... mean by the ordinary vital love—that I want something purer and nobler and higher in the vital also for the movement towards the Divine. The outer being has to learn to love in the psychic way without ego. If it loves in the egoistic vital way, then it only creates difficulties for itself and for the sadhana and for the Mother. Yes, that is the nature of vital love. It is based on desire... of light and ananda. Psychic Love When there is no demand or desire, only love and self-giving, that is the psychic love. Psychic love is quite satisfying, and it can change even the vital love into something great and beautiful. Why do you want something remarkable? The love of the soul is the true thing, simple and absolute—the rest is good only if it is a means of manifestation... approach is not right because tainted by indifference and inertia, or revolt or hostility, or some gross desire, that they are out of place and can have a contrary effect. But there is another way of vital love which is more usually the way of human nature and that is a way of ego and desire. It is full of vital craving, desire and demand; its continuance depends upon the satisfaction of its demands; if ...
... etc. etc. 2 This is often called love, but it is only vital desire, a kind of lust. If however the emotions of the heart are awakened, then it becomes vital love, a mixed affair with any or all of these vital motives strong, but still vital love. There may too be a physical love, the attraction of beauty, Page 492 the physical sex-appeal or anything else of the kind awakening the... sexual men together debarred from all possibility of feminine society—after a time Page 487 they will begin to satisfy themselves homosexually. Sex-sensation may begin anywhere. As vital love it begins in the vital centre, heart or navel—many romantic boys have this and it starts a love affair (often at the age of 10 or even 8) before they know anything about sex-connection. With others... prevent the existence of mental love? As the mind can be invaded by the feelings of the emotional or the vital, so the heart too can be dominated by the mind and moved by mental forces. There is a vital love, a physical love. It is possible for the vital to desire a woman for various vital reasons without love—in order to satisfy the instinct of domination or possession, in order to draw in the vital ...
... -it must be the psychic kind. People say that an average human being starts first with vital love, joy, etc. and afterwards it changes into pure psychic love, joy, etc. For if he does not begin this way, how will he proceed? He doesn't usually. He begins and ends with the vital love except when the vital changes into vital dislike, hatred, revolt, repugnance, contempt or indifference... within from the psychic being. What comes from above is the 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... heart centre and get a psychic opening! In using the expression "opening of the psychic" I was thinking not of an ordinary psychic opening producing some amount of psychic (as opposed to vital) love and bhakti, but of what is called the coming in front of the psychic. When that happens one is aware of the psychic being with its simple spontaneous self-giving and feels its increasing direct control ...
... helpful in another way and especially in certain difficult stages before the inner contact with the Mother is consciously established. Vital Love It is not helpful to make so much of the past and give it such a primary value. Whatever may be the glamour of a vital love, once it falls away and one gets to a higher level, it should be seen to have been not the great thing one imagined. To keep the exaggerated... the old vital love. It was indeed "so little" in any true estimate of things. It is not at all a question of comparison or of exalting the vital passion of one at the expense of that of the other. It is the whole thing that must dwindle in its proportions and recede into the shadowy constructions of the past which have no longer any importance. It is the ordinary nature of vital love not to last... The love in the vital or other parts is the true thing, good for the spiritual life, only when in the vital love is changed into a form of the psychic love and becomes an instrument for the transformation of the soul's love, no longer for the desires of the ego which men call love. Vital Love and Psychic Love Ordinary human love is vital, emotional and physical and always egoistic—a form of ...
... spite of ego and all kinds of defects and people may feel it. P.S. No time yet to read the admirer's letter, so shall send it back tomorrow. July 5, 1936 It is the nature of vital love not to last or, if it tries to last, not to satisfy, because it is a passion which Nature has thrown in in order to serve temporary purposes—it is good enough therefore for a temporary purpose... unfitness; but apart from that there are many who have gone on persisting for long periods and finally prevailed. It is a common, not an uncommon experience. I answer about the psychic and vital love tomorrow. July 7,1936 It is certainly easier to have friendship between man and man or between woman and woman than between man and woman, because there the sexual intrusion ...
