... becomes easy to endure; the scale of the power that meets the impact rises in degrees;... Secondly, it is found that the conscious nature divides itself into two parts, one of the normal mental and emotional nature in which the customary reactions continue to take place; another of the higher will and reason which observes and is not troubled or affected by the passion of this lower nature,... This brings... three nagging questions: (i) Will the perfection of equality lead to a blindness of vision obliterating the perception of all variations? (ii) Will equality be tantamount to the killing of our emotional nature culminating in utter insensibility and indifference? (iii) Will not the seeking after equality mortify our urge for progress and perfection? All these questions arise out of a misunderstanding... far more justly... But behind the variation we shall always see the Complete and Immutable who dwells within it... (The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 212) "[Equality] is not a killing of the emotional nature but a trans-formation.... Love will be not destroyed, but perfected, enlarged to its widest capacity, deepened to its spiritual rapture..." (Ibid., p. 677) "All indeed has to be changed ...
... In this perfection too there is no question of a severe ascetic insensibility, an aloof spiritual indifference or a strained rugged austerity of self-suppression. This is not a killing of the emotional nature but a transformation. All that presents itself here in our outward nature in perverse or imperfect forms has a significance and utility which come out when we get back to the greater truth of... aware of the things it destroys as parts of itself, its own manifestations and unaltered therefore in its sympathy and understanding of those in whom are embodied these manifestations. All our emotional nature will undergo this high liberating transformation; but in order that it may do so, a perfect equality is the effective condition. The same equality must be brought into the rest of our being ...
... received ideas, feelings, habits of nature. The greater the plasticity in any part of the nature, the less the resistance there. By the higher vital parts of the nature I mean the vital mind, the emotional nature, the life-force dynamis in the being. The vital mind is that part of the vital being which builds, plans, imagines, arranges things and thoughts according to the life-pushes, desires, will to... s. This higher vital with all its parts is situated in the chest and has the cardiac centre as its main stronghold governing all this part down to the navel. I need not say anything about the emotional nature, for its character and movements are known to all. From the navel downwards is the reign of the vital passions and sensations and all the small life-impulses that constitute the bulk of the ordinary ...
... of Yoga is to turn God-ward all or any of the powers of the human consciousness so that through that activity of the being there may be contact, relation, union. In the Yoga of Bhakti it is the emotional nature that is made the instrument. Its main principle is to adopt some human relation between man and the Divine Being by which through the ever intenser flowing of the heart's emotions towards him... more perfect. All the feelings with which religion approaches the worship, service and love of God, the Yoga admits, if not as its final accompaniments, yet as preparatory movements of the emotional nature. But there is one feeling with which the Yoga, at least as practised in India, has very little dealing. In certain religions, in most perhaps, the idea of the fear of God plays a very large part ...
... perfection. Page 388 The Moral Nature In the economy of man the mental nature rests upon the moral, and the education of the intellect divorced from the perfection of the moral and emotional nature is injurious to human progress. Yet, while it is easy to arrange some kind of curriculum or syllabus which will do well enough for the training of the mind, it has not yet been found possible ...
... Third condition . To observe our thoughts in order to become familiar with them, to know their habitual course and become aware of the ones which have a special affinity with our sensorial and emotional nature. Fourth condition . To seek in ourselves the idea which seems to be the highest, the noblest, the purest and most disinterested and, until the day we find a more beautiful idea to replace ...
... being in you that has from time to time been giving you intuitions and turning you towards the Truth. But it could not come forward and lead your life because you have too much suppressed your emotional nature, dried up your surface mind and choked up with much rubbish the psychic fire. If once it can awaken entirely and come in front, it can transform the dynamic mental, the vital and the physical ...
... emotion in the heart can perfectly go together. Awake by your aspiration the psychic fire in the heart that burns steadily towards the Divine—that is the one way to liberate and fulfil the emotional nature. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - II: Bhakti, Devotion, Worship It is only the ordinary vital emotions which waste the energy and disturb the concentration and peace that have to be ...
... III THE MORAL NATURE In the economy of man the mental nature rests upon the moral, and the education of the intellect divorced from the perfection of the moral and emotional nature is injurious to human progress. Yet, while it is easy to arrange some kind of curriculum or syllabus which will do well enough for the training of the mind, it has not yet been found possible ...
