces, that is of course always one of the sadhak's chief difficulties, but to transform the world and the hostile powers is too big a task and the personal transformation cannot wait for it. What has... of the higher consciousness in the inner being and finally, its substitution even in the most external outwardly active parts in place of the old ignorant consciousness, then the world and the hostile forces will no longer matter—for one's own soul at least; for there is a larger work not personal in which of course they will have to be dealt with; but that need not be a main preoccupation at the present ...
... the divine force which descended through the Sahasrara right down to the two lower chakras. With the help of this force, I pushed back the hostile forces and set myself afloat again. A little later I woke up. But for some time I was aware that the hostile forces were trying to force the wall and I pushed them back in the same way. The two lower centres were vibrating rapidly. Carriages, horses ...
... : How can the Higher Power harm a person ? Sri Aurobindo : It is not the Higher Power that harms; it is the fight that harms, because the struggle is made more acute on account of the hostile forces. It is always safer to avoid such conflicts. (After a pause) If I were to put force on Y probably the first result would be that he would be more mad, because those forces that posses him now would... it be said in your case that the accident was the result of "Utkata-Karma?” Sri Aurobindo : I don't think so. For me it is a part of the fight against forces of ignorance and against hostile forces. Disciple : Your foot slipped on the tiger-skin. Now, suppose you had beaten a tiger in your past life with a stick, then it may give you a fractured leg this time. Sri Aurobindo ...
... letters on Yoga, 598ff; how to read the letters, 597-99; general guidance, 599; Guru-Sishya exchanges, 599-600; Grand Trunk Road 600; food and sleep, 600-02; samadhi and waking realisation, 602; hostile forces, 603; their role, 603; soul within and Grace above, 603; pro-Hitler sympathies of sadhaks, 702-3; C. R. Reddy on Ashram children, 718; focus of India's spirituality, 724; flower-offerings, 725;... on darsan, 5945; on a 'vacant' and a 'calm mind', 599; on suicide, 599-600; on care of material things and waste, 601; on need for food and sleep, 600-2; on susupti state, 602; on role of 'hostile' forces, 602ff; on predestination, 602-3; letters to disciples on literature, 604ff; on Goethe and Shakespeare, 605, 606; on Valmiki & Vyasa, Homer & Shakespeare, 605; on Donne's poetry, 606; on psych ...
... there would be nothing to overcome. It would be no real conquest at all. One can always feel the difficulties as opportunities, and in one sense one can say that whatever happens is for the best. Hostile forces also are recognized as hostile, but from another standpoint they become the Divine power throwing out attacks for the work to be done. Ultimately all powers are from Page 92 ... it is the Divine who sends you the defeat so that you may conquer the difficulties hereafter. This is necessary also to counter the ego's sense of responsibility. At one time I experienced the hostile forces as the gods trying to test my strength. You have to act not for success but for the sake of the Divine, though it does not mean that you must not work for success. Arjuna complains to Sri Krishna ...
... look upon money," Sri Aurobindo said in 1926, "as a power of the Divine, and, as with everything else, we want to conquer it for the Divine in life. As the money-power today is in the hands of the hostile forces, naturally, we have to fight them." He explained its working. "You have really to follow a certain rhythm of the money-power, the rhythm that brings in and the one that throws out money. Money... some spiritual disciplines put a ban on money and riches and proclaim poverty and bareness of life as the only spiritual condition. "But this is an error; it leaves the power in the hands of the hostile forces. To reconquer it for the Divine to whom it belongs and use it divinely for the divine life is the supramental way for the Sadhaka. "All wealth belongs to the Divine and those who hold it are ...
... may have been the coming together in meditation of so many yet undeveloped people carrying with them a very mixed atmosphere. When that happens or even when there is general meditation, a chakra, hostile forces are attracted and try to break in. There ought to be some one in the group who during the meditation protects the circle. If the meditation is of a psychic character the protection must be psychic... movements. It is these also that pursue with accidents those who are trying to collect money. I have for some time been aware of their activities and suggestions and they are almost the only positively hostile forces of which I am aware in the Yoga, the rest being merely obstructions of nature. In my own atmosphere I am able to make their suggestions abortive and minimise their play pending their elimination ...
... in Matter. The spreading of these powers is the work of the “ripe souls” that have incarnated in order to accomplish this very job. Any spiritual effort is as much as possible thwarted by the hostile forces. These beings exist on all lower levels of existence, as well on what is for us “inside” as on what we experience as “outside”. In fact, the ignorant human being is to them what the mouse is to... often said that the lower, dark vital forces had made a massive inrush upon the Earth during the First World War. “The First World War was the result of tremendous descent of the vital forces – the hostile forces of the vital world – into the material world.” (The Mother: Questions and Answers 1953, p. 184). × ...
... Dasgupta. He asked: “You have said that in 1955 the hostile forces will try to give a tremendous blow. If we prove incapable of getting the victory, will the transformation at which our Yoga aims be considerably retarded?” The Mother replied with a grave face: “It will be retarded by many centuries. It is just this retardation that the hostile forces are attempting to bring about. And in spiritual matters ...
... there is also a great opposition to the descent at these times 2 … It is true that attacks are frequent at that time.’ 3 (Sri Aurobindo) The resistance and the attacks of course came from the hostile forces, who used all possible means to prevent each and every descent of the Higher Power and who doggedly fought every spiritual step forward. Sri Aurobindo’s concentration to ward off the attacks was... quietly and with dignity they comported themselves outwardly, most of them were no doubt seriously shaken. Indeed, how had that accident been possible? Sri Aurobindo said shortly afterwards: ‘The hostile forces have tried many times to prevent things like the darshan, but I have succeeded in warding off all their attacks. At the time the accident to my leg happened, I was more occupied with guarding the ...
... Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 30 April 1935 My dear Mother, I have seen this: the Ashram has no hostile forces; it is filled with the Mother. It is only when we open to these hostile forces, calling them in, that they come and disturb us. If we remained calm, quiet and open to the Divine alone, the life of the Ashram would undergo a very rapid ...
... You, but You were unshaken, concentrated, calm, quiet, peaceful; then the Light descended, the hostile forces disappeared and there was peace on earth. O Mother, let us all remain consecrated to the Truth, always peaceful, calm, quiet and unshaken, unmoved by any circumstances, and the hostile forces shall vanish. Yes, this is excellent. It is by a quiet, strong and persistent peace that the ...
... advance spiritually, will be inevitably attacked by the hostile forces using visible and invisible means. If ordinary life is a battle, spiritual life is a hundred times more so, and one has to be a hero to persevere in one’s effort. Of this heroic struggle Sri Aurobindo and the Mother are the best examples; their fight with the hostile forces can be read on every page of their lives. This is why in ...
... 9) To the luminous Wise Ones and to him who voices thee, O Fire, be the founder of their growth and expansion, that the Gritsamadas strong with the strength of the Heroes and overcoming the hostile forces may conquer the higher worlds by thy force and take delight of 13 the secret inner spaces. SUKTA 5 होताजनिष्ट चेतनः पिता पितृभ्य ऊतये । प्रयक्षञ्जेन्यं वसु शकेम वाजिनो यमम् ॥१॥ 1)... master the God and the mortal; 23 carry us beyond that hostile power. विश्वा उत त्वया वयं धारा उदन्या इव । अति गाहेमहि द्विषः ॥३॥ 3) And so by thee may we plunge and pass beyond all hostile forces as through streams of rushing water. शुचिः पावक वन्धोऽग्ने बृहद्वि रोचसे । त्वं घृतेभिराहुतः ॥४॥ 4) O cleansing Fire, thou art pure and adorable; vast is the beauty of thy light fed ...
... shown that the personal Power can prevail over the opposition & in its development must certainly become dominant. But it is the impersonal Power that has to prevail by taking possession of the hostile forces. It is for this reason that the gradual process is so prolonged & that even now the hampering of the full rapidity is permitted. The Karma of Sahitya is being maintained, but too much in... Samadhi Renewal of activity in the samadhi. 7 August 1914 The force of Asiddhi has now endured for a full week. Its power is still in limitation by the division into favourable & hostile forces. It is most active in kriti & in sharira. Samata has stood the test, but not the faith in the rapidity or the faith in the kriti. These are entirely eclipsed. Karma Translation of Paroles ...
... forces and her first steps must be covert and behind a shield of self-veiling and only partially revealing movements. Other movements must be thrown in front which will attract the attention of the hostile forces, movements not of the definite future, but still helpful to prepare the field, and it is only when she has gathered sufficient material force that she will throw off disguise and come to the front... national psychology which is itself by no means strong either in intellectuality or in rapid vital energy. The experiment is most difficult, the chances precarious, and the one great hope is that the hostile forces will go on blundering and give the Bolshevik centre each time leisure and opportunity to repair the results of misfortune and strengthen itself for good. That is all I can see in the matter. ...
... s of the psychic being. The feelings and aspirations of the psychic being are all turned towards truth and right consciousness and the Divine; it is the only part that cannot be touched by the hostile forces and their suggestions. Everything is dangerous in the sadhana or can be, except the psychic change. That [ feeling the Mother's Presence, Love, Joy, Beauty ] is one part of the psychic... strong and in front, but can govern the mind and vital and physical nature, give it the clear intimation of what is true and false, divine or undivine, right or wrong and repel all invasion of the hostile forces. Page 339 It is true that if the consciousness remains quiet, the psychic will manifest more and more from deep inside and a clear feeling will come of what is true and spiritually ...
... some absorption in some work she is doing or, very often, to some strong attack of hostile forces in the atmosphere. 19 April 1935 About Mother's seriousness at Pranam, you wrote: "The Mother's seriousness is due to some absorption in some work she is doing or, very often, to some strong attack of hostile forces in the atmosphere." But I never felt any hostile attack before going to Pranam; rather ...
... cannot or will not move the hostile forces to action, since even the Asura and Rakshasa and Pisacha are her children? As for the Asuric forces, their movement is part of the ordinary cosmic movement in the Ignorance, but Mother is not here to encourage that movement, but to bring down the higher Truth in which they have no place. If then she moves the hostile Forces to act against her and her work ...
... that you never see money going in any considerable amount to the cause of Truth. Always it goes astray, because it is in the clutch of the hostile forces and is one of the principal means by which they keep their grip upon the earth. The hold of the hostile forces upon money-power is powerfully, completely and thoroughly organised and to extract anything out of this compact organisation is a most difficult ...
... is perfect gymnastics! (A mathematician disciple:) The same thing applies to mathematicians, I suppose ? Yes. If at the time of death the vital being is attacked in the vital world by hostile forces or entities, does it not look for a shelter somewhere? Yes, it is for this reason that in all countries and in all religions, it is recommended that for a period of at least seven days after... affection (without any inner disorder, without weeping, without any of those distraught passions), if you can be calm, your atmosphere becomes a kind of beacon for him, and when he is attacked by hostile forces (I am speaking of the vital being of course, not the psychic being which goes to take rest), he may feel altogether lost, not know what to do and find himself in great distress; then he sees through ...
... belong to the Divine. If the Divine wants you to enjoy anything, enjoy it; but be ready too to give it up the very next moment with a smile. What are physical ailments? Are they attacks by the hostile forces from outside? There are two factors that have to be considered in the matter. There is what comes from outside and there is what comes from your inner condition. Your inner condition becomes... 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 result of microbes and not a part of the movement of the Yoga? Where does Yoga ...
... real temporary defeat on the way to the final victory. It is just this reality of the whole play that makes it no mere jest. The Divine Will actually suffers distortion the moment it touches the hostile forces in the Ignorance. Hence we must never slacken our efforts to change the world and bring about a different order. We must be vigilant to co-operate with the Divine and not placidly think that whatever... from the undivine. For, Page 38 life is a battlefield in which the Divine succeeds in detail only when the lower nature is receptive to its impulsions instead of siding with the hostile forces. And even then the test is not so much external as internal: a divine movement cannot be measured by apparent signs—it is a certain kind of vibration that indicates its presence—external tests ...
