... experiences of the power and play of a conscious Life, it is dominated by the desire, activity and passion of the rajasic principle proper to vital existence. In the individual this spirit becomes a vital soul, prāṇamaya puruṣa , in whose nature the life-energies tyrannise over the mental and physical principles. The physical element in a vital world readily shapes its activities and formations in response... incident in inanimate Matter. The mental element too is moulded and limited by the life-power, obeys it and helps only to enrich and fulfil the urge of its desires and the energy of its impulses. This vital soul lives in a vital body composed of a substance much subtler than physical matter; it is a substance surcharged with conscious energy, capable of much more powerful perceptions, capacities, sense-... can offer. Man too has in himself behind his physical being, subliminal to it, unseen and unknown, but very close to it and forming with it the most naturally active part of his existence, this vital soul, this vital nature and this vital body; a whole vital plane connected with the life-world or desire-world is hidden in us, a secret consciousness in which life and desire find their untrammelled ...
... should have overcome the petty limitations of the ego, and this does not happen overnight. But it can happen. Another question? Sweet Mother, what is the "vital desire-soul"? My child, the vital soul is what animates the body, the life which animates the body. You see, in ordinary language it is said, "You die when your soul leaves your body" or "Your soul leaves your body when you die", in one... dies or death cuts off the Page 355 vital being from the body... So it is in the sense of animating, that is, giving life. Is this the "vital desire-soul", Sweet Mother? Yes, the vital soul is full of desires. The vital being is full of desires. It is built of desires. Sweet Mother, here it is written: "A spiritual atmosphere is more important than outer conditions; if one can get ...
... S: May I know, Mother, how many centuries ago You descended upon earth? M: I have never left the earth since it was formed. 42 S: What You mean by "vital soul" is the vital being, I think. . M: The vital soul is what the ancients called the "anima", that which animates, which gives life to the body. It is also sometimes called the etheric being. 43 S: Which path must I ...
... When the mind says this, it is referring to the vital soul, because that is what develops in life. Mother, I would like to know something about this flame of Agni. It is the flame of purification, the will for progress. 9 February 1935 Page 80 What You mean by "vital soul" is the vital being, I think. The vital soul is what the ancients called the "anima", that which ...
... ordinary life it is something very useful but when one decides to do yoga, to find the Divine, it becomes a little cumbersome. The Mother Questions and Answers (1956): 26 September 1956 … the vital soul is what animates the body, the life which animates the body. You see, in ordinary language it is said, “You die when your soul leaves your body” or “Your soul leaves your body when you die”, in one... whatever reason, the body dies or death cuts off the vital being from the body… So it is in the see of animating, that is, giving life. Is this the “vital desire-soul”, Sweet Mother? Yes, the vital soul is full of desires. The vital being is full of desires. It is built of desires. The Mother Questions and Answers (1954): 6 October 1954 One must refuse pleasure if one wants to open to ...
... objects and the beauty of the setting of the natural world around man's life, but not any inner communion between him and the universal Mother. A later tone brought in more of the subtleties of the vital soul of the natural world and a response of the moved sensation and emotion of the life-spirit in us and out of this arose an intellectual and aesthetic sense of hidden finer and subtler things and, more ...
... nubile and loverlike Lyca of the illustrations appears to be purposive. The same may be the case with the discrepancy noted in connection with our poem. Another point may be observed. Lyca is the vital Soul, but she is not depicted in the illustrations as anything save a young feminine human being. There is no pictorial suggestion of the Soul come from a world of light into the body that is darkness ...
... A nation or people then possesses or is composed of several souls or several layers of an oversoul. Even like the individual it has a physical soul, that is to say, a body consciousness, a vital soul, a mental soul and finally the true or inmost soul, the oversoul. When one lives in any of the inferior souls, one has precarious and disintegrated life – whether it is a nation or an individual ...
... to be found not only in its own domain, in its own home, the central psychic behind and within the heart; but it must be found also in each and every part of the being—the soul in the mind, the soul in the vital, the soul in the body—the immortal in the mortalities, as the rishis used to say. This then is the first necessity, one should awake in the central psychic being and then awaken... of the Soul, the delegated Emanation in Matter upon earth. To be immortal here upon earth one must find that which is immortal here below. To be immortal in the body one must find that which is immortal in the body, and the body must become it integrally and absolutely. It is the soul that is immortal upon earth and in the mortal being. For the life to be immortal here this soul has to... of the whole being, down to the material cells of the body itself must be filled with the soul's consciousness, a field suffused with the consciousness of the soul. Next there will come the question of changing the very substance of the constituents. That is the final and crucial discipline. For a pervading soul-consciousness may, by its pressure and influence, bring about the prolongation of life, ...
... found not only in its own domain, in its own home, the central psychic behind and within the heart; but it must be found also in each and every part of the being – the soul in the mind, the soul in the vital, the soul in the body – the immortal in the mortalities, as the rishis used to say. This then is the first necessity, one should awake in the central psychic being and then awaken the same psychic... Immanence, of the Soul, the delegated Emanation in Matter upon earth. To be immortal here upon earth one must find that which is immortal here below. To be immortal in the body one must find that which is immortal in the body, and the body must become it integrally and absolutely. It is the soul that is immortal upon earth and in the mortal being. For the life to be immortal here this soul has to be found... very first step, the indispensable primary condition, Every part and element of the whole being, down to the material cells of the body itself must be filled with the soul's consciousness, a field suffused with the consciousness of the soul. Next there wil1 come the question of changing the very substance of the constituents. That is the final and crucial discipline. For a pervading soul consciousness ...
