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=What are Emotions?=
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>
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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>
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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 but it 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 not free from the world for farther action demand 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. 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> <center>~</center>
==What are …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 <center>~</center> By the difference between your inner feelings and your surface reactions shows that you are becoming aware of different higher vital parts of your the 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 I mean the one that happens to be prominent at the time. The one that has no feelings against anyone is either the psychic being or vital mind, the emotional being in the heartnature, the one that feels anger and is severe is a part of life-force dynamis in the external being. The vital nature on the surface. This anger and severity mind is a wrong form of something that in itself has a value, a certain strength part of will and force of action and control in the vital beingwhich builds, without which work cannot be done. What is necessary is to get rid of the anger plans, imagines, arranges things and thoughts according 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 instancelife-pushes, people can be allowed to do things in their own way when that does not spoil the workdesires, when it is only their way of doing what is necessary will to be done; when their way is opposed to the discipline of the workpower or possession, then they have will to be controlledaction, but it should be done quietly and kindlyemotions, not with anger. Very often, if one has developed a silent power vital ego reactions 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 initiativenature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2928/practicalthe-concernsvital-inbeing-and-vital-workconsciousness#p21p16</ref> <center>~</center>
==What Higher vital usually refers to the vital mind and emotive being as opposed to the middle vital which has its seat in the navel and is Higher Vital?==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>
…the term higher vital ===Where 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. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-vital-being-and-vital-consciousness#p11</ref>It Located?===
Higher This higher vital usually refers 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 vital mind and emotive beingnavel. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/classificationthe-ofvital-thebeing-partsand-of-thevital-beingconsciousness#p15p16</ref>
==Where is the Higher Vital and All Its Parts Located?==<center>~</center>
This higher vital with all its parts is situated in the chest and has ...the cardiac heart centre as its main stronghold governing all this part down to the navel...By The functions are… commanding 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 with the life-pushes, desires, will to power or possession, will to action, emotions, vital ego reactions of the nature. psychic deep behind it…<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-vitalsystem-beingof-and-vitalthe-consciousnesschakras#p16p20</ref>
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The colours heart is the centre of the lotuses emotional being and the numbers of petals emotions are vital movements. When the heart is purified, the vital emotions change into psychic feelings or else psychicised vital movements. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-vital-being-and-vital-consciousness#p27</ref> ==The Difference between Psychic and Emotional Being == ... you must not mistake the feelings for the heart centrepsychic...—these two are absolutely different things. People always think that when they have emotions, twelve petalsfeelings, golden pink… commanding they are entering the higher emotional being psychic. These things have nothing to do with the psychic deep behind it, they are purely vital.They are the most subtle part of the vital, if you like, but they are vital.It's not through the feelings that one goes to the psychic, it is through a very intense aspiration and a self-detachment.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2807/the27-system-of-thejuly-chakras1955#p20p7</ref>
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The heart centre of the psychic being is behind the centre of the emotional being, ; it is the highest part of emotional that is nearest dynamically to the vital. The navel psychic and in most men it is through the emotional centre of that the dynamic psychic can be most easily reached and sensational vital (this through the psychicised emotion that it can be most easily expressed. Many therefore mistake the one for the other; but there is a world of difference between the source of pride, sense of possession, ambition, anger two. The emotions normally are vital in their character and other passions—but it expresses them not part of ten through the heart centre)psychic nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-systemvital-ofbeing-and-thevital-chakrasconsciousness#p64p12</ref>
=The Role of Emotional Being in Yoga=<center>~</center>