... and they would immediately find the means to look at it with contempt, for they have a horror of weakness. There are others, you tell them: "Fear is a suggestion from hostile forces, you must push it away, as you drive off hostile forces", and this is very effective. For each one it is different. But first of all you must know that fear is a very bad thing, very bad, it is a dissolvent; it is like an ...
... your nature of which they make use. But you are not conscious, and others also, of this intervention and pressure at its source for the reason I state. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: The Hostile Forces and Hostile Beings His new consciousness makes him feel more strongly the opposite forces that one contacts when one moves in the world and has to do affairs and meet with others and he is... disappear. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Poetry and Art: The Two Parts of the Poetic Creator … the First World War was the result of a tremendous descent of the forces of the vital world (hostile forces of the vital world) into the material world. Even those who were conscious of this descent and consequently armed to defend themselves against it, suffered from its consequences. The world, the ...
... (not the equilibrium, the proportion) between the amount of resistance in physical substance, and the Power. But are these merely material resistances or are they rather hostile forces? No; outside Matter, the hostile forces don't have even a BIT of power: NONE. Their power is in Matter? In Matter; practically inconscient Matter. They are in inconscient Matter? More accurately ...
... tomorrow. Mother will say: this is the effect of indulging himself so much in the morning! He deserves to be kicked out. And so on. The usual nonsense. By the way, I don't find that the Hostile Forces have much imagination; they are always repeating the same old tricks! They ought to be worn out by this time. O Sweet, Sweet Mother, Thy Peace is in me, Thy Peace is in me, Thy Peace is... because it was not supported by Sweet Mother, and I firmly believe that nothing whatever can hold true or be effective unless it is supported by Sweet Mother. When we are in the presence of hostile forces, only the purity of an absolute truth can conquer them. This is the argument, almost word for word, that upset me, and I still haven't found the answer to this problem. Enlighten me, Sweet ...
... power of realizing it. X told me that a realization should come at the beginning of the fifth month if I repeat the mantra strictly according to his instructions, but he again told me that the hostile forces would do all they could to prevent me from saying my mantra: mental suggestions and even illness. X has understood that I have work at the Ashram, and he has exempted me from the outer forms (pujas... thing. You will have to take precautions so as not to be disturbed or interrupted in an inopportune way. Domestic servants, curious people, so-called friends can all serve as instruments of the hostile forces to put a spoke in the wheels. I will do my best to protect you, but you will have a lot to do yourself and will have to be as firm as an iron rod. I am not writing you all this to discourage ...
... such movements at will, everywhere—is quite another. I don't believe that this ... condition has been fulfilled. If what the serpent said is true and if this is really what will vanquish these hostile forces that rule over money, well then, it has not been fulfilled. It has been fulfilled to a certain extent—but it's negligible. It is conditional, limited: in one case, it works; in another, it doesn't... from it, but he is on an equal footing. And so he has acquired—this is a fact—he has acquired a certain power of independence that he immediately used to put himself under the influence of the hostile forces, which are not terrestrial but extra-terrestrial. I am speaking of terrestrial Nature. Through their mental power, men had the choice and the freedom to make pacts with these extraterrestrial ...
... I can't speak of it now, for it's the key to SOMETHING VERY GREAT. ( silence ) It's the very point where Nature (I mean the passive side of the force of manifestation) is a slave to the hostile forces. There is a point where She is dominated by them. And this must be cured before the Power from above, the Power of the Shakti, can pass through everything, dominate everything, and be infallible... that has never been trod by anyone. Sri Aurobindo did it ... in principle. But he gave the charge of doing it in the body to me. That was the wonderful thing when we were together and all these hostile forces were fighting ... (they tried to kill me any number of times. He always saved me in an absolutely miraculous and marvelous way). But you see, this seemed to create very great BODILY difficulties ...
... indispensable for the integral result. These three categories of tests are: those conducted by the forces of Nature, those conducted by the spiritual and divine forces, and those conducted by the hostile forces. This latter category is the most deceptive in its appearance, and a constant state of vigilance, sincerity and humility is required so as not to be caught by surprise or unprepared. The most... endurance and plasticity, cheerfulness and fearlessness. For the spiritual tests: aspiration, confidence, idealism, enthusiasm and generosity in self-giving. For the tests stemming from the hostile forces: vigilance, sincerity and humility. But do not imagine that those who are tested are on one side and those who test on the other; depending upon the times and circumstances, we are both examiners ...
... before this and it was only his return to the Asram that gave him enough vitality to last longer. I firmly believed that death was impossible here. Since it has been possible, it means that hostile forces have become victorious. There have been three deaths since the Asram began—one, of a child in a house that was not then part of the Asram and the other of a visitor. This is the first death... more than one) are the latest discoveries in Europe of which samples have been sent here. D is all right. But can you tell me why so many cases have flared up along with my advent? Are the hostile forces trying to test the capacity of a raw doctor? I have noticed that—but am not yet quite clear as to the cause—whether it is a special favour to you or merely a coincidence—i.e. you just balled ...
... best and he takes everything in that light. For the Yogi who has to conquer these things, they must come; otherwise what is there to be conquered? In Yoga difficulties are opportunities. No doubt, hostile forces are recognised as hostile, but from. a special standpoint. Ultimately all powers are from the Divine, assisting in the work. They throw difficulties at us in order to test the strength. It is... created the opposition and sends you a defeat so that you may conquer hereafter. This is necessary in order to go beyond the ego's sense of its own responsibility. At one time I experienced the hostile forces as gods trying to test my strength in sadhana. You act not for success but for the Divine, though that does not mean that you must not work for success. Is this confusing? That was what Arjuna ...
... Page 211 that the hostile forces had gained a great victory. Dr. Manilal asked in his somewhat childlike manner, "Sir, why did it happen to you?" And Sri Aurobindo shot back, in a similar tone, "Why shouldn't it happen to me ?" ( Laughter) But the surface explanation He gave was that He had not believed or thought that these adverse, hostile forces would dare to touch Him, so He had ...
... Book. The hostile forces played their last dreadful game by following me constantly like a shadow. Whenever there was a chink, they simply rushed into my consciousness and set everything topsy-turvy. When I was engrossed in my work, I was not affected by them. But in unconscious moments I was trapped. I had a doubt whether I could finish the paintings of Book Twelve—Epilogue. Hostile forces in some people ...
... said as regards the sources of these tests: "The three types of examination are (1) that set by the forces of Nature, (2) that set by the spiritual and divine forces, and (3) that set by the hostile forces. The last are the most deceptive in their appearance and if one is not to be taken by surprise or unprepared, one has to be constantly in a state of vigilance and sincerity and humility." (Ibid... like to advance with safety on the path of spiritual sadhana. For without the constant support of this virtue of intrepidity, he is apt to make a slip and stumble almost at every step. All the hostile forces of the subtle worlds are ever on the alert to detect even the slightest trace of fear and trepidation in the sadhaka' s consciousness so that they can use it as a convenient point d'appui to throw ...
... for the purposes of ego and held by hostile influences and perverted to their purpose. In the course of a conversation Sri Aurobindo once said: 'As the money-power today is in the hands of the hostile forces, naturally, we have to fight them. Whenever they see that you are trying to oust them they will try to thwart your efforts. You have to bring a higher power than these and put them down.' After... exposed to such recoils; ours is so complex and many-sided and embraces such large aims that we cannot expect any smooth progress until we near the completion of an effort, —especially as all the hostile forces in the spiritual world are in a constant state of opposition and besiege our gains; for the complete victory of a single one of us would mean a general downfall among them. In fact by our own unaided ...
... Keeping everything in hope of better luck today (this has nothing to do with A's malaise, by the way. Trying to take advantage of bottom of paper). 2 Page 83 MYSELF: The hostile forces have made my life unbearable, sucking away every drop of blood. Can't sit outside even one minute under the breezy starry sky. Their breeding place is in the thick bushes M has planted. Can't you... He is much more 'granite' than you. Not mysterious at all. Succinct and epigrammatic. MYSELF: Why didn't your Force prove decisive in this patient's case? Failure of the Supermind over hostile forces? I give you the chance to bombard me or else I will, SRI AUROBINDO: What has the Supermind to do here? Page 85 Who told you that I was using the supramental Force? I have said ...
... Africa as in India, that wherever Yoga or Yajna is done, there the hostile forces gather together to stop it by any means. It is known that there is a lower nature and a higher spiritual nature—it is known that they pull different ways and the lower is strongest at first and the higher afterwards. It is known that the hostile Forces take advantage of the movements of the lower nature and try to spoil ...
... written so much about them. (1) There must be no tamasic (inert, passive) surrender to the Mother — for that will bring as its reaction a passive inert helplessness before the lower or hostile forces or suggestions, an unresisting or helplessly resisting acquiescence or sufferance of their inroads. A passive condition can bring much peace, quietude, joy even, but it disperses the being instead... clear. Passivity to the entering force — that is the only answer to your "what is all this". What is the connection between the inertia which is a static tamasic state and the hostile forces which are dynamic powerful things? The inertia simply prepares the ground — when there is the inert passivity, the adverse Force tries to take advantage of it to push in its own ...
... dream-vision. I saw your answer to my question about H. You had written, "Yes." The characters of the writing were exactly like yours. Can the hostile forces imitate your handwriting? They can imitate anything — but why should it have been the hostile forces? On the same paper you had drawn a sketch of a bottle. It was filled to the brim. Just above it there were two figures ...
... drama, etc. It is true but isn't it quite natural too since we are hardly transformed in our nature and aspiration, as yet? To have weaknesses of the lower nature is one thing—to call in the hostile forces is quite another. Whoever does the latter, takes his risk. He is going towards the opposite camp—for the marks of the hostile Force are contempt of the Divine, revolt and hatred against the Mother... that she took steps hesitating or not—most of her life was drifting in the current of her own impulses... If after a few years of sincere sadhana I make a wrong movement under the influence of hostile forces, why does not the Divine come in with his power and save me, considering that I have been true to him at least for some time? And what do you make of the free choice and the necessity of assent ...
... possessed by them and troubled and tortured. Those are of a different kind. They are beings belonging to the vital world and are hostile forces. Here we were speaking of the remnants of the vital being of a dead man. But even in cases of possession by hostile forces or beings, the real truth is most often of another kind. Usually these beings or spirits, as they are called, are nothing more than ...
... possessed by them and troubled and tortured. Those are of a different kind. They are beings belonging to the vital world and are hostile forces. Here we were speaking of the remnants of the vital being of a dead man. But even in cases of possession by hostile forces of beings, the real truth is most often of another kind. Usually these beings or spirits, as they are called, are nothing more than ...
... exposed to such recoils; ours is so complex and many-sided and embraces such large aims that we cannot expect any smooth progress until we near the completion of an effort, – especially as all the hostile forces in the spiritual world are in a constant state of opposition and beseige our gains; for the complete victory of a single one of us would mean a general downfall among them. In fact by our own unaided... behind. If it were a certainty on the mental plane then the thing would have been achieved. When there is the certainty there is no room for struggle. Till now it was not done, probably because the hostile forces were very strong." ¹ 4 April. Talk on the supramental yoga. 5 April. Talk on Bahaism; descent of the Supermind into the physical; powers of disembodied spirits. 9 April. Talk on Mahatma ...
... e was quite clear to us. 17 Page 207 Read in the context in which Sri Aurobindo recalled this incident, it seems that what was happening to Paul Richard was a sustained attack by hostile forces, thrusting suggestion after suggestion that the whole adventure of Integral Yoga was perhaps going to misfire, and that he had better leave the arena while the going was good. As Sri Aurobindo... and once the path is made, it will be easy for those who come afterwards. But before that it is a long-drawn-out battle. The more you gain in your strength the more becomes the resistance of the hostile forces. 18 The Chariot of Yoga in which Mirra and Sri 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 ...
