... are habits of the lower vital and the external being; if you recognise them fully and frankly and detect them and reject whenever they act or try to act upon you, they will in time disappear. The sexual desires show that the subconscient still retains the old impressions, movements and impulses; make the conscious parts of the being entirely free and aspire and will for the higher consciousness to come... hereditary, but a thing taught by bad company and these children are sometimes spoiled in this way at a very early age. When the waking consciousness has renounced the indulgence of the sexual desires and impulses, these take refuge in the subconscient as impressions, memories, suppressed desires and come up in sleep as dreams and involuntary sleep emissions. If the waking consciousness is not... from those who are not physically or otherwise so strong. The spiritual truth is quite other than these things. Skin Diseases and Sex Yes, of course, skin diseases have much to do with sexual desires—not of course always, but often. I suppose it [ pimples on the face ] is often the result of suppressed sexuality—suppressed in act but still internally active. These things do not act in ...
... revolt of pride and ambition thinking that they had a great work to do or that they were already the equals or superiors of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo—some because they were unable to resist their sexual desires, others because they preferred to take their own way instead of following the directions of the Guru and went off the track. These things always happen to a number of those who start on the way ...
... state, comes up for a long time—that is because all these things remain still in the subconscient and it is the subconscient that creates a great part of people's dreams. Thus if one no longer has sexual desires in the waking state he can still have sex-dreams—and emissions—with a more or less frequent recurrence; he can still meet people in dreams whom he never sees or hears or thinks of in his waking ...
... for all and for those who aspire for supramental truth, this continence must be replaced by a complete and total abstinence. It goes without saying that for the result to be truly beneficial, all sexual desires, thought and impulsions should be eliminated not only from the mental and vital consciousness but also from the consciousness of the body. A Sanskrit saying on this subject runs thus : What ...
... When you will think no more of sex at all and see no more women as women but only as human beings, then and then only Page 127 I will know that you are beginning to get cured. Sexual desires do not come from eating well but from thinking wrongly and concentrating on that. The less you think about it, the better it is. You should not concentrate on what you do not want to be, but ...
... strong and improve the circulation. These exercises must be done regularly and continued even after the pains have disappeared. For the grown-up girls, this kind of pain comes almost entirely from sexual desires. If we get rid of the desires we get rid of the pain. There are two ways of getting rid of desires; the first one, the usual one, is through satisfaction (or rather what is called so, because there ...
... strong and improve the circulation. These exercises must be done regularly and continued even after the pains have disappeared. For the grown-up girls, this kind of pain comes almost entirely from sexual desires. If we get rid of the desires we get rid of the pain. There are two ways of getting rid of desires; the first one, the usual one, is through satisfaction (or rather what is called satisfaction ...
... refinement and culture and have a call for a greater ideal in life than the average man and woman, as for instance, for art, music, poetry, patriotism, they should seek their life companion not from sexual desires but from a higher outlook so that their union may result in this type of pure and psychic bond. In such a case of an extra-ordinary man a psychic woman alone can be his real partner of life. She ...
... refinement and culture and have a call for a greater ideal in life than the average man and woman, as for instance, for art, music, poetry, patriotism, they should seek their life companion not from sexual desires but from a higher outlook so that their union may result in this type of pure and psychic bond. In such a case of an extraordinary man a psychic woman alone can be his real partner of life. She ...
... some in the library. He describes this; he had come here, Maurice Magre, and we spoke and he told me that he had always noticed—he was highly sensitive—he had always noticed that people who have sexual desires are surrounded by a kind of small swarm of entities who are somewhat viscous and rather ugly and which torment them constantly, awakening desire in them. He said he had seen this around certain ...
... is all folded in on itself, shut in on itself. Yes, that's it. I don't like that. Nor do I. And [name] has an illness which comes only when you have repressed sexual desires. And he can't get rid of it because he doesn't get rid of the cause... They're fully into it. What should I do with that? It's a pity if at the inauguration of Auroville that is ...
... Something wholly turned in on itself, shut in on itself. Yes, that's right. I don't like it. Page 60 Neither do I. And Z has a disease that only occurs with suppressed sexual desires. He can't get rid of it because he doesn't get rid of the cause... They are up to the neck in that. What should I do with this? It would be a pity if people were given this at Auroville's ...
... — which is the source of the Divine Creation. Generally, does a bachelor get fewer sexual sensations than a married man? It depends upon the man — if he has strong sexual desires, he may get more. While listening to music this morning I felt as if stones were falling on me in the form of sexual sensations. A very strange experience! When the ...
