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Our emotions are the waves of reaction and response which rise up from the basic consciousness, ''citta-vṛtti''. Their action too is largely regulated by habit and an emotive memory. They are not imperative, not laws of Necessity; there is no really binding law of our emotional being to which we must submit without remedy; we are not obliged to give responses of grief to certain impacts upon the mind, responses of anger to others, to yet others responses of hatred or dislike, to others responses of liking or love. All these things are only habits of our affective mentality; they can be changed by the conscious will of the spirit; they can be inhibited; we may even rise entirely above all subjection to grief, anger, hatred, the duality of liking and disliking. We are subject to these things only so long as we persist in subjection to the mechanical action of the chitta in the emotive mentality, a thing difficult to get rid of because of the power of past habit and especially the importunate insistence of the vital part of mentality, the nervous life-mind or psychic prana. This nature of the emotive mind as a reaction of chitta with a certain close dependence upon the nervous life sensations and the responses of the psychic prana is so characteristic that in some languages it is called chitta and prana, the heart, the life soul; it is indeed the most directly agitating and powerfully insistent action of the desire-soul which the immixture of vital desire and responsive consciousness has created in us. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-instruments-of-the-spirit#p7</ref> ==What is Higher Vital/Emotional Being?== ''Q. What is meant by the yogic term "through the heart"? Is it the higher vital?'' ''A.'' Yes, the emotional being. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/9-march-1935#p3,p4</ref>

The emotional nervous part of the being is itself a portion of the vital—it is the vital physical, the life-force closely enmeshed in the reactions, desires, needs, sensations of the body. The vital proper is the life-force acting in its own nature, impulses, emotions, feelings, desires, ambitions etc. having as their highest centre what we may call the outer heart of emotion, while there is an inner heart where are the higher or psychic feelings and sensibilities, the emotions and intuitive yearnings and impulses of the soul. The vital part of us is, of course, necessary to our completeness, but it is a true instrument only when its feelings and tendencies have been purified by the vitalpsychic touch and taken up and governed by the spiritual light and power. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-vital-being-and-vital-consciousness#p25 p34</ref>

The point about the emotional and the higher vital movement is a rather difficult one. In one classification in which mind is taken as something more than the thinking, perceiving refined and willing intelligence, the emotional can be reckoned as part of the mind, the vital large in the mental. In another classification it is rather the most mentalised part motion than that of the ordinary vital nature. In another classification it is It stresses emotion rather the most mentalised part of the vital nature. In the first casethan sensation and desire, the term higher vital is confined to that larger movement of the conscious life-force which but it is concerned with creation, with power and force and conquest, with giving and self-giving and gathering not free from the world for farther action and expenditure of power, throwing itself out in the wider movements of life, responsive to the greater objects of Nature. In the second arrangement, the emotional being stands at the top of the vital nature demand and the two together make the higher vital. As against them stands the lower vital which is concerned with the pettier movements of action and desire and stretches down into the vital physical where it supports the life of the more external activities and all physical sensations, hungers, cravings, satisfactionspossession. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2831/the-vitalnature-beingof-andthe-vital-consciousness#p11p50</ref>

==What are <center>~</center> …the term higher vital is confined to that larger movement of the conscious life-force which is concerned with creation, with power and force and conquest, with giving and self-giving and gathering from the world for farther action and expenditure of power, throwing itself out in the Different Parts wider movements of life, responsive to the greater objects of Our Emotional Nature?==. In the second arrangement, the emotional being stands at the top of the vital nature and the two together make the higher vital. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-vital-being-and-vital-consciousness#p11</ref>

The experience of the difference between your inner feelings and your surface reactions shows that you are becoming aware of different parts of your nature which each have their own character. In fact each human being is composed of different personalities that feel and behave in a different way and his action is determined by the one that happens to be prominent at the time. The one that has no feelings against anyone is either the psychic being or the emotional being in the heart, the one that feels anger and is severe is a part of the external vital nature on the surface. This anger and severity is a wrong form of something that in itself has a value, a certain strength of will and force of action and control in the vital being, without which work cannot be done. What is necessary is to get rid of the anger and to keep the force and firm will along with a developed judgment as to what is the right thing to do in any circumstances. For instance, people can be allowed to do things in their own way when that does not spoil the work, when it is only their way of doing what is necessary to be done; when their way is opposed to the discipline of the work, then they have to be controlled, but it should be done quietly and kindly, not with anger. Very often, if one has developed a silent power of putting the Mother's force on the work with one's own will as instrument, that by itself may be sufficient without having to say anything as the person changes his way of himself as if by his own initiative. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/practical-concerns-in-work#p21~</refcenter>

==What By the higher vital parts of the nature I mean the vital mind, the emotional nature, the life-force dynamis in the being. The vital mind is Higher Vital?==that part of the vital being which builds, plans, imagines, arranges things and thoughts according to the life-pushes, desires, will to power or possession, will to action, emotions, vital ego reactions of the nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-vital-being-and-vital-consciousness#p16</ref>

…the term higher vital is confined to that larger movement of the conscious life-force which is concerned with creation, with power and force and conquest, with giving and self-giving and gathering from the world for farther action and expenditure of power, throwing itself out in the wider movements of life, responsive to the greater objects of Nature. In the second arrangement, the emotional being stands at the top of the vital nature and the two together make the higher vital. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-vital-being-and-vital-consciousness#p11~</refcenter>

Higher vital usually refers to the vital mind and emotive beingas opposed to the middle vital which has its seat in the navel and is dynamic, sensational and passionate and the lower which is made up of the smaller movements of human life-desire and life-reactions. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/classification-of-the-parts-of-the-being#p15</ref>

