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The difficulty of the physical nature  <center>It is a dangerous illness: laziness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/laziness-tiredness-fatigue-tamas#p1</ref></center> =What is Laziness?=Laziness comes inevitably in the course of the development from weakness, or from lack of interest. For curing the sadhanafirst—one must become strong. Its obstruction, its inertia, its absence of aspiration or movement have to show themselves before they can be got rid of—otherwise it will always remain undetected, hampering even For curing the best sadhana and preventing its completenesssecond—one must do something interesting. This coming up of the physical nature lasts longer or less according to the circumstances, but there is none who does not go through it<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/study#p82</ref>What =How is necessary is not to get troubled or anxious or impatient, for that only makes it last moredifferent from Fatigue, but to put entire confidence in the Mother Tiredness and quietly persist in faith, patience and steady Tamas?= Tiredness shows lack of will for the complete changeprogress. It When you feel tired or fatigued that is so that the Mother's force can best work in the beinglack of will for progress. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3114/difficulties-oflaziness-thetiredness-physicalfatigue-naturetamas#p6p3</ref>

It [Fatigue comes from doing without interest the nature of the obstruction of the physical consciousness] depends on the weak points of the individual and the stage of his progress. The main difficulty of the physical consciousness is that it is incapable, before it is transformed, of maintaining any tension of tapasya—it wants periods of assimilation, sinking back into the ordinary consciousness to rest,—also there is a constant forgetfulness of what has been done etcthings you do. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3114/difficultieslaziness-of-thetiredness-physicalfatigue-naturetamas#p8p5</ref>

