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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”?''

"I have told you many times, and couldn't repeat 'Q. Is it too oftenthe same thing as laziness?'' ''A:'' Not quite. Of course, that we are not made of laziness is a piece. Within ourselves we have lots of states kind 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 intermediariesact.... 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>

===Impact on Mental Consciousness:===  To justify one's weaknesses is a kind of laziness and inertia.

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 of suffering—vital, mental, emotive suffering—arise from vital which brings in a wrong functioning dominant note of the mindrajas, and thoseactivity... we can easily rank them in the FalsehoodThat is why, that's all. But physical suffering is to me like as 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 Mattergeneral rule, everything is inertia and ignorance: total ignorance of the Truth, ignorance intrusion of the Origin, ignorance of vital in the Possibility, even ignorance form of what needs to be done so as not to suffer materially. This ignorance is everywhere in the cellsambition, emulation and only the experience—and the experience of what, in this rudimentary consciousnessvanity, is translated as suffering—can awaken, arouse compels the need body to know and be cured, shake off the tamas and make the aspiration necessary effort to be transformedprogress. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0716/september13-may-281964-19661#p19p3</ref>

And in that kind There are many [''defects of the physical eternity (which lasted two and a half hours—itconsciousness''s a long time for an experience)]—but mainly obscurity, inertia, I was aware of something missingtamas, something not there: the joy a passive acceptance of the consciousness. Because throughout my life I have developed the habit play of being conscious wrong forces, inability to change, attachment to habits, lack of everythingplasticity, forgetfulness, alwaysloss of experiences or realisations gained, at each second. And unwillingness to accept the joy of Light or to follow it, incapacity (through tamas or through attachment or through passive reaction to accustomed forces) to do what it admits to be the consciousness was not there. So I thanked Right and the Grace that made me see that this kind of nirvana was quite simply physical tamasBest. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0131/maylevels-16of-1960the-physical-being#p11p2</ref>

That [''weakness of the body''] also is tamas. If you threw off the strain of the idea of weakness, the strength would come back. But there is always something in the vital physical which is pleased with becoming more weak and ill so that it can feel and lament its tragic case. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p64</ref><center>~</center>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 keep it. It is half-somnolence. So it is the same thing physically, it is a somnolence of the symbol and prevent it from being a dead form , an inertia. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/26-january-1955#p19</ref> ==In the Mental== And so one conceals one's laziness behind fine reasons, the first of which says, "I can't, I don't know" or a corrupted else, "I have tried and corrupting magic; 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 alone asks for too much effort! But one can preserve for the act its power with its significance'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/cwm/08/1512-augustseptember-1956#p1p5</ref> ==Laziness in CellsIn the Vital==

The cells themselves observed When you feel unhappy like that, it means that you have a sort ofprogress 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. it's something between torporOn the contrary sometimes the part that has to progress refuses to move and clings to its old habits through inertia, drowsinessignorance, numbness and indifference; and that state is mistaken for peaceattachment or desire. Then, quietude and acceptanceunder the pressure of the perfecting force, but it really isthe struggle starts translating itself into unhappiness or revolt or both together.<ref>http://incarnateword.. it really in/cwm/14/depression#p26</ref> <center>~</center>It is not anything physical but a form vital depression (in some part of tamasthe vital, not the whole) that prevents the body from recovering its elasticity. And There was some part of the vital that's the reason why it may last for whatwas resisting a radical change and even, unknown to our consciousness, is almost an eternity. And there wasyour mind, trying to go on as I told you, an experience [a painful attack]; it recurred in another form(it never recurs was under cover of the change in the same form)rest of your being. This has now, in another formowing to this last affair, received a blow and got depressed and then , when the cells noticed vital is depressed like that , it affects the body. You say rightly that sort it is part of intensity, of ardor of will a change or turn that is taking hold place. But these effects of them, that something concrete inertia and weakness need not continue; as soon as this vital part acquiesces gladly in the self-givingturn or change, the elasticity and energy will return. <ref>http://incarnateword.in /cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p67</ref><center>~</center>It is an inertia of the surrender, physical consciousness which allows these desires to come and does not exist when everything react against the suggestions; it is fine (what people are in that also which responds to the habit pains and suggestion of calling "everything is fine," which means illness. But you must not accept the suggestion that you don't feel your bodycannot react and be free,—the physical consciousness itself cannot as yet, there but the will can if it is no difficulty called on to act and made accustomed to act always. Not the struggling will, but a quiet will insisting on the quietude of the mind and vital and insisting on the rejection of these adverse things are just getting along). That would soon prove sufficient to hold the ground for the Peace and Force to act and they would do the rest.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0731/augustlevels-3of-1966the-physical-being#p9p2,p5</ref>

=Laziness in Relation to Other Aspects=In the Physical==

==Depression A time comes when after a long preparation of the mind and Laziness==vital being, it becomes necessary 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><center>~</center>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, can be done by Yoga in a 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 Yoga 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, the reason is that the 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 have to stop at times and wait till the child who is lagging behind comes up and overtakes them. This divergence between the progress in the inner being and the inertia of the body often creates a dislocation in the system, and that manifests itself as an illness. This is 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 greater and unusual receptivity in the body, then too they 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 processes of Yoga. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p6</ref><center>~</center>''Q.Sri Aurobindo speaks of “the will to open and make plastic the physical consciousness and nature”.''

When you feel unhappy like that, it means that you have a progress to make''A. You can say that we always need to progress''Because the physical consciousness and nature are closed up and rigid—they are shut up in their habits, it is true. But at times our nature gives its consent they don’t want to the needed change and then everything goes smoothlythem, even happilythey accept only one regular routine. On There is nothing more routine-bound than the contrary sometimes the part that has to progress refuses to move and clings to body. If you change its old habits through inertiain the least, it is quite bewildered, ignoranceit doesn’t know any longer what to do, attachment or desire. Thenit says, under the pressure of the perfecting force“Excuse me, the struggle starts translating itself into unhappiness or revolt or both togetherexcuse me! but that’s not how one goes about living.” <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/28-april-1951#p10,p11</ref><center>~</center>The only remedy character is made up of habits and it clings to keep quietthem, look within oneself honestly is disposed to find out what think them the very law of its being and it is wrong and set a hard job to work courageously get it to put it rightchange at all except under a strong pressure of circumstances.The Divine Consciousness will always be Especially in the physical parts, the body, the physical mind, the physical life movements, there to help you if your endeavour is sincerethis resistance; and the more sincere your endeavour tamasic element in Nature is powerful there, what the more the Divine Consciousness will help and assist you.Periods Gita describes as ''aprakāśa'', absence of obscuration are frequent light, and common; generally''apravṛtti'', it is enough a tendency to keep quiet without worryinginertia, knowing that these are spiritual nights which alternate with the full light of the days.But inactivity, unwillingness 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 veiledmake an effort and, as a result, even when the obscure periods last much longer. There effort ismade, howevera constant readiness to doubt, a swift to despond and effective remedy: it is despair, to keep always burning in your heart the flame of purificationgive up, renounce the aspiration for progress, aim and the intensityendeavour, 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 ashescollapse.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1431/depressionthe-difficulties-of-yoga#p26p21</ref>

