The Difference Between Psychic Emotions and Vital Emotions

0:01 Most people judge the emotional relationship based on the external vital nature they have built in expectations, many of them conditioned by the social norms within which they are living. Media reinforces the stereotypes of what these emotions are. The ideal of romanticized love, for example, is one that drives much of the social expectation and interaction that takes place in modern Western society. The ideal of family duty and a growing sense of love for spouse, children, and parents is the source of strong emotional bonds in other parts of the world.

0:42 The vital emotions that arise from these backgrounds are narrow, exclusive and in many cases tinged with a sense of ownership or forms of jealousy and attachment. They tend to create a separation between the inner circle involved in that relationship and everyone else outside. Psychic emotions, including psychic forms of love, are much wider and more inclusive, less attached to specific individuals and less overtly passionate. They encompass not just the immediate relationship, but also a much wider view of the world.

1:25 Because they do not exhibit the kind of overt expressions that we normally assign to emotions in relationships, we do not interpret them properly. A form of love that does not take on itself any possessiveness, jealousy, extremes such as self harm or when things breakdown. Harm of the other party in the relationship is considered to be devoid of the reality of love, when in fact it may be a deeper, more abiding and more comprehensive form that is simply not being recognized. This is not the same as what is called platonic love, where there is a mental affinity and support structure. Rather it is based on a psychic emotion and a deep connection that has its own rhythm and justification. It is also not the same as that professed love for humanity that does not seem to care about the individuals who make up that humanity.

2:28 It is in that sense not abstract love, but something far more that encompasses both the whole and the individual parts. The mother observes. Quote. As I said, some people are quite beyond that. They have been able to control it in such a way that it does not get mixed up with anything else. They have in themselves this psychic love which is full of self forgetfulness, self giving, compassion, generosity, nobility of life and is a great power of identification. So most of these people think they are cold or indifferent.

3:09 They are very nice people, you see, but they do not love, and sometimes they themselves do not know. I have known people who thought they had no love because they didn't have this vital vibration. Usually when people speak of emotions, they are Speaking of vital emotions. But there is another kind of emotion which is of an infinitely higher order and doesn't express itself in the same way, which has just as much intensity, but an intensity that is under control, contained, condensed, concentrated, and is an extraordinary dynamic power.

3:51 True love can achieve extraordinary things, but it is rare. All kinds of miracles can be done out of love for the person 1 loves, not for everyone, but for the people or the person 1 loves. But it has to be a love free from all vital mixture, an absolutely pure and selfless love which demands nothing in return, which expects nothing in return. End Quote. Reference Sri Oruvinda and the Mother, the psychic being, soul, its nature, mission and evolution. Section 1. Meaning and Nature of the Psychic Being, pages 40 to 41.