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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 dominated by 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 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 physical mind aesthetic and emotional parts join together to any extentoffer the soul, the life, it will necessarily be open the whole nature to that which they worship. This approach through adoration can get its full power and impetus only when the mind goes beyond impersonality to the outer attacks that affect awareness of a supreme Personal Being: then all becomes intense, vivid, concrete; the physical and nervous consciousnessheart's emotion, feeling, spiritualised sense reach their absolute; an entire self-giving becomes possible, imperative. The heart has 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, 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 in connection with a transmutation of the psychic thinking mind and all the higher vital and physical parts of consciousnessin their own character. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2822/the-system-of-thetriple-chakrastransformation#p62p15</ref>

==For Need of PeaceTo Find the Psychic Being==

When you are in connection with Man, because he is a mental being, is prone to give the higher worlds above highest importance to the mentalthinking mind and its reason and will and to its way of approach and effectuation of Truth and, even, he is inclined to hold that there is no other. The heart 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 control by the reason and the mental will and intelligence. And yet there is in the psychic heart or even with some behind it a profounder mystic light which, if not what we call intuition,—for that, though not of the higher vital planesmind, then there yet descends through the mind—has yet a direct touch upon Truth and is nearer to the Divine than the human intellect in its pride of knowledge. According to the ancient teaching the seat of the immanent Divine, the peace and Ananda—but connection with hidden Purusha, is in the lower vital worlds can easily bring disturbance and unrestmystic heart,—the secret heart-cave, ''hṛdaye guhāyām'', so long as your vital itself the Upanishads put it,—and, according to the experience of many Yogins, it is not changed and made full from its depths that there comes the voice or the breath of peace and strength and quietthe inner oracle. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3023/innerthe-ascent-experienceof-andthe-outersacrifice-lifei#p12p16</ref>

In The true soul secret in us—subliminal, we have said, but the lower vital all word is misleading, for this presence is a working not situated below the threshold of waking mind, but rather burns in the temple of general forces which try to seize upon the individual inmost heart behind the thick screen of an ignorant mind, life and use him for their satisfaction; they are body, not his forces at allsubliminal but behind the veil,—this veiled psychic entity is the flame of the Godhead always alight within us, inextinguishable even by that dense unconsciousness of any spiritual self within which obscures our outward nature. In It is a flame born out of the mind or Divine and, luminous inhabitant of the higher vital Ignorance, grows in it till it is much easier able to establish some kind of control over turn it towards the forcesKnowledge. That It is the very reason why one should never put oneself into concealed Witness and Control, the hidden Guide, the control Daemon of these forces Socrates, the inner light or make oneself a free crossways for their passageinner voice of the mystic. It is only that which endures and is imperishable in us from birth to birth, untouched by opening to death, decay or corruption, an indestructible spark of the Mother's force alone that a control can be established over these lower workingsDivine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3121/the-lowerdouble-vitalsoul-in-beingman#p41p10</ref>

There has been progress The psychic being is in all these parts [of the being], but they seem to be subject still to a response to heart centre in the suggestions middle of the hostile forces. Everybody gets these suggestions, but they ought chest (not to be allowed to enter inside, especially in the physical heart, or to be accepted by for all the centres are in the middle of the vitalbody), but it is deep behind. Evidently, they enter through When one is going away from the physical mind (from vital into the throat upwards means psychic, it is felt as if one is going deep deep down till one reaches that) and affect central place of the psychic. The surface vital and of the heart centre is the place of the emotional being. You must get the power to reject them ; from there by a constant and steady denial and refusal of their suggestionsone goes deep to find the psychic. So long as anything in you says "yes" or acceptsThe more one goes, there is always the possibility of a returnmore intense becomes the psychic happiness... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3130/attacksthe-bypsychic-thebeing-and-its-role-hostilein-forcessadhana#p28p17 </ref>