===Where is the Higher Vital and All Its Parts It Located?===

This higher vital with all its parts is situated in the chest and has the cardiac centre as its main stronghold governing all this part down to the navel...By the higher vital parts of the nature I mean the vital mind, emotional nature, the life-force dynamics in the being. The vital mind is that part of the vital being which builds, plans, imagines, arranges things and thoughts according to the life-pushes, desires, will to power or possession, will to action, emotions, vital ego reactions of the nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-vital-being-and-vital-consciousness#p16</ref>

The colours of the lotuses and the numbers of petals ... the heart centre, twelve petals, golden pink… ... The functions are… commanding the higher emotional being with the psychic deep behind it...it…<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-system-of-the-chakras#p20</ref>

The heart is the centre of the emotional being, the highest part of and the emotions are vitalmovements. The navel is When the centre of the dynamic and sensational vital (this heart is the source of pride, sense of possession, ambitionpurified, anger and other passions—but it expresses them of ten through the heart centre)vital emotions change into psychic feelings or else psychicised vital movements. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-systemvital-ofbeing-theand-vital-chakrasconsciousness#p64p27</ref>

==The Difference between Psychic and Emotional Being ==

Emotion belongs to ...you must not mistake the higher vital, not to feelings for the pure psychic. The psychic is a steady flame ..—these two are absolutely different things. People always think that burns in youwhen they have emotions, feelings, soaring towards they are entering the Divine and carrying psychic. These things have nothing to do with it a sense of strength which breaks down all oppositionsthe psychic, they are purely vital. When you They are identified with it you have the feeling most subtle part of the divine truth—then vital, if you cannot help feeling also like, but they are vital. It's not through the feelings that one goes to the whole world psychic, it is ignorantly walking on its head with its feet in the air! through a very intense aspiration and a self-detachment. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/0307/the-ordinary-life-and-the27-truejuly-soul1955#p4p7</ref>

…this inmost soul, that is, The centre of the central psychic being, influences is behind the superficial parts centre of the consciousness (superficial in comparison with emotional being; it: mental parts, vital parts). The purest mind, is the highest vital, the emotive being—the soul influences them, influences them emotional that is nearest dynamically to an extent where one has the impression of entering into contact with psychic and in most men it is through these parts of the being. So people take these parts for emotional centre that the soul psychic can be most easily reached and through the psychicised emotion that is why he says "it can be most easily expressed. Many therefore mistake the one for the inmost soul", that other; but there is, a world of difference between the central soul, two. The emotions normally are vital in their character and not part of the real soulpsychic nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0728/3the-augustvital-1955being-and-vital-consciousness#p9p12</ref>

The surface of <center>~</center> Emotion belongs to the heart centre is the place of the emotional being; from there one goes deep higher vital, not to find the pure psychic. The more one goespsychic is a steady flame that burns in you, soaring towards the more intense becomes Divine and carrying with it a sense of strength which breaks down all oppositions. When you are identified with it you have the feeling of the psychic happiness which divine truth—then you describe. cannot help feeling also that the whole world is ignorantly walking on its head with its feet in the air! <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3003/the-psychicordinary-beinglife-and-its-rolethe-intrue-sadhanasoul#p17 p4</ref>

It …this inmost soul, that is through , the emotional central psychic being that , influences the superficial parts of the consciousness (superficial in comparison with it: mental parts, vital parts). The purest mind, the highest vital, the psychic most easily expressesemotive being—the soul influences them, for influences them to an extent where one has the impression of entering into contact with it stands just behind it in through these parts of the heart centrebeing.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/human-relations-So people take these parts for the soul and-that is why he says "the-spiritual-life#p7 </ref> ==What Is inmost soul", that is, the Role of The Lower Vital Nature?==central soul, the real soul.

EvidentlyFor very often, when one touches certain parts of the condition into mind which you have fallen is due to an upsurging of suppressed elements in the lower vital nature. It has been compelled by are under the mind psychic influence and the higher vital part in you to give up the little "joys full of light and pleasures" to which it was habituated, but it—or at any rate the subconscient part joy of it which is often the most powerful—did that without entire conviction and probably with "reservations" and "safeguards" and in exchange for a promise of compensationslight, other or when one touches certain very pure and greater joys and pleasures to replace all it was losing. This is evident from what you write; your description very high parts of the nature of emotive being which has the depressionmost generous, the return of what you call impure thoughts which are merely indices of the subconscient lower vital desire-complexmost unselfish emotions, one also has the doubt thrown upon the generosity impression of the Divine, the demand for compensation for losses, something like striking a bargain being in contact with the Divine, a quid pro quo pact, are all unmistakable. Latterly, there has been a combination of circumstances (X's turning inwards, Yone's emigration etcsoul.) which have rather suddenly increased the deprivation of its former outlets; But this attack is its way of non-cooperation or protest. There is only one way to deal with it,—to cast not the whole thing away—depression, demands, doubts, sex-thoughtstrue soul, it is not the whole undesirable baggage,—and have soul in its place very essence. These are parts of the one true movement, the call for the true consciousness being under its influence and the presence manifesting something of the Divineit. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3107/the3-loweraugust-vital-being1955#p43p9</ref>

In the ascetic Yoga all human feelings are regarded as illusory and have to disappear—"the knots of the heart are cut"—so as to leave only the one supreme aspiration. In this Yoga the emotional being has not to be got rid of, but to undergo a transformation; the shortest way of transformation is to turn all the being to the Divine. But when that is done, then it is found that what is pure and true in any human relation survives, but with a rich and subtle change, or else new relations are established that come straight from the Divine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/human-relations-and-the-spiritual-life#p11</ref>