Matter consciousness is on the contrary inert as well as largely subconscious—active only 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'' 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 advantage is that the subconscient becomes conscient and this removes a very fundamental obstacle from the sadhana. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-physical-consciousness#p33 </ref> ==Mental== To justify one's weaknesses is a kind of laziness and inertia.  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 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 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> ==Vital == There is only one thing the vital abhors; it is a dull life, monotonous, grey, tasteless, worthless. Faced with that, it goes to sleep, falls into inertia. It likes extremely violent things, it is true; it can be extremely wicked, extremely cruel, extremely generous, extremely good and extremely heroic. It always goes to extremes and can be on one side or the other, yes, as the current flows. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/9-september-1953#p21</ref><center>~</center>If someone has a strong, active, obstinate vital which rules the body's activities, which has a very living or intense contact with people and things and events, if he has a marked taste for art, for all expressions of beauty, we are generally tempted to say and believe, "Oh! He has a living soul"; but it is not his soul, it is his vital being which is alive and dominates the activities of the body. That is the first difference between someone who is beginning to be developed and those who are still in the inertia and ''tamas'' of the purely material life. This gives, first to the appearance and also to the activity, a kind of vibration, of intensity of vibration, which often creates the impression that this person has a living soul; but it is not that, it is his vital which is developed, which has a special capacity, is stronger than the physical inertia and gives an intensity of vibration and life and action that those whose vital being is not developed do not possess. This confusion between the vital activity and the soul is a very frequent one.... The vital vibration is much more easily perceptible to the human consciousness than the vibration of the soul. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/9-april-1958#p4</ref> ==Physical== The hold 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 [''defects of the physical consciousness'']—but mainly obscurity, inertia , tamas, a passive acceptance of the play of wrong forces, inability to change, attachment to habits, lack of plasticity, forgetfulness, loss of experiences or realisations gained, unwillingness to accept the Light or to follow it, incapacity (through tamas or through attachment or through passive reaction to accustomed forces) to do what it admits to be the Right and the Best. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levels-of-the-physical-being#p2</ref><center>~</center>That [''weakness of the body''] also is tamas. If you threw off the strain of the idea of weakness, the strength would come back. But there is always something in the vital physical which is pleased with becoming more weak and ill so that it can feel and lament its tragic case. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p64</ref><center>~</center>A certain inertia, tendency to sleep, indolence, unwillingness or inability to be strong for work or spiritual effort for long at a time, is in the nature of the human physical consciousness. When one goes down into the physical for its change (that has been the general condition here for a long time), this tends to increase. Even sometimes when the pressure of the sadhana on the physical increases or when one has to go much inside, this temporarily increases—the body either needing more rest or turning the working comes down inward movement into a tendency to sleep or be at rest. …the physical consciousness gets the physical true peace and calm in the cells and feels at rest even in full work or in the most concentrated condition and subconscientthis tendency of inertia goes out of the nature. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/35/1936#p1</ref>The <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 usually rises up from 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> =Why Does Laziness Occur?= Indolence and inaction result in tamas which is a fall into inconscience and the very opposite of progress and light. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/aims-and-principles#p303</ref><center>~</center>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 subconscienteffort, you are interested. It does is exactly the same thing which is the cause of some not liking to learn their lessons, not abolish 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 higher consciousness being, an inertia. <ref>http://incarnateword.in /cwm/07/26-january-1955#p19</ref> ==In the physicalMental== And so one conceals one's laziness behind fine reasons, the first of which says, "I can't, I don't know" or else, but dulls its action "I have tried and not succeeded" or "I don't know where to begin!" Any reason whatever, isn't that true? The first that comes to you. Or else brings , one doesn't practise because one doesn't find it worthwhile to make the effort—that is part of the laziness also, it asks for too much effort! But one can't live without effort! If one were to refuse to make any effort, one would not even be able to stand on one's legs or walk or even eat. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/12-september-1956#p5</ref> ==In the Vital== When you feel unhappy like that, it means that you have a progress to make. You can say that we always need to progress, it down 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://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/depression#p26</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 higher radical change and even, unknown to your mind, trying to go on as it was under cover of the change 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 lower levelchange or turn that is taking place. But these effects 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#p67</ref><center>~</center>It is an inertia of the physical consciousness which allows these desires to come and does not react against the suggestions; it is that also which responds to the pains and suggestion of illness. But you must not accept the suggestion that you cannot react and be free,—the physical consciousness itself cannot as yet, ebut the will can if it is called on to act and made accustomed to act always.gNot the struggling will, but a quiet will insisting on the quietude of the mind and vital and insisting on the rejection of these adverse things. from That would soon prove sufficient to hold the ground for the intuition Peace and Force to act and they would do the rest. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levels-of-the-physical-being#p2,p5</ref> ==In the Physical== A time comes when after a long preparation of the higher mind or from 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. Inertia, tamas, stupidity, narrowness and limitation, an inability to progress, doubt, dullness, dryness, a constant forgetfulness of the spiritual experiences received are the characteristics of the unregenerated physical nature, when that is not pushed by the vital and is not supported either by the higher to mental will and intelligence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the -lower ranges -vital-being#p35</ref><center>~</center>The whole world is in a process of progressive transformation; if you take up the discipline of overmindYoga, 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. For some time But it resists is your inner consciousness that obeys this accelerating impulse; for the completeness higher parts of your being readily follow the siddhiswift 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 only 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 most material inner being and the inertia of the body often creates a dislocation in the system, and that manifests itself as an illness. This is why people who take up Yoga frequently begin by suffering from some physical discomfort or disorder. That need not happen if they are on their guard and careful. Or if there is a greater and unusual receptivity in the body, then too they escape. But an unmixed receptivity making the physical parts closely follow the pace of the inner transformation is hardly possible, unless the body has already been prepared in the past for the processes of Yoga. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p6</ref><center>~</center>''Q.Sri Aurobindo speaks of “the will to open and make plastic the subconscient physical consciousness and nature”.'' ''A.''Because the environmental physical consciousness and nature are closed up and rigid—they are shut up in their habits, they don’t want to change them, they accept only one regular routine. There is nothing more routine-bound than the body. If you change its habits in the least, it is quite liberated that bewildered, it doesn’t know any longer what to do, it says, “Excuse me, excuse me! but that’s not how one goes about living.” <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/28-april-1951#p10,p11</ref><center>~</center>The 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 retarding or lowering effect 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 primal Inertia effort is entirely overcomemade, 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-the-physical-natureyoga#p17p21</ref>

It [''the nature of the obstruction of the physical consciousness''] depends on the weak points of the individual and the stage of his progress. The one way to get out main difficulty of the physical consciousness is that it is incapable, before it is transformed, of maintaining any tension of tapasya—it wants periods of assimilation, sinking back into the ordinary consciousness to remain very quiet inwardly and call down persistently the Force from aboverest,—also there is a constant forgetfulness of what has been done etc. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p37p8</ref>

The hold of inertia always increases when the working comes down into the physical and subconscient...for Before that will only make things worse and increase the tamas, dryness, dullness, inertia,—but to recognise that there is here an element of overpowered though not eradicated by the universal Nature reflected action in yours which you must eliminate. And this can only be done by more mind and more surrender vital—afterwards it comes up in its natural force and aspiration and by so bringing has to be met in from beyond the vital and the mind the divine peace, light, power and presenceits own field. This is the only way towards the transformation and fulfilment of the physical nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-lower-vital-being#p35</ref>

