The Food of the Vital Being

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We can.
Observe that there are times

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when the vital nature is
energetic.

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Enthused, active and makes
efforts.

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There are other times when it is
dull, withdrawn, sullen.

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Lacking energy.
And clearly is not taking

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interest in.
Doing anything.

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The difference between these two
states generally lies in the way

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the vital nature obtains its.
Food in this sense is the method

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by which the vital nature
becomes energized.

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Whereas the physical body is fed
by imbibing material and

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converting it to energy, the
vital nature is fed by taking in

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sensations.
And energy from a variety of

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sources, including but not
limited to, the energy created

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by eating of food.
In the physical sense, the

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mother describes the various
forms of sustenance that.

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Underpin the actions of the
vital nature, the mother notes

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quote.
In fact, the vital has three

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sources of subsistence.
The one most easily accessible

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to it comes from below, from the
physical energies through the

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sensation.
The 2nd is on its own plane when

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it is sufficiently vast and
receptive by contact with the

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universal vital forces.
The 3rd, to which it usually

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opens only in a great aspiration
for progress, comes to it from

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above.
By the infusion and absorption

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of spiritual forces and
inspiration to these sources,

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men always strive more or less
to add another which is for them

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at the same time the source of
most of their torments and

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misfortunes.
It is the interchange of vital

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forces with their fellows,
usually in groups of two which

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they most often mistake for
love, but which is only the

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attraction between two forces
that take pleasure in mutual

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interchange.
End Quote Reference Sriorobindo

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and the Mother Our Many Selves,
Practical Yogic Psychology,

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Chapter 2 Planes and Parts of
the Being, page 29.