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It Tiredness shows lack of will for progress. When you feel tired or fatigued that is a dangerous illnesslack of will for progress. <ref>https: //incarnateword.in/cwm/14/laziness-tiredness-fatigue-tamas#p3</ref><center>~</center>Fatigue comes from doing without interest the things you do. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/laziness-tiredness-fatigue-tamas#p1p5</ref>

Laziness comes from weakness, or from lack of interest''Q. What is “physical tamas”?'' ''A:'' … For curing the first—one must become strong. <ref>http://incarnatewordinstance, does it never happen to you that being seated you don’t want to get up, that having something to do you say, “Oh! I have to do all that….in/cwm/12/study#p81</ref>”

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am referring here to physical sufferingThe body is afraid of anything new because its very base is inertia, because all tamas; it is the other kinds vital which brings in a dominant note of suffering—vitalrajas, mentalactivity. That is why, emotive suffering—arise from as a wrong functioning general rule, the intrusion of the mindvital in the form of ambition, emulation and vanity, compels the body to shake off the tamas and those.make the necessary effort to progress.<ref>http://incarnateword. we can easily rank them in /cwm/16/13-may-1964-1#p3</ref><center>~</center>There are many [''defects of the Falsehood, thatphysical consciousness''s all. But physical suffering is to me like a child being beaten]—but mainly obscurity, because here in Matterinertia, Falsehood turned into ignorancetamas, which means there is no bad will—there is no bad will in Matter, everything is inertia and ignorance: total ignorance a passive acceptance of the Truthplay of wrong forces, inability to change, attachment to habits, ignorance lack of the Originplasticity, forgetfulness, ignorance loss of experiences or realisations gained, unwillingness to accept the PossibilityLight or to follow it, even ignorance of incapacity (through tamas or through attachment or through passive reaction to accustomed forces) to do what needs it admits to be done so as not to suffer materiallythe Right and the Best. <ref>http://incarnateword. This ignorance is everywhere in /cwsa/31/levels-of-the-physical-being#p2</ref><center>~</center>That [''weakness of the cells, and only body''] also is tamas. If you threw off the experience—and strain of the experience idea of whatweakness, the strength would come back. But there is always something in this rudimentary consciousness, the vital physical which is translated as suffering—can awaken, arouse the need to know pleased with becoming more weak and be cured, ill so that it can feel and the aspiration to be transformedlament its tragic case. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0731/septemberillness-28and-1966health#p19p64</ref>

And 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 that kind the nature of the human physical consciousness. When one goes down into the physical eternity for its change (which lasted two and a half hours—it's that has been the general condition here for a long time for an experience), I was aware of something missing, something not there: this tends to increase. Even sometimes when the joy pressure of the consciousness. Because throughout my life I have developed sadhana on the habit of being conscious of everything, alwaysphysical 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 each secondrest. And …the physical consciousness gets the joy of true peace and calm in the consciousness was not there. So I thanked cells and feels at rest even in full work or in the Grace that made me see that most concentrated condition and this kind tendency of inertia goes out of nirvana was quite simply physical tamasthe nature. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0135/may-16-19601936#p11p1</ref>

A certain inertia, tendency …physical suffering is to sleepme like a child being beaten, indolencebecause here in Matter, unwillingness or inability to be strong for work or spiritual effort for long at a timeFalsehood 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 nature Truth, ignorance 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)Origin, this tends to increase. Even sometimes when the pressure ignorance of the sadhana on the physical increases or when one has to go much insidePossibility, this temporarily increases—the body either needing more rest or turning the inward movement into a tendency even ignorance of what needs to sleep or be at restdone so as not to suffer materially. The physical consciousness gets the true peace and calm This ignorance is everywhere in the cells , and feels at rest even in full work or only the experience—and the experience of what, in this rudimentary consciousness, is translated as suffering—can awaken, arouse the most concentrated condition need to know and be cured, and this tendency of inertia goes out of the natureaspiration to be transformed. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3507/1936september-28-1966#p1p19</ref>