=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> =How to Cure Laziness?= ''Q. What are the Difficulties defects in me that are coming in my way of Physical Naturespiritual as well as material progress?== ''A:'' Tamas and sluggishness. ''Q. What am I to do to get rid of these defects of my nature?'' ''A:'' Become more and more conscious. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/laziness-tiredness-fatigue-tamas#p13,p14,p15,p16 </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>Sometimes, in certain circumstances, everything seems dull, boring, stupid; this means that you are as boring as the circumstances and it clearly shows that you are not in a state of progress. It is simply a passing wave of boredom, and nothing is more contrary to the purpose of existence. At such a moment you might make an effort and ask yourself, "This boredom shows that I have something to learn, some progress to make in myself, some inertia to conquer, some weakness to overcome.” 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. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/to-the-students-young-and-old#p7</ref><center>~</center>…but the physical, especially the more material parts of it are still responding mechanically to the old movements which are wearing out indeed under the pressure, but are still strong enough to possess a great part of the consciousness when they come. One feels the power, the compulsory force of this mechanical physical response and gets the impression of their inevitability and the impossibility of ever getting free. This automatic compulsory character of the obstruction is the whole power of the difficulty in the material nature.

 Lastly the physical, the material itself—to insist on the Light, the true will there also. For that, do not indulge the desires, the wrong impulses, the wrong brute feelings that come. Do not admit the idea that you cannot refuse. Throw them out each time they come, out of the body into the environmental consciousness till they can finally be pushed away from there also. For it is these that now separate you in the physical consciousness from the Mother. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p1,p2,p3,p4,p5</ref>

This difficulty All that Sri Aurobindo says here [There is no more benumbing error than to mistake a stage for the goal or to linger too long in a resting place. From Thoughts and Aphorisms]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 afraid to fight, who long for rest before they have earned it, who are satisfied with a little progress and in their imagination and desires make it into a marvellous realisation so as to justify their stopping half-way. In ordinary life, already, this happens so much. Indeed, this is the bourgeois ideal, which has to deadened mankind and made man into what he is now: “Work while you are young, accumulate wealth, honour, position; be faced and overcome provident, have a little foresight, put something by , lay up a capital, become an equal perseverance in official—so that later when you are forty you “can sit down”, enjoy your income and later your pension and, as they say, enjoy a well-earned rest.”—To sit down, to stop on the way, not to move forward, to go to sleep, to go downhill towards the grave before one’s time, cease to live the purpose of life—to sit down! 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 will scaling of a mountain, the sadhakclimb towards new revelations, towards future realisations. Nothing is more dangerous than wanting to rest. It is a steady flame in action, in effort, in the march forward that repose must burnbe found, the true repose of complete trust in the divine Grace, of the absence of desires, of victory over egoism. True repose comes from the widening, the universalisation of the consciousness. Become as steady vast as the obstruction 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 obstinatein order to get set right,—it has come up for a first or preliminary transformation. Do not therefore Peace and light in the mind, love and sympathy in the heart, calm and power in the vital, a settled receptivity and response (''prakāśa, pravṛtti'') in the physical are the necessary change. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-transformation-of-the-physical#p22</ref> =Means to Get Rid of Laziness=The only remedy is to keep quiet, look within oneself honestly to find out what is wrong and set to work courageously to put it right.The Divine Consciousness will always be discouraged by there to help you if your endeavour is sincere; and the more sincere your endeavour the more the persistence 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 obstruction full light of the ignorancedays. The persistence of But to be able to remain in peace you must keep in your own will 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 conquer keep always burning in your heart the flame of purification, the aspiration for progress, the intensity, the ardour of consecration. This flame is kindled in the heart of all who are sincere; you must not let ingratitude cover it up with its ashes. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/depression#p27,p28,p30</ref> The best thing to do is to distinguish in oneself the Motherorigin of all one's force supporting it will movements—those that come from the light of truth and those that come from the old inertia and falsehood—in order to accept the first and to refuse or reject the others. With practice one learns to distinguish more and more clearly, but one can establish as a general rule that all that tends towards disharmony, disorder and inertia comes from the end of falsehood and all that favours union, harmony, order and consciousness comes from the resistanceTruth. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3116/difficulties13-january-1965#p3,p4</ref>==Through Effort==It is only effort, in whatever domain it be—material effort, moral effort, intellectual effort—which creates in the being certain vibrations which enable you to get connected with universal vibrations; and it is this which gives joy. It is effort which pulls you out of-inertia; it is effort which makes you receptive to theuniversal forces. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/13-physicaljanuary-nature1951#p46p14</ref>

What It is important for you only the psychic that knows how to surrender and the psychic is usually very much veiled in these circumstances is to make your faiththe beginning. When the psychic awakes, it can bring a sudden and true surrender of the whole being, for the difficulty of the rest is rapidly dealt with and samata absolutedisappears. That But till then effort is as great indispensable. Or else it is necessary till the Force comes flooding down into the being from above and essential a progress as takes up the sadhana, does it for one more and more and leaves less and less to have high experiencesindividual effort—but even then, if not effort, at least aspiration and vigilance are needed till the possession of mind, etcwill, life and body by the Divine Power is complete. <ref>http://incarnateword….in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p52</ref>

