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=Laziness in Relation to Other Aspects=
==Depression and Laziness==
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>
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You must absolutely refuse to be depressed.
It is because you are receptive to the Force when you work and that sustains you. But when you are not under the strain of the work you are less receptive. You must learn to be receptive in all circumstances and always—especially when you take rest—it must not be the "rest" of inertia but a true rest of receptivity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/9-may-1967#p3</ref>
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The gloom and other difficulties come from a resistance of inertia in the lower vital and physical consciousness. What you have to do is to prepare the consciousness by getting rid of the inertia. A sattwic gladness and calm and confidence is the proper temperament for this Yoga; gloom, depression and weeping should not be indulged in, as they stand in the way of the opening, unless the tears are the psychic weeping of release or adoration or a moved love and bhakti. The progress made in controlling the sex and other rajasic movements of the lower vital is a good preparation, but not enough; by itself it is only the negative side, though indispensable. Aspire for a positive sattwic opening for strength, for light, for peace and do not worry or repine if the progress is slow at first, nor grudge the time and labour of preparation necessary before there can be a rapid advance in the Yoga. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sorrow-and-suffering#p12</ref>
==Boredom and Laziness==
Boredom is a dullness of the consciousness; and if you seek the cure within yourself, you will see that it immediately dissolves. Most people, when they feel bored, instead of making an effort to rise one step higher in their consciousness, come down one step lower; they come down even lower than they were before and do stupid things, they make themselves vulgar in the hope of amusing themselves. That is why men intoxicate themselves, spoil their health, deaden their brains. If they had risen instead of falling, they would have made use of this opportunity to progress.Sometimes, in certain circumstances, everything seems dull, boring, stupid; this means that you are as boring as the circumstances and it clearly shows that you are not in a state of progress. <center>It is simply a passing wave of boredom, and nothing is more contrary to the purpose of existence. At such a moment you might make an effort and ask yourself, "This boredom shows that I have something to learn, some progress to make in myself, some inertia to conquer, some weakness to overcomedangerous illness: laziness." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1214/to-the-studentslaziness-youngtiredness-andfatigue-oldtamas#p7p1</ref></center>
=Why Does What is Laziness Occur?=Laziness comes from weakness, or from lack of interest. For curing the first—one must become strong. For curing the second—one must do something interesting. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/study#p82</ref>=How is it different from Fatigue, Tiredness and Tamas?=
That is one Tiredness shows lack of the main reasonswill for progress. And so one conceals one's laziness behind fine reasons, the first of which says, "I can't, I don't know" When you feel tired 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 fatigued that comes to you. Or else, one doesn't practise because one doesn't find it worthwhile to make the effort—that is part lack of the laziness also, it asks will 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 eatprogress. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0814/12laziness-tiredness-septemberfatigue-1956tamas#p5p3</ref>
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To justify one's weaknesses is a kind of laziness and inertiaFatigue comes from doing without interest the things you do.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0614/4laziness-tiredness-augustfatigue-1954tamas#p8p5</ref>
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Well, when one doesn’t want to make an effort to correct oneself, one says, “Oh, it ''Q. What is impossible“physical tamas”?'' ''A:'' … For instance, I can’t do does it, I don’t have the strength, I am not made of that stuff, I don’t have the necessary qualities, I could never do it.” It is absolute laziness, it is in order happen to avoid the required effort. When you are asked to make progress: “Oh, it is beyond my capacity, I am a poor creature, I can do nothing!” That’s all. It is almost ill-will. It is extreme laziness, a refusal to make any effort. One accepts all one’s defects and incapacities in order not to have to make the necessary effort to overcome them. One says, “I am like that, I can’t be otherwise!” It is a refusal being seated you don’t want to let the divine Grace work in you. It is a justification of your own ill-will.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/4-august-1954#p9</ref><center>~</center>Of course there can be a state of happy inertiaget up, but most people don't remain satisfied with that long, they begin to want having something else. There are Yogins who are satisfied with a happy calm immobility, but that is because the happiness is a form 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 to perfect the mind and vital unless the physical is prepared?—for there is such a thing as the mental and vital physicaldo you say, and mind and vital cannot be said “Oh! I have to be perfectly prepared until these are readydo all that….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 condition. 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= ''Q. Is it the same thing as laziness?''
==Illness ''A:'' Not quite. Of course, laziness is a kind of tamas, but in laziness there is an ill-will, a refusal to make an effort—while tamas is inertia: one wants to do something, but one can’t. When one has decided to get up, one gets up." No, the body was there, like that, and Health==it was necessary to put a will into it, to push this body for it to get up and act. It is like that, this is tamas. Tamas is a purely material thing; it is very rare to have a vital or mental tamas (it may occur but through contagion), I believe it is more a tamas of the nerves or the brain than vital or mental tamas. But laziness is everywhere, in the physical, the vital, the mind. Generally lazy people are not always lazy, not in all things. If you propose something that pleases them, amuses them, they are quite ready to make an effort. There is much ill-will in laziness. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/28-april-1951#p5,p6,p7,p8</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>It is not anything physical but a vital depression (in some part of the vital, not the whole) that prevents the body from recovering its elasticity. There was some part of the vital that was resisting a radical change and even, unknown to your mind, trying to go on as it was under cover of the change =Laziness in the rest of your being. This has now, owing to this last affair, received a blow and got depressed and, when the vital is depressed like that, it affects the body. You say rightly that it is part of a change or turn that is taking place. But these effects Parts of inertia 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/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p66</ref><center>~</center>It can only be remedied by the Force and Consciousness from above occupying the whole physical being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p78</ref>...inertia of the physical consciousness, while the right reaction in the lower vital brings on the contrary a sense of peace, release, quietude which definitely opens the lowest physical parts to the higher consciousness and force. If you can get over this and get back the old poise, then all these things can be made to disappear. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p79</ref><center>~</center>The whole thing is to get the physical out of its habit of falling back into tamas or inertia, and that can be done by opening and accustoming it to the action of the Force. When the action of the Force becomes constant, then there will be no more tamas. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p98</ref> ==The Lower Vital our Being==
A time comes when after a long preparation of the mind and Inertia is mental, vital being, it becomes necessary to open also the physical nature, subconscient. But when that happensPhysical inertia can produce mental inertia, mental inertia can produce physical inertia, very often the vital exaltation which can be very great when inertia almost always makes the experience is on its own plane, falls away physical lifeless and lustreless and the obscuredull, obstructive physical and material consciousness appears in its unrelieved that is inertia. InertiaVital inertia can also infect the mind, tamas, stupidity, narrowness unless the mind is very strong and limitation, an inability to progress, doubt, dullness, dryness, a constant forgetfulness of the spiritual experiences received are the characteristics of clear. I have always said that the unregenerated physical nature, when that consciousness is not pushed by the vital main seat and is not supported either by the higher mental will and intelligence… source of inertia. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-lowerphysical-vital-beingnature#p35p15</ref>
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These things can Matter consciousness is on the contrary inert as well as largely subconscious—active only be cured when driven by an energy, otherwise inactive and immobile. When one first falls into direct contact with this level, the feeling in the body is that of inertia and immobility, in the vital physical exhaustion or lassitude, in the physical mind absence of ''prakāś'a persistent bringing '' and ''pravṛtti'' or only the most ordinary thoughts and impulses. It took me a long time to get down any kind of light or power into this level. But when once it is illumined, the higher spiritual consciousness into all advantage is that the parts of subconscient becomes conscient and this removes a very fundamental obstacle from the beingsadhana. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3028/variations-in-the-intensityphysical-of-experienceconsciousness#p18p33 </ref>
=How is it Different from Fatigue, Tiredness and Tamas?=Mental==
To justify one'''Tiredness''' shows lack of will for progress. When you feel tired or fatigued that s weaknesses is lack a kind of will for progresslaziness and inertia.
