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=What is the Lower Vital=

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 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>