... to marry again to do so would be in any case to invite serious and probably insuperable difficulties in your following the path of yoga, and, as in this path of yoga it is necessary to put away sexual desire, marriage would be not only meaningless but an absolute contradiction of your spiritual life. You can expect full support and protection from us in your resolution and, if you keep a sincere will ...
... the touch or pressure of an idea, action, event, person or thing, e.g. if someone speaks something you do not like and you get angry, that is a vital reaction. Or if a woman passes and you feel sexual desire, that is a vital reaction. Or if something unpleasant happens and you get a depression, that is a vital reaction. Most disturbances of the consciousness are due to vital reactions, though the mind ...
... Mother The Mother and the Discipline in the Ashram The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Mother and the Control of Sexual Desire If a person is here from childhood, is it true that he has no sexual difficulties? It is not automatically true—it is only possible—but on condition he gets fully into the influence of the Mother, is not too open to the... sex hunger it will be finished and disappear for ever is a deceptive pretence held out by the vital to the mind in order to get a sanction for its desire—it has no other raison d'etre or truth or justification. If an occasional indulgence keeps the sex desire simmering, a full indulgence would only sink you in its mire. This hunger like other hungers does not cease by temporary satiation; it renews itself ...
... so indeed that the force in the seed can be turned into a primal physical energy supporting all the others, retas into ojas. But no error can be more perilous than to accept the immixture of the sexual desire and some kind of subtle satisfaction of it and look on this as a part of the sadhana. It would be the most effective way to head straight towards spiritual downfall and throw into the atmosphere... ( Concerning a letter by Sri Aurobindo strictly forbidding sexual relations among disciples. Mother had several thousand copies of the letter printed with the following title: "Conditions for living in the Ashram and becoming a disciple." ) "...To master the sex-impulse,—to become so much master of the sex-centre that the sexual energy would be drawn upwards, not thrown outwards and wasted—it ...
... ordinary life with her. And she says no. She says, "That's not what a new life is." But won't it look like hankering after sexual enjoyment? Because that would bring the whole thing down to a very low level. Ill-disposed people would say, "Ah, of course, sexual desire is stronger than spiritual life." It depends on the way it's put. This woman... she isn't a woman, she is almost a girl. There... November 22, 1958 . × Satprem found the following note among Mother's papers: "When people speak of sexual desire, instead of giving it the noble name of 'love,' they should simply call it 'vital cannibalism.'" × ... of view if people could be made to understand that true love has nothing to do with sexual relationship, with vital attraction, even with sentimental relationships, that none of this has anything to do with true love. 2 But people don't understand. Even when they use the word "love," they immediately think of sexual union, and that's disastrous, it completely warps the idea. I don't know, I haven't ...
... he cannot therefore be identical with Skanda who is a son of Shiva. Buddha Buddha stands for the conquest over the Ignorance of the lower Nature. Apsaras Apsaras generally indicate sexual desire. Page 159 × In a dream the correspondent saw Sri Krishna in the prime of manhood. This image disappeared ...
... transformation of the power in the higher vital and the conquest of low vital movements like greed for food and sexual desire are the necessary conditions for bringing into the physical the principle of eternal youth . 28.11.1929 You must get rid of the rising of the desires in the vital and establish purity in the cells before you can be fit to enjoy divine prosperity . 5.12.1929 ...
... such as ambition, pride, fear, love of fame, attractions and repulsions, desires and passions of various kinds and the field of many vital energies. lower vital: made up of the smaller movements of human life-desire and life-reactions, it is occupied with small desires and feelings, such as food desire, sexual desire, small likings, dislikings, vanity, quarrels, love of praise, anger at blame... up of desires, sensations, feelings, passions, energies of action and of all the play of possessive and other related instincts, such as anger, fear, greed, lust, etc. The vital has three main parts: higher vital: the mental vital and emotional vital taken together. Page 127 The mental vital gives a mental expression by thought, speech or otherwise to the emotions, desires, passions... with the putting out of mental forces for the realisation of the ideas; and the externalising mind, concerned with the expression of ideas in life. The vital mind or desire mind is a mind of dynamic will, action, desire; it is occupied with force and achievement and satisfaction and possession, with enjoyment and suffering, giving and taking, growth and expansion, etc. The physical mind ...