... 532,569-75,636-8,678-9,691,699 Karmayoga 251-3, 258, 274, 279, 280ff, 526-7, 546, 688, 748 finances 241, 281, 432, 445, 478-9, 570, 684 union of spiritual and economic power 241, 683-5 hostile forces in 261ff, 275 'a human microcosm' 281-2, 570, 664 Bakery 285 Dining Room 286 cult of flowers 320-4, 419-20 Vedantic realisation in 357 Balcony darshan 361-4, 699 Page 897 Terrace... the Power guiding her 458 significance of his birthday 232 the world of the Gods 232 founding his Ashram 240, 247-8, 251 (cf200, 204, 215-6) love mundane and divine 250 (cf475, 544-5) hostile forces and Ashram sadhaks 261, 275-6, 374-5 hardships in his life 262 sadhana and newspaper-reading 274 two necessities of 377 and suicide 377 cheerfulness in 378 difficulties in 379-80 ego ...
... revolt etc.—and it has been the ruin of some. All that you had thrown out of the higher parts, and quieted it elsewhere, but it remained sticking somewhere and when correspondence was suspended, the hostile forces took advantage of the fact that you were not allowed to write every day as before to raise up these feelings and you did not repel them with sufficient force to put an end to the attack. Hence ...
... 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 make your determination stronger, your aspiration clearer. "It is true, however, that they exist because you gave them reason to exist. So long as there is something in you which answers ...
... exposed to such recoils; ours is so complex and many-sided and embraces such large aims that we cannot expect any smooth progress until we near the completion of our effort,—especially as all the hostile forces in the spiritual world are in a constant state of opposition and besiege our gains; for the complete victory of a single one of us would mean a general downfall among them. In fact by our own unaided ...
... make great progress. But experience does not support the idea that it makes no difference or is almost the same. 18 August 1933 I want to be close to the Mother. If I was close to her, the hostile forces would not attack me. You are quite mistaken. Among those who are physically near the Mother there are some who have much worse attacks than you have ever had. It is the inner nearness that ...
... days? Should I be on guard against attack? It is better to be on guard for the struggle is possible, though not inevitable. Something is put in you to develop—usually the Page 510 hostile forces try to interfere to prevent the inner evolution. A little more vigilance is therefore advisable. 9 May 1933 Four months ago I begged the Mother for an interview, but up to this time she ...
... a ploughshare, so I substituted fountain-pens. 20 July 1937 Death I firmly believed that death was impossible here. Since the death of S 4 shows that it is possible, it means that hostile forces have become victorious. There have been three deaths since the Asram began—one, of a child in a house that was not then part of the Asram and the other of a visitor. This is the first death ...
... So with the ifs that condition a farther progress. 31 July 1936 There are some lines in Entretiens which I do not find in the English Conversations. For example, in the conversation about hostile forces, the Mother speaks about some "êtres pervers et hostiles de plus grande envergure et d'une plus haute origine que tous ceux dont j'ai parlé jusqu'à présent" [p. 69]. These new hostiles are not ...
... here because he was in ignorance of the full facts about the menstrual trouble. 3 October 1936 Why didn't your Force prove decisive in this case? About the Supermind and its failure over hostile forces, I give you a chance to bombard me or else I will! What has the Supermind to do here? Who told you that I was using the supramental Force? I have said all along that it was not the supramental ...
... monstrous things… From this point of view, it is good that for some time men get out of this religious atmosphere, so full of fear, and this sort of blind, superstitious submission of which the hostile forces have taken a dreadful advantage. The period of denial, positivism, is from this viewpoint quite indispensable in order to free men from superstition. It is only when one comes out of that and the ...
... hundred mistakes do not matter to you: with a smile you recognise that you have erred and with a smile you resolve not to repeat the folly in the future. All depression and gloom is created by the hostile forces who are never so pleased as when throwing on you a melancholy mood. Humility is indeed one thing and depression quite another, the former a divine movement and the latter a very crude expression ...
... matter to you: with a smile you recognise Page 138 that you have erred and with a smile you resolve not to repeat the folly in the future. All depression and gloom is created by the hostile forces who are never so pleased as when throwing on you a melancholy mood. Humility is indeed one thing and depression quite another, the former a divine movement and the latter a very crude expression ...
... must discourage you; for there are all the difficulties of ignorance Page 251 of the different states of being, to which are added the endless malice and the unbounded cunning of the hostile forces in the world.... They are there, do you know why? They have been tolerated, do you know why?—simply to see how long one can last out and how great is the sincerity in one's action. For everything ...
... each other. At the same time the movement we call mind penetrates into other planes... Now, there are mental planes that stand high above the vital world and escape its influence; there are no hostile forces or beings there. But there are others—and they are many—that can be touched or penetrated by the vital forces." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 26 May ) Which mental plane are you speaking ...
... show their true nature. And while not forgetting the weakness of the body, you must try to strengthen the mind against its own weakness; with the sword of wisdom, you must fight against the hostile forces and treasure the progress you have made so that these forces may not despoil you of your progress, for they are terrible thieves. And then there is a short couplet for those who are afraid of ...
... because this one was realised? And all these things, we do not know. We cannot compare what is with what could have been.... No, I have not said anywhere that chance was necessarily the work of hostile forces, but it is certainly the work of ignorant forces. From a scientific point of view chance is considered as something without a cause or as the result of a number of small causes which intervene ...
... of the infinite divine Lover who is drawing all things by their own path towards his happy oneness." The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 77 All things are attracted by the Divine. Are the hostile forces also attracted by the Divine? That depends upon how you look at it, you cannot say that. For Page 3 there is a potential attraction, but so veiled and so secret that you can't even ...
... faith and equanimity are indispensable. We have to have the faith that in spite of our ignorance and errors and weaknesses and in spite of the attacks of hostile forces and in spite of any immediate appearance ofeach failure the Divine Will is leading us, through every circumstance, towards the final Realisation. This faith will give us equanimity; it is a faith ...
... knowledge and its wilful distortions or reversals of the Truth as the verity of things. It is the powers and personalities of this perverted and perverting consciousness that we call hostile beings, hostile forces. Whenever these perversions created by them out of the stuff of the Ignorance are put forward as the truth of things, that is the Falsehood, in the Yogic sense, mithyā, moha . Page 451 ...
... Follow after Krishna by all means, but follow with the determination to arrive: don't do it with the expectation of failure or admit any possibility of breaking off half-way. As for the "hostile forces", it is quite true that to persuade the sadhak to cut off outer contact with us on the plea of solitude and intense sadhana, is a favourite device of theirs and has often led to disaster. It gives ...
... that it is the Divine Power to which all work belongs, is a means of self-dedication through Karma. Like the vital disturbance the physical inertia with all its symptoms is an attack of the hostile forces intended to cut short and prevent the higher opening. The ideas that arise to justify it are of no value—it is not true that physical work is of an inferior value to mental culture, it is the arrogance ...
... in our coming to thee become right-minded accomplishing our aim as a friend to a friend, as father and mother to their child; for these worlds of beings born are full of harm: burn to ashes the hostile forces that come against us. तपो ष्वग्ने अन्तराँ अमित्रान् तपा शंसमररुषः परस्य । तपो वसो चिकितानो अचित्तान् वि ते तिष्ठन्तामजरा अयासः ॥२॥ 2) Wholly consume our inner foes, consume the self ...
... 3) So do thou with all the gods, O child of Energy, O happy light, give us the wealth in which are all boons. न तमग्ने अरातयो मर्तं युवन्त रायः । यं त्रायसे दाश्वांसम् ॥४॥ 4) The hostile forces, O Fire, cannot divorce from the Riches the mortal giver whom thou rescuest. यं त्वं विप्र मेघसातावग्ने हिनोषि धनाय । स तवोती गोषु गन्ता ॥५॥ 5) O Fire, O illumined seer, he whom thou ...
... jenyo agre ahnám, Hito hiteshu arusho vaneshu, Dame dame sapta ratná dadháno, Agnir hotá ni shasádá yajíyán. This divine force is born victorious by its very purity & infinity over all the hostile forces that prevent, obstruct, limit or strive to destroy our accomplished freedoms, powers, illuminations & widenesses; by his victory he ushers in the wide days of the siddha, for which these nights ...
... them into a support for arrogance, conceit, ambition—or any other of the amiable weaknesses to which human nature is prone. It is because half-baked Yogins so often fall into these traps of the hostile forces that the use of Yogic powers is sometimes discouraged as harmful to the user. But it is mostly people who live much in the vital that so fall; with a strong and free and calm mind and a psychic ...
... of the beginnings of organised Vijnana. [ Half a page left blank. ] 25 February 1915 The record has been suspended because of an almost entire suspension of all progress in which the hostile forces have seemed to take possession and only the literary & intellectual activity has continued to progress. In this field the perceptive intuition & creative interpretation grow in force. Roga has ...
... quietly to call back the true psychic state until it becomes normal and either eliminates or minimises the struggle, that is the best way to progress. It is better [ in dealing with the hostile forces ] to proceed by a quiet rejection and growth in consciousness—and not invite battle—though, if a struggle is forced on you, you must meet it with calm and courage. No objection—it is a very ...
... surface (desires etc.), which should have been kept in check. This relaxation may have opened the way for the old movements to rise through this part which was not yet ready to change at all and the hostile forces finding you off your guard took the opportunity to push the attack home. They are always vigilant for an opportunity and there must be a sufficient vigilance on the sadhak's side to refuse it to ...
... have more influence on the outer nature. Your inner vital being seems from the dream experiences that you have related to be very strong, faithful, clear-minded, resolute, able to deal with the hostile forces and their activities in the right way and do the right thing. The sensation of going somewhere means that part of the consciousness is going into some other plane than the physical. The men ...
... is a harmful and wasteful force, harmful both to the person himself and to the one on whom it is thrown. You are right in saying that it must be got rid of. Anger immediately opens the door to hostile forces; it is as if you were calling them. It [ a violent outburst of anger ] is obviously a surprise attack that took you off your guard. But you must throw off the tendency to anger with yourself ...
... of the ignorance, a sense of danger with a violent vital reaction that replaces and usually prevents or distorts the intelligence of things. It might almost be considered as an invention of the hostile forces. Yes, fear creates imaginary terrors—even if there is real danger, fear does not help; it clouds the intelligence, takes away presence of mind and prevents one seeing the right thing to ...
... its possession. Some even put a ban on money and riches and proclaim poverty and bareness of life as the only spiritual condition. But this is an error; it leaves the power in the hands of the hostile forces. To reconquer it for the Divine to whom it belongs and use it divinely for the divine life is the supramental way for the Sadhaka. You must neither turn with an ascetic shrinking from the money ...
... interpretations it is highly awkward in expression & almost criminally feeble & disjointed. The idea is evidently of Yogic tapas in action expanding & moving to its goal over a path beset by hostile Page 598 forces. Agni is to drive them from the path & make the शंस smooth & easy. 10) When thou hast yoked the rosy and scarlet-red to the car driven by the Wind, thy cry is like a bull's; thou ...
... Jesus is Page 58 said to have triumphed over the 'cosmic powers' - the 'principalities and powers, the world-rulers of this present darkness'. These would correspond with the 'hostile forces' working in the world today with which Sri Aurobindo was conscious of contending. This means that these powers have been conquered in principle, but we still have to contend with them until we ...
... Mother fully approved and endorsed on three separate occasions. As for the accident to Sri Aurobindo on the night of 23 November 1938, he has himself said, as reported by Nirod-baran: "The hostile forces have tried many times to prevent things like the Darshan but I have succeeded in warding off all their attacks. At the time the accident to my leg happened, I was occupied with guarding the Mother ...
... knowledge & of the temperament in their fullness. "Be rapturous in us and a dwelling for the sacrifice, enter with mastery into Indra, O Soma; thou art powerful, moving forward, and thou meetest no hostile forces on thy way. In him give to dwell our self-expressions, who is alone of the lords of action, and according to his movement is self-state sown in us & masterfully he cultivates that crop. O thou ...