You must absolutely refuse to be depressed.It is because you are receptive to [''the nature of the obstruction of the physical consciousness''] depends on the weak points of the Force when you work individual and that sustains youthe stage of his progress. But when you are not under The main difficulty of the strain physical consciousness is that it is incapable, before it is transformed, of maintaining any tension of tapasya—it wants periods of assimilation, sinking back into the work you are less receptive. You must learn ordinary consciousness to be receptive in all circumstances and always—especially when you take rest—it must not be the "rest" of inertia but ,—also there is a true rest constant forgetfulness of receptivitywhat has been done etc. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1731/9difficulties-of-the-mayphysical-1967nature#p3p8</ref>

The gloom and other difficulties come from a resistance hold of inertia in always increases when the working comes down into the lower vital physical and physical consciousnesssubconscient. What you have to do Before that the inertia is to prepare the consciousness overpowered though not eradicated by getting rid of the inertia. A sattwic gladness action in mind and calm vital—afterwards it comes up in its natural force and confidence has to be met in its own field. The physical’s tendency to inertia is very great; even after the proper temperament for this Yoga; gloom, depression and weeping should not be indulged habit of living inthe higher consciousness is there, as they stand in some part may feel the way pressure of the opening, unless the tears are inertia—generally the psychic weeping of release or adoration outermost or a moved love and bhaktimost material parts. The progress made inertia usually rises up from the subconscient. It does not abolish the higher consciousness in controlling the sex and other rajasic movements of the lower vital is a good preparationphysical, but not enough; by itself dulls its action or else brings it is only the negative sidedown from a higher to a lower level, though indispensablee.g. Aspire for a positive sattwic opening for strength, for light, for peace and do not worry from the intuition to the higher mind or repine if from the higher to the lower ranges of overmind. For some time it resists the completeness of the progress siddhi. It is slow at first, nor grudge only when the most material and the time subconscient and labour the environmental consciousness are quite liberated that this retarding or lowering effect of preparation necessary before there can be a rapid advance in the Yogaprimal Inertia is entirely overcome. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sorrowdifficulties-andof-the-physical-sufferingnature#p12p16,p17</ref> =How to Cure Laziness?=

Boredom is a dullness of 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 ''A:'' Tamas 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 overcomesluggishness." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/to-the-students-young-and-old#p7</ref>

=Why Does Laziness Occur''Q. What am I to do to get rid of these defects of my nature?=''

That is one of the main reasons. And so one conceals one's laziness behind fine reasons, the first of which says, "I can't, I donA:''t know" or else, "I have tried Become more 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 eatmore conscious. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0814/12laziness-tiredness-septemberfatigue-1956tamas#p5p13,p14,p15,p16 </ref>

To justify oneThere is a lot to do, a whole lot. But it may go relatively fast. When you observe, you realize that what takes the most time is becoming conscious of what must be changed, having a conscious contact that enables it to change. That's weaknesses is a kind what takes the most time. The change itself... There are recurrences, but it's growing much less intense. It all depends on the amount of laziness unconsciousness and inertiatamas in the being; as it grows less, the experience grows stronger.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/06/4july-august24-19541965#p8p30</ref>

WellSometimes, when one doesn’t want to make an effort to correct oneselfin certain circumstances, one sayseverything seems dull, “Ohboring, stupid; this means that you are as boring as the circumstances and it is impossible, I can’t do it, I don’t have the strength, I am clearly shows that you are not made in a state of that stuff, I don’t have the necessary qualities, I could never do itprogress.” It is absolute lazinesssimply a passing wave of boredom, it and nothing is in order more contrary to avoid the required effortpurpose of existence. When At such a moment you are asked to might make progress: “Oh, it is beyond my capacityan effort and ask yourself, "This boredom shows that I am a poor creaturehave something to learn, I can do nothing!” That’s all. It is almost ill-will. It is extreme laziness, a refusal some progress to make any effort. One accepts all one’s defects and incapacities in order not myself, some inertia to have to make the necessary effort conquer, some weakness to overcome them. One says” Boredom is a dullness of the consciousness; and if you seek the cure within yourself, “I am like you will see thatit immediately dissolves. Most people, I can’t be otherwise!” It is a refusal when they feel bored, instead of making an effort to let 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 divine Grace work in youhope of amusing themselves. It That is a justification why men intoxicate themselves, spoil their health, deaden their brains. If they had risen instead of falling, they would have made use of your own ill-willthis opportunity to progress.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0612/4to-augustthe-students-young-and-1954old#p9p7</ref>

Of course there can be …but the physical, especially the more material parts of it are still responding mechanically to the old movements which are wearing out indeed under the pressure, but are still strong enough to possess a state great part of the consciousness when they come. One feels the power, the compulsory force of this mechanical physical response and gets the impression of their inevitability and the impossibility of ever getting free. This automatic compulsory character of the obstruction is the whole power of the difficulty in the material nature. The first thing is to reject the idea of helplessness, of happy impossibility of a successful reaction. The central will must assert itself, not violently in a constant struggle, for that brings reaction, fatigue and inertia, but most people don't remain satisfied with a quiet pressure and insistence. The mind must learn (even the physical external mind) never to say yes to the suggestions and impulsions of the old movement or admit any justification for them however plausible or seemingly “true”. However violently they return and insist, they must feel that longthey 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 the vital itself that insists on its true aspiration and refuses even the vital consent or any vital pleasure in the wrong movements. If they come, they begin must feel their own fallen, ignorant, merely material brute character. This point you seem to want something elsebe reaching, but it must be absolute. Lastly the physical, the material itself—to insist on the Light, the true will there also. There are Yogins who are satisfied with a happy calm immobilityFor that, do not indulge the desires, the wrong impulses, but the wrong brute feelings that come. Do not admit the idea that is because you cannot refuse. Throw them out each time they come, out of the body into the happiness environmental consciousness till they can finally be pushed away from there also. For it is a form of Ananda and these that now separate you in the immobility they feel physical consciousness from the Self and its eternal calm and want nothing moreMother.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/cheerfulnessdifficulties-andof-the-physical-happinessnature#p12p1,p2,p3,p4,p5</ref>