In the ascetic Yoga all human feelings are regarded as illusory and have Emotion belongs to disappear—"the knots of the heart are cut"—so as higher vital, not to leave only the one supreme aspirationpure psychic. In this Yoga The psychic is a steady flame that burns in you, soaring towards the emotional being has not to be got rid Divine and carrying with it a sense of, but to undergo a transformation; strength which breaks down all oppositions. When you are identified with it you have the shortest way feeling of transformation the divine truth—then you cannot help feeling also that the whole world is to turn all ignorantly walking on its head with its feet in the being to the Divine. air! <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3103/humanthe-ordinary-relationslife-and-the-spiritualtrue-lifesoul#p11p4</ref>
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Emotion …this inmost soul, that is necessary , the central psychic being, influences the superficial parts of the consciousness (superficial in comparison with it: mental parts, vital parts). The purest mind, the Yoga and it is only highest vital, the excessive emotional sensitiveness which makes emotive being—the soul influences them, influences them to an extent where one enter has the impression of entering into despondency over small things that has to be overcome. The very basis contact with it through these parts of this Yoga is bhakti and if one kills one's emotional the being there can be no bhakti. So there can be no possibility of emotion being excluded from people take these parts for the soul and that is why he says "the inmost soul", that is, the central soul, the Yogareal soul. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/bhakti-devotion-worship#p7</ref>
==For Having a Yogic Attitude 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 generous, most unselfish emotions, one also has the impression of being in All Things==contact with one's soul. But this is not the true soul, it is not the soul in its very essence. These are parts of the being under its influence and manifesting something of it.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/3-august-1955#p9</ref>
"As you say, it is the failure =The Role of the right attitude that comes Emotional Being in the way of passing through ordeals 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 comes, it fails 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 the rest of the nature is unoffered and goes its own way prolonging the division from her nearness, creating distance. It is because the Sadhaks have never even tried to have the Yogic attitude in all things, they have been contented with the common ideas, common view of things, common motives of life, only varied by inner experiences 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 change. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/10/july-23-1969#p78</ref>=
==For Collaborating In the ascetic Yoga all human feelings are regarded as illusory and Surrendering have to disappear—"the knots of Lower Vital==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>
Yes, the higher vital <center>~</center> Emotion is usually much less difficult to surrender, for it is under the influence of necessary in the mind Yoga and at times even of the psychic; so it understands more easily. It is much easier to convert this than only the lower vital excessive emotional sensitiveness which is essentially the vital of desires and impulses. So, you see, what he means is makes one enter into despondency over small things that the lower vital can submit, it agrees has to obey, to do what it is asked, but it is not at all satisfiedbe overcome. It The very basis of this Yoga is not happy; sometimes it even suffers; it pushes its revolt down into itself through obedience, but it does not collaboratebhakti and if one kills one's emotional being there can be no bhakti. And unless the vital collaborates with joy and true love, nothing So there can be done; no possibility of emotion being excluded from the transformations cannot comeYoga. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0629/7bhakti-julydevotion-1954worship#p9p7</ref>
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If the heart centre is dominated by the physical mind to any extent, it will necessarily be open to the outer attacks that affect the physical and nervous consciousness. The heart has to be in connection with the psychic and the higher consciousness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-system-of-the-chakras#p62</ref>
==For Peace== <center>~</center>
When you are in connection with the higher worlds above the mental, with the mental and the psychic or even with some of the higher vital planes, then there is the peace and Ananda—but connection with the lower vital worlds can easily bring disturbance and unrest, so long as your vital itself is not changed and made full of peace and strength and quiet. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/inner-experience-and-outer-life#p12</ref>
=How to Bring Forward the Emotional Being and Higher Vital?=<center>~</center>
