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It Tiredness shows lack of will for progress. When you feel tired or fatigued that is a dangerous illness: lazinesslack of will for progress. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/laziness-tiredness-fatigue-tamas#p1p3</ref>

Laziness Fatigue comes from weakness, or from lack of doing without interest. For curing the first—one must become strongthings you do. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/1214/studylaziness-tiredness-fatigue-tamas#p81p5</ref><center>~</center>''Q. What is “physical tamas”?'' ''A:'' … For instance, does it never happen to you that being seated you don’t want to get up, that having something to do you say, “Oh! I have to do all that….”

"I have told you many times, and couldn't repeat it too often'A:'' Not quite. Of course, that we are not made of laziness is a piece. Within ourselves we have lots kind of states of beingtamas, and each state of being has its own life. All that but in laziness there is gathered together in an ill-will, a single bodyrefusal to make an effort—while tamas is inertia: one wants to do something, as long as you have but one can’t. When onehas decided to get up, and acts through a single body; that's what gives you the sense of a single person, a single beingone gets up. But there are many of them" No, and the body was there are in particular concentrations on different planes: just as you have a physical being, you have a vital beinglike that, and it was necessary to put a mental being, a psychic beingwill into it, to push this body for it to get up and many others with all possible intermediaries.act... It's only if you are a very advanced yogi and have been capable of unifying your being around the divine center is like that those beings remain linked together. If you haven't been able to unify yourself, then at the time of death, all that will scatter: every being will go back to its own regionthis is tamas. With the vital being, for example, your various desires will separate and each of them will go and chase its realization quite independently, because there will no longer be Tamas is a physical being purely material thing; it is very rare to hold them together. While if you have united your consciousness to the psychic consciousnessa vital or mental tamas (it may occur but through contagion), when you die you will remain conscious I believe it is more a tamas of your psychic being, and the psychic being will return to nerves or the psychic world which brain than vital or mental tamas. But laziness is a world of blisseverywhere, joy, peace, tranquillity, and growing knowledge.... But if you have lived in your vital and all its impulses, each impulse will try to realize itself here and there....For instance, for the miser who was concentrated on his moneyphysical, when he dies the part of his vital that was concerned with his money will hook on there and will keep watching over , the money so no one takes itmind. People won't see himGenerally lazy people are not always lazy, but he is there nonetheless, and very unhappy if something happens to his dear moneynot in all things.... Now, if If you live exclusively in your physicalpropose something that pleases them, when the physical being disappearsamuses them, you disappear along with it, it's over...they are quite ready to make an effort. There is a spirit of the form: your form has a spirit that lives on for seven days after your deathmuch ill-will in laziness. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0904/september28-7april-19681951#p21p5,p6,p7,p8</ref>

==Mental=Laziness in the Parts of our Being=

It's trueInertia is mental, vital, physical, we are always too tense—alwayssubconscient. And I know that as long as we are controlled by that admirable mindPhysical inertia can produce mental inertia, mental inertia can produce physical inertia, we feel that to relax means to fall into tamas vital inertia almost always makes the physical lifeless and lustreless and unconsciousness. All these old notions remaindull, prolonging themselves; and there's something like that is inertia. Vital inertia can also infect the residue of one of those marvelous censors, telling you: 'Be careful, tamas, tamas! Be careful, you are dozing off—very badmind, unless the mind is very badstrong and clear.' And it's idiotic, because tamas I have always said that the physical consciousness is neither joyous nor luminous, while this is an immediate joy the main seat and lightsource of inertia. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0231/septemberdifficulties-of-the-16physical-1961nature#p22p15</ref>

The development through Matter consciousness is on the mind is a constant contrary inert as well as largely subconscious—active only when driven by an energy, otherwise inactive and general awakening of immobile. When one first falls into direct contact with this level, the whole being—even feeling in the most material being—an awakening as a result of which there body is also something that's the opposite of sleep. But to receive the supreme Forceinertia and immobility, what's needed is, on in the contraryvital physical exhaustion or lassitude, in the equivalent physical mind absence of stillness—the stillness of sleep, but an ABSOLUTELY CONSCIOUS sleep, absolutely conscious. The body feels ''prakāś'a'' and ''pravṛtti'' or only the differencemost ordinary thoughts and impulses. It feels the difference took me a long time to such a point thatget down any kind of light or power into this level... for exampleBut when once it is illumined, at night I lie down and I am like the advantage is that, for hours I remain like that, the subconscient becomes conscient and if after this removes a while I drop into ordinary sleep, my body wakes up with a dreadful anguish! Then it slowly goes back to that Statevery fundamental obstacle from the sadhana. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/1028/octoberthe-18physical-1969consciousness#p58p33 </ref> ==Mental==

When Well, when one doesn’t want to make an effort to correct oneself, one first falls into direct contact with this levelsays, “Oh, the feeling in the body it is that of inertia and immobilityimpossible, I can’t do it, in I don’t have the vital physical exhaustion or lassitudestrength, in the physical mind absence I am not made of ''prakāśa'' and ''pravṛtti'' or only that stuff, I don’t have the most ordinary thoughts and impulsesnecessary qualities, I could never do it. ” It took me a long time to get down any kind of light or power into this level. But when once it is illuminedabsolute laziness, the advantage it is that the subconscient becomes conscient and this removes a very fundamental obstacle from in order to avoid the sadhanarequired effort. <ref>httpWhen you are asked to make progress://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-physical-consciousness#p33 </ref><center>~</center>By working out being into these appearances of the ignorance“Oh, it is beyond my capacity, inertia and division of Matter the dividing Mind has lost and imprisoned itself in I am a dungeon of its own buildingpoor creature, I can do nothing!” That’s all. It is bound with chains which it has itself forgedalmost ill-will. And if it be true that the dividing Mind It is the first principle of creationextreme laziness, then it must be also the ultimate attainment possible a refusal to make any effort. One accepts all one’s defects and incapacities in order not to have to make the creationnecessary effort to overcome them. One says, and the mental being struggling vainly with Life and Matter“I am like that, overpowering them only to I can’t be overpowered by them, repeating eternally otherwise!” It is a fruitless cycle must be refusal to let the last and highest word divine Grace work in you. It is a justification of cosmic existenceyour own ill-will. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2106/the4-knotaugust-of-matter1954#p13p8,p9</ref>

It is only effort, in whatever domain it be—material effort, moral effort, intellectual effort—which creates in the being certain vibrations which enable you to get connected with universal vibrations; and it is this which gives joy. It is effort which pulls you out of inertia; it is effort which makes you receptive to the universal forces. If someone has a strong, active, obstinate vital which rules the body's activities, which has a very living or intense contact with people and things and events, if he has a marked taste for art, for all expressions of beauty, we are generally tempted to say and believe, "Oh! He has a living soul"; but it is not his soul, it is his vital being which is alive and dominates the activities of the body. That is the first difference between someone who is beginning to be developed and those who are still in the inertia and ''tamas '' of the purely material life. This gives, first to the appearance and also to the activity, a kind of vibration, of intensity of vibration, which often creates the impression that this person has a living soul; but it is not that, it is his vital which is developed, which has a special capacity, is stronger than the physical inertia and gives an intensity of vibration and life and action that those whose vital being is not developed do not possess. This confusion between the vital activity and the soul is a very frequent one.... The vital vibration is much more easily perceptible to the human consciousness than the vibration of the soul. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/9-april-1958#p4</ref>