"As you say, it If the heart centre is dominated by the failure of the right attitude that comes in the way of passing through ordeals physical mind to a change of nature. The pressure is becoming greater now for this change of character even more than for decisive Yoga experience—for if the experience comesany extent, it fails will necessarily be open to be decisive because of the want of the requisite change of nature. The mind, for instance, gets the experience of the One in all, but the vital cannot follow, because it is dominated by ego-reaction and ego-motive or the habits of the outer nature keep up a way of thinking, feeling, acting, living which is quite out of harmony with the experience. Or the psychic and part of the mind and emotional being feel frequently the closeness of the Mother, but attacks that affect the rest of the nature is unoffered physical and goes its own way prolonging the division from her nearness, creating distancenervous consciousness. It is because the Sadhaks have never even tried The heart has to have the Yogic attitude be in all things, they have been contented connection with the common ideas, common view of things, common motives of life, only varied by inner experiences psychic and transferred to the framework of the Asram instead of that of the world outside. It is not enough and there is great need that this should changehigher consciousness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/1028/julythe-system-of-23the-1969chakras#p78p62</ref>

Yes, When you are in connection with the higher vital is usually much less difficult to surrenderworlds above the mental, for it is under with the influence of mental and the mind and at times psychic or even with some of the psychic; so it understands more easily. It is much easier to convert this than the lower higher vital which planes, then there is essentially the vital of desires peace and impulses. So, you see, what he means is that Ananda—but connection with the lower vital worlds can submiteasily bring disturbance and unrest, it agrees to obey, to do what it is asked, but it so long as your vital itself is not at all satisfied. It is not happy; sometimes it even suffers; it pushes its revolt down into itself through obedience, but it does not collaborate. And unless the vital collaborates with joy changed and made full of peace and strength and true love, nothing can be done; the transformations cannot comequiet. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0630/7inner-experience-and-julyouter-1954life#p9p12</ref>

If ... approach made by the soul to the direct contact is through the heart: this is its own more close and rapid way because its occult seat is there, just behind in the heart -centre , in close contact with the emotional being in us; it is consequently through the emotions that it can act best at the beginning with its native power, with its living force of concrete experience. It is dominated by through a love and adoration of the All-beautiful and All-blissful, the All-Good, the True, the spiritual Reality of love, that the approach is made; the aesthetic and emotional parts join together to offer the soul, the life, the whole nature to that which they worship. This approach through adoration can get its full power and impetus only when the physical mind goes beyond impersonality to any extentthe awareness of a supreme Personal Being: then all becomes intense, vivid, concrete; the heart's emotion, feeling, spiritualised sense reach their absolute; an entire self-giving becomes possible, imperative. The nascent spiritual man makes his appearance in the emotional nature as the devotee, the bhakta; if, in addition, he becomes directly aware of his soul and its dictates, unites his emotional with his psychic personality and changes his life and vital parts by purity, God-ecstasy, the love of God and men and all creatures into a thing of spiritual beauty, full of divine light and good, it will necessarily he develops into the saint and reaches the highest inner experience and most considerable change of nature proper to this way of approach to the Divine Being. But for the purpose of an integral transformation this too is not enough; there must be open a transmutation of the thinking mind and all the vital and physical parts of consciousness in their own character. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-triple-transformation#p15</ref> ==To Find the Psychic Being== Man, because he is a mental being, is prone to give the outer attacks that affect highest importance to the physical thinking mind and its reason and will and to its way of approach and effectuation of Truth and nervous consciousness, even, he is inclined to hold that there is no other. The heart has with its emotions and incalculable movements is to the eye of his intellect an obscure, uncertain and often a perilous and misleading power which needs to be kept in connection with control by the reason and the mental will and intelligence. And yet there is in the heart or behind it a profounder mystic light which, if not what we call intuition,—for that, though not of the mind, yet descends through the psychic mind—has yet a direct touch upon Truth and is nearer to the higher consciousnessDivine than the human intellect in its pride of knowledge. According to the ancient teaching the seat of the immanent Divine, the hidden Purusha, is in the mystic heart,—the secret heart-cave, ''hṛdaye guhāyām'',as the Upanishads put it,—and, according to the experience of many Yogins, it is from its depths that there comes the voice or the breath of the inner oracle. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2823/the-systemascent-of-the-chakrassacrifice-i#p62p16</ref>

When you are The true soul secret in connection with us—subliminal, we have said, but the higher worlds above word is misleading, for this presence is not situated below the mentalthreshold of waking mind, with but rather burns in the temple of the inmost heart behind the mental thick screen of an ignorant mind, life and body, not subliminal but behind the veil,—this veiled psychic or entity is the flame of the Godhead always alight within us, inextinguishable even with some by that dense unconsciousness of any spiritual self within which obscures our outward nature. It is a flame born out of the higher vital planesDivine and, then there luminous inhabitant of the Ignorance, grows in it till it is able to turn it towards the peace Knowledge. It is the concealed Witness and Ananda—but connection with Control, the hidden Guide, the lower vital worlds can easily bring disturbance and unrestDaemon of Socrates, so long as your vital itself the inner light or inner voice of the mystic. It is not changed that which endures and made full is imperishable in us from birth to birth, untouched by death, decay or corruption, an indestructible spark of peace and strength and quietthe Divine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3021/innerthe-experiencedouble-andsoul-outerin-lifeman#p12p10</ref>

