YOGA & HOSTILE
FORCES
by Angel-Light Love of Texas
Spiritual & Metaphysical Healing/Wellbeing Facilitator
(Spirit-Mind-Body-Environment)
April 14, 2007 on ♥Angel-Light Beamer♥
https://angel-light-love-healing.blogspot.com
Bernhard Guenther (
www.veilofreality.com
and
www.bernhardguenther.com) shared
words of Sri Aurobindo found in “The Integral Yoga” recently on Facebook.
Sharing them here.
The words in brackets are insertions by Bernhard,
including an explanation that yoga is “spiritual practice for union with the Divine.”
It is to keep in mind that this article is
includes ALL spiritual practices with the goal of union with Divine..
It is a fact always
known to all yogis and occultists since the beginning of time, in Europe and
Africa as in India, that wherever yoga [spiritual practice for union with the
Divine] is done, there the hostile [hyperdimensional] Forces gather together to
stop it by any means. It is known that there is a lower nature and a higher
spiritual nature — it is known that they pull different ways and the lower is
strongest at first and the higher afterwards. It is known that the hostile Force
take advantage of the movements of the lower nature and try to spoil through
them, smash or retard the siddhi. It has been said as long ago as the
Upanishads (hard is the path to tread, sharp like a razor's edge); it was said
later by Christ 'hard is the way and narrow the gate by which one enters into
the kingdom of heaven' and also 'many are called, few chosen' - because of
these difficulties. But it has also always been known that those who are
sincere and faithful in heart and remain so and those who rely on the Divine
will arrive in spite of all difficulties, stumbles or falls.
This yoga is a
spiritual battle; its very attempt raises all sorts of adverse forces and one
must be ready to face difficulties, sufferings, reverses of all sorts in a calm
unflinching spirit. The difficulties that come are ordeals and tests and if one
meets them in the right spirit, one comes out stronger and spiritually purer
and greater. No misfortune can come, the adverse forces cannot touch or be
victorious unless there is some defect in oneself, some impurity, weakness or,
at the very least, ignorance. One should then seek out this weakness in oneself
and correct it. When there is an attack from the human instruments of adverse
forces [occult hyperdimensional forces working through other people without
their awareness, used as “portals”], one should try to overcome it not in a
spirit of personal hatred or anger or wounded egoism, but with a calm spirit of
strength and equanimity and a call to the Divine Force to act. Success or
failure lies with the Divine.
The normal resistance
of the lower Nature in human beings and the action of the Hostiles are two
quite different things. The former is natural and occurs in everybody; the
latter is an intervention from the non-human world. But this intervention can
come in two forms. (1) They use and press on the lower Nature forces making
them resist where they would otherwise be quiescent, making the resistance
strong or violent where it would be otherwise slight or moderate, exaggerating
its violence when it is violent. There is besides a malignant cleverness, a
conscious plan and combination when the Hostiles act on these forces which is
not evident in the normal resistance of the forces. (2) They sometimes invade
with their own forces. When this happens there is often a temporary possession
or at least an irresistible influence which makes the thoughts, feelings,
actions of the person abnormal — a black clouding of the brain, a whirl in the
vital, all acts as if the person could not help himself and were drawn by an
overmastering force. On the other hand instead of a possession there may be
only a strong Influence; then the symptoms are less marked, but it is easy for
anyone acquainted with the ways of these forces to see what has happened.
Finally it may be only an attack, not possession or influence; the person then
is separate, is not overcome, resists.
One must not get into
the habit of a state in which one is always in a struggle with suggestions and
forces. People very easily fall into this [victim/self-pity trap] and make it a
habit — the vital part takes a sort of glowing satisfaction in crying out
"I am attacked, overborne, suffering, miserable! How tragic is my fate!
Why do you not help, O Divine? There is no help, nor Divine Grace? I am left to
my misery and downfall etc. etc. etc." I do not want one more sadhak to
fall into this condition -that is why I am calling Halt! before you get
entangled into this kind of habit of constant struggle. It is what these forces
want — to make you feel helpless, defeated, overcome. You must not allow it. here are two things that make it impossible
for them [the hostile forces] to succeed even temporarily in any attack on the
mind or the vital — first, an entire love, devotion and confidence that nothing
can shake, secondly, a calm and equality in the vital as well as in the mind
which has become the fundamental character of the inner nature [zero-point
non-reactive Consciousness]. Suggestions then may still come, things go wrong
outside, but the being remains invulnerable. Either of these two things is
sufficient in itself— and in proportion as they grow, even the existence of the
hostile forces becomes less and less of a phenomenon of the inner life — though
they may still be there in the outer atmosphere.
When confronted with hostile forces (human persons or
spirits), first respond by breathing deeply using the trunk of your body and saying
silently to yourself (one syllable on the in-breath and one syllable on the
out-breath), “Center, balance.”
Also
affirming (aloud when possible):
“I Am
poised and centered in Divine, and nothing can disturb the calm peace of my
soul.” And then continue with other “I Am” affirmations.
When convenient, as a way of self-care, run
golden white light through your person in various ways with the intent to clear
and to raise your frequency resonance vibration.
We have shared many such processes here on
the
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handout form.
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