==Psychic=Why Does Laziness Occur?=

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

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

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

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

==Depression and LazinessIn the Vital==

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

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

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

==Boredom and LazinessIn the Physical==

Boredom is A time comes when after a dullness long preparation of the consciousness; mind and if you seek the cure within yourselfvital being, you will see that it immediately dissolvesbecomes necessary to open also the physical nature. Most peopleBut when that happens, very often the vital exaltation which can be very great when they feel boredthe 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, instead of making an effort inability to rise one step 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 their consciousness, come down one step /cwsa/31/the-lower-vital-being#p35</ref><center>~</center>The whole world is in a process of progressive transformation; they come down 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 lower than they were before and do stupid things, they make themselves vulgar 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 hope swift and concentrated movement of amusing Yoga and lend themselvesmore easily to the continuous adjustment and adaptation that it necessitates. That The body, on the other hand, is why men intoxicate themselvesordinarily dense, spoil their health, deaden their brainsinert and apathetic. If they had risen instead of falling, they would And if you have made use of in this opportunity to progress.Sometimespart something that is not responsive, in certain circumstancesif there is a resistance here, everything seems dull, boring, stupid; this means the reason is that you are the body is incapable of moving as boring quickly as the circumstances and rest of the being. It must take time, it must walk at its own pace as it clearly shows that you are not does in a state of progressordinary life. It What happens is simply a passing wave of boredom, as when grown-up people walk too fast for children in their company; they have to stop at times and nothing wait till the child who is more contrary to lagging behind comes up and overtakes them. This divergence between the progress in the inner being and the purpose inertia of existence. At such the body often creates a moment you might make dislocation in the system, and that manifests itself as an effort and ask yourself, "illness. This boredom shows that I have something to learn, is why people who take up Yoga frequently begin by suffering from some progress to make 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 myselfthe body, some inertia to conquerthen too they escape. But an unmixed receptivity making the physical parts closely follow the pace of the inner transformation is hardly possible, some weakness to overcomeunless the body has already been prepared in the past for the processes of Yoga." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1203/to-the-students-young16-andjune-old1929#p7p6</ref><center>~</center>''Q.Sri Aurobindo speaks of “the will to open and make plastic the physical consciousness and nature”.''

=Why Does Laziness Occur?= That is one of the main reasons''A. And so one conceals one's laziness behind fine reasons, 'Because the first of which says, "I can'tphysical consciousness and nature are closed up and rigid—they are shut up in their habits, I don't know" or else, "I have tried and not succeeded" or "I don't know where they don’t want to begin!" Any reason whateverchange them, isn't that true? The first that comes to they accept only one regular routine. There is nothing more routine-bound than the body. If you. Or elsechange its habits in the least, one doesn't practise because one doesn't find it worthwhile to make the effort—that is part of the laziness alsoquite bewildered, it asks for too much effort! But one can't live without effort! If one were doesn’t know any longer what to refuse to make any effortdo, it says, “Excuse me, one would excuse me! but that’s not even be able to stand on how one's legs or walk or even eatgoes about living. ” <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0804/1228-septemberapril-19561951#p5p10,p11</ref>

To justify one's weaknesses The character is made up of habits and it clings to them, is disposed to think them the very law of its being and it is a kind hard job to get it to change at all except under a strong pressure of laziness circumstances. Especially in the physical parts, the body, the physical mind, the physical life movements, there is this resistance; the tamasic element in Nature is powerful there, what the Gita describes as ''aprakāśa'', absence of light, and ''apravṛtti'', a tendency to inertia, inactivity, unwillingness to make an effort and, as a result, even when the effort is made, a constant readiness to doubt, to despond and despair, to give up, renounce the aim and the endeavour, collapse.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0631/4the-augustdifficulties-of-1954yoga#p8p21</ref>

Well, when one doesn’t want to make an effort to correct oneself, one says, “Oh, it is impossible, I can’t do it, I don’t have It [''the nature of the obstruction of the physical consciousness''] depends on the strength, I am not made weak points of that stuff, I don’t have the necessary qualities, I could never do itindividual and the stage of his progress.” It The main difficulty of the physical consciousness is absolute laziness, that it is in order to avoid the required effort. When you are asked to make progress: “Ohincapable, before it is beyond my capacitytransformed, I am a poor creatureof maintaining any tension of tapasya—it wants periods of assimilation, I can do nothing!” That’s all. It is almost ill-will. It is extreme laziness, a refusal to make any effort. One accepts all one’s defects and incapacities in order not to have to make sinking back into the necessary effort ordinary consciousness to overcome them. One saysrest, “I am like that, I can’t be otherwise!” It is a refusal to let the divine Grace work in you. It —also there is a justification constant forgetfulness of your own ill-willwhat has been done etc.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0631/4difficulties-of-the-augustphysical-1954nature#p9p8</ref>

Of course there can be a state The hold of happy inertia, but most people don't remain satisfied with that long, they begin to want something elsealways increases when the working comes down into the physical and subconscient. There are Yogins who are satisfied with a happy calm immobility, but Before that the inertia is because overpowered though not eradicated by the happiness is a form of Ananda action in mind and vital—afterwards it comes up in the immobility they feel the Self its natural force and has to be met in its eternal calm and want nothing more.<ref>http://incarnatewordown field.in/cwsa/31/cheerfulness-and-happiness#p12</ref><center>~</center>And how The physical’s tendency to inertia is it possible to perfect very great; even after the mind and vital unless habit of living in the physical higher consciousness is prepared?—for there is such a thing as , some part may feel the pressure of the inertia—generally the outermost or most material parts. The inertia usually rises up from the subconscient. It does not abolish the higher consciousness in the mental and vital physical, and mind and vital cannot be said but dulls its action or else brings it down from a higher to be perfectly prepared until these are readya lower level, e.g.There is always from the intuition to the conflict between higher mind or from the consciousness that is coming into you and higher to the ignorant consciousness that was there beforelower ranges of overmind. The new consciousness is gaining ground always but still against much resistance especially in For some time it resists the vital physical (which is indicated in completeness of the stomach attacks)siddhi. But there It is only one way to go when the most material and that is to insist always on the Power subconscient and Peace which the environmental consciousness are more and more felt to be always there and more and more dissociate yourself from quite liberated that this retarding or lowering effect of the other condition. It primal Inertia is on that basis that the right understanding can comeentirely overcome. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levelsdifficulties-of-the-physical-beingnature#p14p16,p49p17</ref> =How to Cure Laziness?= ''Q. What are the defects in me that are coming in my way of spiritual as well as material progress?