... and enters the cosmic planes of being has to be on guard. The thing one has to be on guard against in the cosmic consciousness is the play of a magnified ego, the vaster attacks of the hostile forces - for they too are part of the cosmic consciousness - and the attempt of the cosmic Illusion (Ignorance, Avidya) to prevent the growth of the soul into the cosmic Truth. These are things that ...
... dream about Chandulal and the bandits was a happening in the vital world or else a symbolic scene witnessed there. In the first case, the bandits are vital beings attacking the work,—in the second, hostile forces, suggestions etc. The one thing clear in it is that Champaklal is a prompt and effective fighter on the vital plane. Sri Aurobindo ...
... Champaklal has taken the dress of soldier, and one gun also is in his hand. What is the meaning of it, Mother? Champaklal as a soldier means that he is a warrior in the vital field against the hostile forces. Sri Aurobindo ...
... Integral Yoga, one needed always to be a warrior; now that he has left us physically, one needs to be a hero.’ 34 We have not come for Peace but for Victory, because in a world ruled by the hostile forces Victory has to precede Peace. No, this is not a yoga of ahimsa and no sinecure somewhere in the rarefied air of high hills; it is a battle with very real, implacable, strong and extremely intelligent ...
... happy. It is an opportunity to rise above oneself. That’s what it is about.’ 5 At the time, the Mother said nothing about the inner battle, or battles, she must have been fighting with the hostile forces in those fourteen months. Only years later did the Mother mention in passing, in one of the conversations constituting Mother’s Agenda , that the beginning of February 1956 had been a terrible ...
... there. Some hostile force wanted to send me away from the Ashram, it wanted me to tell You: "Mother, I want to retire; make me free from Aroumé and the Aroumé workers." My dear Mother, the hostile forces are taking a little pleasure in troubling me, but I accept no defeat, I do not become weak; I am up and up and on and on, forward with full strength, zeal and confidence in myself and in You and ...
... My dear Mother, It is my humble confession that a wave of fear and falsehood attacked me. This wave wanted me to be very angry with H. But to all the suggestions and attacks of the hostile forces, I had one answer: "It is impossible; I know all of you very well. How can I be faithless to the love of my dear Mother?" And in gratitude my heart took shelter more and more in Your Love. ...
... remained on the top to await in silence the dawn of a new future. When in the evening of the same day 8 Aurovilians were taken to prison, it was clear for many that was a final strong attack of the hostile forces who try to impede the harmony between the contraries, which the Mother seems to succeed in through the Matrimandir. You cannot imagine how beautiful it has been in this last month with the massive ...
... offended, it responded to the adverse suggestions which wrecked my nerves. One wrong movement and I was in for it. The Mother was trying increasingly to break me of the habit of listening to the hostile forces. Despite the hindrances, I had to go through the ordeals no matter how hard they might be. My soul reminded me all the time of my supreme Goal—the Divine. Now came the last day of the Year 1961 ...
... intended is of realities directly experienced. I have been quite frank about my weaknesses, defects, difficulties and struggles, my revolts against the Truth, and the dreadful attacks of the hostile forces; and I have told how the Mother's Grace and Love saved me miraculously in spite of severe ordeals, tremendous falls and even catastrophes. The story also shows how the Mother shapes and develops ...
... entirely, especially as my long hair was down and within reach. The servant who was there was astonished that I escaped unscathed—it seemed hardly possible. Obviously this was an attack of subtle hostile forces, trying to prevent me from reaching the Mother's feet. ...
... character. If I had taken the locket from the table, she would not have hesitated to use violence on me in order to get possession of it. She might have murdered me. From this I can conceive that the hostile forces are everywhere out in the lists. They are actively present—bent upon mischief and how they always wait to pounce on unwary beings! Yet what possible harm can they do to me when the divine forces ...
... Love, Truth, Light and Peace. This is the Law of the Supreme. Yes, whatever the Mother had said was true. But I knew within myself that I had to fight yet another gigantic battalion of the hostile forces, in order to come out purified from the obscurity of the lower elements. I wanted very much to be a true and perfect child of the Mother, and for that I was fully prepared within my true self to ...
... Everything seemed unsettled and precarious. The joy of life was often eclipsed by depression and despondency. I tried to move away from the dark aura of recurrent distress and unhappiness. The hostile forces were worming their way up to possess my consciousness. I felt a sharp pang at the thought of how to reach my goal. My inner struggle began. ...
... saying, "Look my dear, since we have been accepted by the Mother, how can we be zeros? Alas! If I could only learn to unite with the Divine, I would gain everything, wouldn't I? But how, when the hostile forces attack me all the time?" Then she started telling me all sorts of harrowing stories of the nether world which left me stupefied, stunned and shivering. My bright spirits were dimmed in an instant ...
... Sometimes I missed the Balcony Darshan. But whenever I stood on the street below, the Mother's Light and Force pierced every obscure niche of my being. Nevertheless, soon after, the hostile forces would rear up and strike me as hard as they could. These invisible forces were so deceptive and obdurate—they were determined to trap me and topple me. In physical terms the process of assault ...
... Progress and Perfection Words of the Mother - III Victory We have come not for Peace but for Victory, because in a world governed by the hostile forces Victory must come before Peace. February 1930 Two things you must never forget: Sri Aurobindo's compassion and the Mother's love, and it is with these two things that you will go on fighting ...
... room (I had given some thought to this story and tried asking for something to be done), I suddenly saw Durga before me raising high a lance of white light—the lance of light that destroys the hostile forces—and She struck into a black swarming mass of men. But then there came a ... frightful reaction. For one day I was nearly as sick—not quite—as two years ago 5 (they must have used the same ...
... offer so many other things ... oh, what they parade past me! You could write books on all this! But generally—and this is something Theon had told me (Theon was very qualified on the subject of hostile forces and the workings of all that 'resists' the divine influence, and he was a great fighter—as you might imagine! He himself was an incarnation of an asura, so he knew how to tackle these things!); ...
... . otherwise, logically, it shouldn't be ill. The whole disorder evidently originates from the subconscient and inconscient; all the more so as it came with various indications (sent by the hostile forces—but this can always be useful, provided you are careful) saying, 'Yes, everything is going well in your higher centers, but...'(because the different points of attack have clearly followed the ...
... things they REPRESENT something, a certain type of force and vibration. It will have to be either dissolved or transformed. Transformed? But perhaps that is.... It may disappear along with the hostile forces. Perhaps once everything has been transformed it will disappear—I don't know when. In any case, I really tried my best, with all the power I had, all the knowledge I had, because I liked this ...
... one's companion's good fortune occurs. It is because of jealous reactions that it is advisable not to share one's precious experiences with people. Through the envious eye of the hearer the hostile forces attempt to snatch away the benefits of our self-deepenings. Not many realise that our goal here is the Divine Mother's victory. And if she is victorious anywhere she is potentially victorious ...
... resonate to. When I was in Bombay years ago and was continuing my out-of-body experiences which had developed in Pondicherry after one pre-Pondi surprise, once I was very badly attacked from behind by hostile forces of an occult plane. I felt as if my whole spine had been broken and an indescribable malaise suffused my entire system, I wondered what to do. I recollected that certain passages in Savitri had ...
... significance of physical problems affecting the older sadhaks - problems like my fall and femur-fracture and his own operation for an enlarged prostate - I have no precise idea .(I may guess that the hostile forces are eager to get rid of the sadhaks who had a direct prolonged contact with Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and so carry some of their light more substantially into the present period than those who ...
... Dr. V.K. 333 golden lid 307 Gray 234 H Hartz, Richard 356,360,362 higher and lower hemispheres 306 Hiranyagarbha 99 Homer 132,186,205,213,258 horse 310 hostile forces 303 Housman,A.E. 26,265 hrdaye guhāyām 165 Huta 281,298,330 hymns to Agni 299 I Ignorance 248 immortality 61,83,90,303 Inconscience 80,95,247,260,321 ...
... is the image of ahan, - which are the eternal future of the mortal when he has attained immortality... "This divine force is born victorious by its very purity and infinity over all the hostile forces that prevent, obstruct, limit or strive to destroy our accomplished freedoms, powers, illuminations and widenesses; by his victory he ushers in the wide days of the siddha, for which these nights ...
... to the vital I stopped all that."¹ We may also cite Chidanandam's corroboration. The Master tells a disciple about the process of supramental descent: "It is a silent work. Publicity attracts hostile forces. You can do outside work only when it is in you to do so. When you are doing sadhana in the mind, you can do it. I wrote the Arya at the time of such sadhana. When I came to the vital plane, ...
... it is then that we must make a supreme act of faith and know that the Grace will never fail us." 10 "... in spite of our ignorance and errors and weaknesses and in spite of the attacks of hostile forces and in spite of any immediate appearance of failure the Divine Will is leading us, through every circumstance, towards the final Realisation." 11 "There is a return for all the trials and ...
... knowledge can be rolled back to an almost unmeasurable degree. The thing one has to be on guard against in the cosmic consciousness is the play of a magnified ego, the vaster attacks of the hostile forces — for they too are part of the cosmic consciousness — and the attempt of the cosmic Illusion (Ignorance, Avidya) to prevent the growth of the soul into the cosmic Truth. These are things that ...
... Truth-Consciousness, then Sri Aurobindo cannot but have been Kalki. It is then unthinkable that he could have accomplished his mission without the-severest and continuous battles against the hostile forces in possession of the world. One reads about this in the deeply moving poem A God's Labour, as one reads about it in the first cantos of Savitri: Here must the traveller of the upward ...
... indispensable to the integrality of the result. These three categories of examinations are those set by the forces of Nature, those set by the spiritual and divine forces, and those set by the hostile forces. These latter are the most deceptive in their appearance and in order not to be taken by surprise, unprepared, demands a constant state of vigilance, sincerity and humility. The most banal ...
... Champaklal is wearing a soldier's uniform, and one gun also is in his hand. What is the meaning of it, Mother? Champaklal as a soldier means that he is a warrior in the vital field against the hostile forces. 12.1.1934 Sri Aurobindo ...
... evident in these letters. Sri Aurobindo first inculcated the revolutionary spirit into his younger brother when Barin visited him in Baroda. His guidance on sadhana, his insights into the work of hostile forces and his description of the vital worlds, "Rakshasi-maya", will be instructive to those who are doing yoga. Sri Aurobindo's answers to the following questions are revealing: Why did I come to ...
... Śrī Rāma, whose mind was given to piety, address the celebrated Laksmana (son of Sumitrā): so the tradition goes. (27) Getting down from that top of the sal tree, Laksmana, the conqueror of hostile forces, for his part, stood by the side of Śrī Rāma with joined palms. (28) Admonished by Bharata in the words "Let there be no molestation (to the hermitage of Śrī Rāma )", his army encamped round about ...
... into a dramatic exaggerations; (viii) the sadhaka' s vital feels a morbid pleasure in all that is perverse and a peculiar fascination for sorrow and suffering; (ix) forms a misalliance with the hostile forces that are opposed to the sadhaka' s progress in sadhana; (x) calls back again and again into the being all those weaknesses of nature which have been chased away from the sadhaka' s consciousness ...
... spirit and principle of the Ashram. In their perverted logic they felt that the Mother was unwittingly trying to alter the 'spiritual' character of the Ashram. Following the subtle suggestion of the Hostile Forces they wanted to create a cleavage between Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. And it so happened that Dilip Kumar being a highly gifted intellectual among them and being very close to Sri Aurobindo they ...
... fish.' Well, fathers may not, but Gurus?" Sri Aurobindo: "No, sir, I don't eat your fish. I have oceans of fish at my disposal and have no need to consume your little sprats. It is Messrs. Hostile Forces who do that - the dasyus, robbers." 32 2. NB: To think that five or six years more of barren desert stretch between me and the Divine Grace, coagulates my blood! Sri Aurobindo: Coagulate ...