==Methods ... approach made by the soul to the direct contact is through the heart: this is its own more close and rapid way because its occult seat is there, just behind in the heart-centre, in close contact with the emotional being in us; it is consequently through the emotions that it can act best at the beginning with its native power, with its living force of concrete experience. It is through a love and adoration of the All-beautiful and All-blissful, the All-Good, the True, the spiritual Reality of love, that the approach is made; the aesthetic and emotional parts join together to offer the soul, the life, the whole nature to that which they worship. This approach through adoration can get its full power and impetus only when the mind goes beyond impersonality to the awareness of a supreme Personal Being: then all becomes intense, vivid, concrete; the heart's emotion, feeling, spiritualised sense reach their absolute; an entire self-giving becomes possible, imperative. The nascent spiritual man makes his appearance in the emotional nature as the devotee, the bhakta; if, in addition, he becomes directly aware of Strengthening his soul and its dictates, unites his emotional with his psychic personality and changes his life and vital parts by purity, God-ecstasy, the Emotional 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 a transmutation of the thinking mind and all the vital and physical parts of consciousness in their own character. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-triple-transformation#p15</ref>
===Concentration & Aspiration in To Find the Heart=Psychic Being==
Another method Man, because he is a mental being, is prone to give the highest importance to the thinking 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 concentration no other. The heart with its emotions and aspiration 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 heart or behind it a profounder mystic light which opens , if not what we call intuition,—for that, though not of the inner emotional being… But whatever method mind, yet descends through the mind—has yet a direct touch upon Truth and is used will not bring nearer to the Divine than the human intellect in its effect at once; it must be done persistently, simply, directly till it succeedspride of knowledge. … If one can get rid According to the ancient teaching the seat of them in their central actionthe immanent Divine, the survival of their activity hidden Purusha, is in the circumference does not so much matter; for then mystic heart,—the secret heart-cave, ''hṛdaye guhāyām'',as the opening becomes possibleUpanishads put it, both —and, according to make and to keep and the rest can followexperience of many Yogins, it is from its depths that there comes the voice or the breath of the inner oracle. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3123/time-andthe-changeascent-of-the-naturesacrifice-i#p10p16</ref>
===Quiet & Calm===<center>~</center>
What you The true soul secret in us—subliminal, we have to aspire 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 bring down in you body, not subliminal but behind the veil,—this veiled psychic entity is the peace flame of the Mother's consciousnessGodhead always alight within us, inextinguishable even by that dense unconsciousness of any spiritual self within which obscures our outward nature. PeaceIt is a flame born out of the Divine and, calmluminous inhabitant of the Ignorance, equanimity grows in it till it is able to turn it towards the Knowledge. It is the emotional being concealed Witness and Control, the hidden Guide, the Daemon of Socrates, the rest inner light or inner voice of the vital especially—it mystic. It is that which will purify the emotions endures and deliver is imperishable in us from birth to birth, untouched by death, decay or corruption, an indestructible spark of the vitalDivine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3121/the-naturedouble-ofsoul-thein-vitalman#p67p10</ref>
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Always get back to quietudeThe psychic being is in the heart centre in the middle of the chest (not in the physical heart, for all the centres are in the middle of the body), but it is deep behind. It When one is through going away from the quietude vital into the psychic, it is felt as if one is going deep deep down till one reaches that central place of the psychic. The surface of the heart centre is the place of the emotional being; from there one goes deep to find the psychic. The more one goes, the right attitude and understanding and movements come backmore intense becomes the psychic happiness...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2930/quietthe-psychic-being-and-calmits-role-in-sadhana#p24p17 </ref>
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Affection, love, tenderness are in their nature psychic,—the vital has them because the psychic is trying to express itself through the vital. It [peace] has 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 brought down pure. Not that it rejects the outward expression through the vital and the physical, but as the psychic being is the form of the soul, it naturally feels the attraction of soul to soul, the nearness of soul to soul the union of soul with soul are the heart things that are to it most abiding and navel firstconcrete. That gives it a certain kind Mind, vital, body are means of expression and very precious means of expression, but the inner stability—though not absolute. There life is no method other than aspirationfor the soul the first thing, the deepest reality, a strong quiet will and a rejection these have to be subordinated to it and conditioned by it, its expression, its instruments and channel… The emphasis on the mastery of all that the vital, its subordination and subjection to the spiritual and the psychic is not turned towards 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 in those parts into which you call are an inner realisation, the peace—here soul offering itself through the emotional and higher vitalbeing. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3031/thehuman-descentrelations-ofand-the-higherspiritual-powerslife#p18p7 </ref>
