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Namah Yogic insights into human psychology

A thinking outline of a cryptic Force. This evil Nature housed in human hearts,
All she reveals in him that is in her, A foreign inhabitant, a dangerous guest:
Her glories walk in him and her darknesses. The soul that harbours it, it can dislodge,
Man’s house of life holds not the gods alone: Expel the householder, possess the house.
There are occult Shadows, there are tenebrous An opposite potency contradicting God,
Powers, A momentary Evil’s almightiness
Inhabitants of life’s ominous nether rooms, Has straddled the straight path of Nature’s acts.
A shadowy world’s stupendous denizens. It imitates the Godhead it denies,
A careless guardian of his nature’s powers, Puts on his figure and assumes his face.
Man harbours dangerous forces in his house. A Manichean creator and destroyer,
The Titan and the Fury and the Djinn This can abolish man, annul his world.
Lie bound in the subconscient’s cavern pit But there is a guardian power, there are Hands
And the Beast grovels in his antre den: that save,
Dire mutterings rise and murmur in their drowse. Calm eyes divine regard the human scene (3).”
Insurgent sometimes raises its huge head If this were all then there would be little
A monstrous mystery lurking in life’s deeps, hope for living out the ideals planted within
The mystery of dark and fallen worlds, man as a dream we cherish through the ages,
The dread visages of the adversary Kings. — the dream of a perfect life, of a perfect
The dreadful powers held down within his depths love and togetherness. And yet this is not
Become his masters or his ministers; all. Instead of passing any final judgment
Enormous they invade his bodily house, on the illusory and painful nature of human
Can act in his acts, infest his thought and life…. relationships, Sri Aurobindo reveals to us
Once quelled or wearing specious names and always greater and higher possibilities in
vests this field as in every other field of human
Infernal elements, demon powers are there. life and endeavour. Towards this we can
Man’s lower nature hides these awful guests. now turn.
Their vast contagion grips sometimes man’s
world.
An awful insurgence overpowers man’s soul.
In house and house the huge uprising grows:
Hell’s companies are loosed to do their work,
Into the earth-ways they break out from all
doors,
Invade with blood-lust and the will to slay
And fill with horror and carnage God’s fair
world.
Death and his hunters stalk a victim earth;
The terrible Angel smites at every door:
An awful laughter mocks at the world’s pain
And massacre and torture grin at Heaven:
All is the prey of the destroying force;
Creation rocks and tremble top and base.

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