I am referring here to physical sufferingThe body is afraid of anything new because its very base is inertia, because all tamas; it is the other kinds vital which brings in a dominant note of suffering—vitalrajas, mentalactivity. That is why, emotive suffering—arise from as a wrong functioning general rule, the intrusion of the mindvital in the form of ambition, emulation and those.vanity, compels the body to shake off the tamas and make the necessary effort to progress.<ref>http://incarnateword. we can easily rank them in /cwm/16/13-may-1964-1#p3</ref><center>~</center>There are many [''defects of the Falsehood, thatphysical consciousness''s all. But physical suffering is to me like a child being beaten]—but mainly obscurity, because here in Matterinertia, Falsehood turned into ignorancetamas, which means there is no bad will—there is no bad will in Matter, everything is inertia and ignorance: total ignorance a passive acceptance of the Truth, ignorance play of the Originwrong forces, ignorance of the Possibilityinability to change, even ignorance of what needs to be done so as not attachment to suffer materially. This ignorance is everywhere in the cellshabits, and only the experience—and the experience lack of whatplasticity, in this rudimentary consciousnessforgetfulness, is translated as suffering—can awakenloss of experiences or realisations gained, arouse unwillingness to accept the need Light or to follow it, incapacity (through tamas or through attachment or through passive reaction to accustomed forces) to do what it admits to know and be cured, the Right and the aspiration to be transformedBest. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0731/septemberlevels-of-28the-1966physical-being#p19p2</ref>

And in that kind of physical eternity (which lasted two and a half hours—itThat [''s a long time for an experience), I was aware weakness of something missing, something not there: the joy of the consciousnessbody''] also is tamas. Because throughout my life I have developed If you threw off the habit strain of being conscious the idea of everythingweakness, always, at each secondthe strength would come back. And the joy of the consciousness was not But there. So I thanked is always something in the Grace vital physical which is pleased with becoming more weak and ill so that made me see that this kind of nirvana was quite simply physical tamasit can feel and lament its tragic case. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0131/mayillness-16and-1960health#p11p64</ref>

A certain inertia, tendency to sleep, indolence, unwillingness or inability to be strong for work or spiritual effort for long at a time, is in the nature of the human physical consciousness.When one goes down into the physical for its change (that has been the general condition here for a long time), this tends to increase. Even sometimes when the pressure of the sadhana on the physical increases or when one has to go much inside, this temporarily increases—the body either needing more rest or turning the inward movement into a tendency to sleep or be at rest. The …the physical consciousness gets the true peace and calm in the cells and feels at rest even in full work or in the most concentrated condition and this tendency of inertia goes out of the nature. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/35/1936#p1</ref><center>~</center>…physical suffering is to me like a child being beaten, because here in Matter, Falsehood turned into ignorance, which means there is no bad will—there is no bad will in Matter, everything is inertia and ignorance: total ignorance of the Truth, ignorance of the Origin, ignorance of the Possibility, even ignorance of what needs to be done so as not to suffer materially. This ignorance is everywhere in the cells, and only the experience—and the experience of what, in this rudimentary consciousness, is translated as suffering—can awaken, arouse the need to know and be cured, and the aspiration to be transformed. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/07/september-28-1966#p19</ref>

==Psychic=Why Does Laziness Occur?=

The psychic being is a terrestrial formation. It is human beings who have a psychic being which has been developed upon earth and by earthly life Indolence and inaction result in tamas which is a projection of the divine Consciousness fall into Matter to awaken Matter out of its inertia so that it takes the path back to the Divine. But in certain cases inconscience and the true self is found in the psychic being, that is, it dwells in the psychic being—but not always.There is always a divine Presence in the psychic being, but it is the divine Presence which was at the origin very opposite of the psychic formation, it is an emanation from the divine Consciousness; whereas the true self is not a terrestrial formationprogress and light. It precedes the terrestrial formation.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0713/30aims-marchand-1955principles#p30p303</ref>

The emergence of As soon as you enter the secret psychic being in us as rajasic nature, you like effort. And at least the leader one advantage of the sacrifice rajasic people is that they are courageous, whereas tamasic people are cowards. It is of the utmost importance; for this inmost being alone can bring with it the full power fear of effort which makes one cowardly. For once you have started, once you have taken the spirit in decision and begun the acteffort, you are interested. It is exactly the soul in same thing which is the symbol. It alone can assurecause of some not liking to learn their lessons, even while not wanting to listen to the spiritual consciousness teacher; it is tamasic, it is incompleteto be asleep, it avoids the effort which must be made in order to catch the perennial freshness thing and sincerity then grasp it and beauty of keep it. It is half-somnolence. So it is the symbol and prevent same thing physically, it from being is a dead form or a corrupted and corrupting magic; it alone can preserve for somnolence of the act its power with its significancebeing, an inertia. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0807/1526-augustjanuary-19561955#p1p19</ref> ==Laziness in Cells==

The cells themselves observed a sort of... it's something between torpor, drowsiness, numbness and indifference; and that state is mistaken for peace, quietude and acceptance, but it really is... it really is a form of tamas. And that's ==In the reason why it may last for what, to our consciousness, is almost an eternity. And there was, as I told you, an experience [a painful attack]; it recurred in another form(it never recurs in the same form), in another form, and then the cells noticed that that sort of intensity, of ardor of will taking hold of them, that something concrete in the self-giving, in the surrender, does not exist when everything is fine (what people are in the habit of calling "everything is fine," which means that you don't feel your body, there is no difficulty and things are just getting along).<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/07/august-3-1966#p9</ref>Mental==

=Laziness And so one conceals one's laziness behind fine reasons, the first of which says, "I can't, I don't know" or else, "I have tried and not succeeded" or "I don't know where to begin!" Any reason whatever, isn't that true? The first that comes to you. Or else, one doesn't practise because one doesn't find it worthwhile to make the effort—that is part of the laziness also, it asks for too much effort! But one can't live without effort! If one were to refuse to make any effort, one would not even be able to stand on one's legs or walk or even eat. <ref>http://incarnateword.in Relation to Other Aspects=/cwm/08/12-september-1956#p5</ref>

==Depression and LazinessIn the Vital==

When you feel unhappy like that, it means that you have a progress to make. You can say that we always need to progress, it is true. But at times our nature gives its consent to the needed change and then everything goes smoothly, even happily. On the contrary sometimes the part that has to progress refuses to move and clings to its old habits through inertia, ignorance, attachment or desire. Then, under the pressure of the perfecting force, the struggle starts translating itself into unhappiness or revolt or both together.The only remedy is to keep quiet, look within oneself honestly to find out what is wrong and set to work courageously to put it right.The Divine Consciousness will always be there to help you if your endeavour is sincere; and the more sincere your endeavour the more the Divine Consciousness will help and assist you.Periods of obscuration are frequent and common; generally, it is enough to keep quiet without worrying, knowing that these are spiritual nights which alternate with the full light of the days.But to be able to remain in peace you must keep in your heart gratitude towards the Divine for all the help He gives. If gratitude also is veiled, the obscure periods last much longer. There is, however, a swift and effective remedy: it is to keep always burning in your heart the flame of purification, the aspiration for progress, the intensity, the ardour of consecration. This flame is kindled in the heart of all who are sincere; you must not let ingratitude cover it up with its ashes.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/depression#p26</ref>

You must absolutely refuse to be depressed.It is because you are receptive to not anything physical but a vital depression (in some part of the vital, not the Force when you work and whole) that sustains youprevents the body from recovering its elasticity. But when you are not There was some part of the vital that was resisting a radical change and even, unknown to your mind, trying to go on as it was under cover of the strain change in the rest of the work you are less receptiveyour being. You must learn This has now, owing to be receptive in all circumstances this last affair, received a blow and got depressed and always—especially , when you take rest—it must not be the "rest" vital is depressed like that, it affects the body. You say rightly that it is part of inertia but a true rest change or turn that is taking place. But these effects of receptivityinertia and weakness need not continue; as soon as this vital part acquiesces gladly in the turn or change, the elasticity and energy will return. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1731/9illness-mayand-1967health#p3p67</ref>