... aspiration. 28 November 1933 Why does one feel so happy after seeing the Mother? The whole day is filled only with her. Is it because the nature of vital love is to feel happy and satisfied when it gets something? There is no harm in the vital love provided it is purified from all insincerity (e.g. the self-importance etc.) and from all demand. To feel joy in seeing the Mother is all right, but... This is not, then, a self-existent love—for when the physical love is absent, a few go so far as to revolt, to weep or to fast. It is self-love that makes them do it. It is just the same kind of vital love that people have outside (loving someone for one's own sake, not for the sake of the beloved). What is the use of that in sadhana here? It can only be an obstacle. 15 October 1935 It is not... give up desires and demands if that will put me on the side of love and devotion. Page 474 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. 8 September 1936 If you have no abhiman against the Mother ...
... significance. For in English "What men call love" is strongly depreciatory, and can only mean something inferior, something that is poor and not rich, not truly love. Shelley says in substance, "Human vital love is a poor inferior thing, a counterfeit of true love, which I cannot offer to you. But there is a greater thing, a true psychic love, all worship and devotion, which men do not readily value, being... place and can have a contrary effect—as the Mother has always warned people and has assigned it as the reason why she does not like lightly to open them to everyone. But there is another way of vital love which is more usually the way of human nature and that is a way of ego and desire. It is full of vital craving, desire and demand; its continuance depends upon the satisfaction of its demands; if... nir ā nanda. In stressing on the psychic basis, in wishing you to conquer this other movement, I am only pointing you to the true way of your own nature— of which the psychic bhakti, the true vital love are the real moving forces, and the other is only a superficial immixture. I had hoped to write shortly, but I have not been able to do so. Therefore, for the moment since I have promised you ...
... like that. I must ask for time. Why do you always insist on cherishing the idea that I refuse all human love? I have surely written to you to the contrary. I don't reject it, neither human nor vital love. But I want that behind the vital there shall be the constant support of the psychic human love (not all at once the divine), because that alone can prevent the movements which make you rest- less... purify' and ennoble itself in the light or the true psychic feeling. The results of self-loving love between human beings are so poor and contrary in the end (that is what I mean by the ordinary vital love] that I want something purer and nobler and higher in the vital also for the movement towards the Divine. I am keeping Krishnaprem still as I want to write something on it, not for circulation ...
... physical expression of the Mother's love for them, they can't love her and some go so far as to revolt, weep or fast. It is self-love that makes them do it. It is just the same kind of vital love that people have outside (loving someone for one's own sake, not for the sake of the beloved). What is the use of that in sadhana here? It can only be an obstacle. Often the human... soul's love. But what then about the love in the vital itself? The love in the vital or other parts is the true thing, good for the spiritual life, only when in the vital love is changed into a form of the psychic love and becomes an instrument Page 204 for the manifestation of the soul's love, no longer for the desires of the ego which men call love ...
... Why does all my being become so happy, so joyous whenever I happen to see or meet you? And why, after coming back from you, is the whole day filled with you alone? Is this vital love? SRI AUROBINDO: There is no harm in vital love provided it is purified from all insincerity (as for example self-importance etc.) and from all demand. To feel joy on seeing the Mother is all right, but to demand it as ...
... altogether. 92 Sri Aurobindo * In using the expression "opening of the psychic" I was thinking not of an ordinary psychic opening producing some amount of psychic (as opposed to vital) love and bhakti, but of what is called the coming in front of the psychic. When that happens one is aware of the psychic being with its simple spontaneous self-giving and feels its increasing direct control ...
... become supramental; but for any full manifestation on the physical plane the supramental is indispensable. In this later Vaishnava tradition the sadhana takes the form of an application of human vital love in all its principal turns to the Divine; viraha, abhimāna , even complete separation (like the Page 478 departure of Krishna to Mathura) are made prominent elements of this Yoga. But ...
