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Namah Vol. 30, Issue 1, 24th April 2022

It is not only pain but the first mismatch vital-physical is responsible for many diseases
between Life-Energy and the material con- of the body and is especially involved in the
sciousness that is also carried in the depths disorder of the nerves.
of our being, for it took time, albeit ages, for
the Life-Energy to be smoothly harmonised “The nervous part of the being is a portion of
with the physical matrix. At first there was the vital — it is the vital-physical, the life-force
a lingering quiver when the momentum of closely enmeshed in the reactions, desires,
vital energy forced the physical consciousness needs, sensations of the body (3).”
to get adjusted to it. That ancient quiver
still persists in the vital-physical, resulting “The vital-physical governs all the small daily
in symptoms like nervous irritability and reactions to outward things — reactions of the
diseases like irritable bowel syndrome. nerves and the body consciousness and the
reflex emotions and sensations; it motives much
The dominance of the vital of the ordinary actions of man and joins with the
lower parts of the vital proper in producing lust,
When Life-Energy had to animate the inert, jealousy, anger, violence etc. In its lowest parts
lifeless, featureless matrix of Matter, it had (vital-material) it is the agent of pain, physical
to dominate over Matter. That dominance illness etc (4).”
was necessary to arouse Matter from its dull
repose and slumber so as to produce a world The AAnanda factor
of variegated multiplicities that spanned from
the exuberance of flowers to the exaggeration The friction produced by the leap of the
of human emotions. And this led not only to Life-Energy on the bosom of inert Matter
wondrous capacities that allowed the human was not a stand-alone phenomenon. It was
to aspire to great heights, it also led to a sanctioned by the Supreme Reality which
distortion of the trend towards domination. decreed the manifestation. The Supreme
Thus if human nature is endowed with love, Reality is Sachchidananda, a triune principle
beauty, generosity and compassion, it is also in three poises. There is the Existential poise
susceptible to desire, hatred, jealousy and of Sat that is represented as the essence of
aggression. everything as the Self. There is the dynamic
poise of Cit or Cit-SSakti which commissions
The resurgence of the hidden memory of the the multiverses. And there is the value
primal friction coupled with the deviation aspect in the poise of Ananda or Bliss which
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of the vital into the realm of emotional motivates the manifestation intrinsically.
disharmony perhaps sowed the seeds of a
new pattern of diseases called psychosomatic This Ananda or Bliss-principle, that motivated
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disorders, where behind the somatic symptoms, the Life-Energy to jump into the bosom of
lurks the psychological factors. Matter, was there to awaken it to participate
in the orchestra of creation. So the friction
The vital-physical which vibrates to pain can also in a different
denouement, in a different octave, vibrate
No wonder Sri Aurobindo described that the to the sensation of pleasure. That is how

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