The Procedure for Elimination of Unwanted Movements in the Being

Medical researchers tell us that bacteria that can cause various disease conditions are always present in our environment, to some degree, including within our bodies. Yet for the most part, we do not become ill or remain ill all the time. The bacteria may be in a diffused or weak form, or our various immune system defenses reject their attempt to overpower our system in a way that creates an active illness. In some cases we may experience a feeling of physical pressure of some sort and then exercise a mental will, create an affirmation of health, or seek out some form of external support to avoid or reduce the onset, intensity or length of any illness. In many cases, the subconscient raises a vibrational response to the activity of the agent trying to disrupt or gain control over the physical body and thus, opens up a type of correspondence which allows the vibration to take hold and the bacteria thereby to proliferate and increase their intensity.

Vibrational patterns at the mental, vital and physical level are likewise always active in the environment. If an individual is receptive to any of these vibrations, they take root in the being at whatever level they are active, whether in the mind, the vital being or the physical.

As we see in the process of physical illness, it is possible for any part of the being to actively reject vibrations and thereby prevent their taking hold. The various parts of the being are not always in agreement with each other, so the mind may reject something that the vital still desires, or the physical craves, and thus, part of the being is creating a receptive opening for that vibration, even if another part is clearly against it. It is only after all parts of the being have refused admittance to these vibrations and their influence that the being can be considered totally clear, and even then, these universal forces try to ‘reinfect’ the being at some level and thereby to create a starting point for a full blown expression.

Sri Aurobindo notes: “As for the things in our nature that are thrown away from us by rejection but come back, it depends on where you throw them. Very often there is a sort of procedure about it. The mind rejects its mentalities, the vital its vitalities, the physical its physicalities — these usually go back into the corresponding domain of general Nature. It all stays at first, when that happens, in the environmental consciousness which we carry about with us, by which we communicate with the outside Nature, and often it persistently rushes back from there — until it is so absolutely rejected, or thrown far away as it were, that it cannot return upon us any more. But when what the thinking and willing mind rejects is strongly supported by the vital, it leaves the mind indeed but sinks down into the vital, rages there and tries to rush up again and re-occupy the mind and compel or capture our mental acceptance. When the higher vital too — the heart or the larger vital dynamis reject it, it sinks from there and takes refuge in the lower vital with its mass of small current movements that make up our daily littleness. When the lower vital too rejects it, it sinks into the physical consciousness and tries to stick by inertia or mechanical repetition. Rejected even from there it goes into the subconscient and comes up in dreams, in passivity, in extreme tamas. The Inconscient is the last resort of the Ignorance.”

Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 5, Physical Consciousness — Subconscient — Sleep and Dream — Illness, pp. 89-90