... and that is growing in you towards the Mother, pervading your being. A psychic love towards all is also emerging; this love is a thing inward and does not seek to express itself outwardly like the vital love which men usually have. The psychic and spiritual attitude is also not dependent on the good and bad in beings, but is self-existent regarding them as souls who carry the Divine in them however thickly ...
... and nobility and felicity of rhythm all fused together into a perfect whole. And I think Page 346 I have succeeded in expressing the truth of the godhead of Kama, the godhead of vital love (I am not using 'vital' in the strict Yogic sense; I mean the love that draws lives passionately together or throws them into or upon each other) with a certain completeness of poetic sight and ...
... significance. For in English 'What men call love' is strongly depreciatory and can only mean something inferior, something that is poor and not rich, not truly love. Shelley says in substance: "Human vital love is a poor inferior thing, a counterfeit of true love, which I cannot offer you. But there is a greater thing, a true psychic love, all worship and devotion, which men do not readily value, being ...
... opening of the heart are psychic and unmixed. Not necessarily; even if they come from the psychic, they may get mixed with other less elevated movements when they manifest in the mind or the vital. Love and peace can also come from above, directly from divine regions. 19 March 1935 Is there any difference between the psychic voice and the voice of the Divine? One can hardly say that ...
... "Love to all in you that loves and to all in you that does not know that it loves." 10 Divine Love in its infinite purity and power cannot be mentioned in the same breath as mental and vital love. Caring nothing for their appointment diaries, it chooses to invade some mortals at the most unexpected of moments. Generally speaking, scientists and doctors know nothing of it, since they cannot ...
... insisted and did not allow it to have the rasa of the outside life and besides promised it something that would be the divine equivalent or compensation of these vital pleasures; a spiritual vital love, ananda, enjoyment of the Divine. This part has now less attraction for the old things or none, but it wants badly the thing promised and has no taste for tapasya and the long effort of sadhana ...
... pleasure only the great masters or music like theirs; it is not deterioration when one rises from a lower to a higher plane of thinking, feeling or artistic self-expression. I used to write poems on vital love. I could not do it now (for if I wrote of love, it would be the psychic and spiritual feeling)—not because I have narrowed or deteriorated, but I have centred myself in a higher consciousness ...
... Sri Aurobindo: The line strikes at once the romantically sentimental note of more than a hundred years ago which is dead and laughed out of court nowadays. Especially in writing anything about vital love, avoid like the plague anything that descends into the sentimental or, worse, the namby-pamby.... Romantic poetry could be genuine in the early nineteenth century, but the attempt to walk back into ...
... Nagin's vegetable garden. Should I try at least? Yes, you can try. July 28, 1933 [About a personal problem] There is nothing unusual in your feelings towards X. It is the way that vital love usually takes when there is no strong psychic force to correct and uphold it. After the first vital glow is over, the incompatibility of the two egos begins to show itself and there is more and more ...
... only when you know the True Thing... you say "No, I do not want that." 15 With "love" too it was the same thing, for if one had touched true love through the psychic and the divine union, the vital love would seem "hollow, thin, empty - an appearance and a comedy, more often tragic than comic". On the other occasion, on 25 December, the Mother said that possessive love was as reprehensible as hatred; ...
... of about the same time (1 August 1931), Sri Aurobindo contrasted the so-called 'love' of everyday existence with the true integral love for the Mother, for the. Divine. Physical love and vital love are all flawed at the source and in their movements, being made up of egoistic desire, and the building-up of tension, and the aftermath of satiety. On the other hand, with its source in the ...
... the psychic influence." 5 5. Ibid . Page 348 The starting point of Shelley's poem is human love but the love is interiorised and sublimated. The last traces of vital love are wiped away and what was desire becomes a worship and a yearning of the heart for the unattainable beauty. In the human love the heart tries to enclose in itself all that it desires, but the psychic ...
