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... rejected in its very nature. Affection, love, tenderness are in their nature psychic; the vital has them because the psychic is trying to express itself ' through the vital. It is through the emotional being that the ' psychic most easily expresses, for it stands just behind it in " the heart centre. But it wants these things to be pure. Not that , it rejects the outward expression through the vital... forms of Vaishnavism,, yet insist on the purification and the total offering of it to, the Divine—and the relations with the Divine arc an inner realisation, the soul offering itself through the emotional being. The soul or psychic being is not something unheard of or incomprehensible. I may say that I am not responsible for your loss of zest in the vital. This Vairagya or loss of zest, as you have... consciousness and, if done the persistent faith and bhakti, it can open all the doors. Page 257 Another method is concentration and aspiration in the heart which opens the inner emotional being. Another is the concentration in the head of which I spoke which opens the inner mind or opens the passage through the Brahmarandhra 103 to the higher consciousness. These things are no fantastic ...

... going away from the vital into the psychic, it is felt as if one is going deep deep down till one reaches that central place of the psychic. The surface of the heart centre is the place of the emotional being; from there one goes deep to find the psychic. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - III: The Psychic Being and Its Role in Sadhana The other day I said that most of the time people do not... centre. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: The System of the Chakras I never heard of two lotuses in the heart centre; but it is the seat of two powers, in front the higher vital or emotional being, behind and concealed the soul or psychic being. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: The System of the Chakras The apex of the psychic and emotional centre (like the apex of all centres)... remains. Many animals, even if ill-treated, do not lose their love which means remarkable psychic development in the vital. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: Science and Yoga The emotional being of animal is often much more psychic than that of men who can be very insensitive. There were recently pictures of the tame tigress kept by a family and afterwards given by them to a Zoo. The look ...

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... (though the doubt of yourself continues), I hope that you will get over all the emotional weakness of over- sensitiveness (don't misunderstand, I don't mean getting over the emotions, for the emotional being is a necessity of the Yoga) and be able to present a quiet front to the speech and action and event that disturb it. The will to do so was growing and where the will affirms itself, success in... deprecated sympathy with him. You will yourself admit it was necessary if only out of loyalty to the Mother. The very basis of this Yoga is bhakti Page 192 and if one kills one's emotional being there can be no bhakti. So there can be no possibility of emotion being excluded from the Yoga. When you base yourself on loyalty and love to your Gurus, you take the right basis. But then you... You yourself have spoken of hyper-sensitiveness as a weakness you do not want and would like to get rid of. My wish to help you out of that cannot be regarded as an attack of the Yoga on your emotional being. On the other hand to affirm that the fact that you have it is a reason why you should not go on with the Yoga is not reason- able either. It is something that is no essential part of your vital ...

... subtle plane on things in which it is interested, especially if the physical action is stopped or restricted. Page 192 The Emotional Being or Heart The emotional being is itself a part of the vital. The heart is the centre of the emotional being and the emotions are vital movements. When the heart is purified, the vital emotions change into psychic feelings or else psychicised... gathering from the world for farther action and expenditure of power, throwing itself out in the wider movements of life, responsive to the greater objects of Nature. In the second arrangement, the emotional being stands at the top of the vital nature and the two together make the higher vital. As against them stands the lower vital which is concerned with the pettier movements of action and desire and stretches... soul. But there are some in whom this element is so lacking that we have to use faith in order to believe that they have a soul at all. The centre of the psychic being is behind the centre of the emotional being; it is the emotional that is nearest dynamically to the psychic and Page 188 in most men it is through the emotional centre that the psychic can be most easily reached and through the ...

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... physical mind and all between it and the centre in the heart is the joining place of the mind and the vital-emotional being. If the pain is of the nerves, then there must be some resistance and difficulty there which should go with the full opening. The heart is the centre of the emotional being, the highest part of the vital. The navel is the centre of the dynamic and sensational vital (this is the... subconscient; the abdominal centre— svādhiṣṭhāna —governs the lower vital; the navel centre— nābhipadma or maṇipūra —governs the larger vital; the heart centre— hṛtpadma or anāhata —governs the emotional being; the throat centre— viśuddha —governs the expressive and externalising mind; the centre between the eyebrows— ājñācakra —governs the dynamic mind, will, vision, mental formation; the thousand-petalled... overmind can have with the rest communication or an immediate contact. 1 I never heard of two lotuses in the heart centre; but it is the seat of two powers, in front the higher vital or emotional being, behind and concealed the soul or psychic being. The colours of the lotuses and the numbers of petals are respectively, from bottom to top:—(1) the Muladhara or physical consciousness centre ...

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... in the throat which is the externalising mind. .A second division is from the shoulders to the navel ;these are the layers of the higher vital presided over by the heart centre where is the emotional being with the psychic hidden behind it. From the navel downwards is the rest of the vital being containing several layers. From the bottom of the spine downward are the layers of the physical co... subconscient; the abdominal centre, Svadhishthana, governs the lower vital; the navel centre, Nabhi padma, or manipura, governs the larger vital; the heart centre—hrt-padma, or Anahata, governs the emotional being; the throat centre, Vishuddha, governs the expressive and externalising mind; the centre between the eye-brows, Agnachakra, governs the dynamic mind, will, vision, mental formation; the tho... ________________________________________________ ³OnYoga lI, Tome One, P. 368-369 4 Ibid, P. 369 Page 158 " Heart is the seat of two powers; in front the higher vital or emotional being, behind and concealed the soul or psychic being. " " The colours of the lotuses and number of petals are respectively from bottom to top:- (i) Muladhara, or physical consciousness centre ...

... which it sheds its mystical influence. In Yoga the psyche is found at the back of that juncture of the elan vital and the mind-force — the emotional being whose physical effects we feel in the heart-region. It is the true heart of us, of which our emotional being with its physical counterpart is an outward diminished representation. It has its own experience of the Divine, exquisite and passionate,... priestess is dancing. The spiritual state he describes is, therefore, a domain where the psyche has opened up to the Overworld and got suffused with the highest light. Savitri has an embodied emotional being that is not merely merged in the psyche; it is merged also in a denizen of the Overworld's top-range descended into the psyche and making the inspiration of that Height one with it. The double ...

... which it sheds its mystical influence. In Yoga the psyche is found at the back of that juncture of the élan vital and the mind-force - the emotional being whose physical effects we feel in the heart-region. It is the true heart of us, of which our emotional being with its physical counterpart is an outward diminished representation. It has its own experience of the Divine, exquisite and passionate,... priestess is dancing. The spiritual state he describes is, therefore, a domain where the psyche has opened up to the Overworld and got suffused with the highest light. Savitri has an embodied emotional being that is not merely merged in the psyche; it is merged also in a denizen of the Overworld's top-range descended into the psyche and making the inspiration of that Height one with it. The double ...

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... him of which they are the limited and very often, therefore, the perverse or even the degraded forms. By approaching him through our emotional being we approach that Truth, it comes down to us to meet our emotions and lift them towards it; through it our emotional being is united with him. Secondly, this supreme Being is also the universal Being and our relations with the universe are all means by... and warmer worship than this impersonal aspiration. It aims at a divine fulfilment of the humanity in us as well as of the impersonal part of our being; it aims at a divine satisfaction of the emotional being of man. It demands of the Supreme acceptance of our love and a response in kind; as we delight in Him and seek Him, so it believes that He too delights in us and seeks us. Nor can this demand be ...

