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=What is the Lower Vital?= From the navel downwards is the reign of the vital passions and sensations and all the small life-impulses that constitute the bulk of the ordinary human life and character. This is what we call the lower vital nature.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-vital-being-and-vital-consciousness#p16</ref>
It is usually ignorant and obscure, and is the seat of small desires, greeds, passions and enjoyments. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-vital-being-and-vital-consciousness#p36</ref>
The centre between the navel and the Muladhara commands the lower vital (physical desires, small greeds, passions etc.). <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-system-of-the-chakras#p65</ref>
In the abdomen is the lower vital centre. It is in these two [vital centre at navel and lower vital centre] that there is the origination of desire—but desire rises and becomes emotional in the heart and mental in the higher centres above. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-system-of-the-chakras#p72</ref>
In the process of our Yoga the centres have each a fixed psychological use and general function which base all their special powers and functionings… the abdominal centre—svādhiṣṭhāna— governs the lower vital; <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-system-of-the-chakras#p18</ref>
The lower vital is concerned with the pettier movements of action and desire and stretches down into the vital physical where it supports the life of the more external activities and all physical sensations, hungers, cravings, satisfactions. The term lower must not be considered in a pejorative sense; it refers only to the position in the hierarchy of the planes. For although this part of the nature in earthly beings tends to be very obscure and is full of perversions,—lust, greed of all kinds, vanity, small ambitions, petty anger, envy, jealousy are its ordinary guests,—still there is another side to it which makes it an indispensable mediator between the inner being and the outer life. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-vital-being-and-vital-consciousness#p11</ref>
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-vital-being-and-vital-consciousness#p10 </ref>
==Nature of the Lower Vital==
===Ignorance and Arrogance===
===Not Logical===
The lower vital is very slow in listening to reason—at least when reason is on the side of Truth; although it is very pleased to listen to the mind when the mind justifies the lower vital's wrong movements. In fact the lower vital moves on its own lines, not according to Truth or reason. It is only the insistence of a stronger Light that can enlighten it by changing it in its own substance of consciousness.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-lower-vital-being#p16</ref>
===Disobedience and Indiscipline===
===Self Justification===
A dangerous habit of constant self-justification. His [sadhaka’s] The mind rushes at once to maintain his its own idea, his its own position or his own course of action. This he is ready to do by any kind of argument, sometimes the most clumsy and foolish or inconsistent with what he it has been protesting the moment before, by any kind of misstatement or any kind of device.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-lower-vital-being#p10</ref>
There is behind all the vital nature in man his true vital being concealed and immobile which is quite different from the surface vital nature. The surface vital is narrow, ignorant, limited, full of obscure desires, passions, cravings, revolts, pleasures and pains, transient joys and griefs, exultations and depressions. The true vital being on the contrary is wide, vast, calm, strong, without limitations, firm and immovable, capable of all power, all knowledge, all Ananda. It is moreover without ego, for it knows itself to be a projection and instrument of the Divine; it is the divine Warrior, pure and perfect; in it is an instrumental Force for all divine realisations. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-vital-being-and-vital-consciousness#p3</ref>
It is the supramental alone that can transform the material being, but the physical mind and physical vital can be very much changed by the action of the psychic and of the overmind. The entire change however is made only when there is the supramental influence. But for the present the psychic is the force that may be relied on for the preliminary purification of the lower nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-psychic-and-spiritual-transformations#p30,p31</ref>
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