... emerge and become prominent, which seeks the fulfilment of man in the satisfaction of his inmost religious, aesthetic, intuitive, his highest intellectual and ethical, his deepest sympathetic and emotional nature and, regarding this as the fullness of our being and the whole object of our being, tries to subject to it the physical and vital existence. These come to be considered rather as a possible symbol ...
... physical mental or expressive externalising mind. The Chest, Stomach and Abdomen It is because the centre of your difficulties has been there [ in the chest and stomach ]. The chest = the emotional nature exposed to wrong feelings; the stomach = the dynamic vital centre, exposed to wrong desires, ambitions, sense of possession and vital ego etc. But all that will progressively become things of ...
... the domination of tamasic passivity. The centres of individuality, a characteristically sattwo-rajasic function, are too weak as yet to control, regulate and rationalize the response. Hence the emotional nature shows itself on one side in a childishly unruly gratification of the pleasure of pleasant impressions,—the savage is easily mastered by gluttony and drunkenness but also capable of childlike worship ...
... some time recur under the continued impulse of past nature but only in order to exhaust its acquired momentum and to teach the embodied being in his most unteachable part, his nervous, vital, emotional nature, by the reactions of desire, by its grief and unrest bitterly contrasted with calm periods of the higher peace or marvellous movements of divine Ananda, that egoistic desire is not a law for the ...
... spirit, and in our moral and dynamic being the inertia, the cowardice, baseness, sloth, lax subjection to small and ignoble motives, the weak yielding to our lower nature. Tamas brings into our emotional nature insensibility, indifference, want of sympathy and openness, the shut soul, the callous heart, the soon spent affection and languor of the feelings, into our aesthetic and sensational nature the ...
... presentation. This aesthetic sense operates also in the domain of emotion; it is itself a subtle feeling giving fineness to all other feelings and keeping the emotional nature within bounds, exercising ex-quisite "taste" and happy "measure" in matters of the heart and the passions, a smiling control and a shaping propriety over the elan ...
... consciousness is being continually pulled down to the lower field of ego-habit by the claim of their narrow workings. But the Yogin ceases, progressively, to act by the choice of his intellectual or emotional nature. Another light dawns, another power and Page 123 presence intervenes, other faculties awake in the place of the old human-animal combination. As the state of being changes, the ...
... a primary means of political action: “In the big lie there is always a force of credibility, because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily, and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than to the small lie.” The German masses, in their “primitive ...
... through the writing, to the writer. To be at the same rime "loving and lightful" is to be expressive from the Page 179 depth of one's being. People can be "loving" from the vital-emotional nature or they can be ''lightful" from the ideative mind, but it is only when one acts from the true soul that one can be both warm and illuminative and bring the atmosphere of a consciousness which ...
... and dynamic being the inertia, the cowardice, baseness, sloth, lax subjection to small and ignoble motives, the weak yielding Page 111 to our lower nature. Tamas brings into our emotional nature insensibility, indifference, want of sympathy and openness, the shut soul, the callous heart, the soon spent affection and languor of the feelings, into our aesthetic and sensational nature ...
... feeling—the human vital on one side, the disillusioned Vairāgi [renunciate] on the other side. Some even have to pass through this vairāgya in order to reach the possibility of a divinised emotional nature, but that is not the normal Page 318 movement of this Yoga. As for being self-centred, it is obviously not the right thing for Yoga to be centred in the ego and revolving round ...
... of the Vedic seers, much also of new knowledge was developed, untrodden ways were opened and a hundred gates discovered into the Infinite. Puranas attempted to lay hold on the inner vital and emotional nature, to awaken a more inner mind even in the common man, and to lead him through these things towards a higher spiritual truth. The Puranic system, along with the Tantric, was a wide, assured and ...
... a conventional, often a cowardly compliance." (SABCL, Vol. 17, p. 209) Yet it is an axiomatic truth that the education of the intellect divorced from the perfection of the moral and emotional nature is patently injurious to human progress. But this perfection can be brought about in the child's nature only if the teacher becomes perfect in the matter and sets a living personal example before ...
... Becharlal, a true bhakta by nature. Sri Aurobindo remarked that his bhakti was genuine. How many times he was on the point of shedding tears on seeing his "Bhagawan suffer"! Apart from his age, his emotional nature rendered him incapable of doing anything but light work and we gave him only such work. Neither would he ask for more, since he knew himself quite well. If he could just breathe the nearness of ...
