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<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-vital-being-and-vital-consciousness#p10 </ref>
==Nature of the Lower Vital==
===Ignorance and Arrogance===
===Not Logical===
The lower vital is very slow in listening to reason—at least when reason is on the side of Truth; although it is very pleased to listen to the mind when the mind justifies the lower vital's wrong movements. In fact the lower vital moves on its own lines, not according to Truth or reason. It is only the insistence of a stronger Light that can enlighten it by changing it in its own substance of consciousness.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-lower-vital-being#p16</ref>
===Disobedience and Indiscipline===
A dangerous habit of constant self-justification. His [sadhaka’s] mind rushes at once to maintain his own idea, his own position or his own course of action. This he is ready to do by any kind of argument, sometimes the most clumsy and foolish or inconsistent with what he has been protesting the moment before, by any kind of misstatement or any kind of device.
There is behind all the vital nature in man his true vital being concealed and immobile which is quite different from the surface vital nature. The surface vital is narrow, ignorant, limited, full of obscure desires, passions, cravings, revolts, pleasures and pains, transient joys and griefs, exultations and depressions. The true vital being on the contrary is wide, vast, calm, strong, without limitations, firm and immovable, capable of all power, all knowledge, all Ananda. It is moreover without ego, for it knows itself to be a projection and instrument of the Divine; it is the divine Warrior, pure and perfect; in it is an instrumental Force for all divine realisations. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-vital-being-and-vital-consciousness#p3</ref>