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Namah What Resonates with You?

“Reject all disturbance and call in more and impose its tamasic rule over the rest of the
more peace and equality from above into being. Presently, we live saturated by
the vital. higher forces. They are our true lifeline but
are we equipped to fully embrace them?
“If you get peace then to clean the vital becomes No matter how much we endeavour to
easy. If you simply clean and clean and do open to these forces, particularly with the
nothing else, you go very slowly — for the body, there is opposition. With the physical
vital gets dirty again and has to be cleaned a consciousness, there is a dull resistance
hundred times. The peace is something that and recoil which often rises up, because it
is clean in itself — so to get it is a positive way can no longer bear the sublime downpour
of securing your object. To look for dirt only from above.
and clean is the negative way (2).”
This is one reason why Sri Aurobindo referred
to depression in such circumstances as a
“psychological necessity”. It is not really a
matter of individual shortcoming but a fact
of life (at least in its present form). Under
the pressure of these Forces, all the silt that
had been accumulating over the years in
the physical consciousness lifts itself up to
cloud our emotional states into a sense of
melancholy or “greyness”.
The body’s resonance Surely, we don’t aspire to resonate with this.
We have to work on our body too in Integral
Our being is made of many elements Yoga. It is a unique part of the tapestry of
and much of us represents a construction its practice:
of the Inconscience. There is a physical
consciousness in us, which is inert, heavy “The physical sadhana is to bring down
and dull. Do you find yourself resonating the higher light and power and peace and
from that side of your nature from time Ananda into the body consciousness, to get
to time? Everything outside us becomes rid of the inertia of the physical, the doubts,
lethargic and seemingly as lifeless as lead. limitations, external tendency of the physical
When we start identifying with this side of mind, the defective energies of the vital
our consciousness, what obscures us comes physical (nerves) and bring in instead the
back to us with the same vehemence from the true consciousness there so that the physical
outside world. This situation often happens may be a perfect instrument for the Divine
when the animating vital has gone on strike Will (3).”
or into a state of retreat. The body has to rely
on its own resources and there is no saving Our body consciousness secretly craves
grace. this transmutation. The part that craves it
is more subtle than its gross counterpart. In
Even in saadhanaa, the physical can sometimes spite of that, we have to apply an outer

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