{"id":2669,"date":"2013-07-13T01:43:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=2669"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:43:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:43:07","slug":"26-the-parts-of-the-body-and-the-centres-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\/26-the-parts-of-the-body-and-the-centres-vol-28-letters-on-yoga-i","title":{"rendered":"-26_The Parts of the Body and the Centres.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tChapter Two <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Parts of the Body
\nand the Centres
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\n\tThe Parts of the Body in Yoga
\n\t<\/a>
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

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Different parts of the body indicate for this purpose different parts of the nature. The head is the seat of the mind (buddhi)
\nand the lower part of the mouth, chin, neck are the seat of the external or physical mind. It indicates that the force is working
\nthere to change and prepare this part of the mind and get rid of resistance and wrong mental habits. <\/p>\n


\nThe Cerebellum
\n<\/a>
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

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Yes, it [the cerebellum<\/i>] has some connection with the subconscient. <\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Ear, Nose, Face and Throat
\n\t<\/a>
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It cannot be anything physical but only a subtle physical sensation. The ear is the passage of communion between the inner
\nmind centre and the thought-forces or thought-waves of the universal Nature. It sounds like a sensation of opening and
\nenlarging of this passage. <\/p>\n

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* <\/p>\n

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\n

The nose is connected with the vital dynamic part of the mental
\n\u2014a man with a strong nose is supposed to have a strong will
\nor a strong mental personality, \u2014though I don’t know whether it is invariably true. But the vital physical? Of course the nose
\nis the passage of the Prana and the Prana is the support of the vital physical. <\/p>\n

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* <\/p>\n

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The working on the lower part of the face always indicates an action on the externalising mind (physical mental) whose centre
\nis in the throat. <\/p>\n

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* <\/p>\n

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\n

The neck and throat and the lower part of the face belong to the externalising mind, the physical mental. The forehead to the
\ninner Mind. Above the head are the higher planes of Mind. <\/p>\n

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* <\/p>\n

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\n

The organ of speech is an instrument of the physical mental or expressive externalising mind. <\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Chest, Stomach and Abdomen
\n\t<\/a> <\/b> <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It is because the centre of your difficulties has been there [in the<\/i>
\nchest and stomach<\/i>]. The chest = the emotional nature exposed to wrong feelings; the stomach = the dynamic vital centre, exposed
\nto wrong desires, ambitions, sense of possession and vital ego etc. But all that will progressively become things of the past,
\nwhen the Peace, the Presence, the inner happiness increase and take possession of the external nature. <\/p>\n

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* <\/p>\n

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\n

Yogically, psycho-physically etc. etc. stomach, heart and intestine lodge the vital movements, not <\/i>the physical consciousness \u2014it is there that anger, fear, love, hate and all the other psychological privileges of the animal tumble about and upset the physical and moral digestion. The Muladhara is the seat of the
\nphysical consciousness proper. <\/p>\n

* <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

As for the lower part of the body, it is the physical and external vital that it represents at present and that has still to be penetrated and held by the Force. But the conditions under which it can be done are growing more complete. The physical opening
\nneeds a great quietude which replaces the tamasic inertia of body   <\/p>\n

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 nature by a true peace. Then all else can be done. <\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Legs and Feet
\n<\/a>
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It is the material consciousness that is indicated by the legs and feet. Below the feet is the subconscient. There is no big centre
\nbelow the Muladhara in the body, but there are minor centres everywhere. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

* <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

The leg indicates the physical (material) consciousness. All below
\nthe Muladhara is the range of the physical consciousness proper including the mental physical, vital physical, material physical.
\nThis [aspiration rising from the legs<\/i>] would indicate therefore an aspiration from Matter (bodily Matter). <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Sides of the Body <\/a> <\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The two sides of the body are supposed to represent two different
\nsides of the being, the side of consciousness and knowledge and the side of force and action. The feeling you had at meditation
\nmay have been the sense of the removal of some veil of obscurity covering the mind
\n\t\u2014the head from the crown to the throat being
\nthe seat of the thinking mind. <\/p>\n

* <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

It is usually supposed that the left is the side of power, the right of knowledge. <\/p>\n

The ascent from below [the left foot<\/i>] means of course the material and subconscient calling down the higher power
\n\u2014and
\nit is true that there is a correspondence between the depth from which the ascension goes and the height from which the power
\nfrom above comes.   <\/p>\n

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