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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 of suffering—vital, mental, emotive suffering—arise from vital which brings in a wrong functioning dominant note of the mindrajas, and thoseactivity... we can easily rank them in the FalsehoodThat is why, that's all. But physical suffering is to me like as a child being beaten, because here in Matter, Falsehood turned into ignorance, which means there is no bad will—there is no bad will in Mattergeneral rule, everything is inertia and ignorance: total ignorance of the Truth, ignorance intrusion of the Origin, ignorance of vital in the Possibility, even ignorance form of what needs to be done so as not to suffer materially. This ignorance is everywhere in the cellsambition, emulation and only the experience—and the experience of what, in this rudimentary consciousnessvanity, is translated as suffering—can awaken, arouse compels the need body to know and be cured, shake off the tamas and make the aspiration necessary effort to be transformedprogress. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0716/september13-may-281964-19661#p19p3</ref>

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

That [''weakness of the body''] also is tamas. If you threw off the strain of the idea of weakness, the strength would come back. But there is always something in the vital physical which is pleased with becoming more weak and ill so that it can feel and lament its tragic case. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p64</ref><center>~</center>A certain inertia, tendency to sleep, indolence, unwillingness or inability to be strong for work or spiritual effort for long at a time, is in the nature of the human physical consciousness.When one goes down into the physical for its change (that has been the general condition here for a long time), this tends to increase. Even sometimes when the pressure of the sadhana on the physical increases or when one has to go much inside, this temporarily increases—the body either needing more rest or turning the inward movement into a tendency to sleep or be at rest. The …the physical consciousness gets the true peace and calm in the cells and feels at rest even in full work or in the most concentrated condition and this tendency of inertia goes out of the nature. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/35/1936#p1</ref><center>~</center>…physical suffering is to me like a child being beaten, because here in Matter, Falsehood turned into ignorance, which means there is no bad will—there is no bad will in Matter, everything is inertia and ignorance: total ignorance of the Truth, ignorance of the Origin, ignorance of the Possibility, even ignorance of what needs to be done so as not to suffer materially. This ignorance is everywhere in the cells, and only the experience—and the experience of what, in this rudimentary consciousness, is translated as suffering—can awaken, arouse the need to know and be cured, and the aspiration to be transformed. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/07/september-28-1966#p19</ref>

==Psychic=Why Does Laziness Occur?=

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

The emergence of As soon as you enter the secret psychic being in us as rajasic nature, you like effort. And at least the leader one advantage of the sacrifice rajasic people is that they are courageous, whereas tamasic people are cowards. It is of the utmost importance; for this inmost being alone can bring with it the full power fear of effort which makes one cowardly. For once you have started, once you have taken the spirit in decision and begun the acteffort, you are interested. It is exactly the soul in same thing which is the symbol. It alone can assurecause of some not liking to learn their lessons, even while not wanting to listen to the spiritual consciousness teacher; it is tamasic, it is incompleteto be asleep, it avoids the effort which must be made in order to catch the perennial freshness thing and sincerity then grasp it and beauty 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, instead of making an effort to rise one step higher in their consciousnessfalls away and the obscure, come down one step lower; they come down even lower than they were before obstructive physical and do stupid things, they make themselves vulgar material consciousness appears in the hope of amusing themselvesits unrelieved inertia. That is why men intoxicate themselvesInertia, tamas, spoil their healthstupidity, deaden their brains. If they had risen instead of fallingnarrowness and limitation, they would have made use of this opportunity an inability to progress.Sometimes, in certain circumstancesdoubt, everything seems dulldullness, boringdryness, stupid; this means that you a constant forgetfulness of the spiritual experiences received are as boring as the circumstances and it clearly shows that you are not in a state characteristics of progress. It is simply a passing wave of boredom, and nothing is more contrary to the purpose of existence. At such a moment you might make an effort and ask yourselfunregenerated physical nature, "This boredom shows when that I have something to learn, some progress to make in myself, some inertia to conquer, some weakness to overcome." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/to-is not pushed by the-students-young-vital and-old#p7</ref> =Why Does Laziness Occur?= That is one of not supported either by the main reasons. 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 higher mental will 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 eatintelligence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0831/12the-september-1956#p5</ref><center>~</center>To justify one's weaknesses is a kind of laziness and inertia.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/4lower-augustvital-1954being#p8p35</ref>

WellThe whole world is in a process of progressive transformation; if you take up the discipline of Yoga, when one doesn’t want to make an effort to correct oneself, one says, “Ohyou 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 impossible, I can’t do it, I don’t have your inner consciousness that obeys this accelerating impulse; for the higher parts of your being readily follow the strength, I am not made swift and concentrated movement of Yoga and lend themselves more easily to the continuous adjustment and adaptation that stuffit necessitates. The body, I don’t have on the necessary qualitiesother hand, I could never do it.” It is absolute lazinessordinarily dense, it is in order to avoid the required effortinert and apathetic. When And if you are asked to make progress: “Ohhave in this part something that is not responsive, it if there is beyond my capacity, I am a poor creatureresistance here, I can do nothing!” That’s all. It the reason is that the body is almost ill-willincapable of moving as quickly as the rest of the being. It is extreme lazinessmust take time, a refusal to make any effortit must walk at its own pace as it does in ordinary life. One accepts all one’s defects and incapacities What happens is as when grown-up people walk too fast for children in order not to their company; they have to make stop at times and wait till the necessary effort to overcome child who is lagging behind comes up and overtakes them. One saysThis divergence between the progress in the inner being and the inertia of the body often creates a dislocation in the system, “I am like and that, I can’t be otherwise!” It manifests itself as an illness. This is why people who take up Yoga frequently begin by suffering from some physical discomfort or disorder. That need not happen if they are on their guard and careful. Or if there is a refusal to let greater and unusual receptivity in the divine Grace work in youbody, then too they escape. It But an unmixed receptivity making the physical parts closely follow the pace of the inner transformation is a justification hardly possible, unless the body has already been prepared in the past for the processes of your own ill-willYoga.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0603/416-augustjune-19541929#p9p6</ref>

Of course there can be a state of happy inertia, but most people don't remain satisfied with that long, they begin to want something else'Q. There are Yogins who are satisfied with a happy calm immobility, but that is because the happiness is a form Sri Aurobindo speaks of Ananda and in the immobility they feel the Self and its eternal calm and want nothing more.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/cheerfulness-and-happiness#p12</ref><center>~</center>And how is it possible “the will to perfect the mind open and vital unless the physical is prepared?—for there is such a thing as make plastic the mental and vital physical, and mind and vital cannot be said to be perfectly prepared until these are ready.There is always the conflict between the consciousness that is coming into you and the ignorant consciousness that was there before. The new consciousness is gaining ground always but still against much resistance especially in the vital physical (which is indicated in the stomach attacks). But there is only one way to go and that is to insist always on the Power and Peace which are more and more felt to be always there and more and more dissociate yourself from the other conditionnature”. It is on that basis that the right understanding can come. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levels-of-the-physical-being#p14,p49</ref>''