===Going Deep Within==How to Bring Forward the Emotional Being/Higher Vital?=
It 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 quite true that by going above one can get out unacquainted with any real peace, incapable of a steady perfection of all problemsits powers. By purification, by equality, for they no longer existby the light of knowledge, but by a harmonising of the problems are there below and will it is difficult can be brought to be always above with so much unsolved a tranquil intensity and calling for solutionperfection. But just as The first two elements of this perfection are on one can go side a high aboveand large sweetness, openness, gentleness, calm, clarity, so one can go deep within on the other side a strong and ardent force and it is this going deep within that is neededintensity...Once one reaches it, these things can In the divine no longer touch; what will be less than in ordinary human character and action there is are always two strands, sweetness and strength, mildness and force, saumya and raudra, the inner peace force that bears and happinessharmonises, the untroubled aspirationforce that imposes itself and compels, Vishnu and Ishana, Shiva and Rudra. The two are equally necessary to a perfect world-action. The perversions of the Rudra power in the presence or nearness 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 Motherflowering of a calm, clear and sweet psychical being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2924/bhaktithe-power-of-devotionthe-worshipinstruments#p9p10</ref>
===The Perfection of Equality===<center>~</center>
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 lookAnd yet the true emotive soul, free from the distortions created by personal feelingreal psyche in us, and to try to understand what is behind themnot a desire-soul, why they happen, what is to be learnt from them, what is it in oneself which they are cast against but a soul of pure love and what inner profit or progress one can make out of themdelight; it means self-mastery over the vital movementsbut that, anger and sensitiveness and pride as well as desire and like the rest, not to let them get hold of the emotional our true being and disturb , can only emerge when the inner peace, not to speak and act in deformation created by the rush and impulsion life of these things, always to act desire is removed from the surface and speak out is no longer the characteristic action of our being. To get that done is a calm inner poise necessary part of the spirit. It is not easy to have this equality in any full and perfect measureour purification, liberation, but one should always try more and more to make it the basis of one's inner state and outer movementsperfection. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2924/equalitythe-instruments-of-the-chief-supportspirit#p6p7</ref>
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A free heart In fact each human being is similarly 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 delivered from , the gusts one that feels anger and storms is severe is a part of the affections external vital nature on the surface. This anger and the passions; the assailing touch severity is a wrong form of griefsomething that in itself has a value, wrath, hatred, fear, inequality a certain strength of love, trouble will and force of joyaction and control in the vital being, pain without which work cannot be done. What is necessary is to get rid of sorrow fall away from the equal heart, anger and to keep the force and leave it firm will along with a developed judgment as to what is the right thing large, calm, equal, luminousto do in any circumstances. For instance, divine... When we live people can be allowed to do things in unity with their own way when that does not spoil the Divine in ourselves and work, when it is only their way of doing what is necessary to be done; when their way is opposed to the spirit discipline of the universework, then they have to be controlled, these imperfections fall away from us but it should be done quietly and disappear in the calm and equal strength and delight of the inner spiritual existencekindly, not with anger... By equality Very often, if one has developed a silent power of putting the heart we get away from the troubled desire-soul Mother's force on the surface, open the gates of this profounder beingwork with one's own will as instrument, bring out its responses and impose their true divine values on all that solicits our emotional being. A free, happy, equal and all-embracing heart of spiritual feeling is by itself may be sufficient without having to say anything as the outcome person changes his way of this perfectionhimself as if by his own initiative. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2429/thepractical-perfectionconcerns-ofin-equalitywork#p7p21</ref>
