Outside Suggestions and Vibrations A suggestion is not one's own thought or feeling, but a thought or feeling that conies from outside, from others, from the general atmosphere or from external Nature, - if it is received, it sticks and acts on the being and is taken to be one's own thought or feeling. If it is recognised as a suggestion, then it can be more easily got rid of. SRI AUROBINDO By suggestion I do not mean merely thoughts or words. When the hypnotist says "sleep", it is a suggestion; but when he says nothing, but only puts his silent will to convey sleep or makes movements of his hands over the face, that also is a su

VI HIDDEN WORLDS AND EVOLUTIONARY FORCES Our earth is a fragment and a residue; Her power is packed with the stuff of greater worlds And steeped in their colour-lustres dimmed by her drowse; An atavism of higher births is hers, Her sleep is stirred by their buried memories Recalling the lost spheres from which they fell. Unsatisfied forces in her bosom move; They are partners of her greater growing fate And her return to immortality; SRI AUROBINDO Savitri, Book Two, Canto One A difficult evolution from below Called a masked intervention from above; Else this great, blind inconsci

Play of Forces Anyone with some intelligence and power of observation who lives more in an inward consciousness can see the play of invisible forces at every step which act on men and bring about events without their knowing about the instrumentation. The difference created by yoga or by an inner consciousness - for there are people like Socrates who develop or have some inner consciousness without yoga - is that one becomes conscious of these invisible forces and can also consciously profit by them or use and direct them. That is all. SRI AUROBINDO ... the play of the forces is very complex and one has to be conscious of them and, as it were, see a