... of the eternal divine Presence. Say—”I have received his Grace: I must be worthy of it” and then all will be well. I do not like that the word love should be polluted to speak of sexual desire, the human inheritance of the animal. In nice there is pleasantness, but good is good and can be without pleasantness. We are expected to give to the world an example of better life... upon the measure of your truth. A hero fears nothing, complains of nothing and never gives way. Absolute sincerity is required. No self-indulgence and no desire. One must be without preferences and without desire to know the Divine's will. Psychic perfection means to smile at everything. Superficial reactions are not desirable. Encourage only what leads quickly ...
... to give me the promised advice, so that I may be able to get rid of them completely for ever. These adverse forces are connected with sexual desire. They live on the energy wasted when the act takes place. And even a thought, a mental or vital desire is sufficient to let them come in and settle in the atmosphere. Thus it is in the mind itself that the purification must take place. My blessings... the form of this supreme purity which is so foreign to all that is anti-divine or even to all ordinary human movement. This adverse entity is not only vital, it is also mental and supports its desires by some apparently reasonable principles which become aggressively stupid by their rigidity. When this seizes you, you seem to lose all common sense and the most elementary understanding. No wall ...
... for your 1 A woman-disciple Page 61 mind's refusal — it goes on replying to the sexual suggestions. The sexual notions still rise up. But now they seem to be more from the subconscient; there is no real substance, push, desire behind them, merely half-formed thoughts coming in a haphazard way. Well, what is to be done about them? ... SEX AND ITS CONQUEST Sometimes it is noticed that the mere presence of a woman is enough to raise the sexual sensations in us. How does it happen like that? It is quite usual—just as the smell of very nice food may awake the desire of the food. I notice that there are many sadhaks who mix with ladies quite freely, while I can't. Does it mean... While reading a famous mans biography I found that a sexual sensation came into me. How did this happen? It comes in because it has been the habit of the vital to admit such movements. In what way does the vital being partake in matters of sex? Page 59 By desire, joy, personal attraction, passion and in many other ways. ...
... at the Mother's feet and then afterwards to leave them? Is it through vital depression or something else? Through the suggestions of the hostile forces, because of pride, egoism, ambition, sexual desire, vanity, greed or any other vital impulse used by the hostile Powers. Is it because the vital forces are so strong that even if a person has a clear aspiration and a Divine call they can lead... and she told you very positively that she considered it would be harmful, dangerous to you for your sadhana. She cannot say more or otherwise than she did that time. As for these dull persistent desires, it is not by indulging them that they disappear—on the contrary: the only way is to grow out of them or let them die. 7 February 1933 Can sadhaks who leave the Mother totally forget her Grace... My family would like me to go back with them to Bombay Page 366 and stay there for some time. I don't find myself bound by any sense of obligation, but there is a dull yet persistent desire in me to go. But as I am not a frigid mental machine, I would much prefer if the Mother spoke to me in a personal interview instead of replying in writing. But you have already had a personal interview ...
... though details could be added everywhere. Thus I stood in the pride of a precocious youth.. Suddenly a force I had never met made its assault on me. I had known and enjoyed the wrestle of sexual desire and the poetry of the loins caught up in imaginative passion - but I had never been in love. For the first time the heart was flung open. And together with it there arose a hunger for the magnitudes... strong, but my nerves were like tempered steel and, where physically stronger men got exhausted, I still felt on top of the world. I accomplished feats of intellectual activity and nervous endurance and sexual stamina. For five years I moved in a crescendo of keenness and power, until in my twenty-third year I acquired a sense of completion at the centre: that is to say, I found my individuality possessed... of abstractions: in actual practice there is no true love without the entangling of the entrails. The beloved's fascination holds us Page 156 by innumerable ties, not always openly sexual - and sometimes one acutely agonizes under its pull Two powers alone can snap the bonds - a common, ideal of Yoga kept by both the parties and the constant personal contact of a Guru. Of course the ...
... which originate from that wretched sexual desire. If this desire (with its corresponding entities) is not dissolved at the time of death, these entities continue to exist and they come and settle in the atmosphere of sensitive persons to goad them, to egg them on. These entities feed upon the vital force emanated at the time of the act and naturally their only desire is to get as much nourishment as... dozens of these beings. It is a very concrete thing.... I don't know if you have heard of Maurice Magre, the writer who had come here. He has said in one of his books that people who have a very strong sexual instinct are surrounded by a swarm of these small beings, who plague them to satisfy themselves, to feed upon the vital force. He knew the thing quite well, he had observed it. To those who are ever... around the central impulse, the central desire, the central passion of that piece, thus creating little entities which don't have a human form but take at times an indefinite form; at times they resemble the body to which the pieces belonged, at other times they take a form expressing the desire they represent. And naturally their sole concern is to satisfy their desire or passion and they search everywhere ...
