Our Human Makeup is a summary of this aspect of being as presented in Sri Aurobindo's teachings:|
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The following quotes of Sri Aurobindo are from the "Divine Plan" website (no longer online)
"It is made more of automatic or habitual instincts, impulses, sensations and feelings than any thing else. If the mind stands back and judges and questions, the vital physical can only answer "I want", "I like", "I dislike", "I feel like that." "
"The cardinal defect, that which has been always standing in the way and is now isolated in an extreme prominence, is seated or at least is at present concentrated in the lower vital being. I mean that part of the vital-physical nature with its petty and obstinate egoism which actuates the external human personality, - that which supports its surface thoughts and dominates its habitual ways of feeling, character and action. I am not concerned here with the other parts of the being and I do not speak of anything in the higher mind, the psychic self or the higher and larger vital nature; for, when the lower vital rises, these are pushed into the background, if not covered over for the time, by the lower vital being and this external personality. Whatever there may be in these higher parts, aspiration to the Truth, devotion, or will to conquer the obstacles and the hostile forces, it cannot become integral, it cannot remain unmixed or unspoilt or continue to be effective so long as the lower vital and the external personality have not accepted the Light and consented to change "
Aroused from the darkness where they crouched in the depths,
Prisoned from the sight, they can be held no more
His nature's impulses are now his lords.
The following (from Growth Online - Our Human Makeup is a summary of this aspect of being as presented in Sri Aurobindo's teachings:
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VITAL PHYSICAL (The
vital part of the physical plane) Overview This is the seat of our physical urges and sensations. It is where nervous sensation, pain, physical urge, hunger, lust, craving, physical possessiveness, and territoriality are rooted. Function Physical sensations and urges, emotions of the physical. Experiences attraction and repulsion of physical sensations. Body being moved to act by physical emotions. Energized by that which is painful or pleasurable. Expressions Nervous sensation, comfort, pain, physical urge, hunger, lust, craving, physical possessiveness, territoriality, war, primitive physical energy, religious superstition. Relationships determined by heredity, family, acquisitive, crude, fearless, passionate, primitive Traits Lustful, territorial, primitive, lusting, craving, possessive, hungry, bullyish Works Laborer. Unskilled, energetic, physical worker. |
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