=Transformation of Physical: Why Work is it the Need a means of the Hour?= Apart from the individual difficulty there is a general difficulty in the physical earthself-nature. Physical nature is slow and inert and unwilling dedication 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 Divine, but it can must be done. Therefore there must be a constant will and aspiration for that and for with the necessary inner consciousness in which the change lower vital and it physical must be a steady and patient will not tired out even by the utmost resistance of the physical nature. <ref>http://incarnatewordalso share.in/cwsa/31/the-transformation-of-the-physical#p2</ref>

...here inertia or incapacity (apravṛtti), obscurity or forgetfulness (aprakāśa)A lazy body is certainly not a proper instrument for Yoga, it is in order to get set right,—it has come up for must stop being lazy. But a first fatigued and unwilling body also cannot receive properly or preliminary transformationbe a good instrument. 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 changeThe proper thing is to avoid either extreme. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-transformationlevels-of-the-physical-being#p21p49,p50</ref>

...it was this which had been preventing the elimination of the old movements all along It is a Force that comes and enabled them pushes to return when they had been pushed out—for it work and is in as legitimately a part of the material half-conscious or subconscient spiritual life as others. It is a special Energy that there is takes hold of the bedrock of worker in the resistance…being and fulfils itself through him. To work with a full energy like this in one is quite salutary. The physical sadhana only thing is not to overdo it—that is to bring down the higher light and power and peace and Ananda into the body consciousness, avoid any exhaustion or recoil to get rid of the a fatigued inertia of the physical, the doubts, limitations, external tendency of the physical mind, the defective energies of the vital physical (nerves) and bring in instead the true consciousness there so that the physical may be a perfect instrument for the Divine Will… . <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3129/the-transformationdivine-offorce-thein-physicalwork#p25p15</ref>

The only thing help is always there and it has pulled you out of many difficulties and attacks. It is, I suppose, because of the feeling "I do not want to do in this unpleasant phase anything" that you have not been able to receive the help, but that is to be more obstinate than a temporary inertia of the physical inertia mind and will. …The only course is to persist in a fixed endeavour—steady persistency without any restless struggle—to get a wide shake off the inertia of the will and permanent opening made even in this solid rock of obstructionpersevere. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3129/surrender#p90</ref> ==Through Aspiration==For the-transformation-inner flame to burn, one must feed it; one must watch over the fire, throw into it the fuel of all the errors one wants to get rid of, all that delays the progress, all that darkens the path. If one doesn't feed the fire, it smoulders under the ashes ofone'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-thejuly-physical1958#p31p10 </ref>==Through Will==

=What are This difficulty has to be faced and overcome by an equal perseverance in the Difficulties will of Mental Nature?=the sadhak. It is a steady flame that must burn, as steady as the obstruction is obstinate. Do not therefore be discouraged by the persistence of the obstruction of the ignorance. The persistence of your own will to conquer with the Mother's force supporting it will come to the end of the resistance. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p46</ref><center>~</center>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>

...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?Through Surrender==

The cure Become more and more conscious.Certainly tamas is not in trying to wake up the mind good, but in turning it, immobile and silent, upward towards the region of intuitive light, in a steady and quiet aspiration, and is only through surrender to wait in silence, for the light to come down and flood your brain which will, little by little, wake up to this influence and become capable of receiving and expressing the intuitionDivine Consciousness that tamas can be changed. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1214/studylaziness-tiredness-fatigue-tamas#p86p12</ref>

''Q==Turning to the Divine== It is selfishness that makes one jealous; it is weakness that makes one lazy.In either case the only truly effective remedy is conscious union with the Divine.How can Indeed, as soon as one get out becomes conscious of this mental laziness the Divine and inertia?” is united with Him, one learns to love with the true love: the love ''A:that loves for the joy of loving'' By wanting and has no need to do so, with persistence be loved in return; one also learns to draw Force from the inexhaustible source and obstinacy. By doing every day a mental exercise one knows by experience that by using this Force in the service of reading, organisation the Divine one receives from Him all that one has spent and developmentmuch more.This should alternate in All the remedies suggested by the course of mind, even the day with exercises of mental silence in concentrationmost enlightened mind, are only palliatives and not a true cure.'' <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/116-junenovember-19661969#p2p3,p4,p5</ref>

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

''A:'' Usually they are due 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 mental inertiaunify himself around his divine center; that way he becomes a real individual, unless one has obtained calm master of himself and indifference through of his destiny. Otherwise, he is a very intense sadhana resulting plaything of the forces, which toss him about like a cork in a perfect equality for which the good and badstream. He goes where he doesn't want to, is made to do what he doesn't want to, the pleasant and unpleasant no longer existfinally he gets lost in a hole without any way to stop himself doing so. But in that caseif you are consciously organized, unified around the divine center, mental activity is replaced governed and led by an intuitive activity it, you are the master of a much higher kindyour destiny. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/1209/answersseptember-to-a7-monitor1968#p110p20</ref>

