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=Emergence of Laziness=
==Illness and Health==
That [weakness of the body] also is tamas. If you threw off the strain of the idea of weakness, the strength would come back. But there is always something in the vital physical which is pleased with becoming more weak and ill so that it can feel and lament its tragic case. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p64</ref>
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It is not anything physical but a vital depression (in some part of the vital, not the whole) that prevents the body from recovering its elasticity. There was some part of the vital that was resisting a radical change and even, unknown to your mind, trying to go on as it was under cover of the change in the rest of your being. This has now, owing to this last affair, received a blow and got depressed and, when the vital is depressed like that, it affects the body. You say rightly that it is part of a change or turn that is taking place. But these effects of inertia and weakness need not continue; as soon as this vital part acquiesces gladly in the turn or change, the elasticity and energy will return. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p66</ref>
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It can only be remedied by the Force and Consciousness from above occupying the whole physical being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p78</ref>
...inertia of the physical consciousness, while the right reaction in the lower vital brings on the contrary a sense of peace, release, quietude which definitely opens the lowest physical parts to the higher consciousness and force. If you can get over this and get back the old poise, then all these things can be made to disappear. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p79</ref>
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The whole thing is to 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 Lower Vital Being==
A time comes when after a long preparation of the mind and vital being, it becomes necessary to open also the physical nature. But when that happens, very often the vital exaltation which can be very great when the experience is on its own plane, falls away and the obscure, obstructive physical and material consciousness appears in its unrelieved inertia. Inertia, tamas, stupidity, narrowness and limitation, an inability to progress, doubt, dullness, dryness, a constant forgetfulness of the spiritual experiences received are the characteristics of the unregenerated physical nature, when that is not pushed by the vital and is not supported either by the higher mental will and intelligence… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-lower-vital-being#p35</ref>
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These things can only be cured by a persistent bringing down of the higher spiritual consciousness into all the parts of the being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/variations-in-the-intensity-of-experience#p18</ref>
=How is it Different from Fatigue, Tiredness and Tamas?=