September 2, 2009 – Attack by an Adverse Force

The joy of God is secret and wonderful;
it is a mystery and a rapture at which common sense makes mouths of mockery;
but the soul that has once tasted it, can never renounce,
whatever worldly disrepute, torture and affliction it may bring us.

Sri Aurobindo

(Thoughts and Aphorisms 464)

Attack by an Adverse Force

The most important thing to do when you are attacked by an adverse force, is to say to yourself: “Yes, the force comes from outside and the attack is there, but there must certainly be a correspondence in my nature, otherwise it could not have attacked me. Well, I am going to look and find within me what allows this force to come and I am going to send it back or transform it or put the light of consciousness upon it so that it may be converted, or drive it away so that it remains no longer within me….” There is a way, isn’t there? When the force comes, the adverse force, when it attacks, the part which corresponds rushes out to meet it, it goes forward. A kind of meeting takes place. If at that time, instead of being altogether overwhelmed or taken by surprise and off your guard, you observe very closely what it was within you that vibrated (it makes the sound tat, tat, tat: another thing has entered), then you can catch it. At that moment, you catch it and say to it: “Get out with your friends, I don’t want you any longer!”

– The Mother
The Great Adventure, Page 110