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==Rejection in the Vital==
…rejection of the vital nature’s desires, demands, cravings, sensations, passions, selfishness, pride, arrogance, lust, greed, jealousy, envy, hostility to the Truth, so that the true power and joy may pour from above into a calm, large, strong and consecrated vital being… <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mother-ii#p5</ref>
The rejection of desire is essentially the rejection of the element of craving, putting that out from the consciousness itself as a foreign element not belonging to the true self and the inner nature. But refusal to indulge the suggestions of desire is also a part of the rejection; to abstain from the action suggested, if it is not the right action, must be included in the Yogic discipline. It is only when this is done in the wrong way, by a mental ascetic principle or a hard moral rule, that it can be called suppression. The difference between suppression and an inward essential rejection is the difference between mental or moral control and a spiritual purification.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/desire#p59</ref><center>~</center>
These wrong movements [''doubt, depression, sadness, hostility towards the Mother''] belong to the universal vital Nature, but the vital of man also shares in them, makes itself a centre and field of the play of these wrong forces: in that sense they are in you. But by constant rejection they are pushed out; you feel them no longer rising in you but coming from outside. The vital still admits them because it is not yet pure of the old habit of response. You have to persist till they are entirely foreign to your nature and no longer get admittance.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/wrong-movements-of-the-vital#p66</ref>
===Fear and Unhappiness===
The sadder you are and the more you lament, the farther you move away from me. The Divine is ''not sad'' and to realise the Divine you must reject far from yourself all sadness and all sentimental weakness.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/letters-to-a-young-sadhak-iv#p14</ref><center>~</center>Fear is always a feeling to be rejected, because what you fear is just the thing that is likely to come to you: fear attracts the object of fear. Unhappiness weakens the strength and lays one more open to the causes of unhappiness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/fear#p11</ref>
'''Vital Interchanges'''
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/knowledge-by-identity-and-separative-knowledge#p16</ref>
It is not that you have to speak to no one—that is not possible. But you must keep your body free and pure and reject all vital interchanges with men—do not speak too much or freely; do not allow yourself too much freedom or laughter, be simple and quiet and straight in all your actions and behaviour. Touch no sadhak and let none touch you. Above all, turn to the Divine only and form no relations or attachments with others.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/interactions-with-others-and-the-practice-of-yoga#p88</ref><center>~</center>…[''vital influences''] are always coming out from people and, if there is a connection, they can flow into another person sitting near. One has to live in one's own consciousness and reject all such interchanges, accepting only what comes from the Mother. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/interactions-with-others-and-the-practice-of-yoga#p88p73</ref>
'''Opinions of Others'''
To become entirely indifferent to the good and bad opinion of others, especially those who are or were near, and stand on the Truth alone is very difficult; some reaction of the old nature can easily come across; but if one remains calm and firm within, these surface reactions quickly disappear and their rejection helps the remnants of the old nature to disappear.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/interactions-with-others-and-the-practice-of-yoga#p12</ref>
'''Love Between Human Beings'''
For one who has known love for the Divine, all other forms of love are obscure and too mixed with pettiness and egoism and darkness; they are like a perpetual haggling or a struggle for supremacy and domination, and even among the best they are full of misunderstanding and irritability, of friction and incomprehension.
<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-four-austerities-and-the-four-liberationsfourliberations#p79,p80</ref>
==Rejection in the Physical==
…rejection of the physical nature’s stupidity, doubt, disbelief, obscurity, obstinacy, pettiness, laziness, unwillingness to change, tamas, so that the true stability of Light, Power, Ananda may establish itself in a body growing always more divine… <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mother-ii#p5</ref>