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The Different Processes for Change of the Vital Nature and the Psychic Being · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The vital nature under the influence of the Guna of Rajas
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  tends to create drama. Struggle, disruption, aggressive
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  responses are all a part of this vital play.
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  One of the manifestations of this drama is to raise the
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  temperature about any resistance, obstacle, delay,
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  etcetera that the individual experiences.
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  Another is to seek out a culprit and label it as a hostile force,
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  thereby accentuating the challenge being faced and
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  increasing the dramatic effect. The nature of the psychic being
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  is different. It tends to be a quiet voice
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  that recommends, guides and maintains a constant patient
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  presence that has its influence grow over time as the seeker
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  begins to hear the voice of the soul.
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  Images from material nature illustrate the difference.
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  The volcano erupts with heat, light and earthquake activity
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  while it changes a landscape quickly.
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  A river also can change a landscape, but it may take
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  thousands of years to carve out a Canyon in Hard Rock, Sri
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  Robindo writes quote, The method of the divine manifestation is
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  through calm and harmony, not through a catastrophic upheaval.
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  The latter is the sign of a struggle, generally of
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  conflicting vital forces, but at any rate a struggle on the
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  inferior plane. You think too much of the
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  adverse forces. That kind of preoccupation
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  causes much unnecessary struggle.
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  Fix your mind on the positive side, open to the Mother's
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  power. Concentrate on Her protection,
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  call for light, calm and peace and purity and growth into the
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  Divine consciousness and knowledge.
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  The idea of tests also is not a healthy idea and ought not to be
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  pushed too far. Tests are applied not by the
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  Divine, but by the forces of the lower planes, mental, vital,
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  physical, and allowed by the Divine, because that is part of
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  the soul's training and helps it to know itself, its powers, and
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  the limitations it has to outgrow.
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  The Mother is not testing you at every moment, but rather helping
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  you at every moment to rise beyond the necessity of tests
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  and difficulties which belong to the inferior consciousness.
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  To be always conscious of that help will be your best safeguard
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  against all attacks, whether of adverse powers or of your own
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  lower nature. End Quote Reference.
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  Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3 in difficulty, pages
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  54 to 55.