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... it is only the excessive emotional sensitiveness which makes one enter into despondency over small things that has to be overcome. The very basis of this Yoga is bhakti and if one kills one's emotional being there can be no bhakti. So there can be no possibility of emotion Page 350 being excluded from the Yoga. It is only the ordinary vital emotions, which waste the energy and disturb... so much unsolved and calling for solution. But just as one can go high above, so one can go deep within and it is this going deep within that is needed. What happened was at the surface of the emotional being and if one simply stays there the difficulties of the emotional can come, but what has to be done is not to stay on the surface but go deep within. For the psychic is there behind the emotional... transformation. It is oftenest through intensity of emotion that the psychic being awakes and there is an opening of the inner doors to the Divine. If one does not encourage the devotion of the emotional being merely because the lower vital is not yet under control and acts differently, then how is the devotion to grow and how is the lower vital to change? Until the final clarification and harmonising ...

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... rejected in its very nature. Affection, love, tenderness are in their nature psychic,—the vital has them because the psychic is trying to express itself through the vital. It is through the emotional being that the psychic most easily expresses, for it stands just behind it in the heart centre. But it wants these things to be pure. Not that it rejects the outward expression through the vital and... forms of Vaishnavism, yet insist on the purification and the total offering of it to the Divine—and the relations with the Divine are an inner realisation, the soul offering itself through the emotional being. The soul or psychic being is not something unheard of or incomprehensible. Absence of love and fellow-feeling is not necessary for nearness to the Divine; on the contrary, a sense of closeness... progress. In the ascetic Yoga all human feelings are regarded as illusory and have to disappear—"the knots of the heart are cut"—so as to leave only the one supreme aspiration. In this Yoga the emotional being has not to be got rid of, but to undergo a transformation; the shortest way of transformation is to turn all the being to the Divine. But when that is done, then Page 287 it is found ...

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...       The emotional being has to ascend.         What happens to the heart in the process of the Integral Yoga? Is it purified in itself?       Yes, it becomes an instrument of self-expression of the psychic being.         Before it becomes the instrument of the psychic, what does it follow?       The vital — the heart is the centre of the emotional being and the emotions... psychic being. These are psychic tears of devotion etc.         You have written: "The heart is the seat not only of the psychic but also of the emotional vital." Does this mean that the emotional being itself acts as a veil in front of the psychic?       Yes, when it is full of vital movements or accustomed more to a vital than a psychic way of emotion.         Some dissatisfactions ...

... and return to them the reaction of an equal Ananda without dislike or desire. The Physical Parts of the Mind and Emotional Being Everything has a physical part—even the mind has a physical part; there is a mental physical, a mind of the body and the material. So the emotional being has a physical part. It has no location separate from the rest of the emotional. One can only distinguish it when ...

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... and mental) - carried out in an environment that acknowledges, subtly calls forth and nurtures the inner being, the psychic and the spiritual in the child.   Perfection of the mind, the emotional being and character of the student, as well as of the physical being, are the legitimate aims of Integral Education - the study of subjects becomes a means towards perfection, rather than an end or the... may apply his mind to anything and he will be able to pierce it with his trained intellect and enter its heart to get a hold on the treasures of knowledge concealed therein.   How are the emotional being and character trained? Not through classes in moral or religious education. Life itself is the great teacher - we all learn our moral lessons best from the living examples of people real to us ...

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... 370-74 passim, 383-84 in ordinary consciousness, 370-71 and the Overmind, 154 and self, 370-71, 372, 381 in Transcendent consciousness, 373-74 utility of, 130, 382-83 cf. Self Emotional being, see under Being Environmental consiousness, 35, 39, 343 See also Circumconscient, the Evolution, 77-78 aided by pressure of supraphysical planes, 5 of consciousness, 28, 30... record of experiences, 184 Vedanta (Vedantic), 170-71, 303, 367, 373, 391, 393 meaning of Nirvana in, 226 Vidya, see Knowledge Vital (being), the, 17, 337 and the emotional being, 63 four parts of, 63-64 functions of, 64 higher vital, 63 lower vital, 63, 63-64 and mind distinguished, 339-40 outer (surface), 62-67 physical vital ...

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... the rest of the intermediary parts of the antaḥkaraṇa is facilitated, and when that correction is completed, their purification too can be easily made absolute". PURIFICATION OF THE EMOTIONAL BEING The essential cravings of the citta enter into the emotions of our heart and create there emotional responses and reactions of r ā g ā -dweṣa, liking and disliking. If we watch our... The choice of thought and action must lie with the buddhi, and later on in the sâdhanâ, with the supramental Truth-Consciousness, possessing and perfecting the whole nature, but never with the emotional being. THE TWO BASIC MOVEMENTS IN PURIFICATION The entire process of the purification of the mind boils down to two most important basic movements: (l) the emergence and increasing ...

... towards the Divine. Our love then takes a physical form—merely external, ritualistic or ceremonial—and partakes somewhat of the nature of our outer human relations. Or it may be our vital-emotional being turning towards the Divine. Our love is then characterised by some strength and intensity of the emotions. But these emotions are usually turbid, excited, disquieting, and often depressing. ... that the psychic being awakes and there is an opening of the inner doors to the Divine."² But slushy emotionalism and effusive sentimentality are crudely egoistic, and suggest a weakness in the emotional being of the bhakta. They waste the energy of the vital and disturb concentration and peace, which are indispensable in sâdhanâ . The Vedic and Upanishadic ideal of a perfect calm and control in the ...

... From Talks, Interviews etc. 14 April 1923 MORNING One cannot accept everything that comes to the mind as inspiration or intuition and act accordingly. It is true that the emotional being contains a Truth behind it and that is that of Love. But one cannot and should not go on identifying himself with everybody. It is not a good thing for this Yoga at least. For other Yogas like... the true physical. 3) The Power is working in the material. 19 April 1925 1925-04-19 1) Faith may be due to: (a) The awakening of the psychic being. (b) Fully developed emotional being turned upwards. (c) Fully developed mind, which sees the thing as certain. (d) Religious faith which is stupidity. (e) Faith may be due to the absence of intellectual development; intellect ...

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... counterpart of Supernature's "ruby depth of all being" and which must be there in man's own depths and of which his heart of humanhood must be the frontal expression. The heart of human-hood, our emotional being, is in us the meeting-place between the mind-consciousness and the life-consciousness, it is the. centre of our normal nature: whatever individual self or soul we may have is likely to be seated... so", and, while answering, he will thump the centre of his chest and never the middle of his forehead to indicate himself! Sri Aurobindo tells us that the true soul of us is hidden behind our emotional being whose physical counterpart is in the centre of our chest. He calls it the psyche or psychic being which is in its essence a spark of the Divine. This spark came originally from the highest world ...

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... emotion with ideative correspondences. An outburst of royally intuitive poetry from Shakespeare that Sri Aurobindo has cited has not even any marked ideas carried on the crest of the sensational and emotional being, except in the introductory line — and still all is intensest incarnative language:   Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible... feels in the mind's 'entrails', as it were, the thing described, whereas the ouzel causes no such emotion- Page 312 quiver, it conveys just a happy superficial caress on the emotional being. O'Sullivan is not so much of the surface: a felicitous pricking of it occurs and a concept faintly looms out; but where in it is the keen penetration that gives us in   To be imprisoned ...

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... repulsion from or grief of whatever it presents to us as unpleasant, apriyam . This habit of the emotional nature gets into the way of the intelligent will and makes it often a helpless slave of the emotional being or at least prevents it from exercising a free judgment and government of the nature. This deformation has to be corrected. By getting rid of desire in the psychic prana and its intermiscence in... restless heart can be conquered and get rid of the habit of attraction and repulsion. But then if this is done, it may be thought, as with regard to desire, that this will be the death of the emotional being. It will certainly be so, if the deformation is eliminated but not replaced by the right action of the emotional mind; the mind will then pass into a neutral condition of blank indifference or ...