... has never been trod by anyone. Sri Aurobindo did it... in principle. But he gave the charge of doing it in the body to me. That was the wonderful thing when we were together and all these hostile forces were fighting.... (They tried to kill me any number of times. He always saved me in an absolutely miraculous and marvellous way). But you see, this seemed to create very great BODILY difficulties ...
... the Force from above. I see that some sadhaks here are not much attacked by the adverse suggestions. Is it because a higher pressure for change is 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 — ...
... had been a less neurotic company, it could have been done quietly. As it is there is the Revolt of the Subconscient. In one letter you wrote that you were able to push on; in another that the hostile forces were out of date. That was a year ago. When we read this we thought that it would be merry Christmas henceforth. But now I again feel a bit despondent because you speak of "the confounded atmosphere" ...
... mental being, some uncertainty. The whole thing is ready behind. If there had been the certainty on the mental plane the work would have been done. It was not done till now because probably the hostile forces were very strong. You do not know how strong they are, I alone know it, you have only a glimpse of it. Page 149 24-4-1924 Disciple : Dr. Coué in his book of cure by ...
... accept it as a part of the battle. Disciple : When will you be cured? Sri Aurobindo : Don't ask me the question. It is just what I can't know, for, immediately I say something the hostile forces would at once rush to prevent it. That is why I don't want to prophesy. Not that things are not known, or possibilities not seen. For instance, there are things about which I had definitely said ...
... is Champaklal. SRI AUROBINDO: Oh, descent of Champaklal? At this the whole atmosphere changed and Purani, catching the opportunity, shot a question with a beaming face. PURANI: Because hostile forces offer resistance to the divine manifestation in the world and some are even victorious, can it be said with any logic that the Divine lacks omnipotence? It is not my question. I am asking somebody ...
... once the path is made, it will be easy for those who come afterwards. But before that it is a long-drawn-out battle. The more you gain in your strength, the greater becomes the resistance of the hostile forces. I myself had suggestion after suggestion that I wouldn't succeed. But I always remember the vision the Mother had. It was like this. The Mother, Richard and I were going somewhere. We saw Richard ...
... imperceptible occasion — if there is a little gap in our armour, immediately they attack us with a vengeance. As soon as one begins doing yoga or purifying one-self, there are always these hostile forces which come to disturb our work. They are amazing and find means to lower the consciousness. One must be very careful and be on one's guard against these malicious suggestions. As long ...
... warning, things that man has never known. At each step death lies in wait. The tempest or the hurricane pursue you, you are smitten by misfortune and pain, by the force and hatred of the formidable hostile forces. You will be tormented at each step. There is no compromise. Fear and doubt invade and subjugate you. A false step and you slip into the abyss. Suddenly an unscalable wall bars your way where there ...
... who clean up this place of all that the people have left behind — all the formations of falsehood, desires, impatient supplications, all sorts of complaints, bad-will and maladies, as well as the hostile forces — and make this place peaceful and pleasant. They purify the whole surrounding with so much love so that His presence is felt. It is a sanctified place for meditation and not for gossip ...
... mind is occupied with other things, an accident can take one unaware. As regards violence—for example, a riot—I would have to concentrate for four or five days in order to protect myself. The hostile forces have tried many times to prevent things like the Darshan, but I have succeeded in warding off all their attacks. At the time the accident to my leg happened, I was more occupied with guarding The ...
... Divine, although at present the hostile anti-divine forces have their hold on it. You can see for yourselves what misuse money is being put to. But someday wealth has to be won back from these hostile forces and used in the service of the Divine. This is the deeper significance behind the Mother's help to start a shop. Do you understand?" "A little," replied Sachet. "What else did he tell you ...
... once during meditation. There was a great descent of force then suddenly I felt a severe pain in my eye. SRI AUROBINDO: It must have been an attack. MULSHANKAR: In meditation also can the hostile forces attack? SRI AUROBINDO: Why not? It is their business to do so at any time. MULSHANKAR: Is there no protection from the Divine? Purani is quite strong. SRI AUROBINDO: Strength and protection ...
... warrior, against what? Whom shall I fight? SRI AUROBINDO: Suppose you are sent to Italy as a pilot? DR. MANILAL: No, Sir. I can only give suggestions. SRI AUROBINDO: You have to fight the hostile forces. But how can you do that without knowing how to use the Force? NIRODBARAN: Dilip says that Ashok Maitra—Heramba Maitra's son, who has married a famous actress—has asked him for permission for ...
... and ordeals in order to reach heaven. We know there are innumerable legends to illustrate the point. You must have read, all of you, stories of saints, how they were tempted and obstructed by hostile forces, the armies of the undivine. The great Buddha before his illumination as he sat under the Bo-tree firmly resolved on pursuing in his inner consciousness the path of realisation till the very end ...
... Supramental; Transformation of the Mind; Transformation of the Vital; Transformation of the Physical; Transformation of the Subconscient and the Inconscient; Difficulties of the Path; Opposition of the Hostile Forces. Volume 25 — The Mother, WITH LETTERS ON THE MOTHER AND PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS (translations from Prières et Meditations de la Mere). Volume 26 — On Himself, COMPILED ...
... Last Poems. 1938 November 23: Accident; impacted fracture of the right thigh on the eve of the November Darshan, due, as Sri Aurobindo himself dis-closed, to an attack of hostile forces which had been conspiring to attack Mother's body. While Sri Aurobindo concentrated exclusively on protecting Mother the attack came on him. The work of Mother and Sri Aurobindo has been to bring ...
... of retinal thrombosis, and later of haemorrhage, but I could still read with my right eye though I was also advised not to strain myself too much. There were other difficulties too, for the 'hostile forces' were ever on the prowl, and any chink in the armour would do! But I persevered, gathered the available materials and organised them, read and re-read the seminal writings and conversations ...
... must establish the higher Consciousness IN EVERY ATOM OF THE BODY, otherwise what happens is that something escapes your view in the hidden depth of the lower physical being which is known to the hostile forces and then they can attack through that weak point. They can create a combination of circumstances which would give rise to the thing not worked out and before you can control them they are already ...
... said: The power of money is at present under the influence or in the hands of the forces and beings of the vital world.... Always it [money] goes astray, because it is in the clutch of the hostile forces.... ...In those who are slaves of vital beings, the desire for truth and light and spiritual achievement, even if it at all touches them, cannot balance the desire for money. To win money from ...
... inject feelings of egoistic self-importance, jealousy, defeatism; to create the itch for questioning the very foundations of the Yoga and the Ashram - these were the stock-intrade of the hostile forces. The sadhaks couldn't apparently help the plight they were in, and accordingly the Master (in consultation with the Mother) answered the letters with a mixture of persuasion and firmness ...
... and this set-back seemed to cast a question-mark on the entire future of the Yoga of change and transformation of human and earth nature. It asked for all their dual tapasya to beat back the hostile forces, and not only retrieve the lost ground, but also to start the march again towards the supramental horizons. In the Mother's spiritual diary, Prayers and Meditations, there are but a few entries ...
... on "Knowledge by Unity with the Divine": Life is a battlefield in which the Divine succeeds in detail only when the lower nature is receptive to its impulsions instead of siding with the hostile forces .... What you have to do is to give yourself up to the Grace of the Divine; for, it is under the form of Grace, of Love, that it has consented to uplift the universe after the first involution ...
... corruption, a preoccupation with food, money, comfort, pleasure, to the exclusion of higher things, and a general expectation of worse and worse things awaiting the world". The classic ruse of the hostile forces is to sow defeatism where faith and hope had reigned before. Even so, Sri Aurobindo had no doubt that the Dawn wouldn't be delayed long: I know what is preparing behind the darkness and can ...
... impeding movement of the vital being. "The sooner you get rid of abhimân," writes Sri Aurobindo to a disciple, "the better. Any one who indulges abhimân puts himself under the influence of the hostile forces. Abhimân has nothing to do with true love, it is, like jealousy, a part of the vital egoism."¹ Indulgence in maudlin emotions is also a vital perversion of true bhakti . Emotions are very helpful ...
... Ananda? This primary breaking of the ice made the atmosphere a little encouraging So, X catching the chance shot the following question with a beaming face : Disciple : Because the hostile forces offer resistance to the Divine manifestation in the world and some of them become sometimes victorious (at least for the time being) can one logically say that the Divine lacks Omnipotence? It ...
... Kurukshetra, because it is a yoga of fight and battle. Sri Aurobindo : Not necessarily; it depends on the nature of the being. There are some people, for instance, who when they meet the hostile forces in the vital or in dream Page 151 begin to fight, while there are others who call for protection. If one has the psychic attitude one need not fight. Fighting is for the ...
... the mind is occupied with other things, then an accident can take one unawares. As regards violence e.g. of a riot, I would have to concentrate for four or five days to protect myself. The hostile forces have tried many times to prevent the Darshan but I have succeeded in warding off all those attacks. This time I was more occupied with guarding the Mother and I forgot about myself. I did not ...
... and live." There is in human nature a secret enmity to the Divine that impedes Gods' work on earth. "Till it is slain peace is forbidden on earth." Man is, in a way, an instrument of those hostile forces: "forces intangible besiege", "thoughts not our own," "touches from alien realms" come to man. This adversary Force hides from man "the straight immortal path". It twists everything divine and ...
... Aurobindo and the Mother's teaching, to walk on the path of Truth and to establish that Truth in our life; on the other, the tremendously hostile forces that constantly try to attack and block this upward movement towards the divine life. These asuric forces do not want the divine life to be established upon the earth, they do not want the tra ...
... knowledge & of the temperament in their fullness. “Be rapturous in us and a dwelling for the sacrifice, enter with mastery into Indra, O Soma; thou art powerful, moving forward, and thou meetest no hostile forces on thy way. In him give to dwell our self-expressions, who is alone of the lords of action, and according to his movement is self-state sown in us & masterfully he cultivates that crop. O thou ...
... swift and safe. And it must be a surrender and an opening to the Divine alone and to no other. For it is possible for an obscure mind or an impure life force in us to surrender to undivine and hostile forces and even to mistake them for the Divine. There can be no more calamitous error. Therefore our surrender must be no Page 170 blind and inert passivity to all influences or any influence ...
... did not pass away till after three in the afternoon. In the final result, the power has increased, but acts under a frequently successful resistance and the akash is still troubled & occupied by hostile forces. Today's experience has thrown a clear light on many expressions in the Veda especially in relation to Indra and the Rudras. There is a movement in the rupadrishti, perfect lifeimages, eg a butterfly ...
... absent or almost quite, is now very deep. Dasyam is almost absolute, except in certain remnant movements of the intellectual suggestions. Karma is now stationary, with slight advantage to the hostile forces. Premananda is beginning to be general & strong, though more ahaituka than sahaituka. It manifests and relapses, then manifests again, but is on the point of becoming normal. 30 January 1917 ...
... enjoyer in delight, but victim of sorrow, death & limitation. Limited, we struggle to enlarge ourselves & our scope; unpossessed of our desire, we demand & we strive; unattaining, reacted upon by hostile forces, we are full of sorrow & racked by pain. We see others possess & ourselves lack & we struggle to dispossess them and possess in their stead. The facts of life as we live it contradict at every ...
... and Happiness... Keep firm and courageous—the attack will pass and you will feel quite well once more. I am always with you. O Ma, Your Peace! Give me strength to fight against hostile forces. O Ma, come! Make the way... Let your trust in the help grow and the struggle will soon be over. Yes, if you remain steady and throw away the attacks, they are obliged to leave you ...
... Ambu's Correspondence Ambu's Correspondence with The Mother March 1934 O my Ma, lovely Ma, Since two days I have been thinking: "How the hostile forces are playing with me and using me as their instrument." But O Ma, I can't stop their attacks. Only thinking. And through this thinking, sadness and depression are trying to come. What is this ...
