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Sept. 16, 2024

Mental Formations Can Be Enhanced and Empowered by Vital Force of Desire

Mental Formations Can Be Enhanced and Empowered by Vital Force of Desire

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Powers Within, Chapter II Power of Thought, pp. 16-17 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2024/09/11/mental-formations-can-be-enhanced-and-empowered-by-vital-force-of-desire/

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For those who can see vital
energies and auras, the driving

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forces of any individual are
quite easy to observe. 1 can

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observe this frequently in
nightclubs where sexual energies

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are high, and those with
particularly powerful formations

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in this direction can be seen
virtually radiating or oozing

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sexual energy.
They choose their intended

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partner and direct their energy
there and more often than not,

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there is a response and the two
meet and carry out their desired

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activity.
Several devotees actually

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reported a circumstance they
witnessed individually and later

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discussed with each other.
There was a group of people and

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one individual was taking on the
role of the guru for these

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people.
One individual had resisted the

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control and pressure being
exerted and declared that he

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would depart the group.
This went against the well

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developed desire formation of
the guru who brought everyone

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together and proceeded to rant
angrily about being betrayed and

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continuing to pressure everyone
to exert pure influence and

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breakdown the resistance of the
individual who was planning to

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depart.
This resistant individual and

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one other in the group reported
seeing a dark entity emerge from

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the face of the guru figure and
emanate out into the room.

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The atmosphere became filled
with the aggressive dark desire

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filled entity filled with greed,
lust and seeking for power.

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As it was clearly a very well
developed formation that was now

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coming forward under the
impulsion of the frustrated

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desire of the guru, it is quite
easy to observe something

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similar in demagogues who are
hungry for power and control.

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The formations they express are
not only very well developmental

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formations, but they are tied to
a strong vital force of desire

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that tries to overwhelm those
who come under their influence.

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The speeches of Adolf Hitler and
others with a similar presence

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and desire reveal this to
dispassionate observers of

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history.
What seems like almost

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hysterical ranting is the vital
entity or entities breaking

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forth to penetrate the
protective vital screen or aura

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of the listeners in the crowd.
There are other ways one can

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experience these desire bodies
of formations, not just through

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the visual sense.
Some people who are especially

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quiet inwardly can enter a room
and can sense through a feeling

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of sorts the desires playing
from each individual in the

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room.
In some cases they see a desire

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they recognize rising up within
themselves, and with that

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observation they can then direct
their attention to the source of

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the vibration causing it, and
thus identify the source of the

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desire formation the mother
observes.

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Quote people who have desires
add to the mental formation a

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kind of small envelope, a vital
shell, which gives it a still

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greater reality.
These people are usually

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surrounded by a number of tiny
entities which are their own

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formations, their own mental
formations, clothed with vital

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force, which come all the time
to strike them, to try to make

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them realize materially the
formations they have made.

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You have perhaps read the books
of Morris Magre.

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There are some in the library.
He describes this.

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He had come here, Morris Magre,
and we spoke, and he told me

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that he had always noticed, he
was highly sensitive.

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He has always noticed that
people who have sexual desires

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are surrounded by a kind of
small swarm of entities who are

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somewhat viscous and rather
ugly, and which torment them

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constantly, awakening desire in
them.

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He said he had seen this around
certain people.

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It was like being surrounded by
a swarm of mosquitoes.

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Yes, but it is more gross and
much uglier still, and it is

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viscous, It is horrible, and it
turns round and round the person

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and gives him no peace, and it
awakens in him the desire that

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has formed these entities, and
they feast upon it.

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It is their food.
This is absolutely true.

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His observation was quite
correct.

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His vision was very true.
It is like that.

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But everyone carries around
himself the atmosphere of his

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own desires.
So you don't at all require that

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people should tell you anything.
You have only to look, and you

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see around them exactly the
state they are in.

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They may want to give themselves
the airs of angels or Saints,

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but they can't deceive you
because that thing is there

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turning around them.
So just imagine, Mother points

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to all those seated in front of
her.

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You see what you are like.
How many of you there, all of

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you here?
And each one has his own little

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world in this way of mental
formations, of which some are

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clothed in vital substance.
And all these crawl together,

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mix with each other, knock
against each other.

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There is a struggle to see which
is the strongest, which tries to

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realize itself.
And all this creates an

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atmosphere indeed.
End Quote Reference Shrioro

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Bindu and the Mother Powers
within, Chapter 2.

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Power of Thought, pages 16 to
17.