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... these external parts towards a higher direction; a mental ideation of a very mixed character, often obscure even in its idealism, sometimes even disastrously mistaken, a fervour and passion of the emotional being throwing up its spray and foam of feelings, sentiments, sentimentalisms, a dynamic enthusiasm of the life-parts, eager responses of the physical, the thrills and excitements of nerve and body,—all... made by the soul to the direct contact is through the heart: this is its own more close and rapid way because its occult seat is there, just behind in the heart-centre, in close contact with the emotional being in us; it is consequently through the emotions that it can act best at the beginning with its native power, with its living force of concrete experience. It is through a love and adoration of the ...

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... আছে ৷ আমি দেখেছিলাম কুণ্ডলিনী চৈত্যের স্তর হতে বারবার ভাবাবেগের স্তরে যাতায়াত করে আর উর্ধের সত্যের প্রভাব নামিয়ে আনে ৷ এ দুটি স্তরের মাঝখানের পার্টিশনটাকে কুণ্ডলিনী তুলে দিতে চাচ্ছে ৷ উ: Emotional being ও psychicএর মধ্যে যে আবরণ আছে সেইটী উঠিয়ে দেবার জন্য এই আয়ােজন —তা হলে vital emotionsএর বদলে psychic emotions হৃদয়ে বিরাজ করবে ৷ 6.4.34 স: আমি স্বপ্নে দেখলাম “ম” মরে গেছে ৷ উ: ... প্রায়ই দেখা দেয় না, তার presence অনুভব করা যায় ৷ 29.1.35 এ ত প্রাণময় পুরুষ, emotional vitalএ অধিষ্ঠিত ৷ প্রাণময় পুরুষের তিনটী স্তর আছে – হৃদয়ে, নাভিতে, নাভির নীচে ৷ হৃদয়ে সে হয় emotional being, নাভিতে বাসনাময়, নাভির নীচে sensational অর্থাৎ ইন্দ্রিয়ের টান ও ক্ষুদ্র ক্ষুদ্র প্রাণের ভাব নিয়ে ব্যস্ত ৷ 29.1.35 তােমার অনুভূতি খুব ভাল – উপরের শক্তির চক্র (কাৰ্য্যকরী-গতি) নামছে ...

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... etc. etc.—can become entirely discharged of thought content and felt simply as a physical sensation in the cells, not accepted by the thought (even in the physical mind), not shared in by the emotional being—a wave brought from outside into the material body consciousness. These small things of the physical mind [ such as being disturbed by the defects of others ] are such as everybody has and... Mind and the Psychic It [ the psychic ] can have a very great influence [ on the physical mind ] by giving it the right attitude and the right way of looking at things so that it supports the emotional being in its aspiration, love and surrender and itself gets interest, faith and insight in the inner truth of things instead of seeing only their outer aspects and following false inferences and appearances ...

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... God', the psychic being refuses to believe it. It only says: 'I know', and also, 'I know because I feel'. As I said, the psychic being is behind the emotional being in the heart, and when it is awakened it throws out the dross from the emotional being and makes it free from sentimentalism and the lower play of vital emotions. But that is not the dryness of the mind, nor the exaggeration of the vital ...

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... counterpart of Supernature's "ruby depth of all being" and which must be there in man's own depths and of which his heart of humanhood must be the frontal expression. The heart of humanhood, our emotional being, is in us the meeting-place between the mind-consciousness and the life-consciousness, it is the centre of our normal nature: whatever individual self or soul we may have is likely to be seated... answer, "I say so", and, while answering, he will thump the centre of his chest and never his forehead to indicate himself! Sri Aurobindo tells us that the true soul of us is hidden behind our emotional being whose physical counterpart is in the centre of our chest. He calls it the psyche or psychic being which is in its essence a spark of the Divine. This spark came originally from the highest world ...

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... division between force and consciousness in his own being. There is a want of harmony between various instruments of his own nature. The force in him is divided. Mind wants to do something, while the emotional being goes in another direction, the vital being pulls in a third direction. So the whole force of man's consciousness is divided. The consciousness is divided and force is divided. There is not a sort... perfection. Only one should not give Page 222 too much importance to the body and stop with the body. But the body is not to be neglected. The body, nervous system, vital being, emotional being, and all the ranges above the mind,—all that can participate and should participate in the scheme of perfection. That is Sri Aurobindo's stand. And so, when the descent is taking place, all the ...

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... the psychic being refuses to believe it. It only says : "I know and also, I know because I feel." As I said, the psychic being is behind the emotional being in the heart, and when it is awakened it throws out the dross from the emotional being and makes it free from sentimentalism and the lower play of vital emo­tions. But that is not the dryness of the mind, nor the exaggeration of the vital ...

... method you have to select the intellect, the emotional being or the will as the starting point or to differentiate between Purusha and Prakriti, the conscious soul and nature. By that we arrive at an Infinite of knowledge, an all-loving and all-beautiful Supreme or an Infinite Impersonal Will, or the Silent Brahman beyond our mind – intellect, emotional being, or will or our individual Purusha. "Our ...

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... a tangle of various tendencies of our being and can only arrive at a choice or an accommodation between them, between our reason, our ethical being, our dynamic needs, our life-instincts, our emotional being and those rarer movements which we may perhaps call soul-instincts or psychical preferences. The Gita recognises that from this standpoint there can be no absolute, only an immediate practical ...

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... And now it is shown to his vision by the divine charioteer, placed sensationally before his eyes, and comes home to him like a blow delivered at the very centre of his sensational, vital and emotional being. The first result is a violent sensational and physical crisis which produces a disgust of the action and its material objects and of life itself. He rejects the vital aim pursued by egoistic ...

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... strong developments of science and art and literature, the freedom of the purely intellectual and aesthetic activities, much scope too for the hedonisms of the vital and the refinements of the emotional being, a cultivation of the art and rhythmic practice of life. There is a highly intellectualised vital stress and a many-sided interest in living, an indulgence of an at once intellectual and vital ...

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... want to make any effort and would very much like the Divine to do everything for you, because that is much more comfortable! What is "the heart's seeking"? The heart's seeking—it is the emotional being trying... Page 221 ( The class is again interrupted by loud exclamations from the children of the Boarding House who can see the fireworks from their terrace. ) We can't see anything ...

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... these external parts towards a higher direction; a mental ideation of a very mixed character, often obscure even in its idealism, sometimes even disastrously mistaken, a fervour and passion of the emotional being throwing up its spray and foam of feelings, sentiments, sentimentalisms, a dynamic enthusiasm of the life-parts, eager responses of the physical, the thrills and excitements of nerve and body,—all ...

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... life in one way or another so as to make it responsive to and expressive of the spirit and in that way increase the power of life. Its tendency with the intellect, will, ethical, aesthetic and emotional being is to sound indeed their normal mental possibilities, but also to upraise them towards the greater light and power of their own highest intuitions. The work of the renaissance in India must be ...

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... There are two things to be considered: consciousness and the instruments through which consciousness manifests. Let us take the instruments: there is the mental being which produces thoughts, the emotional being which produces feeling, the vital being which produces the power of action and the physical being that acts. The man of genius may use anything at all and make something beautiful because he ...

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... to develop the higher states of consciousness. So, to say "each one bears his cross" is true of the external consciousness (of material happenings, happenings which touch the vital being, the emotional being and the mental being); for such people there will always be a considerable number of catastrophes, all the more because catastrophes seem to be proportionate to the capacity of the individual, ...