... longings and reactions, such as ambition, pride, fear, love of fame, attractions and repulsions, Page 30 desires and passions of various kinds and the field of many vital energies. The lower vital is occupied with small desires and feelings, such as food desire, sexual desire, small likings and disliking, vanity, quarrels, love of praise, anger at blame, little wishes of all kind — and a ... mental consciousness. The mental-vital, which is also called the vital mind, is the mind which is at the service of vital desires and vital emotions. It is a sort of mediator between vital emotion, desire, impulsion, etc, and the mental proper. It expresses the desires, Page 31 feelings, emotions, passions, ambitions, possessive and active tendencies of the vital and throws them into... In men and women of action this faculty is prominent and a leader of their nature; they always have it in a very high degree. At a lower stage of the mental-vital, the vital passions, impulses and desires rise up and get into the pure Thought and either cloud it or distort it. The mental-vital should be distinguished from the dynamic Mind. While the mental-vital is limited by the vital view and feelings ...
... reactions, such as ambition, pride, fear, love of fame, attractions and repulsions, desires and passions of various kinds and the field of many vital energies. lower vital : made up of the smaller movements of human Iife desire and life-reactions, it is occupied with small desires and feelings, such as food desire, sexual desire, small likings, dis likings, vanity, quarrels, love of praise, anger at blame... life-nature made up of desires, sensations, feelings, passions, energies of action and of all the play of possessive and other related instincts, such as anger, fear, greed, lust, etc. The vital has three main parts: higher vital : the mental vital and emotional vital taken together. The mental vital gives a mental expression by thought, speech or otherwise to the emotions, desires, passions, sensations... concerned with the putting out of mental forces for the realisation of the ideas; and the externalising mind, concerned with the expression of ideas in life. The vital mind or desire mind is a mind of dynamic will, action, desire; it is occupied with force and achievement and satisfaction and possession, with enjoyment and suffering, giving and taking, growth and expansion, etc. The physical mind ...
... place for the sexual impulse and its desires in spiritual life and any sadhaka indulging it, either physically or vitally, is going against the law of the Asram life and injuring gravely his or her sadhana. The sexual desire must be either satisfied in the ordinary family life or it must be thrown aside. But you are not now able to conquer it. To remain here with the unsatisfied desire will only confuse... kept should be natural, but not intimate . 17 April 1943 Sexual Relations and the Ashram In view of your last letter and of the disturbances in you which you hint there, we consider and you must yourself realise that it is better for you to return to your family life and not to stay here too long. The conquest of sexual desire can only be done if one is truly ready and has the spiritual call... consider best for her. It appears from our observation of her that she is not at all ready for Asram life or for intensive sadhana; she has too much of the ordinary movements and the instinct of sexual desire is too strong in her and unsatisfied and this indicates the need of the social and family life, not a life of Yoga. The family life accompanied with whatever religious worship or practice of bhakti ...
... of this excess, Eat up thy charge? Is this thy body's end? Page 204 To cut a long story short: "sensational potency" for a poet does not lie solely in exalting the sexual desire, praising life and love, pleading the cause of flesh. It can be just as manifest, just as dynamic, just as magnificent in the exact reverse of all these turns. A poet remains a poet, and retains... however non-vitalistic, have lost their keen response to the world's beauty. And a mystic poet of the Aurobindonian Yoga will never do so. It seems to me absurd to contend that by passing beyond the sexual urge one ceases to be thrilled by the colour and shape and pattern of things. Even the beauty of a woman's face and form can thrill one without one's getting into a fever to mate with her or to treat... the asp: Come, mortal wretch, With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate Of life at once untie: poor venomous fool, Be angry, and despatch. Not life but death is desired in these two passages: the foiled vital current turns awry and abandons the world of the Page 202 senses. Again, there is disgust with that world in Hamlet's cry — ...
... indeed that the force in the seed can be turned into a primal physical energy supporting all the others, retas into Ojas. But no error can be more perilous than to accept the immixture of the sexual desire and some kind of subtle satisfaction of it and look on this as a part of the sadhana. It would be the most effective way to head straight towards spiritual downfall and throw into the atmosphere... (Concerning a letter by Sri Aurobindo strictly forbidding sexual relations among disciples. Mother had several thousand copies of the letter printed with the following title: "Conditions for living in the Ashram and becoming a disciple. ") "... To master the sex-impulse, - to become so much master of the sex-centre that the sexual energy would be drawn upwards, not thrown outwards and wasted ...