And how All that Sri Aurobindo says here [There is it possible no more benumbing error than to perfect mistake a stage for the mind goal or to linger too long in a resting place. From Thoughts and vital unless the physical Aphorisms]is prepared?—for there is such aimed at fighting against human nature with its inertia, its heaviness, laziness, easy satisfactions, hostility to all effort. How many times in life does one meet people who become pacifists because they are afraid to fight, who long for rest before they have earned it, who are satisfied with a thing as the mental little progress and vital physical, in their imagination and mind and vital cannot be said desires make it into a marvellous realisation so as to be perfectly prepared until these are readyjustify their stopping half-way.There In ordinary life, already, this happens so much. Indeed, this is always the conflict between the consciousness 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 is coming into later when you are forty you “can sit down”, enjoy your income and the ignorant consciousness that was there beforelater your pension and, as they say, enjoy a well-earned rest. The new consciousness is gaining ground always but still against much resistance especially in ”—To sit down, to stop on the vital physical (which is indicated in the stomach attacks). But there is only one way , not to move forward, to go and that is to insist always on sleep, to go downhill towards the Power and Peace which are more and more felt grave before one’s time, cease to be always there and more and more dissociate yourself from live the other condition. It is on that basis that the right understanding can come. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levels-purpose of-the-physical-being#p14,p49</ref>life—to sit down!

=Emergence The minute one stops going forward, one falls back. The moment one is satisfied and no longer aspires, one begins to die. Life is movement, it is effort, it is a march forward, the scaling of Laziness= a mountain, the climb towards new revelations, towards future realisations. Nothing is more dangerous than wanting to rest. It is in action, in effort, in the march forward that repose must be found, the true repose of complete trust in the divine Grace, of the absence of desires, of victory over egoism.

==Illness True repose comes from the widening, the universalisation of the consciousness. Become as vast as the world and Health==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>

That [weakness =Means to Get Rid of the body] also Laziness=The only remedy is to keep quiet, look within oneself honestly to find out what is tamaswrong and set to work courageously to put it right. If The Divine Consciousness will always be there to help you threw off if your endeavour is sincere; and the more sincere your endeavour the more the strain 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 idea full light of weaknessthe 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 strength would come backobscure periods last much longer. But there There is, however, a swift and effective remedy: it is to keep always something burning in your heart the flame of purification, the aspiration for progress, the vital physical which intensity, the ardour of consecration. This flame is pleased kindled in the heart of all who are sincere; you must not let ingratitude cover it up with becoming 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 weak clearly, but one can establish as a general rule that all that tends towards disharmony, disorder and ill so 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 can feel be—material effort, moral effort, intellectual effort—which creates in the being certain vibrations which enable you to get connected with universal vibrations; and lament its tragic caseit 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>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3104/illness13-andjanuary-health1951#p64p14</ref>

It is not anything physical but a vital depression (only the psychic that knows how to surrender and the psychic is usually very much veiled in some part of the vitalbeginning. When the psychic awakes, not it can bring a sudden and true surrender of the whole) that prevents being, for the body from recovering its elasticity. There was some part difficulty of the vital that was resisting a radical change rest is rapidly dealt with and even, unknown to your mind, trying to go on as disappears. But till then effort is indispensable. Or else it was under cover of is necessary till the change in Force comes flooding down into the rest of your being. This has nowfrom above and takes up the sadhana, owing does it for one more and more and leaves less and less to this last affairindividual effort—but even then, received a blow if not effort, at least aspiration and got depressed vigilance are needed till the possession of mind, will, life and, when body by the vital Divine Power is complete. …. Work is depressed like thata means of self-dedication to the Divine, but it affects must be done with the necessary inner consciousness in which the lower vital and physical must also share. A lazy body. You say rightly that it is part of certainly not a change or turn that is taking placeproper instrument for Yoga, it must stop being lazy. But these effects of inertia a fatigued and weakness need not continue; as soon as this vital part acquiesces gladly in the turn unwilling body also cannot receive properly or change, the elasticity and energy will returnbe a good instrument. The proper thing is to avoid either extreme. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illnesslevels-of-the-andphysical-healthbeing#p66p49,p50</ref>

It can only be remedied by the is a Force that comes and Consciousness from above occupying the whole physical being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-pushes to work and-health#p78</ref>...inertia is as legitimately a part of the physical consciousness, while the right reaction in the lower vital brings on the contrary spiritual life as others. It is a sense special Energy that takes hold of peace, release, quietude which definitely opens the lowest physical parts to worker in the higher consciousness being and forcefulfils itself through him. If you can get over To work with a full energy like this and get back the old poise, then all these things can be made in one is quite salutary. The only thing is not to overdo it—that is to avoid any exhaustion or recoil to disappeara fatigued inertia. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3129/illnessthe-divine-andforce-in-healthwork#p79p15</ref>

The whole thing help is to get the physical always there and it has pulled you out of its habit many difficulties and attacks. It is, I suppose, because of falling back into tamas or inertiathe feeling "I do not want to do anything" that you have not been able to receive the help, and but that can be done by opening is a temporary inertia of the physical mind and accustoming it will. …The only course is to shake off the action inertia of the Forcewill and persevere. When <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/surrender#p90</ref> ==Through Aspiration==For the action inner flame to burn, one must feed it; one must watch over the fire, throw into it the fuel of all the Force becomes constanterrors one wants to get rid of, all that delays the progress, all that darkens the path. If one doesn't feed the fire, it smoulders under the ashes of one's unconsciousness and inertia, and then there , not years but lives, centuries will be no more tamaspass before one reaches the goal. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3109/illness9-andjuly-health1958#p98p10 </ref> ==The Lower Vital BeingThrough Will==

A time comes when after a long preparation This difficulty has to be faced and overcome by an equal perseverance in the will of the mind and vital being, it becomes necessary to open also the physical naturesadhak. But when It is a steady flame that happensmust burn, very often as steady as the vital exaltation which can obstruction is obstinate. Do not therefore be very great when discouraged by the experience is on its own plane, falls away and persistence of the obstruction of the obscure, obstructive physical and material consciousness appears in its unrelieved inertiaignorance. Inertia, tamas, stupidity, narrowness and limitation, an inability The persistence of your own will to progress, doubt, dullness, dryness, a constant forgetfulness of conquer with the spiritual experiences received are Mother's force supporting it will come to the characteristics end 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… resistance. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-lowerphysical-vital-beingnature#p35p46</ref>

These things can Apart from the individual difficulty there is a general difficulty in the physical earth-nature. Physical nature is slow and inert and unwilling to change; its tendency is to be still and take long periods of time for a little progress. It is very difficult for even the strongest mental or vital or even psychic will to overcome this inertia. It is only be cured by a persistent bringing down of constantly the higher spiritual consciousness into all and force and light from above that it can be done. Therefore there must be a constant will and aspiration for that and for the parts change and it must be a steady and patient will not tired out even by the utmost resistance of the beingphysical nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3031/variations-in-the-intensitytransformation-of-experiencethe-physical#p18p2</ref> ==Through Surrender==