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... And because it knows the thing behind, it is not deceived by appearances. It immediately feels the Force. Also, when the psychic being is awakened, it throws out all the dross from the emotional being and makes it free from sentimentalism or the lower play of emotionalism. But it does not carry in it the dryness of the mind or the exaggeration of the vital feelings. It gives the just ...

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... There are two things to be considered: consciousness and the instruments through which consciousness manifests. Let us take the instruments: there is the mental being which produces thoughts, the emotional being which produces feeling, the vital being which produces the power of action and the physical being that acts. The man of genius may use anything at all and make something beautiful because he ...

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... parts towards a higher direction; a mental ideation of a very mixed character, often obscure even in its idealism, sometimes even disastrously mistaken, a fervour and passion of the emotional Page 31 being throwing up its spray and foam of feelings, sentiments, sentimentalisms, a dynamic enthusiasm of the life-parts, eager responses of the physical, the thrills and excitements of nerve ...

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... inner profit or progress one can make out of them; it means self-mastery over the vital movements, anger and sensitiveness and pride as well as desire and the rest, not to let them get hold of the emotional being and disturb the inner peace, not to speak and act in the rush and impulsion of these things, always to act and speak out of a calm inner poise of the spirit. It is not easy to have this equality ...

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... of life, nor even in a more vitally forceful thinking, but in another kind of thought mind. The filled activity of the thinking mind is as much part of life as that of the body and vital and emotional being, and its growth and predominance are a necessary stage of human progress and man's self-evolution. To go back from it is impossible or, if possible, would be undesirable, a lapse and not a betterment ...

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... and ego-motive or the habits of the outer nature keep up a way of thinking, feeling, acting, living which is quite out of harmony with the experience. Or the psychic and part of the mind and emotional being feel frequently the closeness of the Mother, but the rest of the nature is unoffered and goes its own way prolonging division from her nearness, creating distance. It is because the sadhaks have ...

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... ion to live by the best light we have is important, it is equally important to know what that light is and how we came by it, whether by the inspiration of the heart & the satisfaction of the emotional being, as in ordinary religion, or by the working of the observation and the logical faculties as in ordinary Science or by intellectual revelation as Newton discovered gravitation or by spiritual intuition ...

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... expects something, but even if it does not get, the affection remains. Many animals, even if ill-treated, do not lose their love which means a remarkable psychic development in the vital. The emotional being of animals is often much more psychic than that of men who can be very insensitive. There were recently pictures of the tame tigress kept by a family and afterwards given by them to a Zoo. The ...

Sri Aurobindo   >   Books   >   CWSA   >   Letters on Yoga - I
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... above you, not in the body, so above the head, which we call the higher, spiritual or divine consciousness, or the Mother's consciousness. When the being opens then all in you, the mind (head), emotional being (heart), vital, even something in the physical consciousness begin to ascend in order to join themselves to this greater higher consciousness. One has when one sits with eyes closed in meditation ...

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... decide fundamentally the quarrel between these two parts and to persuade or compel by psychic aspiration, by steadiness of the mind's thought and will, by the choice of the higher vital in his emotional being the Page 643 opposing elements to be first quiescent and then consenting. So long as he is not able to do that his progress must be either very slow or fluctuating and chequered as ...

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... prepare something in the consciousness and, if done with persistent faith and bhakti, it can open all the doors. Another method is concentration and aspiration in the heart which opens the inner emotional being. Another is the concentration in the head of which I spoke which opens the inner mind or opens the passage through the Brahmarandhra to the higher consciousness. These things are no fantastic invention ...

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... head (mind) and all below is that of the lower consciousness. Your seeing of the two oceans rather means that in the descent the influence of the higher consciousness reaches down to the heart (emotional being with the psychic behind it), but does not yet reach below in the lower vital and physical—but it is dissolving the knot in the heart centre which prevents the descent into the lower vital and physical ...

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... force. If the peace and power that were acting on the head and in the chest have come down into the stomach and below, that would indicate that they are no longer acting on the mind and emotional being only, but fully on the vital also—that is a great progress. The desires you refer to are those of the vital-physical in the subtle physical consciousness—impulse to talk, essential hunger, thirst ...

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... × The mother is Earth, our physical being; the other world is the supramental existence; the vital and emotional being is the world in between. Agni manifests in all of these simultaneously. × The clarified butter ...

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... imperfect vision when we have still to use the inferior steps Nature has hewn for our feet and admit the stages of our progress. Certain idolatries are indispensable for the development of our emotional being, nor will the man who knows be hasty at any time to shatter the image unless he can replace it in the heart of the worshipper by the Reality it figures. Moreover, they have this power because there ...

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... human living,—man's vital interests and needs, his desires, his ethical and religious aspiration, his ultimate spiritual aim and destiny,—in other words, the claims of his vital, physical and emotional being, the claims of his ethical and religious being governed by a knowledge of the law of God and Nature and man, and the claims of his spiritual longing for the Beyond for which he seeks satisfaction ...

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... clarity and the purity of the intelligence. It must be freed from the claims of the vital being which seeks to impose the desire of the mind in place of the truth, from the claims of the troubled emotional being which strives to colour, distort, limit and falsify the truth with the hue and shape of the emotions. It must be free too from its own defect, inertia of the thought-power, obstructive narrowness ...

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... basic consciousness, citta-vṛtti . Their action too is largely regulated by habit and an emotive memory. They are not imperative, not laws of Necessity; there is no really binding law of our emotional being to which we must submit without remedy; we are not obliged to give responses of grief to certain impacts upon the mind, responses of anger to others, to yet others responses of hatred or dislike ...

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... the heart we get away from the troubled desire-soul on the surface, open the gates of this profounder being, bring out its responses and impose their true divine values on all that solicits our emotional being. A free, happy, equal and all-embracing heart of spiritual feeling is the outcome of this perfection. In this perfection too there is no question of a severe ascetic insensibility, an aloof ...

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... else a helpful and compassionate infinite Presence in the universe or behind or beyond it which responds to us when we turn the need of our spirit towards it. So it may first show itself when the emotional being is intensely developed. It may come near to us in other ways, but always as a Power or Presence of delight, beauty, love or peace which touches the mind, but is beyond the forms these things take ...

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... lowest and most necessary to the mental being in the body is the habitual thought mind that founds its ideas upon the data given by the senses and by the surface experiences of the nervous and emotional being and on the customary notions formed by the education and the outward life and environment. This habitual mind has two movements, one a kind of constant undercurrent of mechanically recurrent thought ...

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... are to transform earth-existence into the Life Divine. Even Death need not be accepted as an irrevocable decree of God. Just as ignorance in the mind has to be removed, just as misery in the emotional being has to be abolished, just as incapa-city in the life-force has to be eradicated, so also death in the physical form has to be conquered. "A tall order," the sceptic may sneer — but to grant that ...

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... the more correct way of putting the matter would be to say: "Chaitanya was an emanation of Sri Krishna and manifested not only the Lord himself but also an extreme relationship of the psychic-emotional being in the human consciousness with the Lord." 4.After the incarnation of the Supermind, the Bliss-Self has to be incarnated — but not necessarily in a new Avatar. The Supramental Avatar can serve ...

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... e into the Life Divine. Even Death, in Sri Aurobindo's view, need not be accepted as an irrevocable decree of God. Just as ignorance in the mind has to be removed, just as misery in the emotional being has to be abolished, just as incapacity in the life-force has to be eradicated, so also whatever in the physical form tends towards disintegration—that is, towards death—has to be conquered. "A ...