In The psychic being is in the heart centre in the lower vital all is a working middle of general forces which try to seize upon the individual and use him chest (not in the physical heart, for their satisfaction; they all the centres are not his forces at allin the middle of the body), but it is deep behind. In When one is going away from the mind or vital into the higher vital psychic, it is much easier to establish some kind felt as if one is going deep deep down till one reaches that central place of control over the forcespsychic. That The surface of the heart centre is the very reason why place of the emotional being; from there one should never put oneself into goes deep to find the control of these forces or make oneself a free crossways for their passagepsychic. It is only by opening to The more one goes, the more intense becomes the Mother's force alone that a control can be established over these lower workingspsychic happiness... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3130/the-lowerpsychic-being-vitaland-its-role-in-beingsadhana#p41p17 </ref>

There Affection, love, tenderness are in their nature psychic,—the vital has been progress them because the psychic is trying to express itself through the vital. It is through the emotional being that the psychic most easily expresses, for it stands just behind it in all the heart centre. But it wants these parts [things to be pure. Not that it rejects the outward expression through the vital and the physical, but as the psychic being is the form of the being]soul, but they seem it naturally feels the attraction of soul to be subject still to a response soul, the nearness of soul to soul the suggestions union of soul with soul are the hostile forcesthings that are to it most abiding and concrete. Everybody gets these suggestionsMind, vital, body are means of expression and very precious means of expression, but they ought not to be allowed to enter insidethe inner life is for the soul the first thing, especially in the heartdeepest reality, or and these have to be accepted subordinated to it and conditioned by it, its expression, its instruments and channel… The emphasis on the mastery of the vital. Evidently, they enter through its subordination and subjection to the physical mind (from the throat upwards means that) spiritual and affect the surface vital and emotional beingpsychic is also nothing new, strange or exorbitant. You must get It has been insisted on always for any kind of spiritual life; even the power Yogas which seek most to reject them from there by a constant use the vital, like certain forms of Vaishnavism, yet insist on the purification and steady denial and refusal the total offering of their suggestions. So long as anything in you says "yes" or acceptsit to the Divine—and the relations with the Divine are an inner realisation, there is always the possibility of a returnsoul offering itself through the emotional being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/attackshuman-relations-byand-the-hostilespiritual-forceslife#p28p7 </ref> =How to Bring Forward the Emotional Being/Higher Vital?=

=How This heart and psychic being of man shot through with the threads of the life instincts is a thing of mixed inconstant colours of emotion and soul vibrations, bad and good, happy and unhappy, satisfied and unsatisfied, troubled and calm, intense and dull. Thus agitated and invaded it is unacquainted with any real peace, incapable of a steady perfection of all its powers. By purification, by equality, by the light of knowledge, by a harmonising of the will it can be brought to Bring Forward a tranquil intensity and perfection. The first two elements of this perfection are on one side a high and large sweetness, openness, gentleness, calm, clarity, on the other side a strong and ardent force and intensity. In the Emotional Being divine no less than in ordinary human character and Higher Vital?=action there are always two strands, sweetness and strength, mildness and force, saumya and raudra, the force that bears and harmonises, the force that imposes itself and compels, Vishnu and Ishana, Shiva and Rudra. The two are equally necessary to a perfect world-action. The perversions of the Rudra power in the heart are stormy passion, wrath and fierceness and harshness, hardness, brutality, cruelty, egoistic ambition and love of violence and domination. These and other human perversions have to be got rid of by the flowering of a calm, clear and sweet psychical being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-power-of-the-instruments#p10</ref>

===Concentration & Aspiration And yet the true emotive soul, the real psyche in us, is not a desire-soul, but a soul of pure love and delight; but that, like the rest of our true being, can only emerge when the deformation created by the life of desire is removed from the surface and is no longer the characteristic action of our being. To get that done is a necessary part of our purification, liberation, perfection. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-instruments-of-the Heart===-spirit#p7</ref>

Another method <center>~</center> In fact each human being is concentration composed of different personalities that feel and behave in a different way and aspiration his action is determined by the one that happens to be prominent at the time. The one that has no feelings against anyone is either the psychic being or the emotional being in the heart which opens , the one that feels anger and is severe is a part of the external vital nature on the inner emotional being… But whatever method surface. This anger and severity is used a wrong form of something that in itself has a value, a certain strength of will not bring its effect at once; it must and force of action and control in the vital being, without which work cannot be done persistently, simply, directly till it succeeds. … If one can What is necessary is to get rid of them the anger and to keep the force and firm will along with a developed judgment as to what is the right thing to do in any circumstances. For instance, people can be allowed to do things in their central actionown way when that does not spoil the work, the survival when it is only their way of doing what is necessary to be done; when their activity in way is opposed to the circumference does not so much matter; for then discipline of the opening becomes possiblework, both then they have to make be controlled, but it should be done quietly and kindly, not with anger. Very often, if one has developed a silent power of putting the Mother's force on the work with one's own will as instrument, that by itself may be sufficient without having to keep and say anything as the rest can followperson changes his way of himself as if by his own initiative. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3129/time-andpractical-changeconcerns-of-thein-naturework#p10p21</ref>

What you have The heart is part of the vital—it has to aspire for and bring down be controlled in you is the peace same way as the rest, by rejection of the Mother's consciousness. Peacewrong movements, calmby acceptance of the true psychic surrender which prevents all demand and clamour, equanimity by calling in the emotional being higher light and knowledge. It is not usually however the rest of the vital especially—it is heart that which will purify the emotions bothers about mental questions and deliver the vitalanswer to them. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3128/the-naturevital-ofbeing-theand-vital-consciousness#p67p28</ref>

