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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 , the central psychic being, influences the superficial parts of the consciousness (superficial in comparison with it: mental parts, vital parts). The purest mind, the highest vital, the emotive being—the soul influences them, influences them to an extent where one has the impression of entering into contact with it through these parts of the emotional being . So people take these parts for the soul and that is why he says "the inmost soul", that is, the central soul, the real soul.  For very often, when one touches certain parts of the mind which are under the psychic influence and full of light and the joy of that light, or when one touches certain very pure and very high parts of the emotive being which has the most easily expressesgenerous, most unselfish emotions, one also has the impression of being in contact with one's soul. But this is not the true soul, for it stands just behind it is not the soul in its very essence. These are parts of the heart centrebeing under its influence and manifesting something of it.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3107/human-relations-and-the3-spiritualaugust-life1955#p7 p9</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 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>

==Methods The true soul secret in us—subliminal, we have said, but the word is misleading, for this presence is not situated below the threshold of waking mind, but rather burns in the temple of the inmost heart behind the thick screen of an ignorant mind, life and body, not subliminal 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. It is a flame born out of the Divine and, luminous inhabitant of Strengthening the Emotional Being ==Ignorance, grows in it till it is able to turn it towards the Knowledge. It is the concealed Witness and Control, the hidden Guide, the Daemon of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice of the mystic. It is that which endures and is imperishable in us from birth to birth, untouched by death, decay or corruption, an indestructible spark of the Divine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-double-soul-in-man#p10</ref>

Another method The psychic being is concentration and aspiration in the heart which opens centre in the middle of the inner emotional being… But whatever method is used will chest (not bring its effect at once; it must be done persistentlyin the physical heart, simplyfor all the centres are in the middle of the body), directly till but it succeedsis deep behind. … If When one is going away from the vital into the psychic, it is felt as if one is going deep deep down till one can get rid reaches that central place of the psychic. The surface of them in their central action, the survival heart centre is the place of their activity in the circumference does not so much matteremotional being; for then from there one goes deep to find the psychic. The more one goes, the opening more intense becomes possible, both to make and to keep and the rest can followpsychic happiness... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3130/timethe-psychic-being-and-changeits-ofrole-thein-naturesadhana#p10p17 </ref>

What you have Affection, love, tenderness are in their nature psychic,—the vital has them because the psychic is trying to aspire 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 bring down in you the physical, but as the psychic being is the peace form of the soul, it naturally feels the attraction of soul to soul, the nearness of soul to soul the Mother's consciousnessunion of soul with soul are the things that are to it most abiding and concrete. PeaceMind, vital, body are means of expression and very precious means of expression, calmbut the inner life is for the soul the first thing, equanimity in the emotional being deepest reality, and these have to be subordinated to it and conditioned by it, its expression, its instruments and channel… The emphasis on the rest mastery of the vital especially—it , its subordination and subjection to the spiritual and the psychic is that also nothing new, strange or exorbitant. It has been insisted on always for any kind of spiritual life; even the Yogas which will purify seek most to use the emotions vital, like certain forms of Vaishnavism, yet insist on the purification and deliver the vitaltotal 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/thehuman-naturerelations-ofand-the-vitalspiritual-life#p67p7 </ref>

<center>~<=How to Bring Forward the Emotional Being/center>Higher Vital?=

Always get back 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 quietudea tranquil intensity and perfection. It is through 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 divine no less than in ordinary human character and action there are always two strands, sweetness and strength, mildness and force, saumya and raudra, the quietude force that bears and harmonises, the right attitude force that imposes itself and compels, Vishnu and understanding Ishana, Shiva and movements come backRudra. 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/2924/quietthe-power-andof-the-calminstruments#p24p10</ref>

It [peace] has to be brought down to And yet the heart and navel first. That gives it true emotive soul, the real psyche in us, is not a certain kind of inner stability—though not absolute. There is no method other than aspirationdesire-soul, but a strong quiet will soul of pure love and a rejection delight; but that, like the rest of all that is not turned towards our true being, can only emerge when the Divine in those parts into which you call deformation created by the peace—here life of desire is removed from the emotional surface and higher vitalis 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/3024/the-descentinstruments-of-the-higher-powersspirit#p18p7</ref>