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... the sadhak, the doer of sadhana, a full and complete aim. The fullness and completeness may be viewed from several standpoints.   Not only one part of us — the mental intelligence, the emotional being, the vital force, the physical organism — is taken up according to the specific turn of our nature, as in the old Yogas, but our whole self in all its parts is set towards the Divine. Of course ...

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... How can I prevent difficulties from causing depression? Become conscious. Page 83 What is meant by the yogic term "through the heart"? Is it the higher vital? Yes, the emotional being. Isn't it possible to overcome a difficulty without any lowering of the consciousness? Certainly—in fact it is impossible to overcome a difficulty if the consciousness gets lowered. On ...

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... of what has been acquired through individualization. It is difficult, I must say. For thought, it's elementary, very simple. It's not difficult for the feelings either; for the heart, the emotional being, to expand to the dimensions of the Supreme is relatively easy. But this body! It's very difficult, very difficult to do without the body losing its center (how can I put it?)... its center of ...

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... misunderstanding here! ( Mother laughs ) I thought you wanted.... ( silence ) Well, mon petit, if that's what you want you will have to work a lot—you will have to bring into your vital and emotional being a great calm and peace. Things like that [with X] mustn't be able to disturb you, make you sick and so forth. Only on that condition can you get what you want. A flash, yes... (you had it once ...

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... Diekhoff,John 244 Divine Presence 303 divinisation 6 Donne 46,230 Durga'sLion 307 Dutt,Toru 144 dvārapālaka 299 E ego 298,310,313 Eliot, T.S. 126,335 emotional being 29 English poetry creative intelligence in 229 epic and mysticism in 185 Latinisation and inversion 283 Life-Force and Mind-Force 216,367 lines of 223,282,322 ...

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... gathering from the world for further action and expenditure of power, throwing itself out in the wider movements of life, responsive to the greater objects of Nature. In the second arrangement, the emotional being stands at the top of the vital nature and the two together make the higher vital. As against them stands the lower vital which is concerned with the pettier movements of action and desire and ...

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... Books of Paradise Lost exhibit. But it serves on the other hand to evoke at times a few of the characteristics of Milton's early poetry. For, the musical sense is closely connected with the emotional being as well as with a feel for the subtle shade, the delicate suggestion. And on the wing-waft, as it were, of this sense Milton the poet of heroic religiosity brought something of the old tenderness ...

... manifestation." I understood that we individuals have various levels connected with our bodies. The vital plane is connected with our abdominal region. The heart region has to do with the emotional being, the head with the mind plane. And above the head there are the spiritual ranges and on top of them the Supermind. Our consciousness can ascend and the Supermind can descend. Such a system of levels ...

... Morning Interviews, 1923-1924 One cannot accept everything that comes to the mind as inspiration or intuition and act accordingly. It is true that the emotional being contains a Truth behind it and that is that of Love. But one cannot and should not go on identifying himself with everybody. It is not a good thing for this Yoga at least. For other Yogas like ...

... progress. In the ascetic Yoga all human feelings are regarded as illusory and have to disappear—"the knots of the heart are cut"—so as to leave only the one supreme aspiration. In this Yoga the emotional being has not to be got rid of, but to undergo a transformation; the shortest way of transformation is to turn all the being to the Divine. But when that is done, then it is found that what is pure and ...

... s oneself from identification with the unreal or not-self and arrives at identification with the Real or Self. According to Bhakti yoga, the individual needs to turn the entire complex of the emotional being in spirit of worship, adoration, service and love for the supreme Reality; and, by constant indwelling in the supreme Reality or rather in the supreme Person one gets dissociated from everything ...

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... that one dissociates oneself from identification with the unreal and arrives at identification with the Real. According to Bhakti Yoga, the individual needs to turn the entire complex of the emotional being in spirit of worship, adoration, service and love for the supreme Reality; and, by constant in-dwelling in the supreme Reality or rather in the supreme Person, one gets dissociated from everything ...

... , so that one disassociates from identification with the unreal and arrives at identification with the Real. According to Bhakti Yoga, the individual needs to turn the entire complex of the emotional being in spirit of worship, adoration, service and love for the supreme Reality; and, by constant in-dwelling in the supreme Reality or rather in the supreme Person, one gets disassociated from everything ...

... practically realizing Sri Aurobindo's and the Mother's vision of integral education—an education that would systematically and simultaneously develop the body and its inherent capacities; the vital or emotional being and its inherent powers; the mind and its cognitive faculties; and the psychic and spiritual capacities inherent in every child. *The learning process in Mirambika is considered to be an integral ...

... And now it is shown to his vision by the divine charioteer, placed sensationally before his eyes, and comes home to him like a blow delivered at the very centre of his sensational, vital and emotional being. The first result is a violent sensational and physical crisis which produces a disgust of the action and its material objects and of life itself. He rejects the vital aim pursued by egoistic ...

... Indian Page 16 religion when the relation between the human soul and the Supreme will be seen and experienced as the love of a woman for her lover. In these religions of bhakti, the emotional being of man, illumined and uplifted by the love for a representation of the divine, will participate and even be the main lever in the spiritual quest. So one can measure how much Kalidasa's works must ...

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... human vital interchange cannot be a true support for the sadhana and is, on the contrary, sure to impair and distort it, leading to self-deception in the consciousness and a wrong turn of the emotional being and vital nature." (Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga, pp. 811-12) (5)"The only relation permissible between a sadhak and sadhika here is the same as between a sadhak and sadhak or between ...

... Overmind is far above him.         As the mind has its corresponding divine plane the vital too must have such a plane of its own. What is that plane?       Mind — Supermind       Emotional being (heart)—Ananda       Main vital — Tapas       Matter — Sat       These are the correspondences — but the Supra-mental is a sufficient instrument for divinising the vital. Page ...

... average sadhak goes on well, does it take long before the inner being is psychicised? It takes some time to be fully psychicised.   Are my intellectual mind, middle vital and emotional being psychicised? I don't think it can be said definitely yet. There has been a change and growth of consciousness in these parts, but it has been due partly to knowledge and force from above ...

... appear and I cannot stop them. I suppose they will disappear ? Yes. The first thing is to become conscious that they do not come from the mind. Then when the mind is free from them and the emotional being sufficiently free, they rise but don't cloud the mind. They are then located in their proper place and by refusing them the consent and calm­ly putting them aside they will disappear. Most men ...

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... the conscious Soul and Nature. By that we arrive at an Infinite of Knowledge, an all-Loving and all-Beautiful Supreme or an Infinite Impersonal Will, Or the Silent Brahman beyond our mind, emotional Being or, Will or our individual Purusha. Our yoga does not aim at an Impersonal Infinite of knowledge, Will or Ananda but at the realization of a Supreme Being, an Infinite Knowledge which is ...

... the "third eye" certain traditions speak of); the other, at throat level, controls all the forms of mental expression. (3) The Vital , with three centers: one at heart level, which controls our emotional being (love, hatred, etc.); the second at the level of the navel, which controls our impulses for domination, possession and conquest, as well as our ambitions, etc.; and a third, the lower vital, between ...

... or ascend to another consciousness. In this lies his real progress. Man's progress does not He in moving towards fulfilment of his vital desires and his mental ideas and its forms and of his emotional being but in growing toward and ascending to a universal consciousness, and from there rising to the highest attempt possible,—to the Transcendent consciousness. That is the real line of progress ...

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... sense reach their absolute, an entire self-giving becomes possible, imperative."¹ The sâdhaka comes more and more to be conscious of his soul and its will, and seeks to follow it in his life. His emotional being develops into a lover of God and a lover of men and all creatures, and a spiritual peace and purity and bliss flood his whole nature. He becomes a bhakta, a saint. But the mind and the heart ...