... dear Mother, H has had one of her usual disturbances. She wants me to tell You on her behalf: "I have given up hope, I have nothing in my fate except destruction." Yes, unhappily there is a vital love in her for you—it is that that has disturbed her balance, aroused in her this violent jealousy and brought upon her, as a consequence, all these fits of depression. But now no drastic or cutting ...
... any full manifestation on the physical plane the supramental is indispensable. In the later Vaishnava tradition the sadhana takes the form Page 152 of an application of human vital love in all its principal turns to the Divine; viraha [separation], abhim ā na [hurt love], even complete separation (like the departure of Krishna to Mathura) are made prominent elements of this ...
... that. I must ask for time. Why do you always insist on cherishing the idea that I refuse all human love? I have surely written to you to the contrary. I don’t reject it, neither human nor vital love. But I want that behind the vital there shall be the constant support of the psychic human love if (not all at once the divine), because that alone can prevent the movements which make you ...
... passion and truth of feeling and nobility and felicity of rhythm all fused together into a perfect whole. And I think I have succeeded in expressing the truth of the godhead of Kama, the godhead of vital love (I am not using 'vital' in the strict Yogic sense; I mean the love that draws lives passionately together or throws them into or upon each other) with a certain completeness of poetic sight and ...
... passion and truth of feeling and nobility and felicity of rhythm all fused together into a perfect whole. And I think I have succeeded in expressing the truth of the godhead of Kama, the godhead of vital love (I am not using "vital" in the strict Yogic sense; I mean, the love that draws lives passionately together or throws them into or upon each other) with a certain completeness of poetic sight and ...
... surge into its movement—so much so that if it had been a spiritual experience of which the poet was speaking, we could at once have detected an action of the illumined spiritual Mind taking up the vital love and soaring into spiritual greatness. Or take the quotation— Page 391 the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come. Here both style ...
... ted ... strangely lone", strike at once the romantically sentimental note of more than a hundred years ago which is dead and laughed out of court nowadays. Especially in writing anything about vital love, avoid like the plague anything that descends into the sentimental or, worse, the namby-pamby. 30 May 1932 "Young heart", "thrilled companionship", "warm hour ... lip to lip", "passionate unease" ...
... e. For in the English "what men call love" is strongly depreciatory, and can only mean something inferior, something that is poor and not rich, not truly love. Shelley says, in substance, "Human vital love is a poor inferior thing, a counterfeit of true love, which I cannot offer to you . But there is a greater thing, a true psychic love, all worship and devotion, which men do not readily value ...
... 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 may not be conscious that it is being ...
... experience. "Opening" and "Coming in Front" In using the expression "opening of the psychic" I was thinking not of an ordinary psychic opening producing some amount of psychic (as opposed to vital) love and bhakti, but of what is called the coming in front of the psychic. When that happens one is aware of the psychic being with its simple spontaneous self-giving and feels its increasing direct control ...
... as the result of the soul's inmost relation to all souls who are children of the Mother. There is no harm in this psychic feeling, on the contrary it creates happiness and harmony—it is only the vital love between persons that has to be rejected because it draws away from full consecration to the Divine. But this helps the growth of the soul into the Mother's consciousness and helps the work and helps ...
... around oneself which nothing can penetrate except the things which one wills to accept. But the reference in the passage cannot be to these, but to the interchange due to vital attachments, passions, vital love or hate etc. Friendships can be vital relations if there is strong attachment or desire but the friendship which is the nature of comradeship or mental affinity or of a psychic character need ...
... like that. I must ask for time. Why do you always insist on cherishing the idea that I refuse all human love? I have surely written to you to the contrary. I don't reject it, neither human nor vital love. But I want that Page 441 behind the vital there shall be the constant support of the psychic human love (not all at once the divine), because that alone can prevent the movements which ...