... one or two passages from Sri Aurobindo to give you his point of view. Signed : Satprem ( From Sri Aurobindo ) "...No error can be more perilous than to accept the immixture of the sexual desire and some kind of subtle satisfaction of it and look on this as a part of the sadhana. It would be the most effective way to head straight towards spiritual downfall and throw into the atmosphere... to prettify the sexual relations between man and woman are shams. I have nothing against sexual relations (God knows!), but trying to coat them with a yogic or mystic phraseology is a deceitful illusion, a self-deception. Therefore, in that sense, there is no "key" to be "recovered"—it does not exist. There is a key in the relationship between man and woman, but not in their sexual relations. The... perhaps that other, still unknown being who will emerge from us just as we emerged from hominid infancy. What is the place of the sexual function in this evolution? Until now, the progress of consciousness has made use of the progress of species, which means that sexual reproduction has been the key to the proliferation of species so as to reach the form most fit for the manifestation of consciousness ...
... and the field of many vital energies; last, the lower vital which is occupied with small desires and feelings, such as make the greater part of daily life, e.g. food desire, sexual desire, small likings, dislikings, vanity, quarrels, love of praise, anger at blame, little wishes of all kinds—and a numberless host of other things. Their respective seats are (1) the region from the throat to the heart... life-force and desire-force in a man and the part of the being that responds to desire and is the instrument of the life-forces. The True Vital Being and Consciousness There is behind all the vital nature in man his true vital being concealed and immobile which is quite different from the surface vital nature. The surface vital is narrow, ignorant, limited, full of obscure desires, passions, cravings... speech or otherwise to the emotions, desires, passions, sensations and other movements of the vital being; the emotional vital which is the seat of various feelings such as love, joy, sorrow, hatred, and the rest; the central vital which is the seat of the stronger vital longings and reactions, e.g. ambition, pride, fear, love of fame, attractions and repulsions, desires and passions of various kinds and ...
... looseness and softness of joints and muscles; voiding of sweat, urine and feces in large quantity. putrid smell of axilla, mouth, head and body in excess; insufficiency of semen, sexual desire and procreation. Page 105 By virtue of the above mentioned qualities, a man having pittala type of constitution is endowed with moderate strength, moderate span of life... of health can be ascertained from the following: 1. alleviation of pain; 2. appearance of normal voice and complexion; 3. nourishment of the body; 4. increase in strength; 5. desire for taking food; 6. appetite for food during meal-time; 7. proper digestion of the food taken during meal-time; 8. getting sleep at the appropriate time; 9. absence of dreams indicating... individual having slesmala type of constitution. unctuousness of organs. smoothness of organs. pleasing appearance, tenderness, clarity of complexion. increase in the quantity of semen, desire for sex-act and number of procreations. firmness, compactness and stability of the body. plumpness and roundedness of all organs. slow in action, intake of food and movement. slowness ...
... as ambition, pride, fear, love of fame, attractions and repulsions, desires and passions of various kinds and the field of many vital energies. lower vital: made up of the smaller movements of human life-desire and life-reactions, it is occupied with small desires and feelings, such as food desire, sexual desire, small likings, dislikings, vanity, quarrels, love of praise, anger... made up of desires, sensations, feelings, passions, energies of action and of all the play of possessive and other related instincts, such as anger, fear, greed, lust, etc. The vital has three main parts: higher vital: the mental vital and emotional vital taken together. The mental vital gives a mental expression by thought, speech or otherwise to the emotions, desires, passions,... putting out of mental forces for the realisation of the ideas; and the externalising mind, concerned with the expression of ideas in life. The vital mind or desire mind is a mind of dynamic will, action, desire; it is occupied with force and achievement and satisfaction and possession, with enjoyment and suffering, giving and taking, growth and expansion, etc. The physical ...
... rather certain kinds of food that are supposed to increase it [ sexual desire ]—e.g. meat, onions, chillis etc. It [ the chilli ] is an aphrodisiac—has a strong effect on the sex centre. If it [ taking chillis ] is once only in some months it can't be harmful for the body. For the sadhana what is harmful is taking to satisfy desire, fancy, impulse—it is not the thing in itself. There... with regard to the objects of desire. Forceful suppression (fasting comes under the head) stands on the same level as free indulgence; in both cases, the desire remains; in the one it is fed by indulgence, in the other it lies latent and exasperated by suppression. It is only when one stands back, separates oneself from the lower vital, refusing to regard its desires and clamours as one's own, and... not necessary to have desire or greed of food in order to eat. The Yogi eats not out of desire, but to maintain the body. That [ disgust for eating ] is rather an excessive feeling. One should eat for maintenance of the body without attaching any other importance, but without repulsion. The vital of most people is of this kind [ too weak to restrain its desires for pleasure ], except ...