'''Fatigue''' comes from doing without interest Well, when one doesn’t want to make an effort to correct oneself, one says, “Oh, it is impossible, I can’t do it, I don’t have the strength, I am not made of that stuff, I don’t have the necessary qualities, I could never do it.” It is absolute laziness, it is in order to avoid the things required effort. When you are asked to make progress: “Oh, it is beyond my capacity, I am a poor creature, I can donothing!” That’s all. It is almost ill-will. It is extreme laziness, a refusal to make any effort. One accepts all one’s defects and incapacities in order not to have to make the necessary effort to overcome them. One says, “I am like that, I can’t be otherwise!” It is a refusal to let the divine Grace work in you. It is a justification of your own ill-will.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/4-august-1954#p8,p9</ref>
Whatever you do you can find interest in it, provided you take it as the means of progressing; you must try to do better and better what you are doing, the will for progress must always be there and then you take interest in what you do, whatever it is. The most insignificant occupation can prove interesting if you take it that way.But even the most attractive and important activity will soon lose all its interest for you if the will for progress towards an ideal perfection is not there while you act.==Vital ==
'''Getting rid of fatigue:'''Take no notice of There is only one thing the vital abhors; it and go on is a dull life, monotonous, grey, tasteless, worthless. Faced with your programme as usualthat, it goes to sleep, falls into inertia. It likes extremely violent things, it is the quickest way of getting rid of true; itcan be extremely wicked, extremely cruel, extremely generous, extremely good and extremely heroic.It is because you are receptive always goes to the force when you work extremes and that sustains you. But when you are not under can be on one side or the strain of the work you are less receptive. You must learn to be receptive in all circumstances and always―especially when you take rest―it must not be other, yes, as the “rest” of inertia but a true rest of receptivitycurrent flows.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1405/laziness-tiredness9-fatigueseptember-tamas1953#p11 p21</ref>
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If someone has a strong, active, obstinate vital which rules the body''Qs 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. What are That is the defects in me that first difference between someone who is beginning to be developed and those who are coming still in my way the inertia and ''tamas'' of spiritual as well as the purely material progress?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> ==Physical==
The body is afraid of anything new because its very base is inertia, tamas; it is the vital which brings in a dominant note of rajas, activity. That is why, as a general rule, the intrusion of the vital in the form of ambition, emulation and vanity, compels the body to shake off the tamas and make the necessary effort to progress. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/13-may-1964-1#p3</ref><center>~</center>There are many [''Adefects of the physical consciousness'']—but mainly obscurity, inertia, tamas, a passive acceptance of the play of wrong forces, inability to change, attachment to habits, lack of plasticity, forgetfulness, loss of experiences or realisations gained, unwillingness to accept the Light or to follow it, incapacity (through tamas or through attachment or through passive reaction to accustomed forces) to do what it admits to be the Right and the Best. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levels-of-the-physical-being#p2</ref><center>~</center>That ['' Tamas 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 sluggishnessill 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 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>
''Q. What am I to do to get rid of these defects of my nature=Why Does Laziness Occur?''=
''A:'' Become more Indolence and inaction result in tamas which is a fall into inconscience and the very opposite of progress and more consciouslight. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/1413/lazinessaims-tiredness-fatigueand-tamasprinciples#p13,p14,p15,p16 p303</ref>
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As soon as you enter the rajasic nature, you like effort. And at least the one advantage of rajasic people is that they are courageous, whereas tamasic people are cowards. It is the fear of effort which makes one cowardly. For once you have started, once you have taken the decision and begun the effort, you are interested. It is exactly the same thing which is the cause of some not liking to learn their lessons, not wanting to listen to the teacher; it is tamasic, it is to be asleep, it avoids the effort which must be made in order to catch the thing and then grasp it and keep it. It is half-somnolence. So it is the same thing physically, it is a somnolence of the being, an inertia. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/26-january-1955#p19</ref>
''Q. What is “physical tamas”?==In the Mental==
And so one conceals one's laziness behind fine reasons, the first of which says, "I can'A:t, I don't know" or else, "I have tried and not succeeded" or "I don' You don’t t know where to begin!" Any reason whatever, isn't that true? The first that, comes to you don’t? Then. Or else, congratulations! For instanceone doesn't practise because one doesn't find it worthwhile to make the effort—that is part of the laziness also, does it never happen asks for too much effort! But one can't live without effort! If one were to you that being seated you don’t want refuse to get upmake any effort, that having something one would not even be able to do you say, “Oh! I have to do all that…stand on one's legs or walk or even eat. <ref>http://incarnateword.”in/cwm/08/12-september-1956#p5</ref>
''Q. Is it ==In the same thing as laziness?''Vital==
''AWhen 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. <ref>http:'' Not quite//incarnateword. Of course, laziness in/cwm/14/depression#p26</ref> <center>~</center>It is not anything physical but a kind vital depression (in some part of the vital, not the whole) that prevents the body from recovering its elasticity. There was some part of tamasthe vital that was resisting a radical change and even, but unknown to your mind, trying to go on as it was under cover of the change in laziness there the rest of your being. This has now, owing to this last affair, received a blow and got depressed and, when the vital is an ill-willdepressed like that, it affects the body. You say rightly that it is part of a refusal to make an effort—while tamas change or turn that is taking place. But these effects of inertia: one wants to do somethingand weakness need not continue; as soon as this vital part acquiesces gladly in the turn or change, but one can’tthe elasticity and energy will return. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0431/28illness-apriland-1951health#p5p67</ref>
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Indolence It is an inertia of the physical consciousness which allows these desires to come and inaction result in tamas does not react against the suggestions; it is that also which responds to the pains and suggestion of illness. But you must not accept the suggestion that you cannot react and be free,—the physical consciousness itself cannot as yet, but the will can if it is called on to act and made accustomed to act always. Not the struggling will, but a fall into inconscience quiet will insisting on the quietude of the mind and vital and insisting on the very opposite rejection of progress these adverse things. That would soon prove sufficient to hold the ground for the Peace and lightForce to act and they would do the rest. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1331/aimslevels-of-andthe-physical-principlesbeing#p301p2,p5</ref>
=How to Cure Laziness?=In the Physical==
A time comes when after a long preparation of the mind and vital being, it becomes necessary to open also the physical nature.But when that happens, very often the vital exaltation which can be very great when the experience is on its own plane, falls away and the obscure, obstructive physical and material consciousness appears in its unrelieved inertia..they are afraid Inertia, tamas, stupidity, narrowness and limitation, an inability to fightprogress, who long for rest before they have earned itdoubt, dullness, dryness, who a constant forgetfulness of the spiritual experiences received are satisfied with a little progress the characteristics of the unregenerated physical nature, when that is not pushed by the vital and in their imagination is not supported either by the higher mental will and desires make it into a marvellous realisation so as to justify their stopping half-wayintelligence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0931/20the-lower-marchvital-1957being#p9p35</ref>
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The minute one stops going forwardwhole world is in a process of progressive transformation; if you take up the discipline of Yoga, one falls backyou speed up in yourself this process. The moment one is satisfied work that would require years in the ordinary course, can be done by Yoga in a few days and no longer aspires, one begins to dieeven in a few hours. Life is movement, But it is effort, it is a march forward, your inner consciousness that obeys this accelerating impulse; for the higher parts of your being readily follow the scaling swift and concentrated movement of a mountainYoga and lend themselves more easily to the continuous adjustment and adaptation that it necessitates. The body, on the climb towards new revelationsother hand, towards future realisations. Nothing is more dangerous than wanting to restordinarily dense, inert and apathetic. It And if you have in this part something that is in actionnot responsive, in effortif there is a resistance here, in the march forward reason is that repose must be found, the true repose body is incapable of complete trust in moving as quickly as the divine Grace, rest of the absence of desires, of victory over egoismbeing.True repose comes from the wideningIt must take time, the universalisation of the consciousnessit must walk at its own pace as it does in ordinary life. Become as vast What happens is as when grown-up people walk too fast for children in their company; they have to stop at times and wait till the world child who is lagging behind comes up and you will always be at restovertakes them. In This divergence between the thick of action, progress in the very midst inner being and the inertia of the battle, body often creates a dislocation in the effortsystem, you will know the repose of infinity and eternitythat 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. For Or if there is a greater and unusual receptivity in the inner flame to burnbody, one must feed it; one must watch over then too they escape. But an unmixed receptivity making the fire, throw into it physical parts closely follow the fuel pace of all the errors one wants to get rid ofinner transformation is hardly possible, all that delays unless the progress, all that darkens body has already been prepared in the path. If one doesn't feed the fire, it smoulders under past for the ashes processes of one's unconsciousness and inertia, and then, not years but lives, centuries will pass before one reaches the goalYoga. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0903/916-julyjune-19581929#p10 p6</ref>
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If it is laziness that keeps you back from, say, doing ''Q.Sri Aurobindo speaks of “the will to open and make plastic the physical consciousness and nature”.'' ''A.''Because the vaulting, you must immediately do something much more tiring physical consciousness and nature are closed up and say: "Wellrigid—they are shut up in their habits, you don't they don’t want to do that? All rightchange them, they accept only one regular routine. There is nothing more routine-bound than the body. If you are going to do 1500 metres running!" Or else: "I don't want change its habits in the least, it is quite bewildered, it doesn’t know any longer what to do the weight-lifting today, I don't feel like doing it: goodsays, “Excuse me, I shall do skipping 4000 times at a stretchexcuse me! but that’s not how one goes about living."” <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0504/2428-juneapril-19531951#p22p10,p11</ref>
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When one has decided to get The character is made up, one gets up." No, the body was there, like that, of habits and it was necessary clings to put a will into itthem, is disposed to push this body for think them the very law of its being and it is a hard job to get up and act. It is like that, this is tamas. Tamas is a purely material thing; it is very rare to have a vital or mental tamas (it may occur but through contagion), I believe it is more change at all except under a tamas strong pressure of the nerves or the brain than vital or mental tamascircumstances. But laziness is everywhere, Especially in the physicalparts, the vitalbody, the physical mind. Generally lazy people are not always lazy, not the physical life movements, there is this resistance; the tamasic element in all things. If you propose something that pleases themNature is powerful there, what the Gita describes as ''aprakāśa'', absence of light, and ''apravṛtti'', a tendency to inertia, amuses theminactivity, they are quite ready unwillingness to make an effort. There and, as a result, even when the effort is much ill-will in lazinessmade, a constant readiness to doubt, to despond and despair, to give up, renounce the aim and the endeavour, collapse. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0431/28the-aprildifficulties-of-1951yoga#p9p21</ref>
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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 good to repeat a mantra, a wordincapable, a prayer before going into sleep. But there must be a life in the words; I do not mean an intellectual significanceit is transformed, nothing of that kindmaintaining any tension of tapasya—it wants periods of assimilation, but a vibration. And quietly you let yourself go, as though you wanted to go sinking back into the ordinary consciousness to sleep. The body vibrates more and morerest, more and more, more and more, and away you go. That —also there is the cure for tamasa constant forgetfulness of what has been done etc. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1531/4difficulties-of-the-junephysical-1960nature#p6p8</ref>
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Become more The hold of inertia always increases when the working comes down into the physical and more conscioussubconscient.Certainly tamas Before that the inertia is overpowered though not good, but eradicated by the action in mind and vital—afterwards it is only through surrender comes up in its natural force and has to the Divine Consciousness that tamas can be changedmet in its own field. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/laziness-tiredness-fatigue-tamas#p12</ref>
==Through Developing Consciousness==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 down from a higher to a lower level, e.g. from the intuition to the higher mind or from the higher to the lower ranges of overmind. For some time it resists the completeness of the siddhi. It is only when the most material and the subconscient and the environmental consciousness are quite liberated that this retarding or lowering effect of the primal Inertia is entirely overcome. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p16,p17</ref>
For the inner flame =How 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 and inertia, and then, not years but lives, centuries will pass before one reaches the goal. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/9-july-1958#p10</ref><center>~</center>An active movement is one in which you throw your force out, that is, when something comes out from you—in a movement, a thought, a feeling—something which goes out from you to others or into the world. Passivity is when you remain just yourself like this, open, and receive what comes from outside. It does not at all depend on whether one moves or sits still. It is not that at all. To be active is to throw out the consciousness or force or movement from within outwards. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/21-april-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#p30</ref><center>~</center>The accordance of conscious mind and conscious will with a form and a life in themselves not overtly self-conscious and capable at best of a mechanical or subconscious will is another problem of opposites in which she has produced astonishing results and aims always at higher marvels; for there her ultimate miracle would be an animal consciousness no longer seeking but possessed of Truth and Light, with the practical omnipotence which would result from the possession of a direct and perfected knowledge. Not only, then, is the upward impulse of man towards the accordance of yet higher opposites rational in itself, but it is the only logical completion of a rule and an effort that seem to be a fundamental method of Nature and the very sense of her universal strivings. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-human-aspiration#p3</ref>Cure Laziness?=
==Through Transformation==''Q. What are the defects in me that are coming in my way of spiritual as well as material progress?