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Outer difficulties or inconveniences you should not allow The heart is part of the vital—it has to alarm or depress you. Inner difficulties should also be met with detachmentcontrolled in the same way as the rest, calm equalityby rejection of the wrong movements, by acceptance of the unshakable will true psychic surrender which prevents all demand and clamour, by calling in the higher light and knowledge. It is not usually however the heart that bothers about mental questions and the answer to conquerthem. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3128/desirethe-vital-being-and-vital-consciousness#p55p28</ref>
===Refusal & Rejection of Adverse Forces===<center>~</center>
This confusion of mind There must be implanted and activised in all our doings a supreme, impersonal, unfaltering and vital you must get rid of—you must call unstumbling will in spontaneous and untroubled unison with the true reason and will of the higher vital to cast out these movementsDivine. A higher reason The unsatisfying surface play of our feeble egoistic emotions must be ousted and there must refuse to listen to its self-justifications be revealed instead a secret deep and tell it vast psychic heart within that nothingwaits behind them for its hour; all our feelings, however plausibleimpelled by this inner heart in which dwells the Divine, can justify these motives in will be transmuted into calm and intense movements of a sadhak; your higher vital must refuse to accept them [hostile services], telling it, "I do not want these alien things; I do not recognise them as part twin passion of myself or my naturedivine Love and manifold Ananda." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3123/attacksself-surrender-byin-works-the-hostileway-of-the-forcesgita#p17p4</ref>
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It is always their [the lower forcesinner offering of the heart'] endeavour 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 rise up be complete and get universal, then a turning of all our emotions to the Divine is imperative. This is the sanction intensest way of purification for the mind human heart, more powerful than any ethical or aesthetic catharsis could ever be by its half-power and superficial pressure. A psychic fire within must be lit into which all is thrown with the Divine Name upon it. In that fire all the emotions are compelled to cast off their grosser elements and higher vital—or if they cannot do those thatare undivine perversions are burned away and the others discard their insufficiencies, to cover them up till a spirit of largest love and a stainless divine delight arises out of the flame and smoke and frankincense. It is the divine love which so emerges that , extended in inward feeling to the Divine in man and all creatures in an active universal equality, will be more potent for the perfectibility of life and a more real instrument than the ineffective mental ideal of brotherhood can ever be. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the lower nature may act -sacrifice-ii#p12</ref> ===By Faith=== This faith, ''kalyāṇa-śraddhā'', is needed in its ordinary way without order that the heart and the whole overt psychic being pressed by may respond to the higher consciousness to secret divine Ananda and changeitself into this true original essence. The first thing necessary This faith and will must be accompanied by and open into an illimitable widest and intensest capacity for love. For the sadhak main business of the heart, its true function is not to give any consent love. It is our destined instrument of his mind or higher vital complete union and oneness; for to keep them from see oneness in the world by the understanding is not enough unless we also feel it with the heart and in the psychic being covered, and 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. If that can The universal love has to be donefounded on the heart's sight and psychical and emotional sense of the one Divine, the one Self in all existence. All four elements will then it becomes possible form a unity and even the Rudra power to push do battle for the right and the good proceed on the basis of a power of universal love. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the lower forces out -power-of -the-instruments#p12</ref> ===By Peace and Quietude=== Always get back to quietude. It is through the quietude that the right attitude and understanding and movements come back. It is natural for the lower vital to be made up of feelings, impulses and body desires and not allow them to returnbe attached to outer things—but that is only a part of you. It There is also the psychic and the higher mind and higher vital which only need quietude and the help of the Mother's Force which you feel—for all and Peace behind them to come forward more strongly and dominate over the higher forces are herslower vital and help to change it.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3129/stepsquiet-towards-overcomingand-difficultiescalm#p53p24</ref>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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It is always their [''the lower forces''] endeavour to rise up and get the sanction of the mind 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 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 it becomes possible to push the lower forces out of the lower vital and body and not allow them to return. It is the Mother's Force which you feel—for all the higher forces are hers.