''QThe peace and spontaneous knowledge are in the psychic being and from there they spread to mind and vital and physical. It is in the outer physical consciousness that the difficulty still tries to persist and brings the restlessness sometimes into the physical mind, sometimes into the nerves, sometimes in the shape of bodily trouble into the body. But all these things can and must go.Why does selfishness Even the illnesses can go entirely with the growth of peace and power in the nerves and physical cells… <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levels-of-the-physical-being#p60</ref><center>~</center>The habit of return of these feelings belongs to the physical consciousness and in his physical consciousness the human being is always weak and unable to get rid of or resist its habitual movements. There are three things that help him to do so (apart from his mental will which is not always strong enough to do it). There is first the psychic being… This activity of the psychic will return and eventually come down into the physical consciousness itself; then there will be very little difficulty. The second is the inner consciousness always awake. At present that is difficult, because to keep the inner consciousness awake at all times can only come by a deepening of yourself so that the veil between the outer and inner which lifts only in concentration may cease to exist even when one is in the ordinary unconcentrated condition. It is for this deepening that the strong tendency to go inside comes upon you. Lastly, the Mother’s force always there and receiving also a response at once from the physical consciousness. These three things together can do anything. It takes time to make one jealous them all three constantly active together, but that is sure to come and weakness makes one lazy?''with them these inner difficulties will disappear. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/levels-of-the-physical-being#p63</ref>

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

=Recommended Practices=Mental== ''Q.How to get rid of mental inertia?''''A:'' The best thing to do cure is not in trying to distinguish wake up the mind but in oneself turning it, immobile and silent, upward towards the origin region of all one's movements—those that come from the intuitive light of truth , in a steady and those that come from the old inertia quiet aspiration, and falsehood—in order to accept wait in silence, for the first light to come down and flood your brain which will, little by little, wake up to refuse or reject this influence and become capable of receiving and expressing the othersintuition. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1612/13-january-1965study#p3p88</ref>

With practice one learns By wanting to distinguish more do so, with persistence and more clearly, but one can establish as obstinacy. By doing every day a general rule that all that tends towards disharmony, disorder and inertia comes from the falsehood and all that favours unionmental exercise of reading, harmony, order organisation and consciousness comes from the Truthdevelopment.When you have found something which has the power to help you This should alternate in gaining a victory over your unconsciousness and inertia, you must, till you reach the final result, exhaust all course of the effects produced by that word or phrase before you look for othersday with exercises of mental silence in concentration. '' <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0316/the1-june-thousands1966#p20p3,p4</ref>

''Q...it is Are mental indifference and lack of curiosity a sort of mental inertia?'' ''A:'' Usually they are due to try at each moment, each secondmental inertia, unless one has obtained calm and indifference through a very intense sadhana resulting in each movement to express only a perfect equality for which the highest truth one can perceivegood and bad, and at the same time know that this perception has to be progressive pleasant and that what seems to you the most true now will unpleasant no longer be so tomorrowexist. But in that case, mental activity is replaced by an intuitive activity of a much higher kind. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/answers-to-a-monitor#p112</ref>  ==Vital== The gloom and that other difficulties come from a higher truth will 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 expressed more 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 more through youbhakti. This leaves no room any longer for sleeping The progress made in controlling the sex and other rajasic movements of the lower vital is a comfortable tamasgood preparation, but not enough; one 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> ==Physical== It must be always awake—I am not speaking the tamas of the physical sleep—one must be always awake, always conscious and always full that has enveloped the inner consciousness. The one way to get out of an enlightened receptivity it is to remain very quiet inwardly and of goodwillcall down persistently the Force from above. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0731/31difficulties-of-the-augustphysical-1955nature#p18p37</ref>

Two things are necessary. First of allIn the physical it is inertia, nothing in your beingobscurity, no part inability that come up and the obstinacy of your being should want these things. The only thing to die. That does not happen often. You have always a defeatist do in you somewhere: something that is tired, something that this unpleasant phase is disgusted, something that has had enough of it, something that is lazy, something that does not want to struggle and says: "Well! Ah! Let it be finished, so much more obstinate than the better." That is sufficient, you are deadphysical inertia and to persist in a fixed endeavour—steady persistency without any restless struggle—to get a wide and permanent opening made even in this solid rock of obstruction. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0531/1the-transformation-of-julythe-1953physical#p34p32</ref>