==Methods Affection, love, tenderness are in their nature psychic,—the vital has 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 the heart centre. But it wants these 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 Strengthening the Emotional Being ==soul, it naturally feels the attraction of soul to soul, the nearness of soul to soul the union of soul with soul are the things that are to it most abiding and concrete. Mind, vital, body are means of expression and very precious means of expression, but the inner life is for the soul the first thing, the deepest reality, and these have to be subordinated to it and conditioned by it, its expression, its instruments and channel… The emphasis on the mastery of the vital, its subordination and subjection to the spiritual and the psychic is also nothing new, strange or exorbitant. It has been insisted on always for any kind of spiritual life; even the Yogas which seek most to use the vital, like certain forms of Vaishnavism, yet insist on the purification and the total offering of it to the Divine—and the relations with the Divine are an inner realisation, the soul offering itself through the emotional being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/human-relations-and-the-spiritual-life#p7 </ref>

===Concentration & Aspiration in How to Bring Forward the Heart==Emotional Being/Higher Vital?=

Another method This heart and psychic being of man shot through with the threads of the life instincts is concentration a thing of mixed inconstant colours of emotion and soul vibrations, bad and good, happy and aspiration in 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 heart which opens light of knowledge, by a harmonising of the inner emotional being… But whatever method is used will not bring its effect at once; it must can be done persistentlybrought to a tranquil intensity and perfection. The first two elements of this perfection are on one side a high and large sweetness, openness, gentleness, simplycalm, directly till it succeedsclarity, on the other side a strong and ardent force and intensity. … If one can get rid of them In the divine no less than in their central ordinary human character and actionthere are always two strands, sweetness and strength, mildness and force, saumya and raudra, the survival 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 their activity the Rudra power in the circumference does not so much matter; for then the opening becomes possibleheart are stormy passion, wrath and fierceness and harshness, hardness, brutality, cruelty, both to make egoistic ambition and love of violence and domination. These and other human perversions have to keep be got rid of by the flowering of a calm, clear and the rest can followsweet psychical being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3124/time-andthe-changepower-of-the-natureinstruments#p10</ref>

What you have to aspire for and bring down in you is And yet the peace of true emotive soul, the Mother's consciousness. Peacereal psyche in us, calmis not a desire-soul, equanimity in the emotional being 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 vital especially—it life of desire is that which will purify removed from the emotions surface and deliver is no longer the vitalcharacteristic action of our being. To get that done is a necessary part of our purification, liberation, perfection. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3124/the-natureinstruments-of-the-vitalspirit#p67p7</ref>

Always get back 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 quietudebe prominent at the time. It The one that has no feelings against anyone is through either the psychic being or the emotional being in the heart, the quietude 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 attitude 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 understanding and movements come backkindly, 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.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/quietpractical-concerns-andin-calmwork#p24p21</ref>

It [peace] The heart is part of the vital—it has to be brought down to controlled in the same way as the heart and navel first. That gives it a certain kind rest, by rejection of inner stability—though not absolute. There is no method other than aspirationthe wrong movements, a strong quiet will and a rejection by acceptance of the true psychic surrender which prevents all that demand and clamour, by calling in the higher light and knowledge. It is not turned towards usually however the Divine in those parts into which you call heart that bothers about mental questions and the peace—here the emotional and higher vitalanswer to them. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3028/the-descentvital-ofbeing-theand-highervital-powersconsciousness#p18p28</ref>

It is quite true that by going above one can get out of There must be implanted and activised in all problems, for they no longer existour doings a supreme, 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 aboveimpersonal, so one can go deep within unfaltering and it is this going deep within that is needed...Once one reaches it, these things can no longer touch; what unstumbling will be there is the inner peace in spontaneous and happiness, the untroubled aspiration, unison with the presence or nearness will of the MotherDivine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/bhakti-devotion-worship#p9</ref> ===The Perfection unsatisfying surface play of Equality=== Equality means a quiet our feeble egoistic emotions must be ousted and unmoved mind and vital; it means not to there must be touched or disturbed by things that happen or things said or done to you but to look at them with revealed instead a straight look, free from the distortions created by personal feeling, secret deep and to try to understand what is vast psychic heart within that waits 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 themfor its hour; it means self-mastery over the vital movementsall our feelings, 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 impelled by this inner peace, not to speak and act heart in which dwells the rush and impulsion of these thingsDivine, always to act will be transmuted into calm and speak out intense movements of a calm inner poise twin passion of the spirit. It is not easy to have this equality in any full divine Love and perfect measure, but one should always try more and more to make it the basis of one's inner state and outer movementsmanifold Ananda. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2923/equalityself-surrender-in-works-the-chiefway-of-the-supportgita#p6p4</ref>

