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Overcoming Vital Reactions of Attraction and Repulsion in Action · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  There are numerous activities we undertake in our lives.
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  That engage us with more or less interest some, we treat as
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  purely, mechanical some, we detest, but do them because we
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  have to some illicit, very positive and focused interest in
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  US. And we tend to like those
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  activities are vital, nature creates an it's normal action, a
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  response of liking or disliking and we then tend to be attracted
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  to those things we like and repulsed by those.
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  We do not In the practice of Karma, Yoga these vital
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  reactions need to be resolved so that we can undertake any action
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  called for with, at least a measure of equanimity and
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  without the attraction, repulsion Force operative.
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  There are several methods to achieve.
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  This one is to actively cultivate the Equanimity
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  throughout the being and trained ourselves to keep our minds
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  quiet and our Vital energy. Focused on carrying out whatever
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  the task, maybe another is to work on the separation of the
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  witness Consciousness from the active outer nature.
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  And thus not, let the desires and the avoidances of the vital,
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  affect our deeper consciousness. Yet another is to find a way to
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  accept, whatever action as a means of gaining deeper
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  knowledge, about the nature and how to manage it.
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  In other words, make, even the most mundane acts part of the
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  psychological evaluation and yogic development process, and
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  there is a method of focusing on each action as a sort of
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  mindfulness or awareness exercise.
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  And finding out how to enjoy each thing without impatience or
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  disturbance. SRI aurobindo observes quote.
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  It is not that you have to do what you dislike but that you
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  have to cease to dislike to do, only what you'd like is to
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  indulge the vital and maintain its domination over the nature.
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  For that is the very principle of the un-- transform nature to
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  be governed by its likes and dislikes to be able to do
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  anything with Equanimity is the principle of Karma Yoga. it
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  depends on a certain extension and intensifying of the
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  Consciousness by which all activity becomes, interesting,
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  not for itself, but because of the Consciousness put into it
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  and through the intensity of the energy, there is a pleasure in
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  the exercise of the energy and in the perfect doing of the
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  work, whatever the work maybe In quote, reference SRI, aurobindo
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  and the mother growing within the psychology of inner
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  development. Chapter 5 growth of
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  Consciousness means and methods page 99.