=Emergence of Laziness=  ==Illness and Health== That [weakness of the body] also is tamas''A. If you threw off ''Because the strain of the idea of weaknessphysical consciousness and nature are closed up and rigid—they are shut up in their habits, they don’t want to change them, the strength would come backthey accept only one regular routine. But there There is always something in the vital physical which is pleased with becoming nothing more weak and ill so that it can feel and lament its tragic case. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illnessroutine-and-health#p64</ref><center>~</center>It is not anything physical but a vital depression (in some part of the vital, not the whole) that prevents bound than the body from recovering . If you change its elasticity. There was some part of habits in the vital that was resisting a radical change and evenleast, unknown to your mindit is quite bewildered, trying to go on as it was under cover of the change in the rest of your being. This has now, owing doesn’t know any longer what to this last affairdo, received a blow and got depressed andit says, when the vital is depressed like that“Excuse me, it affects the body. You say rightly that it is part of a change or turn that is taking place. But these effects of inertia and weakness need excuse me! but that’s not continue; as soon as this vital part acquiesces gladly in the turn or change, the elasticity and energy will returnhow one goes about living. ” <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3104/illness28-andapril-health1951#p66p10,p11</ref>

It can only be remedied by the Force The character is made up of habits and Consciousness from above occupying it clings to them, is disposed to think them the whole physical very law of its beingand it is a hard job to get it to change at all except under a strong pressure of circumstances. <ref>http://incarnateword.Especially in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p78</ref>...inertia of the physical consciousnessparts, the body, the physical mind, the physical life movements, while there is this resistance; the right reaction tamasic element in Nature is powerful there, what the lower vital brings on 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 contrary effort is made, a sense of peaceconstant readiness to doubt, releaseto despond and despair, quietude which definitely opens the lowest physical parts to give up, renounce the higher consciousness and force. If you can get over this aim and get back the old poiseendeavour, then all these things can be made to disappearcollapse. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illnessthe-anddifficulties-of-healthyoga#p79p21</ref>

The whole thing is to get It [''the physical out nature of its habit the obstruction of falling back into tamas or inertia, and that can be done by opening and accustoming it to the action physical consciousness''] depends on the weak points of the Force. When individual and the action stage of the Force becomes constant, then there will be no more tamashis progress. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p98</ref> ==The Lower Vital Being== A time comes when after a long preparation main difficulty of the mind and vital being, it becomes necessary to open also the physical nature. But when consciousness is that happensit is incapable, very often the vital exaltation which can be very great when the experience before it is on its own planetransformed, of maintaining any tension of tapasya—it wants periods of assimilation, falls away and sinking back into the obscure, obstructive physical and material ordinary consciousness appears in its unrelieved inertia. Inertia, tamas, stupidity, narrowness and limitation, an inability to progress, doubt, dullness, drynessrest, —also there is 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… what has been done etc. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-lowerphysical-vital-beingnature#p35p8</ref>

These things can only be cured by a persistent bringing down The hold of inertia always increases when the higher spiritual consciousness working comes down into all the parts of physical and subconscient. Before that the inertia is overpowered though not eradicated by the being. <ref>http://incarnateword.action in mind and vital—afterwards it comes up in/cwsa/30/variations-its natural force and has to be met in-the-intensity-of-experience#p18</ref>its own field.

=How The physical’s tendency to inertia is very great; even after the habit of living in the higher consciousness is there, 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 physical, but dulls its action or else brings it Different down from Fatiguea higher to a lower level, Tiredness 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 Tamas?=the subconscient and the environmental consciousness are quite liberated that this retarding or lowering effect of the primal Inertia is entirely overcome. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p16,p17</ref>

'''Tiredness''' shows lack of will for progress. When you feel tired or fatigued that is lack of will for progress. '''Fatigue''' comes from doing without interest the things you do. Whatever you do you can find interest in it, provided you take it as the means of progressing; you must try =How to do better and better what you are doing, the will for progress must always be there and then you take interest in what you do, whatever it is. The most insignificant occupation can prove interesting if you take it that way.But even the most attractive and important activity will soon lose all its interest for you if the will for progress towards an ideal perfection is not there while you act.Cure Laziness?=

''QThe 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 quiet pressure and insistence. What is “physical tamas”?

''A:'' You don’t know that, you don’t? Then, congratulations! For instance, does it The mind must learn (even the physical external mind) never happen to you 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 being seated you don’t want to they will never get up, any essential assent or sanction. You have almost reached that having something to do you saypoint, “Oh! I have to do all that…but it must be made more entire.”

''QThere 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. Is This point you seem to be reaching, but it the same thing as laziness?''must be absolute.

''A:'' Not quite. Of courseLastly the physical, laziness is a kind of tamasthe material itself—to insist on the Light, but in laziness the true will there is an ill-willalso. For that, a refusal to make an effort—while tamas is inertia: one wants to do somethingnot 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, but one can’tout of the body into the environmental consciousness till they can finally be pushed away from there also. For it is these that now separate you in the physical consciousness from the Mother. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0431/28difficulties-of-the-aprilphysical-1951nature#p1,p2,p3,p4,p5</ref>

Indolence All that Sri Aurobindo says here [There is no more benumbing error than to mistake a stage for the goal or to linger too long in a resting place. From Thoughts and inaction result Aphorisms]is aimed at fighting against human nature with its inertia, its heaviness, laziness, easy satisfactions, hostility to all effort. How many times in tamas which is 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 fall into inconscience and the very opposite of little progress and light. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/aims-their imagination anddesires make it into a marvellous realisation so as to justify their stopping half-principles#p301</ref>way.