... and disturb the equality of consciousness which is the basis of all spiritual progress. To be troubled is to betray one's weakness and relapse into a mental confusion. Usually it is the vital-emotional being that, hurried by some desires and predilections, creates a ferment in the consciousness and a feverish impatience to realise the ideal; but the very ferment and fever cloud the ideal and deflect ...

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... and ego-nature or the habits of the outer nature keep up a way of thinking, feeling, acting, living which is quite out of harmony with the experience. For the psychic and part of the mind and emotional being feel frequently the closeness of the Mother, but the rest of the nature is unoffered and goes its own way prolonging division from her nearness, creating distance. It is because the sadhaks have ...

... desire-movements." 4.ANAHATA (or HRITPADMA): located in the heart. The lotus is golden pink and has twelve petals. The element here is Air. It is the seat of two powers, "commanding the higher emotional being with the psychic deep behind it." Elsewhere he elaborated: "The heart spoken of by the Upanishads corresponds with the physical cardiac centre; it is the hrtpadma of the Tantras. As a subtle ...

... deities in the Jagati and, if the sacrifice has been properly conducted, returned increased, doubled, trebled or even decupled to the giver. As it is in our physical, so it is in our mental & emotional being. I must pour love from myself in feeling & action into the world-stream of love, sacrificing to Mitra; then only what I have given may return to me increased, doubled, trebled, decupled in the ...

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... by a similar liberation in all our parts, the universal aesthesis, the universal standpoint of knowledge, the universal detachment from all things and yet sympathy with all in our nervous and emotional being. Since the nature of suffering is a failure of the conscious-force in us to meet the shocks of existence and a consequent shrinking and contraction and its root is an inequality of that receptive ...

Sri Aurobindo   >   Books   >   CWSA   >   The Life Divine
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... life in one way or another so as to make it responsive to and expressive of the spirit and in that way increase the power of life. Its tendency with the intellect, will, ethical, aesthetic and emotional being is to sound indeed their normal mental possibilities, but also to upraise them towards the greater light and power of their own highest intuitions. The work of the renaissance in India must be ...

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... have the nature of the true physical. 3) The Power is working in the material. 17 April 1925 1) Faith may be due to: (a) The awakening of the psychic being. (b) Fully developed emotional being turned upwards. (c) Fully developed mind, which sees the thing as certain. (d) Religious faith which is stupidity. (e) Faith may be due to the absence of intellectual development; intellect ...

... abdominal centre — svādhiṣṭhāna — governs the lower vital; the navel centre — nābhipadma or maṇipūra — governs the larger vital; the heart centre — hrt-padma or anāhata — governs the emotional being; the throat centre — viśuddha — governs the expressive and externalising mind; the centre between the eyebrows — ājñācakra — governs the dynamic mind, will, vision, mental formation; ...

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... external parts towards a higher direction; a mental ideation of a very mixed character, often obscure even in its idealism, sometimes even disastrously mistaken, a fervour and passion of the emotional being throwing up its spray and foam of feelings, sentiments, sentimentalisms, a dynamic enthusiasm of the life-parts, eager responses of the physical, the thrills and excitements of nerve and ...

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... to be realizable and repeatable by others as tried out by generations of practitioners in India. For man the active being there is the yoga of the will or of works, karmayoga; for man the emotional being there is the yoga of devotion or love, bhaktiyoga ; for man the thinking, reflective being there is the yoga of knowledge, jnanayoga. These are the three main procedures by which the human being ...

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... 113 from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres the into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional being, then into the navel and other vital centres and liberates the inner vital, then into the Muladhara and below and liberates the inner physical being. It works at the same time for perfection as ...

... efflorescences in the midst of this strange psycho-analytic mysticism and towards the end of the phase illustrated by the book a catharsis of the sensations was perceptible, an opening of the genuine emotional being, less pathological, less modernistic, more directly inclined towards the spiritual depths. And, though now something verging on sentimentality threatened to use the intellectual energy to shape ...

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... having the Beautiful for its raison d'etre, a passion fired by a creative vision of some lovely perfection inherent in the beloved. Similarly, all other desires springing from the genuine emotional being, the heart, if kindled to their intensest . and immensest, are idealists, lovers of something supreme, visionaries and revealers of an ideal form in the object desired, conducers to what Keats ...

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... distinguished from the brain's manufacturing labour. The poet lends all his powers of concentration to the yielding movement, he leaps into the unconceived with his thought, his imagination, his emotional being, his senses, and brings forth tentative words and lines, attempt on glimmering attempt to catch the final felicity of poetic speech. That is why there are so many versions before the right one ...

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... their strength lies, to accumulate in a mass, so as to carry us away, things attracting, things amusing, things striking, things horrible; they will get at us through the nerves and the lower emotional being,—and in this they succeed eminently,—since they cannot get at us through a higher intellectual and imaginative appeal. The evolution of the action is rather theatrically effective than poetic, ...

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... dualities—only they are wider than the external mind, life and body and can receive more largely and easily the divine influence. The psychic is deep within in the inner heart-centre behind the emotional being. From there it stretches upward to form the psychic mind and below to form the psychic vital and psychic physical, but usually one is aware of these only after the Page 122 mind, vital ...

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... which is Page 128 the externalising mind. A second division is from the shoulders to the navel, these are the layers of the higher vital presided over by the heart centre where is the emotional being with the psychic hidden behind it. From the navel downwards is the rest of the vital being containing several layers. From the bottom of the spine downward are the layers of the physical consciousness ...

Sri Aurobindo   >   Books   >   CWSA   >   Letters on Yoga - I
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... ultimate aim the conversion of the whole being into a higher spiritual consciousness and a larger divine existence. Our parts of will and action, our parts of knowledge, our thinking being, our emotional being, our being of life, all our self and nature must seek the Divine, enter into the Infinite, unite with the Eternal. But man's present nature is limited, divided, unequal,—it is easiest for him to ...

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... serve the turning away of the soul from the human life to the beyond. Its ordinary idea of perfection is a religio-ethical change, a drastic purification of the active and the Page 620 emotional being, often with an ascetic abrogation and rejection of the vital impulses as its completest reaching of excellence, and in any case a supraterrestrial motive and reward or result of a life of piety ...

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... passive resistance because there are other influences. As for the other question he can only help you in outward matters and that he can do very well if he is kept in close touch with you and his emotional being in active friendly relation. He is easily responsive to influences where this is the case. M ᵐᵉ Cousins That has been a help to him, but as often happens is also a hindrance. She is stronger ...

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... as well as हूृ in the Veda, cf जुहुराण crooked. If not, we must take हृ not in the sense of shame, but of a violent emotion; it means joy and wrath as well as shame, or any disturbance of the emotional being. अह्रयः must then be taken with दाश्वान्, the sacrificer becomes full of the divine plenitudes, free from all violent emotions and so goes forward on his journey प्र अस्थात्. अभि पूर्वस्मादपरः ...

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... in anything supraphysical. This opening of the chest into the void (not really the void, but the infinite Akash of the Chit universal and illimitable) is always the sign of an opening of the emotional being into the wideness of the Universal Divine. The image of the Akash is often seen by sadhaks in Dhyana. When the consciousness is liberated, whether in the mind or other part, there is always this ...

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... human vital interchange cannot be a true support for the sadhana and is, on the contrary, sure to impair and distort it, leading to self-deception in the consciousness and a wrong turn of the emotional being and vital nature. Talking, Letter-Writing and Vital Interchange It is quite possible for one person to get depressed by talking with another. Talking means a vital interchange, so that can ...

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... Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional being, then into the navel and other vital centres and liberates the inner vital, then into the Muladhara and below and liberates the inner physical being. It works at the same time for perfection as ...