...for everyone all is as well as it can be. It's always the old movements that get impatient.... Of course, when you see the whole, impatience was certainly created to counteract inertia—but it's over, that time is past. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/10/october-18-1969#p100</ref><center>~</center>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, ignorance, inertia and falsehood. We are endeavouring to establish upon earth union, knowledge, consciousness, truth; and we fight whatever opposes the advent of this new creation of Light, Peace, Truth and Love."1 February 16, 1965.) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/february-27-1965#p7</ref><center>~</center>It was the idea of the original Stability (if we may say so) which, in Manifestation, is expressed as inertia. And the unfolding is expressed as change. All right. Then cameA: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 (work with an activity that doesn't force the body to move), as soon as there is the slightest... not exactly "fall," but the slightest descent towards the Inconscient, something in the body immediately gives a start—instantly. It has been like that for a long time, two years, but now it's instantaneous, Tamas and it very rarely happens—there is true rest, which is an expansion and immensity 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, as the Power comes back ... You remember, I once said it had gone completely, and that was true, it had gone completely in order to leave the body absolutely to itself, for its conversion, we could say; but once there had been in this body consciousness the same aspiration and the same ardour of consciousness (with a far greater steadiness than in any other part of the being; there are no fluctuations as there are in the vital and mind, it's very steady), once that was established (through kinds of pulsations, not distant from one another, first on one detail, then spreading out and becoming generalized), since then the Power has been ... I can say it has been coming back.all the old difficulties appear to be waking up again, they seem to spring up again (they had completely fallen asleep, you understand), and each time, this body consciousness feels a sort of surprise, at once astonished and distressed that the presence of the divine Power, the divine Consciousness, the Truth-Consciousness, should give rise to all those difficulties, which are essentially difficulties of ignorance and inertia—the incapacity to receive. And it comes back as memories, like that (gesture from below), like a snake rearing its head. And every time, everything in the physical consciousness has the same call, "Why? How can these things be when You are there!" That's the astonishing thing: "Since You are there, how can these things be?" <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/august-2-1967#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-12-1961#p11</ref><center>~</center>And once you've lived That... you become so irrevocably conscious that everything depends on the individual perception, entirely; and naturally, that individual perception [of divine Love] depends on the inadequacy, the inertia, the incomprehension, the incapacity, the cells' inability to hold and keep the Vibration, anyway all that man calls his "character" and which comes from his animal evolution. <ref>http://incarnatewordsluggishness.in/agenda/05/july-22-1964#p20</ref>
=How the Psychic Plays an Important Role''Q. What am I to do to get rid of these defects of my nature?=''
The peace and spontaneous knowledge are in the psychic being and from there they spread to mind and vital and physical. It is in the outer physical consciousness that the difficulty still tries to persist ''A:'' Become more and brings the restlessness sometimes into the physical mind, sometimes into the nerves, sometimes in the shape of bodily trouble into the body. But all these things can and must go. Even the illnesses can go entirely with the growth of peace and power in the nerves and physical cells—stomach pains, weakness of the eyes and everything elsemore conscious. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3114/levelslaziness-oftiredness-thefatigue-physical-beingtamas#p60p13,p14,p15,p16 </ref>
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It There is the psychic that connected you with the Mother and turned all the movements of your being towards her or drew them from her or made them united with and dependent on hera lot to do, a whole lot. It had so done with all your mental and vital being and its movements and But it had guarded may go relatively fast. When you against all wrong mental and vital suggestions and attacksobserve, showing you realize that what was true and takes the most time is becoming conscious of what must be changed, having a conscious contact that enables it to change. That's what was falsetakes the most time. Now The change itself... There are recurrences, but it is this psychic being which has manifested again in your physical consciousness also's growing much less intense. You have only to live It all depends on the amount of unconsciousness and tamas in that and your whole the being will be turned towards the Mother; as it grows less, remain in union with her and be protected from doubt and error and false suggestion—and you can once more progress as you did before towards the full realisation of the sadhanaexperience grows stronger. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3106/levelsjuly-of24-the-physical-being1965#p62p30</ref>
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The habit of return of these feelings belongs to Sometimes, in certain circumstances, everything seems dull, boring, stupid; this means that you are as boring as the physical consciousness circumstances and it clearly shows that you are not in his physical consciousness the human being a state of progress. It is always weak simply a passing wave of boredom, and unable nothing is more contrary to get rid the purpose of or resist its habitual movementsexistence. There are three things At such a moment you might make an effort and ask yourself, "This boredom shows that help him I have something to learn, some progress to make in myself, some inertia to do so (apart from his mental will which is not always strong enough conquer, some weakness to do it)overcome. There ” Boredom is first the psychic being; for a few days your psychic was extremely active and pushing these movements away whenever they tried to come or throwing them out soon when they got in. This activity dullness of the psychic will return consciousness; and eventually come down into if you seek the physical consciousness itself; then there cure within yourself, you will be very little difficultysee that it immediately dissolves. The second is the inner consciousness always awake. At present that is difficultMost people, when they feel bored, because instead of making an effort to keep the inner rise one step higher in their consciousness awake at all times can only , come down one step lower; they come by a deepening of yourself so that the veil between the outer down even lower than they were before and inner which lifts only in concentration may cease to exist even when one is do stupid things, they make themselves vulgar in the ordinary unconcentrated conditionhope of amusing themselves. It That is for this deepening that the strong tendency to go inside comes upon you. Lastlywhy men intoxicate themselves, spoil their health, the Mother’s force always there and receiving also a response at once from the physical consciousnessdeaden their brains. These three things together can do anything. It takes time to make them all three constantly active togetherIf they had risen instead of falling, but that is sure they would have made use of this opportunity to come and with them these inner difficulties will disappearprogress. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3112/levelsto-ofthe-students-theyoung-physicaland-beingold#p63p7</ref>
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The being is here on …but the physical plane although in touch with , especially the more material parts of it are still responding mechanically to the mental and vital. The being that is old movements which are wearing out indeed under the individual consciousness has pressure, but are still strong enough to ascend and become conscious possess a great part of all the planes (vitalconsciousness when they come. One feels the power, mental the compulsory force of this mechanical physical response and those above gets the mental) until it reaches impression of their inevitability and the impossibility of ever getting free. This automatic compulsory character of the Divine Oneness which obstruction is above all the planes and from which they emerge. <ref>https://incarnateword.whole power of the difficulty in/cwsa/31/levels-of-the-physical-being#p65 </ref>material nature.
=How Can It be Cured?=The first thing is to reject the idea of helplessness, of impossibility of a successful reaction. The central will must assert itself, not violently in a constant struggle, for that brings reaction, fatigue and inertia, but with a quiet pressure and insistence.
==Conditions The mind must learn (even the physical external mind) never to Get Rid say yes to the suggestions and impulsions of Laziness==the old movement or admit any justification for them however plausible or seemingly “true”. However violently they return and insist, they must feel that they will never get any essential assent or sanction. You have almost reached that point, but it must be made more entire.