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

 True repose comes from the widening, the universalisation of the consciousness. Become as vast as the world and you will always be at rest. In the thick of action, in the very midst of the battle, the effort, you will know the repose of infinity and eternity.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/20-march-1957#p9,p10,p11,p12</ref>When any part of the being becomes prominent like this showing all its defects and limitations—here inertia or incapacity (''apravṛtti''), obscurity or forgetfulness (''aprakāśa''), it is in order to get set right,—it has come up for a first or preliminary transformation. Peace and light in the mind, love and sympathy in the heart, calm and power in the vital, a settled receptivity and response (''prakāśa, pravṛtti'') in the physical are the necessary change. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-transformation-of-the-physical#p22</ref> For the inner flame =Means to Get Rid of Laziness=The only remedy is to burnkeep quiet, one must feed look within oneself honestly to find out what is wrong and set to work courageously to put itright.The Divine Consciousness will always be there to help you if your endeavour is sincere; one must watch over and the more sincere your endeavour the more the fireDivine Consciousness will help and assist you.Periods of obscuration are frequent and common; generally, throw into it is enough to keep quiet without worrying, knowing that these are spiritual nights which alternate with the fuel 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 errors one wants 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 get rid keep always burning in your heart the flame ofpurification, all that delays the aspiration for progress, all that darkens the pathintensity, the ardour of consecration. If one doesn't feed This flame is kindled in the fireheart of all who are sincere; you must not let ingratitude cover it up with its ashes. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/depression#p27,p28, it smoulders under p30</ref> The best thing to do is to distinguish in oneself the ashes origin of all one's unconsciousness movements—those that come from the light of truth and those that come from the old inertia and falsehood—in order to accept the first and to refuse or reject the others. With practice one learns to distinguish more and more clearly, but one can establish as a general rule that all that tends towards disharmony, disorder and inertiacomes from the falsehood and all that favours union, harmony, order and thenconsciousness comes from the Truth. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/13-january-1965#p3,p4</ref>==Through Effort==It is only effort, not years but livesin whatever domain it be—material effort, moral effort, centuries will pass before one reaches 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 goaluniversal forces. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0904/913-julyjanuary-19581951#p10 p14</ref>

If it It is laziness only the psychic that keeps you back fromknows how to surrender and the psychic is usually very much veiled in the beginning. When the psychic awakes, sayit can bring a sudden and true surrender of the whole being, doing for the difficulty of the rest is rapidly dealt with and disappears. But till then effort is indispensable. Or else it is necessary till the vaultingForce comes flooding down into the being from above and takes up the sadhana, you must immediately do something much does it for one more and more tiring and say: "Wellleaves less and less to individual effort—but even then, you don't want to do that? All rightif not effort, you at least aspiration and vigilance are going to do 1500 metres running!" Or else: "I don't want needed till the possession of mind, will, life and body by the Divine Power is complete. …. Work is a means of self-dedication to do the weight-lifting todayDivine, I don't feel like doing but it: goodmust be done with the necessary inner consciousness in which the lower vital and physical must also share. A lazy body is certainly not a proper instrument for Yoga, I shall do skipping 4000 times at it must stop being lazy. But a fatigued and unwilling body also cannot receive properly or be a stretchgood instrument. The proper thing is to avoid either extreme."<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0531/24levels-juneof-1953the-physical-being#p22p49,p50</ref>

When one has decided to get up, one gets up." No, the body was there, like It is a Force that, comes and it was necessary pushes to put work and is as legitimately a will into it, to push this body for it to get up and actpart 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 that, this in one is tamasquite salutary. Tamas is a purely material The only thing; it is very rare not to have a vital or mental tamas (it may occur but through contagion), I believe it overdo it—that is more a tamas of the nerves or the brain than vital to avoid any exhaustion or mental tamas. But laziness is everywhere, in the physical, the vital, the mind. Generally lazy people are not always lazy, not in all things. If you propose something that pleases them, amuses them, they are quite ready recoil to make an effort. There is much ill-will in lazinessa fatigued inertia. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0429/28the-divine-force-aprilin-1951work#p9p15</ref>

The help is always there and it has pulled you out of many difficulties and attacks. It is good to repeat a mantra, a wordI suppose, a prayer before going into sleep. But there must be a life in because of the words; feeling "I do not mean an intellectual significance, nothing of want to do anything" that kindyou have not been able to receive the help, but that is a vibrationtemporary inertia of the physical mind and will. And quietly you let yourself go…The only course is to shake off the inertia of the will and persevere. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/surrender#p90</ref> ==Through Aspiration==For the inner flame to burn, one must feed it; one must watch over the fire, as though you wanted throw into it the fuel of all the errors one wants to go to sleepget rid of, all that delays the progress, all that darkens the path. The body vibrates more If one doesn't feed the fire, it smoulders under the ashes of one's unconsciousness and moreinertia, more and morethen, more and morenot years but lives, centuries will pass before one reaches the goal. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/9-july-1958#p10 </ref>==Through Will== This difficulty has to be faced and away you goovercome by an equal perseverance in the will of the sadhak. That 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 cure for tamasignorance. The persistence of your own will to conquer with the Mother's force supporting it will come to the end of the resistance. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1531/4difficulties-of-the-junephysical-1960nature#p6p46</ref>

Become more Apart from the individual difficulty there is a general difficulty in the physical earth-nature. Physical nature is slow and more consciousinert and unwilling to change; its tendency is to be still and take long periods of time for a little progress.Certainly tamas It is not good, but it very difficult for even the strongest mental or vital or even psychic will to overcome this inertia. It is only through surrender to by bringing down constantly the Divine Consciousness consciousness and force and light from above that tamas it can be changeddone. 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/cwmcwsa/1431/lazinessthe-transformation-tirednessof-fatiguethe-tamasphysical#p12p2</ref>

==Through Developing ConsciousnessSurrender==

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's unconsciousness Become more and inertia, and then, not years but lives, centuries will pass before one reaches the goalmore conscious. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/9-july-1958#p10</ref><center>~</center>An active movement Certainly tamas is one in which you throw your force outnot good, that but it is, when something comes out from you—in a movement, a thought, a feeling—something which goes out from you only through surrender to others or into the world. Passivity is when you remain just yourself like this, open, and receive what comes from outside. It does not at all depend on whether one moves or sits still. It is not Divine Consciousness that at all. To tamas can be active is to throw out the consciousness or force or movement from within outwardschanged. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0614/21laziness-tiredness-aprilfatigue-1954#p22</ref><center>~</center>There is a lot to do, a whole lot. But it may go relatively fast. When you observe, you realize that what takes the most time is becoming conscious of what must be changed, having a conscious contact that enables it to change. That's what takes the most time. The change itself... There are recurrences, but it's growing much less intense. It all depends on the amount of unconsciousness and tamas in the being; as it grows less, the experience grows stronger. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/july-24-1965#p30p12</ref>