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 ''A:'' Become more weak and ill so that it can feel and lament its tragic casemore conscious. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3114/illnesslaziness-tiredness-andfatigue-healthtamas#p64p13,p14,p15,p16 </ref>

It There is not anything physical but a vital depression (in some part of the vitallot to do, not the a whole) that prevents the body from recovering its elasticitylot. But it may go relatively fast. There was some part of the vital When you observe, you realize that was resisting a radical change and even, unknown to your mind, trying to go on as it was under cover of what takes the change in the rest most time is becoming conscious of your being. This has now, owing to this last affairwhat must be changed, received having a blow and got depressed and, when the vital is depressed like conscious contact that, enables it affects to change. That's what takes the bodymost time. You say rightly that The change itself... There are recurrences, but it is part of a change or turn that is taking place's growing much less intense. But these effects It all depends on the amount of inertia unconsciousness and weakness need not continuetamas in the being; as soon as this vital part acquiesces gladly in the turn or changeit grows less, the elasticity and energy will returnexperience grows stronger. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3106/illnessjuly-and24-health1965#p66p30</ref>

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 can only be remedied by the Force is simply a passing wave of boredom, and Consciousness from above occupying nothing is more contrary to the whole physical being. <ref>http://incarnatewordpurpose of existence.At such a moment you might make an effort and ask yourself, "This boredom shows that I have something to learn, some progress to make in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p78</ref>myself, some inertia to conquer, some weakness to overcome...inertia ” Boredom is a dullness of the physical consciousness; and if you seek the cure within yourself, you will see that it immediately dissolves. Most people, when they feel bored, while the right reaction instead of making an effort to rise one step higher in the their consciousness, come down one step lower; they come down even lower vital brings on than they were before and do stupid things, they make themselves vulgar in the contrary a sense hope of peaceamusing themselves. That is why men intoxicate themselves, releasespoil their health, quietude which definitely opens the lowest physical parts to the higher consciousness and forcedeaden their brains. If you can get over this and get back the old poisethey had risen instead of falling, then all these things can be they would have made use of this opportunity to disappearprogress. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3112/illnessto-the-students-young-and-healthold#p79p7</ref>

The whole thing is …but the physical, especially the more material parts of it are still responding mechanically to get the physical old movements which are wearing out indeed under the pressure, but are still strong enough to possess a great part of its habit the consciousness when they come. One feels the power, the compulsory force of falling back into tamas or inertia, this mechanical physical response and that can be done by opening gets the impression of their inevitability and accustoming it to the action impossibility of ever getting free. This automatic compulsory character of the Force. When obstruction is the action whole power of the Force becomes constant, then there will be no more tamas. <ref>http://incarnateworddifficulty in the material nature.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p98</ref> ==The Lower Vital Being==

A time comes when after The first thing is to reject the idea of helplessness, of 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 with a long preparation quiet pressure and insistence. The mind must learn (even the physical external mind) never to say yes to the suggestions and impulsions of the mind old movement or admit any justification for them however plausible or seemingly “true”. However violently they return and vital beinginsist, it becomes necessary to open also the physical naturethey must feel that they will never get any essential assent or sanction. But when You have almost reached that happenspoint, very often but it must be made more entire. There must be something in the vital exaltation which can be very great when the experience is itself that insists on its own plane, falls away true aspiration and refuses even the obscure, obstructive physical and material consciousness appears vital consent or any vital pleasure in its unrelieved inertiathe wrong movements. InertiaIf they come, tamasthey must feel their own fallen, stupidityignorant, narrowness and limitation, an inability merely material brute character. This point you seem to progressbe reaching, doubtbut it must be absolute. Lastly the physical, dullnessthe material itself—to insist on the Light, drynessthe true will there also. For that, a constant forgetfulness of do not indulge the spiritual experiences received are desires, the characteristics of wrong impulses, the unregenerated physical nature, when wrong brute feelings that is 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 by away from there also. For it is these that now separate you in the vital and is not supported either by physical consciousness from the higher mental will and intelligence… Mother. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-lowerphysical-vital-beingnature#p35p1,p2,p3,p4,p5</ref>

These things can only be cured by All that Sri Aurobindo says here [There is no more benumbing error than to mistake a persistent bringing down of stage for the higher spiritual consciousness into goal or to linger too long in a resting place. From Thoughts and Aphorisms]is aimed at fighting against human nature with its inertia, its heaviness, laziness, easy satisfactions, hostility to all the parts of the being. <ref>http://incarnatewordeffort.How many times in/cwsa/30/variations-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 little progress and intheir imagination and desires make it into a marvellous realisation so as to justify their stopping half-the-intensity-of-experience#p18</ref>way.