... the Gita makes bhakti the crown of its synthesis and the most powerful lever of the soul's ascent to the Divine. "To make the mind one with the divine consciousness, to make the whole of our emotional nature one love of God everywhere, to make all our works one sacrifice to the Lord of the worlds and all our worship and aspiration one adoration of Him and self-surrender, to direct the whole self God ...
... physical mind of the people and took that as the starting-point of its appeal. But the new evolution tried to awaken a more inner mind even in the common man, to lay hold on his inner vital and emotional nature, to support all by an awakening of the soul and to lead him through these things towards a highest spiritual truth. It attempted in fact to bring the mass into the temple of the spirit rather ...
... world of sense is not foreign to the Spirit. Doubtless, the senses are given a new mode of action, a hidden Godhead becomes real to them in every cosmic phenomenon even as to our ideative and emotional nature. This recasts our habitual desires and activities - we have no longer the narrow selfish grab, the small jealous clutch: our greediness and our grossness are lost, but we are not "sicklied o'er" ...
... which all psychological activities revolve. In yoga psychology however, the ego is regarded as the illusory sense of I-ness resulting from an identification of the real self with the body, the emotional nature and the mind. Therefore the term "egoism" which ordinarily means self-centredness or self-pride, does not have that connotation here; it connotes simply a state of identification and its associated ...
... outer mind or vital but to the inner soul or psychic being. Therefore one who wants his Yoga to be a path of peace or joy must be prepared to dwell in his soul rather than in his outer mental and emotional nature. I objected in a former letter not to aspiration but to a demand, to making peace, joy or Ananda a condition for following the Yoga. And it is undesirable because if you do so, then the vital ...
... their simple-mindedness”, he wrote. “In the big lie there is always a force of credibility, because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily, and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than to the small lie …” Promises are made not to be kept, Treaties ...
... too thinned and diluted to support any intensity or greatness of speech or manner, and finally they die away into trivialities of the intelligence playing insincerely with the movements of the emotional nature. For the reflective idea already predominates over sight and intimate emotion; the mind is looking at the thing felt and is no longer taken up and carried away in the wave of feeling. Some of ...
... of the mental being. The higher transforming power has, therefore, to descend, as soon as may be and without waiting for an integral mental change, into the heart so as to occupy and change the emotional nature, and afterwards into the inferior vital centres to occupy and change the whole vital and kinetic and sensational nature, and, finally, into the physical centres so as to occupy and change the ...
... grief, aversion or any other of the notes in the gamut of the unpleasant reactions. Secondly, it is found that the conscious nature divides itself into two parts, one of the normal mental and emotional nature in which the customary reactions continue to take place, another of the higher will and reason which observes and is not troubled or affected by the passion of this lower nature, does not accept ...
... nature of our being, presents to the mind as pleasant, priyam ; we hate, dislike, fear, have 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 ...
... vivid, concrete; the heart's emotion, feeling, spiritualised sense reach their absolute; an entire self-giving becomes possible, imperative. The nascent spiritual man makes his appearance in the emotional nature as the devotee, the bhakta; if, in addition, he becomes directly aware of his soul and its dictates, unites his emotional with his psychic personality and changes his life and vital parts by purity ...
... fact happens when we approach the pure impersonality of the Godhead. We can obey it as a Law, lift our souls to it in aspiration towards its tranquil being, grow into it by shedding from us our emotional nature; the human being in us is not satisfied, but it is quieted, balanced, stilled. But the Yoga of devotion, agreeing in this with Religion, insists on a closer and warmer worship than this impersonal ...
... error and sin will be changed into the all-embracing and all-transforming strength, truth and purity of the Eternal. To make the mind one with the divine consciousness, to make the whole of our emotional nature one love of God everywhere, to make all our works one sacrifice to the Lord of the worlds and all our worship and aspiration one adoration of him and self-surrender, to direct the whole self Godwards ...
... emotion in the heart can perfectly go together. Awake by your aspiration the psychic fire in the heart that burns steadily towards the Divine—that is the one way to liberate and fulfil the emotional nature. Emotion is necessary in the Yoga and 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 ...
... the untransformed feeling—the human vital on one side, the disillusioned Vairagi on the other side. Some even have to pass through this vairagya in order to reach the possibility of a divinised emotional nature, but that is not the normal movement of this Yoga. As for being self-centred, it is obviously not the right thing for Yoga to be centred in the ego and revolving round it; one has to be centred ...