The gloom and other difficulties come from a resistance It is an inertia of inertia in the lower vital and physical consciousness. What you have which allows these desires to do come and does not react against the suggestions; it is that also which responds to prepare the consciousness by getting rid pains and suggestion of the inertiaillness. A sattwic gladness and calm and confidence is But you must not accept the proper temperament for this Yoga; gloom, depression suggestion that you cannot react and weeping should not be indulged infree, —the physical consciousness itself cannot as they stand in yet, but the way of will can if it is called on to act and made accustomed to act always. Not the openingstruggling will, unless the tears are but a quiet will insisting on the psychic weeping quietude of release or adoration or a moved love and bhakti. The progress made in controlling the sex mind and other rajasic movements of the lower vital is a good preparation, but not enough; by itself it is only and insisting on the negative side, though indispensablerejection of these adverse things. Aspire That would soon prove sufficient to hold the ground for a positive sattwic opening for strength, for light, for peace the Peace and Force to act and they would do not worry or repine if the progress is slow at first, nor grudge the time and labour of preparation necessary before there can be a rapid advance in the Yogarest. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sorrowlevels-andof-the-physical-sufferingbeing#p12p2,p5</ref> ==Boredom and Laziness==

Boredom is a dullness of ==In the consciousness; and if you seek the cure within yourself, you will see that it immediately dissolves. Most people, when they feel bored, instead of making an effort to rise one step higher in their consciousness, come down one step lower; they come down even lower than they were before and do stupid things, they make themselves vulgar in the hope of amusing themselves. That is why men intoxicate themselves, spoil their health, deaden their brains. If they had risen instead of falling, they would have made use of this opportunity to progress.Sometimes, in certain circumstances, everything seems dull, boring, stupid; this means that you are as boring as the circumstances and it clearly shows that you are not in a state of progress. It is simply a passing wave of boredom, and nothing is more contrary to the purpose of existence. At such a moment you might make an effort and ask yourself, "This boredom shows that I have something to learn, some progress to make in myself, some inertia to conquer, some weakness to overcome." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/to-the-students-young-and-old#p7</ref>Physical==

=Why Does Laziness Occur?= That is one A time comes when after a long preparation of the main reasonsmind and vital being, it becomes necessary to open also the physical nature. And so one conceals one's laziness behind fine reasonsBut when that happens, very often the first of vital exaltation which says, "I can'tbe very great when the experience is on its own plane, I don't know" or elsefalls away and the obscure, "I have tried obstructive physical and not succeeded" or "I don't know where to begin!" Any reason whatever, isn't that true? The first that comes to youmaterial consciousness appears in its unrelieved inertia. Or elseInertia, one doesn't practise because one doesn't find it worthwhile to make the effort—that is part of the laziness alsotamas, it asks for too much effort! But one can't live without effort! If one were to refuse to make any effortstupidity, one would not even be able to stand on one's legs or walk or even eat. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/12-september-1956#p5</ref><center>~</center>To justify one's weaknesses is a kind of laziness narrowness and inertia.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/4-august-1954#p8</ref><center>~</center>Welllimitation, when one doesn’t want to make an effort inability to correct oneselfprogress, one saysdoubt, “Ohdullness, it is impossibledryness, I can’t do it, I don’t have a constant forgetfulness of the spiritual experiences received are the strength, I am not made characteristics of that stuff, I don’t have the necessary qualitiesunregenerated physical nature, I could never do it.” It when that is absolute laziness, it is in order to avoid not pushed by the required effort. When you are asked to make progress: “Oh, it is beyond my capacity, I am a poor creature, I can do nothing!” That’s all. It is almost ill-will. It vital and is extreme laziness, a refusal to make any effort. One accepts all one’s defects and incapacities in order not to have to make the necessary effort to overcome them. One says, “I am like that, I can’t be otherwise!” It is a refusal to let supported either by the divine Grace work in you. It is a justification of your own ill-higher mental willand intelligence.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0631/4the-lower-augustvital-1954being#p9p35</ref>

Of The whole world is in a process of progressive transformation; if you take up the discipline of Yoga, you speed up in yourself this process. The work that would require years in the ordinary course there , can be done by Yoga in a state few days and even in a few hours. But it is your inner consciousness that obeys this accelerating impulse; for the higher parts of your being readily follow the swift and concentrated movement of happy inertiaYoga and lend themselves more easily to the continuous adjustment and adaptation that it necessitates. The body, on the other hand, is ordinarily dense, inert and apathetic. And if you have in this part something that is not responsive, if there is a resistance here, but most people don't remain satisfied with the reason is that longthe body is incapable of moving as quickly as the rest of the being. It must take time, it must walk at its own pace as it does in ordinary life. What happens is as when grown-up people walk too fast for children in their company; they begin have to want something elsestop at times and wait till the child who is lagging behind comes up and overtakes them. There are Yogins who are satisfied with This divergence between the progress in the inner being and the inertia of the body often creates a happy calm immobilitydislocation in the system, but and that manifests itself as an illness. This is because the happiness why people who take up Yoga frequently begin by suffering from some physical discomfort or disorder. That need not happen if they are on their guard and careful. Or if there is a form of Ananda greater and unusual receptivity in the immobility body, then too they feel escape. But an unmixed receptivity making the physical parts closely follow the pace of the inner transformation is hardly possible, unless the body has already been prepared in the past for the Self and its eternal calm and want nothing moreprocesses of Yoga.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3103/cheerfulness16-andjune-happiness1929#p12p6</ref>

And how is it possible ''Q.Sri Aurobindo speaks of “the will to perfect the mind open and vital unless the physical is prepared?—for there is such a thing as make plastic the mental and vital physical, and mind and vital cannot be said to be perfectly prepared until these are ready.There is always the conflict between the consciousness that is coming into you and the ignorant consciousness that was there before. The new consciousness is gaining ground always but still against much resistance especially in the vital physical (which is indicated in the stomach attacks). But there is only one way to go and that is to insist always on the Power and Peace which are more and more felt to be always there and more and more dissociate yourself from the other conditionnature”. It is on that basis that the right understanding can come. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levels-of-the-physical-being#p14,p49</ref> =Emergence of Laziness=  ==Illness and Health==''

That [weakness of ''A.''Because the physical consciousness and nature are closed up and rigid—they are shut up in their habits, they don’t want to change them, they accept only one regular routine. There is nothing more routine-bound than the body] also is tamas. If you threw off the strain of change its habits in the idea of weaknessleast, the strength would come back. But there it is always something in the vital physical which is pleased with becoming more weak and ill so that quite bewildered, it doesn’t know any longer what to do, it can feel and lament its tragic casesays, “Excuse me, excuse me! but that’s not how one goes about living. ” <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3104/illness28-andapril-health1951#p64p10,p11</ref>

It The character is not anything physical but made up of habits and it clings to them, is disposed to think them the very law of its being and it is a hard job to get it to change at all except under a vital depression (strong pressure of circumstances. Especially in some part of the vitalphysical parts, not the whole) that prevents the body from recovering its elasticity. There was some part of , the vital that was resisting a radical change and evenphysical mind, unknown to your mindthe physical life movements, trying to go on as it was under cover of there is this resistance; the change tamasic element in Nature is powerful there, what the rest Gita describes as ''aprakāśa'', absence of your being. This has nowlight, and ''apravṛtti'', a tendency to inertia, inactivity, owing unwillingness to this last affairmake an effort and, received as a blow and got depressed andresult, even when the vital effort is depressed like thatmade, it affects the body. You say rightly that it is part of a change or turn that is taking place. But these effects of inertia constant readiness to doubt, to despond and weakness need not continue; as soon as this vital part acquiesces gladly in the turn or changedespair, to give up, renounce the elasticity aim and energy will returnthe endeavour, collapse. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illnessthe-difficulties-andof-healthyoga#p66p21</ref>