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And yet ...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 becoming greater now for this change of character even more than for decisive Yoga experience—for if the true emotive soulexperience comes, it fails to be decisive because of the real psyche want of the requisite change of nature. The mind, for instance, gets the experience of the One in usall, but the vital cannot follow, because it is not a desiredominated by ego-reaction and ego-soul, but motive or the habits of the outer nature keep up a soul way of pure love and delight; but thatthinking, feeling, acting, like living which is quite out of harmony with the experience. Or the rest psychic and part of our true the mind and emotional beingfeel frequently the closeness of the Mother, can only emerge when but the deformation created by rest of the life of desire nature is removed unoffered and goes its own way prolonging the division from her nearness, creating distance. It is because the surface Sadhaks have never even tried to have the Yogic attitude in all things, they have been contented with the common ideas, common view of things, common motives of life, only varied by inner experiences and is no longer transferred to the framework of the characteristic action Asram instead of our beingthat of the world outside. To get It is not enough and there is great need that done is a necessary part of our purification, liberation, perfectionthis should change. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/2410/the-instruments-ofjuly-the23-spirit1969#p7p78</ref>
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It [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 whatever our nature, the psychic] can have first habit of our being, or else a very great influence [on formed (often perverse) habit, the second nature of our being, presents to the physical mind] by giving 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 right attitude and emotional nature gets into the right way of looking at things so that the intelligent will and makes it supports often a helpless slave of the emotional being or at least prevents it from exercising a free judgment and government of the nature. This deformation has to be corrected. By getting rid of desire in the psychic prana and its aspirationintermiscence in the emotional mind, love and surrender and itself gets interestwe facilitate the correction.For then attachment which is the strong bond of the heart, faith and insight in falls away from the heart-strings; the inner truth involuntary habit of things instead of seeing only their outer aspects ''rāga-dveṣa'' remains, but, not being made obstinate by attachment, it can be dealt with more easily by the will and following false inferences the intelligence. The restless heart can be conquered and appearances. It also helps it to get rid of the narrowness habit of attraction and doubt which are the chief defects of the physical mindrepulsion. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3124/purification-the-physical-mind-andlower-sadhanamentality#p30p7</ref>
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The centre of the psychic being Each time there is behind the centre a purification of the emotional being; outer nature, it is becomes more possible for the emotional that is nearest dynamically inner being to reveal itself, to become free and to open to the higher consciousness above. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-psychic -and in most men it -spiritual-realisations#p15</ref> =The Lower Vital Nature= In the lower vital all is through a working of general forces which try to seize upon the emotional centre that individual and use him for their satisfaction; they are not his forces at all. In the psychic can be most easily reached and through mind or the psychicised emotion that higher vital it can be most easily expressedis much easier to establish some kind of control over the forces. Many therefore mistake That is the very reason why one for should never put oneself into the other; but there is control of these forces or make oneself a world of difference between the twofree crossways for their passage. The emotions normally are vital in their character and not part of It is only by opening to the psychic natureMother's force alone that a control can be established over these lower workings. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2831/the-lower-vital-being-and-vital-consciousness#p12p41</ref>
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The more love and bhakti and surrender grow in This lower part of the heartbeing is always random, wayward, self-assertive and unwilling to accept the more rapid imposition on it of any order and perfect becomes discipline other than its own idea or impulse. Its defects even from the beginning stand in the evolution way of the sadhana. For efforts of the descent and transformation imply at higher vital to impose on the same time an increasing contact and union with the Divinenature a truly regenerating tapasya. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3031/the-psychic-andlower-spiritualvital-realisationsbeing#p23p8</ref>
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All that ...the higher vital is needed usually much less difficult to surrender, for it is for your psychic being to come forward and open you to under the influence of the direct mind and real and constant inner contact at times even of myself and the Mother..psychic; so it understands more easily.It is your soul in itself, your psychic being that must come in front, awaken entirely and make much easier to convert this than the fundamental change. The psychic being will not need lower vital which is essentially the support vital of intellectual ideas or outer signs desires and helpsimpulses. It So, you see, what he means is that alone that the lower vital can give you the direct feeling of the Divinesubmit, it agrees to obey, the constant nearnessto do what it is asked, the inner support and aidbut it is not at all satisfied. You will It is not then feel the Mother remote or have any farther doubt about the realisationhappy; sometimes it even suffers; for the mind thinks and the vital cravesit pushes its revolt down into itself through obedience, but it does not collaborate. And unless the soul feels vital collaborates with joy and knows true love, nothing can be done; the Divinetransformations cannot come. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3106/dealing-with7-hostilejuly-attacks1954#p16p8</ref>