Then I said The physical sadhana is to myself: that's how it isbring down the higher light and power and peace and Ananda into the body consciousness, there must be a certain tamas—an uncomprehending tamas—which in order to change needs to be violently shaken up. With illnessesget rid of the inertia of the physical, it's the same thingdoubts, limitations, in external tendency of the sense that only when things really seem about to topple over on physical mind, the wrong side... I go out defective energies of my body deliberately, hovering over all things, the vital physical (nerves) and bring in instead the true consciousness there so that the body recovers—now it takes very little time: physical may be a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes. perfect instrument for the Divine Will… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0431/octoberthe-transformation-of-19the-1963physical#p12p26</ref>

Whatever The difficulty of the physical nature comes inevitably in the path we may follow, course of the subject we may study, we always reach development of the same resultsadhana. The most important thing for an individual is Its obstruction, its inertia, its absence of aspiration or movement have to unify himself around his divine center; that way he becomes a real individualshow themselves before they can be got rid of—otherwise it will always remain undetected, master of himself hampering even the best sadhana and of his destinypreventing its completeness. Otherwise, he is a plaything This coming up of the forcesphysical nature lasts longer or less according to the circumstances, which toss him about like a cork in a streambut there is none who does not go through it. He goes where he doesn't want What is necessary is not toget troubled or anxious or impatient, for that only makes it last more, is made to do what he doesn't want but toput entire confidence in the Mother and quietly persist in faith, patience and finally he gets lost in a hole without any way to stop himself doing steady will for the complete change. It is so. But if you are consciously organized, unified around that the divine center, governed and led by it, you are Mother's force can best work in the master of your destinybeing. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0931/septemberdifficulties-of-the-7physical-1968nature#p21p6</ref>

Concentration is very helpful But for the physical being and necessary—the more one concentrates (of course in physical consciousness to be ready to receive the divine impulsion, they must be extremely plastic, because the limits of vital uses coercion, it imposes its will, and the poor body's capacity without straining it)has but to obey, while the more Divine just shows the force light, gives the consciousness, and so one must obey consciously and willingly—it is a question of the Yoga grows.There are different causes for collaboration, itis no longer a question of coercion. But it is mostly something The physical being and physical that interferes, either the need of the body consciousness must be very plastic to take time be able to assimilate what has come or been done or sometimes inertia or dullness due lend themselves to causes such all the necessary changes, so as those you mention or others. The best thing is to remain quiet be of one kind one day and not get nervous or dejected—till another the force acts againnext, and so on. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2904/concentration28-andapril-meditation1951#p94p12</ref>

==Guidance through the Divine Grace=In Sleep===

The rest must not be one which goes down into the inconscience and tamas...with The rest must be an ascent into the full assent Light, into perfect Peace, total Silence, a rest which rises up out of the sadhakdarkness. To learn to give that full assent Then it is the whole meaning of the sadhana. It may take time either because of ideas in the mindtrue rest, desires in the vital or inertia in the physical consciousness, but these things have to be and can be removed with the aid or by calling in the action of the Divine Forcea rest which is an ascent. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2907/the-divine-grace31-andaugust-guidance1955#p11p19</ref>

You were able to go up because …in the ordinary consciousness, in the Peace descendedgeneral ordinary life, rest means tamas. You were not able to remain above because the Peace could not occupy sufficiently the physical and the Force did not descend sufficientlyRest means falling back into Inertia. Meanwhile the inertia aroseSo then, instead of a rest that benefits you, it’s a rest that stupefies you got troubled more and then you have to make effort once more because of to recapture the vital suggestions in the outer nature and consciousness you have lost. That’s how the rush vast majority of inertiapeople sleep. But now, so you were unable the lesson is different: when I lie down to keep detached rest my body and let work without moving (work with an activity that doesn’t force the Force descend more body to move), as soon as there is the slightest… not exactly “fall,” but the slightest descent towards the Inconscient, something in the body immediately gives a start—instantly. It has been like that for a long time, two years, but now it’s instantaneous, and more or call it down more very rarely happens—there is true rest, which is an expansion and moreimmensity of the being in full Light. Hence the coming down into the physical consciousnessIt’s magnificent. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3007/ascent-to-themarch-higher26-planes1966#p41p12</ref>

When the Force is there at work, the imperfections and weaknesses of the nature will necessarily arise for change, but one need not fight with them; one can look on them quietly as a surface instrumentation that has You must learn to be changed...Detachment means that one stands back from them, does not identify oneself with them or get upset or troubled because they are there, but rather looks on them as something foreign to one's true consciousness and true self, rejects them and calls receptive in the Mother's Force into these movements to eliminate them all circumstances and bring the true consciousness and its movements there. The firm will of rejection always—especially when you take rest—it must not be there, the pressure to get rid "rest" of them, inertia but not any wrestling or strugglea true rest of receptivity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3017/descent-and-the9-lowermay-nature1967#p12p3</ref>

