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How to Overcome the Obstructions of the Vital Being · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  As has been shown time. And again, when individuals have
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  attempted to change the vital nature, the attempt is doomed to
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  only partial success if not ultimate failure, if the
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  struggle is carried out. Under the conditions of the
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  vital being, almost any method, process technique, control
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  mechanism or exertion of willpower can be turned by the
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  vital nature into Something that nevertheless fulfills its
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  desires and aggrandize is its sense of self and important, the
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  attempt to control the vital through the power of the mind.
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  Also has not been successful as the vital is quite capable of
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  finding ways to justify its desires and motives to the
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  mental power outright suppression does not work as it
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  increases. The power of the obstructions
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  and keeps them. Being focused on the very area
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  that needs to be reduced in Focus.
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  What is required is the Advent of a new force of knowledge and
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  action. Which comes through the Psychic
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  Spiritual and super mental Transformations as identified
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  and described by SRI, aurobindo the process of nature.
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  Generally involves a growing existential crisis that
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  culminates in an opportunity to exceed the limits at that time.
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  Imposed by the capacities of the instruments.
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  And which creates pressure for a new development to occur.
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  In today's world, we are in the midst of an existential crisis
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  of unprecedented magnitude and we see a variety of responses.
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  Those who are locked into the old ways, simply close their
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  eyes, and try to find a way to survive in an increasingly
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  hostile environment. However, we also see another
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  phenomenon occurring, The Awakening of large numbers of
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  people, to the need to exceed the mental, vital, physical
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  framework that has ruled our existence in the past and the
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  opportunity to discover and embody new higher forces of
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  Consciousness to bring about the needed changes.
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  We see an Awakening to the needs of the global environment and
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  the interrelations of things and events at a level, not
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  consciously recognized by more than a few Unique Individuals in
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  the past. This shows, the direction for
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  the needed change of Consciousness, and provides us
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  Nature's solution to the current crisis.
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  SRI aurobindo, observes quote, there is only one way of escape
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  from this Siege of the lower vital nature.
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  It is the entire rejection of all egoistic, vital demand,
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  claim and desire. And the replacement of the
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  dissatisfied, vital urge by the purity of psychic aspiration.
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  Not the satisfaction of these vital clamors nor either.
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  Take retirement is the true solution but the surrender of
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  the vital being to the Divine and a single-minded consecration
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  to the Supreme truth into, which desire and demand cannot enter
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  for the nature of the Supreme. Truth is light and on unda, and
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  where desire and demand are. There can be no Ananda.
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  It is not the vital demand but the psychic urge that alone can
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  bring the nature towards the super mental transformation.
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  For it, alone can change the mental, and vital, and show them
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  their own true movement in quote, reference SRI aurobindo,
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  integral yoga. SRI aurobindo is teaching in
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  method of practice, chapter 9, transformation of the nature
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  transformation of the vital Pages. 246, 2259