The accordance of conscious mind and conscious will with a form and a life in themselves not overtly self-conscious and capable at best of a mechanical or subconscious will ...to recognise that there is another problem here an element of opposites the universal Nature reflected in yours which she has produced astonishing results you must eliminate. And this can only be done by more and more surrender and aims always at higher marvels; for there her ultimate miracle would be an animal consciousness no longer seeking but possessed of Truth aspiration and Light, with the practical omnipotence which would result by so bringing in from beyond the possession of a direct vital and perfected knowledge. Not onlythe mind the divine peace, thenlight, power and presence. This is the upward impulse of man only way towards the accordance of yet higher opposites rational in itself, but it is the only logical completion of a rule transformation and an effort that seem to be a fundamental method fulfilment of Nature and the very sense of her universal strivingsphysical nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2131/the-humanlower-aspirationvital-being#p3p35</ref>

==Through TransformationTurning to the 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..for everyone all is Indeed, as well soon as it can one becomes conscious of the Divine and is united with Him, one learns to love with the true love: the love ''that loves for the joy of loving'' and has no need to be. It's always 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 old movements Divine one receives from Him all that get impatientone has spent and much more.... Of courseAll the remedies suggested by the mind, when you see even the wholemost enlightened mind, impatience was certainly created to counteract inertia—but it's over, that time is pastare only palliatives and not a true cure. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/1016/october16-18november-1969#p100p3,p4,p5</ref>

We do If not fight against any creedaspiration, any religion. We do not fight against any form of government. We do not fight against any caste, any social class. We do not fight against any nation or civilisation. We are fighting division, unconsciousness, ignorance, inertia and falsehood. We are endeavouring to establish upon earth union, knowledge, consciousness, truth; and we fight whatever opposes at least keep the advent idea of this new creation of Light, Peace, Truth and Love."what is necessary—(1 February 16, 1965.) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/february-27-1965#p7</ref><center>~</center>It was that the idea of the original Stability (if we may say so) silence and peace shall become a wideness which, in Manifestation, is expressed you can realise as inertia. And the unfolding is expressed as change. All right. Then came:Eternity and progress <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/10/november-19-1969#p32</ref><center>~</center>It is the quickest and most effective method of pulling the creation out of its inertia and leading it on to its blossoming. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/04/may-15-1963#p13</ref><center>~</center>When I lie down to rest my body and work without moving Self, (work with an activity that doesn't force the body to move2), as soon as there is the slightest... not exactly "fall," but the slightest descent towards the Inconscient, something in the body immediately gives a start—instantly. It has been like that for a long time, two years, but now it's instantaneous, and it very rarely happens—there is true rest, which is an expansion and immensity extension of the being in full Light. It's magnificent. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/07/march-26-1966#p12</ref><center>~</center>That's how it is. Day after day, almost hour after hour, silent consciousness upwards as the Power comes back ... You remember, I once said it had gone completely, and well so that was true, it had gone completely in order to leave the body absolutely to itself, for you may feel its conversionsource above you, we could say; but once there had been in this body consciousness the same aspiration and the same ardour of consciousness (with a far greater steadiness than in any other part of 3) the being; there are no fluctuations as there are in the vital and mind, it's very steady), once that was established (through kinds presence of pulsations, not distant from one another, first on one detail, then spreading out and becoming generalized), since then the Power has been .peace etc.. 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 asleep, you understand), and each time, this body consciousness feels a sort of surprise, . These things need not all come at once astonished and distressed that the presence of the divine Power, the divine Consciousness, the Truth-Consciousness, should give rise but by realising what has to all those difficultiesbe in your mind, which are essentially difficulties any falling towards a condition of ignorance and inertia—the incapacity 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, "Why? How inertia can these things be when You are there!" That's the astonishing thing: "Since You are there, how can these things be?" avoided. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0830/augustexperiences-of-2the-self-the-one-1967#p59</ref><center>~</center>Only because it's difficult for us to feel that way can we imagine that by our entering certain states of consciousness things would not change. Even if we entered into an apparently total inertia, things would continue to change and we along with them! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/january-12the-1961infinite#p11p6</ref>

And once you've lived ThatWhen 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.. you become so irrevocably conscious The physical consciousness also may offer a resistance which is usually that everything depends on 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 individual perceptionlower mechanically, entirelyeven when it does not want to do so; both vital and naturallyphysical 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 individual perception [remain resolutely turned towards the Divine and unshaken by all suggestion of divine Love] depends on doubt, desire, attachment, depression, sorrow, pain, inertia. This is possible when the inadequacyinner being awakens, when one becomes conscious of the inertiaSelf, of the incomprehensioninner mind, the incapacityinner vital, the cells' inability inner physical, for that can more easily attune itself to hold the divine Will, and keep then there is a division in the Vibrationbeing as if there were two beings, one within, calm, strong, equal, unperturbed, anyway all that man calls his "character" 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 comes from his animal evolution. 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/agendacwsa/0531/julyresistances-22sufferings-and-1964falls#p20p7</ref>

The peace and spontaneous knowledge are in Whatever the path we may follow, the subject we may study, we always reach the psychic being and from there they spread to mind and vital and physicalsame result. It The most important thing for an individual is in the outer physical consciousness to unify himself around his divine center; that the difficulty still tries to persist and brings the restlessness sometimes into the physical mind, sometimes into the nervesway he becomes a real individual, sometimes in the shape master of bodily trouble into the body. But all these things can himself and must goof his destiny. Even the illnesses can go entirely with the growth Otherwise, he is a plaything of peace and power in the nerves and physical cells—stomach painsforces, weakness of the eyes and everything elsewhich toss him about like a cork in a stream. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levels-of-the-physical-being#p60</ref><center>~</center>It He goes where he doesn't want to, 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 to do what he doesn't want to, and dependent on herfinally he gets lost in a hole without any way to stop himself doing so. It had so done with all your mental and vital being and its movements and it had guarded But if you against all wrong mental and vital suggestions and attacksare consciously organized, unified around the divine center, showing you what was true governed and what was false. Now led by 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 are the full realisation master of the sadhanayour destiny. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3109/levels-of-theseptember-physical7-being1968#p62p20</ref>

The habit of return of these feelings belongs to the physical consciousness peace and spontaneous knowledge are in his physical consciousness the human psychic 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 there they spread to do it)mind and vital and physical. There It is first in the psychic being; for a few days your psychic was extremely active outer physical consciousness that the difficulty still tries to persist and pushing these movements away whenever they tried to come or throwing them out soon when they got in. This activity of brings the psychic will return and eventually come down restlessness sometimes into the physical consciousness itself; then there will be very little difficulty. The second is mind, sometimes into the inner consciousness always awake. At present that is difficultnerves, because to keep sometimes in the shape of bodily trouble into the inner consciousness awake at body. But all times these things 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 conditionmust go. It is for this deepening that Even the strong tendency to illnesses can go inside comes upon you. Lastly, entirely with the Mother’s force always there growth of peace and receiving also a response at once from power in the nerves and 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. cells… <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levels-of-the-physical-being#p63p60</ref>