=How Become more and more conscious.Certainly tamas is not good, but it Different is only through surrender to the Divine Consciousness that tamas can be changed. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/laziness-tiredness-fatigue-tamas#p12</ref><center>~</center>...to recognise that there is here an element of the universal Nature reflected in yours which you must eliminate. And this can only be done by more and more surrender and aspiration and by so bringing in from Fatiguebeyond the vital and the mind the divine peace, Tiredness light, power and presence. This is the only way towards the transformation and Tamas?=fulfilment of the physical nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-lower-vital-being#p35</ref>

It is selfishness that makes one jealous; it is weakness that makes one lazy.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'Fatigue''' comes 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 doing without interest 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 cure. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/16-november-1969#p3,p4,p5</ref><center>~</center>If not aspiration, at least keep the idea of what is necessary—(1) that the silence and peace shall become a wideness which you can realise as the Self, (2) the extension of the silent consciousness upwards as well so that you may feel its source above you, (3) the presence of peace etc. all the time. These things you need not all come at once, but by realising what has to be in your mind, any falling towards a condition of inertia can be avoided. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/experiences-of-the-self-the-one-and-the-infinite#p6</ref><center>~</center>When the soul draws towards the Divine, there may be a resistance in the mind and the common form of that is denial and doubt—which may create mental and vital suffering. There may again be a resistance in the vital nature whose principal character is desire and the attachment to the objects of desire, and if in this field there is conflict between the soul and the vital nature, between the Divine Attraction and the pull of the Ignorance, then obviously there may be much suffering of the mind and vital parts. The physical consciousness also may offer a resistance which is usually that of a fundamental inertia, an obscurity in the very stuff of the physical, an incomprehension, an inability to respond to the higher consciousness, a habit of helplessly responding to the lower mechanically, even when it does not want to doso; both vital and physical suffering may be the consequence. …There are two ways to meet all that—first that of the Self, calm, equality, a spirit, a will, a mind, a vital, a physical consciousness that remain resolutely turned towards the Divine and unshaken by all suggestion of doubt, desire, attachment, depression, sorrow, pain, inertia. This is possible when the inner being awakens, when one becomes conscious of the Self, of the inner mind, the inner vital, the inner physical, for that can more easily attune itself to the divine Will, and then there is a division in the being as if there were two beings, one within, calm, strong, equal, unperturbed, a channel of the Divine Consciousness and Force, one without, still encroached on by the lower Nature; but then the disturbances of the latter become something superficial which are no more than an outer ripple,—until these under the inner pressure fade and sink away and the outer being too remains calm, concentrated, unattackable… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/resistances-sufferings-and-falls#p7</ref>

Whatever you do you can find interest in it, provided you take it as =How the means of progressing; you must try to do better and better what you are doing, the will for progress must always be there and then you take interest in what you do, whatever it is. The most insignificant occupation can prove interesting if you take it that way.But even the most attractive and important activity will soon lose all its interest for you if the will for progress towards Psychic Plays an ideal perfection is not there while you act.Important Role?=

'''Getting rid 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 center; that way he becomes a real individual, master of fatigue:'''Take no notice himself and of it and go on with your programme as usualhis destiny. It Otherwise, he is a plaything of the quickest way of getting rid of itforces, which toss him about like a cork in a stream.It He goes where he doesn't want to, is because you are receptive made to do what he doesn't want to the force when you work , and that sustains youfinally he gets lost in a hole without any way to stop himself doing so. But when if you are not under consciously organized, unified around the strain of the work divine center, governed and led by it, you are less receptive. You must learn to be receptive in all circumstances and always―especially when you take rest―it must not be the “rest” master of inertia but a true rest of receptivityyour destiny. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/1409/laziness-tirednessseptember-fatigue7-tamas1968#p11 p20</ref>

''Q. What The peace and spontaneous knowledge are in the defects psychic being and from there they spread to mind and vital and physical. It is in me the outer physical consciousness that are coming the difficulty still tries to persist and brings the restlessness sometimes into the physical mind, sometimes into the nerves, sometimes in my way the shape of spiritual as well as material progress?''A:'' Tamas bodily trouble into the body. But all these things can and sluggishnessmust go.''Q. What am I to do to get rid Even the illnesses can go entirely with the growth of these defects of my nature?''''A:'' Become more peace and power in the nerves and more conscious. physical cells… <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1431/lazinesslevels-of-tirednessthe-fatiguephysical-tamasbeing#p13,p14,p15,p16 p60</ref>

''QThe habit of return of these feelings belongs to the physical consciousness and in his physical consciousness the human being is always weak and unable to get rid of or resist its habitual movements. There are three things that help him to do so (apart from his mental will which is not always strong enough to do it). There is first the psychic being… This activity of the psychic will return and eventually come down into the physical consciousness itself; then there will be very little difficulty. The second is the inner consciousness always awake. At present that is difficult, because to keep the inner consciousness awake at all times can only come by a deepening of yourself so that the veil between the outer and inner which lifts only in concentration may cease to exist even when one is in the ordinary unconcentrated condition. It is for this deepening that the strong tendency to go inside comes upon you. Lastly, the Mother’s force always there and receiving also a response at once from the physical consciousness. These three things together can do anything. What It takes time to make them all three constantly active together, but that is “physical tamas”sure to come and with them these inner difficulties will disappear. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levels-of-the-physical-being#p63</ref> ==How to Cure Inertia in the Parts of the Being?== ==Mental==

''A:'' You don’t know that, you don’t? Then, congratulations! For instance, does it never happen to you that being seated you don’t want Q.How to get up, that having something to do you say, “Oh! I have to do all that….”''Q. Is it the same thing as lazinessrid of mental inertia?''''A:'' Not quite. Of courseThe cure is not in trying to wake up the mind but in turning it, immobile and silent, upward towards the region of intuitive light, laziness is in a kind of tamassteady and quiet aspiration, but and to wait in laziness there is an ill-silence, for the light to come down and flood your brain which will, a refusal little by little, wake up to make an effort—while tamas is inertiathis influence and become capable of receiving and expressing the intuition. <ref>http: one wants //incarnateword.in/cwm/12/study#p88</ref><center>~</center>By wanting to do somethingso, with persistence and obstinacy. By doing every day a mental exercise of reading, but one can’torganisation and development.This should alternate in the course of the day with exercises of mental silence in concentration. '' <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0416/281-apriljune-19511966#p5p3,p4</ref>

