The Necessity for Quietude of the Vital Nature

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There can be no permanent
settlement of Peace in the mind

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if the vital Nature has not also
attained quiet and peace.

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Many people take this as a
reason to abandon active life

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and involvement in society and
the World At Large, yet this is

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not a solution.
The vital nature is very much

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driven by the Guna of rajas
which involves action passion

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desire and can be highly
ambitious or aggressive when it

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is fully active.
Abandonment of this.

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Action would be allowing the
Guna of Thomas.

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Inertia Darkness indolence to
become predominant.

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What is required is not the
rising of Thomas, but the

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insertion of light and Harmony
into the action of rajas.

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In other words, the infusion of
a supplicant element into the

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rajasic force.
It is therefore necessary to use

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the quiet and peace that is
entering into the Mind, along

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with the separation of the
witness Consciousness, from the

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active nature to provide
distance in the viewing of the

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actions of the vital nature, to
begin to influence the vital

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nature.
Toward one of harmonious

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light-filled action rather than
the impulsive often violent

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motion of the unrefined Raja
Basic nature.

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The mother writes quote.
Now one can quickly realize that

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there is another quietude which
is necessary and even very

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urgently needed.
This is the vital quietude that

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is to say the absence of Desire
only the vital when not

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sufficiently developed.
As soon as it is told to keep

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quiet either goes to sleep or
goes on strike.

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It says uh, no nothing doing.
I won't go any further.

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If you don't give me the
sustenance.

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I need excitement.
Enthusiasm, desire, even

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passion.
I prefer not to move and I won't

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do anything any longer.
So, there's the problem.

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It becomes a little more
delicate and perhaps even more

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difficult.
Still for Shirley to fall from

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excitement into inertia, is very
far from being a progress.

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When was never mistake inertia
where somnolent passivity for

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calm and quote reference SRI
aurobindo, and the mother

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growing within the psychology of
inner development, chapter for

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growth of Consciousness First
Steps in Foundation page, 76.