The Vital Envelope Is the First Line of Defense Against Illness

0:00 Most people are not aware of the vital envelope, sometimes called the aura, that surrounds their physical body. Those who experience this vital envelope are sensitive on the vital plane. They are frequently ridiculed for speaking about the aura which they can feel or even observe in others. Western science decided to find a way to test the long proclaimed existence of the aura. Tests were developed to capture the electromagnetic field that surrounds the body. Eventually, a technique called Curlian photography was devised that could actually photograph this electromagnetic field.

0:44 An individual who had no experience or belief one way or the other about the existence of the aura came into contact with a researcher at Jipmer Hospital in Pondicherry, India some years ago. This researcher was studying cancer and the vibratory pattern it gave off and how it could be cured by projecting onto the mice he was using for his experiments. The vibratory pattern given off by healthy mice. One of the tools he used was curly in photography. After describing his work to the visitor and showing a series of photographs of healthy mice, the cancerous mice and their subsequent recovery, he offered to show the visitor how the Krellian photography actually worked. He took photographs of 2 stones.

1:36 1 was an ordinary stone, the other was a stone that had been in an active temple for potentially hundreds of years. The ordinary stone had virtually no aura surrounding it, while the temple stone had a strong field of radiance exuding from it. The researcher then went further and asked the visitor to extend his hand. He photographed the hand and showed the result of a noticeable but rather diffused field surrounding it. Then he asked the visitor to chant some mantras. Afterwards, he photographed the hand once again. This time the aura was bright and radiant and extended far beyond the former photographed field.

2:21 Even for those who have not had personal insight or experience about the existence of this vital envelope, there are several significant points here. First, the aura exists. Second, it can be augmented through focus practice such as long standing prayer, the temple rock, or through use of mantras. The visitors experience, those who have practiced to gain a sensitive awareness, can feel the protective role that this vital envelope plays and the way it can be supported to reject the vibrations of illness that try to attack the physical body, as Sri Aurobindo recounts here. Sri Aurobindo notes quote attacks of illness are attacks of the lower nature or of adverse forces taking advantage of some weakness, opening or response in the nature. Like all other things that come and have got to be thrown away, they come from outside.

3:24 If one can feel them so coming and get the strength and the habit to throw them away before they can enter the body, then one can remain free from illness even when the attack seems to rise from within. That means only that it has not been detected before it entered the subconscient. Once in the subconscient, the force that brought it rouses it from there sooner or later, and it invades the system. When you feel it just after it has entered, it is because, though it came direct and not through the subconscient, yet you could not detect it while it was still outside.

4:06 Very often it arrives like that, frontally or more often tangentially from the side, direct, forcing its way through the subtle vital envelope which is our main armor of defence. But it can be stopped there in the envelope itself, before it penetrates the physical body. Then one may feel some effect, for instance feverishness or a tendency to cold, but there is not the full invasion of the malady. If it can be stopped earlier, or if the vital envelope of itself resists and remains strong, vigorous and intact, then there is no illness. The attack produces no physical effect and leaves no trace. End Quote.

4:55 Reference. Srioro Bindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 5. Physical Consciousness, subconscious Sleep and Dream Illness. Pages 104 to 105.