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

'''Tiredness''' shows lack 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 will for progressa mountain, the climb towards new revelations, towards future realisations. When you feel tired or fatigued Nothing is more dangerous than wanting to rest. It is in action, in effort, in the march forward that is lack repose must be found, the true repose of complete trust in the divine Grace, of the absence of desires, of will for progressvictory over egoism.

True repose comes from the widening, the universalisation of the consciousness. Become as vast as the world and you will always be at rest. In the thick of action, in the very midst of the battle, the effort, you will know the repose of infinity and eternity. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/20-march-1957#p9,p10,p11,p12</ref>When any part of the being becomes prominent like this showing all its defects and limitations—here inertia or incapacity (''apravṛtti'Fatigue'), obscurity or forgetfulness ('' comes from doing without interest 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 things you donecessary change. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-transformation-of-the-physical#p22</ref>

Whatever =Means to Get Rid of Laziness=The only remedy is to keep quiet, look within oneself honestly to find out what is wrong and set to work courageously to put it right.The Divine Consciousness will always be there to help you do if your endeavour is sincere; and the more sincere your endeavour the more the Divine Consciousness will help and assist you can find interest in .Periods of obscuration are frequent and common; generally, itis enough to keep quiet without worrying, provided knowing that these are spiritual nights which alternate with the full light of the days.But to be able to remain in peace you take must keep in your heart gratitude towards the Divine for all the help He gives. If gratitude also is veiled, the obscure periods last much longer. There is, however, a swift and effective remedy: it as is to keep always burning in your heart the flame of purification, the aspiration for progress, the intensity, the ardour of consecration. This flame is kindled in the means heart of progressingall who are sincere; you must try not let ingratitude cover it up with its ashes. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/depression#p27,p28,p30</ref> The best thing to do better 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 better what you are doingfalsehood—in order to accept the first and to refuse or reject the others. With practice one learns to distinguish more and more clearly, but one can establish as a general rule that all that tends towards disharmony, disorder and inertia comes from the will for progress must always be there falsehood and all that favours union, harmony, order and then you take interest consciousness comes from the Truth. <ref>https://incarnateword.in what you do/cwm/16/13-january-1965#p3,p4</ref>==Through Effort==It is only effort, in whatever domain it be—material effort, moral effort, intellectual effort—which creates in the being certain vibrations which enable you to get connected with universal vibrations; and it isthis which gives joy. The most insignificant occupation can prove interesting if It is effort which pulls you take out of inertia; it is effort which makes you receptive to the universal forces. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/13-january-1951#p14</ref><center>~</center>It is only the psychic that wayknows how to surrender and the psychic is usually very much veiled in the beginning. When the psychic awakes, it can bring a sudden and true surrender of the whole being, for the difficulty of the rest is rapidly dealt with and disappears.But even till then effort is indispensable. Or else it is necessary till the Force comes flooding down into the most attractive being from above and important activity will soon lose all its interest takes up the sadhana, does it for you one more and more and leaves less and less to individual effort—but even then, if not effort, at least aspiration and vigilance are needed till the possession of mind, will for progress towards an ideal perfection , life and body by the Divine Power is complete. …. Work is not there while you acta means of self-dedication to the Divine, but it must be done with the necessary inner consciousness in which the lower vital and physical must also share.

'''Getting rid of fatigue:'''Take no notice of A lazy body is certainly not a proper instrument for Yoga, it must stop being lazy. But a fatigued and go on with your programme as usualunwilling body also cannot receive properly or be a good instrument. It The proper thing is to avoid either extreme. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levels-of-the quickest way of getting rid of it.-physical-being#p49,p50</ref><center>~</center>It is because you are receptive a Force that comes and pushes to the force when you work and is as legitimately a part of the spiritual life as others. It is a special Energy that sustains you. But when you are not under takes hold of the strain of worker in the being and fulfils itself through him. To work you are less receptivewith a full energy like this in one is quite salutary. You must learn The only thing is not to overdo it—that is to avoid any exhaustion or recoil to be receptive in all circumstances and always―especially when you take rest―it must not be the “rest” of a fatigued inertia but a true rest of receptivity.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1429/lazinessthe-divine-tirednessforce-fatiguein-tamaswork#p11 p15</ref>

''QThe help is always there and it has pulled you out of many difficulties and attacks. What are It is, I suppose, because of the feeling "I do not want to do anything" that you have not been able to receive the defects in me help, but that are coming is a temporary inertia of the physical mind and will. …The only course is to shake off the inertia of the will and persevere. <ref>http://incarnateword.in my way of spiritual as well as material progress?/cwsa/29/surrender#p90</ref>

==Through Aspiration==For the inner flame to burn, one must feed it; one must watch over the fire, throw into it the fuel of all the errors 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'As unconsciousness and inertia, and then, not years but lives, centuries will pass before one reaches the goal. <ref>http:'' Tamas and sluggishness//incarnateword.in/cwm/09/9-july-1958#p10 </ref>==Through Will==

