Vital Force!
Forever alive! Never dies, not dead,
Evaporates, diminishes or non existent.
In one form or another, permanent
Lives as alive or liveable form else.
Shifts, changes In accordance to stage
In vivid myriads turns and sustains.
Self sustained, self nutured, stimulant
Within from any, another version creates.
Key contributor to evolutionary cycle.
Transmuts, transfigures, thus transforms.
Thank you...
- Morli Pandya
January, 2018
Extract from the book - Guidance from Sri Aurobindo by Shri Nagin Doshi...
Nagin: Yesterday I was talking with A before I went to bed. This morning when I got up, I found my vital unusually restless. But there had been no conflict or opposition in our talk. Why then such a strong turmoil in the vital?
Sri Aurobindo: It is not only talk that creates a turmoil – disturbing forces can come in by contact also. There may be restlessness or confusion of consciousness in the person who talks with you to which he does not give expression or is not even aware that he is like that, or he may bring forces from others. Again it may be that you met or contacted in your sleep the vital of others or some vital forces in the atmosphere. Turmoil may come in many ways.
Nagin: How does one “bring forces from others” and then pass them on while talking?
Sri Aurobindo: There is no how to it; it so happens. Whenever one mixes with others, things are passing from one to the other. If I talk with a number of people, I bring away with me in my atmosphere many forces that were around them; they may affect me or not, but they remain for a time at least. If in that time I speak with another man, he may receive them from me. It is like a man carrying germs with him from a person he has visited; he may not fall ill himself (or he may), but, even if he does not, he can pass them on to another man he visits afterwards – who falls ill. It is the same thing here in the supraphysical parts.
Nagin: After talking with X, I often feel empty or uneasy or a kind of disturbing restlessness.
Sri Aurobindo: The disturbing restlessness may come from him for he has always been restless; the uneasiness may come from the contact with his obscure atmosphere; but the emptiness can only come from the reasons aforesaid.
Sri Aurobindo: It is not only talk that creates a turmoil – disturbing forces can come in by contact also. There may be restlessness or confusion of consciousness in the person who talks with you to which he does not give expression or is not even aware that he is like that, or he may bring forces from others. Again it may be that you met or contacted in your sleep the vital of others or some vital forces in the atmosphere. Turmoil may come in many ways.
Nagin: How does one “bring forces from others” and then pass them on while talking?
Sri Aurobindo: There is no how to it; it so happens. Whenever one mixes with others, things are passing from one to the other. If I talk with a number of people, I bring away with me in my atmosphere many forces that were around them; they may affect me or not, but they remain for a time at least. If in that time I speak with another man, he may receive them from me. It is like a man carrying germs with him from a person he has visited; he may not fall ill himself (or he may), but, even if he does not, he can pass them on to another man he visits afterwards – who falls ill. It is the same thing here in the supraphysical parts.
Nagin: After talking with X, I often feel empty or uneasy or a kind of disturbing restlessness.
Sri Aurobindo: The disturbing restlessness may come from him for he has always been restless; the uneasiness may come from the contact with his obscure atmosphere; but the emptiness can only come from the reasons aforesaid.
Nagin: The last three days I talked so much that all my inner energy was exhausted.
Sri Aurobindo: Talking has a very exhausting effect for the inner energies -unless the inner itself controls the talk. Everyone who lives much inside tends to feel too much talking a fatiguing thing and quite shallow and unnecessary unless it is talk that comes from within. Of course if you make a practice of talking much, that will bring you outside, externalise you and then you will no longer find it fatiguing even if you talk for 18 hours out of the 24.
Nagin: It is my perpetual experience that the less I speak, the better my inner being feels. If I talk more than usual, it brings a headache! Is this not a sign of disability?
Sri Aurobindo: It is not a sign of disability. It is a characteristic of the inward consciousness in sadhana not to throw itself out too much in speech, as that tends towards externalisation and dispersion. The headache is a sign that this is being too much done.
Nagin: Why does even a slight casual talk create a disturbance in my work?
Sri Aurobindo: It is because by talking one passes into another consciousness. That is so long as the inner being has not attained a constant and even calm poise. It is no use giving up talking altogether – the proper course is to speak usefully to people but not to talk for the sake of talking.
Nagin: Can one maintain peace within, even while talking and mixing with others?
Sri Aurobindo: Possible only if the inner being can separate itself in the peace and remain unaffected by the outer movements and contacts.
One has to go inside into the inner being and one can minimise contacts, if necessary, not as an absolute rule – provided there is a real living in the inner being and sufficient contact with outside things not to lose one’s hold of practical realities. But if there is an isolation which brings depression, inertia, unhappiness, gloom or else morbidity of any kind, then it is evident that the retirement is not wholesome.
Nagin: If one tries to deal with the outer world without that poise of peace and silence, is he not likely to be entangled by the vital forces?
Sri Aurobindo: Yes, but in retirement from the outside things also vital forces can get hold of you.
* Vol 3, pp 94-97
Flower Name: Pseuderanthemum
Significance: Organisation in the VitalIndispensable for all realisation.
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