Indolence ''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 inaction result indifference through a very intense sadhana resulting in tamas 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 fall into inconscience -monitor#p112</ref>  ==Vital== The gloom and other difficulties come from a resistance of inertia in the very opposite lower vital and physical consciousness. What you have to do is to prepare the consciousness by getting rid of the inertia. A sattwic gladness and calm and confidence is the proper temperament for this Yoga; gloom, depression and weeping should not be indulged in, as they stand in the way of the opening, unless the tears are the psychic weeping of release or adoration or a moved love and bhakti. The progress made in controlling the sex and other rajasic movements of the lower vital is a good preparation, but not enough; by itself it is only the negative side, though indispensable. Aspire for a positive sattwic opening for strength, for light, for peace and 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 Yoga. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1331/aimssorrow-and-principlessuffering#p301p12</ref> ==Physical==

=How to Cure Laziness?=...they are afraid to fight, who long for rest before they have earned it, who are satisfied with a little progress and in their imagination and desires make it into a marvellous realisation so as to justify their stopping half-way. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/20-march-1957#p9</ref>The minute one stops going forward, one falls back. The moment one is satisfied and no longer aspires, one begins to die. Life is movement, it is effort, it is a march forward, the scaling of a mountain, the climb towards new revelations, towards future realisations. Nothing is more dangerous than wanting to rest. It is in action, in effort, in the march forward that repose must be found, the true repose tamas of complete trust in the divine Grace, of the absence of desires, of victory over egoism.True repose comes from the widening, the universalisation of physical that has enveloped the inner 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. For the inner flame to burn, The one must feed it; one must watch over the fire, throw into it the fuel of all the errors one wants way to get rid out of, all that delays the progress, all that darkens the path. If one doesn't feed the fire, it smoulders under the ashes of one's unconsciousness is to remain very quiet inwardly and inertia, and then, not years but lives, centuries will pass before one reaches call down persistently the goalForce from above. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0931/9difficulties-of-the-julyphysical-1958nature#p10 p37</ref>If it is laziness that keeps you back from, say, doing the vaulting, you must immediately do something much more tiring and say: "Well, you don't want to do that? All right, you are going to do 1500 metres running!" Or else: "I don't want to do the weight-lifting today, I don't feel like doing it: good, I shall do skipping 4000 times at a stretch."<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/24-june-1953#p22~</refcenter>When one has decided to get upIn the physical it is inertia, one gets up." Noobscurity, the body was there, like inability that, and it was necessary to put a will into it, to push this body for it to get come up and actthe obstinacy of these things. It is like that, The only thing to do in this unpleasant phase is tamas. Tamas is a purely material thing; it is very rare to have a vital or mental tamas (it may occur but through contagion), I believe it is be more a tamas of the nerves or the brain obstinate than vital or mental tamas. But laziness is everywhere, in the physical, the vital, the mind. Generally lazy people are not always lazy, not in all things. If you propose something that pleases them, amuses them, they are quite ready inertia and to make an effort. There is much ill-will in laziness. <ref>http://incarnateword.persist in/cwm/04/28-april-1951#p9</ref>It is good to repeat a mantra, fixed endeavour—steady persistency without any restless struggle—to get a word, a prayer before going into sleep. But there must be a life wide and permanent opening made even in the words; I do not mean an intellectual significance, nothing this solid rock of 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 and more, more and more, and away you go. That is the cure for tamasobstruction. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1531/4the-transformation-juneof-1960the-physical#p6p32</ref>Become more and more conscious.Certainly tamas is not good, but it is only through surrender to the Divine Consciousness that tamas can be changed. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/laziness-tiredness-fatigue-tamas#p12~</refcenter>==Through Developing Consciousness==For the inner flame The physical sadhana is to burn, one must feed it; one must watch over bring down the fire, throw higher light and power and peace and Ananda into it the fuel of all the errors one wants body consciousness, to get rid ofthe inertia of the physical, all that delays the progressdoubts, all that darkens limitations, external tendency of the path. If one doesn't feed the firephysical mind, it smoulders under the ashes defective energies of one's unconsciousness the vital physical (nerves) and inertia, and then, not years but lives, centuries will pass before one reaches bring in instead the goal. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/9-july-1958#p10</ref> An active movement is one in which you throw your force out, true consciousness there so that is, when something comes out from you—in a movement, a thought, a feeling—something which goes out from you to others or into the world. Passivity is when you remain just yourself like this, open, and receive what comes from outside. It does not at all depend on whether one moves or sits still. It is not that at all. To physical may be active is to throw out a perfect instrument for the consciousness or force or movement from within outwards. Divine Will… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0631/21the-transformation-aprilof-the-1954physical#p22p26</ref>There is a lot to do, a whole lot. But it may go relatively fast. When you observe, you realize that what takes the most time is becoming conscious of what must be changed, having a conscious contact that enables it to change. That's what takes the most time. The change itself... There are recurrences, but it's growing much less intense. It all depends on the amount of unconsciousness and tamas in the being; as it grows less, the experience grows stronger. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/july-24-1965#p30~</refcenter>The accordance difficulty of conscious mind and conscious will with a form and a life the physical nature comes inevitably in themselves not overtly self-conscious and capable at best the course 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 development of Truth and Light, with the practical omnipotence which would result from the possession of a direct and perfected knowledgesadhana. Not onlyIts obstruction, thenits inertia, is the upward impulse its absence of man towards the accordance of yet higher opposites rational in itself, but it is the only logical completion of a rule and an effort that seem aspiration or movement have to show themselves before they can be a fundamental method of Nature and the very sense of her universal strivings. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-human-aspiration#p3</ref>==Through Transformation==...for everyone all is as well as got rid of—otherwise it can be. It's will always remain undetected, hampering even the old movements that get impatientbest sadhana and preventing its completeness.... Of course, when you see This coming up of the whole, impatience was certainly created physical nature lasts longer or less according to counteract inertia—but it's overthe circumstances, that time but there is past. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/10/october-18-1969#p100</ref>We do none who does not fight against any creed, any religiongo through it. We do What is necessary is not fight against any form of government. We do not fight against any caste, any social class. We do not fight against any nation to get troubled or anxious or civilisation. We are fighting divisionimpatient, unconsciousnessfor that only makes it last more, ignorance, inertia but to put entire confidence in the Mother and falsehood. We are endeavouring to establish upon earth union, knowledge, consciousnessquietly persist in faith, truth; patience and we fight whatever opposes steady will for the advent of this new creation of Light, Peace, Truth and Lovecomplete change."1 February 16, 1965.) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/february-27-1965#p7</ref>It was is so that the idea of the original Stability (if we may say so) which, Mother's force can best work in Manifestation, is expressed as inertia. And the unfolding is expressed as changebeing. All right. Then came:Eternity and progress <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/1031/novemberdifficulties-19of-1969#p32</ref>It is the quickest and most effective method of pulling the creation out of its inertia and leading it on to its blossoming. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/04/may-15physical-1963nature#p13p6</ref>When I lie down to rest my body and work without moving (work with an activity that doesn't force the body to move), as soon as there is the slightest... not exactly "fall," but the slightest descent towards the Inconscient, something in the 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 true rest, which is an expansion and immensity of the being in full Light. It's magnificent. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/07/march-26-1966#p12~</refcenter>That's how it is. Day after day, almost hour after hour, as But for the Power comes back ... You remember, I once said it had gone completely, physical being and that was true, it had gone completely in order physical consciousness to be ready to leave receive the body absolutely to itselfdivine impulsion, for its conversionthey must be extremely plastic, we could say; but once there had been in this body consciousness the same aspiration and the same ardour of consciousness (with a far greater steadiness than in any other part of the being; there are no fluctuations as there are in because the vital and minduses coercion, it's very steady)imposes its will, once that was established (through kinds of pulsations, not distant from one another, first on one detail, then spreading out and becoming generalized), since then the Power poor body has been ... I can say it has been coming back.all the old difficulties appear but to be waking up againobey, they seem to spring up again (they had completely fallen asleepwhile the Divine just shows the light, you understand)gives the consciousness, and each time, this body consciousness feels so one must obey consciously and willingly—it is a sort of surprise, at once astonished and distressed that the presence question of the divine Powercollaboration, the divine Consciousness, the Truth-Consciousness, should give rise to all those difficulties, which are essentially difficulties of ignorance and inertia—the incapacity to receive. And it comes back as memories, like that (gesture from below), like is no longer a snake rearing its headquestion of coercion. And every time, everything in the The physical being and physical consciousness has the same call, "Why? How can these things must be when You are there!" That's the astonishing thing: "Since You are there, how can these things very plastic to be?" <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/august-2-1967#p59</ref>Only because it's difficult for us able 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 inertia, things would continue lend themselves to change and we along with them! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/january-12-1961#p11</ref>And once you've lived That... you become so irrevocably conscious that everything depends on all the individual perceptionnecessary changes, entirely; and naturally, that individual perception [so as to be of divine Love] depends on the inadequacy, the inertia, the incomprehension, the incapacity, the cells' inability to hold one kind one day and keep another the Vibrationnext, anyway all that man calls his "character" and which comes from his animal evolutionso on. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0504/july28-22april-19641951#p20p12</ref>