The being is here on habit of return of these feelings belongs to the physical plane although consciousness and in touch with 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 vitaleventually come down into the physical consciousness itself; then there will be very little difficulty. The being second is the inner consciousness always awake. At present that is difficult, because to keep the individual inner consciousness has to ascend and become conscious awake at all times can only come by a deepening of all yourself so that the veil between the planes (vital, mental outer and those above inner which lifts only in concentration may cease to exist even when one is in the mental) until it reaches ordinary unconcentrated condition. It is for this deepening that the Divine Oneness which is above all strong tendency to go inside comes upon you. Lastly, the planes Mother’s force always there and receiving also a response at once from which they emergethe 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#p65 p63</ref>

==How Can It be Curedto Cure Inertia in the Parts of the Being?==

==Conditions to Get Rid of LazinessMental==

If not aspiration, at least keep the idea ''Q.How to get rid of what mental inertia?''''A:'' The cure is necessary—(1) that not in trying to wake up the silence mind but in turning it, immobile and peace shall become a wideness which you can realise as the Selfsilent, (2) upward towards the extension region of the silent consciousness upwards as well so that you may feel its source above youintuitive light, in a steady and quiet aspiration, and to wait in silence, (3) for the presence of peace etc. all the time. These things need not all light to come at oncedown and flood your brain which will, but little by realising what has little, wake up to be in your mind, any falling towards a condition this influence and become capable of inertia can be avoidedreceiving and expressing the intuition. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3012/experiences-of-the-self-the-one-and-the-infinitestudy#p6p88</ref>

A transformation of human nature can only be achieved when the substance of the being is By wanting to do so steeped in the spiritual principle that all its movements are a spontaneous dynamism , with persistence and obstinacy. By doing every day a harmonised process mental exercise of the spiritreading, organisation and development. But even when the higher powers and their intensities enter into This should alternate in the substance course of the Inconscience, they are met by this blind opposing Necessity and are subjected to this circumscribing and diminishing law day with exercises of the nescient substancemental silence in concentration. '' <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2216/the1-ascentjune-towards-supermind1966#p45p3,p4</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'Q.in/cwsa/31/interactions-with-others-Are mental indifference and-the-practice-lack of-yoga#p104</ref>curiosity a sort of mental inertia?''

==Qualities ''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 Can Developed==case, mental activity is replaced by an intuitive activity of a much higher kind. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/answers-to-a-monitor#p112</ref>

==Through SurrenderVital==

If The gloom and other difficulties come from a resistance of inertia in the Mother puts you back into a good condition, your lower vital pulls and physical consciousness. What you down again. How have to do is that to stop so long as you say Yes to prepare the consciousness by getting rid of the vital inertia. A sattwic gladness and accept its discouragement calm and restlessness confidence is the proper temperament for this Yoga; gloom, depression and anguish and the rest of it weeping should not be indulged in, as your own? Detachment is absolutely necessary. <ref>http://incarnateword.they stand in/cwsa/29/surrender#p66</ref><center>~</center>It is only the psychic that knows how to surrender and way of the psychic is usually very much veiled in opening, unless the beginning. When tears are the psychic awakes, it can bring weeping of release or adoration or a sudden moved love and true surrender of bhakti. The progress made in controlling the whole being, for the difficulty sex and other rajasic movements of the rest lower vital is rapidly dealt with and disappears. It is not possible to get rid of the stress on personal effort at once—and a good preparation, but not always desirableenough; for personal effort by itself it is better than tamasic inertiaonly the negative side, though indispensable. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/surrender#p82</ref><center>~</center>The help is always there and it has pulled you out of many difficulties and attacks. It isAspire for a positive sattwic opening for strength, I supposefor light, because of the feeling "I do not want to for peace and do anything" that you have not been able to receive worry or repine if the helpprogress is slow at first, but that is a temporary inertia of nor grudge the physical mind time and will. I do not see the use labour of your going back for preparation necessary before there can be a few months to a life which could not now satisfy you. The only course is to shake off rapid advance in the inertia of the will and persevereYoga. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2931/surrendersorrow-and-suffering#p90p12</ref>

==Through Union with the DivinePhysical==

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 It must 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 tamas 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 has enveloped the very stuff of the physical, an incomprehension, an inability to respond to the higher inner 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 The one way to meet all that—first that get out 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 it 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, remain very quiet inwardly and then there is a division in the being as if there were two beings, one within, calm, strong, equal, unperturbed, a channel of call down persistently 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… from above. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/resistancesdifficulties-sufferingsof-the-andphysical-fallsnature#p7p37</ref>

The whole world In the physical it is in a process of progressive transformation; if you take up the discipline of Yogainertia, obscurity, you speed inability that come 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 obstinacy of Yoga and lend themselves more easily to the continuous adjustment and adaptation that it necessitatesthese things. The body, on the other hand, is ordinarily dense, inert and apathetic. And if you have only thing to do 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 unpleasant phase is as when grown-up people walk too fast for children in their company; they have to stop at times and wait till be more obstinate than the child who is lagging behind comes up physical inertia and overtakes them. This divergence between the progress to persist 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 fixed endeavour—steady persistency without any restless struggle—to get a greater wide and unusual receptivity permanent opening made even 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 this solid rock of Yogaobstruction. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0331/16the-transformation-of-junethe-1929physical#p6p32</ref>

There are many varying conditions in which you may meditate The physical sadhana is to bring down the higher light and all have their effect upon the forces brought in or brought down power and on their working. If you sit alone, it is your own inner peace and outer condition that matters. If you sit with othersAnanda into the body consciousness, to get rid of the general condition is inertia of primary importance. But in either case the conditions will always vary and physical, 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 Divinedoubts, limitations, external tendency of the Divine is bound to manifest. But the will must be one-pointedphysical mind, the aspiration sincere. For those who make defective energies of the attempt can be united in inertia or even in mistaken or perverse desire, vital physical (nerves) and the result is then likely to be disastrous. <ref>http://incarnateword.bring in/cwm/03/23-june-1929#p22</ref> ==Through instead the Divine Force== It is a Force true consciousness there so that comes and pushes to work and is as legitimately a part of the spiritual life as others. It is physical may be a special Energy that takes hold of perfect instrument for 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. Divine Will… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2931/the-divinetransformation-forceof-inthe-workphysical#p15p26</ref>

