... But usually it dominates by influence not by descent. Of course the effort of this part of the vital world is always to maintain humanity under its sway and prevent the higher Light. The vital descent cannot prevent the supramental—still less can the possessed nations do it by their material power, since the supramental descent is primarily a spiritual fact which will bear its necessary outward ...

Sri Aurobindo > Books > CWSA > Letters on Yoga - I

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother > Comments on Specific Prières

... nations are endowed with all the possible material power, making it difficult for any movement of peace to be successful. Except for their egoistic plans, nothing will be allowed to succeed. The vital descent cannot prevent the supramental—still less can the possessed nations do it by their material power, since the supramental descent is primarily a spiritual fact which will bear its necessary outward ...

Sri Aurobindo > Books > CWSA > The Mother with Letters on the Mother

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Sri Aurobindo And The Mother > Index

... University centre, 2, 110 Upanishad, 11 Uttarpara speech, 11 Veda, 14-5, 30, 41, 136 Page 286 Vision, premonitory, 30 Vital, 75, 82, 254-6 Vital, descent into, 82 Vital-physical, 254-5 Vivekananda, 13, 28 Worker, divine, 232 Work is done,194, 199 World War I, 63, 170 World War II, 91-2 Yoga ...

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Guidance from Sri Aurobindo - Volume 2 > MIND

... by the upsurging of the vital. For. though we are mental beings, we live largely in the vital. Very few live purely and constantly in the mental consciousness. As we are more in the vital, the descent of peace straight into it is indispensable in order to calm completely our whole mental stuff. But this peace must descend into the inner vital. The inner vital can open to spiritual things... of the physical mind and vital is the best way. The mind does not remain now in my control or think properly. It feels pressed down tinder the Force from above. The best way to meet that is for the mind to be silent and only aspire for the true open and plastic condition. I have not much knowledge of experience or descent; so I am unable to get the... time. Perhaps if is because it has not the vital's assistance. It is the mind's business to be on guard, not the vital's. If you mean that the vital is interested in other things and the mind follows, that may be so. But the business of the mind is to recall the vital, not to follow it. The mind observes and directs the vital, doesn't it? Page 219 ...