It In fact each human being is quite true composed of different personalities that feel and behave in a different way and his action is determined by going above the one can get out of all problems, for they no longer exist, but the problems are there below and it is difficult that happens to be always above with so much unsolved and calling for solutionprominent at the time. But just as The one can go high abovethat has no feelings against anyone is either the psychic being or the emotional being in the heart, so the one can go deep within that feels anger and it is this going deep within that severe is neededa 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.Once one reaches itFor instance, these people can be allowed to do things can no longer touch; in their own way when that does not spoil the work, when it is only their way of doing what will is necessary to be there done; when their way is opposed to the discipline of the inner peace work, then they have to be controlled, but it should be done quietly and happinesskindly, not with anger. Very often, if one has developed a silent power of putting the Mother's force on the untroubled aspirationwork with one's own will as instrument, that by itself may be sufficient without having to say anything as the presence or nearness person changes his way of the Motherhimself as if by his own initiative. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/bhaktipractical-devotionconcerns-in-worshipwork#p9p21</ref>

Equality means a quiet and unmoved mind and vital; it means not to be touched or disturbed by things that happen or things said or done to you but to look at them with a straight look, free from The heart is part of the distortions created by personal feeling, and to try to understand what is behind them, why they happen, what is vital—it has to be learnt from them, what is it controlled in oneself which they are cast against and what inner profit or progress one can make out of them; it means self-mastery over the vital movements, anger and sensitiveness and pride same way as well as desire and the rest, not to let them get hold by rejection of the wrong movements, by acceptance of the emotional being true psychic surrender which prevents all demand and disturb the inner peaceclamour, not to speak and act by calling in the rush and impulsion of these things, always to act higher light and speak out of a calm inner poise of the spiritknowledge. It is not easy to have this equality in any full usually however the heart that bothers about mental questions and perfect measure, but one should always try more and more the answer to make it the basis of one's inner state and outer movementsthem. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2928/equalitythe-vital-being-theand-chiefvital-supportconsciousness#p6p28</ref>

A free heart is similarly There must be implanted and activised in all our doings 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 joysupreme, pain of sorrow fall away from the equal heartimpersonal, unfaltering and leave it a thing large, calm, equal, luminous, divine... When we live unstumbling will in unity spontaneous and untroubled unison with the will of the Divine in ourselves and the spirit . The unsatisfying surface play of the universe, these imperfections fall away from us our feeble egoistic emotions must be ousted and disappear in the calm and equal strength there must be revealed instead a secret deep and delight of the inner spiritual existence... By equality of the vast psychic heart we get away from the troubled desire-soul on the surface, open the gates of this profounder being, bring out within that waits behind them for its responses and impose their true divine values on hour; all that solicits our emotional being. A freefeelings, happyimpelled by this inner heart in which dwells the Divine, equal will be transmuted into calm and all-embracing heart intense movements of spiritual feeling is the outcome a twin passion of this perfectiondivine Love and manifold Ananda. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2423/self-surrender-in-works-the-perfectionway-of-equalitythe-gita#p7p4</ref>

Outer difficulties or inconveniences you should not allow It 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 complete and universal, then a turning of all our emotions to alarm the Divine is imperative. This is the intensest way of purification for the human heart, more powerful than any ethical or depress youaesthetic catharsis could ever be by its half-power and superficial pressure. Inner difficulties should also A psychic fire within must be met lit into which all is thrown with detachmentthe Divine 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 largest love and a stainless divine delight arises out of the@165@ flame and smoke and frankincense. It is the divine love which so emerges that, calm extended in inward feeling to the Divine in man and all creatures in an active universal equality, will be more potent for the unshakable will to conquerperfectibility of life and a more real instrument than the ineffective mental ideal of brotherhood can ever be. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3123/desirethe-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p55p12</ref>

===Refusal & Rejection of Adverse ForcesBy Faith===

This confusion of mind and vital you must get rid of—you must call faith, ''kalyāṇa-śraddhā'', is needed in order that the true reason heart and the higher vital whole overt psychic being may respond to cast out these movementsthe secret divine Ananda and change itself into this true original essence. A higher reason This faith and will must refuse to listen to be accompanied by and open into an illimitable widest and intensest capacity for love. For the main business of the heart, its self-justifications true function is love. It is our destined instrument of complete union and tell oneness; for to see oneness in the world by the understanding is not enough unless we also feel it that nothingwith the heart and in the psychic being, however plausibleand this means a delight in the One and in all existences in the world in him, can justify these motives a love of God and all beings. The heart's faith and will in good are founded on a sadhak; your higher vital must refuse perception of the one Divine immanent in all things and leading the world. The universal love has to accept them [hostile services]be founded on the heart's sight and psychical and emotional sense of the one Divine, telling it, "I the one Self in all existence. All four elements will then form a unity and even the Rudra power to do not want these alien things; I do not recognise them as part battle for the right and the good proceed on the basis of a power of myself or my natureuniversal love." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3124/attacksthe-bypower-of-the-hostile-forcesinstruments#p17p12</ref>