''QThis difficulty has to be faced and overcome by an equal perseverance 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 ignorance. What am I The persistence of your own will to do conquer with the Mother's force supporting it will come to get rid the end of these defects of my nature?'' ''A:'' Become more and more consciousthe resistance. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1431/lazinessdifficulties-of-tirednessthe-fatiguephysical-tamasnature#p13,p14,p15,p16 p46</ref>

''A:'' You don’t know that, you don’t? Then, congratulations! For instanceBecome more and more conscious.Certainly tamas is not good, does but it never happen is only through surrender to you the Divine Consciousness that being seated you don’t want tamas can be changed. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/laziness-tiredness-fatigue-tamas#p12</ref><center>~</center>...to get up, recognise that having something to do there is here an element of the universal Nature reflected in yours which you saymust 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 peace, light, “Oh! I have to do all that…power and presence. This is the only way towards the transformation and fulfilment of the physical nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.”in/cwsa/31/the-lower-vital-being#p35</ref>

''Q. Is it ==Turning to the same thing as laziness?''Divine==

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 ''A:that loves for the joy of loving'' Not quiteand has no need to be loved in return; one also learns to draw Force from the inexhaustible source and one knows by experience that by using this Force in the service of the Divine one receives from Him all that one has spent and much more. Of courseAll 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, laziness at least keep the idea of what is necessary—(1) that the silence and peace shall become a kind wideness which you can realise as the Self, (2) the extension of tamasthe 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 laziness there is an ill-willyour mind, any falling towards a refusal to make an effort—while tamas is condition of inertia: one wants to do something, but one can’tcan be avoided. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0430/28experiences-of-the-self-the-aprilone-1951and-the-infinite#p5p6</ref>

Indolence When the soul draws towards the Divine, there may be a resistance in the mind and inaction result 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 tamas 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 fall into inconscience 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 very opposite consequence. …There are two ways to meet all that—first that of progress the Self, calm, equality, a spirit, a will, a mind, a vital, a physical consciousness that remain resolutely turned towards the Divine and lightunshaken 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/cwmcwsa/1331/aimsresistances-sufferings-and-principlesfalls#p301p7</ref>

=How to Cure Lazinessthe Psychic Plays an Important Role?=

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 himself and of his destiny.Otherwise, he is a plaything of the forces, which toss him about like a cork in a stream.they are afraid He goes where he doesn't want to fight, who long for rest before they have earned itis made to do what he doesn't want to, who are satisfied with a little progress and finally he gets lost in their imagination a hole without any way to stop himself doing so. But if you are consciously organized, unified around the divine center, governed and desires make led by it into a marvellous realisation so as to justify their stopping half-way, you are the master of your destiny. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/09/20september-march7-19571968#p9p20</ref>

The minute one stops going forward, one falls back. The moment one is satisfied peace and no longer aspires, one begins to die. Life is movement, it is effort, it is a march forward, spontaneous knowledge are in the scaling of a mountain, the climb towards new revelations, towards future realisations. Nothing is more dangerous than wanting psychic being and from there they spread to restmind and vital and physical. It is in action, in effort, in the march forward outer physical consciousness that repose must be found, the true repose of complete trust in difficulty still tries to persist and brings the divine Grace, of restlessness sometimes into the absence of desiresphysical mind, of victory over egoism.True repose comes from sometimes into the wideningnerves, sometimes in the universalisation shape of bodily trouble into the consciousnessbody. Become as vast as the world But all these things can and you will always be at restmust go. In Even the thick of action, in the very midst of the battle, the effort, you will know illnesses can go entirely with the repose growth of infinity peace and eternity. For the inner flame to burn, one must feed it; one must watch over the fire, throw into it the fuel of all power in the errors 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, nerves and then, not years but lives, centuries will pass before one reaches the goal. physical cells… <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0931/9levels-of-the-julyphysical-1958being#p10 p60</ref>

If 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… 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 laziness for this deepening that keeps the strong tendency to go inside comes upon you back . Lastly, the Mother’s force always there and receiving also a response at once from, say, doing the vaultingphysical consciousness. These three things together can do anything. It takes time to make them all three constantly active together, you must immediately do something much more tiring but that is sure to come and saywith them these inner difficulties will disappear. <ref>https: "Well, you don//incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levels-of-the-physical-being#p63</ref> ==How to Cure Inertia in the Parts of the Being?== ==Mental== ''t want Q.How to do thatget rid of mental inertia? All right, you are going to do 1500 metres running!" Or else''''A: "I don't want ' The cure is not in trying to do wake up the weight-lifting todaymind but in turning it, immobile and silent, I don't feel like doing it: goodupward towards the region of intuitive light, I shall do skipping 4000 times at in a stretchsteady and quiet aspiration, and to wait in silence, for the light to come down and flood your brain which will, little by little, wake up to this influence and become capable of receiving and expressing the intuition."<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0512/24-june-1953study#p22p88</ref>

