Occult Powers and the Spiritual Sadhana

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In his lectures on Raja yoga in
the chapter titled Powers Swami

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Vivekananda explains how various
occult Powers arise or can be

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developed.
The process is an extension of

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the preceding efforts of
purification, quieting of the

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Mind stuff, and then gaining the
ability to fix the concentration

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on a particular object, if one
turns to the focus on

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development of specific,
Empowers, this form of

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concentrated effort, will
eventually bear fruit.

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If done with serious intent and
discipline the power eventually

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can be utilized at will.
The question, of course, arises

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whether this focus on obtaining.
Such Powers is not actually

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distracting for the spiritual
Seeker.

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It is one thing for powers to
arise spontaneously, or to be

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naturally developed in an
individual and it is quite

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another to devote serious time.
Attention and focus to the

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acquisition of these powers.
Even when such Powers arise

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naturally, the spiritual Seeker
has to evaluate to what extent

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they aid in the process of the
sadhna.

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And to what extent they are,
either a distraction or are

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simply feeding the ego
personality.

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Obviously, as a new expression
of Consciousness takes hold as

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Humanity evolves beyond the
mental level, as its highest

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expression.
One could expect that this new

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level of Consciousness naturally
includes certain powers of

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understanding perception and
action that are not available to

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the general mental vital,
physical Evolution within which

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we currently live in Act.
As these Powers then come into

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play and become normalized.
They will not obviously, require

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the kind of effort needed in a
self exceeding of the current

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level of Consciousness.
And they will be part of a new

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framework of living.
In the meantime as the spiritual

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discipline proceeds and the
secret begins to have

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experiences of openings and
descents of intermediate, stages

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of development.
There may come a glimpses and

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expressions of certain powers
which can be experienced

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understood and not turned into
an object of Desire.

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Certainly the idea of creating
either fame or Fortune from the

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use of these Powers holds its
dangers for the seeker and would

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be highly discouraged as a
result.

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The mother describes the
consequences of such a direction

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in Greater depth the mother
notes quote.

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Besides one thing is certain
those who do not have these

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faculties and want to acquire
them.

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For instance, the paucity of
foresight for seeing what is

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going to come, which is
analogous to prophesy the

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capacity to know events before
they happen.

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As I said there are people who
have this spontaneously because

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of some peculiarity from birth.
And if one wants to acquire them

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himself, that is to say, enter
into contact with regions where

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these things can be seen.
And not by chance or

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accidentally or without having
any control over the thing.

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But on the contrary to see them
at will, then this indeed means

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of formidable work.
And that is why some people

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attach a very great value to
these things.

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But they have some value only
when they are under one's

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control done it will and the
result of an inner discipline in

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this case.
Yes because this proves you have

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entered into contact with a
certain region where it is

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difficult to enter consciously
at will and permanently.

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It is very difficult, it
requires much development.

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And then for you to be sure of
what you have seen because I

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haven't told you that with these
people who make a profession of

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their Clairvoyance, it becomes I
said commercialism but it is

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worse than that, you know, it is
a fraud when they do not see

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anything, they invent, when they
make a profession of it, and

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people come to ask them
something about the future and

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they can see nothing at all.
They are To invent something,

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otherwise they would lose their
reputation and their clientele.

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So this becomes a deception, you
see a falsehood fraud or

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falsification and quote
reference SRI aurobindo, and the

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mother growing within the
psychology of inner development.

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Chapter 7, growth of
Consciousness, inner experiences

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pages, one 12:31, Thirty.