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Editorial

The Vital Plane of Consciousness — Insights from Integral Yoga

The vital plane impinges on the physical, cultivate beauty as that needs an aptitude
innervates and energises it to produce but the Mother explained that the basic
the animate world. On the one hand, this programme for a discipline of beauty to be
impingement produces variety and beauty in cultivated should be, “…. to build a body that
the physical forms, on the other, the friction is beautiful in form, harmonious in posture,
resulting from this impingement results in supple and agile in its movements, powerful in
the first pain whose memory is still carried its activities and robust in its health and organic
in our subconscious. But first let us study functioning (1).”
beauty in its pristine purity.
One interesting fact is that material needs
Pursuit of Beauty decrease with spiritual growth and hence
there might be a loss of interest in aesthetics
The sense of beauty is not only pleasant for and a pursuit of beauty may seem to be an
the eyes, it has also a healing touch and unnecessary exercise. The Mother pointed out
is a powerful motivator for inner growth. that a rejection of aesthetic needs is a regression
The vital also carries the turbulence of the to a primitive life that is not necessarily right and
passions and can adulterate and vulgarise does not help in the growth and efflorescence
beauty. The physical has no such problem of a many-sided, variegated consciousness. The
and can manifest beauty in its pristine purity. loss in material interests is not a sine qua non
It might be argued that everyone cannot of spirituality. It happens not because one has

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