... “Koli amar shorbonash korlo.” (Koli = Kaliyug personified, has dealt me a good blow.) Jogdananda learnt of it much later and, after coming here to Pondicherry, learnt that this ‘Koli’ was termed “hostile Forces”. He roamed aimlessly, remorse gnawing into him. He went to Punjab, Kashmir, Haridwar, Hrishikesh — but carried the regret with him. His cup of misery overflowed, as news reached him that Bharat ...
... gradually vanquished with the appearance of a huge ball of dark red colour, symbolising the appearance of Divine Love. The “Waterfall” is a flow from the higher consciousness that dispels the hostile forces and paves the way for a “rainbow”—the sign of peace and deliverance. Finally, there is transparent golden water indicating a plane of consciousness that receives from the Supramental, ending in ...
... diamonds embossed in the lines of Savitri draw our attention, we are reminded of what Sri Aurobindo says in this regard. He explains that diamond is the symbol of pure spiritual light which scares hostile forces. He highlights the adamantine quality associated with them. Traditionally speaking, the diamond is seen as a precious stone invested with special powers of durability and strength. It ...
... Aurobindo was alone. While going back to his room he slipped on the leopard skin on the threshold and his right knee hit the leopard's head. 1 This is how Sri Aurobindo explained it: “The hostile forces had tried many times to prevent things like the Darshan but I had succeeded in warding off all their attacks. At the time the accident to my leg occurred, I was more occupied with guarding the ...
... Edition-II Correspondence with Chinmayi I always see you with pleasure. Never believe that I do not want to see you. It is a suggestion from the hostile forces — a falsehood. 25 February 1930 The Mother Chinmayi, The Mother has told me what you said to her. In other circumstances I would have asked you to stay on in the confidence that, however ...
... dream about Chandulal and the bandits was a happening in the vital world or else a symbolic scene witnessed there. In the first case, the bandits are vital beings attacking the work,—in the second, hostile forces, suggestions etc. The one thing clear in it is that Champaklal is a prompt and effective fighter on the vital plane. 2.7.1932 Sri Aurobindo ...
... ) Page 130 Yes, attacks of this kind come often at Darshan time, not only to you but to many others, and in a way generally, e.g. against the work or physical health. The hostile forces get furious at the very fact of the Darshan and go all out to make a black mark on the brightness. All the more reason to reject the mischief and spoil their game. * April 25, 1944 ...
... them into a support for arrogance, conceit, ambition or any other of the amiable weakness to which human nature is prone. It is because half-baked Yogis so often fall into these traps of the hostile forces that the use of the Yogic powers is sometimes discouraged as harmful to the user. "But it is mostly people who live much in the vital that so fall; with a strong and free and calm mind and ...
... in human history the complete, bi-poled male-female Avatar. May it at last be realized that their crucial avataric effort of transforming humanity, to make a better world possible, impelled the Hostile Forces to retaliate and caused the twentieth-century wars. Actually the First and Second World War, together with the third Cold War, are closely interrelated and should be seen as one. A direct result ...
... positive, to be followed by renewed obstacles and “tremendous resistance” soon after. But in spite of everything the supramental manifestation was expected in 1938, when in a direct attack by the hostile forces Sri Aurobindo fell and broke his right thigh. 1938 was also the year of the infamous conference at Munich, where Hitler bluffed the representatives of the rival powers into submission, ready to ...
... of the great spiritual conflicts; history regains the breath of the Legend of the Ages. 1 — Louis Pauwels The Medium Adolf Hitler 91 ‘Hitler is a choice instrument of the hostile forces,’ the Mother wrote in a letter to her son André. Many would have agreed with her if they had read that letter. Dusty Sklar, for instance, writes in her book The Nazis and the Occult : ‘Hitler ...
... at last be fulfilled, thanks to them. Mirra in Japan, 1916 Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry, ca. 1918-1920 Her return to Pondicherry was ‘the tangible sign of the Victory over the hostile forces,’ the Mother would later write about herself. She has not expanded on the meaning of these words, but Paul Richard, an incarnation of the Asura of Falsehood, whom she had been unable to convert ...
... would take place twenty years later and after a whole series of dramatic events. So many expectations of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have time and again been postponed by the opposition of the hostile forces who tenaciously resisted every inch of progress. This uncertainty in the battle of cosmic dimensions they had to fight and the unimaginable suffering that went with it is, as it were, the seal ...
... days of which the last three are the most important. On the tenth day, Durga with her trident kills a demon, a rakshasa — a killing which is symbolical for the victory of the Mother over the hostile forces. On 2 October 1957, vijaya dashami , the ‘day of Victory,’ the Mother gave the following message: ‘For those, who use nothing but their physical eyes, the victory will be apparent only when it ...
... Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 27 February 1936 My dear Mother, This afternoon I felt a conspiracy in the atmosphere formed by hostile forces to trouble me through the Aroumé workers and send me away from here. But, dear Mother, I know that nothing can send me away, for I am in Your hands. I know that nothing can take you away from ...
... between two incarnations and assimilates its experiences from the former life. The beings of the vital worlds, more specifically the lower vital worlds, are the vicious entities we call demons or hostile forces. As these worlds are the first the departing soul has to traverse, it must in almost all cases confront those beings unprepared, unarmed with the necessary knowledge. It is to these terrifying ...
... exposed to such recoils; ours is so complex and many-sided and embraces such large aims that we cannot expect any smooth progress until we near the completion of an effort – especially as all the hostile forces in the spiritual world are in a constant state of opposition and besiege our gains; for the complete victory of a single one of us would mean a general downfall among them. In fact by our own effort ...
... them into a support for arrogance, conceit, ambition or any other of the amiable weaknesses to which human nature is prone. It is because half-baked yogins so often fall into these traps of the hostile forces that the use of yogic powers is sometimes discouraged as harmful to the user. But it is mostly people who live much in the vital that so fall; with a strong and free and calm mind and a psychic ...
... of the results of my work.’ 40 The same went for the Mother. Now she had to receive all the dark impulses of humanity in the sadhaks she was helping to change – and through them of the hostile forces that, threatened in their existence, used the sadhaks to attack her. You must have practised a yogic discipline to know how, as soon as you take it up, everything contrary and adverse to it in ...
... announced that the coming year — with perhaps two more months added — would be a very crucial one, the year of the greatest difficulty because a great outburst of the Divine was preparing and the hostile forces would give battle with the utmost ferocity to stop it. A sort of last-ditch fight was anticipated. The Mother said it would affect individuals and collectivities alike. She warned us to be on ...
... Mother have sought to lead us. But I may put a footnote to my exposition. The Mother has said that most places of public worship dedicated to traditional deities are really controlled by hostile forces eager to suck up, as it were, and feed upon the adoring ardours of the congregation. They, however, cannot prevent a genuine God-lover from piercing his way to the divinity to whom he has come ...
... Knowing the transformative aim of both the Master and the Mother, he was aghast at the proposal to have a second chamber in the vault. Then the Mother softly answered: 'It is good tactics to put the Hostile Forces off the scent.' She did not want these Forces to concentrate their attack on what she really sought to do. Thus the very gesture as of accepting death shows itself to be a secret move in the opposite ...
... and once the path is made, it will be easy for those who come afterwards. But before that it is a long-drawn-out battle. The more you gain in strength, the greater becomes the resistance of the hostile forces. I myself had suggestion after suggestion that I would not succeed. But I always remember the vision the Mother had. It was like this. The Mother, Richard and I were going somewhere. We saw Richard ...
... spiritual truth is a truth of the spirit and not of the intellect,’ 79 Sri Aurobindo had said. Thirdly, to express an experience in words means concretizing it in a plane where undesirable and hostile forces may get a grip on it and can thereby thwart the results of the experience. This is the rationale of the age-old yogic principle that one should talk about one’s experiences only to the guru. ...
... The Spirit of Auroville Hostile forces played their cards to upset the sacred things. Richard Eggenberger took suddenly ill. It was he who was projecting the series of Savitri slide-shows. The Mother was informed on 2.4.72. She sent her photographs and blessing packets, which I handed over to his wife Annie for him. The next day he performed the show ...
... One's spiritual destiny is then the divine election which ensures the future. The only doubt is about the vicissitudes of the path and the time to be taken by the passage. It is here that the hostile forces playing on the weaknesses of the past nature strive to prevent the rapidity of the progress and to postpone the fulfilment. Those who fell, fell not because of the attacks of the vital forces, ...
... I have written so much about them. (1) There must be no tamasic (inert, passive) surrender to the Mother—for that will bring as its reaction a passive inert helplessness before the lower or hostile forces or suggestions, an unresisting or helplessly resisting acquiescence or sufferance of these inroads. A passive condition can bring much peace, quietude, joy even, but it disperses the being instead ...
... There are things which were beneficial, helpful, which seemed perhaps at one time the one thing desirable, and yet once their work is done, once they are attained, they become obstacles and even hostile forces when we are called to advance beyond them. There are desirable states of the soul which it is dangerous to rest in after they have been mastered, because then we do not march on to the wider kingdoms ...
... main defects have all shown themselves in exaggerated sensations out of all proportion to the reality of the roga behind. This is always a sign of failing power & approaching exhaustion; for the hostile forces, conscious of the failure, gather up & exhaust in an illegitimate endeavour all the forces which, properly used, might last for a longer season than that actually allotted to them. The Maheshwari ...
... the firm holding. अग्ने शकेम ते वयं यमं देवस्य वाजिनः । अति द्वेषांसि तरेम ॥३॥ 3) O Fire, may we have the power to rein thee, the divine steed of swiftness, may we cross through the hostile forces. समिध्यमानो अध्वरेऽग्निः पावक ईड्यः । शोचिष्केशस्तमीमहे ॥४॥ 4) Fire high-blazing in the rite of the path. Fire whom we must pray, who purifies, with his tresses of flame—him we desire ...
... of the pilgrim-sacrifices. स त्वमस्मदप द्विषो युयोधि जातवेदः । अदेवीरग्ने अरातीः ॥३॥ 3) So do thou remove away from us the enemies, O knower of all things born, even the undivine and hostile forces, O Fire. अन्ति चित् सन्तमह यज्ञं मर्तस्य रिपोः । नोप वेषि जातवेदः ॥४॥ 4) Even when it is near, O surely thou comest not to the sacrifice of our mortal foe, O knower of all things born ...
... it is so because in its process it is war, tension, opposition, a balance of eternal contraries. Real peace there cannot be, unless by peace you mean a stable tension, a balance of power between hostile forces, a sort of mutual neutralisation of excesses. Peace cannot create, cannot maintain anything, and Homer's prayer that war might perish from among Gods and men is a monstrous absurdity, for that ...
... small chances of prospering if it could not repeat that extraordinary good luck by which Rome was enabled to meet its possible rivals and enemies one by one and avoid a successful coalition of hostile forces. What possibility is there of such a fortunate progress in a world so alert and instructed as the modern where everything is known, spied on, watched by jealous eyes and active minds under the ...
... of knowledge can be rolled back to an almost immeasurable degree. The things one has to be on guard against in the cosmic consciousness are the play of a magnified ego, the vaster attacks of the hostile forces—for they too are part of the cosmic consciousness—and the attempt of the cosmic Illusion (Ignorance, Avidya) to prevent the growth of the soul into the cosmic Truth. These are things that one has ...
... vanity are signs of love or at least natural attendants of it. The sooner you get rid of that [ abhiman ] the better. Anyone who indulges abhiman puts himself under the influence of the hostile forces. Abhiman has nothing to do with true love; it is like jealousy a part of the vital egoism. The feeling of jealousy and abhiman was of course a survival from the past movements of the nature ...
... receive or attain the spiritual truth—what means one takes depends upon the way, the path, the person. If the difficulty in meditation is that thoughts of all kinds come in, that is not due to hostile forces but to the ordinary nature of the human mind. All sadhaks have this difficulty and with many it lasts for a very long time. There are several ways of getting rid of it. One of them is to look at ...