Always get back to quietudeThere must be implanted and activised in all our doings a supreme, impersonal, unfaltering and unstumbling will in spontaneous and untroubled unison with the will of the Divine. It is through the quietude The unsatisfying surface play of our feeble egoistic emotions must be ousted and there must be revealed instead a secret deep and vast psychic heart within that waits behind them for its hour; all our feelings, impelled by this inner heart in which dwells the right attitude Divine, will be transmuted into calm and understanding intense movements of a twin passion of divine Love and movements come backmanifold Ananda.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2923/quietself-surrender-in-works-the-way-of-andthe-calmgita#p24p4</ref>

It [peace] has is the inner offering of the heart's adoration, the soul of it in the symbol, the spirit of it in the act, that is the very life of the sacrifice. If this offering is to be brought down complete and universal, then a turning of all our emotions to the Divine is imperative. This is the intensest way of purification for the human heart , more powerful than any ethical or aesthetic catharsis could ever be by its half-power and navel firstsuperficial pressure. That gives A psychic fire within must be lit into which all is thrown with the Divine Name upon it a certain kind of inner stability—though not absolute. There is no method other than aspirationIn that fire all the emotions are compelled to cast off their grosser elements and those that are undivine perversions are burned away and the others discard their insufficiencies, till a strong quiet will spirit of largest love and a rejection stainless divine delight arises out of all the@165@ flame and smoke and frankincense. It is the divine love which so emerges that is not turned towards , extended in inward feeling to the Divine in those parts into which you call man and all creatures in an active universal equality, will be more potent for the peace—here perfectibility of life and a more real instrument than the emotional and higher vitalineffective mental ideal of brotherhood can ever be. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3023/the-descentascent-of-the-highersacrifice-powersii#p18p12</ref>

===Going Deep WithinBy Faith===

It This faith, ''kalyāṇa-śraddhā'', is quite needed in order that the heart and the whole overt psychic being may respond to the secret divine Ananda and change itself into this true that original essence. This faith and will must be accompanied by going above one can get out and open into an illimitable widest and intensest capacity for love. For the main business of all problemsthe heart, its true function is love. It is our destined instrument of complete union and oneness; for they no longer existto see oneness in the world by the understanding is not enough unless we also feel it with the heart and in the psychic being, but and this means a delight in the problems One and in all existences in the world in him, a love of God and all beings. The heart's faith and will in good are there below founded on a perception of the one Divine immanent in all things and it is difficult leading the world. The universal love has to be always above with so much unsolved founded on the heart's sight and psychical and calling for solution. But just as emotional sense of the one can go high aboveDivine, so the one can go deep within and it is this going deep within that is needed..Self in all existence.Once one reaches it, these things can no longer touch; what All four elements will be there is then form a unity and even the Rudra power to do battle for the inner peace right and happiness, the untroubled aspiration, good proceed on the presence or nearness basis of a power of the Motheruniversal love. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2924/bhaktithe-devotionpower-of-the-worshipinstruments#p9p12</ref>

===The Perfection of EqualityBy Peace and Quietude===

Equality means a quiet Always get back to quietude. It is through the quietude that the right attitude and unmoved mind understanding and movements come back. It is natural for the lower 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 feelingmade up of feelings, impulses and desires and to try be attached to understand what outer things—but that is behind them, why they happen, what only a part of you. There is to be learnt from them, what is it in oneself which they are cast against also the psychic and what inner profit or progress one can make out of them; it means self-mastery over the higher mind and higher vital movements, anger and sensitiveness and pride as well as desire which only need quietude and the rest, not to let them get hold help of the emotional being Force and disturb the inner peace, not Peace behind them to speak come forward more strongly and act in dominate over the rush and impulsion of these things, always to act lower vital and speak out of a calm inner poise of the spirit. It is not easy help to have this equality in any full and perfect measure, but one should always try more and more to make change it the basis of one's inner state and outer movements. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/equalityquiet-theand-chief-supportcalm#p6p24</ref>

A free heart is similarly a heart delivered from the gusts and storms of the affections and the passions; the assailing touch of grief, wrath, hatred, fear, inequality of love, trouble of joy, pain of sorrow fall away from It [peace] has to be brought down to the equal heart, and leave navel first. That gives it a thing largecertain kind of inner stability—though not absolute. There is no method other than aspiration, calm, equal, luminous, divine... When we live in unity with the Divine in ourselves a strong quiet will and the spirit a rejection of all that is not turned towards the universe, these imperfections fall away from us and disappear Divine in those parts into which you call the calm and equal strength and delight of the inner spiritual existence... By equality of the heart we get away from peace—here the troubled desire-soul on the surface, open the gates of this profounder being, bring out its responses and impose their true divine values on all that solicits our emotional being. A free, happy, equal and all-embracing heart of spiritual feeling is the outcome of this perfectionhigher vital. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2430/the-perfectiondescent-of-equalitythe-higher-powers#p7p18</ref>

Outer It is quite true that by going above one can get out of all problems, for they no longer exist, but the problems are there below and it is difficult to be always above with so much unsolved and calling for solution. But just as one can go high above, so one can go deep within and it is this going deep within that is needed. What happened was at the surface of the emotional being and if one simply stays there the difficulties or inconveniences you should of the emotional can come, but what has to be done is not allow to alarm or depress youstay on the surface but go deep within. For the psychic is there behind the emotional surface, deep behind the heart centre. Inner difficulties should also Once one reaches it, these things can no longer touch; what will be met with detachmentthere is the inner peace and happiness, calm equalitythe untroubled aspiration, the unshakable will to conquerpresence or nearness of the Mother. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3129/desirebhakti-devotion-worship#p55p9</ref>

===Refusal & Rejection of Adverse ForcesBy Concentration and Aspiration in the Heart===

