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==Emotion==
The development of the emotions heart is therefore the first condition centre of a sound human evolution. Unless the feelings tend away from the body emotional being and the love of others takes increasingly emotions are vital movements. When the place of heart is purified, the brute love of self, there can be no progress upwardvital emotions change into psychic feelings or else psychicised vital movements.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsasabcl/1322/yogaplanes-and-humanparts-of-the-being-evolutionx#p3p22</ref>
To indulge in the emotions, love, grief, sorrow, despair, emotional joy, etc. for their own sake with a sort of mental-vital over-emphasis on them is what is called sentimentalism. There should be in deep feeling a calm, a control, a purifying restraint and measure. One should not be at the mercy of one’s feelings and sentiments, but master of oneself always.
==Emotional Centre/Heart Centre==
==Emptiness==
==Equality==
Not to be disturbed by either joy or grief, pleasure or displeasure, by what people say or do or by any outward things is called in yoga state of ''samatā'', equality to all things.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/23/human-relationships-in-yoga-iv#p24</ref>
Equality means a quiet and unmoved mind and vital, it means not to be touched or disturbed by things that happen or things said or done to you, but to look at them with a straight look, free from the distortions created by personal feelings, and to try to understand what is behind them, why they happen, what is to be learnt from them, what is it in oneself which they are cast against and what inner profit or progress one can make out of them; it means self-mastery over the vital movements, - anger and sensitiveness and pride as well as desire and the rest, - not to let them get hold of the emotional being and disturb the inner peace, not to speak and act in the rush and impulsion of these things, always to act and speak out of a calm inner poise of the spirit. It is not easy to have this equality in any full perfect measure, but one should always try more and more to make it the basis of one’s inner state and outer movements.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/23/the-foundation-of-sadhana-iv#p3</ref>
==Eternity==
There are lesser and larger eternities; for eternity is a term of the soul and can exist in Time as well as exceeding it. When the Scriptures say “śāśvatiḥ samāḥ“''śāśvatiḥ samāḥ'', they mean for a long space and permanence of time or a hardly measurable aeon; only God Absolute has the absolute eternity. Yet when one goes within, one sees that all things are really eternal; there is no end, neither was there ever a beginning.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/17/art#p38</ref>
In its fundamental truth the original status of Time behind all its variations is nothing else than the eternity of the Eternal, just as the fundamental truth of Space, the original sense of its reality, is the infinity of the Infinite. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/18/brahman-purusha-ishwara-maya-prakriti-shakti#p38</ref>
There follows on this initial stage an evolution of life in the form and an organisation of a hierarchy of living forms by the working of the liberated life-forces. The next step is an evolution of mind in living bodies and an organisation of more and more conscious lives by the process of developing mind-forces. But this is not the end; for there are higher powers of consciousness beyond mind which await their turn and must have their act in the great play, their part of the creative Lila.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/17/evolution#p8,p11</ref>
It is a series of ascents from the physical being and consciousness to the vital, the being dominated by the life-self, thence to the mental being realised in the fully developed man and thence into the perfect consciousness which is beyond the mental, into the Supramental consciousness and the Supramental being, the Truth-Consciousness which is the integral consciousness of the spiritual being. Mind cannot be our last conscious expression because mind is fundamentally[p.396] an ignorance seeking for knowledge; it is only the Supramental Truth-Consciousness that can bring us the true and whole SelfKnowledge Self Knowledge and world-Knowledge; it is through that only that we can get to our true being and the fulfilment of our spiritual evolution.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/a-realistic-adwaita#p18</ref>
==Exaltation==
A certain exaltation of the being comes naturally with the stronger experiences and the sense of marvel or miracle may go with it, but there should be no egoistic feeling in the exaltation. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-danger-of-the-ego-and-the-need-of-purification#p1</ref>
==Existence==
The higher Trinity [Sachchidananda] is the source and basis of all existence and play of existence, and all cosmos must be an expression and action of its essential reality. No universe can be merely a form of being which has sprung up and outlined itself in an absolute nullity and void and remains standing out against a non-existent emptiness. It must be either a figure of existence within the infinite Existence who is beyond all figure or it must be itself the All-Existence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-sevenfold-chord-of-being#p11</ref>
Existence that acts and creates by the power and from the pure delight of its conscious being is the reality that we are, the self of all our modes and moods, the cause, object and goal of all our doing, becoming and creating. As the poet, artist or musician when he creates does really nothing but develop some potentiality in his unmanifested self into a form of manifestation and as the thinker, statesman, mechanist only bring out into a shape of things that which lay hidden in themselves, was themselves, is still themselves when it is cast into form, so is it with the world and the Eternal.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-divine-maya#p1</ref>
==Expansion of the Head==
The seeming expansion of the head is due to the joining of the mind with the consciousness of the Self or Divine above. That consciousness is wide and illimitable and, when one rises into it, the individual consciousness also breaks its limits and feels wide and illimitable. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/ascent-and-descent#p22</ref>
==Experiences==
Experiences are of all kinds and take all forms in the consciousness. When the consciousness undergoes, sees or feels anything spiritual or psychic or even occult, that is an experience. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/experiences-and-realisations#p12</ref>
Each inner experience is perfectly real in its own way, although the values of different experiences differ greatly, but it is real with the reality of the inner self and the inner planes. It is a mistake to think that we live physically only, with the outer mind and life. We are all the time living and acting on other planes of consciousness, meeting others there and acting upon them, and what we do and feel and think there, the forces we gather, the results we prepare have an incalculable importance and effect, unknown to us, upon our outer life. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/23/experiences-of-the-inner-and-the-cosmic-consciousness-i#p5</ref>
==References==