It can only be remedied by [''the Force and Consciousness from above occupying nature of the whole physical being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p78</ref>...inertia obstruction of the physical consciousness, while ''] depends on the right reaction in weak points of the lower vital brings on individual and the contrary a sense stage of his progress. The main difficulty of peace, release, quietude which definitely opens the lowest physical parts to the higher consciousness and force. If you can get over this and get is that it is incapable, before it is transformed, of maintaining any tension of tapasya—it wants periods of assimilation, sinking back into the old poiseordinary consciousness to rest, then all these things can be made to disappear—also there is a constant forgetfulness of what has been done etc. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illnessdifficulties-of-andthe-physical-healthnature#p79p8</ref>

The whole thing hold of inertia always increases when the working comes down into the physical and subconscient. Before that the inertia is overpowered though not eradicated by the action in mind and vital—afterwards it comes up in its natural force and has to be met in its own field. The physical’s tendency to get inertia is very great; even after the physical out habit of its habit living in the higher consciousness is there, some part may feel the pressure of falling back into tamas the inertia—generally the outermost or most material parts. The inertiausually rises up from the subconscient. It does not abolish the higher consciousness in the physical, and that can be done by opening and accustoming but dulls its action or else brings it down from a higher to a lower level, e.g. from the intuition to the higher mind or from the higher to the action lower ranges of overmind. For some time it resists the completeness of the Forcesiddhi. When It is only when the most material and the subconscient and the action environmental consciousness are quite liberated that this retarding or lowering effect of the Force becomes constant, then there will be no more tamasprimal Inertia is entirely overcome. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illnessdifficulties-of-the-andphysical-healthnature#p98p16,p17</ref> ==The Lower Vital Being==

A time comes when after a long preparation of the mind and vital being, it becomes necessary =How to open also the physical nature. But when that happens, very often the vital exaltation which can be very great when the experience is on its own plane, falls away and the obscure, obstructive physical and material consciousness appears in its unrelieved inertia. Inertia, tamas, stupidity, narrowness and limitation, an inability to progress, doubt, dullness, dryness, a constant forgetfulness of the spiritual experiences received are the characteristics of the unregenerated physical nature, when that is not pushed by the vital and is not supported either by the higher mental will and intelligence… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-lower-vital-being#p35</ref>These things can only be cured by a persistent bringing down of the higher spiritual consciousness into all the parts of the being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/variations-in-the-intensity-of-experience#p18</ref>Cure Laziness?=

''QIn ordinary life, already, this happens so much. What Indeed, this is “physical tamas”?the bourgeois ideal, which has deadened mankind and made man into what he is now: “Work while you are young, accumulate wealth, honour, position; be provident, have a little foresight, put something by, lay up a capital, become an official—so that later when you are forty you “can sit down”, enjoy your income and later your pension and, as they say, enjoy a well-earned rest.”—To sit down, to stop on the way, not to move forward, to go to sleep, to go downhill towards the grave before one’s time, cease to live the purpose of life—to sit down!

 True repose comes from the widening, the universalisation of the consciousness. Become as vast as the world and you will always be at rest. In the thick of action, in the very midst of the battle, the effort, you will know the repose of infinity and eternity.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/20-march-1957#p9,p10,p11,p12</ref>When any part of the being becomes prominent like this showing all its defects and limitations—here inertia or incapacity (''apravṛtti''), obscurity or forgetfulness (''aprakāśa''), it is in order to get set right,—it has come up for a first or preliminary transformation. Peace and light in the mind, love and sympathy in the heart, calm and power in the vital, a settled receptivity and response (''prakāśa, pravṛtti'') in the physical are the necessary change. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-transformation-of-the-physical#p22</ref> =Means to Get Rid of Laziness=The only remedy is to keep quiet, look within oneself honestly to find out what is wrong and set to work courageously to put it right.The Divine Consciousness will always be there to help you if your endeavour is sincere; and the more sincere your endeavour the more the Divine Consciousness will help and assist you.Periods of obscuration are frequent and common; generally, it is enough to keep quiet without worrying, knowing that these are spiritual nights which alternate with the full light of the days.But to be able to remain in peace you must keep in your heart gratitude towards the Divine for all the help He gives. If gratitude also is veiled, the obscure periods last much longer. There is, however, a swift and effective remedy: it is to keep always burning in your heart the flame of purification, the aspiration for progress, the intensity, the ardour of consecration. This flame is kindled in the heart of all who are sincere; you must not let ingratitude cover it up with its ashes. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/depression#p27,p28,p30</ref> The best thing to do is to distinguish in oneself the origin of all one's movements—those that come from the light of truth and those that come from the old inertia and falsehood—in order to accept the first and to refuse or reject the others. With practice one learns to distinguish more and more clearly, but one can establish as a general rule that all that tends towards disharmony, disorder and inertia comes from the falsehood and all that favours union, harmony, order and consciousness comes from the Truth. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/13-january-1965#p3,p4</ref>==Through Effort==It is only effort, in whatever domain it be—material effort, moral effort, intellectual effort—which creates in the being certain vibrations which enable you to get connected with universal vibrations; and it is this which gives joy. It is effort which pulls you out of inertia; it is effort which makes you receptive to the universal forces. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/13-january-1951#p14</ref><center>~</center>It is only the psychic that knows how to surrender and the psychic is usually very much veiled in the beginning. When the psychic awakes, it can bring a sudden and true surrender of the whole being, for the difficulty of the rest is rapidly dealt with and disappears. But till then effort is indispensable. Or else it is necessary till the Force comes flooding down into the being from above and takes up the sadhana, does it for one more and more and leaves less and less to individual effort—but even then, if not effort, at least aspiration and vigilance are needed till the possession of mind, will, life and body by the Divine Power is complete. …. Work is a means of self-dedication to the Divine, but it must be done with the necessary inner consciousness in which the lower vital and physical must also share. A lazy body is certainly not a proper instrument for Yoga, it must stop being lazy. But a fatigued and unwilling body also cannot receive properly or be a good instrument. The proper thing is to avoid either extreme. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levels-of-the-physical-being#p49,p50</ref><center>~</center>It is a Force that comes and pushes to work and is as legitimately a part of the spiritual life as others. It is a special Energy that takes hold of the worker in the being and fulfils itself through him. To work with a full energy like this in one is quite salutary. The only thing is not to overdo it—that is to avoid any exhaustion or recoil to a fatigued inertia. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-force-in-work#p15</ref><center>~</center>The help is always there and it has pulled you out of many difficulties and attacks. It is, I suppose, because of the feeling "I do not want to do anything" that you have not been able to receive the help, but that is a temporary inertia of the physical mind and will. …The only course is to shake off the inertia of the will and persevere. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/surrender#p90</ref>  ==Through Aspiration==

If it ==Through Will== This difficulty has to be faced and overcome by an equal perseverance in the will of the sadhak. It is laziness a steady flame that keeps you back frommust burn, say, doing as steady as the obstruction is obstinate. Do not therefore be discouraged by the persistence of the obstruction of the vaulting, you must immediately do something much more tiring and say: "Well, you don't want ignorance. The persistence of your own will to do that? All right, you are going to do 1500 metres running!" Or else: "I donconquer with the Mother't want s force supporting it will come to do the weight-lifting today, I don't feel like doing it: good, I shall do skipping 4000 times at a stretchend of the resistance."<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0531/24difficulties-juneof-1953the-physical-nature#p22p46</ref>When one has decided to get up, one gets up." No, <center>~</center>Apart from the body was individual difficulty there, like that, is a general difficulty in the physical earth-nature. Physical nature is slow and inert and it was necessary unwilling to put a will into it, change; its tendency is to push this body be still and take long periods of time for it to get up and acta little progress. It is like that, this is tamas. Tamas is a purely material thing; it is very rare to have a vital or difficult for even the strongest mental tamas (it may occur but through contagion), I believe it is more a tamas of the nerves or the brain than vital or mental tamaseven psychic will to overcome this inertia. But laziness It is everywhere, in only by bringing down constantly the physical, the vital, the mind. Generally lazy people are not always lazy, not in all things. If you propose something consciousness and force and light from above that pleases them, amuses them, they are quite ready to make an effort. There is much ill-will in laziness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/28-april-1951#p9</ref>It is good to repeat a mantra, a word, a prayer before going into sleepit can be done. But Therefore there must be a life in the words; I do not mean an intellectual significance, nothing of constant will and aspiration for that kind, but a vibration. And quietly you let yourself go, as though you wanted to go to sleep. The body vibrates more and more, more for the change and more, more it must be a steady and more, and away you go. That is patient will not tired out even by the utmost resistance of the cure for tamasphysical nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1531/4the-transformation-of-junethe-1960physical#p6p2</ref> ==Through Surrender== 

