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The Needed Effort to Resolve the Deformations of the Lower Vital Nature · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  In his application of yoga as applied psychology, Sri
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  Aurobindo identifies a number of different planes and parts of
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  the being that make up the human individual.
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  There are various levels of mind, vital being, and physical
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  being. Each level carries out specific
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  types of functions and responds to specific vibrational patterns
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  and is generally activated through the energy that flows
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  through one of the subtle energy centers or chakras.
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  The lower vital being is closely associated with the energy of
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  the second chakra between the root chakra at the base of the
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  spine and the naval centre. It is responsible for a wide
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  variety of vital movements and responses in the being.
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  In its normal human working it tends to hold a number of
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  obscure and deformed energetic movements that eventually need
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  to be taken up and transformed. As the yogic force penetrates
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  ever deeper into the being, the lower vital handles the basic
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  vital drives of the being close to the physical being and very
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  much interconnected. Deformations of the lower vital
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  include converting these drives into ego centered desired filled
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  motivations which might include jealousy, envy, greed, gluttony,
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  irritation and angry reactions et cetera.
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  It is these deformations that keep the focus on the individual
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  ego personality and which distort the true action of the
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  energy that operates through the 2nd chakra, Sri Aurobindo
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  writes. Quote The lower vital in most
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  human beings is full of grave defects and of movements that
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  respond to hostile forces. A constant psychic opening, a
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  persistent rejection of these influences, a separation of
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  oneself from all hostile suggestions, and the inflow of
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  the calm, light, peace, purity of the Mother's power would
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  eventually free the system from the siege.
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  What is needed is to be quiet and more and more quiet.
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  To look on these influences is something not yourself which has
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  intruded to separate yourself from it and deny it, and to
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  abide in a quiet confidence in the divine power.
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  If your psychic being asks for the divine, and your mind is
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  sincere and calls for liberation from the lower nature and from
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  all hostile forces, and if you can call the Mother's power into
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  your heart and rely upon it more than on your own strength, this
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  siege will in the end be driven away from you, and strength and
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  peace take its place. End Quote reference Sri
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  Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3 in difficulty, page
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  42.