=How the Psychic Plays an Important Role?=The peace and spontaneous knowledge are in the psychic being and from there they spread to mind and vital and physical. It is in the outer physical consciousness that the difficulty still tries to persist and brings the restlessness sometimes into the physical mind, sometimes into the nerves, sometimes in the shape of bodily trouble into the body. But all these things can and must go. Even the illnesses can go entirely with the growth of peace and power in the nerves and physical cells—stomach pains, weakness of the eyes and everything else. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levels-of-the-physical-being#p60</ref>It is the psychic that connected you with the Mother and turned all the movements of your being towards her or drew them from her or made them united with and dependent on her. It had so done with all your mental and vital being and its movements and it had guarded you against all wrong mental and vital suggestions and attacks, showing you what was true and what was false. Now it is this psychic being which has manifested again in your physical consciousness also. You have only to live in that and your whole being will be turned towards the Mother, remain in union with her and be protected from doubt and error and false suggestion—and you can once more progress as you did before towards the full realisation of the sadhana. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levels-of-the-physical-being#p62</ref>The habit of return of these feelings belongs to the physical consciousness and in his physical consciousness the human being is always weak and unable to get rid of or resist its habitual movements. There are three things that help him to do so (apart from his mental will which is not always strong enough to do it). There is first the psychic being; for a few days your psychic was extremely active and pushing these movements away whenever they tried to come or throwing them out soon when they got in. This activity of the psychic will return and eventually come down into the physical consciousness itself; then there will be very little difficulty. The second is the inner consciousness always awake. At present that is difficult, because to keep the inner consciousness awake at all times can only come by a deepening of yourself so that the veil between the outer and inner which lifts only in concentration may cease to exist even when one is in the ordinary unconcentrated condition. It is for this deepening that the strong tendency to go inside comes upon you. Lastly, the Mother’s force always there and receiving also a response at once from the physical consciousness. These three things together can do anything. It takes time to make them all three constantly active together, but that is sure to come and with them these inner difficulties will disappear. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levels-of-the-physical-being#p63</ref> The being is here on the physical plane although in touch with the mental and vital. The being that is the individual consciousness has to ascend and become conscious of all the planes (vital, mental and those above the mental) until it reaches the Divine Oneness which is above all the planes and from which they emerge. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levels-of-the-physical-being#p65 </ref>=How Can It be Cured?In Sleep==Conditions to Get Rid of Laziness=If not aspiration, at least keep the idea of what is necessary—(1) that the silence and peace shall become a wideness which you can realise as the Self, (2) the extension of the silent consciousness upwards as well so that you may feel its source above you, (3) the presence of peace etc. all the time. These things need not all come at once, but by realising what has to be in your mind, any falling towards a condition of inertia can be avoided. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/experiences-of-the-self-the-one-and-the-infinite#p6</ref>A transformation of human nature can only be achieved when the substance of the being is so steeped in the spiritual principle that all its movements are a spontaneous dynamism and a harmonised process of the spirit. But even when the higher powers and their intensities enter into the substance of the Inconscience, they are met by this blind opposing Necessity and are subjected to this circumscribing and diminishing law of the nescient substance. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-ascent-towards-supermind#p45</ref>One has to go inside into the inner being and one can minimise contacts, if necessary, not as an absolute rule—provided there is a real living in the inner being and sufficient contact with outside things not to lose one's hold of practical realities. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/interactions-with-others-and-the-practice-of-yoga#p104</ref>==Through Surrender==If the Mother puts you back into a good condition, your vital pulls you down again. How is that to stop so long as you say Yes to the vital and accept its discouragement and restlessness and anguish and the rest of it as your own? Detachment is absolutely necessary. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/surrender#p66</ref>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. It is not possible to get rid of the stress on personal effort at once—and not always desirable; for personal effort is better than tamasic inertia. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/surrender#p82</ref>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. I do not see the use of your going back for a few months to a life which could not now satisfy you. The only course is to shake off the inertia of the will and persevere. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/surrender#p90</ref>==Through Union with the Divine==When the soul draws towards the Divine, there may be a resistance in the mind and the common form of that is denial and doubt—which may create mental and vital suffering. There may again be a resistance in the vital nature whose principal character is desire and the attachment to the objects of desire, and if in this field there is conflict between the soul and the vital nature, between the Divine Attraction and the pull of the Ignorance, then obviously there may be much suffering of the mind and vital parts. The physical consciousness also may offer a resistance which is usually that of a fundamental inertia, an obscurity in the very stuff of the physical, an incomprehension, an inability to respond to the higher consciousness, a habit of helplessly responding to the lower mechanically, even when it does not want to do so; both vital and physical suffering may be the consequence. There are two ways to meet all that—first that of the Self, calm, equality, a spirit, a will, a mind, a vital, a physical consciousness that remain resolutely turned towards the Divine and unshaken by all suggestion of doubt, desire, attachment, depression, sorrow, pain, inertia. This is possible when the inner being awakens, when one becomes conscious of the Self, of the inner mind, the inner vital, the inner physical, for that can more easily attune itself to the divine Will, and then there is a division in the being as if there were two beings, one within, calm, strong, equal, unperturbed, a channel of the Divine Consciousness and Force, one without, still encroached on by the lower Nature; but then the disturbances of the latter become something superficial which are no more than an outer ripple,—until these under the inner pressure fade and sink away and the outer being too remains calm, concentrated, unattackable… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/resistances-sufferings-and-falls#p7</ref>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, can be done by Yoga in a 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 Yoga 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, the reason is that the 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 have to stop at times and wait till the child who is lagging behind comes up and overtakes them. This divergence between the progress in the inner being and the inertia of the body often creates a dislocation in the system, and that manifests itself as an illness. This is why people who take up Yoga frequently begin by suffering from some physical discomfort or disorder. That neednot happen if they are on their guard and careful. Or if there is a greater and unusual receptivity in the body, then too they 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 processes of Yoga. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p6</ref>There are many varying conditions in which you may meditate and all have their effect upon the forces brought in or brought down and on their working. If you sit alone, it is your own inner and outer condition that matters. If you sit with others, the general condition is of primary importance. But in either case the conditions will always vary and the forces that answer will never be twice the same. A united concentration rightly done can be a great force. There is an old saying that if twelve sincere persons unite their will and their aspiration and call the Divine, the Divine is bound to manifest. But the will must be one-pointed, the aspiration sincere. For those who make the attempt can be united in inertia or even in mistaken or perverse desire, and the result is then likely to be disastrous. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/23-june-1929#p22</ref> ==Through the Divine Force==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>But also it often happens even in the ordinary course of Yoga that physical strength is replaced by a Yogic strength or Yogic life force which keeps up the body and makes it work, but in the absence of this force the body is denuded of power, inert and tamasic. This can only be remedied by the whole being opening to Yoga shakti in each of its planes—Yogic mind force, Yogic life force, Yogic body force. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-force-in-work#p26</ref> Subconsient and Integral Yoga:It is only if you live wholly and dynamically in the inner being and feel the outer as a quite superficial thing that you can get rid of the obstruction or minimise it until the transformation of the outer being can be made complete. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-subconscient-and-the-integral-yoga#p7</ref>These [vital and physical weaknesses] are symptoms and feelings that can easily come in the period when the subconscient is being dealt with—tamas, age, decay, illness, death, weakness, inertia, the mechanical play (as if the inevitable round of a machine) of the lower vital have their seeds in the subconscient and when the subconscient rises up in its native power, these threaten to rise with them. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-subconscient-and-the-integral-yoga#p52</ref>=Types of Physical Consciousness= There are many [defects of the physical consciousness]—but mainly obscurity, inertia, tamas, a passive acceptance of the play of wrong forces, inability to change, attachment to habits, lack of plasticity, forgetfulness, loss of experiences or realisations gained, unwillingness to accept the Light or to follow it, incapacity (through tamas or through attachment or through passive reaction to accustomed forces) to do what it admits to be the Right and the Best.It is an inertia of the physical consciousness which allows these desires to come and does not react against the suggestions; it is that also which responds to the pains and suggestion of illness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levels-of-the-physical-being#p2</ref>Is the material state an emptiness of consciousness, or is it not rather only a sleep of consciousness—even though from the point of view of evolution an original and not an intermediate sleep? And by sleep the human example teaches us that we mean not a suspension of consciousness, but its gathering inward away from conscious physical response to the impacts of external things. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/conscious-force#p14</ref>