The first is that of control by physical immobilityFundamentally, the second is that sole purpose of power by immobility. The power of physical immobility sleep is as important in Hathayoga as to enable the body to assimilate the power effect of mental immobility in the Yoga of knowledgetrance so that the effect may be received everywhere, and for parallel reasons....the immobility of the Asana is to get rid of the restlessness imposed on enable the body and to force it to hold the Pranic energy instead do its natural nocturnal function of dissipating and squandering it…The body, accustomed to work off superfluous energy by movementeliminating toxins. And when you wake up, there 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 not that trace of heaviness which comes from sleep: the Asana is conquered, then it finds as much ease in effect of the posture, however originally difficult or unusual to it, as in its easiest attitudes sedentary or recumbenttrance continues. It becomes increasingly capable of holding whatever amount of increased vital energy is brought to bear upon it without needing to spill it out Even for those who have never been in movementtrance, and this increase it is so enormous as good to seem illimitablerepeat a mantra, so that the body of the perfected Hathayogin is capable of feats of endurancea word, force, unfatigued expenditure of energy of which the normal physical powers of man at their highest would a prayer before going into sleep. But there must be incapable…The a life energy, thus occupying and operating in a powerful, unified movement on the tranquil and passive bodywords; I do not mean an intellectual significance, freed from the restless balancing between the continent power and the containednothing of that kind, becomes but a much greater and more effective forcevibration. In factAnd quietly you let yourself go, it seems then rather as though you wanted to go to contain sleep. The body vibrates more and possess more, more and use the body than to be containedmore, possessed more and used by itmore,—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 away you go. That is held, possessed and used by the spiritual forcecure for tamas. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2315/hathayoga4-june-1960#p8p6</ref>

==Spiritual Evolution=Recommended Practices=

The way of the Spirit is the way of peace and light and harmony; if Whatever you do you can find interest in it has to battle , provided you take it is precisely because of as the presence means of such forces which seek either progressing; you must try to extinguish or to pervert do better and better what you are doing, the spiritual light. In the spiritual change inertia has to will for progress must always be replaced by the divine peace there and calmthen 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 rajasic troubled energy by a tranquil most attractive and potent, pure and liberated dynamis, while important activity will soon lose all its interest for you if the mind must be kept plastic will for the workings of a higher Light of Knowledge… progress towards an ideal perfection is not there while you act. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2814/spiritual-evolutionlaziness-andtiredness-thefatigue-supramentaltamas#p6,p7</ref>

...its actual cosmic manifestation the Supreme, being the Infinite and not bound by any limitation, can manifest in itself, in its consciousness Take no notice of innumerable possibilities, something that seems to be the opposite of itself, something in which there can be Darkness, Inconscience, Inertia, Insensibility, Disharmony it and Disintegration. .go on with your programme as usual..the vital disturbance the physical inertia with all its symptoms It is an attack of the hostile forces intended to cut short and prevent the higher opening. The ideas that arise to justify it are quickest way of no value—it is not true that physical work is getting rid of an inferior value to mental culture, it is the arrogance of the intellect 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 development, fame or mental satisfaction. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2914/worklaziness-andtiredness-fatigue-yogatamas#p67p9</ref>

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...Desire too can only cease rightly by becoming ”If it is laziness that keeps you back from, say, doing the desire of vaulting, you must immediately do something much more tiring and say: "Well, you don't want to do that? All right, you are going to do 1500 metres running!" Or else: "I don't want to do the infinite and satisfying itself with weight-lifting today, I don't feel like doing it: good, I shall do skipping 4000 times at a supernal fulfilment and an infinite satisfaction stretch." <ref>http://incarnateword.in the all/cwm/05/24-june-possessing bliss of the Infinite. 1953#p22</ref><center>~</center>The vision There is only one way of acting truly,it is to try at each moment, each second, in each movement to express only the Light highest truth one can perceive, and at the vision of the Lord in the form of Jagannath are both of them indications same time know that he this perception has to be progressive and that what seems to you the capacity for Yoga experience most true now will no longer be so tomorrow, and that there is a call of the Divine on his inner beinghigher truth will have to be expressed more and more through you. But capacity is This leaves no room any longer for sleeping in a comfortable tamas; one must be always awake—I am not enough; there speaking of physical sleep—one must be also the will to seek after the Divine always awake, always conscious and courage always full of an enlightened receptivity and persistence in following of goodwill. To want always the best, always the path. Fear is best, always the first thing that must be thrown away best andnever tell oneself, “Oh! It is tiring! Let me rest, secondlylet me relax! Ah, I am going to stop making an effort”; then one is sure to fall into a hole immediately and make a big stupid blunder! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/31-august-1955#p18</ref><center>~</center>For the inertia of the outer being which has prevented him from responding remedy is not to absorb yourself in thoughts about it, but to turn upwards and call the callLight and Force to come into it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2931/thewrong-callmovements-andof-the-capacityvital#p34p46</ref> ==Detachment==