... human feelings. This can hardly be called a loss; I consider it an inestimable gain. A love which is sufficiently strong can make a person the slave of the beloved. You speak here of vital love, but certainly not of psychic love and still less of the Divine Love. The person I love belongs to me. This is a very ugly love, quite egoistic. The Ashram is not a place for being ...
... deceptive. And you can know this, feel it, perceive it clearly Page 301 only when you know the True Thing; if you have touched true love through the psychic and through divine union, then it [vital love] appears hollow, thin, empty: an appearance and a drama—more often a tragedy than a comedy. All that you can say about it, all that you can explain about it is perfectly useless, because the one ...
... even partial realisation. SRI AUROBINDO: Not for a Yogi. NIRODBARAN: No, I mean in ordinary human life how can it be a preparation and aspiration? SRI AUROBINDO: I meant true love, not vital love with desire and possessiveness, or physical love. That of course can't be—though Blake says the physical act of love is part of divine love or its fulfilment. If it is true love with a psychic or ...
... somewhat extraordinary. 1.It is the same love which is addressed to a 'carnal prize' and towards the Divine. I should imagine that one who approached the Divine with a 'carnal' or untransformed vital love would embrace something of the vital world but certainly get nowhere near the Divine. 2.The Divine in itself is something cold and empty and dark — only human love gives it some warmth and ...
... ashes. You have simply Page 129 to shake off the outer coating to allow the inner reality to shine forth in its own nature. Love in the mind, love in the heart, love in the vital, love in the physical, love human and animal are not negations of the Divine love, it is not that you have to reject, cut off these so-called inferior formulations of love, these do not necessarily deny ...
... living fire is there below the ashes. You have simply to shake off the outer coating to allow the inner reality to shine forth in its own nature. Love in the mind, love in the heart, love in the vital, love in the physical, love human and animal are not negations of the Divine love, it is not that you have to reject, cut off these so-called inferior formulations of love, these do not necessarily deny ...
... passion and truth of feeling and nobility and felicity of rhythm all fused together into a perfect whole. And I think I have succeeded in expressing the truth of the godhead of Kama, the godhead of vital love (... I mean the love that draws lives passionately together or throws them into or upon each other) with a certain completeness of poetic sight and perfection of poetic power.. 29 Although ...
... 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 may not be conscious that it is being ...
... of a vital human love to the Mother and the ordinary vital human love is full of contrary movements of distrust, misunderstanding, jealousy, anger, despair. But in Yoga this is most undesirable—for here trust in the Mother, faith in her divine Love is of great importance; anything that denies or disturbs it opens the door to obstacles and wrong reactions. It is not that there should be no love in the... been given a smaller lotus than others. If nothing else is found, then one remembers that in 1932 Mother did not treat me well. It must be the wolf in the lower vital at work. Yes, it is the insatiable demand of the vital and when the vital is up reason gets no chance. It was the experience of this insatiable demand that made the Mother draw back and retire from the free outward self-giving she had... the vital, but it must purify itself of these reactions and fix itself on the psychic being's trust and confident self-giving. Then there can be the full progress. 30 June 1935 Page 548 Our ideas about the Mother's hand or smile at Pranam are not constant. If Mother puts the hand all right, then one finds her smile less. If both the hand and smile are all right, one finds he has been ...
... becomes hunger and conscious desire in the vital being. Love is the transfiguration of desire, a desire of possessing others but also of self-giving; at first subject to hunger and the desire of possession it reveals its own true law by an equal or greater joy in self-giving.—The inert subjection of the will in the atom to the not-self becomes in the vital being the sense of limited capacity and the... emergence of the conscious principle of love.—The third status contradicts the others in appearance, but really fulfils them. Life begins with division and aggregation based on the refusal of the atom, the first principle of ego and individuality to accept death and fusion by dissolution. This gives a firm basis for the creation of aggregate forms to be occupied by vital and mental individualities. In the... consciousness beyond all fusion and dissolution of forms. Here the union and harmony of the persistent individual and the persistent aggregate life become possible.—Love is the power by which this union and harmony are worked out; for love exists by the persistence of the individual and his conscious acceptance of the necessity and desire of interchange and self-giving. Its growth means the emergence ...
