The Aura — the Vital Envelope that Surrounds the Physical Body

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For those people who only treat
as real things they can directly

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perceive with the physical sense
organs, the aura is considered

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to be some kind of fantasy of
imagination.

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The aura, a vital sheath or
envelope that extends beyond the

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boundaries of the physical body,
has therefore long been the

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province of psychics and
Mystics, however.

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In recent years, science has
developed methods to determine

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the existence of the aura, and
this has gone a long way toward

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debunking the idea that the aura
is simply an illusion.

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Curlean photography was one of
the developments that showed an

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energy field around each living
being.

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Various measuring devices have
proven that there is an

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electromagnetic field that
indeed extends beyond the

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physical body.
The Aura represents an interface

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between the vital nature of the
being and the vital force that

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circulates in the environment or
that directly presses into the

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world from the native plains of
the Vital.

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As the Seeker becomes able to
experience and recognize these

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more subtle, energetic actions,
he begins to experience the

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effects of the Aura, which
provides yet another

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confirmation of its existence.
For instance, an individual may

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feel pressure that seems to be
an illness building up in the

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body.
With close observation, this can

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be seen to actually start out as
a pressure on the vital envelope

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surrounding the body.
Action taken to strengthen the

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aura's resistance capacity at
that moment can reject the

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illness and other than a few
sniffles or coughs.

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Or some pressure, such as a
slight headache.

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The individual does not actually
get sick.

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Failure to act at this stage, or
even undertaking actions which

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undermine the strength of the
aura can lead to a full blown

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illness in the physical body.
Illness is but one example.

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Other vital forces may try to
invade and undermine the vital

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nature of the individual.
Causing emotional disturbances

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or nervous breakdowns, a strong
and vibrant aura can withstand

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these attacks and help the
individual pass through

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difficulties and traumas
relatively unscathed.

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While there are thoughts,
emotions and physical pressures

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which can undermine the aura,
there are also those that can

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strengthen the aura, providing
thereby a strong level of

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protection.
An experiment was undertaken to

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take curly and photographs of an
individual's aura in a normal

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state and then, after some
period of concentrated chanting

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in Pranayam.
The difference in just a few

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minutes of focus, breathing and
chanting was clear and obvious.

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The aura gained in brightness,
intensity and depth.

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The mother writes Quote The
vital body surrounds the

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physical body with a kind of
envelope which is almost the

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same density as the vibrations
of heat observable when the day

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is very hot.
And it is this which is the

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intermediary between the subtle
body and the most material vital

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body.
It is this which protects the

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body from all contagion,
fatigue, exhaustion.

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And even from accidents.
Therefore, if this envelope is

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wholly intact, it protects you
from everything but a little too

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strong.
An emotion, a little fatigue,

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some dissatisfaction, or any
shock whatsoever is sufficient

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to scratch it, as it were, and
the slightest scratch allows any

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kind of intrusion.
Medical science also now

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recognizes that if you are in
perfect vital equilibrium, you

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do not catch illness or in any
case you have a kind of immunity

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from contagion.
If you have this equilibrium,

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this inner harmony which keeps
the envelope intact, it protects

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you from everything.
There are people who lead quite

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an ordinary life, who know how
to sleep as one should, eat as

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one should.
And their nervous envelope is so

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intact that they pass through
all dangers as though

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unconcerned.
It is a capacity one can

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cultivate in oneself.
If one becomes aware of the weak

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spot in one's envelope, A few
minutes concentration, a call to

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the Force and inner peace, is
sufficient for it to be all

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right, get cured, and for the
untoward thing to vanish.

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End Quote Reference Sriorobindo
and the Mother Our Many Selves,

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Practical Yogic Psychology,
Chapter 2, Plains and Parts of

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the Being, pages 16 to 17.