A free heart It is similarly a the inner offering of the heart delivered from 's adoration, the gusts and storms soul of it in the affections and symbol, the passions; spirit of it in the assailing touch of griefact, wrath, hatred, fear, inequality that is the very life of lovethe sacrifice. If this offering is to be complete and universal, trouble then a turning of joy, pain all our emotions to the Divine is imperative. This is the intensest way of sorrow fall away from purification for the equal human heart, more powerful than any ethical or aesthetic catharsis could ever be by its half-power and leave it a thing large, calm, equal, luminous, divinesuperficial pressure... When we live in unity A psychic fire within must be lit into which all is thrown with the Divine in ourselves Name upon it. In 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 spirit of the universe, these imperfections fall away from us largest love and disappear in a stainless divine delight arises out of the calm @165@ flame and equal strength smoke and delight of the inner spiritual existencefrankincense... By equality of It is the heart we get away from the troubled desire-soul on the surfacedivine love which so emerges that, open extended in inward feeling to the gates of this profounder being, bring out its responses Divine in man and impose their true divine values on all that solicits our emotional being. A freecreatures in an active universal equality, happy, equal will be more potent for the perfectibility of life and all-embracing heart of spiritual feeling is a more real instrument than the outcome ineffective mental ideal of this perfectionbrotherhood can ever be. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2423/the-perfectionascent-of-equalitythe-sacrifice-ii#p7p12</ref>

Outer difficulties or inconveniences you should not allow This faith, ''kalyāṇa-śraddhā'', is needed in order that the heart and the whole overt psychic being may respond to alarm or depress youthe secret divine Ananda and change itself into this true original essence. Inner difficulties should This faith and will must be accompanied by and open into an illimitable widest and intensest capacity for love. For the main business of the heart, its true function is love. It is our destined instrument of complete union and oneness; for to see oneness in the world by the understanding is not enough unless we also be met feel it with detachmentthe heart and in the psychic being, calm equalityand this means a delight in the 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 founded on a perception of the one Divine immanent in all things and leading the world. The universal love has to be founded on the heart's sight and psychical and emotional sense of the one Divine, the unshakable one Self in all existence. All four elements will then form a unity and even the Rudra power to conquerdo battle for the right and the good proceed on the basis of a power of universal love. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3124/desirethe-power-of-the-instruments#p55p12</ref>

===Refusal & Rejection of Adverse ForcesBy Peace and Quietude===

This confusion of mind and vital you must Always get rid of—you must call in back to quietude. It is through the quietude that the true reason right attitude and understanding and movements come back. It is natural for the higher lower vital to cast out these movements. A higher reason must refuse be made up of feelings, impulses and desires and to listen be attached to its self-justifications and tell it outer things—but that nothing, however plausible, can justify these motives in is only a sadhak; your part of you. There is also the psychic and the higher mind and higher vital must refuse which only need quietude and the help of the Force and Peace behind them to accept them [hostile services], telling come forward more strongly and dominate over the lower vital and help to change it, "I do not want these alien things; I do not recognise them as part of myself or my nature." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3129/attacksquiet-by-the-hostileand-forcescalm#p17p24</ref>

It is always their [the lower forces'peace] endeavour has to be brought down to rise up and get the sanction of the mind heart and higher vital—or if they cannot do that, to cover them up so that the lower nature may act in its ordinary way without being pressed by the higher consciousness to change. The navel first thing necessary for the sadhak is not to give any consent of his mind or higher vital and to keep them from being covered. If that can be done, then That gives it becomes possible to push the lower forces out a certain kind of the lower vital and body and inner stability—though not allow them to returnabsolute. It There is no method other than aspiration, a strong quiet will and a rejection of all that is not turned towards the Mother's Force Divine in those parts into which you feel—for all call the peace—here the emotional and higher forces are hersvital.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3130/stepsthe-descent-of-towardsthe-overcominghigher-difficultiespowers#p53p18</ref>