... thinking or meditating can be done without some action of Force. The Force I speak of is a Force for illumination, transformation, purification, all that has to be done in the Yoga, for removal of the hostile forces and the wrong movements—it is also of course for external work, whether great or small in appearance does not matter—if that is part of the Divine Will. I do not mean any personal Page 455 ...
... the refuge of the ignorant and obscure movements and more an automatic response of the material to the higher consciousness. 4) It gives less covert and less passage to the suggestions of the hostile forces. 5) It is more easy to be conscious in sleep and to have higher forms of dream experience. Hostile dreams—e.g. sexsuggestions can be met and stopped in the dream itself and any result like emission ...
... Divine Shakti, then it is idle to invoke the divine Grace to transform you. If you open yourself on one side or in one part to the Truth and on another side are constantly opening the gates to hostile forces, it is vain to expect that the divine Grace will abide with you. You must keep the temple clean if you wish to instal there the living Presence. If each time the Power intervenes and brings ...
... aspiration and the Divine call in his heart to come to live at the Mother's feet and then afterwards to leave them? Is it through vital depression or something else? Through the suggestions of the hostile forces, because of pride, egoism, ambition, sexual desire, vanity, greed or any other vital impulse used by the hostile Powers. Is it because the vital forces are so strong that even if a person has ...
... can be done. Or, rather, nothing will be done; for the attempt in such circumstances might lead to a breaking rather than a divine building of the nature, or even there might be a reception of hostile forces instead of the true light and power. This is the law of the relation on the spiritual plane: the consent of the disciple must be at every moment free, but his confidence, if given, must be complete ...
... the Mother present everywhere. After some time it seemed to me that although I was in the body I was free, free of every limitation, but helpless, strengthless, drifting away and exposed to the hostile forces. Then I saw the red, rolling, frowning eyes of X, threatening me. Helpless in this limitless space, I called the Mother and the atmosphere was clear. What happened in your experience was that ...
... your plummet into the deep and perhaps you shall find it—or perhaps you will hit something that has nothing at all to do with it. 9 June 1935 No Partiality The worst suggestion of the hostile forces is that you are partial in your dealings. When this is accepted a wall comes between you and the sadhak and there is a revolt and then there may be an end of the sadhana! Yes, that is their ...
... long as one does not control one's senses and desires, and concerns oneself with external material satisfactions as the most important thing, one has not the will necessary to resist the attack of hostile forces and all that pulls us down and leads us away from the spiritual reality. The Dhammapada does not take its stand so much on the moral point of view; it is not evil as men understand it with their ...
... retain them.... For this reason most spiritual disciplines... proclaim poverty and bareness of life as the only spiritual condition. But this is an error; it leaves the power in the hands of the hostile forces. To reconquer it for the Divine to whom it belongs and use it divinely for the divine life is the supramental way for the sadhaka." Sri Aurobindo, The Mother , pp. 11-12 How can one ...
... Divine, since the Divine can see Himself in His enemies? I don't quite understand your question. Why are there so many enemies of the Divine? So many enemies of the Divine? These hostile forces. But why are there so many completely unconscious human beings? I find that still more astonishing! For it is quite simply an act of unconsciousness: to be an enemy of the Divine is nothing ...
... to you. Then from there, gradually, you will go to the more difficult and more central things... Why do you happen to twist your ankle?... ( Silence ) Mother, last time you said that the hostile forces are going to strike a last blow this year. If the earth is not capable of winning the victory... The earth? Did I say the earth? The earth, India and individuals. Yes, it is possible ...
... 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 ( 19 May 1929 ) "Some part in you that does not respond to the protection." What ...
... that it is... From this point of view, it is good that for some time men get out of this religious atmosphere, so full of fear, and this sort of blind, superstitious submission of which the hostile forces have taken a dreadful advantage. The period of denial, positivism, is from this viewpoint quite indispensable in order to free men from superstition. It is only when one comes out of that and the ...
... is necessary and also some persistence, but still... this one must learn to do; and when you are very anxious, very tired, very... for instance, when you have just undergone violent attacks from hostile forces in one form or another and are very tired, if you follow this process consciously, well, within a few minutes all that disappears completely. It is something worth learning. Only, one must be very ...
... kind of vital interdependence, quite considerable, more than the physical, I believe. For instance, the First World War was the result of a tremendous descent of the forces of the vital world (hostile forces of the vital world) into the material world. Even those who were conscious of this descent and consequently armed to defend themselves against it, suffered from its consequences. The world, the ...
... Shakti, then it is idle to invoke the divine Grace to transform you. If you open yourself on one side or in one part to the Truth and on another side are constantly opening the gates to hostile forces, it is vain to expect that the divine Grace will abide with you. You must keep the temple clean if you wish to instal there the living Presence. If each time the Power intervenes and brings ...
... disequilibrium and chaos. Does this mean that it is preparing itself for the manifestation of a new force, for Page 365 the descent of the Truth? Or is this the result of the action of hostile forces in revolt against this descent? And what place does India occupy in all this? It is both at the same time. It is a chaotic means of preparation. India should be the spiritual guide explaining ...
... like milk, opaque - it is very strong. And there is one (gesture very high) which is a shade of white... which is of a transparent light. That one is something curious: one drop of that on the hostile forces dissolves them. They melt like that (gesture meaning "in no time at all"). I told all that to Sri Aurobindo, he confirmed it completely to me. That is essentially the Grace in its... (gesture ...
... ss of the psychic being. The feelings and aspiration of the psychic being are all turned towards truth and right consciousness and the Divine; it is the only part that cannot be touched by the hostile forces and their suggestions. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - III: The Psychic Being and Its Role in Sadhana The psychic being emerges slowly in most men, even after taking up sadhana. There ...
... impossible, unlivable. I was touched by your blessings for Sujata and myself. But there lies another impossibility. These last days I have come to realize that to blame all my 'crises' on the hostile forces is perhaps to oversimplify things. I understand better and better, for in my suffering, my soul is all I have and I rely on that alone; otherwise I could never bear all that I have borne, all that ...
... choose, you need discrimination.' ( Mother remains silent ) ( Satprem again reads from the same 'Questions and Answers' of 1956: ) 'All things are attracted to the Divine. Are the hostile forces also attracted to the Divine?' You know, I can say one thing about this.... There's a type of woman I have met more or less periodically throughout my life. These beings are under the influence ...
... begins to criticise, is not satisfied. 3rd: One revolts and sinks into falsehood. Do not grieve. Always the same battle must be won several times, especially when it is waged against the hostile forces. That is why one must be armed with patience and keep faith in the final victory. Page 184 My beloved Mother, can the adverse forces act effectively against the terrestrial evolution ...
... had other experiences that seemed a continuation of it ) Everyone carries with him, in his atmosphere, what Sri Aurobindo calls the 'Censors'; in a way, they are the permanent delegates of the hostile forces. Their role is to criticize mercilessly each act, each thought, the least movement of the consciousness, and to place you before the most hidden motives of your behavior, to expose the least lower ...
... from sweetness—it is a paroxysm of joy, a vibration so strong that the body feels it will burst, so it is forced to widen. Page 134 The diamond light of Bliss has the power to melt all hostile forces. Nothing can resist it. No consciousness, no being, no hostile will can draw near it without immediately being dissolved, for it is the Divine light in its pure creative power. ...
... but only of the Divine. Blessings. 2 March 1964 Sweet Mother, When they speak of a heart-attack or stroke, is there really an attack or stroke from outside by the hostile Page 385 forces, or is it a failure or wrong functioning of the system? Each case is different. It is often a blow from outside, more often a failure in the material body. Sometimes both together ...
... I am told that the recent violence against the Ashram was the result of Mahakali's wrath and you are supposed to have said that this was not the last. I thought that it was an act of the hostile forces. If truly it is Mahakali's work, then is it to be welcomed? People always deform what I say. It is better not to listen to them. But I have written something on the subject and will send a ...
... like a test and gone like a purification carrying away all that was standing in the way of the joy of an integral consecration. 2 February 1967 This illness has been put upon you by the hostile forces as a strong test. You have not met it with the proper attitude. That is why it lingers. Your going back to Madras does not ameliorate the attitude—on the contrary. You yield to a movement ...
... required conditions. And afterwards, he describes what kind of faith, what kind of sincerity and what kind of surrender. These are the required conditions so that her victory may be won over the hostile forces—the conditions on your side. Her conditions—I suppose she fulfils them spontaneously—are to respond to the aspiration, to have power, clearsightedness, knowledge and will. That is obvious. So, ...
... layer ) is white like milk, opaque—it's very strong. And there's another ( gesture very high ) which is white like... it's transparent light. With that one, it's strange: one drop of it on the hostile forces, and they're dissolved. They melt like this ( gesture before one's very eyes ). I said all that to Sri Aurobindo, he completely confirmed it. That's essentially the Grace in its... ( gesture very ...
... forces, Śrī Rāma returns victorious in combat to his own capital, that (indeed) would be worthy of him. (29) If, over running Lankā with his forces, Śrī Rāma (a scion of Kakutstha) the scourge of hostile forces, for his part, takes me (back from Lankā) that (alone) would be worthy of him. (30) Therefore, act you in such a way that the exalted soul, valiant in combat, may exhibit prowess worthy of him ...
... of human comradeship, the dark ocean on whose rolling waves we toss for a brief hour; from the great night without, a chill blast breaks in upon our refuge; all the loneliness of humanity amid hostile forces is concentrated upon the individual soul, which must struggle alone, with what of courage it can command, against the whole weight of a universe that cares nothing for its hopes and fears. Victory ...
... don't eat my fish!" Well, fathers may not, but Gurus? No, Sir, I don't eat your fish. I have oceans of fish at my disposal and have no need to consume your little sprats. It is Messrs. H.F. (hostile forces) who do that—the Dasyus or robbers. You display your fine new penknife and they say "Ah! he's proud of his fine new penknife, is he? We'll show him!" and they filch it at the first opportunity ...
... said some things about it in past writings, but without success in enlightening anybody. So why repeat the endeavour? Dr. B is going home tomorrow for a month. Please see that Messrs. H. F. [Hostile Forces] may not entangle me into trouble. For one month you may make yourself like iron and look fierce. A worker from Cycle House—Cassel (?) has conjunctivitis. Author of the dictionary? ...
... selfless people. He seems to think all people can be selfless! EVENING DR. MANILAL: I had a vision of snakes coming towards me but being thrown off. SRI AUROBINDO: Snakes usually mean hostile forces. But in getting a vision you have been rewarded for your patience! DR. MANILAL: The 26th of November is said to be Immortality Day. What is meant by it? The Mother used to give the Immortality ...
... is too vague. From what you wrote it may just as well be the reaction that frequently follows an experience; the adverse Force coming in with a contrary movement. Tests come sometimes from the hostile forces, sometimes 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 ...
... ss is the result or sign of ego. So many pretensions and excuses are there for self-indulgence. Sometimes they are very subtle and therefore more difficult to deal with even than hostile forces. Should we not deal with them with a concentrated mind? Yes, certainly. The mind must become conscious of these things and on its guard - without this consciousness it is not possible to ...
... We said that it must have been the result of the previous day's talk. We were all amused by the information from Sh that his nerves and stomach, not his mind, were the seats of the trouble: the hostile forces attacked him there. Sri Aurobindo asked: "But why the stomach?" After this, the talk moved on to Meher Baba, the Yogi from Western India. SATYENDRA: What consciousness corresponds to the Karana ...
... an Page 222 accident can take one unawares. As regards violence - for example, of a riot - I would have to concentrate for four or five days in order to protect myself. The hostile forces have tried many times to prevent things like the Darshan, but I have succeeded in warding off all their attacks. At the time of my accident, I was more occupied with guarding the Mother and ...