... following a long evolution made up of many stages of reduction, today walks on the tip of a single toe".6 Coming to the birds, Monod further explains how "it is correct to say that sexual drive - or better still, desire - created the conditions under which many magnificent plumages were selected".7 However, even more surprising than Monod's Hardyan biology is his failure to realize the profound... organs in different animals under many varieties of form and function) in terms of similar genes handed on from a common ancestor has broken down. Another problem is linked to Monod's mention of sexual desire in the female bird leading to the selection of "many magnificent plumages" in the male. One reason why Monod, in spite of admitting "behavioural selection" on a large scale, fails to move in the... about those plumages. Alfred Russell Wallace, co-discoverer with Darwin of natural selection, brings up the puzzle in his Tropical Nature (first published in 1879). Criticizing Darwin's theory of "sexual Page 325 selection" in this field, Wallace, as quoted by Hardy, writes in his chapter, "Colours of Animals": We now come to such wonderful developments of plumage and colour as ...
... lower vital misusing this flow? It can be misused on a large scale only if there is a strong and vehement vital ego not accustomed to correction or else a vital full of the kamavasana (sexual desire). On a small scale it can be misused by the small selfishnesses, vanities, ambitions, demands of the lower vital supporting themselves upon it. If you are on guard against these things, then there... Ananda of the higher consciousness. Love and devotion depend on the opening of the psychic and for that the desires must go. The vital love offered by many to the Mother instead of the psychic love brings more disturbance than anything else because it is coupled with desire. Do love, devotion and surrender belong only to the psychic being? Have they nothing to do with the higher... While I was writing to you about desires, something like a light touched a part of the vital which up to now has been indulging desires. It suddenly felt an irresistible need to give up its desires! My mind had said nothing to my vital regarding this, nor was there any pressure or force on it. It was a spontaneous feeling coming from the light above, that the desires had better be given up. Later I ...
... offering of it to the Divine and trying to get rid of egoism and vital desire, is the best way to prepare oneself. The bitterness you feel is that of a restless and dissatisfied vital which did not get what it desired because it could not desire anything strongly and persistently. Otherwise it could have all the vital desires—marriage, friends, position etc.—but it could stick to nothing owing... the Vital The Phrase "Wrong Movements" The phrase [ "wrong movements" ] covers pretty nearly everything that is hurtful to spiritual progress—movements of doubt, revolt, egoistic desire or ambition, sexual indulgence are the most common, but there are plenty of others. It depends on what is meant by a wrong or unnecessary movement [ of the vital ]. Certain things have to fall off before... touch or pressure of an idea, action, event, person or thing. E.g. if someone speaks something you do not like and you get angry, that is a vital reaction. Or if a woman passes and you feel sexual desire, that is a vital reaction. Or if something unpleasant happens and you get a depression, that is a vital reaction. Most disturbances of the consciousness are due to vital reactions, though the mind ...
... and life to their divine Fulfilment. That has nothing to do with love as commonly spoken of in human parlance. We might recall here the Mother's trenchant observation: "When people speak of sexual desire, instead of giving it the noble name of 'love', they should simply call it 'vital cannibalism.' " 11 Vivekananda, speaking of Divine Love, told a sublime story: "A great saint said, using ...
... which it can pass from the expression in animal to the expression in human consciousness. It is when the vital gets broken up, some strong movements of it, desires, greeds, may precipitate themselves into animal forms, e.g., sexual desire with the part of the vital consciousness under its control into a dog or some habitual movement of excessive greed may carry part of the vital consciousness into... consciously around the psychic then they [ the mental and vital parts of the being ] survive, otherwise they separate. The vital for instance survives for a time, then breaks up and dissolves into desires and fragmentary bits of vital personality. The mental is usually more lasting—but that too dissolves. It all depends on the person, how far he has developed his mind or vital or connected them with... level. It is not the soul (the psychic being) that takes a lesser form [ in its next birth ], it is some part of the manifested being, usually some part of the vital that does it, owing to some desire, affinity, need of particular experience. This happens fairly often to the ordinary man. After leaving the body, the soul, after certain experiences in other worlds, throws off its mental and ...