==Through Developing Consciousness==<center>~</center>For ...to recognise that there is here an element of the inner flame to burn, one universal Nature reflected in yours which you must feed it; one must watch over eliminate. And this can only be done by more and more surrender and aspiration and by so bringing in from beyond the fire, throw into it vital and the fuel of all mind the errors one wants to get rid ofdivine peace, all that delays the progresslight, all that darkens the pathpower and presence. If one doesn't feed This is the fire, it smoulders under only way towards the ashes transformation and fulfilment of one's unconsciousness and inertia, and then, not years but lives, centuries will pass before one reaches the goalphysical nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0931/9the-lower-julyvital-1958being#p10p35</ref> An active movement is one in which you throw your force out, that is, when something comes out from you—in a movement, a thought, a feeling—something which goes out from you ==Turning to others or into the world. Passivity Divine== It is when you remain just yourself like this, open, and receive what comes from outside. It does not at all depend on whether selfishness that makes one moves or sits still. It jealous; it is not weakness that at allmakes one lazy. To be active In either case the only truly effective remedy is to throw out conscious union with the consciousness or force or movement from within outwards. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/21-april-1954#p22</ref>There is a lot to do, a whole lotDivine. But it may go relatively fast. When you observeIndeed, you realize that what takes as soon as one becomes conscious of the most time Divine and is becoming conscious of what must be changedunited with Him, having a conscious contact that enables it one learns to change. Thatlove with the true love: the love 's what takes the most time. The change itself... There are recurrences, but it's growing much less intense. It all depends on that loves for the amount joy of unconsciousness loving'' and tamas has no need to be loved in the beingreturn; as it grows less, one also learns to draw Force from the inexhaustible source and one knows by experience grows stronger. <ref>http://incarnateword.that by using this Force in/agenda/06/july-24-1965#p30</ref>The accordance of conscious mind and conscious will with a form and a life in themselves not overtly self-conscious and capable at best of a mechanical or subconscious will is another problem of opposites in which she has produced astonishing results and aims always at higher marvels; for there her ultimate miracle would be an animal consciousness no longer seeking but possessed the service of Truth and Light, with the practical omnipotence which would result Divine one receives from the possession of a direct Him all that one has spent and perfected knowledgemuch more. Not only, then, is All the upward impulse of man towards remedies suggested by the accordance of yet higher opposites rational in itselfmind, but it is even the most enlightened mind, are only logical completion of a rule palliatives and an effort that seem to be not a fundamental method of Nature and the very sense of her universal strivingstrue cure. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2116/the16-humannovember-aspiration1969#p3,p4,p5</ref>==Through Transformation==...for everyone all is as well as it can be. It's always the old movements that get impatient.... Of course, when you see the whole, impatience was certainly created to counteract inertia—but it's over, that time is past. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/10/october-18-1969#p100~</refcenter>We do If not fight against any creedaspiration, any religion. We do not fight against any form at least keep the idea of government. We do not fight against any caste, any social class. We do not fight against any nation or civilisation. We are fighting division, unconsciousness, ignorance, inertia what is necessary—(1) that the silence and falsehood. We are endeavouring to establish upon earth union, knowledgepeace shall become a wideness which you can realise as the Self, (2) the extension of the silent consciousnessupwards as well so that you may feel its source above you, truth; and we fight whatever opposes (3) the advent presence of this new creation of Lightpeace etc. all the time. These things need not all come at once, Peacebut by realising what has to be in your mind, Truth and Loveany falling towards a condition of inertia can be avoided."1 February 16, 1965.) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0630/februaryexperiences-of-the-self-27the-1965one-and-the-infinite#p7p6</ref>It was the idea of the original Stability (if we may say so) which, in Manifestation, is expressed as inertia. And the unfolding is expressed as change. All right. Then came:Eternity and progress <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/10/november-19-1969#p32~</refcenter>It is When the soul draws towards the Divine, there may be a resistance in the quickest mind and most effective method of pulling the creation out common form of its inertia that is denial and doubt—which may create mental and leading it on to its blossoming. <ref>http://incarnatewordvital suffering.There may again be a resistance in/agenda/04/may-15-1963#p13</ref>When I lie down to rest my body the vital nature whose principal character is desire and work without moving (work with an activity that doesn't force the body attachment to move)the objects of desire, as soon as and if in this field there is conflict between the soul and the slightest... not exactly "fallvital nature," but between the Divine Attraction and the slightest descent towards pull of the InconscientIgnorance, something in then obviously there may be much suffering of the body immediately gives mind and vital parts. The physical consciousness also may offer a start—instantly. It has been like resistance which is usually that for of a long timefundamental inertia, two years, but now it's instantaneous, and it an obscurity in the very rarely happens—there is true rest, which is an expansion and immensity stuff of the being in full Light. It's magnificent. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/07/march-26-1966#p12</ref>That's how it is. Day after dayphysical, almost hour after houran incomprehension, as the Power comes back ... You remember, I once said it had gone completely, and that was true, it had gone completely in order an inability to leave the body absolutely respond to itself, for its conversion, we could say; but once there had been in this body consciousness the same aspiration and the same ardour of higher consciousness (with , a far greater steadiness than in any other part habit of helplessly responding to the being; there are no fluctuations as there are in the vital and mindlower mechanically, even when it's very steady), once that was established (through kinds of pulsations, does not distant from one another, first on one detail, then spreading out want to do so; both vital and becoming generalized), since then physical suffering may be the Power has been consequence... I can say it has been coming back.…There are two ways to meet all that—first that of the old difficulties appear to be waking up againSelf, calm, equality, they seem to spring up again (they had completely fallen asleepa spirit, you understand)a will, and each timea mind, this body consciousness feels a sort of surprisevital, at once astonished and distressed a physical consciousness that remain resolutely turned towards the presence Divine and unshaken by all suggestion of the divine Powerdoubt, the divine Consciousnessdesire, the Truth-Consciousnessattachment, should give rise to all those difficultiesdepression, which are essentially difficulties of ignorance and inertia—the incapacity to receive. And it comes back as memoriessorrow, like that (gesture from below)pain, like a snake rearing its headinertia. And every timeThis is possible when the inner being awakens, when one becomes conscious of the Self, everything in of the physical consciousness has inner mind, the same callinner vital, "Why? How can these things be when You are there!" That's the astonishing thing: "Since You are thereinner physical, how can these things be?" <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/august-2-1967#p59</ref>Only because it's difficult for us to feel that way can we imagine that by our entering certain states of consciousness things would not change. Even if we entered into an apparently total inertiamore easily attune itself to the divine Will, things would continue to change and we along with them! <ref>http://incarnateword.then there is a division in/agenda/02/january-12-1961#p11</ref>And once you've lived That... you become so irrevocably conscious that everything depends on the individual perceptionbeing as if there were two beings, entirely; and naturallyone within, calm, strong, equal, unperturbed, that individual perception [a channel of divine Love] depends on the inadequacyDivine Consciousness and Force, one without, still encroached on by the inertia, lower Nature; but then the incomprehension, disturbances of the incapacitylatter become something superficial which are no more than an outer ripple, —until these under the cells' inability to hold inner pressure fade and sink away and keep the Vibrationouter being too remains calm, anyway all that man calls his "character" and which comes from his animal evolution. concentrated, unattackable… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0531/julyresistances-sufferings-22and-1964falls#p20p7</ref>

