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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Tamas brings into our emotional nature insensibility, indifference, want of sympathy and openness, the shut soul, the callous heart, the soon spent affection and languor of the feelings, into our aesthetic and sensational nature the dull aesthesis, the limited range of response, the insensibility to beauty, all that makes in man the coarse, heavy and vulgar </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">spirit.</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-liberation-of-the-nature#p5</ref>

<div span style="background-color: transparent; color:#000000;">The only thing in the world which still seems intolerable to me now, It is all the physical deteriorationcentre—sex is only one of its movements. Naturally, if the physical suffering, sex is active (instead of giving place to Beauty and Ananda) and if the uglinesslower movements are active, the inability it forms an obstacle to express that capacity for beauty which is in every being. But that too will be conquered one day. There too the power will come one day to shift establishment of the needle a little. Only, we must rise higher in consciousness: . But the deeper one wants to go down into matterhigher can descend, if there is at all an opening, even before the higher is it necessary lower movements have definitely gone—it has then to rise in consciousnesscomplete the work of displacing them. That will take time<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sex#p102</ref></divspan>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The MotherIf it [the vital] admires all beautiful things, 19 February 1958)</span>not women only, without desire—then there would be no harm [in admiring women]. But specially applied to women, it is a relic of the "sex-appeal". <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0931/19-february-1958sex#p39p143</ref></span>

 <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is the physical centre—sex is only one of its movements. Naturally, if the sex is active (instead of giving place to Beauty and Ananda) and if the lower movements are active, it forms an obstacle to the establishment of the higher consciousness. But the higher can descend, if there is at all an opening, even before the lower movements have definitely gone—it has then to complete the work of displacing them.</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sex#p102</ref>  <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">If it [the vital] admires all beautiful things, not women only, without desire—then there would be no harm [in admiring women]. But specially applied to women, it is a relic of the "sex-appeal".</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sex#p143</ref>  <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The desires of the heart and the body which stand in the way of Brahmacharya give a glow to the vital and emotive nature and prevent it from being dry and shut to feeling. To keep the heart warm and open, not dried up or closed, and at the same time attain to spiritual purity the best way is to turn it towards that which is eternal, pure and ever true, behind and beyond these earthly emotions—the ever-living Love, Bliss and Beauty.</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sex#p97</ref></span>