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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">What happens usually is that something touches the vital, often without one's knowing it, and brings up the old ordinary or external consciousness in such a way that the inner mind gets covered up and all the old thoughts and feelings return for a time. It is the physical mind that becomes active and gives its assent. If the whole mind remains quiet and detached observing the vital movement, but not giving its assent, then to reject it becomes more easy. This established quietude and detachment of the mind marks always a great </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">step forward made in the sadhana.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-vital-and-other-levels-of-being#p45</ref></u></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">After each crisis there is something gained, if there has been a victory and rejection. The gain is to externalise the vital disturbance, so that even if it returns it will be felt so much an outside force that the observing consciousness (mental, higher vital) cannot be disturbed. If you keep that, it will be an immense advance.</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/wrong-movements-of-the-vital#p68</ref>