==How to Cure Physical Consciousness?==A quiet will insisting on Whatever the quietude of path we may follow, the mind and vital and insisting on subject we may study, we always reach the rejection of these adverse thingssame result. That would soon prove sufficient to hold the ground The most important thing for the Peace and Force an individual is to act unify himself around his divine center; that way he becomes a real individual, master of himself and they would do the restof his destiny. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levels-Otherwise, he is a plaything of-the-physical-being#p5</ref>Work is forces, which toss him about like a means of self-dedication cork in a stream. He goes where he doesn't want to, is made to do what he doesn't want to the Divine, but it must be done with the necessary inner consciousness and finally he gets lost in which the lower vital and physical must also share.A lazy body is certainly not a proper instrument for Yoga, it must hole without any way to stop being lazyhimself doing so. But a fatigued if you are consciously organized, unified around the divine center, governed and unwilling body also cannot receive properly or be a good instrument. The proper thing is to avoid either extremeled by it, you are the master of your destiny. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3109/levels-of-theseptember-physical7-being1968#p49p20</ref> A strong mind and body <center>~</center>The peace and life-force spontaneous knowledge are needed in the sadhana. Especially steps should be taken psychic being and from there they spread to throw out tamas mind and bring strength vital and force into the frame of the naturephysical.There It is always some tendency to looseness, forgetfulness and inattention in the outer physical consciousness. One has that the difficulty still tries to be very vigilant persist and careful to prevent this tendency having its way.It is an inertia brings the restlessness sometimes into the physical mind, sometimes into the nerves, sometimes in the shape of bodily trouble into the physical consciousness which allows body. But all these desires to come things can and does not react against must go. Even the suggestions; it is that also which responds to illnesses can go entirely with the pains growth of peace and suggestion of illness. But you must not accept power in the suggestion that you cannot react nerves and be free,—the physical consciousness itself cannot as yet, but the will can if it is called on to act and made accustomed to act alwayscells… <ref>https://incarnateword. Not in/cwsa/31/levels-of-the struggling will, but a quiet will insisting on the quietude -physical-being#p60</ref><center>~</center>The habit of return of these feelings belongs to the mind physical consciousness and vital in his physical consciousness the human being is always weak and insisting on the rejection unable to get rid of these adverse or resist its habitual movements. There are three things. That would soon prove sufficient that help him to hold the ground for the Peace and Force do so (apart from his mental will which is not always strong enough to act and they would do the restit).It There is something in first the vital part psychic being… This activity of the psychic will return and eventually come down into the physical consciousness which has not yet understood—it feels itself; then there will be very little difficulty. The second is the pressure to changeinner consciousness always awake. At present that is difficult, yet it is drawn outward because to people or things in keep the old way, but is dissatisfied because the growth inner consciousness awake at all times can only come by a deepening of the new consciousness behind prevents it taking pleasure in them, yourself so that it remains restless, not understanding anythingthe veil between the outer and inner which lifts only in concentration may cease to exist even when one is in the ordinary unconcentrated condition. What it has got to learn It is for this deepening that it must fall quiet the strong tendency to go inside comes upon you. Lastly, the Mother’s force always there and open to receiving also a new response at once from the physical consciousness from above and within. This part of the being is obscure,—not sufficiently mentalised to understand These three things, it acts from instinct, impulse and habit onlytogether can do anything. When its old instinctsIt takes time to make them all three constantly active together, impulses and habits are checked, it does not know what to do or what is demanded of it. But after a certain amount of pressure from the mind but that is sure to come and with them these inner difficulties will it can be got to consent to a change of its waysdisappear. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levels-of-the-physical-being#p15,p49p63</ref> ==Causes of Laziness/How to Cure Inertia or the Physical Nature=The difficulty of the physical nature comes inevitably in the course Parts of the development of the sadhana. Its obstruction, its inertia, its absence of aspiration or movement have Being?== ==Mental== ''Q.How to show themselves before they can be got get rid of—otherwise it will always remain undetected, hampering even of mental inertia?''''A:'' The cure is not in trying to wake up the best sadhana mind but in turning it, immobile and preventing its completeness. This coming up silent, upward towards the region of the physical nature lasts longer or less according to the circumstancesintuitive light, but there is none who does not go through it.What is necessary is not in a steady and quiet aspiration, and to get troubled or anxious or impatientwait in silence, for that only makes it last more, but the light to put entire confidence in the Mother come down and quietly persist in faithflood your brain which will, patience and steady will for little by little, wake up to this influence and become capable of receiving and expressing the complete changeintuition. It is so that the Mother's force can best work in the being. <ref>http://<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3112/difficulties-of-the-physical-naturestudy#p6p88</ref>It [the nature of the obstruction of the physical consciousness] depends on the weak points of the individual <center>~</center>By wanting to do so, with persistence and the stage obstinacy. By doing every day a mental exercise of his progressreading, organisation and development. The main difficulty This should alternate in the course of the physical consciousness is that it is incapableday with exercises of mental silence in concentration.'' <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/1-june-1966#p3, before it is transformed, of maintaining any tension of tapasya—it wants periods of assimilation, sinking back into the ordinary consciousness to rest,—also there is a constant forgetfulness of what has been done etc. p4</ref>http:<center>~<//incarnatewordcenter>''Q.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-Are mental indifference and lack of curiosity a sort of-the-physical-nature#p8</ref>mental inertia?'' Inertia is mental, vital, physical, subconscient. Physical inertia can produce ''A:'' Usually they are due to mental inertia, mental inertia can produce physical inertia, vital inertia almost always makes unless one has obtained calm and indifference through a very intense sadhana resulting in a perfect equality for which the physical lifeless good and lustreless and dullbad, the pleasant and unpleasant no longer exist. But in that is inertia. Vital inertia can also infect the mindcase, unless the mind mental activity is very strong and clear. I have always said that the physical consciousness is the main seat and source replaced by an intuitive activity of inertiaa much higher kind. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3112/difficultiesanswers-ofto-thea-physical-naturemonitor#p15p112</ref> ==Vital== The hold gloom and other difficulties come from a resistance of inertia always increases when the working comes down into in the lower vital and physical and subconscientconsciousness.The inertia usually rises up from What you have to do is to prepare the consciousness by getting rid of the subconscientinertia. It does not abolish A sattwic gladness and calm and confidence is the higher consciousness in the physicalproper temperament for this Yoga; gloom, but dulls its action or else brings it down from a higher to a lower leveldepression and weeping should not be indulged in, e.g. from as they stand in the intuition to way of the higher mind or from opening, unless the higher to tears are the lower ranges psychic weeping of overmindrelease or adoration or a moved love and bhakti. For some time it resists The progress made in controlling the completeness sex and other rajasic movements of the siddhi. It lower vital is only when the most material and a good preparation, but not enough; by itself it is only the subconscient negative side, though indispensable. Aspire for a positive sattwic opening for strength, for light, for peace and the environmental consciousness are quite liberated that this retarding do not worry or lowering effect of repine if the primal Inertia progress is entirely overcomeslow at first, nor grudge the time and labour of preparation necessary before there can be a rapid advance in the Yoga. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficultiessorrow-of-the-physicaland-naturesuffering#p17p12</ref>The one ==Physical== It must be the tamas of the physical that has enveloped the inner consciousness. The one way to get out of it is to remain very quiet inwardly and call down persistently the Force from above. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p37</ref>...for that will only make things worse and increase <center>~</center>In the tamasphysical it is inertia, dryness, dullness, inertiaobscurity,—but to recognise inability that there is here an element come up and the obstinacy of the universal Nature reflected in yours which you must eliminatethese things. And The only thing to do in this can only unpleasant phase is to be done by more obstinate than the physical inertia and more surrender and aspiration and by so bringing to persist in from beyond the vital and the mind the divine peace, light, power a fixed endeavour—steady persistency without any restless struggle—to get a wide and presencepermanent opening made even in this solid rock of obstruction. This is the only way towards the transformation and fulfilment of the physical nature. <ref<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-lowertransformation-of-vitalthe-beingphysical#p35p32</ref>==How to Cure the Difficulties of Physical Nature?==<center>~</center>The first thing physical sadhana is to reject bring down the higher light and power and peace and Ananda into the idea of helplessnessbody consciousness, to get rid of impossibility the inertia of a successful reaction. The central will must assert itselfthe physical, not violently in a constant strugglethe doubts, for that brings reactionlimitations, fatigue and inertiaexternal tendency of the physical mind, but with a quiet pressure and insistence.The mind must learn the defective energies of the vital physical (even the physical external mindnerves) never to say yes to the suggestions and impulsions of bring in instead the old movement or admit any justification for them however plausible or seemingly “true”true consciousness there so that the physical may be a perfect instrument for the Divine Will… <ref>http://incarnateword. However violently they return and insist, they must feel that they will never get any essential assent or sanction. You have almost reached that point, but it must be made more entire.There must be something in in/cwsa/31/the vital itself that insists on its true aspiration and refuses even -transformation-of-the vital consent or any vital pleasure in -physical#p26</ref><center>~</center>The difficulty of the wrong movementsphysical nature comes inevitably in the course of the development of the sadhana. If they comeIts obstruction, they must feel their own fallenits inertia, ignorant, merely material brute character. This point you seem its absence of aspiration or movement have to show themselves before they can be reachinggot rid of—otherwise it will always remain undetected, but it must be absolutehampering even the best sadhana and preventing its completeness.Lastly This coming up of the physical, nature lasts longer or less according to the material itself—to insist on the Lightcircumstances, the true will but there alsois none who does not go through it. For that, do What is necessary is not indulge the desiresto get troubled or anxious or impatient, the wrong impulsesfor that only makes it last more, but to put entire confidence in the wrong brute feelings that come. Do not admit the idea that you cannot refuse. Throw them out each time they comeMother and quietly persist in faith, out of patience and steady will for the body into complete change. It is so that the environmental consciousness till they Mother's force can finally be pushed away from there also. For it is these that now separate you best work in the physical consciousness from the Motherbeing. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p2p6</ref>This difficulty has to be faced <center>~</center>But for the physical being and overcome by an equal perseverance in physical consciousness to be ready to receive the will of the sadhak. It is a steady flame that divine impulsion, they must burnbe extremely plastic, as steady as because the obstruction is obstinate. Do not therefore be discouraged by vital uses coercion, it imposes its will, and the poor body has but to obey, while the persistence of Divine just shows the obstruction of light, gives the ignorance. The persistence of your own will to conquer with the Mother's force supporting consciousness, and so one must obey consciously and willingly—it is a question of collaboration, it will come to the end is no longer a question of the resistancecoercion. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-The physical being and physical-nature#p46</ref>What is important for you in these circumstances is consciousness must be very plastic to be able to lend themselves to make your faithall the necessary changes, surrender and samata absolute. That is as great and essential a progress so as to have high experiencesbe of one kind one day and another the next, etcand so on. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3104/difficulties-of-the28-physicalapril-nature1951#p52p12</ref> =Transformation of Physical: Why is it the Need of the Hour?==In Sleep=== Apart from The rest must not be one which goes down into the individual difficulty there is a general difficulty in the physical earth-natureinconscience and tamas. Physical nature is slow and inert and unwilling to change; its tendency is to The rest must be still and take long periods of time for an ascent into the Light, into perfect Peace, total Silence, a little progress. It is very difficult for even rest which rises up out of the strongest mental or vital or even psychic will to overcome this inertiadarkness. It Then it is only by bringing down constantly the consciousness and force and light from above that it can be donetrue rest, a rest which is an ascent. Therefore there must be a constant will and aspiration for that and for the change and it must be a steady and patient will not tired out even by the utmost resistance of the physical nature. <ref>http:<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/07/31/the-transformation-of-theaugust-physical1955#p2p19</ref>...here inertia or incapacity (apravṛtti)<center>~</center>…in the ordinary consciousness, obscurity or forgetfulness (aprakāśa)in the general ordinary life, it is in order to get set rightrest means tamas. Rest means falling back into Inertia. So then, instead of a rest that benefits you,—it has come up for it’s a first or preliminary transformation. Peace and light in rest that stupefies you and then you have to make effort once more to recapture the mind, love and sympathy in consciousness you have lost. That’s how the heartvast majority of people sleep. But now, calm and power in the vital, a settled receptivity lesson is different: when I lie down to rest my body and response work without moving (prakāśawork with an activity that doesn’t force the body to move), pravṛtti) in as soon as there is the physical are slightest… not exactly “fall,” but the slightest descent towards the necessary change. <ref>http://incarnateword.Inconscient, something in/cwsa/31/the-transformation-of-the-physical#p21</ref> ...it was this which had been preventing the elimination of the old movements all along and enabled them to return when they had been pushed out—for body immediately gives a start—instantly. It has been like that for a long time, two years, but now it’s instantaneous, and it very rarely happens—there is in the material half-conscious or subconscient that there true rest, which is the bedrock an expansion and immensity of the resistance…The physical sadhana is to bring down the higher light and power and peace and Ananda into the body consciousness, being in full Light. It’s magnificent.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/07/march-26-1966#p12</ref><center>~</center>You must learn to get rid of the inertia of be receptive in all circumstances and always—especially when you take rest—it must not be the physical, the doubts, limitations, external tendency "rest" of the physical mind, the defective energies inertia but a true rest of the vital physical (nerves) and bring in instead the true consciousness there so that the physical may be a perfect instrument for the Divine Will… receptivity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3117/the9-transformationmay-of-the-physical#p251967#p3</ref>...The only thing to do in this unpleasant phase <center>~</center>Fundamentally, the sole purpose of sleep is to be more obstinate than enable the physical inertia body to assimilate the effect of the trance so that the effect may be received everywhere, and to persist in a fixed endeavour—steady persistency without any restless struggle—to get a wide and permanent opening made even in this solid rock enable the body to do its natural nocturnal function of eliminating toxins. And when you wake up, there is not that trace of heaviness which comes from sleep: the effect of obstructionthe trance continues. <ref>http://incarnatewordEven for those who have never been in trance,it is good to repeat a mantra, a word, a prayer before going into sleep.But there must be a life in/cwsa/31/the-transformation-words; I do not mean an intellectual significance, nothing of-the-physical#p31</ref> =What are the Difficulties of Mental Nature?= that kind, but a vibration. And quietly you let yourself go, as though you wanted to go to sleep...the slowness of the mind The body vibrates more and the nature to seize something new to itmore, the non-distinction between what is true more and to be held more, more and what is not true more, and not to be held, away you go. That is due to a certain absence of quickness of movement in the being…A quick mind is often unstable—it catches but does not keep; or it catches but only superficially and thinks it has got everything when it has got only a little and not enough. A slow mind that takes slowly but holds on to what it has got, can be slow but sure in its movement…Therefore you should not mind if it takes long to absorb and hold the new consciousness—as a matter of fact, to hold takes long with everybody. Once you have got it well established, your nature is likely to hold it firmly… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/mental-difficulties-and-the-need-of-quietude#p15</ref> ==How to Cure Mental Inertia?==The cure is not in trying to wake up the mind but in turning it, immobile and silent, upward towards the region of intuitive light, in a steady and quiet aspiration, and to wait in silence, for the light to come down and flood your brain which will, little by little, wake up to this influence and become capable of receiving and expressing the intuition. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/study#p86</ref>''Q.How can one get out of this mental laziness and inertia?” ''A:'' By wanting to do so, with persistence and obstinacy. By doing every day a mental exercise of reading, organisation and development.This should alternate in the course of the day with exercises of mental silence in concentration.'' <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/1-june-1966#p2</ref> ''Q. Are mental indifference and lack of curiosity a sort of mental inertia?''''A:'' Usually they are due to mental inertia, unless one has obtained calm and indifference through a very intense sadhana resulting in a perfect equality for which the good and bad, the pleasant and unpleasant no longer exist. But in that case, mental activity is replaced by an intuitive activity of a much higher kind. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/answers-to-a-monitor#p110</ref> ''Q.Why does selfishness make one jealous and weakness makes one lazy?''''A:'' In either case the only truly effective remedy is conscious union with the Divine. Indeed, as soon as one becomes conscious of the Divine and is united with Him, one learns to love with the true love: the love that loves for the joy of loving and has no need to be loved in return; one also learns to draw Force from the inexhaustible source and one knows by experience that by using this Force in the service of the Divine one receives from Him all that one has spent and much more.All the remedies suggested by the mind, even the most enlightened mind, are only palliatives and not a true the curefor tamas. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1615/164-novemberjune-19691960#p3p6</ref>