When one has decided By wanting to get updo so, one gets up." No, the body was there, like that, and it was necessary to put a will into it, to push this body for it to get up with persistence and actobstinacy. It is like that, this is tamas. Tamas is a purely material thing; it is very rare to have By doing every day a vital or mental tamas (it may occur but through contagion)exercise of reading, I believe it is more a tamas of the nerves or the brain than vital or mental tamasorganisation and development. But laziness is everywhere, This should alternate in the physical, course of the vital, the mind. Generally lazy people are not always lazy, not day with exercises of mental silence in all things. If you propose something that pleases them, amuses them, they are quite ready to make an effort. There is much ill-will in lazinessconcentration. '' <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0416/281-apriljune-19511966#p9p3,p4</ref>

It is good to repeat a mantra, a word, a prayer before going into sleep''Q. But there must be Are mental indifference and lack of curiosity a life in the words; I do not mean an intellectual significance, nothing sort of that kind, but a vibration. And quietly you let yourself go, as though you wanted to go mental inertia?'' ''A:'' Usually they are due to sleep. The body vibrates more and moremental inertia, more unless one has obtained calm and more, more indifference through a very intense sadhana resulting in a perfect equality for which the good and morebad, the pleasant and away you gounpleasant no longer exist. That But in that case, mental activity is the cure for tamasreplaced by an intuitive activity of a much higher kind. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1512/4answers-juneto-1960a-monitor#p6p112</ref><center>~</center>Become more ==Vital== The gloom and other difficulties come from a resistance of inertia in the lower vital and more consciousphysical consciousness.Certainly tamas 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 goodpreparation, but not enough; by itself it is only through surrender to the Divine Consciousness that tamas 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 changeda rapid advance in the Yoga. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1431/lazinesssorrow-tiredness-fatigueand-tamassuffering#p12</ref>

==Through Developing ConsciousnessPhysical==

For the inner flame to burn, one It must feed it; one must watch over be the fire, throw into it tamas of the fuel of all physical that has enveloped the errors inner consciousness. The one wants way to get rid out ofit 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><center>~</center>In the physical it is inertia, all that delays the progressobscurity, all inability that darkens come up and the pathobstinacy of these things. If one doesn't feed The only thing to do in this unpleasant phase is to be more obstinate than the fire, it smoulders under the ashes of one's unconsciousness physical inertia and inertia, to persist in a fixed endeavour—steady persistency without any restless struggle—to get a wide and then, not years but lives, centuries will pass before one reaches the goalpermanent opening made even in this solid rock of obstruction. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0931/9the-julytransformation-of-the-1958physical#p10p32</ref>

An active movement The physical sadhana is one in which you throw your force outto bring down the higher light and power and peace and Ananda into the body consciousness, that isto get rid of the inertia of the physical, when something comes out from you—in a movementthe doubts, a thoughtlimitations, a feeling—something which goes out from you to others or into external tendency of the world. Passivity is when you remain just yourself like this, openphysical mind, the defective energies of the vital physical (nerves) and receive what comes from outside. It does not at all depend on whether one moves or sits still. It is not bring in instead the true consciousness there so that at all. To the 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-apriltransformation-of-the-1954physical#p22p26</ref>

There is a lot 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 doshow themselves before they can be got rid of—otherwise it will always remain undetected, a whole lothampering even the best sadhana and preventing its completeness. But 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 may go relatively fast. When you observe, you realize that what takes the most time What is necessary is becoming conscious of what must be changednot to get troubled or anxious or impatient, having a conscious contact for that enables 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. That's what takes It is so that the most time. The change itself... There are recurrences, but itMother's growing much less intense. It all depends on the amount of unconsciousness and tamas force can best work in the being; as it grows less, the experience grows stronger. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0631/julydifficulties-of-the-24physical-1965nature#p30p6</ref>

The accordance of conscious mind But for the physical being and conscious physical consciousness to be ready to receive the divine impulsion, they must be extremely plastic, because the vital uses coercion, it imposes its will with a form , and a life in themselves not overtly self-conscious and capable at best of a mechanical or subconscious will is another problem of opposites in which she the poor body 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 of Truth and Lightto obey, with while the practical omnipotence which would result from Divine just shows the possession of a direct and perfected knowledge. Not onlylight, thengives the consciousness, and so one must obey consciously and willingly—it is the upward impulse a question of man towards the accordance of yet higher opposites rational in itselfcollaboration, but it is the only logical completion no longer a question of a rule coercion. The physical being and an effort that seem physical consciousness must be very plastic to be able to lend themselves to all the necessary changes, so as to be a fundamental method of Nature one kind one day and another the very sense of her universal strivingsnext, and so on. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2104/the28-humanapril-aspiration1951#p3p12</ref>

==Through Transformation=In Sleep===

The rest must not be one which goes down into the inconscience and tamas...for everyone all is as well as it can The rest must be. It's always an ascent into the old movements that get impatient.... Of courseLight, into perfect Peace, total Silence, when you see a rest which rises up out of the whole, impatience was certainly created to counteract inertia—but darkness. Then it's overis true rest, that time a rest which is pastan ascent. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/1007/october31-18august-19691955#p100p19</ref>