... outer mind or vital but to the inner soul or psychic being. Therefore one who wants his Yoga to be a path of peace or joy, must be prepared to dwell in his soul rather than in his outer mental and emotional nature. I objected in a former letter not to aspiration but to a demand, to making peace, joy or Ananda a condition for following the Yoga. And it is undesirable because if you do so, then the vital ...
... luminous pressure of supernatural motives, or to make a bold dash towards the golden gates and invoke their guardians not with the ordinary categorising brain-mind or the troubled desire-ridden emotional nature but with the true soul, the true psyche which has an ever-present contact with the spiritual meaning of the world. There is room, no doubt, for stately philosophic verse, a rising to the height ...
... supreme mastery." The Mother The study of mathematics, 'the Queen of the Sciences', pursued in a right spirit is an exceptionally potent training ground for the-impulsive and emotional nature as well as for the mind. For none can ever expect to fare well in this realm of mathematics unless he possesses an all-consuming zeal for knowledge, a profound intellectual integrity, a spirit ...
... we are not. Self-love constantly creates in the sadhaka a sense of illusion and delusion and he is led to commit many a mistake and take many false steps on the path of sadhana. Our emotional nature too falls often under the corrupting influence of self-will and self-love. A black veil is then interposed before the eyes of our perception and judgment and we become prone to commit any evil ...
... suitable to the psycho-spiritual inner life. Page 24 The Purano-Tantric stage was marked by an effort to awaken the inner mind even in the common man, to lay hold on his inner vital and emotional nature, to support all by an awakening of the soul and to lead him through these things towards highest spiritual truth. This effort required new instruments, new atmosphere and new fields of religious ...
... and more suitable to the psycho-spiritual inner life. The Purano-Tantric 17 stage was marked by an effort to awaken he inner mind even in the common man, to lay hold on his inner vital and emotional nature, to support all by an awakening of the soul and to lead him through these things towards a highest spiritual truth. This effort required new Page 95 instruments, new atmosphere and ...
... (3) THE MORAL NATURE IN the economy of man the mental nature rests upon the moral, and the education of the intellect divorced from the perfection of the moral and emotional nature is injurious to human progress. Yet, while it is easy to arrange some kind of curriculum or syllabus which will do well enough for the training of the mind, it has not yet been found possible ...
... coming in. A great vigilance is needed. No date It is very good. The lapse was not likely to be more than a passing slip. Mahendranath has in fact an intuitive and emotional nature — he is not a "dry" philosopher. No date Nirod says I shall have to wait two or three days for his examinations. From what you describe it looks you had come down into the physical ...
... seen symbolically as a newborn baby; many see it as a child of varying ages—it is a very common and usual experience; it is not peculiar to emotional natures. It has several significances such as the new birth of the consciousness into the true psychic nature, the still young growth of this new being, the trust, reliance, dependence of the child on the Mother. The child (when it does not mean... relatives mean the ordinary forces of the physical consciousness (the old nature). A relative is generally a symbol of some element of the hereditary nature (the external being so far as it is created by heredity). Mother, sister or other relatives are usually in such dreams symbols of forces of ordinary nature. The exact meaning depends on the context. But all such dreams are not sy... e unless there is an evident clue. Aunt or mother usually indicates the ordinary physical nature, a closed room would be some part of the physical nature that was not open to the light, bats would mean forces of the night, i.e. ignorant movements finding a lodging in the obscurity of the unenlightened nature. It [ seeing relatives in dreams ] is the impression left by the past life and its sanskaras ...
... That is a discovery with a significance for life and for the institution of marriage which has not yet been measured." Both Havelock Ellis and Edith Lees were remarkable persons; their emotional natures were of an unusual fineness and the Red Immortal rode in great beauty through them. Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett were perhaps still more subtly attuned to the Godhead. All the same, there... in the procreative process. Love has an inward lift and luminosity which seem more than human. To the ancient world it was a God, a superhuman Power that entered earthly beings and carried them in emotional and imaginative ecstasy beyond themselves. We have a less pervasive sense of the deific than the ancients; so the Eros of the Greeks and the Kama or Madana of old India is not always to our minds... future? There is, without doubt, something that refuses to be ended, something that wants to defeat the obstacles barring the assertion of its immortality. That elan runs through the whole of organic Nature and, evolved considerably though we are, it is still forced to find an indirect channel, our children, for expressing outwardly the Immortal in itself. The imperfect conditions of bodily life compel ...
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