The best thing to Whatever you do is to distinguish you can find interest in oneself it, provided you take it as the origin means of all one's movements—those that come from progressing; you must try to do better and better what you are doing, the light of truth will for progress must always be there and those then you take interest in what you do, whatever it is. The most insignificant occupation can prove interesting if you take it that come from way.But even the old inertia most attractive and falsehood—in order to accept important activity will soon lose all its interest for you if the first will for progress towards an ideal perfection is not there while you act. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/laziness-tiredness-fatigue-tamas#p6,p7</ref><center>~</center>Take no notice of it and to refuse or reject go on with your programme as usual. It is the othersquickest way of getting rid of it. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/1614/13laziness-januarytiredness-1965fatigue-tamas#p3p9</ref>With practice one learns to distinguish more and more clearly<center>~</center>You must exert your consciousness, your will, your force, gather your energy, but one can establish as shake yourself a general rule that all that tends towards disharmony, disorder little and inertia comes from the falsehood whip yourself and all say: “Hup! Hup! forward, march.”If it is laziness that favours unionkeeps you back from, harmonysay, order and consciousness comes from doing the Truth.When vaulting, you have found must immediately do something which has the power to help you in gaining a victory over your unconsciousness much more tiring and inertiasay: "Well, you mustdon't want to do that? All right, till you reach are going to do 1500 metres running!" Or else: "I don't want to do the final resultweight-lifting today, exhaust all the effects produced by that word or phrase before you look for othersI don't feel like doing it: good, I shall do skipping 4000 times at a stretch. " <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0305/the24-june-thousands1953#p20p22</ref>...<center>~</center>There is only one way of acting truly,it is to try at each moment, each second, in each movement to express only the highest truth one can perceive, and at the same time know that this perception has to be progressive and that what seems to you the most true now will no longer be so tomorrow, and that a higher truth will have to be expressed more and more through you. This leaves no room any longer for sleeping in a comfortable tamas; one must be always awake—I am not speaking of physical sleep—one must be always awake, always conscious and always full of an enlightened receptivity and of goodwill. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/31-august-1955#p18</ref>Two things are necessary. First of all, nothing in your being, no part of your being should To want to die. That does not happen often. You have always a defeatist in you somewhere: something that is tiredthe best, something that is disgustedalways the best, something that has had enough of italways the best and never tell oneself, something that “Oh! It is lazytiring! Let me rest, something that does not want to struggle and says: "Welllet me relax! Ah! Let it be finished, so much the better." That is sufficient, you are dead. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/1-july-1953#p34</ref>Then I said am going to myself: that's how it is, there must be a certain tamas—an uncomprehending tamas—which in order to change needs to be violently shaken up. With illnesses, it's the same thing, in the sense that only when things really seem about to topple over on the wrong side... I go out of my body deliberately, hovering over all things, and the body recovers—now it takes very little time: a quarter of stop making an hour or twenty minutes. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/04/october-19-1963#p12</ref>Whatever the path we may follow, the subject we may study, we always reach the same result. The most important thing for an individual is to unify himself around his divine centereffort”; that way he becomes a real individual, master of himself and of his destiny. Otherwise, he then one is a plaything of the forces, which toss him about like a cork in a stream. He goes where he doesn't want sure to, is made to do what he doesn't want to, and finally he gets lost in fall into a hole without any way to stop himself doing so. But if you are consciously organized, unified around the divine center, governed immediately and led by it, you are the master of your destiny. make a big stupid blunder! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0907/september31-7august-19681955#p21p18</ref>Concentration is very helpful and necessary—the more one concentrates (of course in the limits of the body's capacity without straining it), the more the force of the Yoga grows.There are different causes for it. But it is mostly something physical that interferes, either the need of the body to take time to assimilate what has come or been done or sometimes inertia or dullness due to causes such as those you mention or others. The best thing is to remain quiet and not get nervous or dejected—till the force acts again. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/concentration-and-meditation#p94~</refcenter>==Guidance through For the Divine Grace==...with inertia the full assent of the sadhak. To learn remedy is not to give that full assent is the whole meaning of the sadhana. It may take time either because of ideas absorb yourself in the mind, desires in the vital or inertia in the physical consciousnessthoughts about it, but these things have to be turn upwards and can be removed with the aid or by calling in the action of the Divine Force. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p11</ref>You were able to go up because call the Peace descended. You were not able to remain above because the Peace could not occupy sufficiently the physical Light and the Force did not descend sufficiently. Meanwhile the inertia arose, you got troubled more and more because of the vital suggestions in the outer nature and the rush of inertia, so you were unable to keep detached and let the Force descend more and more or call come into it down more and more. Hence the coming down into the physical consciousness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3031/ascentwrong-tomovements-of-the-higher-planesvital#p41p46</ref> ==Detachment== When the Force is there at work, the imperfections and weaknesses of the nature will necessarily arise for change, but one need not fight with them; one can look on them quietly as a surface instrumentation that has to be changed. It is not with “indifference” that one has to look at them, for that might mean inertia, a want of will or push or necessity to change; it is rather with detachment.. 