... Mother Their Attitude towards the Sadhaks You need not think that anything can alter our attitude towards you. That which is extended to you is not a vital human love which can be altered by external things: it remains and persistently we shall try to help and lift you up and lead you towards the Light where in the union of soul and heart you will recognise... me; but do you not realise that nothing can be worse trouble to us than your going away? The moods of revolt that come upon you are clouds that pass; but to see you leave us in this way and feel our love rejected and your place near us empty would be indeed a real trouble to us and we would feel it more deeply than anything else you could do. You know that it is not true that your sole desire is... that there is nothing else to do but go away. I assure you that that is no solution and that we would much rather have you with us even with these moods than be separated from you; compared with our love for you, the trouble they give us is mere dust in the balance. Read this letter, talk with the Mother and act according to your true self; never mind the rest. 7 March 1930 I hope you have ...
... than external suggestions till that too ends—and they are finished and nonexistent. You need not think that anything can alter our attitude towards you. That which is extended to you is not a vital human love which can be altered by external things: it remains and persistently we shall try to help and lift you up and lead you towards the Light where in the union of soul and heart you will recognise... The rule of these things is that they have to be extruded outside the Page 388 individual consciousness. Rejected by the mind and higher vital, they still try to hold on to the lower vital and physical. Rejected from the lower vital, they still hold the body by a physical desire. Rejected from the body, they retire into the environmental consciousness (sometimes into the subconsient... helps to bring out what is in the inner being and to clarify the rest. As for the "meannesses," they are the very substance of these movements of the nature—I refer to that range of the "little vital" which is occupied with philandering on one side and the animal passion on the other (these are the two borders of one and the same region); it is a part of the nature in which ... [incomplete] ...
... spiritual urge. I cannot, therefore, undervalue the idealistic help true love can give to the soul. However, there is one element of love which is the most tremendous obstacle to Yoga: vital attachment. To say that true love is devoid of vital attachment is to talk of abstractions: in actual practice there is no true love without the entangling of the entrails. The beloved's fascination holds... ascribed to any merit in human love -it is a stroke of fate manipulated secretly by the Divine. Love's merit lies only in making delightfully devastating inroads on the ego's hard self-sufficiency - it makes the being leap out of itself; but in escaping one prison it gets trapped in another: the being of the beloved. And really I don't know which is the more formidable. Vital attachment is not blind ... brief snatches a garden of wonders. Suffering and misfortune only increase at times the sharp sense of love's preciousness and poetry and the transfiguring light it casts on the earth. Yet, beheld from a Yogic standpoint, there is behind all that inspiration the black magic of vital attachment; love's spell prefigures spiritual light but can block its authentic arrival. Nothing except the combined ...
... Divine Love. Then he quotes Underhill to say "... it [human love] most certainly does offer upon lower levels a strangely exact parallel to the sequence of states in which man's spiritual consciousness unfolds itself and which form the consummation of mystic life." I don't agree—unless it is a sadhana of the vital plane which then naturally expresses the vital being = love-excitement, love-quarrels... life, only in love is there a taste of the mystical, a taste of ecstasy..." Leave out the "only"—and to a certain extent one can agree—but "love"—not "sex". The interpreter continues: "Nothing else brings us so near to the limit of human possibilities beyond which begins the unknown. And in this lies, without doubt, the chief cause of the terrible power of sex over human life... Love, 'sex', these... these are but a foretaste of mystical sensations." Love and sex are the same, then? There can be no love without sex? This is piffle. He says further: "Mystical sensations are sensations of the same category as sensations of 'Love', only infinitely higher and more complex." There is much else besides in mystical experience—there are not only sensations. He asks: "If that is so, why then ...