This confusion of mind and vital But it is better because if you concentrate there [in theheart], deeply enough, it is there that you enter into contact with the psychic for the first time; while if you must get rid of—you must call concentrate in the true reason and head you have to pass later from the higher vital head to cast out these movements. A higher reason must refuse the heart to listen be able to its self-justifications and tell identify yourself with the psychic being. And if you concentrate by gathering the energies, it that nothingis better to gather them here, however plausiblebecause it is in this centre, can justify these motives in a sadhak; your higher vital must refuse this region of the being that you find the will to accept them [hostile services]progress, telling itthe force of purification, "I do not want these alien things; I do not recognise them as part of myself or my natureand the most intense and effective aspiration. The aspiration that comes from the heart is much more effective than that from the head." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3106/attacks-by-the3-hostilenovember-forces1954#p17p8</ref>

It is always their [There must be a flaming concentration of the lower forces'] endeavour to rise up and get heart on the sanction seeking of the mind All and higher vital—or if they cannot do thatEternal and, when once we have found him, to cover them up so that the lower nature may act a deep plunging and immersion in its ordinary way without being pressed by the higher consciousness to change. The first thing necessary for possession and ecstasy of the sadhak is not to give any consent of his mind or higher vital and to keep them from being coveredAll-Beautiful. If that can There must be done, then it becomes possible to push a strong and immovable concentration of the will on the lower forces out attainment and fulfilment of all that the lower vital Divine is and body a free and not allow them plastic opening of it to return. It is the Mother's Force which you feel—for all the higher forces are hersthat he intends to manifest in us.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3123/steps-towards-overcomingself-difficultiesconsecration#p53p18</ref>

The first thing Another method is for concentration and aspiration in the heart which opens the inner emotional being… But whatever method is used will not bring its effect at once; it must be done persistently, simply, directly till it succeeds. If it is done with a mind and also the higher vital of doubt or watching it as an experiment to withdraw their consent altogether; see if it succeeds or if that it is continually crossed by a spirit of hasty despondency saying constantly, "You see it is doneall useless, " then it becomes only a mechanical return from outside on ought to be obvious that the physical and finally only an active memory which opening will disappear when be very difficult, because there is that clogging it every time there is able a pressure or a push to find no welcome in any part of the natureopen. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sextime-and-change-of-the-nature#p99p10</ref>

It What you have to aspire for and bring down in you is not however a fact that the whole nature has to be emptied peace of the old things before there can be the Light and GraceMother's consciousness. It is done usually Peace, calm, equanimity in different parts of the nature at different times. You had your former experiences because emotional being and the mind and higher vital were sufficiently emptied and quiet to receive some experiences rest of a new consciousness. Now it is the physical mind, physical vital and body especially—it is that have to be emptied—these always take longer than the others because which will purify the physical is more full of old habits, more obstinate in keeping emotions and always repeating them, more slow to receive anything new or to change. But by deliver the detachment and steady rejection and reliance on the Mother's force, this obstinacy can be overcome and the cup emptied for filling with the Divine Lightvital. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3031/emptinessthe-voidnessnature-blanknessof-andthe-silencevital#p13p69</ref>

===Purification By Equality===

I told 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 also but to look at that time that there was them with a third part of straight look, free from the naturedistortions created by personal feeling, and to try to understand what is behind them, the inner being (inner mindwhy they happen, inner vitalwhat is to be learnt from them, what is it in oneself which they are cast against and what inner physical) profit or progress one can make out of which you were not yet awarethem; it means self-mastery over the vital movements, but which must also open in time. It is this that has happened in your last experience. What you felt anger and sensitiveness and pride as well as a part of youdesire and the rest, yourself but not your physical self, rising to meet let them get hold of the higher consciousness above, was this inner emotional being; it was your (and disturb the inner) higher vital being which rose peace, not to speak and act in that way to join the highest Self above—and it was able rush and impulsion of these things, always to do so, because the work act and speak out of a calm inner poise of purifying the outer vital nature had begun in earnestspirit. Each time there It is a purification of the outer naturenot easy to have this equality in any full and perfect measure, but one should always try more and more to make it becomes more possible for the basis of one's inner being to reveal itself, to become free state and to open to the higher consciousness aboveouter movements. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3029/equality-the-psychic-and-spiritualchief-realisationssupport#p15p6</ref>

Love A free heart is similarly a heart delivered from the gusts and storms of the affections and the passions; the assailing touch of grief, wrath, hatred, hope and fear, grief and joy all have their founts in this one source. We like, inequality of love, welcome, hope for, trouble of joy in whatever our nature, pain of sorrow fall away from the first habit of our beingequal heart, or else and leave it a formed (often perverse) habitthing large, calm, equal, luminous, divine. These things are not incumbent on the second essential nature of our being, presents to but the creations of the mind as pleasant, priyam; we hate, dislike, fear, have repulsion from or grief present make of whatever it presents our outward active mental and vital nature and its transactions with its surroundings. The ego-sense which induces us to us act as unpleasantseparate beings who make their isolated claim and experience the test of the values of the universe, apriyamis responsible for these aberrations. This habit When we live in unity with the Divine in ourselves and the spirit of the emotional nature gets into universe, these imperfections fall away from us and disappear in the way calm and equal strength and delight of the intelligent will inner spiritual existence. Always that is within us and makes transforms the outward touches before they reach it often by a helpless slave passage through a subliminal psychic soul in us which is the hidden instrument of its delight of being. By equality of the heart we get away from the troubled desire-soul on the surface, open the gates of this profounder being, bring out its responses and impose their true divine values on all that solicits our emotional being or at least prevents it from exercising a . A free judgment , happy, equal and government all-embracing heart of spiritual feeling is the natureoutcome of this perfection. This deformation has to be corrected<ref>http://incarnateword. By getting rid of desire in /cwsa/24/the psychic prana -perfection-of-equality#p7</ref> ===By Refusal and its intermiscence Rejection of Adverse Forces=== There has been progress in all these parts [''of the emotional mindbeing''], we facilitate but they seem to be subject still to a response to the suggestions of the correctionhostile forces...The restless Everybody gets these suggestions, but they ought not to be allowed to enter inside, especially in the heart can , or to be conquered accepted by the vital. Evidently, they enter through the physical mind (from the throat upwards means that) and affect the surface vital and emotional being. You must get rid the power to reject them from there by a constant and steady denial and refusal of their suggestions. So long as anything in you says "yes" or accepts, there is always the habit possibility of attraction and repulsiona return. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2431/purificationattacks-by-the-lowerhostile-mentalityforces#p7p28</ref>