... but not after this threshold has been crossed. It is also possible, he writes, that parts of the vital composition of the personality may drop back, so that for instance a violent, unsatiated sexual desire may be integrated into an animal, but this of course is something very different from a falling back of the soul. ‘The soul does not go back to the animal condition; but a part of the vital personality ...
... from Sri Aurobindo's writings will suffice to make the point clear: Page 89 "It is when the vital gets broken up, some strong movements of it, desires, greeds, may precipitate themselves into animal forms, e.g., sexual desire with the part of the vital consciousness under its control into a dog or some habitual movement of excessive greed may carry part of the vital consciousness into... manifestation many instruments and vehicles; such as, his body, his life, his mind, etc. And these instruments have many different modalities so far as their active functioning is concerned; such as, desires, aspirations, imaginations, memories, reason-power, discriminations, etc. There is no end to this delineation; for the constitution of a man's consciousness is indeed highly complex and an intermingled... constituent elements of the being, his physical, vital and mental beings, get disbundled and separated and start dwelling in different worlds of their choice and seek there to satisfy their own separate desires and impulses in some way or other. Then, a day arrives when the energy behind their functioning existence gets used up and they disintegrate and disappear for all time to come. There remains ...
... kinds and the field of many vital energies; last, the lower vital which is occupied with small desires and feelings, such as make the greater part of daily life, that is, food desire, sexual desire, small likings, dislikings, vanity, quarrels, love of praise, anger at blame, little wishes of all kinds, and a numberless host of other things. Their respective seats are : (1 ) The Page 145 ... to our yoga, (1) Commanding physical consciousness and the subconscient, ( 2 ) commanding the small vital movements, the little greeds, lusts, desires, the small sense-movements; ( 3 ) commanding the- larger life-forces and the passions and larger desire-movements (4) commanding the higher emotional being with the- psychic deep within it; ( 5 ) commanding expression and externalisation of the mind... otherwise to the emotions, desires, passions, sensations and other movements of the vital being; the emotional vital which is the seat of various feelings, such as love, joy, sorrow, hatred, and the rest; the central vital which is the seat of the stronger vital longings and reactions, that is, ambition, pride, fear, love of fame, attractions and repulsions, desires and passions of various kinds ...
... the stronger vital longings and reactions, such as ambition, pride, fear, love of fame, attractions and repulsions, desires and passions of various kinds and the field of many vital energies. The lover vital is occupied with small desires and feelings, such as food desire, sexual desire, small likings, dislikings, vanity, quarrels, love of praise, anger at blame, Page 55 little wishes of... vital-mental, vital-physical and physical-vital. The mental-vital or the vital mind is the mind which is at the service of vital desires and vital emotions. It is a so-t of mediator between vital emotion, desire, impulsion, etc., and the mental proper. It expresses the desire, feelings, emotions, passions, ambitions, possessive and active tendencies of the vital and throws them into mental forms. Finding... So long as we are content with what we ordinarily are and content with our round of movements in our complex mass of mental, nervous and physical habits held together by a few ruling ideas, desires and associations, we are not yet ready for the conscious adventure of Yoga. For, no yoga can be successfully undertaken and followed unless there is a strong awakening to the necessity of a higher ...
... kinds and the field of many vital energies; last, the lower vital which is occupied with small desires and feelings, such as make the greater part of daily life, e.g. food desire, sexual desire, small likings, dislikings, vanity, quarrels, love of praise, anger at blame, little wishes of all kinds — and a numberless host of other things. Their respective seats are: (1) the region from the throat to... vital mentality which is an instrument of desire: this is not satisfied with the actual, it is a dealer in possibilities; it has the passion for novelty and is seeking always to extend the limits of experience for the satisfaction of desire, for enjoyment, for an enlarged self-affirmation and aggrandisement of its terrain of power and profit. It desires, enjoys, possesses actualities, but it hunts... 62 to the emotions, desires, passions, sensations and other movements of the vital being; the emotional vital which is the seat of various feelings, such as love, joy, sorrow, hatred, and the rest; the central vital which is the seat of the stronger vital longings and reactions, e.g. ambition, pride, fear, love of fame, attractions and repulsions, desires and passions of various kinds ...