If not There must be something in the vital itself that insists on its true aspiration, at least keep and refuses even the idea of what is necessary—(1) that vital consent or any vital pleasure in the silence and peace shall become a wideness which wrong movements. If they come, they must feel their own fallen, ignorant, merely material brute character. This point you can realise as seem to be reaching, but it must be absolute. Lastly the Selfphysical, (2) the extension of material itself—to insist on the Light, the silent consciousness upwards as well so true will there also. For that you may feel its source above you, (3) do not indulge the desires, the wrong impulses, the presence of peace etcwrong brute feelings that come. all Do not admit the idea that you cannot refuse. Throw them out each time. These things need not all they come at once, but by realising what has to be in your mind, any falling towards a condition out of inertia the body into the environmental consciousness till they can finally be avoidedpushed away from there also. For it is these that now separate you in the physical consciousness from the Mother. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3031/experiencesdifficulties-of-the-self-the-one-and-thephysical-infinitenature#p6p1,p2,p3,p4,p5</ref>
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A transformation of human nature can only be achieved when All that Sri Aurobindo says here [There is no more benumbing error than to mistake a stage for the substance of the being is so steeped goal or to linger too long in the spiritual principle that all its movements are a spontaneous dynamism and a harmonised process of the spiritresting place. But even when the higher powers From Thoughts and their intensities enter into the substance of the InconscienceAphorisms]is aimed at fighting against human nature with its inertia, its heaviness, laziness, easy satisfactions, hostility to all effort. How many times in life does one meet people who become pacifists because they are met by this blind opposing Necessity and afraid to fight, who long for rest before they have earned it, who are subjected to this circumscribing satisfied with a little progress and diminishing law of the nescient substance. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/thetheir imagination and desires make it into a marvellous realisation so as to justify their stopping half-ascent-towards-supermind#p45</ref>way.<center>~</center>One In ordinary life, already, this happens so much. Indeed, this is the bourgeois ideal, which has to go inside deadened mankind and made man into the inner being 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 one can minimise contacts, if necessaryas they say, not as an absolute rule—provided there is enjoy a real living in well-earned rest.”—To sit down, to stop on the inner being and sufficient contact with outside things way, not to lose one's hold of practical realities. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/interactions-with-others-and-move forward, to go to sleep, to go downhill towards the grave before one’s time, cease to live the-practice-purpose of-yoga#p104</ref>life—to sit down!
==Qualities The minute one stops going forward, one falls back. The moment one is satisfied and no longer aspires, one begins to die. Life is movement, it is effort, it is a march forward, the scaling of a mountain, the climb towards new revelations, towards future realisations. Nothing is more dangerous than wanting to rest. It is in action, in effort, in the march forward that Can Developed==repose must be found, the true repose of complete trust in the divine Grace, of the absence of desires, of victory over egoism.
==Through Surrender==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>
If =Means to Get Rid of Laziness=The only remedy is to keep quiet, look within oneself honestly to find out what is wrong and set to work courageously to put it right.The Divine Consciousness will always be there to help you if your endeavour is sincere; and the Mother puts you back into a good condition, more sincere your vital pulls endeavour the more the Divine Consciousness will help and assist you down again. How 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 stop so long as be able to remain in peace you say Yes 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 vital and accept its discouragement and restlessness and anguish and flame of purification, the aspiration for progress, the intensity, the ardour of consecration. This flame is kindled in the rest heart of all who are sincere; you must not let ingratitude cover it as your own? Detachment is absolutely necessaryup with its ashes. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2914/surrenderdepression#p66p27,p28,p30</ref><center>~</center>It The best thing to do is only to distinguish in oneself the origin of all one's movements—those that come from the psychic light of truth and those that knows how come from the old inertia and falsehood—in order to surrender accept the first and to refuse or reject the psychic is usually very much veiled in the beginningothers. When the psychic awakesWith practice one learns to distinguish more and more clearly, it but one can bring establish as a sudden general rule that all that tends towards disharmony, disorder and true surrender of inertia comes from the whole beingfalsehood and all that favours union, harmony, for order and consciousness comes from the difficulty of Truth. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/13-january-1965#p3,p4</ref>==Through Effort==It is only effort, in whatever domain it be—material effort, moral effort, intellectual effort—which creates in the rest is rapidly dealt being certain vibrations which enable you to get connected with universal vibrations; and disappearsit is this which gives joy. It is not possible to get rid effort which pulls you out of the stress on personal effort at once—and not always desirableinertia; for personal it is effort is better than tamasic inertiawhich makes you receptive to the universal forces. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2904/surrender13-january-1951#p82p14</ref>
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The help is always there and it has pulled you out of many difficulties and attacks. It is, I suppose, because of only the feeling "I do not want to do anything" psychic that you have not been able knows how to receive surrender and the helppsychic is usually very much veiled in the beginning. When the psychic awakes, but that is it can bring a temporary inertia sudden and true surrender of the whole being, for the difficulty of the physical mind rest is rapidly dealt with and willdisappears. But till then effort is indispensable. I do not see Or else it is necessary till the Force comes flooding down into the being from above and takes up the use of your going back sadhana, does it for a few months one more and more and leaves less and less to a life which could individual effort—but even then, if not now satisfy you. The only course is to shake off effort, at least aspiration and vigilance are needed till the inertia possession of the mind, will , life and perseverebody by the Divine Power is complete. <ref>http://incarnateword….in/cwsa/29/surrender#p90</ref>
==Through Union Work is a means of self-dedication to the Divine, but it must be done with the Divine==necessary inner consciousness in which the lower vital and physical must also share.
When the soul draws towards the Divine, there may be a resistance in the mind and the common form of that A lazy body is denial and doubt—which may create mental and vital suffering. There may again be certainly not a resistance in the vital nature whose principal character is desire and the attachment to the objects of desireproper instrument for Yoga, 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 partsit must stop being lazy. The physical consciousness also may offer a resistance which is usually that of a fundamental inertia, an obscurity in the very stuff of the physical, an incomprehension, an inability to respond to the higher consciousness, But a habit of helplessly responding to the lower mechanically, even when it does not want to do so; both vital fatigued and physical suffering may unwilling body also cannot receive properly or be the consequence. There are two ways to meet all that—first that of the Self, calm, equality, a spirit, a will, a mind, a vital, a physical consciousness that remain resolutely turned towards the Divine and unshaken by all suggestion of doubt, desire, attachment, depression, sorrow, pain, inertiagood instrument. This The proper thing is possible when the inner being awakens, when one becomes conscious of the Self, of the inner mind, the inner vital, the inner physical, for that can more easily attune itself to the divine Will, and then there is a division in the being as if there were two beings, one within, calm, strong, equal, unperturbed, a channel of the Divine Consciousness and Force, one without, still encroached on by the lower Nature; but then the disturbances of the latter become something superficial which are no more than an outer ripple,—until these under the inner pressure fade and sink away and the outer being too remains calm, concentrated, unattackable… avoid either extreme. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/resistanceslevels-sufferingsof-andthe-physical-fallsbeing#p7p49,p50</ref>
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The whole world is in a process of progressive transformation; if you take up the discipline of Yoga, you speed up in yourself this process. The work that would require years in the ordinary course, can be done by Yoga in a few days and even in a few hours. But it is your inner consciousness that obeys this accelerating impulse; for the higher parts of your being readily follow the swift and concentrated movement of Yoga and lend themselves more easily to the continuous adjustment and adaptation that it necessitates. The body, on the other hand, is ordinarily dense, inert and apathetic. And if you have in this part something that is not responsive, if there is a resistance here, the reason is that the body is incapable of moving as quickly as the rest of the being. It must take time, it must walk at its own pace as it does in ordinary life. What happens is as when grown-up people walk too fast for children in their company; they have to stop at times and wait till the child who is lagging behind comes up and overtakes them. This divergence between the progress in the inner being and the inertia of the body often creates a dislocation in the system, and that manifests itself as an illness. This is why people who take up Yoga frequently begin by suffering from some physical discomfort or disorder. That neednot happen if they are on their guard and careful. Or if there is a greater and unusual receptivity in the body, then too they escape. But an unmixed receptivity making the physical parts closely follow the pace of the inner transformation is hardly possible, unless the body has already been prepared in the past for the processes of Yoga. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p6</ref>
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There are many varying conditions in which you may meditate and all have their effect upon the forces brought in or brought down and on their working. If you sit alone, it is your own inner and outer condition that matters. If you sit with others, the general condition is of primary importance. But in either case the conditions will always vary and the forces that answer will never be twice the same. A united concentration rightly done can be a great force. There is an old saying that if twelve sincere persons unite their will and their aspiration and call the Divine, the Divine is bound to manifest. But the will must be one-pointed, the aspiration sincere. For those who make the attempt can be united in inertia or even in mistaken or perverse desire, and the result is then likely to be disastrous. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/23-june-1929#p22</ref>
==Through the Divine Force==
It is a Force that comes and pushes to work and is as legitimately a part of the spiritual life as others. It is a special Energy that takes hold of the worker in the being and fulfils itself through him. To work with a full energy like this in one is quite salutary. The only thing is not to overdo it—that is to avoid any exhaustion or recoil to a fatigued inertia. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-force-in-work#p15</ref>
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But also The help is always there and it often happens even in has pulled you out of many difficulties and attacks. It is, I suppose, because of the ordinary course of Yoga feeling "I do not want to do anything" that physical strength is replaced by a Yogic strength or Yogic life force which keeps up you have not been able to receive the body and makes it workhelp, but in the absence that is a temporary inertia of this force the body is denuded of power, inert physical mind and tamasicwill. This can …The only be remedied by course is to shake off the whole being opening to Yoga shakti in each inertia of its planes—Yogic mind force, Yogic life force, Yogic body forcethe will and persevere. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-force-in-worksurrender#p26p90</ref>
