{"id":4043,"date":"2013-07-13T01:53:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=4043"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:53:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:53:02","slug":"25-vital-conversion-vol-03-questions-and-answers-volume-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/01-cwmce\/03-questions-and-answers-volume-03\/25-vital-conversion-vol-03-questions-and-answers-volume-03","title":{"rendered":"-25_Vital Conversion.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\n
\nVital
\nConversion \u2013 <\/font> <\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


\n
\nRebirth
\nand Personal Survival <\/font> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\n <\/font> <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\nI<\/font><\/span>t is very
\nimportant that the vital should agree to change: it must learn to accept
\nconversion. The vital is not in itself anything to be decried: in fact, all
\nenergy, dynamism and push comes from it \u2013 without it you may be calm and wise
\nand detached, but you will be absolutely immobile and uncreative. The body
\nwould be inert, just like a stone, without the force infused into it by the
\nvital. If the vital is left out, you would be able to realise nothing. But like
\na spirited horse it is liable to be refractory and, therefore, requires good
\ncontrol. You have to keep your reins tight and your whip ready in order to keep
\nthe powerful beast in check. Of course, once the vital has consented to be
\ntransformed there is no need either of the tight reins or the ready whip: you
\nproceed smoothly towards the goal, leaping lightly over each obstacle in the
\nway. Otherwise, the vital will either stumble over the barriers or fight shy of
\njumping them. It is no use thinking that all would have been well if there had
\nbeen no hurdles at all: they are a part of the game and if they are not faced
\nand jumped in this life on earth you will have to surmount a hundred times
\ngreater ones on other planes and in other lives. The best thing is to make up
\nyour mind once for all and train your vital to run the race here while you are
\nin the body and, if possible, win it. You are sure to win provided your
\nphysical mind reforms itself and helps the vital to change, instead of playing
\nthe role of a robber who holds down his victim while his accomplice makes a
\nhaul of the victim’s property. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The condition of your being after death depends very much on
\nwhether the vital has been converted here or not. If you are only a medley of
\nunorganised impulses, then at death, when the consciousness withdraws into the
\nbackground, the different personalities in you fall apart, rushing hither and
\nthither to seek their own suitable environments. One part may enter into <\/span>
\n
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another
\nperson who has an affinity for it, another may even enter an animal, while that
\nwhich has been alive to the divine Presence may remain attached to the central
\npsychic being. But if you are fully organised and converted into a single
\nindividual, bent on reaching the goal of evolution, then you will be conscious
\nafter death and preserve a continuity. <\/span><\/p>\n

As to rebirth, it must be confessed that no rule holds good for
\nall cases. Some people are reborn almost immediately \u2013 it most often happens
\nwith parents that a part of them gets assimilated into their children if the
\nlatter are very much attached to them. Some people, however, take centuries and
\neven thousands of years to be reincarnated. They wait for the necessary
\nconditions to mature which will provide them with a suitable milieu<\/i>. If one is yogically conscious he
\ncan actually prepare the body of his next birth. Before the body is born he
\nshapes and moulds it, so that it is he who is the true maker of it while the
\nparents of the new child are only the adventitious, purely physical agents. <\/span><\/p>\n

I must here remark in passing that there is a common misconception
\nabout rebirth. People believe that it is they who are reincarnated, yet this is
\na palpable error, though it is true that parts of their being are amalgamated
\nwith others and so act through new bodies. Their whole being is not reborn,
\nbecause of the simple fact that what they evidently mean by their \u201cself\u201d is not
\na real individualised entity but their exterior personality, the personality
\ncomposed of the outward name and form. Hence it is wrong to say that A is
\nreborn as B: A is a personality organically distinct from B and cannot be said
\nto have reincarnated as B. You would be right only if you said that the same
\nline of consciousness uses both A and B as the instruments of its manifestation.
\nFor, what does remain constant is the psychic being which is not the outward
\npersonality at all, but something deep within, something which is not the
\nexterior name and form. <\/span><\/p>\n

You want to know if all men retain their identities after the dissolution
\nof their bodies. Well, it depends. The ordinary mass <\/span>
\n
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of men are
\nso closely identified with their bodies that nothing of them survives when the
\nphysical disintegrates. Not that absolutely nothing survives \u2013 the vital and
\nmental stuff always remains but it is not identical with the physical
\npersonality. What survives has not the clear impress of the exterior
\npersonality because the latter was content to remain a jumble of impulses and
\ndesires, a temporary organic unity constituted by the cohesion and coordination
\nof bodily functions, and when these functions cease their pseudo-unity also
\nnaturally comes to an end. Only if there has been a mental discipline imposed
\non the different parts and they have been made to subserve a common mental
\nideal, can there be some sort of genuine individuality which retains the memory
\nof its earthly life and so survives consciously. The artist, the philosopher
\nand other developed persons who have organised, individualised and to a certain
\nextent converted their vital being can be said to survive, because they have
\nbrought into their exterior consciousness some shadow of the psychic entity
\nwhich is immortal by its very nature and whose aim is to progressively build up
\nthe being around the central Divine Will.\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 146<\/span><\/p>\n

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