We do not fight against any creed…in the ordinary consciousness, in the general ordinary life, any religionrest means tamas. Rest means falling back into Inertia. We do not fight against any form So then, instead of government. We do not fight against any castea rest that benefits you, any social classit’s a rest that stupefies you and then you have to make effort once more to recapture the consciousness you have lost. We do not fight against any nation or civilisationThat’s how the vast majority of people sleep. We are fighting divisionBut now, unconsciousnessthe lesson is different: 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, ignorance” but the slightest descent towards the Inconscient, inertia and falsehoodsomething in the body immediately gives a start—instantly. We are endeavouring to establish upon earth unionIt has been like that for a long time, two years, knowledgebut now it’s instantaneous, consciousnessand it very rarely happens—there is true rest, truth; which is an expansion and we fight whatever opposes immensity of the advent of this new creation of being in full Light, Peace, Truth and Love."1 February 16, 1965It’s magnificent.) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0607/februarymarch-2726-19651966#p7p12</ref>

It was You must learn to be receptive in all circumstances and always—especially when you take rest—it must not be the idea "rest" of the original Stability (if we may say so) which, in Manifestation, is expressed as inertiabut a true rest of receptivity. And the unfolding is expressed as change. All right. Then came:Eternity and progress <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/1017/november9-19may-19691967#p32p3</ref>

It Fundamentally, the sole purpose of sleep is to enable the body to assimilate the quickest effect of the trance so that the effect may be received everywhere, and most effective method to enable the body to do its natural nocturnal function of eliminating toxins. And when you wake up, there is not that trace of heaviness which comes from sleep: the effect of pulling the creation out trance continues.Even for those who have never been in trance,it is good to repeat a mantra, a word, a prayer before going into sleep. But there must be a life in the words; I do not mean an intellectual significance, nothing of its inertia 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 leading away you go. That is the cure for tamas. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/4-june-1960#p6</ref> =Recommended Practices= Whatever you do you can find interest in it, provided you take it on as 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 blossominginterest for you if the will for progress towards an ideal perfection is not there while you act. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0414/maylaziness-tiredness-15fatigue-1963tamas#p13p6,p7</ref>

When I lie down to rest my body Take no notice of it and work without moving (work go on with an activity that doesn't force the body to move), your programme 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—instantlyusual. 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 the quickest way of getting rid of the being in full Light. It's magnificentit. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0714/marchlaziness-tiredness-26fatigue-1966tamas#p12p9</ref>

That's how it is. Day after day, almost hour after hour, as the Power comes back ... You remember, I once said it had gone completelymust exert your consciousness, and that was trueyour will, it had gone completely in order to leave the body absolutely to itselfyour force, for its conversiongather your energy, we could say; but once there had been in this body consciousness the same aspiration shake yourself a little 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 the vital whip yourself and mindsay: “Hup! Hup! forward, march.”If it's very steady), once is laziness that was established (through kinds of pulsations, not distant keeps you back from one another, first on one detailsay, then spreading out and becoming generalized), since then doing the Power has been ... I can say it has been coming back.all the old difficulties appear to be waking up again, they seem to spring up again (they had completely fallen asleepvaulting, you understand), must immediately do something much more tiring and each timesay: "Well, this body consciousness feels a sort of surprise, at once astonished and distressed you don't want to do that the presence of the divine Power? All right, the divine Consciousness, the Truth-Consciousness, should give rise to all those difficulties, which you are essentially difficulties of ignorance and inertia—the incapacity going to receive. And it comes back as memories, like that (gesture from below), like a snake rearing its head. And every time, everything in the physical consciousness has the same call, do 1500 metres running!"Why? How can these things be when You are there!Or else: " ThatI don's t want to do the astonishing thingweight-lifting today, I don't feel like doing it: "Since You are theregood, how can these things be?I shall do skipping 4000 times at a stretch." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0805/august24-2june-19671953#p59p22</ref>

Only because There is only one way of acting truly,it's difficult for us 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 feel be progressive and that way can we imagine what seems to you the most true now will no longer be so tomorrow, and that by our entering certain states 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 consciousness things would not changean enlightened receptivity and of goodwill. Even if we entered into To want always the best, always the best, always the best and never tell oneself, “Oh! It is tiring! Let me rest, let me relax! Ah, I am going to stop making an apparently total inertia, things would continue effort”; then one is sure to change fall into a hole immediately and we along with themmake a big stupid blunder! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0207/january31-12august-19611955#p11p18</ref>

