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== Aesthetic Sense and The “Converted” Vital ==
<div style="color: #000000;">But this vital is a strange creature. It is a being of passion, enthusiasm and naturally of desire; but, for example, it is quite capable of getting enthusiastic over something beautiful, of admiring, sensing anything greater and nobler than itself. And if really anything very beautiful occurs in the being, if there is a movement having an exceptional value, well, it may get enthusiastic and it is capable of giving itself with complete devotion—with a generosity that is not found, for example, in the mental domain nor in the physical. It has that fullness in action that comes precisely from its capacity to get enthused and throw itself wholly without reserve into what it does. </div><div style="color: #000000;">(The Mother, 9 September 1953) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/9-september-1953#p19</ref></div>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc000000;"><u>A converted vital is an all-powerful instrument. And sometimes it gets converted by something exceptionally beautiful, morally or materially. When it witnesses, for example, a scene of total self-abnegation, of uncalculating self-giving one—of those things so exceedingly rare but splendidly beautiful—it can be carried away by it, it can be seized by an ambition to do the same thing. It begins by an ambition, it ends with a consecration… And this vital, if you place it in a bad environment, it will imitate the bad environment and do bad things with violence and to an extreme degree. If you place it in the presence of something wonderfully beautiful, generous, great, noble, divine, it can be carried away with that also, forget everything else and give itself wholly. (The Mother, 9 September 1953) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/9-september-1953#p19p20</ref></u></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">
A converted vital is an all-powerful instrument. And sometimes it gets converted by something exceptionally beautiful, morally or materially. When it witnesses, for example, a scene of total self-abnegation, of uncalculating self-giving one—of those things so exceedingly rare but splendidly beautiful—it can be carried away by it, it can be seized by an ambition to do the same thing. It begins by an ambition, it ends with a consecration… And this vital, if you place it in a bad environment, it will imitate the bad environment and do bad things with violence and to an extreme degree. If you place it in the presence of something wonderfully beautiful, generous, great, noble, divine, it can be carried away with that also, forget everything else and give itself wholly. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">(The Mother, 9 September 1953) </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/9-september-1953#p20</ref></u></span> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">When the adverse forces are dealt with in the right way, all that is ugly and false disappears to leave place only for what is true and beautiful.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/adverse-forces#p28</ref></u></span>
== 3.3 Aesthetic Sense in Education ==
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