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Indulgence of Vital Desire Is Not a Solution — Neither is Suppression of the Vital · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The mother illustrates the difficulty of transforming the
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  vital nature. None of this is either fast or
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  easy given the complexity of human nature.
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  And in particular, the vital being there are also deeply
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  entrenched habits of action and reaction, and the general force
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  of vital nature that lives in the collective environment, and
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  thus can always impact the individual, even if he happens
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  to have made substantial progress within his own
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  psychological identity, Mother notes quote, there are people
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  who have a pretty little Theory like that, which I have often
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  heard. They say that one's vital should
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  never be repressed. It must be allowed to do all at
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  once. It will get tired and be cured.
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  This is the height of stupidity first, because the vital by its
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  very nature, is Never Satisfied. And if a certain kind of
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  activity, becomes insipid, it will double the dose.
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  If it's stupidities bore it, it will increase its stupidities
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  and its excesses. And if that tire is it, as soon
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  as it has rested, it will start again for it will not be
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  changed, others? Say that if you sit upon your
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  vital, it will be suppressed. And one day it will shoot up
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  like a steam Jet. And this is true hence to
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  repress. The vital is not a solution to
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  let it do what it likes is. Not a solution either.
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  And generally this brings unfairly serious disorders.
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  There must be a third solution. To Aspire that the light from
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  above may come and purify it obviously.
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  But the problem remains you Aspire for a change perhaps for
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  a specific change but the answer to your aspiration, will not
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  come immediately. And in the meantime, your nature
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  will resist. Things happen like this at a
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  given moment. The nature seems to have yielded
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  and you think you've got the desired result, your aspiration
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  diminishes and intensity because you think you have the desired
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  result, but the other fellow who is very cunning and is waiting
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  quietly in his Corner. When you are off your guard, he
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  Springs up like a jack-in-the-box, and then you
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  must begin again, all over and quote.
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  Ernst SRI aurobindo and the mother living within the yoga
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  approach to psychological health and growth disturbances of vital
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  to transforming the vital Pages. 69 to 85