But then if this is done, it may be thought, as with regard to desire, that this will be This confusion of mind and vital you must get rid of—you must call in the death of true reason and the emotional beinghigher vital to cast out these movements... Then too the right activity of the heart can be brought A higher reason must refuse to listen to the surface; for we find then that behind this emotionits self-ridden soul of desire there was waiting all the while a soul of love justifications and lucid joy and delighttell it that nothing, however plausible, can justify these motives in a pure psychesadhak; your higher vital must refuse to accept them [adverse forces], which was clouded over by the deformations of angertelling it, fear, hatred, repulsion and could "I do not want these alien things; I do not embrace the world with an impartial love and joy. But the purified heart is rid recognise them as part of anger, rid of fear, rid of hatred, rid of every shrinking and repulsion: it has a universal love, it can receive with an untroubled sweetness and clarity the various delight which God gives it in the worldmyself or my nature. " <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2431/purificationattacks-by-the-lowerhostile-mentalityforces#p8 p17</ref>

It is always their [''the psychiclower forces''] can have a very great influence [on endeavour to rise up and get the sanction of the physical mind] by giving it the right attitude and the right way of looking at things higher vital—or if they cannot do that, to cover them up so that it supports the emotional being lower nature may act in its aspiration, love ordinary way without being pressed by the higher consciousness to change. The first thing necessary for the sadhak is not to give any consent of his mind or higher vital and surrender and itself gets interestto keep them from being covered. If that can be done, faith and insight in then it becomes possible to push the inner truth lower forces out of things instead of seeing only their outer aspects the lower vital and following false inferences body and appearancesnot allow them to return. It also helps it to get rid of is the narrowness and doubt Mother's Force which you feel—for all the higher forces are the chief defects of the physical mindhers. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/thesteps-physicaltowards-mind-andovercoming-sadhanadifficulties#p30p53</ref>

...it is the failure of the right attitude that comes in the way of passing through ordeals to a change of nature. The centre pressure is becoming greater now for this change of character even more than for decisive Yoga experience—for if the psychic being is behind experience comes, it fails to be decisive because of the want of the requisite change of nature. The mind, for instance, gets the centre experience of the emotional being; One in all, but the vital cannot follow, because it is dominated by ego-reaction and ego-motive or the habits of the emotional that outer nature keep up a way of thinking, feeling, acting, living which is nearest dynamically to quite out of harmony with the experience. Or the psychic and in most men it is through part of the mind and emotional centre that being feel frequently the psychic can be most easily reached and through closeness of the psychicised emotion that it can be most easily expressed. Many therefore mistake Mother, but the one for rest of the other; but there nature is a world of difference between unoffered and goes its own way prolonging the twodivision from her nearness, creating distance. The emotions normally are vital It is because the Sadhaks have never even tried to have the Yogic attitude in their character all things, they have been contented with the common ideas, common view of things, common motives of life, only varied by inner experiences and not part transferred to the framework of the Asram instead of that of the psychic natureworld outside. It is not enough and there is great need that this should change. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/2810/thejuly-vital-being-and-vital23-consciousness1969#p12p78</ref>

The more love Love and hatred, hope and bhakti fear, grief and surrender grow joy all have their founts in this one source. 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 heartmind 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 more rapid 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 perfect becomes government of the evolution nature. This deformation has to be corrected. By getting rid of desire in the psychic prana and its intermiscence in the sadhanaemotional 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 descent will and transformation imply at the same time an increasing contact intelligence. The restless heart can be conquered and union with get rid of the Divinehabit of attraction and repulsion. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3024/purification-the-psychic-and-spirituallower-realisationsmentality#p23p7</ref>

All that Each time there is needed is for your psychic being to come forward and open you to the direct and real and constant inner contact a purification of myself and the Mother...It is your soul in itself, your psychic being that must come in front, awaken entirely and make the fundamental change. The psychic being will not need the support of intellectual ideas or outer signs and helps. It is that alone that can give you the direct feeling of the Divine, the constant nearnessnature, it becomes more possible for the inner support and aid. You will not then feel the Mother remote or have any farther doubt about the realisation; for the mind thinks and the vital cravesbeing to reveal itself, but the soul feels to become free and knows to open to the Divinehigher consciousness above. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3130/dealingthe-withpsychic-and-hostilespiritual-attacksrealisations#p16p15</ref>

The difficulty is that in everyone there are two people (to say the least)—one in In the outer lower vital and physical clinging all is a working of general forces which try to seize upon the past self individual and trying to get or retain the consent of use him for their satisfaction; they are not his forces at all. In the mind and or the inner being, the other which higher vital it is much easier to establish some kind of control over the soul asking for a new birthforces. That which has spoken in you and made the prayer is the psychic being expressing itself through very reason why one should never put oneself into the aid control of the mind and the higher vital, and it these forces or make oneself a free crossways for their passage. It is this which should always arise in you through prayer and through turning only by opening to the Mother and give you the right idea and the right impulse's force alone that a control can be established over these lower workings. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-difficultieslower-ofvital-human-naturebeing#p12p41</ref>