But also it often happens even The difficulty of the physical nature comes inevitably 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 workdevelopment of the sadhana. Its obstruction, its inertia, but in the its absence of this force aspiration or movement have to show themselves before they can be got rid of—otherwise it will always remain undetected, hampering even the body is denuded of power, inert best sadhana and tamasicpreventing its completeness. This can only be remedied by coming up of the physical nature lasts longer or less according to the whole being opening circumstances, but there is none who does not go through it. What is necessary is not to Yoga shakti in each of its planes—Yogic mind forceget troubled or anxious or impatient, Yogic life forcefor that only makes it last more, Yogic body force. <ref>http://incarnateword.but to put entire confidence in/cwsa/29/the-divine-force-Mother and quietly persist in-work#p26</ref> Subconsient faith, patience and Integral Yoga:steady will for the complete change. It is only if you live wholly and dynamically in so that the inner being and feel the outer as a quite superficial thing that you Mother's force can get rid of the obstruction or minimise it until the transformation of best work in the outer being can be made complete. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/thedifficulties-subconscient-andof-the-integralphysical-yoganature#p7p6</ref>

These [vital But for the physical being and physical weaknesses] are symptoms and feelings that can easily come in the period when consciousness to be ready to receive the subconscient is being dealt with—tamasdivine impulsion, agethey must be extremely plastic, decaybecause the vital uses coercion, illnessit imposes its will, deathand the poor body has but to obey, weaknesswhile the Divine just shows the light, inertiagives the consciousness, the mechanical play (as if the inevitable round and so one must obey consciously and willingly—it is a question of collaboration, it is no longer a machine) question of coercion. The physical being and physical consciousness must be very plastic to be able to lend themselves to all the lower vital have their seeds in the subconscient necessary changes, so as to be of one kind one day and when another the subconscient rises up in its native powernext, these threaten to rise with themand so on. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3104/the-subconscient-and-the28-integralapril-yoga1951#p52p12</ref>

=Types of Physical Consciousness==In Sleep===

There are many [defects of The rest must not be one which goes down into the physical consciousness]—but mainly obscurity, inertia, inconscience and tamas, a passive acceptance of . The rest must be an ascent into the play of wrong forcesLight, inability to changeinto perfect Peace, attachment to habitstotal Silence, lack a rest which rises up out of plasticity, forgetfulness, loss of experiences or realisations gained, unwillingness to accept the Light or to follow darkness. Then itis true rest, 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 a rest which 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 illnessascent. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/07/31/levels-of-the-physicalaugust-being1955#p2p19</ref>

Is …in the material state an emptiness of ordinary consciousness, or is it not rather only a sleep of consciousness—even though from in the point general ordinary life, rest means tamas. Rest means falling back into Inertia. So then, instead of view of evolution an original a rest that benefits you, it’s a rest that stupefies you and not an intermediate sleep? And by sleep then you have to make effort once more to recapture the human example teaches us that we mean not a suspension of consciousness, but its gathering inward away from conscious physical response to you have lost. That’s how the impacts vast majority of external thingspeople sleep. <ref>httpBut now, the lesson is different://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/conscious-when I lie down to rest my body and work without moving (work with an activity that doesn’t force#p14</ref> ==How the body to Cure Physical Consciousness?== A quiet will insisting on move), as soon as there is the quietude of slightest… not exactly “fall,” but the slightest descent towards the mind and vital and insisting on Inconscient, something in the rejection of these adverse thingsbody immediately gives a start—instantly. That would soon prove sufficient to hold the ground It has been like that for the Peace a long time, two years, but now it’s instantaneous, and Force to act it very rarely happens—there is true rest, which is an expansion and they would do immensity of the restbeing in full Light. It’s magnificent. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3107/levels-of-themarch-physical26-being1966#p5p12</ref>

Work is a means of self-dedication You must learn to the Divine, but it must be done with the necessary inner consciousness receptive in which the lower vital all circumstances and physical always—especially when you take rest—it must also share.A lazy body is certainly not a proper instrument for Yoga, it must stop being lazy. But a fatigued and unwilling body also cannot receive properly or be the "rest" of inertia but a good instrument. The proper thing is to avoid either extremetrue rest of receptivity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3117/levels-of-the9-physicalmay-being1967#p49p3</ref>

A strong mind and Fundamentally, the sole purpose of sleep is to enable the body and life-force are needed in the sadhana. Especially steps should be taken to throw out tamas and bring strength and force into assimilate the frame effect of the nature.There is always some tendency to looseness, forgetfulness and inattention in trance so that the physical consciousness. One has to effect may be very vigilant received everywhere, and careful to prevent this tendency having its way.It is an inertia of enable the physical consciousness which allows these desires body to come and does not react against the suggestions; it is that also which responds to the pains and suggestion do its natural nocturnal function of illnesseliminating toxins. But And when you must wake up, there is 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 trace of heaviness which comes from sleep: the mind and vital and insisting on the rejection effect 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 resttrance continues.It is something Even for those who have never been in the vital part of the physical consciousness which has not yet understood—it feels the pressure to changetrance, yet it is drawn outward good to people or things repeat a mantra, a word, a prayer before going into sleep. But there must be a life in the old waywords; I do not mean an intellectual significance, but is dissatisfied because the growth nothing of the new consciousness behind prevents it taking pleasure in them, so that it remains restlesskind, not understanding anythingbut a vibration. What it has got And quietly you let yourself go, as though you wanted to learn is that it must fall quiet and open go to a new consciousness from above sleep. The body vibrates more and within. This part of the being is obscuremore,—not sufficiently mentalised to understand thingsmore and more, it acts from instinctmore and more, impulse and habit onlyaway you go. When its old instincts, impulses and habits are checked, it does not know what to do or what That 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 wayscure for tamas. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3115/levels4-ofjune-the-physical-being1960#p15,p49p6</ref>

=Causes of Laziness/Inertia or the Physical NatureRecommended Practices=

The difficulty of the physical nature comes inevitably Whatever you do you can find interest in the course of the development of the sadhana. Its obstructionit, its inertia, its absence of aspiration or movement have to show themselves before they can be got rid of—otherwise provided you take it will always remain undetected, hampering even as the best sadhana and preventing its completeness. This coming up means of the physical nature lasts longer or less according progressing; you must try to the circumstancesdo better and better what you are doing, 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><center>~</center>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 must always be there is a constant forgetfulness of and then you take interest in what has been done etc. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p8</ref><center>~</center>Inertia is mentalyou do, 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 whatever it is inertia. Vital inertia The most insignificant occupation can also infect the mind, unless the mind is very strong and clear. I have always said prove interesting if you take it that the physical consciousness is the main seat and source of inertiaway. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p15</ref><center>~</center>The hold of inertia always increases when But even the working comes down into the physical most attractive and subconscient.The inertia usually rises up from the subconscient. It does not abolish the higher consciousness in the physical, but dulls important activity will soon lose all its action or else brings it down from a higher to a lower level, e.g. from interest for you if 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 will for progress towards an ideal perfection 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 overcomenot there while you act. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3114/difficulties-oflaziness-thetiredness-physicalfatigue-naturetamas#p17p6,p7</ref>

