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The Vital Nature: a Great Assistant, but an Impossible Master · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Lion, Tamers horse Whisperers, dog trainers.
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  All learned certain things about how to bring the vital nature
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  into a compliant and participatory mood to carry out
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  the wishes of the trainer they quickly learn that they cannot
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  simply allow these vital beings. The absolute license to do
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  whatever they feel like doing rather.
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  They need to follow the direction and guidance of
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  Trainer, they also learn that harsh discipline tends, not to
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  work. And that a system of calculated
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  rewards combined with a positive attitude, and relationship, and
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  the ability to induce a willingness to please, the
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  trainer turns out to be the most effective approach.
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  If we reflect on these things, we begin to see a way to both
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  understand and gain Mastery. Over the vital nature.
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  We also recognize that without the force of the vital fully
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  engaged, the practice of any yogic.
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  Sadhna is basically impossible. The vital believes it is the
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  preeminent power yet as the Canaan.
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  Punish odd. So clearly pointed out the pride
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  of the vital is humbled before The Supreme Values power, the
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  vital force was capable of moving.
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  Anything in the physical world. Yet confronted by the Supreme
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  Divine it became powerless and thus had to subordinated self to
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  that higher power. The mother observes quote, it is
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  difficult to regulate it yet. Naturally, when you have
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  succeeded in taming it you have something powerful in hand for
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  realization. It is that which can carry by
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  storm. The biggest obstacles.
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  It is that which is capable of turning an idiot into an
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  intelligent person? It alone can do.
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  So, for if one yearns passionately for Progress, if
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  the vital takes it into its head that one must progress, even the
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  greatest idiot can become intelligent.
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  I have seen this. I am not speaking from hearsay.
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  I have seen it. I've seen people who were Whole
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  stupid, incapable of understanding understood.
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  Nothing. You could go on explaining
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  something to them for months. It would not enter as though,
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  one were speaking to a block of wood and then all of a sudden,
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  they're vital was caught in a passion, they wanted simply to
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  please someone or get something. And for that one had to
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  understand one had to know. It was necessary.
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  Well, they said everything. Thing moving, they shook up the
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  sleeping mind, they poured energy into all the corners
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  where there was none and they understood, they became
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  intelligent. I knew someone who knew nothing
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  practically understood nothing, and who when the Mind started
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  moving, and the passion for Progress, took possession of him
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  began to write wonderful things. I have them with me and when the
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  movement withdrew, when the vital went on strike for
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  sometimes, it went on strike and withdrew, the person became once
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  again, absolutely dull naturally, it is very difficult
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  to establish a constant contact between the most external,
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  physical, Consciousness, and the psychic Consciousness and oh,
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  the physical Consciousness has plenty of good.
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  Will it is very rare. Our it tries a great deal but it
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  is slow and heavy. It takes long, it is difficult
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  to move it. It does not get tired but it
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  makes no effort. It goes its way quietly.
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  It can take centuries to put the external Consciousness in
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  contact with the psychic, but for some reason or other the
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  vital takes a hand in it, a passion seizes it, it wants this
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  contact for some reason or other which is not always a Virtual
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  reason, but it wants this contact, it wants it with all
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  its energy, all its strength, all its passion, all its fervor
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  in three months. The thing is done.
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  So then take great care of it, treat it with great
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  consideration, but never submit to it for.
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  It will drag you into all kinds of troublesome and untoward
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  experiments and if you succeed in, convincing it in some way or
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  other, then you will advance with giant strides on the path.
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  And quote, reference SRI aurobindo in the mother living
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  within the yoga approach to psychological health and growth.
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  Disturbances of the vital transforming the vital Pages. 69
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