Changes

Habits Compilation (view source)

Revision as of 13:48, 7 August 2019

397 bytes added , 13:48, 7 August 2019

...get the physical out of its habit of falling back into tamas or inertia, and that can be done by opening and accustoming it to the action of the Force. When the action of the Force becomes constant, then there will be no more tamas. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p98</ref>

The habits of the physical or the vital-physical nature are always the most difficult to change, because their action is automatic and not governed by the mental will and it is therefore difficult for the mental will to control or transform them. You have to persevere and form the habit of control. If you can succeed in controlling the speech often,—it needs a constant vigilance,—you will finally find that the control extends itself and can in the long run always intervene. This must be done so long as that movement is not fully opened to the Mother's Light and Force, for if that happens the thing can be done more quickly and sometimes with a great rapidity. There is also the intervention of the psychic—if the psychic being is sufficiently awake and active to intervene each time you are going to speak at random and say "No", then the change becomes more easy. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/speech-and-yoga#p36</ref>

…there is such idiocy in this body…at each moment there is the choice between the continuation of the old habit or progress towards consciousness. It's constantly like that. And through...sloppiness, there is a spontaneous tendency to choose deterioration rather than the effort of progress. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/october-21-1967#p15</ref>

<center>~</center> ...the Lord…doesn't conform to the ordinary habit! …the minute He just tries to take possession of one function or another, even partially (not totally), all the interrelationships, all the movements are changed instantly—panic. Panic at the particular spot...Wait patiently until that small number or large number of cells, that little spot of consciousness, has learned its lesson…It takes a little while, then they understand.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/04/january-9-1963#p12</ref> <center>~</center>

The physical consciousness is full of inertia—it wants not to move but to be moved by whatever forces and that is its habit. This inertia has to be cured by putting it into contact with the right forces from above…aspire for the higher wideness, purity and peace, so that that may occupy the physical and the true Force work instead of these invading ideas and impulses. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p20</ref>

The physical is the slave of certain forces which create a habit and drive it through the mechanical force of the habit. So long as the mind gives consent, you do not notice the slavery; but if the mind withdraws its consent, then you feel the servitude, you feel a force pushing you in spite of the mind's will. It is very obstinate and repeats itself till the habit—the inner habit revealing itself in the outward act—is broken. It is like a machine which once set in motion repeats the same movement. You need not be alarmed or distressed; a quiet persistent aspiration will bring you to the point where the habit breaks and you are free. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p79</ref>

Insist always on the quietude, the peace, the consciousness of the force. Persistently reject the restlessness; it comes always because the physical has the habit of receiving it, accepting it as its own real nature. Always deny it, always reject the unrest; gradually if not immediately, the physical will follow your will and change its habit and its notions.

<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p61</ref>

It [getting out of the physical rut] can only be done by being very quiet and opening oneself continually to the force. The physical needs a very quiet, persistent and patient action, because it is a thing of inertia and habits. The vehemence of force and struggle which suits the vital, does not act so successfully here. It is a steady opening to the Force, a quiet but unwavering insistence on Faith and the Truth that is to be that is in the end effective. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p66</ref>

The physical changes slowly always—its nature is habit—so it is only by constant descents [of calmness, purity, light and strength] that gradually its substance gets changed and it becomes accustomed to the higher condition. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p69</ref>

The habit in the physical is obstinate and seems unchangeable because it always recurs—even when one thinks it is gone. But it is not really unchangeable; if the physical mind detaches itself, stands separate, refuses to accept it, then the habit in the physical begins to lose its force of repetition. Sometimes it goes slowly, sometimes (but this is less frequent) it stops suddenly and recurs no more. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p71</ref>

<center>~</center> In ordinary men reason is the summit of human consciousness, and this is the part of the being which must govern the rest, for it is orderly and reasonable, that is, it does things with a feeling for order, for goodness, usefulness, and in accordance with a plan, a specific plan, recognised and used by each one, whereas the vital part of the being likes excitement, the unexpected, adventure—all that makes games attractive—above all, competition, the effort to win, victory over the opponent, all these things; it is the vital impulse, and the vital in man being the seat of enthusiasm, ardour, normal energy, when the attraction of the unexpected, of struggle and victory is not there, it goes to sleep, unless it is in the habit of obeying, regularly and spontaneously, the will of the reason. And this is even one of the first things for which all physical training is useful: the fact that it cannot be done really well unless the body is in the habit of obeying the reason rather than the vital impulse…—one must order one's life according to a very strict and very regular discipline—well, in order to do them really well one must be in the habit of governing one's life by the reason. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/8-may-1957#p2</ref> <center>~</center>