Always get back to quietude. It is always their [through the quietude that the right attitude and understanding and movements come back. It is natural for the lower forces'] endeavour vital to rise be made up of feelings, impulses and get the sanction of the mind desires and higher vital—or if they cannot do that, to cover them up so be attached to outer things—but that is only a part of you. There is also the lower nature may act in its ordinary way without being pressed by psychic and the higher consciousness to change. The first thing necessary for the sadhak is not to give any consent of his mind or and higher vital which only need quietude and to keep the help of the Force and Peace behind them from being covered. If that can be done, then it becomes possible to push the lower forces out of come forward more strongly and dominate over the lower vital and body and not allow them help to return. It is the Mother's Force which you feel—for all the higher forces are herschange it.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3129/stepsquiet-towards-overcomingand-difficultiescalm#p53p24</ref>

The first thing is for It [peace] has to be brought down to the mind heart and also the higher vital to withdraw their consent altogether; if that navel first. That gives it a certain kind of inner stability—though not absolute. There is doneno method other than aspiration, it becomes only a mechanical return from outside on the physical strong quiet will and finally only an active memory which will disappear when it a rejection of all that is able to find no welcome not turned towards the Divine in any part of those parts into which you call the peace—here the natureemotional and higher vital. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3130/sexthe-descent-of-the-higher-powers#p99p18</ref>

It is not however a fact quite true that the whole nature has to be emptied by going above one can get out of all problems, for they no longer exist, but the old things before problems are there can below and it is difficult to be the Light always above with so much unsolved and Gracecalling for solution. It But just as one can go high above, so one can go deep within and it is this going deep within that is done usually in different parts needed. What happened was at the surface of the nature at different times. You had your former experiences because emotional being and if one simply stays there the mind and higher vital were sufficiently emptied and quiet to receive some experiences difficulties of a new consciousness. Now it is the physical mindemotional can come, physical vital and body that have but what has to be emptied—these always take longer than done is not to stay on the others because surface but go deep within. For the physical psychic is more full of old habitsthere behind the emotional surface, more obstinate in keeping and always repeating themdeep behind the heart centre. Once one reaches it, more slow to receive anything new or to change. But by these things can no longer touch; what will be there is the detachment inner peace and steady rejection and reliance on happiness, the Mother's forceuntroubled aspiration, this obstinacy can be overcome and the cup emptied for filling with presence or nearness of the Divine LightMother. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3029/emptinessbhakti-voidness-blankness-anddevotion-silenceworship#p13p9</ref>

===Purification By Concentration and Aspiration in the Heart===

I told But it is better because if you also at concentrate there [in theheart], deeply enough, it is there that you enter into contact with the psychic for the first time that there was a third part of ; while if you concentrate in the head you have to pass later from the head to the nature, heart to be able to identify yourself with the inner psychic being (inner mind. And if you concentrate by gathering the energies, inner vitalit is better to gather them here, inner physical) of which you were not yet awarebecause it is in this centre, but which must also open in time. It is this that has happened in your last experience. What you felt as a part region 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 you find the highest Self above—and it was able will to do soprogress, because the work force of purifying purification, and the outer vital nature had begun in earnestmost intense and effective aspiration. Each time there The aspiration that comes from the heart is a purification of the outer nature, it becomes much more possible for the inner being to reveal itself, to become free and to open to effective than that from the higher consciousness abovehead. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3006/the-psychic-and3-spiritualnovember-realisations1954#p15p8</ref>

Love There must be a flaming concentration of the heart on the seeking of the All and hatred, hope Eternal and fear, grief and joy all when once we have their founts in this one source. We likefound him, love, welcome, hope for, joy a deep plunging and immersion in whatever our nature, the first habit possession and ecstasy of our being, or else a formed (often perverse) habit, the second nature of our being, presents to the mind as pleasant, priyam; we hate, dislike, fear, have repulsion from or grief of whatever it presents to us as unpleasant, ''apriyam''All-Beautiful. This habit There must be a strong and immovable concentration of the emotional nature gets into will on the way attainment and fulfilment of all that the intelligent will Divine is and makes it often a helpless slave of the emotional being or at least prevents it from exercising a free judgment and government plastic opening of the nature. This deformation has it to all that he intends to be corrected. By getting rid of desire manifest in the psychic prana and its intermiscence in the emotional mind, we facilitate the correction...The restless heart can be conquered and get rid of the habit of attraction and repulsionus. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2423/purification-the-lowerself-mentalityconsecration#p7p18</ref>