The first thing It is quite true that by going above one can get out of all problems, for they no longer exist, but the mind problems are there below and also the higher vital it is difficult to withdraw their consent altogether; if 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 of the emotional can come, but what has to be doneis not to stay on the surface but go deep within. For the psychic is there behind the emotional surface, deep behind the heart centre. Once one reaches it becomes only a mechanical return from outside on , these things can no longer touch; what will be there is the physical inner peace and finally only an active memory which will disappear when it is able to find no welcome in any part happiness, the untroubled aspiration, the presence or nearness of the natureMother. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3129/sexbhakti-devotion-worship#p99p9</ref>

It But it is not however a fact better because if you concentrate there [in theheart], deeply enough, it is there that you enter into contact with the whole nature has to be emptied of psychic for the old things before there can be the Light and Grace. It is done usually first time; while if you concentrate in different parts of the nature at different times. You had your former experiences because head you have to pass later from the mind and higher vital were sufficiently emptied and quiet head to receive some experiences of a new consciousness. Now it is the physical mind, physical vital and body that have heart to be emptied—these always take longer than able to identify yourself with the others because psychic being. And if you concentrate by gathering the physical energies, it is more full of old habitsbetter to gather them here, more obstinate because it is in keeping and always repeating themthis centre, more slow in this region of the being that you find the will to receive anything new or to change. But by the detachment and steady rejection and reliance on progress, the Mother's forceof purification, this obstinacy can be overcome and the cup emptied for filling with most intense and effective aspiration. The aspiration that comes from the heart is much more effective than that from the Divine Lighthead. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3006/emptiness3-voidness-blankness-andnovember-silence1954#p13p8</ref>

I told you also at that time that there was There must be a third part flaming concentration of the nature, heart on the seeking of the inner being (inner mindAll and Eternal and, inner vitalwhen once we have found him, inner physical) a deep plunging and immersion in the possession and ecstasy of which you were not yet aware, but which the All-Beautiful. There must also open in time. It is this that has happened in your last experience. What you felt as be a part strong and immovable concentration of you, yourself but not your physical self, rising to meet the higher consciousness above, was this inner being; it was your (inner) higher vital being which rose in that way to join will on the highest Self above—and it was able to do so, because the work attainment and fulfilment of purifying all that the outer vital nature had begun in earnest. Each time there Divine is and a purification free and plastic opening of the outer nature, it becomes more possible for the inner being to reveal itself, all that he intends to become free and to open to the higher consciousness abovemanifest in us. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3023/the-psychic-and-spiritualself-realisationsconsecration#p15p18</ref>

Love Another method is concentration and hatred, hope and fear, grief and joy all have their founts aspiration 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, heart which opens the second nature of our being, presents to the mind as pleasant, priyaminner emotional being… But whatever method is used will not bring its effect at once; we hate, dislikeit must be done persistently, fearsimply, have repulsion from or grief of whatever directly till it presents to us as unpleasant, apriyamsucceeds. This habit of the emotional nature gets into the way of the intelligent will and makes If it often is done with a helpless slave mind of the emotional being doubt or watching it as an experiment to see if it succeeds or at least prevents if it from exercising is continually crossed by a free judgment and government spirit of the nature. This deformation has hasty despondency saying constantly, "You see it is all useless," then it ought to be corrected. By getting rid of desire in obvious that the psychic prana and its intermiscence in the emotional mindopening will be very difficult, we facilitate the correction...The restless heart can be conquered and get rid of the habit of attraction and repulsionbecause there is that clogging it every time there is a pressure or a push to open. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2431/purificationtime-and-change-of-the-lower-mentalitynature#p7p10</ref>

