The Law of the Rebound in the Practice of Occultism

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As with physical laws and laws
of physics, laws of nature,

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there are laws of occultism
which operate when there is

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vital interchange between people
on an occult level.

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Knowledge of these laws is
essential both to protect

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oneself and to ensure that
occult powers are not being

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misused or misapplied.
Practicing occultism is not

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something that can be taken up
lightly or without proper

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training and preparation, and
the consequences can be

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significant.
Spiritual aspirants are mainly

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advised not to focus on nor
engage in such practices as they

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tend to distract from the focus
on spiritual development and

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because they tend to be based in
the energies of the lower

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chakras, tend to bind the
individual at a relatively low

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level of energetic development.
One of the laws or secrets of

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occultism is described by the
Mother as the Law of Rebound.

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Essentially, this means that if
a particular occult formation is

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created and does not achieve its
target, it comes back upon the

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person who created it in the 1st
place as something of a

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boomerang effect.
There are lessons to be gained

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here for protection from such
formations.

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To the extent that the target of
such a formation is able to

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maintain a pure, clean and high
vibratory level, such formations

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will not succeed on them and
thus the sender will wind up

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suffering the consequences.
The target must be receptive to

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the energy of that formation in
order for it to work on him.

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From the point of view of a
creator of such a formation,

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there must be real care taken to
ensure that it is a necessary

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and suitable formation that
meets the energetic receptivity

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of the recipient.
The great Tibetan Yogi Millarapa

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was subject to the jealousy of a
local village priest late in his

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life.
The priest determined to arrange

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to have Millarapa poisoned, and
in carrying out that intention

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he offered a village woman money
to provide poisoned Kurds to

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Millarapa.
When the woman approached,

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Millarapa as a fully realized
soul at that stage knew what was

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taking place, and he told the
woman that she should first

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insure that she was fully paid
by the perpetrator.

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The situation proceeded where
Millarapa agreed to eat the

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poisoned Kurds and manifest his
bodily death.

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The priest came to witness the
situation and he saw Miloruppa

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sitting calmly.
Miloruppa advised him that he

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was carrying an intense amount
of pain, but through his yogic

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practice he was able to keep it
under control.

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The priest did not believe any
of this and asked Miloruppa to

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transfer the pain to him so he
could see for himself the

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reality of it.
Miloruppa refused, indicating

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that it was more than the priest
could bear, but he would

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transfer just a fraction of the
pain to the door, which then

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started creaking and groaning
under the intensity of the

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energy.
The priest asked for forgiveness

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in doubting the yogic
realizations of Millarapa.

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In this case, the priest created
a formation which ordinarily

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would have rebounded upon him,
but out of his vast compassion,

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Melarepa accepted the formation
and refused to have it rebound

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upon the priest.
His higher compassion opened the

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door for the priest to make
progress spiritually, which

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would not have occurred had it
simply been allowed to rebound

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upon him.
There are innumerable tales in

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the text about occult formations
that are targeted and sent and

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which fail to find or fulfil
their targeted intentions and

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the suffering that the creator
of the formation then had to

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undergo.
Those who try to manipulate the

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vital forces for various forms
of self-interest or personal

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gain in some form frequently
overlook the law of rebound and

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the consequences of attacking
those who have the natural state

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of high spiritual vibrations to
maintain an aura of protection

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around themselves, the Mother
observes.

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Quote in occultism there is the
rebound.

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You send out a bad thought, it
returns to you as an attack.

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That is exactly one of the
reasons why you must have a

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complete control over your
feelings, sensations, thoughts.

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For if you become angry with
someone or think badly of him,

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or if still worse you wish him
ill, well in your very dream you

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see this person coming with an
extreme violence to attack you.

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Then if you do not know these
things, you say why I was right

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in having bad thoughts against
him.

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But in fact, it is not at all
that it is your own thought that

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comes back to you, and the
person may be absolutely unaware

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of all that has happened for.
And this is one of the commonest

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laws in occultism.
If you make a formation, for

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instance a mental formation,
that an accident or something

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unpleasant should happen to a
certain person, and you send out

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this formation, if it so happens
that this person is in a very

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high state of consciousness,
does not at all wish anything

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bad, is quite indifferent and
disinterested in the affair, the

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formation will come up against
his atmosphere and instead of

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entering, will rebound upon the
one who has made it.

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In this way serious accidents
have taken place.

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There were certain people who
practiced that low deformation

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of occultism which is called
magic, and they had made

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formations through magic against
someone, but this person

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happened to be far above this
and could not be touched by

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those formations, so they
returned upon those people

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fatally.
If they had made a formation of

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death, it would have been they
who died.

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End Quote Reference Shriorobindo
and the Mother, The Hidden

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Forces of Life, Chapter 5,
Occult Forces, pages 123 to 124.