Subconsient and Integral Yoga:==Through Aspiration==It is only if you live wholly and dynamically in For the inner being and feel flame to burn, one must feed it; one must watch over the fire, throw into it the fuel of all the outer as a quite superficial thing that you can errors one wants to get rid of , all that delays the obstruction or minimise it until the transformation of progress, all that darkens the outer being can be made completepath. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/If one doesn't feed the-subconscient-and-fire, it smoulders under the-integral-yoga#p7</ref><center>~</center>These [vital ashes of one's unconsciousness and physical weaknesses] are symptoms inertia, and feelings that can easily come in the period when the subconscient is being dealt with—tamasthen, agenot years but lives, decay, illness, death, weakness, inertia, the mechanical play (as if centuries will pass before one reaches the inevitable round of a machine) of the lower vital have their seeds in the subconscient and when the subconscient rises up in its native power, these threaten to rise with themgoal. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3109/the-subconscient9-andjuly-the-integral-yoga1958#p52p10 </ref>==Through Will==
=Types of Physical Consciousness= There are many [defects This difficulty has to be faced and overcome by an equal perseverance in the will of the physical consciousness]—but mainly obscurity, inertia, tamas, sadhak. It is a passive acceptance of the play of wrong forces, inability to change, attachment to habits, lack of plasticitysteady flame that must burn, forgetfulness, loss of experiences or realisations gained, unwillingness to accept as steady as the Light or to follow it, incapacity (through tamas or through attachment or through passive reaction to accustomed forces) to do what it admits to obstruction is obstinate. Do not therefore be discouraged by the Right and persistence of the obstruction of the Bestignorance.It is an inertia The persistence of the physical consciousness which allows these desires your own will to come and does not react against conquer with the suggestions; Mother's force supporting it is that also which responds will come to the pains and suggestion end of illnessthe resistance. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levelsdifficulties-of-the-physical-beingnature#p2p46</ref>
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Is Apart from the individual difficulty there is a general difficulty in the material state an emptiness physical earth-nature. Physical nature is slow and inert and unwilling to change; its tendency is to be still and take long periods of consciousness, time for a little progress. It is very difficult for even the strongest mental or vital or even psychic will to overcome this inertia. It is only by bringing down constantly the consciousness and force and light from above that it not rather only can be done. Therefore there must be a sleep of consciousness—even though from constant will and aspiration for that and for the point of view of evolution an original change and it must be a steady and patient will not an intermediate sleep? And tired out even by sleep the human example teaches us that we mean not a suspension utmost resistance of consciousness, but its gathering inward away from conscious the physical response to the impacts of external thingsnature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2131/consciousthe-transformation-of-the-forcephysical#p14p2</ref>
==How to Cure Physical Consciousness?Through Surrender==
A quiet will insisting on the quietude of the mind and vital and insisting on the rejection of these adverse things. That would soon prove sufficient to hold the ground for the Peace and Force to act and they would do the rest. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levels-of-the-physical-being#p5</ref><center>~</center>Work is a means of self-dedication to the Divine, but it must be done with the necessary inner consciousness in which the lower vital Become more and physical must also sharemore conscious.A lazy body Certainly tamas is certainly not a proper instrument for Yogagood, but it must stop being lazy. But a fatigued and unwilling body also cannot receive properly or be a good instrument. The proper thing is only through surrender to avoid either extremethe Divine Consciousness that tamas can be changed. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3114/levels-oflaziness-thetiredness-physicalfatigue-beingtamas#p49p12</ref>
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A strong mind and body and life-force are needed in the sadhana. Especially steps should be taken to throw out tamas and bring strength and force into the frame of the nature.There is always some tendency to looseness, forgetfulness and inattention in the physical consciousness. One has to be very vigilant and careful to prevent this tendency having its way.It recognise that there is here an inertia element of the physical consciousness which allows these desires to come and does not react against the suggestions; it is that also universal Nature reflected in yours which responds to the pains and suggestion of illness. But you must not accept the suggestion that you cannot react and eliminate. And this can only be free,—the physical consciousness itself cannot as yet, but the will can if it is called on to act done by more and made accustomed to act always. Not the struggling will, but a quiet will insisting on the quietude of the mind more surrender and vital aspiration and insisting on the rejection of these adverse things. That would soon prove sufficient to hold the ground for the Peace and Force to act and they would do the rest.It is something by so bringing in from beyond the vital part of and the physical consciousness which has not yet understood—it feels the pressure to change, yet it is drawn outward to people or things in mind the old waydivine peace, but is dissatisfied because the growth of the new consciousness behind prevents it taking pleasure in them, so that it remains restlesslight, not understanding anything. What it has got to learn is that it must fall quiet power and open to a new consciousness from above and withinpresence. This part of is the being is obscure,—not sufficiently mentalised to understand things, it acts from instinct, impulse and habit only. When its old instincts, impulses way towards the transformation and habits are checked, it does not know what to do or what is demanded of it. But after a certain amount fulfilment of pressure from the mind and will it can be got to consent to a change of its waysphysical nature. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levelsthe-oflower-the-physicalvital-being#p15,p49p35</ref>
=Causes of Laziness/Inertia or =Turning to the Physical NatureDivine==
The difficulty of It is selfishness that makes one jealous; it is weakness that makes one lazy.In either case the physical nature comes inevitably in the course of only truly effective remedy is conscious union with the development of the sadhanaDivine. Its obstructionIndeed, its inertia, its absence as soon as one becomes conscious of aspiration or movement have to show themselves before they can be got rid of—otherwise it will always remain undetected, hampering even the best sadhana Divine and preventing its completeness. This coming up of is united with Him, one learns to love with the physical nature lasts longer or less according to true love: the circumstances, but there is none who does not go through it.What is necessary is not to get troubled or anxious or impatient, love ''that loves for that only makes it last more, but the joy of loving'' and has no need to put entire confidence be loved in return; one also learns to draw Force from the Mother inexhaustible source and quietly persist one knows by experience that by using this Force in faith, patience the service of the Divine one receives from Him all that one has spent and steady will for much more.All the complete change. It is so that remedies suggested by the Mother's force can best work in mind, even the beingmost enlightened mind, are only palliatives and not a true cure. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3116/difficulties-of16-thenovember-physical-nature1969#p6p3,p4,p5</ref>
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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 transformedIf not aspiration, of maintaining any tension of tapasya—it wants periods of assimilation, sinking back into at least keep the ordinary consciousness to rest,—also there is a constant forgetfulness idea of what has been done etc. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p8</ref><center>~</center>Inertia is mental, vital, physical, subconscient. Physical inertia can produce mental inertia, mental inertia can produce physical inertia, vital inertia almost always makes necessary—(1) that the physical lifeless silence and lustreless and dull, and that is inertia. Vital inertia peace shall become a wideness which you can also infect realise as the mindSelf, unless (2) the mind is very strong and clear. I have always said that extension of the physical silent consciousness is the main seat and upwards as well so that you may feel its source of inertia. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-above you, (3) the-physical-nature#p15</ref><center>~</center>The hold presence of inertia always increases when the working comes down into the physical and subconscientpeace etc.The inertia usually rises up from all the subconscienttime. It does These things need not abolish the higher consciousness in the physicalall come at once, but dulls its action or else brings it down from a higher by realising what has to be in your mind, any falling towards a lower level, e.g. from the intuition to the higher mind or from the higher to the lower ranges condition of overmind. For some time it resists the completeness of the siddhi. It is only when the most material and the subconscient and the environmental consciousness are quite liberated that this retarding or lowering effect of the primal Inertia is entirely overcomeinertia can be avoided. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3130/difficultiesexperiences-of-the-physicalself-the-nature#p17</ref><center>~</center>The one way to get out of it is to remain very quiet inwardly -and call down persistently the Force from above. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-natureinfinite#p37p6</ref>
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When the soul draws towards the Divine, there may be a resistance in the mind and the common form of that is denial and doubt—which may create mental and vital suffering.There may again be a resistance in the vital nature whose principal character is desire and the attachment to the objects of desire, and if in this field there is conflict between the soul and the vital nature, between the Divine Attraction and the pull of the Ignorance, then obviously there may be much suffering of the mind and vital parts..for The physical consciousness also may offer a resistance which is usually that will only make things worse and increase of a fundamental inertia, an obscurity in the very stuff of the tamasphysical, drynessan incomprehension, dullnessan inability to respond to the higher consciousness, inertiaa habit of helplessly responding to the lower mechanically,—but even when it does not want to recognise do so; both vital and physical suffering may be the consequence. …There are two ways to meet all that—first that there is here an element of the universal Nature reflected in yours which you must eliminate. And this can only be done by more and more surrender and aspiration Self, calm, equality, a spirit, a will, a mind, a vital, a physical consciousness that remain resolutely turned towards the Divine and unshaken by so bringing in from beyond all suggestion of doubt, desire, attachment, depression, sorrow, pain, inertia. This is possible when the inner being awakens, when one becomes conscious of the Self, of the inner mind, the inner vital and , the mind inner physical, for that can more easily attune itself to the divine peace, lightWill, power and presence. This then there is a division in the only way towards being as if there were two beings, one within, calm, strong, equal, unperturbed, a channel of the transformation Divine Consciousness and fulfilment Force, one without, still encroached on by the lower Nature; but then the disturbances of the physical nature. latter become something superficial which are no more than an outer ripple,—until these under the inner pressure fade and sink away and the outer being too remains calm, concentrated, unattackable… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/theresistances-lowersufferings-vitaland-beingfalls#p35p7</ref>
==How to Cure the Difficulties of Physical NaturePsychic Plays an Important Role?==
