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~~Yes—they~~ ...they [the lower vital, the physical vital and the material vital] become very clear to the increasing consciousness. And the distinctions are necessary—otherwise one may influence or control the lower vital or a part of the physical vital and then be astonished to find that something intangible but apparently invincible still resists—it is the material vital with so much of the rest as it can influence by its resistance. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-vital-being-and-vital-consciousness#p39</ref>

==Influence of Lower Vital on Mind==

===Vital Reactions===

E.g.. if someone speaks something you do not like and you get angry, that is a vital reaction. Or if a woman passes and you feel sexual desire, that is a vital reaction. Or if something unpleasant happens and you get a depression, that is a vital reaction. Most disturbances of the consciousness are due to vital reactions, though the mind may assist by wrong thoughts and judgments and misinterpretations. There can be good vital reactions as well as bad, but the term is usually applied to those that are undesirable and have to be surmounted by the sadhak. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/wrong-movements-of-the-vital#p4</ref>

===Vital Suggestions===

We lose the One for whom our lives were made.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/33/the-adoration-of-the-divine-mother#p62</ref>

==~~Avoid~~ By Avoiding Premature Engagement with the Lower Vital==

The lower vital is a very obscure plane and it can be fully opened with advantage only when the other planes above it have been thrown wide to light and knowledge. One who concentrates on the lower vital without that higher preparation and without knowledge is likely to fall into many confusions. This does not mean that experiences of this plane may not come earlier or even at the beginning; they do come of themselves, but they must not be given too large a place. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-lower-vital-being#p40</ref>

===Disobedience and Indiscipline===

This lower part of the being is always random, wayward, self-assertive and unwilling to accept the imposition on it of any order and discipline other than its own idea or impulse. Its defects even from the beginning stand in the way of the efforts of the higher vital to impose on the nature a truly regenerating tapasya. This habit of disobedience and disregard of discipline is so strong that it does not always need to be deliberate; the response to it seems to be immediate, irresistible and instinctive. Thus obedience to the Mother is repeatedly promised or professed, but the action done or the course followed is frequently the very opposite of the profession or promise. This constant indiscipline is a radical obstacle to the sadhana … . ... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-lower-vital-being#p8</ref>

===Dissimulation and Falsity of Speech===

''Q. How and why does this pressure come?''

''A.'' If you mean the pressure of inert passivity, it comes from the resistance of the lower vital and the obscurity of the material nature. It can be overcome by an untiring will and aspiration. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/12-february-1934-1#p4</ref>

===Purification===

It [the flow of love and joy from the heart centre] can be misused on a large scale only if there is a strong and vehement vital ego not accustomed to correction or else a vital full of the ''kāmavāsanā''. On a small scale it can be misused by the small selfishnesses, vanities, ambitions, demands of the lower vital supporting themselves upon it. If you are on guard against these things then there is no danger of misuse. If the psychic puts forth psychic discernment along with the love, then there is no danger, for the light of psychic discernment at once refuses all mixture or misuse. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-emergence-or-coming-forward-of-the-psychic#p41</ref>

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