... Besides, we shall see afterwards its full significance. Of course, I accept it as a part of the battle. DR. MANILAL: When will you be cured? SRI AUROBINDO: I can't say and, even if I could, the hostile forces would at once rush up to prevent the cure. That is why I don't want to prophesy about anything. Not that things are not known beforehand or possibilities not seen. There are things about which ...
... and peace. No doubt sometimes you do not feel the Divine's Presence and Peace; it is because your consciousness is entangled in the mind, and full of illusions. But you must understand that the hostile forces are false and the Divine Forces are true. You must always develop your consciousness towards the Divine Light. At the same time you should eat well—not for your own sake, but for the sake ...
... Divine was within my reach and that I was leading the Divine Life. How mistaken I was! In fact I understood nothing. I felt as if I had been pushed into a black, turbulent and threatening sea. Hostile forces came rushing into my consciousness like gigantic waves and showed me all the gaps in my being, to test my sincerity towards the Call. I sank deeper and deeper into unconsciousness. I found everything ...
... dharna. Won't do. 45 [N.B. The three Indian words 'aprasanna', 'abasanna' and 'dharna' mean respectively 'displeased', 'depressed or despondent' and 'hunger strike'.] (9)NB: The hostile forces have made my life unbearable, sucking away every drop of blood. Can't sit outside even one minute under the breezy starry sky. Their breeding place is in the thick bushes M has planted. Can't you ...
... we had worked in outside cases or as I have worked by myself in certain cases outside or inside. Why didn't your Force prove decisive in this case? About the Supermind and its failure over hostile forces, I give you a chance to bombard me or else I shall! What has the Supermind to do here? Who told you that I was using the supramental Force? I have said all along that it was not the supramental ...
... uninvolved and finally, to even oppose the British. This step proved to be disastrous for India. From the occult point of view, it was a very serious mistake that resulted in opening the doors to hostile forces. The Mother said in May 1941: "The world situation is critical today. India's fate too hangs in the balance. There was a time when India was absolutely secure; there was no danger ...
... though the letter did not reach him, she was cured by him. It took several months to build up the lost health. During the subsequent years in Pondicherry she was subjected to constant attacks by hostile forces. The fight was untiring especially between 3 and 5 a.m., when she used to work for the sadhaks and had to go out of her body. Just the time of getting up was the opportune moment for attack, because ...
... nonsense, but nobody will give up his idea. It is too precious to the ego. The Mother's seriousness is due to some absorption in some work she is doing or, very often, to some strong attack of hostile forces in the atmosphere. But everybody is not conscious of any such thing in the atmosphere. It does not matter whether he feels an attack or not — the attack is there ...
... exists no more for him. For the hostile or the lower forces cannot touch the higher planes which are the Mother's. From the higher mind upwards all is free from the action of the hostile forces. For they all belong to the spiritual consciousness though with varying degrees of light and power and completeness. I think the sadhaks should be satisfied with describing what ...
... s of the psychic being. The feelings and aspirations of the psychic being are all turned towards truth and right consciousness and the Divine; it is the only part that cannot be touched by the hostile forces and their suggestions. But how to remove that veil and get the psychic in front? You have to aspire for it and it can only happen when you are sufficiently advanced ...
... silent when there is the wideness. One can become conscious of it and deal with what passes through it. A man without it would be without contact with the rest of the world. Can the hostile forces attack us on the mental plane as they do on the vital plane? Yes — the physical mind especially can be made easily their prey — they can also invade the thinking mind. Our ...
... so loving, sweet, full of sympathy pours out a divine compassion which relieves and consoles the miserable and agonising earth that is trying to free itself from the clutches of anti-divine and hostile forces. There is in His eyes the love that transfigures, the light that gives life, the energy which is released to protect, and the power to bless, to sustain and to help in the progress…. You know ...
... to darkness, he is "A nomad of the far mysterious Life, In the wide ways a little spark of God." In his present state in the world man is subjected to darkness and opposed by hostile forces. He is subject to the law of division and duality on which he depends for his working and progress. He cannot at present attain to knowledge, he can only fabricate "signs of the Real in Ignorance ...
... concerned with it. But its sway over the collectivity has also to go, if man- kind in general is to organise its existence on earth in perfect obedience to the will of its Creator. "The hold of the hostile forces upon money-power is powerfully, completely and thoroughly organised, and to extract anything out of this compact organisation is a most difficult task. Each time that you try to draw a little of ...
... Transformation of the Mind; Transformation of the Vital; Transformation of the Physical; Transformation of the Subconscient and the Inconscient; Difficulties of the Path; Opposition of the Hostile Forces. Volume 25 The Mother: WITH LETTERS ON THE MOTHER AND PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS (translations from Prieres et Meditations de la Mere). Volume ...
... and full of personal magnetism it is dangerous. Disciple : Can heredity account for beauty? Sri Aurobindo : Not much. Too much of vital glow and charm may be due even to the hostile forces and it maybe dangerous. Disciple : Does beauty belong to the vital world? Sri Aurobindo : The true vital world is a world full of beauty and grandeur. Disciple : Is not ...
... and full of personal magnetism it is dangerous. Disciple : Can heredity account for beauty? Sri Aurobindo : Not much. Too much of vital glow and charm may be due even to the hostile forces and it may be dangerous. Disciple : Does beauty belong to the vital world? Sri Aurobindo : The true vital world is a world full of beauty and grandeur. Disciple : Is ...
... this Fire to anyone who wanted it. Perhaps, it was this Fire that saved him and brought him out alive from the dungeons of the Andamans. I can still hear his lion-like voice roaring against all hostile forces. Magnetic Influence ( Recounted by BIKASH MUKHERJEE , former student of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, to Mona ) When I think of Sudhir-da, the first thought that comes ...
... signs to show that the universal condition may be more ready now. 23 And he concluded by warning that, if one were serious about doing the Yoga, one shouldn't tamely surrender to the hostile forces that were always insinuating the notion of inevitable failure. IX On 17 December 1925, Philippe Barbier St.-Hilaire, a 31 year old French engineer of high intelligence and ardent ...
... how to shake them off once and for all. The snag is an atomic falsity, lodged somewhere within which, like a sly fifth columnist, is ready to open the front gates for the entry of the kindred hostile forces from 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 ...
... Death, he is very influential, and "catches you with a contagion as strong as that of contagious diseases". But whatever the traps and quicksands of a situation in the apparent grip of the hostile forces, and especially of the Lords of Falsehood and Death and their minions, there is one infallible insurance, the Grace Divine. Once the egoistic calculations and contrivances are replaced by total ...
... on of the Asuric forces. As the Mother explains in the course of her talk on 7 October 1953: The First World War was the result of a tremendous descent of the forces of the vital world (hostile forces of the vital world) into the material world. Even those who were conscious of this descent and consequently armed to defend themselves against it, suffered from its consequences. The world, ...
... time, She spoke again, "When you feel unwell, or when some unpleasant, ugly force or thought tries to attack you, and you want to stay away from it, then keep chanting 'Om'. You will see how those hostile forces disappear. You will feel a tremendous peace within you." Then the Mother fixed me with Her eyes again. "When something disturbing happens to you," She resumed, "something that makes you restless ...
... surface (desire etc.) which should have been kept in check. This resolution may have opened the way for the old movements to rise through this part which was not yet ready to change at all and the hostile forces finding you off your guard took the opportunity to push the attack home. They are always vigilant for an opportunity and there must be a sufficient vigilance on the sadhak’s side to refuse it to ...
... to be so careful all the time! SRI AUROBINDO: It is just what you have not to do. Fling it back decisively and briefly and do not let your mind dwell in this idea. Keep the gate shut on these hostile forces and their suggestions. (26.4.33) ...
... exposed to such recoils; ours is so complex and many-sided and embraces such large aims that we cannot expect any smooth progress until we near the completion of our effort, - especially as all the hostile forces in the spiritual world are in a constant state of opposition and beseige our gains; for the complete victory of a single one of us would mean a general downfall among them. In fact by our own unaided ...
... responsive to the shock of Light. As he worked from level to level he met with fiercer and fiercer resistance. He had to wage a war of attrition, 'a locked struggle' as he put it: "All the hostile forces in the spiritual world are in a constant state of opposition and besiege our gains," he specified in a letter dated 26 June 1916. "That I suppose, is why the religions and philosophies have had ...
... subtle vision? The answer is: Yes, all that comes in visions may not be true; some visions may be due to the mental or vital formations of the subject; some others may be introduced by some hostile occult forces and beings. Some visions may be nothing more than alluring falsehoods. Some others may come only with the purpose of sidetracking the spiritual aspirant from the main path of sadhana. So, in ...
... purple; but these are colours corresponding to the forces of mind, psychic, vital—they are not the colours of the beings. Also other colours can play, e.g. in the vital, green and deep red as well as purple and there are other colours for the hostile vital forces. The lights one sees in concentration are the lights of various powers or beings or forces and often lights that come down from the higher... the meaning varying with the field, the combinations, the character and shades of the colour, the play of forces. A certain kind of yellow, for instance, is supposed by many occultists to indicate the buddhi , the intellect, and it often has that sense, but occurring among a play of vital forces it could not always be so interpreted—that would be too rigid. Here all one can say is that the blue (the... overmind truth or intuitive truth deriving ultimately from the supramental Truth consciousness. Green has much to do with the vital and indicates here, I think, the emotional forces in their outpouring. The play of the emotional forces in the divine Truth is, obviously, very pertinent to the working of the Krishna lights. Sunlight is the direct light of the Truth; when it gets fused into the vital ...
... passing, that this fact gives us some insight into what Sri Aurobindo achieved in making what we have come to consider a sublime strategic sacrifice, his glorious body's absorption of all hostile destructive forces in order to clear for the Mother and thus for the future world the way of the descending Supermind. The Mother defined to me the new state as "the physical mind receiving the Supramental... word "descent" which has been so much in the air in relation to the Supermind is proper only to an individual being who is turned towards the Integral Yoga. We have various levels at which diverse forces in us work. The level of the life-force is centred in the region of the abdomen, the emotional in the area of the heart, the mental in that of the brain. Pragmatically, there are lower and higher levels ...
... man speak, how sit, how walk? No such signs can be given, nor does the Teacher attempt to supply them; for the only possible test of its possession is inward and that there are plenty of hostile psychological forces to apply. Equality is the great stamp of the liberated soul and of that equality even the most discernible signs are still subjective. "A man with mind untroubled by sorrows, who has done ...
... modern Yoga, is represented in the Veda under the image of a journey or of a battle or both in one image. It is a struggle to advance beset by pitfalls & difficult passages, assailed & beset by hostile spiritual forces, the enemies, hurters or destroyers. Whenever therefore we have the image of a battle or a journey, we have henceforth the right to enquire whether it is not in every case the symbol of this... in the scattering of human enemies by Varuna as a condition of the seeker after Truth & Right’s reaching a state of sinlessness. It is the spiritual, moral & mental obstacles, the spiritual beings & forces who are opposed to the soul’s perfection, Brahmadwishah, whom Varuna, Mitra & Aryama remove from the path of their worshippers. They smite them & scatter them utterly, vi durgá vi dwishah,—the particle ...
... questions trouble his mind: such as, Who will look after him there? Who will cater to his needs? Who will arrange his destiny on the other side? Will he have to suffer a lot there? Will the hostile vital forces make his life miserable after death? Is there any guidance there? Any helping hand? This absence of any reliable knowledge regarding the post-death period, leading to a sense of absolute... of life-forces or consciousness-forces were impossible without it and without these there would have been lacking the first conditions of organised existence on the plane of matter. But a definite and concrete formation contracts the tendency to become at once rigid and hard and petrified. The individual form persisted as a too binding mould; it cannot follow the movements of the forces; it cannot... psychological movement does not belong to the sadhaka himself: it is not intrinsic to his true nature. It is something imposed upon him from outside through the malignant intervention of some adversary forces. Now, so long as one feels and Page 5 considers something as an integral part of one's own being, it becomes psychologically difficult to give an effective fight against it; whereas ...
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