Another method is concentration and aspiration in the heart which opens the inner emotional being… But then if this whatever method is done, used will not bring its effect at once; it may must be thoughtdone persistently, as with regard to desiresimply, that this will be the death of the emotional beingdirectly till it succeeds... Then too the right activity If it is done with a mind of the heart can be brought doubt or watching it as an experiment to the surface; for we find then that behind this emotion-ridden soul of desire there was waiting all the while see if it succeeds or if it is continually crossed by a soul spirit of love and lucid joy and delighthasty despondency saying constantly, a pure psyche"You see it is all useless, which was clouded over by " then it ought to be obvious that the deformations of angeropening will be very difficult, fear, hatred, repulsion and could not embrace the world with an impartial love and joy. But the purified heart because there is rid of anger, rid of fear, rid of hatred, rid of that clogging it every shrinking and repulsion: it has time there is a pressure or a universal love, it can receive with an untroubled sweetness and clarity the various delight which God gives it in the worldpush to open. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2431/purificationtime-and-change-of-the-lower-mentalitynature#p8 p10</ref>

Evidently, the condition into which What you have fallen is due to an upsurging of suppressed elements in the lower vital nature. It has been compelled by the mind aspire for and the higher vital part bring down in you to give up the little "joys and pleasures" to which it was habituated, but it—or at any rate the subconscient part 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 compensations, other and greater joys and pleasures to replace all it was losing. This is evident from what you write; your description of the nature of the depression, the return of what you call impure thoughts which are merely indices of the subconscient lower vital desire-complex, the doubt thrown upon the generosity peace of the Divine, the demand for compensation for losses, something like striking a bargain with the Divine, a quid pro quo pact, are all unmistakable. Latterly, there has been a combination of circumstances (XMother's turning inwards, Y's emigration etcconsciousness.) which have rather suddenly increased the deprivation of its former outlets; this attack is its way of non-cooperation or protest. There is only one way to deal with itPeace,—to cast the whole thing away—depression, demands, doubts, sex-thoughtscalm, equanimity in the whole undesirable baggage,—and have in its place emotional being and the one true movement, rest of the call for vital especially—it is that which will purify the true consciousness emotions and deliver the presence of the Divinevital. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-lowernature-of-the-vital-being#p43p69</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>

==Dealing with the Hostile Attacks=By Refusal and Rejection of Adverse Forces===

In There has been progress in all these parts [''of the lower vital all is being''], but they seem to be subject still to a working response to the suggestions of general the hostile forces which try . Everybody gets these suggestions, but they ought not to be allowed to seize upon enter inside, especially in the individual and use him for their satisfaction; heart, or to be accepted by the vital. Evidently, they are not his forces at all. In enter through the physical mind or (from the throat upwards means that) and affect the higher surface vital it is much easier to establish some kind of control over the forcesand emotional being. That is You must get the very reason why one should never put oneself into the control power to reject them from there by a constant and steady denial and refusal of these forces or make oneself a free crossways for their passagesuggestions. It So long as anything in you says "yes" or accepts, there is only by opening to always the Mother's force alone that possibility of a control can be established over these lower workingsreturn. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/attacks-by-the-lowerhostile-vital-beingforces#p41p28</ref>

There has been progress This confusion of mind and vital you must get rid of—you must call in all these parts [of the being], but they seem true reason and the higher vital to be subject still cast out these movements. A higher reason must refuse to a response listen to the suggestions of the hostile forces. Everybody gets these suggestionsits self-justifications and tell it that nothing, but they ought not to be allowed to enter insidehowever plausible, especially can justify these motives in the heart, or to be accepted by the vital. Evidently, they enter through the physical mind (from the throat upwards means that) and affect the surface a sadhak; your higher vital and emotional being. You must get the power refuse to reject accept them [adverse forces], telling it, "I do not want these alien things; I do not recognise them from there by a constant and steady denial and refusal as part of their suggestionsmyself or my nature. So long as anything in you says "yes" or accepts, there is always the possibility of a return. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/attacks-by-the-hostile-forces#p28p17</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>