vital

11/22/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Vital’s Resistance to Surrender

For the vital wants to affirm its own ideas, impulses, desires, preferences and to do what it likes, it does not want to feel another force […]
11/14/2025
The Mother

The Vital’s Hunger for Praise

One of the commonest demands of the vital is for praise. It hates to be criticised and treated as if it were of little importance. But […]
10/25/2025
Sri Aurobindo in his room

Compliments ? A great error of Human Vital

That is a great error of the human vital—to want compliments for their own sake and to be depressed by their absence and imagine that it […]
12/08/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

A Good Instrument But a Bad Master

The human vital is almost always of that nature [full of desires and fancies], but that is no reason why one should accept it as an […]
12/02/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Insanity

Insanity is always due to a vital attack, or rather possession although there is often a physical reason as well. Hysteria is due to a pressure […]
11/25/2024
Sri Aurobindo

Vital Reactions

A vital reaction means a response of the vital to the touch or pressure of an idea, action, event, person or thing. E.g. if someone speaks […]
10/27/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram with Dyuman

Bodily Fatigue in Sleep

Please tell me what kind of tiring things I have been doing in my sleep. Bodily fatigue is a physical rendering of certain activities and contacts […]
09/20/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Emptiness is not bad

Emptiness is not in itself a bad condition, only if it is a sad and restless emptiness of the dissatisfied vital. In sadhana emptiness is very […]
08/04/2024
The Mother

Unhappiness Inside : The Cure

My sweet Mother, I feel very tired; some part in me is not happy. I don’t know whether it is inside me or outside; something feels […]