Whatever the path we may follow, the subject we may study, we always reach the same result. The first most important thing for an individual is to reject the idea of helplessnessunify himself around his divine center; that way he becomes a real individual, master of impossibility himself and of a successful reactionhis destiny. The central will must assert itselfOtherwise, not violently in he is a constant struggleplaything of the forces, for that brings reaction, fatigue and inertia, but with which toss him about like a cork in a quiet pressure and insistencestream.The mind must learn (even the physical external mind) never He goes where he doesn't want to, is made to say yes do what he doesn't want to the suggestions , and impulsions of the old movement or admit any justification for them however plausible or seemingly “true”. However violently they return and insist, they must feel that they will never get any essential assent or sanction. You have almost reached that point, but it must be made more entire.There must be something finally he gets lost in the vital itself that insists on its true aspiration and refuses even the vital consent or a hole without any vital pleasure in the wrong movements. If they come, they must feel their own fallen, ignorant, merely material brute characterway to stop himself doing so. This point But if you seem to be reachingare consciously organized, but it must be absolute.Lastly unified around the physicaldivine center, the material itself—to insist on the Lightgoverned and led by it, you are the true will there also. For that, do not indulge the desires, the wrong impulses, the wrong brute feelings that come. Do not admit the idea that you cannot refuse. Throw them out each time they come, out master 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 Motheryour destiny. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3109/difficulties-of-theseptember-physical7-nature1968#p2p20</ref>
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This difficulty has to be faced The peace and overcome by an equal perseverance spontaneous knowledge are in the will of the sadhakpsychic being and from there they spread to mind and vital and physical. It is a steady flame in the outer physical consciousness that must burnthe difficulty still tries to persist and brings the restlessness sometimes into the physical mind, as steady as sometimes into the obstruction is obstinate. Do not therefore be discouraged by nerves, sometimes in the persistence shape of bodily trouble into the obstruction of body. But all these things can and must go. Even the ignorance. The persistence of your own will to conquer illnesses can go entirely with the Mother's force supporting it will come to the end growth of peace and power in the resistance. nerves and physical cells… <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficultieslevels-of-the-physical-naturebeing#p46p60</ref>
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What The habit of return of these feelings belongs to the physical consciousness and in his physical consciousness the human being is important for you in these circumstances 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 make your faithdo it). There is first the psychic being… This activity of the psychic will return and eventually come down into the physical consciousness itself; then there will be very little difficulty. The second is the inner consciousness always awake. At present that is difficult, surrender because to keep the inner consciousness awake at all times can only come by a deepening of yourself so that the veil between the outer and samata absoluteinner which lifts only in concentration may cease to exist even when one is in the ordinary unconcentrated condition. That It is as great for this deepening that the strong tendency to go inside comes upon you. Lastly, the Mother’s force always there and essential receiving also a progress as response at once from the physical consciousness. These three things together can do anything. It takes time to have high experiencesmake them all three constantly active together, etcbut that is sure to come and with them these inner difficulties will disappear. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficultieslevels-of-the-physical-naturebeing#p52p63</ref>
=Transformation of Physical: Why is it =How to Cure Inertia in the Need Parts of the HourBeing?==
Apart from the individual difficulty there is a general difficulty in the physical earth-nature. Physical nature is slow and inert and unwilling to change; its tendency is to be still and take long periods of time for a little progress. It is very difficult for even the strongest mental or vital or even psychic will to overcome this inertia. It is only by bringing down constantly the consciousness and force and light from above that it can be done. Therefore there must be a constant will and aspiration for that and for the change and it must be a steady and patient will not tired out even by the utmost resistance of the physical nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-transformation-of-the-physical#p2</ref>==Mental==
''Q...here How to get rid of mental inertia or incapacity (apravṛtti), obscurity or forgetfulness (aprakāśa), it ?''''A:'' The cure is not in order trying to get set right,—it has come wake up for a first or preliminary transformation. Peace and light in the mindbut in turning it, love immobile and sympathy in silent, upward towards the heartregion of intuitive light, calm and power in the vital, a settled receptivity steady and response (prakāśaquiet aspiration, pravṛtti) and to wait in silence, for the physical are light to come down and flood your brain which will, little by little, wake up to this influence and become capable of receiving and expressing the necessary changeintuition. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3112/the-transformation-of-the-physicalstudy#p21p88</ref>
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By wanting to do so, with persistence and obstinacy...it was this which had been preventing the elimination By doing every day a mental exercise of the old movements all along reading, organisation and enabled them to return when they had been pushed out—for it is development.This should alternate 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 course of the physical, the doubts, limitations, external tendency day with exercises of the physical mind, the defective energies of the vital physical (nerves) and bring mental silence in instead the true consciousness there so that the physical may be a perfect instrument for the Divine Will… concentration.'' <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3116/the-transformation-of1-thejune-physical1966#p25p3,p4</ref>
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The only thing to do in this unpleasant phase is to be more obstinate than the physical inertia ''Q. Are mental indifference and to persist in lack of curiosity a fixed endeavour—steady persistency without any restless struggle—to get a wide and permanent opening made even in this solid rock sort of obstruction. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-transformation-of-the-physical#p31</ref>mental inertia?''
=What ''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 Difficulties good and bad, the pleasant and unpleasant no longer exist. But in that case, mental activity is replaced by an intuitive activity of Mental Nature?=a much higher kind. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/answers-to-a-monitor#p112</ref>
...the slowness of the mind and the nature to seize something new to it, the non-distinction between what is true and to be held and what is not true and not to be held, is due to a certain absence of quickness of movement in the being…A quick mind is often unstable—it catches but does not keep; or it catches but only superficially and thinks it has got everything when it has got only a little and not enough. A slow mind that takes slowly but holds on to what it has got, can be slow but sure in its movement…Therefore you should not mind if it takes long to absorb and hold the new consciousness—as a matter of fact, to hold takes long with everybody. Once you have got it well established, your nature is likely to hold it firmly… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/mental-difficulties-and-the-need-of-quietude#p15</ref> ==How to Cure Mental Inertia?Vital==
The cure gloom and other difficulties come from a resistance of inertia in the lower vital and physical consciousness. What you have to do is not in trying to wake up prepare the consciousness by getting rid of the inertia. A sattwic gladness and calm and confidence is the mind but in turning itproper temperament for this Yoga; gloom, immobile depression and silentweeping should not be indulged in, upward towards as they stand in the region way of intuitive lightthe opening, unless the tears are the psychic weeping of release or adoration or a moved love and bhakti. The progress made in controlling the sex and other rajasic movements of the lower vital is a steady and quiet aspirationgood preparation, but not enough; by itself it is only the negative side, and to wait in silencethough indispensable. Aspire for a positive sattwic opening for strength, for the light to come down , for peace and flood your brain which willdo not worry or repine if the progress is slow at first, little by little, wake up to this influence nor grudge the time and become capable labour of receiving and expressing preparation necessary before there can be a rapid advance in the intuitionYoga. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1231/studysorrow-and-suffering#p86p12</ref><center>~</center>
''Q.How can one get out of this mental laziness and inertia?” ''A:'' By wanting to do so, with persistence and obstinacy. By doing every day a mental exercise of reading, organisation and development.This should alternate in the course of the day with exercises of mental silence in concentration.'' <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/1-june-1966#p2</ref><center>~</center>''Q. Are mental indifference and lack of curiosity a sort of mental inertia?''==Physical==
''A:'' Usually they are due It must be the tamas of the physical that has enveloped the inner consciousness. The one way to get out of it is to mental inertia, unless one has obtained calm and indifference through a remain very intense sadhana resulting in a perfect equality for which the good quiet inwardly and bad, call down persistently the pleasant and unpleasant no longer exist. But in that case, mental activity is replaced by an intuitive activity of a much higher kindForce from above. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1231/answersdifficulties-of-tothe-aphysical-monitornature#p110p37</ref>
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''Q.Why does selfishness make one jealous and weakness makes one lazy?'' ''A:'' In either case the only truly effective remedy physical it is conscious union with the Divine. Indeedinertia, as soon as one becomes conscious of the Divine and is united with Himobscurity, one learns to love with the true love: the love inability 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 come up and one knows by experience that by using this Force in the service obstinacy of the Divine one receives from Him all that one has spent and much morethese things.All the remedies suggested by the mind, even the most enlightened mind, are The only palliatives and not a true cure. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/16-november-1969#p3</ref> =Recommended Practices=The best thing to do in this unpleasant phase is to distinguish in oneself be more obstinate than the origin of all one's movements—those that come from the light of truth and those that come from the old physical inertia and falsehood—in order to accept the first persist in a fixed endeavour—steady persistency without any restless struggle—to get a wide and to refuse or reject the otherspermanent opening made even in this solid rock of obstruction. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1631/13the-januarytransformation-of-the-1965physical#p3p32</ref>
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With practice one learns The physical sadhana is to distinguish more bring down the higher light and more clearlypower and peace and Ananda into the body consciousness, but one can establish as a general rule that all that tends towards disharmony, disorder and to get rid of the inertia comes from of the falsehood and all that favours union, harmonyphysical, order and consciousness comes from the Truth.When you have found something which has the power to help you in gaining a victory over your unconsciousness and inertiadoubts, you mustlimitations, till you reach external tendency of the final resultphysical mind, exhaust all the effects produced by defective energies of the vital physical (nerves) and bring in instead the true consciousness there so that word or phrase before you look the physical may be a perfect instrument for others. the Divine Will… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0331/the-thousandstransformation-of-the-physical#p20p26</ref>