And once you've lived That... you become so irrevocably conscious that everything depends on the individual perception, entirely; and naturally, that individual perception [of divine Love] depends on the inadequacy, For the inertia, the incomprehension, the incapacityremedy is not to absorb yourself in thoughts about it, the cells' inability but to hold turn upwards and keep call the Vibration, anyway all that man calls his "character" Light and which comes from his animal evolutionForce to come into it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0531/julywrong-22movements-of-the-1964vital#p20p46</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?==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 When 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. <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 be done with the necessary inner consciousness in which the lower vital and physical must also share.A lazy body is certainly not a proper instrument for Yogathere at work, it must stop being lazy. But a fatigued and unwilling body also cannot receive properly or be a good instrument. The proper thing is to avoid either extreme. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levels-of-the-physical-being#p49</ref> A strong mind and body imperfections and life-force are needed in the sadhana. Especially steps should be taken to throw out tamas and bring strength and force into the frame weaknesses of the nature.There is always some tendency to looseness, 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 free,—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 will, 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 necessarily arise 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 of the new consciousness behind prevents it taking pleasure in them, so that it remains restless, not understanding anything. What it has got to learn is that it must fall quiet and open to a new consciousness from above and within. This part of the being 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 ways. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levels-of-the-physical-being#p15,p49</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. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p6</ref>It [the nature of the obstruction of the physical 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 the ordinary consciousness to rest,—also there is a constant forgetfulness of what has been done etc. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p8</ref>Inertia is mental, vital, physical, subconscient. Physical inertia can produce mental inertia, mental inertia can produce physical inertia, vital inertia almost always makes the physical lifeless and lustreless and dull, and that is inertia. Vital inertia can also infect the mind, unless the mind is very strong and clear. I have always said that the physical consciousness is the main seat and source of inertia. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p15</ref>The hold of inertia always increases when the working comes down into the physical and subconscient.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 level, 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 is only when the most material and the subconscient and the environmental consciousness are quite liberated that this retarding or lowering effect of the primal Inertia is entirely overcome. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p17</ref>The one way to get out of it is to remain very quiet inwardly and call down persistently the Force from above. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p37</ref>...for that will only make things worse and increase the tamas, dryness, dullness, inertia,—but 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 beyond the vital and the mind the divine peace, light, power and presence. This is the only way towards the transformation and fulfilment of the physical nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.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 a successful reaction. The central will must assert itself, need not violently in a constant struggle, for that brings reaction, fatigue and inertia, but fight 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 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 ; one can look on the Light, the true will there also. For that, 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 is these quietly as a surface instrumentation that now separate you in the physical consciousness from the Mother. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p2</ref>This difficulty has to be faced and overcome by an equal perseverance in the will of the sadhakchanged. 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 ignorance. The persistence of your own will to conquer with the Mother's force supporting it will come “indifference” that one has to the end of the resistance. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p46</ref>What is important look at them, for you in these circumstances is to make your faiththat might mean inertia, surrender and samata absolute. That is as great and essential a progress as to have high experiences, etc. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-want of-the-physical-nature#p52</ref>=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 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 by bringing down constantly the consciousness 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 change and it must be a steady and patient will not tired out even by the utmost resistance of the physical nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-transformation-of-the-physical#p2</ref>...here inertia or incapacity (apravṛtti), obscurity push or forgetfulness (aprakāśa), it is in order necessity 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#p21</ref> ...it was this which had been preventing the elimination of the old movements all along and enabled them to return when they had been pushed out—for it is in the material half-conscious or subconscient that there is the bedrock of the resistance…The physical sadhana is to bring down the higher light and power and peace and Ananda into the body consciousness, to get rid of the inertia 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 so that the physical 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 it, 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 the being…A quick mind is often unstable—it catches but does not keep; or it catches but only superficially and thinks it has got everything when it has got only a little and not enough. A slow mind that takes slowly but holds on to what it has got, can be slow but sure in its movement…Therefore you should not mind if it takes long to absorb and hold the new consciousness—as a matter of fact, to hold takes long with everybody. Once you have got it well established, your nature is likely to hold it firmly… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/mental-difficulties-and-the-need-of-quietude#p15</ref> ==How to Cure Mental Inertia?==The cure is not in trying to wake up the mind but in turning it, immobile and silent, upward towards the region of intuitive light, in a steady and quiet aspiration, and to wait in silence, for the light to come down and flood your brain which will, little by little, wake up to this influence and become capable of receiving and expressing the intuition. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/study#p86</ref>''Q.How can one get out of this mental laziness and inertia?” ''A:'' By wanting to do so, with persistence and obstinacy. By doing every day a mental exercise of reading, organisation and development.This should alternate in the course of the day with exercises of mental silence in concentration.'' <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/1-june-1966#p2</ref> ''Q. Are mental indifference and lack of curiosity a sort of mental inertia?''''A:'' Usually they are due to mental inertia, unless one has obtained calm and indifference through a very intense sadhana resulting in a perfect equality for which the good and bad, the pleasant and unpleasant no longer exist. But in that case, mental activity is replaced by an intuitive activity of a much higher kind. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/answers-to-a-monitor#p110</ref> ''Q.Why does selfishness make one jealous and weakness makes one lazy?''''A:'' In either case the only truly effective remedy is conscious union with the Divine. Indeed, as soon as one becomes conscious of the Divine and is united rather with Him, one learns to love with the true love: the love that loves for the joy of loving and has no need to be loved in return; one also learns to draw Force from the inexhaustible source and one knows by experience that by using this Force in the service of the Divine one receives from Him all that one has spent and much more.All the remedies suggested by the mind, even the most enlightened mind, are only palliatives and not a true cure. <ref>http://incarnateworddetachment.in/cwm/16/16-november-1969#p3</ref>

=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>