Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Correspondence (1933-1967)
I gave you this as an instance of actual occult law
and practice, showing that these things are not imaginations or delusions or
humbug, but can be true phenomena.
The stone-throwing began unobtrusively with a few
stones thrown at the Guest-House kitchen — apparently from the terrace opposite,
but there was no one there. The phenomenon began at the fall of dusk and
continued at first for half-an-hour, but daily it increased in frequency,
violence and the size of the stones, and the duration of the attack increased
also, sometimes lasting for several hours until, towards the end, in the hour or
half-hour before midnight, it became a regular bombardment; and now it was no
longer at the kitchen only but thrown in other places as well: for example, the
outer verandah. At first we took it for a human-made affair and sent for the
police, but the investigation lasted only for a short time and when one of the
constables in the verandah got a stone whizzing unaccountably between his two
legs, the "police abandoned the case in a panic. We made our own investigations,
but the places whence the stones seemed to be or might be coming were void of
human stone-throwers. Finally, as if to put us kindly out of doubt, the stones
began falling inside closed rooms; one of these — it was a huge one and I saw it
immediately after it fell — reposed flat and comfortable on a cane table as if
that was its proper resting-place. And so it went on till the missiles became
murderous. Hitherto the stones had been harmless except for a daily battering of
Bijoy’s door — during the last days — which I watched the night before the end.
They appeared in mid-air, a few feet above the
ground, not coming from a distance but suddenly manifesting and, from the
direction from which they flew, should have been thrown close in from the
compound of the Guest-House or the verandah itself, but the whole place was in
clear light and I saw that there was no human being there nor could have been.
At last the semi-idiot boy servant who was the centre of the attack and was
sheltered in Bijoy’s room under his protection, began to be severely hit and was
bleeding from a wound by stones materialising inside the closed room. I went in
at Bijoy’s call and saw the last stone fall on the boy; Bijoy and he were
sitting side by side and the stone was thrown at them in front but there was no
one visible to throw it — the two were alone in the room. So unless it was
Wells’ Invisible Man — !
So far we had only been watching or scouting around,
but this was a little too much, it was becoming dangerous and something had to
be done about it. The Mother, from her knowledge of the process of these things,
decided that the process here must depend on a nexus between the boy servant and
the house, so if the nexus were broken and the servant separated from the house,
the stone-throwing would cease. We sent him away to Hrishikesh’s place and
immediately the whole phenomenon ceased; not a single stone was thrown after
that and peace reigned.
That showed that these occult phenomena are real, have
a law or process as definite as that of any scientific operation and that the
knowledge of the processes can not only bring them about but put an end to or
annul them.
So you see,
the
Mother who had studied occultism in North Africa could understand it all because
of her deep occult knowledge.