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The difficulty of the physical nature comes inevitably in the course of the development of the sadhana...it is to try at each momentIts obstruction, each secondits inertia, in each its absence of aspiration or movement have to express only the highest truth one show themselves before they can perceivebe got rid of—otherwise it will always remain undetected, hampering even the best sadhana and at preventing its completeness. This coming up of the physical nature lasts longer or less according to the same time know that this perception has circumstances, but there is none who does not go through it. What is necessary is not to be progressive and get troubled or anxious or impatient, for that what seems only makes it last more, but to you put entire confidence in the most true now will no longer be so tomorrowMother and quietly persist in faith, patience and that a higher truth steady will have to be expressed more and more through youfor the complete change. This leaves no room any longer for sleeping It is so that the Mother's force can best work in a comfortable tamas; one must be always awake—I am not speaking of physical sleep—one must be always awake, always conscious and always full of an enlightened receptivity and of goodwillthe being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0731/31difficulties-of-the-augustphysical-1955nature#p18p6</ref>
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Two things are necessary. First of allBut for the physical being and physical consciousness to be ready to receive the divine impulsion, they must be extremely plastic, because the vital uses coercion, nothing in your beingit imposes its will, no part of your being should want and the poor body has but to die. That does not happen often. You have always a defeatist in you somewhere: something that is tiredobey, while the Divine just shows the light, gives the consciousness, something that and so one must obey consciously and willingly—it is disgusteda question of collaboration, something that has had enough of it, something that is lazyno longer a question of coercion. The physical being and physical consciousness must be very plastic to be able to lend themselves to all the necessary changes, something that does not want so as to struggle be of one kind one day and saysanother the next, and so on. <ref>https: "Well! Ah! Let it //incarnateword.in/cwm/04/28-april-1951#p12</ref> ===In Sleep=== The rest must not be one which goes down into the inconscience and tamas. The rest must be finishedan ascent into the Light, into perfect Peace, total Silence, so much a rest which rises up out of the betterdarkness." That Then it is sufficienttrue rest, you are deada rest which is an ascent. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0507/131-julyaugust-19531955#p34p19</ref>
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Then I said to myself: …in the ordinary consciousness, in the general ordinary life, rest means tamas. Rest means falling back into Inertia. So then, instead of a rest that's how it isbenefits you, there must be it’s a certain tamas—an uncomprehending tamas—which in order rest that stupefies you and then you have to change needs make effort once more to be violently shaken uprecapture the consciousness you have lost. With illnesses, it's That’s how the same thingvast majority of people sleep. But now, in the sense that only lesson is different: when things really seem about I lie down to topple over on rest my body and work without moving (work with an activity that doesn’t force the wrong side... I go out of my body deliberatelyto move), as soon as there is the slightest… not exactly “fall, hovering over all things” but the slightest descent towards the Inconscient, and something in the body recovers—now immediately gives a start—instantly. It has been like that for a long time, two years, but now it’s instantaneous, and it takes very little time: a quarter rarely happens—there is true rest, which is an expansion and immensity of an hour or twenty minutesthe being in full Light. It’s magnificent. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0407/octobermarch-1926-19631966#p12</ref>
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Whatever the path we may follow, the subject we may study, we always reach the same result. The most important thing for an individual is to unify himself around his divine center; that way he becomes a real individual, master of himself and of his destiny. Otherwise, he is a plaything of the forces, which toss him about like a cork in a stream. He goes where he doesn't want to, is made to do what he doesn't want You must learn to, and finally he gets lost be receptive in a hole without any way to stop himself doing so. But if you are consciously organized, unified around the divine center, governed all circumstances and led by it, always—especially when you are take rest—it must not be the master "rest" of your destinyinertia but a true rest of receptivity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0917/september9-7may-19681967#p21p3</ref>
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Concentration Fundamentally, the sole purpose of sleep is very helpful and necessary—the more one concentrates (to enable the body to assimilate the effect of course in the limits of trance so that the effect may be received everywhere, and to enable the body's capacity without straining it)to do its natural nocturnal function of eliminating toxins. And when you wake up, there is not that trace of heaviness which comes from sleep: the more the force effect of the Yoga growstrance continues.There are different causes Even for those who have never been in trance,itis good to repeat a mantra, a word, a prayer before going into sleep. But it is mostly something physical there must be a life in the words; I do not mean an intellectual significance, nothing of that interfereskind, but a vibration. And quietly you let yourself go, either the need of the body as though you wanted to take time go to assimilate what has come or been done or sometimes inertia or dullness due to causes such as those sleep. The body vibrates more and more, more and more, more and more, and away you mention or othersgo. The best thing That is to remain quiet and not get nervous or dejected—till the force acts againcure for tamas. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2915/concentration4-andjune-meditation1960#p94p6</ref>
==Guidance through the Divine Grace=Recommended Practices=
...with Whatever you do you can find interest in it, provided you take it as the full assent means of the sadhak. To learn progressing; you must try to give that full assent is do better and better what you are doing, the whole meaning of the sadhana. It may will for progress must always be there and then you take time either because of ideas interest in the mindwhat you do, desires in whatever it is. The most insignificant occupation can prove interesting if you take it that way.But even the vital or inertia in the physical consciousness, but these things have to be most attractive and can be removed with important activity will soon lose all its interest for you if the aid or by calling in the action of the Divine Forcewill for progress towards an ideal perfection is not there while you act. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2914/thelaziness-divinetiredness-gracefatigue-and-guidancetamas#p11p6,p7</ref>
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You were able to Take no notice of it and go up because the Peace descended. You were not able to remain above because the Peace could not occupy sufficiently the physical and the Force did not descend sufficientlyon with your programme as usual. Meanwhile It is the inertia arose, you got troubled more and more because quickest way of the vital suggestions in the outer nature and the rush getting rid of inertia, so you were unable to keep detached and let the Force descend more and more or call it down more and more. Hence the coming down into the physical consciousness. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3014/ascentlaziness-to-thetiredness-higherfatigue-planestamas#p41p9</ref>
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When the Force You must exert your consciousness, your will, your force, gather your energy, shake yourself a little and whip yourself and say: “Hup! Hup! forward, march.”If it is there at worklaziness that keeps you back from, say, doing the imperfections vaulting, you must immediately do something much more tiring and weaknesses of say: "Well, you don't want to do that? All right, you are going to do 1500 metres running!" Or else: "I don't want to do the nature will necessarily arise for changeweight-lifting today, I don't feel like doing it: good, but one need not fight with them; one can look on them quietly as I shall do skipping 4000 times at a surface instrumentation that has to be changed.stretch." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/24-june-1953#p22</ref><center>~</center>Detachment means that There is only one stands back from themway of acting truly,it is to try at each moment, does not identify oneself with them or get upset or troubled because they are thereeach second, but rather looks on them as something foreign in each movement to express only the highest truth one's true consciousness and true selfcan perceive, rejects them and calls in at the Mother's Force into these movements same time know that this perception has to eliminate them be progressive and bring that what seems to you the most true consciousness now will no longer be so tomorrow, and that a higher truth will have to be expressed more and its movements theremore through you. The firm will This leaves no room any longer for sleeping in a comfortable tamas; one must be always awake—I am not speaking of rejection physical sleep—one must be therealways awake, always conscious and always full of an enlightened receptivity and of goodwill. To want always the best, always the best, always the pressure 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 get rid of them, but not any wrestling or struggle. fall into a hole immediately and make a big stupid blunder! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3007/descent-and-the31-loweraugust-nature1955#p12p18</ref>
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The first is that of control by physical immobility, For the second is that of power by immobility. The power of physical immobility is as important in Hathayoga as the power of mental immobility in inertia the Yoga of knowledge, and for parallel reasons....the immobility of the Asana remedy is not to get rid of the restlessness imposed on the body and to force it to hold the Pranic energy instead of dissipating and squandering it…The body, accustomed to work off superfluous energy by movement, is at first ill able to bear this increase and this retained inner action and betrays it by violent tremblings; afterwards it habituates itself and, when the Asana is conquered, then it finds as much ease absorb yourself in the posture, however originally difficult or unusual to thoughts about it, as in its easiest attitudes sedentary or recumbent. It becomes increasingly capable of holding whatever amount of increased vital energy is brought but to bear upon it without needing to spill it out in movement, and this increase is so enormous as to seem illimitable, so that the body of the perfected Hathayogin is capable of feats of endurance, force, unfatigued expenditure of energy of which the normal physical powers of man at their highest would be incapable…The life energy, thus occupying and operating in a powerful, unified movement on the tranquil and passive body, freed from the restless balancing between the continent power and the contained, becomes a much greater and more effective force. In fact, it seems then rather to contain turn upwards and possess and use call the body than to be contained, possessed Light and used by it,—just as the restless active mind seems Force to seize on and use irregularly and imperfectly whatever spiritual force comes come into it, but the tranquillised mind is held, possessed and used by the spiritual force. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2331/hathayogawrong-movements-of-the-vital#p8p46</ref>
==Spiritual EvolutionDetachment==
The way of When the Spirit Force is there at work, the way of peace imperfections and light and harmony; if it has to battle it is precisely because weaknesses of the presence of such forces which seek either to extinguish or to pervert the spiritual light. In the spiritual nature will necessarily arise for change inertia has to be replaced by the divine peace and calm, the rajasic troubled energy by a tranquil and potent, pure and liberated dynamis, while the mind must be kept plastic for the workings of a higher Light of Knowledge… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/spiritual-evolution-and-the-supramental#p6</ref><center>~</center>...its actual cosmic manifestation the Supreme, being the Infinite and but one need not bound by any limitation, fight with them; one can manifest in itself, in its consciousness of innumerable possibilities, something look on them quietly as a surface instrumentation that seems has to be the opposite of itself, something in which there can be Darkness, Inconscience, Inertia, Insensibility, Disharmony and Disintegration. ...the vital disturbance the physical inertia with all its symptoms is an attack of the hostile forces intended to cut short and prevent the higher openingchanged. The ideas that arise to justify it are of no value—it It is not true with “indifference” that physical work is of an inferior value one has to mental culturelook at them, it is the arrogance of the intellect for that makes the claim. All work done for the Divine is equally divine; manual labour done for the Divine is more divine than mental culture done for one's own developmentmight mean inertia, fame or mental satisfaction. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/work-and-yoga#p67</ref><center>~</center>...Desire too can only cease rightly by becoming the desire of the infinite and satisfying itself with a supernal fulfilment and an infinite satisfaction in the all-possessing bliss of the Infinite. The vision of the Light and the vision of the Lord in the form want of Jagannath are both of them indications that he has the capacity for Yoga experience and that there is a call of the Divine on his inner being. But capacity is not enough; there must be also the will or push or necessity to seek after the Divine and courage and persistence in following the path. Fear change; it is the first thing that must be thrown away and, secondly, the inertia of the outer being which has prevented him from responding to the call. <ref>http://incarnatewordrather with detachment.in/cwsa/29/the-call-and-the-capacity#p34</ref>