But then if this What you have to aspire for and bring down in you is donethe peace of the Mother's consciousness. Peace, it may be thoughtcalm, as with regard to desire, that this will be the death of equanimity in the emotional being... Then too and the right activity rest of the heart can be brought to the surface; for we find then vital especially—it is that behind this emotion-ridden soul of desire there was waiting all the while a soul of love and lucid joy and delight, a pure psyche, which was clouded over by the deformations of anger, fear, hatred, repulsion and could not embrace will purify the world with an impartial love and joy. But the purified heart is rid 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 emotions and clarity deliver the various delight which God gives it in the worldvital. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2431/purificationthe-nature-of-the-lower-mentalityvital#p8 p69</ref>

=The Difficulty of Lower Vital Forces==By Equality===

This lower part of 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 being distortions created by personal feeling, and to try to understand what is always randombehind them, waywardwhy they happen, self-assertive and unwilling what is to accept the imposition on be learnt from them, what is it of any order in oneself which they are cast against and discipline other than its own idea what inner profit or impulse. Its defects even from progress one can make out of them; it means self-mastery over the beginning stand in vital movements, anger and sensitiveness and pride as well as desire and the way rest, not to let them get hold of the efforts of emotional being and disturb the higher vital inner peace, not to impose on speak and act in the nature a truly regenerating tapasya. This habit rush and impulsion of disobedience these things, always to act and disregard speak out of a calm inner poise of discipline the spirit. It is so strong that it does not always need easy to be deliberate; the response to it seems to be immediatehave this equality in any full and perfect measure, irresistible but one should always try more and instinctive. Thus obedience more to make it the Mother is repeatedly promised or professed, but the action done or the course followed is frequently the very opposite basis of the profession or promise. This constant indiscipline is a radical obstacle to the sadhana one's inner state and the worst possible example to othersouter movements. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3129/equality-the-lowerchief-vital-beingsupport#p8p6</ref>

It was A free heart is similarly a heart delivered from the gusts and storms of the affections and the soul withinpassions; the assailing touch of grief, wrath, hatred, fear, inequality of love, trouble of joy, first pain of allsorrow fall away from the equal heart, and through leave it a thing large, calm, equal, luminous, divine. These things are not incumbent on the higher mind essential nature of our being, but the creations of the present make of our outward active mental and the higher vitalnature and its transactions with its surroundings. Why then find fault with the Divine for misleading you when it turned you The ego-sense which induces us to act as separate beings who make their isolated claim and experience the Yoga or brought you here? It was simply answering to test of the demand values of your own inner being the universe, is responsible for these aberrations. When we live in unity with the Divine in ourselves and the higher parts spirit of your nature. If you have so much difficulty and become restlessthe universe, it is because you are still divided these imperfections fall away from us and something disappear in your lower vital still regrets what it has lost or, as a price for its adhesion or a compensation—a price to be immediately paid down to it,—asks for something similar the calm and equal strength and equivalent in delight of the inner spiritual lifeexistence. It refuses to believe Always that there is within us and transforms the outward touches before they reach it by a greater compensation, passage through a larger vital life waiting for it subliminal psychic soul in us which there shall not be is the old inadequacy and unrest and final dissatisfactionhidden instrument of its delight of being. The foolishness is not in By equality of the heart we get away from the troubled desire-soul on the Divine guidancesurface, but in open the irrational and obstinate resistance gates of this confused profounder being, bring out its responses and obscure part of you to the demandimpose their true divine values on all that solicits our emotional being. A free, made not only by this Yogahappy, but by equal and all Yoga—to the necessary conditions for the satisfaction -embracing heart of spiritual feeling is the aspiration outcome of your own soul and higher naturethis perfection.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2924/bhaktithe-yogaperfection-andof-vaishnavismequality#p29p7</ref>

