Universal Vital Force Sweet Mother, how can one draw on "the universal vital Force"? One can do it in many ways. First of all, you must know that it exists and that one can enter into contact with it. Secondly, you must try to make this contact, to feel it circulating everywhere, through everything, in all persons and all circumstances; to have this experience, for example, when you are in the countryside among trees, to see it circulating in the whole of Nature, in trees and things, and then commune with it, feel yourself close to it, and each time you want to deal with it, recall that impression you had and try to enter into contact.

Magic, Miracles and the Planchette In occultism there is the "rebound". You send out a bad thought, it returns to you as an attack. That is exactly one of the reasons why you must have a complete control over your feelings, sensations, thoughts, for if you become angry with someone or think badly of him, or if, still worse, you wish him ill, well, in your very dream you see this person coming with an extreme violence to attack you. Then, if you do not know these things, you say. "Why, I was right in having bad thoughts against him!" But in fact, it is not at all that. It is your own thought that comes back to you. And the person may be absolutely unawa

Forces of Our Formations How can human thought create forms? In the mental world human thought is constantly creating forms. Human thought is very creative in the mental world. All the time when you are thinking, you are creating forms and you send them out in the atmosphere and they go and do their work. Constantly you are surrounded by a heap of small formations. Naturally, there are people who can't even think clearly. So they form nothing at all except faint eddies. But people who think clearly are surrounded by a heap of little forms which, sometimes, go out to do some work in others; and when one thinks of them again, they return.

IV COSMIC AND UNIVERSAL FORCES Awakened to the lines that Nature hides, Attuned to her movements that exceed our ken, He grew one with a covert universe. His grasp surprised her mightiest energies' springs; He spoke with the unknown Guardians of the worlds, Forms he descried our mortal eyes see not. His wide eyes bodied viewless entities, He saw the cosmic forces at their work And felt the occult impulse behind man's will. SRI AUROBINDO Savitri, Book One, Canto Three Page-80

INDEX A Adverse forces see under Force(s) Agni Shakti 162 Astral planes 14 Astrological predictions 13 Astrology 14, 15 Asura 88 Lord of Falsehood 115 Atavism 41,180 Aura 74,83 Automatic writing 127 ff. 130, 131 B Bilwamangal 169 Blavatsky, Madame 113 Buddha, the 181,186 Buddhist(s) 20, 68 C Chance 8, 177-179 Circumconscient. the 37 Communication with the dead 128 "Complexes" 83 Consciousness body-consciousness 36 concealed 30 Divine. 8 other planes of 29 physical 33 planes

THE HIDDEN FORCES OF LIFE Selections from the Works of SRI AUROBINDO and THE MOTHER Compiled by A. S. Dalal INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL PSYCHOLOGY OJAI, CALIFORNIA First Edition 1990 Published in the United States by Institute of Integral Psychology, Ojai, California, and simultaneously in India by Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Publication Department, Pondicherry, India. Copyright © 1990 by Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry, India. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without prior permission of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Publication Department, Pondic

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THE HIDDEN FORCES OF LIFE   CONTENTS Pre-Content Preface Section I Life through the Eye of the Yogin Play of Forces  Forces of Action and Reaction and Destiny Forces in Human Interchange Human Will, Nature-Force and Divine Will  Section II Hidden Forces Within The Subconscient, the Subliminal and the Superconscient The Psychic Section III Hidden Forces Around Outside

VIII LIFE - A MASS OF VIBRATIONS Unseen here act dim huge world-energies And only trickles and currents are our share. Our mind lives far off from the authentic Light Catching at little fragments of the Truth, In a small corner of infinity, Our lives are inlets of an ocean's force. SRI AUROBINDO Savitri, Book Two, Canto Five Page-176 For my consciousness the whole life upon earth, including the human life and all its mentality, is a mass of vibrations, mostly vibrations of falsehood, ignorance and disorder, in which are more and more at work vibrations of Truth and Harmony coming from

I LIFE THROUGH THE EYE OF THE YOGIN Nothing we think or do is void or vain; Each is an energy loosed and holds its course. The shadowy keepers of our deathless past Have made our fate the child of our own acts, And from the furrows laboured by our will We reap the fruit of our forgotten deeds. But since unseen the tree that bore this fruit And we live in a present born from an unknown past, They seem but parts of a mechanic Force, To a mechanic mind tied by earth's laws; Yet are they instruments of a Will supreme, Watched by a still all-seeing Eye above. A prescient archit