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The Sequence of Elimination of Unwanted Vital Movements · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The spiritual seeker is so close to the movements and reactions
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  of the mind, life and body in most circumstances that he can
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  easily become confused or concerned about the process,
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  timing and steps of the desired changes to responses of the
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  external nature. It is frequently noted that it
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  is easier to see the difficulties and the solutions
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  for others than for oneself when the seeker is in the midst of
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  the process of trying to effectuate any changes.
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  It is easy, therefore, to become discouraged by what appear to be
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  delays, setbacks and recrudescences of the old nature
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  and its embedded response and reaction cycle.
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  It is useful to step back and take a wider and longer view of
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  how the process of rejection and change actually takes place.
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  The seeker may struggle trying to use his mind, his will, his
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  emotional engagement to effectuate change.
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  He may find that he only has mixed results and on occasion
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  the undesired reactions or movements reappear.
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  Rio Robindo provides the needed overview as he examines the
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  process of the systematic elimination of an unwanted sex
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  impulse for the spiritual practitioner propounding the
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  problem to him. A similar process is invoked in
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  dealing with virtually any vital or lower vital movement that the
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  seeker is rejecting, Srioro Bindo observes quote The sex
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  trouble is serious only so long as it can get the consent of the
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  mind and the vital will. If it is driven from the mind,
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  that is, if the mind refuses its consent but the vital part
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  responds to it, it comes as a large wave of vital desire and
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  tries to sweep the mind away by force along with it.
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  If it is driven also from the higher vital, from the heart and
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  the dynamic possessive life force, it takes refuge in the
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  lower vital and comes in the shape of smaller suggestions and
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  urges there. Driven from the lower vital
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  level, it goes down into the obscure, inertly repetitive
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  physical, and comes as sensations in the sex centre and
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  a mechanical response to suggestion.
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  Driven from there too, it goes down into the subcontinent and
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  comes up as dreams and nighty missions even without dreams,
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  But to wherever it recedes, it tries still for a time from that
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  base or refuge to trouble and recapture the ascent of the
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  higher parts, until the victory is complete.
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  And it is driven even out of the surrounding or environmental
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  consciousness, which is the extension of ourselves into the
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  general or universal nature. End Quote.
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  Reference. Srioro Bindu.
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  Pieces of yoga. Chapter 4.
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  Desire Food, Sex, pages 78 to 79.