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Attitude and the Law of Attraction

Attitude and the Law of Attraction

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Powers Within, Chapter VII Attitude, pp. 65-66 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2024/10/27/attitude-and-the-law-of-attraction/

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The Law of Attraction has been
seen as something of a wish

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fulfilling gem where we can
think about something and focus

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on it and thereby draw it to us.
The reality of the Law of

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Attraction is not so dramatic as
to cause riches, fame and other

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desired results to manifest for
us somewhat automatically, but

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is nevertheless a reality that
we can and should understand and

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utilize In the way we manoeuvre
our way through life.

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We tend to resonate towards
those things that are compatible

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with our energetic vibration.
Similarly, we tend to attract

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those things which find our
energetic vibration suitable.

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This mutual attraction tends to
help sort out what we experience

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in life so that each individual
has a unique set of experiences.

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It has been said that what we
fear the most is the thing we

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are actually drawing towards us.
At the same time, the fear tends

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to open up a hole in our
energetic envelope to allow the

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feared thing to approach and
enter.

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The same can be said for those
things we desire.

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What we desire most tends to
draw us into events and

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circumstances and opportunities
that help us achieve that

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desire.
Our basic attitude toward life

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is part of the mechanism by
which we steer and focus our

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attention and thereby create the
various attractions and

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repulsions that govern our vital
existence.

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This attitude can also spell the
difference between a good

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outcome and a bad outcome, as
forces that support are drawn to

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a positive upward looking
attitude and forces that

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obstruct or harm are drawn to a
negative downward looking

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attitude, the mother writes.
Quote If in the presence of

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circumstances that are about to
take place, you can take the

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highest attitude possible.
That is, if you put your

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consciousness in contact with
the highest consciousness within

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reach, you can be absolutely
sure that in that case it is the

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best that can happen to you.
But as soon as you fall from

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this consciousness into a lower
state, then it is evidently not

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the best that can happen, for
the simple reason that you are

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not in your very best
consciousness.

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I even go so far as to affirm
that in the zone of immediate

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influence of each one, the right
attitude not only has the power

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to turn every circumstance to
advantage, but can change the

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very circumstance itself.
For instance, when a man comes

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to kill you, if you remain in
the ordinary consciousness and

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get frightened out of your wits,
he will most probably succeed in

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doing what he came for.
If you rise a little higher,

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and, though full of fear, call
for the Divine help, he may just

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miss you, doing you a slight
injury.

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If, however, you have the right
attitude and the full

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consciousness of the Divine
Presence everywhere around you,

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he will not be able to lift a
finger against you.

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I have had innumerable examples
of the power of right attitude.

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I have seen crowds save from
catastrophes by one single

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person keeping the right
attitude.

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But it must be an attitude that
does not remain somewhere very

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high and leaves the body to its
usual reactions.

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If you remain high up like that,
saying let God's will be done,

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you may get killed all the same,
for your body may be quite

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undivine, shivering with fear.
The thing is to hold the true

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consciousness in the body
itself, and not have the least

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fear and be full of the divine
peace, then indeed there is no

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danger.
Not only can attacks of men be

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warded off, but beasts also, and
even the elements can be

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affected.
End Quote Reference Srioro Bindu

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and the Mother Powers within,
Chapter 7 Attitude, pages 65 to

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66.