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The difficulty is that in everyone there are two people (to say ...the least)—one in the outer vital and physical clinging emotional mind compelled to the past self take note of all these discords and trying subject itself to get or retain the consent their emotional reactions becomes a hurtling field of the mind joy and grief, love and the inner beinghatred, wrath, fear, struggle, aspiration, disgust, likes, dislikes, indifferences, content, discontent, hopes, disappointments, gratitude, revenge and all the other stupendous play of passion which is the drama of life in the world. This chaos we call our soul. But the real soul asking , the real psychic entity which for the most part we see little of and only a new birth. That which small minority in mankind has spoken in you developed, is an instrument of pure love, joy and made the prayer luminous reaching out to fusion and unity with God and our fellow-creatures. This psychic entity is covered up by the psychic being expressing itself through the aid play of the mentalised Prana or desire-mind and which we mistake for the soul; the higher vital, and it emotional mind is this which should always arise in you through prayer and through turning unable to mirror the Mother and give you real soul in us, the right idea Divine in our hearts, and is obliged instead to mirror the right impulsedesire-mind. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3123/the-difficultiesrelease-from-the-heart-ofand-humanthe-naturemind#p12p3</ref>
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The condition It [for ''the change of the lower vitalpsychic''] is that you must bring can have a very great influence [''on the sadhana into your physical consciousness and live for mind''] by giving it the sadhana right attitude and the Divine only. You must give up positively right way of looking at things so that it supports the bad habits that still persist emotional being in its aspiration, love and never resume those that have ceased or been interrupted. Inner experiences are helpful to the mind surrender and higher vital for changeitself gets interest, but for the lower vital faith and insight in the inner truth of things instead of seeing only their outer being a sadhana of self-discipline is indispensable. The external actions aspects and the spirit in them must change—your external thoughts following false inferences and actions must be for the Divine onlyappearances. There must be self-restraint, entire truthfulness, a constant thought It also helps it to get rid of the Divine in all you do. This is the way for narrowness and doubt which are the change chief defects of the lower vital. By your constant self-dedication and self-discipline the Force will be brought down into the external being and the change madephysical mind. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-lowerphysical-mind-vitaland-beingsadhana#p27p31</ref>
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Everyone whose psychic being calls him It is not possible to say with any precision what the spiritual path has a capacity for that path and can arrive at resistance in the goal if or as soon as he develops a single-pointed higher vital parts will towards be, what form it takes, because it may take different forms with different natures. It is quite normal that alone. But also there should be some resistance almost at every sadhak is faced with two elements in him, point to the inner being which wants descent of the Divine and higher consciousness; for the sadhana and different parts of the outer mainly vital present nature are each more or less attached to their own established way of seeing, acting, feeling, reacting to things and physical being which does not want them but remains attached to the things habitual movements and formations of their own domain which each individual has made for himself in the ordinary past or in his present life. The What is needed is a general plasticity of the mind is sometimes led by one, sometimes by the other. One of vital, the most important physical consciousness, a readiness to give up all attachment to these things he has to do, therefore, is to decide fundamentally accept whatever the quarrel between these two parts and higher consciousness brings down with it however contrary to persuade or compel by psychic aspiration, by steadiness of the mindone's thought and willown received ideas, feelings, by habits of nature. The greater the choice plasticity in any part of the higher vital in his emotional being nature, the less the opposing elements to be first quiescent and then consentingresistance there. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3128/the-difficultiesvital-being-ofand-humanvital-natureconsciousness#p19p15</ref>
==Signs of the Vital OpeningEmotional Being in Animals==
This opening of the chest into the void (not really the void, but the infinite Akash of the Chit universal and illimitable) is always the sign of an opening of the The emotional being into the wideness of the Universal Divine. The image of the Akash animals is often seen by sadhaks in Dhyanamuch more psychic than that of men who can be very insensitive. When the consciousness is liberated, whether in the mind or other part, there is always this sense There were recently pictures of the wide infinite emptinesstame tigress kept by a family and afterwards given by them to a Zoo. From the top The look of sorrow on the head to the throat is the mental plane face of the being—a similar opening tigress in her cage at once gentle and emptiness or wideness here tragically poignant is the sign of the mind being freed into the Universal. From the throat so intense as to the stomach is the higher vital or emotional region. Below is the lower vital planebe heartbreaking. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3028/thescience-universal-or-cosmicand-consciousnessyoga#p39p71</ref>
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==Emotional Being in Animals=='''Content Curated by Deepti'''
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 her cage at once gentle and tragically poignant is so intense as to be heartbreaking. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/science-and-yoga#p64</ref>
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