=Other Movements which Give rise to Tamas/Inertia: =For the dissatisfaction of the vitalDetachment means that one stands back from them, the only remedy is rejection and refusal to does not identify yourself oneself with it. For the inertia the remedy is not them or get upset or troubled because they are there, but rather looks on them as something foreign to absorb yourself one's true consciousness and true self, rejects them and calls in thoughts about it, but the Mother's Force into these movements to turn upwards eliminate them and call bring the Light true consciousness and Force its movements there. The firm will of rejection must be there, the pressure to come into itget rid of them, but not any wrestling or struggle. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3130/wrongdescent-movementsand-ofthe-thelower-vitalnature#p46p12</ref>==Sex==
A state of tamasic inertia of the mind and body is always favourable to the sex-urge by the sex-impulse. What I meant was that there is something (not the whole) of your lower vital and physical that can respond to the sex-impulse. There may be another part that has already the aspiration—but when the condition favourable to the sex-invasion comes, then the aspiration is quiescent or not strong enough and the other elements allow the sex-force to come in. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sex#p126</ref>==Hatha Yoga==
===The Practices Required===power of physical immobility is as important in Hathayoga as the power of mental immobility in the Yoga of knowledge…...the immobility of the Asana is to get rid of the restlessness imposed on the body and to force it to hold the Pranic energy instead of dissipating and squandering it. The experience in the practice of Asana is not that of a cessation and diminution of energy by inertia, but of a great increase, inpouring, circulation of force. The body, accustomed to work off superfluous energy by movement, is at first ill able to bear this increase and this retained inner action and betrays it by violent tremblings; afterwards it habituates itself and, when the Asana is conquered, then it finds as much ease in the posture, however originally difficult or unusual to it, as in its easiest attitudes sedentary or recumbent. It becomes increasingly capable of holding whatever amount of increased vital energy is brought to bear upon it without needing to spill it out in movement, and this increase is so enormous as to seem illimitable, so that the body of the perfected Hathayogin is capable of feats of endurance, force, unfatigued expenditure of energy of which the normal physical powers of man at their highest would be incapable. For it is not only able to hold and retain this energy, but to bear its possession of the physical system and its more complete movement through it. The life energy, thus occupying and operating in a powerful, unified movement on the tranquil and passive body, freed from the restless balancing between the continent power and the contained, becomes a much greater and more effective force. In fact, it seems then rather to contain and possess and use the body than to be contained, possessed and used by it,—just as the restless active mind seems to seize on and use irregularly and imperfectly whatever spiritual force comes into it, but the tranquillised mind is held, possessed and used by the spiritual force. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/hathayoga#p8</ref>
Imaginations can only be got rid of by a tapasya of the will not allowing them to run their course, but breaking them off as soon as they begin. They come most easily when lying in bed after waking from sleep in a tamasic condition. One has to break them off either by shaking off the tamas or by emptying the mind and going to sleep again. At other times one ought to be able to stop it by turning the mind elsewhere. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sex#p131</ref>=Gunas=
==Sleep==
Sleep is necessary for the body just as food is. Sufficient sleep must be taken, but not excessive sleep. What sufficient sleep is depends on the need of the body. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sleep#p1</ref>
===Importance of Sleep===
Take care to rest enough. You must guard against fatigue as it may bring relaxation and tamas. To rest well is not tamas, as some people suppose; it can be done in the right consciousness to maintain the bodily energy—like the ''śavāsana'' of the strenuous Hathayogin. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sleep#p15</ref>
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...the consciousness in the body is that of the subconscient physical, which is a diminished consciousness, not awake and alive like the rest of the being. The rest of the being stands back and part of its consciousness goes out into other planes and regions and has experiences which are recorded in dreams such as that you have related…
...It merely means that you go into the vital world, as everybody does, and the vital world is full of such places and such experiences. What you have to do is not so much to avoid at all going there, for it cannot be avoided altogether, but to go with full protection until you get mastery in these regions of supraphysical Nature. That is one reason why you should remember us and open to the Force before sleeping; for the more you get that habit and can do it successfully, the more the protection will be with you. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sleep#p48</ref>
=Forms of Gunas=
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 Matter, force of half-conscious desire, Kinesis, which is rajas, which is the law of Life, force of sattwic Prakasha, which is the law of Intelligence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-sankhya-yoga-system#p16</ref>
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The three gunas become purified and refined and changed into their divine equivalents: sattwa becomes ''jyotiḥ'', the authentic spiritual light; rajas becomes ''tapas'', the tranquilly intense divine force; tamas becomes ''śama'', the divine quiet, rest, peace. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-sankhya-yoga-system#p37</ref>
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Tamas and rajas disappear only when the higher consciousness not only comes down but controls everything down to the cells of the body. They then change into the divine rest and 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>
=More on Laziness=
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. There are Yogins who are satisfied with a happy calm immobility, but that is because the happiness is a form 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>
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“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, ignorance, inertia and falsehood. We are endeavouring to establish upon earth union, knowledge, consciousness, truth; and we fight whatever opposes the advent of this new creation of Light, Peace, Truth and Love." (1 February 16, 1965.) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/february-27-1965#p7</ref>
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As soon as you enter The churning of Matter by the attempt of the human intellect to conquer material Nature and use it for its purposes may break something in the passivity and inertia, but it is done for material ends, in a rajasic naturespirit, you like effortwith a denial of spirituality as its mental basis. And Such an attempt may end, seems to be ending indeed in chaos and a disintegration, while the new attempts at least creation and reintegration seem to combine the obscure rigidity of material Nature with a resurgence of the one advantage barbaric brutality and violence of rajasic people is a half animal vital Nature. How are the spiritual Forces to deal with all that they are courageous, whereas tamasic people are cowards. It is or make use of such a churning of the fear energies of effort which makes one cowardly. For once you have started, once you have taken the decision and begun material universe? The way of the effort, you are interested. It Spirit is exactly the same thing which way of peace and light and harmony; if it has to battle it is precisely because of the cause presence of some not liking such forces which seek either to learn their lessons, not wanting extinguish or to listen pervert the spiritual light. In the spiritual change inertia has to be replaced by the divine peace and calm, the teacher; it is tamasicrajasic troubled energy by a tranquil and potent, it is to be asleeppure and liberated dynamis, it avoids while the effort which mind must be made in order to catch kept plastic for the thing and then grasp it and keep it. It is half-somnolence. So it is the same thing physically, it is workings of a somnolence higher Light of the being, an inertia. Knowledge… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0728/26spiritual-januaryevolution-and-the-1955supramental#p19p6</ref>
=Transformation of Tamas into Sama=
Tamas is the degradation of śama, as rajas is the degradation of Tapas, the Divine Force. The physical consciousness is always trying to substitute its own inertia for the calm, peace or rest of the true consciousness, just as the vital is always trying to substitute its rajas for the true action of the Force. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-sankhya-yoga-system#p48</ref>
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It [sleepiness] is the physical tamas trying to push itself into the place of the calm. Part of the transformation consists in replacing the element of tamas in the nature by the śama or true calm, peace, rest, of which tamas or inertia is the degradation or perversion in the lower nature (for each of the three gunas has its divine counterpart in the higher nature).
It [tamas] has to be transformed into śama, the peace and rest of the higher Prakriti, and then filled with tapas and jyotiḥ. But this can only be done completely in the physical when the physical is finally transformed by the supramental Power. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-sankhya-yoga-system#p51</ref>
==Challenges Faced==
The character is made up of habits and it clings to them, is disposed to think them the very law of its being and it is a hard job to get it to change at all except under a strong pressure of circumstances. Especially in the physical parts, the body, the physical mind, the physical life movements, there is this resistance; the tamasic element in Nature is powerful there, what the Gita describes as aprakāśa, absence of light, and apravṛtti, a tendency to inertia, inactivity, unwillingness to make an effort and, as a result, even when the effort is made, a constant readiness to doubt, to despond and despair, to give up, renounce the aim and the endeavour, collapse. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-difficulties-of-yoga#p21</ref>
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...even when the thread is broken it is taken up again and reunited and carried to its end. There is a working in the nature itself in response to the inner need which, however slowly, brings about the result. But a certain inner consent is needed; the progress that you have marked in yourself is due to the fact that there was this consent in the soul and also in part of the nature; the change was insisted on by the mind and desired by part of the vital; the resistance in part of the mind and part of the vital made it slow and difficult but could not prevent it. The strong development you have observed in your powers with its proof in the response of others is due to the same reason; part of your being consented to it, wanted and needed it as a self-fulfilment of the nature and the soul wanted it as a means of service to the Divine; the rest was due to the pressure of the Divine force and my pressure…<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-difficulties-of-yoga#p23</ref>
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