=Forms =Hatha Yoga== The power of physical immobility is as important in Hathayoga as the power of mental immobility in the Yoga of knowledge…...the immobility of the Asana is to get rid of the restlessness imposed on the body and to force it to hold the Pranic energy instead of dissipating and squandering it. The experience in the practice of Asana is not that of a cessation and diminution of energy by inertia, but of a great increase, inpouring, circulation of force. The body, accustomed to work off superfluous energy by movement, is at first ill able to bear this increase and this retained inner action and betrays it by violent tremblings; afterwards it habituates itself and, when the Asana is conquered, then it finds as much ease in the posture, however originally difficult or unusual to it, as in its easiest attitudes sedentary or recumbent. It becomes increasingly capable of holding whatever amount of increased vital energy is brought to bear upon it without needing to spill it out in movement, and this increase is so enormous as to seem illimitable, so that the body of the perfected Hathayogin is capable of feats of endurance, force, unfatigued expenditure of energy of which the normal physical powers of man at their highest would be incapable. For it is not only able to hold and retain this energy, but to bear its possession of the physical system and its more complete movement through it. The life energy, thus occupying and operating in a powerful, unified movement on the tranquil and passive body, freed from the restless balancing between the continent power and the contained, becomes a much greater and more effective force. In fact, it seems then rather to contain and possess and use the body than to be contained, possessed and used by it,—just as the restless active mind seems to seize on and use irregularly and imperfectly whatever spiritual force comes into it, but the tranquillised mind is held, possessed and used by the spiritual force. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/hathayoga#p8</ref> =Gunas= 

<center>~</center>The three gunas become purified and refined and changed into their divine equivalents: sattwa becomes ''jyotiḥ'', the authentic spiritual light; rajas becomes ''tapas'', the tranquilly intense divine force; tamas becomes ''śama'', the divine quiet, rest, peace. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-sankhya-yoga-system#p37</ref><center>~</center>