Definitions
- Life & Yoga |
- Yoga |
- Yoga
October 28, 1980
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Mental interest Emotional impulse Vital enthusiasm Physical need |
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should transform themselves into aspiration |
Psychic spiritual |
aspiration |
Limit the Scope of different levels of mental plane
MENTAL
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Idea |
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light taking shape in the field of mental consciousness |
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Thought |
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an idea organising itself in the non-light planes of mind |
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Opinion |
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thought acquiring vital direction |
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Preference |
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opinion expressed through vital insistences |
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Construction |
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organisation of thoughts and ideas in the physical plane of the mind without losing all their light |
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habit |
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construction that has lost its light |
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VITAL
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desire |
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a vital force that acts to achieve its ends totally preventing the play of the soul in that field |
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demand |
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a desire enforced by the greatest authority available |
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craving |
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desire that lacks the power of authority but has the greatest nervous intensity |
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sensations |
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functional expressions of field forces of the nervous system |
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passions |
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sensations that have become so intense that they become unconscious in their play |
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selfishness |
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limitation of the physical that expresses in the vital through the element of understanding there |
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pride |
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limited selfishness that achieves success |
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arrogance |
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pride seeking field of expression when its success has not exhausted its energy |
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lust |
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emotion of the physical expressing as a lower vital force unaware in its play |
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greed |
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lust that is awake |
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jealousy |
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socially conscious successful limited selfishness seeking self-preservation by destruction of others |
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envy |
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uncivilised jealousy |
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hostility to truth |
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vital's acute awareness of Truth around while it is unable to survive its touch |
PHYSICAL
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stupidity |
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capacity to slowly know things individually. Incapacity to know the interrelation between any two items |
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doubt |
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negative expression of a capacity to know fresh things |
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disbelief |
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partial capacity to know a fresh thing but inability to accept it |
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obscurity |
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stupidity acting in a severely limited area |
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obstinacy |
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stupidity acting with force |
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pettiness |
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obstinacy acting with negative vital force |
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laziness |
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light in the physical devoid of force |
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unwillingness to change |
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laziness that stops short of action |
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TAMAS |
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matter on the fringe of life |
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