{"id":2633,"date":"2013-07-13T01:42:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=2633"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:42:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:42:53","slug":"19-the-lower-nature-or-lower-hemisphere-vol-28-letters-on-yoga-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/03-cwsa\/28-letters-on-yoga-i\/19-the-lower-nature-or-lower-hemisphere-vol-28-letters-on-yoga-i","title":{"rendered":"-19_The Lower Nature or Lower Hemisphere.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nChapter Five <\/font><\/b>
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\nThe Lower Nature
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\nor Lower Hemisphere <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

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\nThe Higher Nature and the Lower Nature
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The lower nature is called lower because it is unenlightened
\n\u2014it can’t be enlightened and changed by ignoring it, the higher
\nhas to be brought there. So one must speak of both, not of the higher alone. <\/p>\n

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* <\/p>\n

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But why do you suppose that you alone are made of the lower
\nnature? Every earthly being is so made. The higher nature is there but behind and above. It has to be brought forward from
\nthe inner being or brought down from above constantly and persistently till the lower is changed. <\/p>\n

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\nThe Three Planes of the Lower Hemisphere
\n<\/a> <\/b><\/p>\n

\nand Their Energies <\/a> <\/b><\/p>\n

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There is a vital plane (self-existent) above the material universe which we see; there is a mental plane (self-existent) above the vital and material. These three together, \u2014mental, vital, physical, \u2014are called the triple universe of the lower hemisphere. They
\nhave been established in the earth-consciousness by evolution \u2014but they exist in themselves before the evolution, above the
\nearth-consciousness and the material plane to which the earth belongs. <\/p>\n

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* <\/p>\n

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\n

Forces, movements are not really planes but lines of conscious
\nness or force which you may feel in that way one over the other. The planes are planes of consciousness and its powers
\n\t\u2014in the
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mind there is a mind of Knowledge (higher mind), a mind of will (dynamic mind) and a mind of thought (intellect) which are one
\nabove the other and it is these you probably mean. They easily get covered when their forces come down into the ordinary mind
\n\u2014covered by the lower consciousness. <\/p>\n

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* <\/p>\n

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It is not possible to give a name to all the energies that act in the being. They are put into several classes. First are the
\nmental thought energies (intelligence, dynamic mind, physical perceptive mind); the vital
\n\u20141st emotional vital with all the
\nemotional movements in it; 2nd the central vital (the larger desires, passions, ambitions, forces of work, possession, conquest); 3rd the lower vital (all the small egoistic movements of desire, enjoyment, lust, greed, jealousy, envy, vanity etc. etc.);
\n4th the physical energies concerned with the material life and its functioning, needs, outer action, instrumental fulfilment of the
\nother powers. <\/p>\n

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* <\/p>\n

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\n

It cannot be explained accurately in a few words; but roughly thoughts are of the mind, emotions are of the heart, desires are of
\nthe vital. On the surface they are all mixed together, but behind they come from separate parts of the being. <\/p>\n

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\nThe Adhara <\/b><\/p>\n

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The Adhara is that in which the consciousness is now contained
\n\t\u2014mind-life-body. <\/p>\n

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* <\/p>\n

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\n

The Adhar means the mind, life and body as instruments of the expression of the being
\n\u2014the being is the conscious Existence
\nwithin which uses mind, life and body as its instruments of thought, feeling and action. But sometimes the word being is
\nused to signify the whole \u2014soul and nature together.   <\/p>\n

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