The one way to get out Take no notice of it and go on with your programme as usual. It is to remain very quiet inwardly and call down persistently the Force from abovequickest way of getting rid of it. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3114/difficultieslaziness-of-thetiredness-physicalfatigue-naturetamas#p37p9</ref>

...for that You must exert your consciousness, your will only make things worse and increase the tamas, drynessyour force, dullnessgather your energy, 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 shake yourself a little and more surrender whip yourself and aspiration and by so bringing in from beyond the vital and the mind the divine peacesay: “Hup! Hup! forward, light, power and presencemarch. 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 ”If it 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 laziness that brings reactionkeeps you back from, fatigue and inertiasay, but with a quiet pressure and insistence.The mind must learn (even the physical external mind) never to say yes to the suggestions and impulsions of doing the old movement or admit any justification for them however plausible or seemingly “true”. However violently they return and insistvaulting, they you must feel that they will never get any essential assent or sanction. You have almost reached that point, but it must be made immediately do something much more entire.There must be something in the vital itself that insists on its true aspiration tiring and refuses even the vital consent or any vital pleasure in the wrong movements. If they comesay: "Well, they must feel their own fallen, ignorant, merely material brute character. This point you seem don't want to be reaching, but it must be absolute.Lastly the physical, the material itself—to insist on the Light, the true will there also. For do that? All right, you are going to do 1500 metres running!" Or else: "I don't want to do not indulge the desiresweight-lifting today, the wrong impulsesI don't feel like doing it: good, 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 that now separate you in the physical consciousness from the MotherI shall do skipping 4000 times at a stretch. " <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3105/difficulties-of-the24-physicaljune-nature1953#p2p22</ref>

This difficulty There is only one way of acting truly,it is to try at each moment, each second, in each movement to express only the highest truth one can perceive, and at the same time know that this perception has to be faced progressive and overcome by an equal perseverance in that what seems to you the most true now will of the sadhakno longer be so tomorrow, and that a higher truth will have to be expressed more and more through you. It is This leaves no room any longer for sleeping in a steady flame that comfortable tamas; one must burn, as steady as the obstruction is obstinate. Do be always awake—I am not therefore speaking of physical sleep—one must be discouraged by the persistence always awake, always conscious and always full of the obstruction an enlightened receptivity and of the ignorancegoodwill. The persistence of your own will to conquer with To want always the Mother's force supporting it will come to best, always the end of best, always the resistance. best and never tell oneself, “Oh! It is tiring! Let me rest, let me relax! Ah, I am going to stop making an effort”; then one is sure to fall into a hole immediately and make a big stupid blunder! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/07/31/difficulties-of-the-physicalaugust-nature1955#p46p18</ref>

What For the inertia the remedy is important for you not to absorb yourself in these circumstances is thoughts about it, but to make your faith, surrender turn upwards and samata absolute. That is as great call the Light and essential a progress as Force to have high experiences, etccome into it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficultieswrong-movements-of-the-physical-naturevital#p52p46</ref>

=Transformation of Physical: Why is it the Need of the Hour?=Detachment==

Apart from When the individual difficulty Force is there is a general difficulty in at work, the imperfections and weaknesses of the physical earth-nature. Physical nature is slow and inert and unwilling to will necessarily arise for change, but one need not fight with them; its tendency is one can look on them quietly as a surface instrumentation that has to be still and take long periods of time for a little progresschanged. It is very difficult not with “indifference” that one has to look at them, for even the strongest mental that might mean inertia, a want of will or vital push or even psychic will necessity 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://incarnatewordis rather with detachment.in/cwsa/31/the-transformation-of-the-physical#p2</ref>

...here inertia or incapacity (apravṛtti)Detachment means that one stands back from them, obscurity does not identify oneself with them or forgetfulness (aprakāśa), it is in order to get set right,—it has come up for a first upset or preliminary transformation. Peace and light in the mindtroubled because they are there, love but rather looks on them as something foreign to one's true consciousness and sympathy in the hearttrue self, calm rejects them and power calls 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><center>~</center>...it was this which had been preventing the elimination of the old Mother's Force into these movements all along and enabled to eliminate 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 and its movements there so that the physical may be a perfect instrument for the Divine Will… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-transformation-The firm will of-the-physical#p25</ref><center>~</center>The only thing to do in this unpleasant phase is to rejection must be more obstinate than there, the physical inertia and pressure 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 rid of obstructionthem, but not any wrestling or struggle. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3130/thedescent-transformationand-ofthe-thelower-physicalnature#p31p12</ref>

=What are the Difficulties of Mental Nature?=Hatha Yoga==

The power of physical immobility is as important in Hathayoga as the power of mental immobility in the Yoga of knowledge…...the slowness immobility of the Asana is to get rid of the mind restlessness imposed on the body and to force it to hold the Pranic energy instead of dissipating and squandering it. The experience in the nature 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 seize something new 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 ithabituates itself and, when the Asana is conquered, then it finds as much ease in the non-distinction between what 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 true and brought to bear upon it without needing to be held spill it out in movement, and what this increase is not true and not so enormous as to be heldseem illimitable, so that the body of the perfected Hathayogin is due to a certain absence capable of feats of endurance, force, unfatigued expenditure of quickness energy of movement in which the being…A quick mind normal physical powers of man at their highest would be incapable. For it is often unstable—it catches but does not keep; or it catches but only superficially able to hold and thinks it has got everything when it has got only a little and not enough. A slow mind that takes slowly retain this energy, but holds on to what bear its possession of the physical system and its more complete movement through it has got. The life energy, can be slow but sure thus occupying and operating in its movement…Therefore you should not mind if it takes long to absorb a powerful, unified movement on the tranquil and passive body, freed from the restless balancing between the continent power and hold the new consciousness—as contained, becomes a matter of much greater and more effective force. In fact, it seems then rather to contain and possess and use the body than to hold takes long with everybody. Once you have got be contained, possessed and used by it well established, your nature is likely —just as the restless active mind seems to hold seize on and use irregularly and imperfectly whatever spiritual force comes into it firmly… , but the tranquillised mind is held, possessed and used by the spiritual force. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3123/mental-difficulties-and-the-need-of-quietudehathayoga#p15p8</ref> ==How to Cure Mental Inertia?==