... Yoga-Force on the vital for change to which there is a resistance. It is this descent of the sadhana to free the vital being that made you feel the necessity of concentrating in the region of the heart; for in the region of the heart is the psychic centre and below, behind the navel, is the vital centre. If these two can be awakened and occupied by the Yoga-Force, then the psychic or Soul-Power will command... movement. Many sadhaks are unable to advance because they open the vital plane before the mental and psychic are ready. After some beginning of true spiritual experiences on the mental plane there is a premature descent into the vital and great confusion and disturbance. This has to be guarded against. It is still worse if the vital desire-soul opens to experience before the mind has been touched by the things... divided between his spiritual experiences and his vital weaknesses to the end, making the most of his better part, making as little as may be of the outer being. But none of these methods will do for our purpose. If you want a true mastery and transformation of the vital movements, it can be done only on condition you allow your psychic being, the soul in you, to awake fully, to establish its rule and ...
... coming to the front is simply this. The psychic ordinarily is deep within. Very few people are aware of their souls—when they speak of their soul, they usually mean the vital + mental being or else the (false) soul of desire. The psychic remains behind and acts only through the mind, vital and physical wherever it can. For this reason the psychic being except where it is very much developed has only... the ordinary vital being has to disappear and be changed into the true vital. The soul in itself contains all possible strength, but most of it is held behind the veil and it is what comes forward in the nature that makes the difference. In some people the psychic element is strong and in others weak; in some people the mind is the strongest part and governs, in others the vital is the strongest... in the waking daily consciousness, its influence fills, dominates, transforms the mind and vital and their movements, even the physical. One is aware of one's soul, feels the psychic to be one's true being, the mind and the rest begin to be only instruments of the inmost within us. The inner mental, vital, physical are also veiled, but much nearer to the surface and much of their movements or i ...
... and it is the things behind which he felt it that he compares to the hymn of the skylark - the essence of ideal light and beauty behind things mental, the poet and his hymns, behind things vital, the soul of romantic love, behind things physical, the light of the glow-worm, the passionate intensity of the perfume of the rose. I cannot see an ordinary glow-worm in the lines of Shelley's stanza... which the vision appeared to be composed. Therefore, though it arose from the impression that is given, it could only be by some power in the soul that a character was Page 136 discovered in it. [Coleridge] attributed it to a faculty of the soul, which gives what it receives, and receives what it gives -and this act, a volitional act, of bringing to nature something which it was capable... behold of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allow' d To the poor, loveless, ever-anxious crowd: Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud, Enveloping the earth! And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and powerful voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element! Further ...
... because the vision of the "dreaming soul" is felt through the vital mind and heart before it finds expression; in the lines of Wordsworth the vision of the lone voyager through strange seas of thought has not that peculiar thrill but rather remains in an exaltation of light between the mind and some vastness above it. It is this constant vitality, this magnificent vital surge in Shakespeare's language... Sonnet CVII, beginning Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world, dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom. What I should like to know is whether the rhythm of the words I have picked out is a fusion of the overmental and the vital; or is only the substance from the overmind? There is something... 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 and language come ultimately from a higher above-mind level, but still ...
... ourselves; not mental faith alone, but faith reaching down to the most subconscious, the very cells of the body. While the unity and interdependence of the different elements in man (body, vital, mind, soul) and of man and Nature provide the basis of a universal harmony, this is often upset and Nature is 'ridden with calamities' and humanity has become a byword for disharmony. While a higher ... further cause for their existence. VII In Conversation VI, the Mother takes us to what is for us the uncharted world of the bodiless vital beings, and explains the dangers of our inadvertent or imprudent exposure to it. But sometimes such vital beings also inhabit human forms that have come to be known as vampires. Romen Palit writes that the Mother once warned him against someone who... insensitive to good causes and allergic to the intimations of the Spirit: In those who are slaves of vital beings, the desire for truth and light and spiritual achievement, even if it at all touches them, cannot balance the desire for money. 31 In our fight against the hostile forces of the vital world, - the creatures of falsehood, the agents of evil, the children of darkness, - the human body ...
... nothing more. When the gross physical body drops, the being passes into the subtle physical, and from there into the vital world. It exhausts its vital Karma in the vital world, and then passes on into the mental. When the mental formations are dissolved, like those of the vital, the soul goes to its own plane, called by Sri Aurobindo the psychic plane, for rest and assimilation of all its past experiences... assimilation complete, the soul or the psychic being emerges from its plane and assumes again, first, a mental sheath, that is to say, a mental body cornposed of those mental elements which it attracts towards itself by the characteristic force of its personality for the work of its next incarnation. Then it descends to the vital plane and, assuming an appropriate vital sheath, comes down through... central being, untouched by the mutations of our nature and unqualified by the varying forms assumed by our evolving soul here. It also projects a Purusha, a representative of itself on each plane of our consciousness—a manomaya puruṣa in the mind, a pr ā ṇamaya puruṣa in the vital, and an annamaya puruṣa in the physical—and exercises an ultimate coordinating control, subject to the Will of ...
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