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... going away from the vital into the psychic, it is felt as if one is going deep deep down till one reaches that central place of the psychic. The surface of the heart centre is the place of the emotional being; from there one goes deep to find the psychic. The more one goes, the more intense becomes the psychic happiness which you describe. If it was something in the heart, it must be the psychic ...

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... being and the psychic in you are opening and that the psychic is influencing all including the physical centre. As to the centres. The psychic is placed behind the heartlotus, the centre of the emotional being, the Anahata chakra—it is therefore the opening of the Anahata that is most important for the unveiling of the psychic. The Manipura (navel centre) and the Swadhisthana below it are the seats of ...

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... to enter inside, especially in the heart, or to be accepted by the vital. Evidently, they enter through the physical mind (from the throat upwards means that) and affect the surface vital and emotional being. You must get the power to reject them from there by a constant and steady denial and refusal of their suggestions. So long as anything in you says "yes" or accepts, there is always the possibility ...

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... feel and behave in a different way and his action is determined by the one that happens to be prominent at the time. The one that has no feelings against anyone is either the psychic being or the emotional being in the heart, the one that feels anger and is severe is a part of the external vital nature on the surface. This anger and severity is a wrong form of something that in itself has a value, a certain ...

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... no longer be so hard and painful. Peace and Quiet in the Vital What you have to aspire for and bring down in you is the peace of the Mother's consciousness. Peace, calm, equanimity in the emotional being and the rest of the vital especially—it is that which will purify the emotions and deliver the vital. If you bring down the peace into your vital, it will be liberated—for even if wrong ...

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... is why there is the restlessness and sense of incapacity in her. That is a quite common experience. If she wants to go farther, she must aspire for calm, peace, purity, etc. in the mental and emotional being and allow what is descending to establish it in her. It must be the vital-physical that is in action. It is under the pressure of the Force that the resistance recedes lower and lower down ...

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... is not there, a full opening of the sadhana on the vital and the physical plane is hardly possible. To carry on the sadhana in one's way and according to the counsels of the individual mind and emotional being carries you only a little distance—it does not bring to the goal. 15 September 1933 I must remind you that all the work in the Asram is the Mother's work and no part of it is the personal ...

... but for that the first thing is to refuse all mental assent, for the mental support gives them a greater force than they would otherwise have. Fix the right attitude in the mind and the deeper emotional being—cling to that when contrary forces arise and by your firmness in that psychic attitude repel them. 14 March 1937 ...

... " And because it knows the thing behind, it is not deceived by appearances. It immediately feels the force. Also, when the psychic being is awakened, it throws out all the dross from the emotional being and makes it free from sentimentalism or the lower play of emotionalism. But it does not carry in it the dryness of the mind or the exaggeration of the vital feelings. It gives the just touch ...

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... Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional Page 204 being, then into the navel and other vital centres and liberates the inner vital, then into the Muladhara and below and liberates the inner physical being. It works at the same time for perfection ...

... Letters on Yoga - I: The Physical Consciousness Everything has a physical part—even the mind has a physical part; there is a mental physical, a mind of the body and the material. So the emotional being has a physical part. It has no location separate from the rest of the emotional. One can only distinguish it when the consciousness becomes sufficiently subtle to do so. Sri Aurobindo Letters ...

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... Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional being, then into the navel and other Page 35 vital centres and liberates the inner vital, then into the Muladhara and below and liberates the inner physical being. It works at the same ...

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... abdominal centre - sv ā dhisth ā na - governs the lower vital; the navel centre - n āb hipadma or manipura - governs the larger vital; the heart centre - hrdpadma or an ā hata - governs the emotional being; the throat centre -vi ś uddha- governs the expressive and externalising mind; the centre between the eye-brows - ājnācakra - governs the dynamic mind, will, vision, mental formation; the t ...

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... going away from the vital into the psychic, it is felt as if one is going deep deep down till one reaches that central place of the psychic. The surface of the heart centre is the place of the emotional being; from there one goes deep to find the psychic. The more one goes, the more intense becomes the psychic happiness.... 14 — Sri Aurobindo * Man, because he is a mental being ...

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... contacts with the psychic become more and more frequent and last longer. Very often what one comes in contact with is not the psychic being but some part of the mind or the higher vital (emotional) being which is under the influence of the psychic. "...people enter into contact with these parts and this gives them illuminations, great joy, revelations, and they feel they have found ...

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... these external parts towards a higher direction; a mental ideation of a very mixed character, often obscure even in its idealism, sometimes even disastrously mistaken, a fervour and passion of the emotional being throwing up its spray and foam of feelings, sentiments, sentimentalisms, a dynamic enthusiasm of the life-parts, eager responses of the physical, the thrills and excitements of nerve and body,—all ...

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... I must say that it is difficult. From the point of view of thought it is elementary, very easy. And even from the point of view of feelings, it is not difficult; for the heart, that is, the emotional being, to widen itself to the dimension of the Supreme is relatively easy. But the body! It is very difficult, very difficult without the body losing—how to put it?—it's centre of coagulation; without ...

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... concentration of the being shifts fields.... One can very well imagine Page 190 that only material things please the purely material being; and the interest of all those who live in the emotional being and the outer mind is turned towards... for example, things of beauty, like those who need to live surrounded with beautiful things, who want to use lovely things. Now, that seems to be the height ...

... suffering, etc---- The Russians are a queer mixture of strength and weakness. They have got a passion in their intellect, say, a passionate intellect. They have a distracted and restless emotional being, but there is something behind it which is very fine and psychic, though their soul is not very healthy. And therefore I am not right in saying that Gandhi is a Russian Christian, because he is ...

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... similar, but there is in these verses by Sri Aurobindo a continuity, a completeness, an all roundness, an exhaustive loftiest expression of the truth of our whole nature—our body, our vital and emotional being, our thought-urge, our will-energy—a foursquare triumph of the spiritual mantra which arrests and satisfies us more than any accidental aspect of it in splendid isolation like Page 44 ...

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... and morally with his feelings for Annette and thus created in his personality a split leading to loss of the emotional spontaneity which is essential for poetic health. According to Read, the emotional being was wil-fully ignored and hypocritically covered over and its conflict sub-merged, in order to achieve some sort of harmony in the surface consciousness: the submerged conflict took its revenge ...

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... and ego-motive or the habits of the outer nature keep up a way of thinking, feeling, acting, living which is quite out of harmony with the experience. Or the psychic and part of the mind and emotional being feel frequently the closeness of the Mother, but the rest of the nature is unoffered and goes its own way prolonging the division from her nearness, creating distance. It is because the Sadhaks ...

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... practically realising Sri Aurobindo and Mother's vision of integral education—an education that would systematically and simultaneously develop the body and its inherent capacities; the vital or the emotional being and its inherent powers; the mind and its cognitive faculties; the psychic and the spiritual capacities inherent in every child. Such a system would therefore consider the learning process ...

... ask K. I asked J to tell me something on occult science, learning that you spoke highly about him. He seems to have some knowledge. He says my mind is not clear but it has strength and my emotional being very good!! All this true? If he knows all this he is wonderful for his age. I should say on the contrary that your mind is very clear (in spite of bad logic); it has strength but a slow deliberate ...

... going away from the vital into the psychic, it is felt as if one is going deep deep down till one reaches that central place of the psychic. The surface of the heart centre is the place of the emotional being; from there one goes deep to find the psychic.   "In Matter's body find thy heaven-born soul." Then Savitri surged out of her body's wall And stood a little span outside herself ...

