What Causes the Wind?

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A young child was asked what
causes the wind.

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The child replied when the trees
move their branches and leaves,

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that is what makes the wind.
This extremely logical

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observation mirrors the way we
tend to look at the world.

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We think that we make the
decisions that we are in charge

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of what we do, and we fail to
see that there are larger

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universal forces that move all
action in US and others and in

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the world at large.
When we pose for ourselves the

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analogous question Where do our
feelings come from?

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Or where do our thoughts come
from?

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We tend to give the same
response as the child about the

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wind.
If we reflect a little, however,

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we soon begin to recognize that
there are indeed larger forces

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at work.
We can see different societies

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that have developed different
frames of reference and the

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individuals in those societies
tend to respond according to the

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pattern of their own society or
culture.

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The Bhagavad Gita states.
Quote The Lord, O Arjuna, is

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seated in the heart of all
beings turned, turning all

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beings mounted upon a machine by
his Maya.

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Chapter 18.
Sloka 61.

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We respond according to the
action and interplay of the

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three gunas.
We speak of the time spirit to

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describe a general approach to
understanding life, action and

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our role in the world.
This is an implicit recognition

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that there are universal forces
that shape and guide our lives,

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our actions, and our reactions.
And as these forces move, so we

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move under their impulsion.
The question then arises as to

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how we can begin to know and
understand these universal

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cosmic forces that act upon us
and determine situations and our

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responses to them.
As long as we remain fixated on

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the outer world and the physical
senses, we remain essentially

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oblivious to their action.
When we shift our standpoint

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inwards or upwards, bring calm
and clarity to our awareness, we

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can begin to experience the
impact of these forces in our

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lives, Sri Aurobindo observes.
Quote.

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Universal forces means all
forces, good or bad, favorable

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or hostile, of light and
darkness that move in the

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cosmos.
They, the cosmic forces, act on

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everyone according to the
person's nature and his will and

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consciousness.
These impersonal forces of the

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world we know only by their
results, by the little that we

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can seize of their visible
action and consequence.

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Among them it is mostly the
physical world, forces of which

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we have some knowledge.
But we live constantly in the

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midst of a whirl of unseen mind
forces and life forces of which

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we know nothing.
We are not even aware of their

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existence.
To all this unseen movement and

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action, the subliminal inner
consciousness can open our

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awareness, For it has a direct
knowledge of it, by direct

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contact, by inner vision, by a
psychic sensitiveness.

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But at present it can only
enlighten our obtuse

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superficiality and outwardness
by unexplained warnings,

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premonitions, attractions and
repulsions, ideas, suggestions,

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obscure intuitions, the little
it can get through imperfectly

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to the surface.
The inner being not only

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contacts directly and concretely
the immediate motive and

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movement of these universal
forces and feels the results of

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their present action, but it can
to a certain extent forecast or

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see ahead their further action.
There is a greater power in our

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subliminal parts to overcome the
time barrier, to have the sense

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or feel the vibration of coming
events, of distant happenings,

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even to look into the future.
It is true that this knowledge

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proper to the subliminal being
is not complete, for it is a

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mixture of knowledge and
ignorance, and it is capable of

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erroneous as well as of true
perception.

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End Quote Reference Sri Arobindo
and the Mother, The Hidden

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Forces of Life, Chapter 4,
Cosmic and Universal Forces,

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pages 81 to 82.