=Other Movements which Give rise to Tamas/Inertia: =For When the Force is there at work, the dissatisfaction imperfections and weaknesses of the vitalnature will necessarily arise for change, the only remedy is rejection and refusal but one need not fight with them; one can look on them quietly as a surface instrumentation that has to identify yourself with itbe changed. For the inertia the remedy It is not with “indifference” that one has to absorb yourself in thoughts about itlook at them, for that might mean inertia, but to turn upwards and call the Light and Force a want of will or push or necessity to come into change; itis rather with detachment. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/wrong-movements-of-the-vital#p46</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 Detachment means that one stands back from them, does not identify oneself with them or get upset or troubled because they are there is , but rather looks on them as something (not foreign to one's true consciousness and true self, rejects them and calls in the whole) of your lower vital Mother's Force into these movements to eliminate them and physical that can respond to bring the sex-impulsetrue consciousness and its movements there. There may The firm will of rejection must be another part that has already there, the aspiration—but when the condition favourable pressure to the sex-invasion comesget rid of them, then the aspiration is quiescent but not any wrestling or not strong enough and the other elements allow the sex-force to come instruggle. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3130/sexdescent-and-the-lower-nature#p126p12</ref>

===The Practices Required=Hatha Yoga==

Imaginations can only be got The power of physical immobility is as important in Hathayoga as the power of mental immobility in the Yoga of knowledge…...the immobility of the Asana is to get rid of the restlessness imposed on the body and to force it to hold the Pranic energy instead of dissipating and squandering it. The experience in the practice of Asana is not that of a cessation and diminution of energy by inertia, but of a tapasya 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 will normal physical powers of man at their highest would be incapable. For it is not allowing them only able to run their coursehold and retain this energy, but breaking them off as soon as they beginto bear its possession of the physical system and its more complete movement through it. They come most easily when lying The life energy, thus occupying and operating in bed after waking a powerful, unified movement on the tranquil and passive body, freed from sleep in the restless balancing between the continent power and the contained, becomes a tamasic conditionmuch greater and more effective force. One has In fact, it seems then rather to break them off either by shaking off contain and possess and use the tamas or body than to be contained, possessed and used by emptying it,—just as the restless active mind seems to seize on and use irregularly and going to sleep again. At other times one ought to be able to stop imperfectly whatever spiritual force comes into it , but the tranquillised mind is held, possessed and used by turning the mind elsewherespiritual force. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3123/sexhathayoga#p131p8</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><center>~</center>...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>

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>

As soon as you enter the rajasic nature“We do not fight against any creed, you like effortany religion. And at least the one advantage We do not fight against any form of rajasic people is that they government. We do not fight against any caste, any social class. We do not fight against any nation or civilisation. We are courageousfighting division, unconsciousness, whereas tamasic people ignorance, inertia and falsehood. We are cowards. It is endeavouring to establish upon earth union, knowledge, consciousness, truth; and we fight whatever opposes the fear advent of effort which makes one cowardly. For once you have startedthis new creation of Light, Peace, once you have taken the decision Truth and begun the effortLove." (1 February 16, you are interested1965.) <ref>http://incarnateword. It is exactly in/agenda/06/february-27-1965#p7</ref><center>~</center>The churning of Matter by the same thing which is attempt of the cause of some not liking human intellect to learn their lessonsconquer material Nature and use it for its purposes may break something in the passivity and inertia, not wanting to listen to the teacher; but it is tamasicdone for material ends, in a rajasic spirit, with a denial of spirituality as its mental basis. Such an attempt may end, it is seems to be asleepending indeed in chaos and a disintegration, it avoids while the effort which must be made in order new attempts at creation and reintegration seem to catch combine the obscure rigidity of material Nature with a resurgence of the thing barbaric brutality and then grasp it and keep it. It is violence of a half-somnolenceanimal vital Nature. So it How are the spiritual Forces to deal with all that or make use of such a churning of the energies of the material universe? The way of the Spirit is the same thing physically, way of peace and light and harmony; if it has to battle it is a somnolence precisely because of the presence of such forces which seek either to extinguish or to pervert the spiritual light. In the spiritual change inertia has to be replaced by the divine peace and calm, the beingrajasic troubled energy by a tranquil and potent, an inertia. pure and liberated dynamis, while the mind must be kept plastic for the workings of a higher Light of Knowledge… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0728/26spiritual-januaryevolution-and-the-1955supramental#p19p6</ref>