Chapter 19Aspiration · Intensity of Aspiration and Vital Impatience

Intense aspiration is always good, but let there also be calm and will be done in its due time.

* There can be an intense but quiet aspiration which does not disturb the harmony of the inner being.

* Yes — that is the way. The intensity of the aspiration brings the intensity of the experience and by repeated intensity of the experience the change.

* The impatience and restless disquietude come from the vital which brings that even into the aspiration. The aspiration must be intense, calm and strong (that is the nature of the true vital also) and not restless and impatient, — then alone it can be stable.

* It is the psychic that gives the true aspiration — if the vital is purified and subjected to the psychic, then the vital gives intensity — but if it is unpurified it brings in a rajasic intensity with impatience and reactions of depression and disappointment. As for the calm and equality needed, it must come down from above through the mind.

* That [fiery aspiration] is all right, that is the psychic aspiration, the psychic fire. Where the vital comes in is in the impatience for result and dissatisfaction if the result is not immediate. That must cease.