To change one's body one must be ready to do millions of times the same thing, because the body is a creature of habits and functions by routine, and because to destroy a routine one must persevere for years. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/30-march-1955#p24</ref>

<center>~</center> …in his physical consciousness the human being is always weak and unable to get rid of or resist its habitual movements. There are three things that help him to do so (apart from his mental will which is not always strong enough to do it). There is first the psychic being; ... The second is the inner consciousness always awake… Lastly, the Mother's force always there and receiving also a response at once from the physical consciousness. These three things together can do anything. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levels-of-the-physical-being#p62</ref>

===Habits of Vital===

We like, love, welcome, hope for, joy in whatever our nature, the first habit of our being, or else a formed (often perverse) habit, the second nature of our being, presents to the mind as pleasant, priyam; we hate, dislike, fear, have repulsion from or grief of whatever it presents to us as unpleasant, apriyam. This habit of the emotional nature gets into the way of the intelligent will and makes it often a helpless slave of the emotional being or at least prevents it from exercising a free judgment and government of the nature. This deformation has to be corrected. By getting rid of desire in the psychic prana and its intermiscence in the emotional mind, we facilitate the correction. For then attachment which is the strong bond of the heart, falls away from the heart-strings; the involuntary habit of rāga-dveṣa remains, but, not being made obstinate by attachment, it can be dealt with more easily by the will and the intelligence. The restless heart can be conquered and get rid of the habit of attraction and repulsion. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/purification-the-lower-mentality#p7</ref> <center>~</center>

It is the small habits of the lower vital being which gather all their strength to resist eviction and try to occupy the consciousness. When they come you must learn to detach your inner consciousness from them entirely so that even when they strongly come they will not be able to occupy the consciousness or get any assent. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/desire#p26</ref>

…an idea that to give expression to an impulse or a movement is the best way or even the only way to get rid of it… is a mistaken idea. If you give expression to anger, you prolong or confirm the habit of the recurrence of anger; you do not diminish or get rid of the habit. The very first step towards weakening the power of anger in the nature and afterwards getting rid of it altogether, is to refuse all expression to it in act or speech. Afterwards one can go on with more likelihood of success to throw it out from the thought and feeling also. And so with all other wrong movements. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/anger-and-violence#p21</ref>

It is simply the spirit of vital falsehood, dramatic and romantic, obscuring the reason and shutting out common sense and simple truth. To clear the vital, you must get out of it all compromise with falsehood—no matter how specious the reason it advances—and get the habit of simple straightforward psychic truth engraved in it so that nothing may have a chance to enter. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-nature-of-the-vital#p15</ref>

The human vital is almost always of that nature [full of desires and fancies]… by the use of the mental will …compelling it to do not what it wants but what the reason or the will sees to be right or desirable. In Yoga one uses the inner will and compels the vital to submit itself to tapasya so that it may become calm, strong, obedient—or else one calls down the calm from above obliging the vital to renounce desire and become quiet and receptive. The vital is a good instrument but a bad master. If you allow it to follow its likes and dislikes, its fancies, its desires, its bad habits, it becomes your master and peace and happiness are no longer possible. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-nature-of-the-vital#p19</ref>

The vital in the physical easily slips back to its old small habits if it gets a chance. It is there that they stick. They go entirely only when that part gets equanimity and a simple natural freedom from all desires. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/desire#p27</ref>

…for the change in the vital…form the habit of remaining in your higher consciousness where all these petty things and movements are worthless. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-vital#p41</ref>

…to succeed in having a precise, concrete, clear, definite thought on a certain subject, you must make an effort, gather yourself together, hold yourself firm, concentrate. And the first time you do it, it literally hurts, it is tiring! But if you don't make a habit of it, all your life you will be living in a state of irresolution. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/13-june-1956#p37</ref>

...one must have the habit of mental concentration …the habit of meditation, reflection, analysis, deduction, mental organisation. Otherwise, if one is just "like that", if one lives life as it comes, then it is exactly like a public square: there are roads and on the roads people pass by, and then you find yourself at cross-roads and it all passes through your head—sometimes even ideas without any connection between them, so much so that if you were to write down what passes through your head, it would make a string of admirable nonsense! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/8-january-1958#p9</ref>

The important thing is to get rid of the habit of the invasion of troubling thoughts, wrong feelings, confusion of ideas, unhappy movements… when the mind is quiet and at peace, the Force can work more easily. It should be possible to see things that have to be changed in you without being upset or depressed; the change is the more easily done.

Archana

Interface administrators, Administrators

4,400

edits