... cause; for the cause is always in oneself, perhaps a vital defect somewhere, a wrong movement indulged or a petty desire causing a recoil, sometimes by its satisfaction, sometimes by its disappointment. "If the Mother and I want you to progress and to accept the divine love we give you, it is for your own sake and precisely because in that love there is constant peace and joy and adoration and causeless... excitement of the vital mind or the nerves or the cells which is limited, imperfect and soon passes; with the supramental change all the cells, nerves, vital forces, embodied mental forces can become filled with a thousand-fold ananda, capable of an intensity of bliss which passes description and which need not fade away. How aloof, repellent and undesirable! The Supramental love means an intense... Dilip was Dilip, Gurudev also was Gurudev: so he wrote back to me as tenderly as ever: "You need not think that anything can alter our attitude towards you. That which is extended to you is not a vital human love which can be altered by external things: it remains and persistently we shall try to help you and lift you up and lead you towards the Light." But I stayed unconvinced and wrote back again ...
... from the universal Inconscience. It is not attracted or misled by mental imitations or any vital misuse of these great deep-seated Truths of existence; it exposes them with its detecting search-ray and calls down the entire truth of divine Love to heal these malformations, to deliver mental, vital, physical love from their insufficiencies or their perversions and reveal to them their true abounding share... figure. It insists on Truth, on will and strength and mastery, on Joy and Love and Beauty, but on a Truth of abiding Knowledge that surpasses the mere practical momentary truth of the Ignorance, on an inward joy and not on mere vital pleasure, — for it prefers rather a purifying suffering and sorrow to degrading satisfactions, — on love winged upward and not tied to the stake of egoistic craving or with... essence of all our mental, vital and bodily experience and assimilates it for the farther evolution of our existence in Nature; but this action is occult and not obtruded on the surface. In the early material and vital stages of the evolution of being there is indeed no consciousness of soul; there are psychic activities, but the instrumentation, the form of these activities are vital and physical, — or mental ...
... from the universal Inconscience. It is not attracted or misled by mental imitations or any vital misuse of these great deep-seated Truths of existence; it exposes them with its detecting search-ray and calls down the entire truth of divine Love to heal these malformations, to deliver mental, vital, physical love from their insufficiencies or Page 156 their perversions and reveal to them their... life of the saint or devotee, alone within with the Divine or linked only to others in a common God-love or at the most pouring out the fountains of a sacred, religious or pietistic love on the world outside. But religious emotion itself is too constantly invaded by the turmoil and obscurity of the vital movements and it is often either crude or narrow or fanatical or mixed with movements that are not... vehemence of the vital nature. This soul is obliged to accept the human mental, emotive, sensational life as it is, its relations, its activities, its cherished forms and figures; it has to labour to disengage and increase the divine element in all this relative truth mixed with a continual falsifying error, this love turned to the uses of the animal body or the satisfaction of the vital ego, this life ...
... Is there no real love in the human world?... Where is the crux of the trouble? In the self-delusion of the vital. Human love is mainly vital, when it is not vital and physical together. It is also sometimes psychic + vital. But the Love with a dominant psychic element is rare. I am in agony; a great upheaval is going on. Oh, how I wish for something real! real love! Can you not give me... a little; harmless platonic love. Agreed? I have no objection to alubhaja, but to the devil with your platonic love! Last night I dreamt that you were most affectionately patting me for a long time; but before that, somebody asked me to promise that I would never indulge in any lower vital movements. And I promised. What's this? Quite natural. If your vital makes that promise, the pat... But he has the great advantage of having a magnificent vital. You have a sturdy but very sluggish one. X has on the one hand your love, affection, letters, etc., on the other his sufferings, paroxysms of despair, depression, etc. His paroxysms of despair were not caused originally by the Yoga but by disappointments of the vital,—this one's behaviour, that one's refusal to be under his ...
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