... Page 47 don't give attention to eliminating desire. Get to the root of desire, which means the delusory sense of self that is mind-created. The desires of the body aren't really desires. They are feelings, they are sexual feelings. When a sexual feeling flows into the mind-made self, the sexual feeling becomes a sexual desire. The self now wants it. It actually amplifies that sense of... Page 46 and needing more. An enormous amount of desires arise out of rhat, in that self-seeking. So, unless you realize your identification with mind ... Of course, there is another level of desire which is for physical gratification, which is identification with the physical vehicle. So, there may be desire—sexual, especially— that's the in-built, natural need of the organism... seeking through the future. You only come to the end of desire when the false self has created enough suffering. There are people who go into spiritual practice wanting to get rid of desire, nor realizing that they have added one more desire to their desires, which is to become free of desire. Because they really want to become free of desire in order to become more of something—more spiritual, ...
... a first psychic opening in your mind and heart which enabled you even to throw out for a time the sexual obsession from your vital consciousness. But, as often happens, soon after all that is obscure, egoistic, self-centred in the vital being rose up in revolt and created a confused farrago of desires, demands, disappointments, grievances, misapprehensions, 2 Page 223 false reasonings... be said that you have not changed at all or made any progress. There are three obstacles that one has to overcome in the vital and they are very difficult to Page 226 overcome, lust (sexual desire), wrath and rajasic ego. I think you have progressed much in all three. Even in regard to anger, the outbreaks are surely less common, less overpowering and long-continued than they were before... difference between the quarrels and jealousy over other women and quarrels and jealousy over other attractions not of a sexual character. They both spring from the same primary impulse, the possessive instinct which is at the base of ordinary vital love. In the latter case, as often sexual jealousy is not possible, the mind supports itself on other motives which seem to it quite reasonable and justifiable—it ...
... the stronger vital longings and reactions, such as ambition, pride, fear, love of fame, attractions and repulsions, desires and passions of various kinds and the field of many vital energies. The lower vital is occupied with small desires and feelings, such a food desire, sexual desire, small likings, dislikings, vanity, quarrels, love of praise, anger at blame, little wishes of all kinds—and a numberless... vital-mental, vital-physical and physical-vital. The mental-vital or the vital mind is the mind which is at the service of vital desires and vital emotions. It is a sort of mediator between vital emotion, desire, impulsion, etc. and the mental proper. It expresses the desire, feelings, emotions, passions, ambitions, possessive and active tendencies of the vital and throws them into mental forms. Finding... So long as we are content with what we ordinarily are and content with our round of movements in our complex mass of mental, nervous and physical habits held together by a few ruling ideas, desires and associations, we are not yet ready for the conscious adventure of Yoga. For no yoga can be successfully undertaken and followed unless there is a strong awakening to the necessity of a higher spiritual ...
... to marry again; to do so would be in any case to invite serious and probably insuperable difficulties in your following the path of yoga, and, as in this path of yoga it is necessary to put away sexual desire, marriage would be not only meaningless but an absolute contradiction of your spiritual life. You can expect full support and protection from us in your resolution and, if you keep a sincere will... that is in the heart and that is the spark of the Mother's own consciousness. Vital : the part from which proceed desires and hunger and dynamic activities, having its physical basis round about the navel. 6) My family consists of myself, wife, two sons and one girl. I desire to come here and stay permanently, but my wife does not approve of it. What should I do? Detachment. 7) I want... only when one stands back, separates oneself from the lower, refusing to regard its desires and clamours as one's own and cultivates an entire equality and equanimity in the consciousness with respect to them that the lower vital itself becomes gradually purified and itself also calm and equal. Each wave of desire as it comes must be observed, as quietly and with as much unmoved detachment as you would ...
... there. * * * 5.7.71 When the subject of sexual activity among the children here was mentioned to Mother and she was asked what the person in charge of the children's boarding house should do, she made the following remarks:- i)The atmosphere here has been spoiled and has gone down. It is full of vital desires. ii)It should be so arranged that the boy does not go... * * * Read Alain's letter. Hashi will not work at Matrimandir. She can work elsewhere. * * * One pair wrote to Mother that their child was conceived not out of sexual desire but as a service to Auroville to give an Auroville child. Mother said, "How people deceive themselves!" Page 163 14.4.72 Mother did not see anyone this morning. 15.4.72... French). Auroville has been created for a superhumanity, for those who want to surmount their ego and renounce all desire to prepare themselves for receiving the supermind. They alone are true Aurovilians. Those who want to obey their ego and satisfy all their desires belong to a sub-humanity and have no place here. They should return to the world which is their true place. —The Mother ...
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