''Q.How can one get out The three forms of consciousness are the three sides of Nature represented by the three gunas—force of subconscious tamas, Inertia, which is the law of this mental laziness and inertia?” ''A:'' By wanting to do soMatter, with persistence and obstinacy. By doing every day a mental exercise force of readinghalf-conscious desire, Kinesis, which is rajas, organisation and development.This should alternate in which is the course law of Life, force of sattwic Prakasha, which is the day with exercises law of mental silence in concentrationIntelligence.'' <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1628/1the-sankhya-juneyoga-1966system#p2p16</ref>

The three gunas become purified and refined and changed into their divine equivalents: sattwa becomes ''Q. Are mental indifference and lack of curiosity a sort of mental inertia?jyotiḥ'' , the authentic spiritual light; rajas becomes ''A:tapas'' Usually they are due to mental inertia, unless one has obtained calm and indifference through a very the tranquilly intense sadhana resulting in a perfect equality for which divine force; tamas becomes ''śama'', the good and baddivine quiet, the pleasant and unpleasant no longer exist. But in that caserest, mental activity is replaced by an intuitive activity of a much higher kindpeace. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1228/answersthe-tosankhya-ayoga-monitorsystem#p110p37</ref>

''QTamas and rajas disappear only when the higher consciousness not only comes down but controls everything down to the cells of the body.Why does selfishness make one jealous They then change into the divine rest and weakness makes one lazy?''peace and the divine energy or Tapas; finally sattwa also changes into the divine Light. As for remaining quiet when tamas is there, there can also be a tamasic quiet. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-sankhya-yoga-system#p38</ref>

''A:'' =More on In either case the only truly effective remedy is conscious union with the Divine. Indeed, as soon as one becomes conscious of the Divine and is united with Him, one learns to love with the true love: the love that loves for the joy of loving and has no need to be loved in return; one also learns to draw Force from the inexhaustible source and one knows by experience that by using this Force in the service of the Divine one receives from Him all that one has spent and much more.All the remedies suggested by the mind, even the most enlightened mind, are only palliatives and not a true cure. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/16-november-1969#p3</ref>Laziness=

=Recommended Practices=The best thing to do is to distinguish in oneself the origin Of course there can be a state of all onehappy inertia, but most people don's movements—those t remain satisfied with that come from long, they begin to want something else. There are Yogins who are satisfied with a happy calm immobility, but that is because the light happiness is a form of truth Ananda and those that come from in the immobility they feel the old inertia Self and falsehood—in order to accept the first its eternal calm and to refuse or reject the otherswant nothing more. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1631/13cheerfulness-januaryand-1965happiness#p3p12</ref>

With practice one learns to distinguish more and more clearly“We do not fight against any creed, any religion. We do not fight against any form of government. We do not fight against any caste, any social class. We do not fight against any nation or civilisation. We are fighting division, unconsciousness, but one can establish as a general rule that all that tends towards disharmonyignorance, disorder inertia and inertia comes from the falsehood and all that favours . We are endeavouring to establish upon earth union, harmonyknowledge, consciousness, order truth; and consciousness comes from we fight whatever opposes the advent of this new creation of Light, Peace, Truthand Love.When you have found something which has the power to help you in gaining a victory over your unconsciousness and inertia" (1 February 16, you must, till you reach the final result, exhaust all the effects produced by that word or phrase before you look for others1965. ) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0306/thefebruary-27-thousands1965#p20p7</ref>

...it is to try at each moment, each second, in each movement to express only The churning of Matter by the highest truth one can perceive, and at attempt of the same time know that this perception has human intellect to be progressive conquer material Nature and that what seems to you use it for its purposes may break something in the most true now will no longer be so tomorrowpassivity and inertia, and that a higher truth will have to be expressed more and more through you. This leaves no room any longer but it is done for sleeping material ends, in a comfortable tamas; one must be always awake—I am not speaking of physical sleep—one must be always awakerajasic spirit, always conscious and always full with a denial of spirituality as its mental basis. Such an enlightened receptivity and of goodwill. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/31-august-1955#p18</ref><center>~</center>Two things are necessary. First of allattempt may end, nothing in your being, no part of your being should want seems to die. That does not happen often. You have always a defeatist be ending indeed in you somewhere: something that is tired, something that is disgusted, something that has had enough of it, something that is lazy, something that does not want to struggle chaos and says: "Well! Ah! Let it be finished, so much the better." That is sufficient, you are dead. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/1-july-1953#p34</ref><center>~</center>Then I said to myself: that's how it is, there must be a certain tamas—an uncomprehending tamas—which in order to change needs to be violently shaken up. With illnessesdisintegration, it's while the same thing, in the sense that only when things really new attempts at creation and reintegration seem about to topple over on combine the wrong side... I go out obscure rigidity of material Nature with a resurgence of my body deliberately, hovering over all things, the barbaric brutality and violence of a half animal vital Nature. How are the body recovers—now it takes very little time: spiritual Forces to deal with all that or make use of such a quarter churning of an hour or twenty minutes. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/04/october-19-1963#p12</ref><center>~</center>Whatever the path we may follow, energies of the subject we may study, we always reach material universe? The way of the same result. The most important thing for an individual Spirit is to unify himself around his divine center; that the way he becomes a real individual, master of himself peace and of his destiny. Otherwise, he light and harmony; if it has to battle it is a plaything precisely because of the presence of such forces, which toss him about like a cork in a stream. He goes where he doesn't want seek either to, is made extinguish or to do what he doesn't want pervert the spiritual light. In the spiritual change inertia has to, be replaced by the divine peace and finally he gets lost in a hole without any way to stop himself doing so. But if you are consciously organizedcalm, unified around the divine center, governed rajasic troubled energy by a tranquil and led by itpotent, you are the master of your destiny. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/09/september-7-1968#p21</ref><center>~</center>Concentration is very helpful pure and necessary—the more one concentrates (of course in the limits of the body's capacity without straining it)liberated dynamis, while the more mind must be kept plastic for the force workings of the Yoga grows.There are different causes for it. But it is mostly something physical that interferes, either the need a higher Light of the body to take time to assimilate what has come or been done or sometimes inertia or dullness due to causes such as those you mention or others. The best thing is to remain quiet and not get nervous or dejected—till the force acts again. Knowledge… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2928/concentrationspiritual-evolution-and-meditationthe-supramental#p94p6</ref>