... emotiveness and imagination into the play of the Light, the beginning of their reclamation. This was rendered more concrete and more vibrant and intense in the next stage of the movement. The whole emotional being was taken up into the travailing crucible of consciousness. We may name it also as the age of the Bhagavatas, god-lovers, Bhaktas. It reached its climax in Chaitanya whose physical passion for ...

... sadhaka must establish total self-mastery over all vita l movements such as anger and fear. sensitiveness and pride, desires andimpulses and the rest. He should never let them get hold of his emotional being and disturb the inner peace. He should never speak and act in the rush and impulsion of any of these things. All his speech and action should follow from out of a ca lm inner poise of the spirit ...

... human vital interchange cannot be a true support for the sadhana and is, on the contrary, sure to impair and distort it, leading to self-deception in the consciousness and a wrong turn of the emotional being and vital nature." (Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga, pp. 811-12) (x)"Since we have decided to reserve love in all its splendour for our personal relationship with the Divine, we shall ...

... Will in the world. Now, the mind, the heart, the vital and the body are the four instruments of manifestation of the Spirit. Thus, there is the mental being which produces thoughts, the emotional being which produces feelings, the vital being which produces the power of action and the physical being that acts and gives form to everything else. Now, the basic duty of a teacher is to help his students ...

... by a similar liberation in all our parts, the universal aesthesis, the universal standpoint of knowledge, the universal detachment from all things and yet sympathy with all in our nervous and emotional being. Since the nature of suffering is a failure of the conscious-force in us to meet the shocks of existence and a consequent shrinking and contraction and its root is an inequality of that receptive ...

... the lower vital. Page 190       You wrote, "The heart is the seat not only of the psychic, but also of the emotional vital which covers it." Does it not mean that the emotional being itself works as a veil to the psychic?       Yes, when it is full of vital movements or accustomed more to a vital than a psychic way of emotion.         When there is a strong ...

... creative or executive life forces.       The mind has its divine equivalent above: the Supermind. What is the equivalent of the vital?       Mind - Supermind        Emotional being (heart) - Ananda       Vital - Tapas       Matter - Sat       These are correspondences — but the Supermind is Page 48 a sufficient instrument for divinising the ...

... emotiveness and imagination into the play of the Light, the beginning of their reclamation. This was rendered more concrete and more vibrant and intense in the next stage of the movement. The whole emotional being was taken up into the travailing crucible of consciousness. We may name it also as the age of the Bhagavatas, god-lovers, Bhaktas. It reached its climax in Chaitanya whose physical passion for ...

... concentration of the being shifts fields.... One can very well imagine that only material things please the purely material being; and Page 29 the interest of all those who live in the emotional being and the outer mind is turned towards... for example, things of beauty, like those who need to live surrounded with beautiful things, who want to use lovely things. Now, that seems to be the height ...

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... because, of course, its presence shows that no important need is neglected, but also, more positively, because happiness is essentially a suffusion of a psychic influence from within, permeating the emotional being and through it the outer personality. Happiness does not consist in laughing, shouting, clapping hands and running here and there. Happiness is first of all relaxation, a liberation from ...

... s. And this can be done not by simply wanting it, but by increasing the instrumental capacities of human nature. Man is given certain instruments,—senses, nervous being, vital being, emotional being and mental being. These have certain capacities and they are capable of development. Man's intellectual capacity, his reasoning power, comprehension etc. can be developed. When the powers of ...

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... Even the movement of the subliminal self must be felt and experienced. The centre of vision – and will – is between the eye-brows. The centre of the Psychic being is in the heart – not in the emotional being but behind it. The vital being is centred in the navel. Page 44 All this is not the real Soul – it is nature. The Soul is deeper within. The direct method of the Supramental ...

... consciousness through the mind". The higher Page 167 consciousness, descending from above, releases the heart-centre and opens the psychic. This happens in cases in which the emotional being is not much developed, and the mind has taken the lead in the sâdhanâ. But by whichever way it comes, the psychic opening is a sine qua non of the liberation and supramental perfection of our ...

... is completely extinguished and lost in His being. He wants to enjoy and not be obliterated, in the ecstasy of the divine union. Bhaktiyoga seeks a divine fulfilment of the emotional being of man, but leaves out his intellectual, volitional and physical parts in the cold shade of neglect. It envisages the love and delight of the Divine rather than His Light and Power. ...

... profit or progress one can make out of them, it means self-mastery over the vital movements,—- anger and sensitiveness and pride as well as desire and the rest,—not to let them get hold of the emotional being- and disturb the inner peace, not to speak and act in the Page 79 rush and impulsion of these things, always to act and speak out of a calm inner poise of the Spirit. ...

... progressive movement of Nature, as with an axe through the forest, to the achievement and the bliss. This passionate, emotional, animal being of man is given by him to be purified into the peace and bliss; in it he establishes a divine light and know-ledge and the awakened state of the soul.] सखायः सं वः सम्यञ्चमिषं स्तोमं चाग्नये । वर्षिष्ठाय क्षितीनामूर्जो नप्र्ते सहस्वते ॥१॥ 1) O comrades... इति चिन्मन्युमध्रिजस्त्वादातमा पशुं ददे । आदग्ने अपृणतोऽत्रिः सासह्याद् दस्यूनिषः सासह्यात्रृन् ॥१०॥ 10) For to this end I born in the material existence receive as thy gift the emotional mind and the animal being. 12 Yea, O Will, may the eater of things overpower the Dividers 13 who minister not to his fullness; these souls that rush upon him with their impulsions may he overcome. Page... Literally, passion-mind and the animal; but the word paśu may also mean, as it does oftenest in the Veda, the symbolic Cow of light; in that case the sense will be the emotional mind and the illumined mind. But the first rendering agrees better with the general sense of the hymn and with its previous use of the word. ...

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... concentrated on the external data, laws, institutions, rites, customs, economic factors and developments, while the deeper psychological elements so important in the activities of a mental, emotional, ideative being like man have been very much neglected. This kind of science would explain history and social development as much as possible by economic necessity or motive,—by economy understood in its... formulas", who, rejecting robustly or fiercely or with the calm light of reason symbol and type and convention, strike at the walls of the prison-house and seek by the individual reason, moral sense or emotional desire the Truth that society has lost or buried in its whited sepulchres. It is then that the individualistic age of religion and thought and society is created; the Age of Protestantism has begun... sanction for the ethical motive and discipline, Dharma; that becomes its chief social utility, and for the rest it takes a more and more other-worldly turn. The idea of the direct expression of the divine Being or cosmic Principle in man ceases to dominate or to be the leader and in the forefront; it recedes, stands in the background and finally disappears from the practice and in the end even from the theory ...

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... sea! She must discover in the fullness of night A flame that can hold deathless might in its blaze. 26 May 2002 Triple Purusha: instinctive, impulsive and emotional-intellectual being presiding over the actions of the three nature-powers: compassionate toiler and warrior on the battlefield and luminous in wisdom, full of Karuna, Jnana-Prem-Ananda, Prakash-Harsha-Shanti... peace of that wilderness Love came seeking her through hesitant ages: A phoenix of flame-hued wings descending Into death awaited her fiery greatness. A joy of beauty bejewelled all her being And her soul was a deep celebration Of divinity in the strides of time; Even her body recalled its godly longing. This mortal world claimed its truth in her birth. 12 April... dashed on the hoary rock of night And in its spume and spray dimly glistened A million planktons of the vague early form, And only lingered a fading memory. Of yore there lived the atomic being alone, Preparing the body of a deathless god. 25 April 2002 Page 9 Canto Eight Heavenly queen wore flowing purple dresses In the sky and drove her car of adventure ...

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