The condition [for the change This lower part of the lower vital] being is that you must bring the sadhana into your physical consciousness and live for the sadhana and the Divine only. You must give up positively the bad habits that still persist and never resume those that have ceased or been interrupted. Inner experiences are helpful to the mind and higher vital for changealways random, wayward, but for the lower vital and the outer being a sadhana of self-discipline is indispensable. The external actions assertive and unwilling to accept the spirit in them must change—your external thoughts imposition on it of any order and actions must be for the Divine onlydiscipline other than its own idea or impulse. There must be self-restraint, entire truthfulness, a constant thought of Its defects even from the Divine beginning stand in all you do. This is the way for of the change efforts of the lower higher vital. By your constant self-dedication and self-discipline to impose on the Force will be brought down into the external being and the change madenature a truly regenerating tapasya. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-lower-vital-being#p27p8</ref>

Everyone whose psychic being calls him ...the higher vital is usually much less difficult to surrender, for it is under the influence of the spiritual path has a capacity for that path mind and can arrive at times even of the goal if or as soon as he develops a single-pointed will towards that alonepsychic; so it understands more easily. But also every sadhak It is faced with two elements in him, much easier to convert this than the inner being lower vital which wants is essentially the Divine and the sadhana vital of desires and impulses. So, you see, what he means is that the outer mainly lower vital and physical being which does not want them but remains attached can submit, it agrees to the things of the ordinary life. The mind is sometimes led by oneobey, sometimes by the other. One of the most important things he has to dowhat it is asked, therefore, but it is not at all satisfied. It is to decide fundamentally the quarrel between these two parts and to persuade or compel by psychic aspirationnot happy; sometimes it even suffers; it pushes its revolt down into itself through obedience, by steadiness of but it does not collaborate. And unless the mind's thought vital collaborates with joy and willtrue love, by nothing can be done; the choice of the higher vital in his emotional being the opposing elements to be first quiescent and then consentingtransformations cannot come. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3106/the-difficulties-of7-humanjuly-nature1954#p19p8</ref>

This opening ...the emotional mind compelled to take note of all these discords and subject itself to their emotional reactions becomes a hurtling field of the chest into the void (not really the voidjoy and grief, love and hatred, wrath, fear, struggle, aspiration, disgust, likes, dislikes, indifferences, content, discontent, hopes, disappointments, gratitude, but revenge and all the infinite Akash stupendous play of the Chit universal and illimitable) passion which is always the sign of an opening drama of life in the emotional being into the wideness of the Universal Divineworld. The image of the Akash is often seen by sadhaks in DhyanaThis chaos we call our soul. When But the consciousness is liberatedreal soul, whether in the mind or other real psychic entity which for the most partwe see little of and only a small minority in mankind has developed, there is always this sense an instrument of pure love, joy and the wide infinite emptinessluminous reaching out to fusion and unity with God and our fellow-creatures. From the top of the head to the throat This psychic entity is covered up by the mental plane play of the being—a similar opening and emptiness mentalised Prana or wideness here is desire-mind which we mistake for the sign of soul; the emotional mind being freed into the Universal. From the throat is unable to mirror the stomach is real soul in us, the higher vital or emotional region. Below Divine in our hearts, and is obliged instead to mirror the lower vital planedesire-mind. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3023/the-universalrelease-from-the-heart-orand-cosmicthe-consciousnessmind#p39p3</ref>

==Delight of Existence: The Solution=More on Emotional Being=

=The True Psychic= And yet It [''the true emotive soul, psychic''] can have a very great influence [''on the physical mind''] by giving it the right attitude and the right way of looking at things so that it supports the real psyche emotional being in us, is not a desire-soulits aspiration, but a soul of pure love and delight; but thatsurrender and itself gets interest, like faith and insight in the rest inner truth of our true being, can things instead of seeing only emerge when the deformation created by the life their outer aspects and following false inferences and appearances. It also helps it to get rid of desire is removed from the surface narrowness and is no longer doubt which are the characteristic action chief defects of our being. To get that done is a necessary part of our purification, liberation, perfectionthe physical mind. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2431/the-instrumentsphysical-ofmind-theand-spiritsadhana#p7p31</ref>

The full liberation can come It is not possible to us only by a similar liberation say with any precision what the resistance in all our the higher vital partswill be, what form it takes, because it may take different forms with different natures. It is quite normal that there should be some resistance almost at every point to the descent of the higher consciousness; for the different parts of the universal aesthesispresent nature are each more or less attached to their own established way of seeing, acting, feeling, reacting to things and to the habitual movements and formations of their own domain which each individual has made for himself in the universal standpoint past or in his present life. What is needed is a general plasticity of knowledgethe mind, the universal detachment from vital, the physical consciousness, a readiness to give up all attachment to these things and yet sympathy , to accept whatever the higher consciousness brings down with all it however contrary to one's own received ideas, feelings, habits of nature. The greater the plasticity in our nervous and emotional beingany part of the nature, the less the resistance there. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2128/delightthe-vital-ofbeing-existenceand-thevital-solutionconsciousness#p14p15</ref>

=More on =Emotional Beingin Animals==

==Emotional Being The emotional being of animals is often much more psychic than that of men who can be very insensitive. There were recently pictures of the tame tigress kept by a family and afterwards given by them to a Zoo. The look of sorrow on the face of the tigress in Animals==her cage at once gentle and tragically poignant is so intense as to be heartbreaking. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/science-and-yoga#p71</ref>