==How to Cure Physical Consciousness?==A quiet will insisting on the quietude of the mind and vital and insisting on the rejection of these adverse things. That would soon prove sufficient to hold the ground for the Peace and Force to act and they would do the The rest. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levels-of-the-physical-being#p5</ref>Work is a means of self-dedication to the Divine, but it must not be done with the necessary inner consciousness in one which goes down into the lower vital inconscience and physical must also sharetamas.A lazy body is certainly not a proper instrument for Yoga, it The rest 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</ref> A strong mind and body and life-force are needed in the sadhana. Especially steps should be taken to throw out tamas and bring strength and force an ascent into the frame of the nature.There is always some tendency to loosenessLight, forgetfulness and inattention in the physical consciousness. One has to be very vigilant and careful to prevent this tendency having its way.It is an inertia of the physical consciousness which allows these desires to come and does not react against the suggestions; it is that also which responds to the pains and suggestion of illness. But you must not accept the suggestion that you cannot react and be freeinto perfect Peace,—the physical consciousness itself cannot as yet, but the will can if it is called on to act and made accustomed to act always. Not the struggling willtotal Silence, but a quiet will insisting on the quietude of the mind and vital and insisting on the rejection of these adverse things. That would soon prove sufficient to hold the ground for the Peace and Force to act and they would do the rest.It is something in the vital part of the physical consciousness which has not yet understood—it feels the pressure to change, yet it is drawn outward to people or things in the old way, but is dissatisfied because the growth rises up out of the new consciousness behind prevents it taking pleasure in them, so that it remains restless, not understanding anythingdarkness. What Then it has got to learn is that it must fall quiet and open to true rest, a new consciousness from above and within. This part of the being rest which is obscure,—not sufficiently mentalised to understand things, it acts from instinct, impulse and habit only. When its old instincts, 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 and will it can be got to consent to a change of its waysan ascent. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/07/31/levels-ofaugust-the-physical-being1955#p15,p49p19</ref>=Causes of Laziness/Inertia or the Physical Nature=The difficulty of the physical nature comes inevitably in the course of the development of the sadhana. Its obstruction, its inertia, its absence of aspiration or movement have to show themselves before they can be got rid of—otherwise it will always remain undetected, hampering even the best sadhana and preventing its completeness. This coming up of the physical nature lasts longer or less according to the circumstances, but there is none who does not go through it.What is necessary is not to get troubled or anxious or impatient, for that only makes it last more, but to put entire confidence in the Mother and quietly persist in faith, patience and steady will for the complete change. It is so that the Mother's force can best work in the being. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p6~</refcenter>It […in the nature of the obstruction of the physical ordinary consciousness] depends on the weak points of the individual and the stage of his progress. The main difficulty of the physical consciousness is that it is incapable, before it is transformed, of maintaining any tension of tapasya—it wants periods of assimilation, sinking back into in the general ordinary consciousness to life, rest,—also there is a constant forgetfulness of what has been done etcmeans tamas. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p8</ref>Rest means falling back into Inertia is mental, vital, physical, subconscient. Physical inertia can produce mental inertiaSo then, mental inertia can produce physical inertiainstead of a rest that benefits you, vital inertia almost always makes the physical lifeless and lustreless and dull, and it’s a rest that is inertia. Vital inertia can also infect the mind, unless the mind is very strong stupefies you and clear. I then you have always said that to make effort once more to recapture the physical consciousness is the main seat and source of inertia. <ref>http://incarnatewordyou have lost.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-That’s how the-physical-nature#p15</ref>The hold vast majority of inertia always increases when the working comes down into the physical and subconscientpeople sleep.The inertia usually rises up from the subconscient. It does not abolish the higher consciousness in the physical, but dulls its action or else brings it down from a higher to a lower levelBut now, e.g. from the intuition to the higher mind or from the higher to the lower ranges of overmind. For some time it resists the completeness of the siddhi. It lesson is only different: when the most material I lie down to rest my body and the subconscient and the environmental consciousness are quite liberated work without moving (work with an activity that this retarding or lowering effect of doesn’t force the primal Inertia is entirely overcome. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p17</ref>The one way body 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 the tamasmove), dryness, dullness, inertia,—but to recognise that as soon as there is here an element of the universal Nature reflected in yours which you must eliminate. And this can only be done by more and more surrender and aspiration and by so bringing in from beyond the vital and the mind the divine peaceslightest… not exactly “fall, light, power and presence. This is ” but the only way slightest descent towards the transformation and fulfilment of the physical nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.Inconscient, something in/cwsa/31/the-lower-vital-being#p35</ref>==How to Cure the Difficulties of Physical Nature?