==Role =By Refusal and Rejection of PsychicAdverse Forces===

It There has been progress in all these parts [''of the psychicbeing''] can have , but they seem to be subject still to a very great influence [on response to the suggestions of the hostile forces. Everybody gets these suggestions, but they ought not to be allowed to enter inside, especially in the heart, or to be accepted by the vital. Evidently, they enter through the physical mind] by giving it (from the right attitude throat upwards means that) and affect the right way of looking at things so that it supports the surface vital and emotional being in its aspiration, love and surrender . You must get the power to reject them from there by a constant and itself gets interest, faith steady denial and insight in the inner truth of things instead refusal of seeing only their outer aspects and following false inferences and appearancessuggestions. It also helps it to get rid of the narrowness and doubt which are So long as anything in you says "yes" or accepts, there is always the chief defects possibility of the physical minda return. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/theattacks-physicalby-mindthe-andhostile-sadhanaforces#p30p28</ref>

The centre This confusion of mind and vital you must get rid of—you must call in the psychic being is behind true reason and the centre of the emotional being; it is the emotional that is nearest dynamically higher vital to cast out these movements. A higher reason must refuse to listen to the psychic its self-justifications and in most men tell it is through the emotional centre that the psychic nothing, however plausible, can be most easily reached and through the psychicised emotion that justify these motives in a sadhak; your higher vital must refuse to accept them [adverse forces], telling it can be most easily expressed. Many therefore mistake the one for the other, "I do not want these alien things; but there is a world of difference between the two. The emotions normally are vital in their character and I do not recognise them as part of the psychic myself or my nature. " <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2831/theattacks-vitalby-beingthe-and-vitalhostile-consciousnessforces#p12p17</ref>

The more love It is always their [''the lower forces''] endeavour to rise up and bhakti get the sanction of the mind and surrender grow higher vital—or if they cannot do that, to cover them up so that the lower nature may act in its ordinary way without being pressed by the heart, higher consciousness to change. The first thing necessary for the more rapid sadhak is not to give any consent of his mind or higher vital and perfect to keep them from being covered. If that can be done, then it becomes possible to push the evolution lower forces out of the sadhanalower vital and body and not allow them to return. For the descent and transformation imply at It is the same time an increasing contact and union with Mother's Force which you feel—for all the Divinehigher forces are hers. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3031/thesteps-psychic-andtowards-spiritualovercoming-realisationsdifficulties#p23p53</ref>

All ...it is the failure of the right attitude that comes in the way of passing through ordeals to a change of nature. The pressure is needed is becoming greater now for this change of character even more than for your psychic being to come forward and open you decisive Yoga experience—for if the experience comes, it fails to be decisive because of the direct and real and constant inner contact want of myself and the Motherrequisite change of nature...It is your soul The mind, for instance, gets the experience of the One in itselfall, your psychic being that must come in frontbut the vital cannot follow, awaken entirely because it is dominated by ego-reaction and make ego-motive or the fundamental changehabits of the outer nature keep up a way of thinking, feeling, acting, living which is quite out of harmony with the experience. The Or the psychic and part of the mind and emotional being will not need feel frequently the closeness of the Mother, but the support rest of intellectual ideas or outer signs the nature is unoffered and helpsgoes its own way prolonging the division from her nearness, creating distance. It is that alone that can give you because the direct feeling of Sadhaks have never even tried to have the DivineYogic attitude in all things, they have been contented with the constant nearnesscommon ideas, common view of things, common motives of life, the only varied by inner support experiences and aid. You will not then feel transferred to the Mother remote or have any farther doubt about framework of the realisation; for Asram instead of that of the mind thinks world outside. It is not enough and the vital craves, but the soul feels and knows the Divinethere is great need that this should change. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3110/dealing-withjuly-hostile23-attacks1969#p16p78</ref>

