Mental Formations Can Create Experiential Domains

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The gross physical forms result
from the subtler levels that are

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either the immediate effective
means or the causal level that

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has formulated the result.
If we look at the construction

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of a bridge or a building, we
see that first there is an idea

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that develops.
The idea turns into a formulated

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mental process of design.
Then there is an organizational

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phase whereby the various
designed elements are acquired.

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What happens next is a step by
step process to bring the design

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into being.
Eventually the building or

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bridge results.
It is the same way with all

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things that humans create in the
world.

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Some things do not have specific
physical forms such as described

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here, but have either mental or
vital forms that never reach the

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stage of physical manifestation,
yet impact things on these other

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planes or levels.
We find that frequently people

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create in their minds various
images about what may happen in

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the future, what will happen to
them after death, what results

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may occur as they proceed
through their lives.

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Depending on how they formulate
these images of the future and

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how strongly they organize them,
they set a direction, a

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trajectory, and an impulsion in
that direction, which then tend

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to attract the circumstances and
forces to carry out that

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intention in their minds.
One of the things that people

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tend to dwell on is how they
will experience life after

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death.
Regardless of the actual reality

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of life and death, they imagine
that they will attain to heaven,

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that they will rejoin their
loved ones in heaven, or else if

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they have done things that
caused them to carry guilt and

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fear around with them, they will
tend to see their future

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existence in a sort of hell.
Some people actually create

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these ideas with so much
intensity that they live in a

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heaven or a hell of their own
making right here in their

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earthly life.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead

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describes the process of the
dissolution of the tie of the

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consciousness to the physical
body and the actual trajectory

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it follows as it traverses the
intervening zone, which is

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called the bardo.
Subject to the directions set

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during the life and at the time
of departure from life, past

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causal energies propel them
forward along the lines they

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previously created and based on
their spiritual development,

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their clarity of mind, their
vital purity, they will wind up

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taking birth in either another
body that is either destined to

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various forms of enjoyment or
suffering.

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As they work through all the
past influences and achieve

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enlightenment, the Mother
observes.

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Quote.
In these invisible worlds there

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are also regions which are the
result of human mental

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formations.
One can find their all one

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wants.
In fact, one very often finds

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their exactly what one expects
to find.

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There are Hells, there are
paradises, there are

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purgatories, there are all sorts
of things.

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In accordance with the different
religions and their conceptions.

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These things have only a very
relative existence, but with a

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relativity similar to that of
material things here.

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That is to say, for someone who
finds himself there, they are

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entirely real and their effects
quite tangible. 1 needs an inner

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liberation, a wideness of the
consciousness and a contact with

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a deeper and higher truth to be
able to escape from the illusion

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of their reality.
But this is something almost

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similar to what happens here.
Human beings here are mostly

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convinced that the only reality
is the physical reality, the

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reality of what one can touch,
can see.

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And for them all that cannot be
seen, cannot be touched, cannot

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be felt, is, after all
problematical.

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Well, what happens there is an
identical phenomenon.

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People who at the moment of
death are convinced for one

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reason or another that they are
going to paradise or maybe to

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hell do find themselves there
after their death.

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And for them it is truly a
paradise or a hell.

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And it is extremely difficult to
make them come out of it and go

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to a place which is more true,
more real.

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End Quote Reference Sri
Aurobindo and the Mother, The

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Hidden Forces of Life, Chapter
5, Occult Forces, pages 110 to

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111.