==The first thing is to reject the idea of helplessness, of impossibility of body immediately gives a successful reactionstart—instantly. The central will must assert itself, not violently in It has been like that for a constant struggle, for that brings reactionlong time, fatigue and inertiatwo years, but with a quiet pressure and insistence.The mind must learn (even the physical external mind) never to say yes to the suggestions and impulsions of the old movement or admit any justification for them however plausible or seemingly “true”. However violently they return and insistnow it’s instantaneous, 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 the vital itself that insists on its true aspiration and refuses even the vital consent or any vital pleasure in the wrong movements. If they come, they must feel their own fallen, ignorant, merely material brute character. This point you seem to be reaching, but it must be absolute.Lastly the physical, the material itself—to insist on the Light, the very rarely happens—there is true will there also. For thatrest, do not indulge the desires, the wrong impulses, the wrong brute feelings that come. Do not admit the idea that you cannot refuse. Throw them out each time they come, out of the body into the environmental consciousness till they can finally be pushed away from there also. For it which is these that now separate you in the physical consciousness from the Mother. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-an expansion and immensity of-the-physical-nature#p2</ref>This difficulty has to be faced and overcome by an equal perseverance being in the will of the sadhak. It is a steady flame that must burn, as steady as the obstruction is obstinate. Do not therefore be discouraged by the persistence of the obstruction of the ignorancefull Light. The persistence of your own will to conquer with the Mother's force supporting it will come to the end of the resistanceIt’s magnificent. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3107/difficultiesmarch-of26-the-physical-nature1966#p46p12</ref>What is important for you in these circumstances is to make your faith, surrender and samata absolute. That is as great and essential a progress as to have high experiences, etc. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p52~</refcenter>=Transformation of Physical: Why is it the Need of the Hour?=Apart from the individual difficulty there is a general difficulty in the physical earth-nature. Physical nature is slow and inert and unwilling to change; its tendency is You must learn to be still receptive in all circumstances and always—especially when you take long periods of time for a little progress. It is very difficult for even the strongest mental or vital or even psychic will to overcome this inertia. It is only by bringing down constantly the consciousness and force and light from above that it can be done. Therefore there rest—it must not be a constant will and aspiration for that and for the change and it must be "rest" of inertia but a steady and patient will not tired out even by the utmost resistance true rest of the physical naturereceptivity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3117/the9-transformation-ofmay-the-physical1967#p2p3</ref>...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. <refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-transformation-of-the-physical#p21~</refcenter> ...it was this which had been preventing Fundamentally, the elimination sole purpose of the old movements all along and enabled them to return when they had been pushed out—for it is in the material half-conscious or subconscient that there is the bedrock of the resistance…The physical sadhana sleep is to bring down the higher light and power and peace and Ananda into enable the body consciousness, to get rid of assimilate the inertia effect of the physical, the doubts, limitations, external tendency of the physical mind, the defective energies of the vital physical (nerves) and bring in instead the true consciousness there trance so that the physical effect may be a perfect instrument for the Divine Will… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-transformation-of-the-physical#p25</ref>...The only thing to do in this unpleasant phase is to be more obstinate than the physical inertia 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 of obstruction. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-transformation-of-the-physical#p31</ref> =What are the Difficulties of Mental Nature?= ...the slowness of the mind and the nature to seize something new to itreceived everywhere, the non-distinction between what is true and to be held and what is not true and not to be held, is due to a certain absence of quickness of movement in enable 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 body to what it has got, can be slow but sure in do its movement…Therefore you should not mind if it takes long to absorb and hold the new consciousness—as a matter natural nocturnal function of fact, to hold takes long with everybodyeliminating toxins. Once And when you have got it well establishedwake up, 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 there is not in trying to wake up the mind but in turning it, immobile and silent, upward towards the region that trace of intuitive light, in a steady and quiet aspiration, and to wait in silence, for heaviness which comes from sleep: the light to come down and flood your brain which will, little by little, wake up to this influence and become capable effect of receiving and expressing the intuition. <ref>http://incarnatewordtrance continues.Even for those who have never been in/cwm/12/study#p86</ref>''Q.How can one get out of this mental laziness and inertia?” ''A:'' By wanting trance,it is good to do so, with persistence and obstinacy. By doing every day repeat a mental exercise of readingmantra, 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 inertiaword, 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 existprayer before going into sleep. But there must be a life in that casethe words; I do not mean an intellectual significance, mental activity is replaced by an intuitive activity nothing of a much higher that kind. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/answers-to-, but a-monitor#p110</ref> ''Qvibration.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. IndeedAnd quietly you let yourself go, as soon as one becomes conscious of the Divine and is united with Him, one learns though you wanted to love with the true love: the love that loves for the joy of loving and has no need go to be loved in return; one also learns to draw Force from the inexhaustible source sleep. The body vibrates more 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 more, more and much more.All the remedies suggested by the mind, even the most enlightened mindmore and more, are only palliatives and not a true away you go. That is 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>