The difficulty is that Love and hatred, hope and fear, grief and joy all have their founts in this one source. We like, love, welcome, hope for, joy in everyone there are two people whatever our nature, the first habit of our being, or else a formed (to say the leastoften perverse)—one in habit, the outer vital and physical clinging second nature of our being, presents to the past self and trying mind as pleasant, ''priyam''; we hate, dislike, fear, have repulsion from or grief of whatever it presents to get or retain us as unpleasant, ''apriyam''. This habit of the emotional nature gets into the consent way of the mind intelligent will and makes it often a helpless slave of the inner emotional being, or at least prevents it from exercising a free judgment and government of the other which is the soul asking for a new birthnature. That which This deformation has spoken to be corrected. By getting rid of desire in you the psychic prana and made its intermiscence in the emotional mind, we facilitate the prayer correction.For then attachment which is the psychic being expressing itself through strong bond of the aid of heart, falls away from the mind and heart-strings; the higher vitalinvoluntary habit of ''rāga-dveṣa'' remains, but, not being made obstinate by attachment, and it is this which should always arise in you through prayer can be dealt with more easily by the will and through turning to the Mother intelligence. The restless heart can be conquered and give you get rid of the right idea habit of attraction and the right impulserepulsion. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3124/purification-the-difficulties-of-humanlower-naturementality#p12p7</ref>

The condition [for the change Each time there is a purification of the lower vital] is that you must bring the sadhana into your physical consciousness and live outer nature, it becomes more possible for the sadhana inner being to reveal itself, to become free and to open to the Divine onlyhigher consciousness above. You must give up positively the bad habits that still persist and never resume those that have ceased or been interrupted<ref>http://incarnateword. Inner experiences are helpful to in/cwsa/30/the mind -psychic-and higher vital for change, but for -spiritual-realisations#p15</ref> =The Lower Vital Nature= In the lower vital and the outer being all is a sadhana working of self-discipline is indispensable. The external actions and general forces which try to seize upon the spirit in them must change—your external thoughts individual and actions must be use him for their satisfaction; they are not his forces at all. In the mind or the Divine only. There must be self-restraint, entire truthfulness, a constant thought higher vital it is much easier to establish some kind of control over the Divine in all you doforces. This That is the way for very reason why one should never put oneself into the change control of the lower vitalthese forces or make oneself a free crossways for their passage. By your constant self-dedication and self-discipline It is only by opening to the Force will Mother's force alone that a control can be brought down into the external being and the change madeestablished over these lower workings. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-lower-vital-being#p27p41</ref>

Everyone whose psychic This lower part of the being calls him to the spiritual path has a capacity for that path and can arrive at the goal if or as soon as he develops a single-pointed will towards that alone. But also every sadhak is faced with two elements in himalways random, wayward, the inner being which wants the Divine and the sadhana and the outer mainly vital self-assertive and physical being which does not want them but remains attached unwilling to accept the things imposition on it of the ordinary life. The mind is sometimes led by one, sometimes by the any order and discipline otherthan its own idea or impulse. One of Its defects even from the most important things he has to do, therefore, is to decide fundamentally beginning stand in the quarrel between these two parts and to persuade or compel by psychic aspiration, by steadiness way of the mind's thought and will, by the choice efforts of the higher vital in his emotional being to impose on the opposing elements to be first quiescent and then consentingnature a truly regenerating tapasya. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-difficultieslower-ofvital-human-naturebeing#p19p8</ref>

This opening of ...the chest into the void (not really the voidhigher vital is usually much less difficult to surrender, but for it is under the infinite Akash influence of the Chit universal mind and illimitable) is always the sign of an opening at times even of the emotional being into psychic; so it understands more easily. It is much easier to convert this than the wideness of lower vital which is essentially the Universal Divine. The image vital of the Akash is often seen by sadhaks in Dhyanadesires and impulses. When the consciousness is liberatedSo, whether in the mind or other partyou see, there what he means is always this sense of that the wide infinite emptiness. From the top of the head lower vital can submit, it agrees to obey, to the throat do what it is asked, but it is the mental plane of the being—a similar opening and emptiness or wideness here not at all satisfied. It is the sign of the mind being freed not happy; sometimes it even suffers; it pushes its revolt down into the Universalitself through obedience, but it does not collaborate. From the throat to the stomach is And unless the higher vital or emotional region. Below is collaborates with joy and true love, nothing can be done; the lower vital planetransformations cannot come. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3006/the-universal-or7-cosmicjuly-consciousness1954#p39p8</ref>

And yet =More on Emotional Being= 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>