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repeated enjoyment and coercion that Prakriti or Nature at the
command of the soul or Purusha can really deal with her own
creation. She deals with it first by vairDgya in its crudest form
of disgust, but this is too violent a feeling to be permanent;
yet it leaves its mark behind in a deep-seated wish to be rid
of its cause, which survives the return and temporary reign of
the passion. Afterwards its return is viewed with impatience
but without any acute feeling of intolerance. Finally supreme
indifference or udDsnnatD is gained and the final going out of
the tendency by the ordinary process of Nature is watched in
the true spirit of the saWyama who has the knowledge that he
is the witnessing soul and has only to dissociate himself from
a phenomenon for it to cease. The highest stage leads either
to mukti in the form of laya or disappearance, the vrtti vanish-
ing altogether and for good, or else to another kind of free-
dom when the soul knows that it is God's lila and leaves it to
Him whether He shall throw out the tendency or use it for His
own purposes. This is the attitude of the Karmayogin who puts
himself in God's hands and does work for His sake only, know-
ing that it is God's force that works in him. The result of that
attitude of self-surrender is that the Lord of all takes charge
and according to the promise of the Gita delivers His servant
and lover from all sin and evil, the vrtti working in the bodily
machine without affecting the soul and working only when He
raises them up for His purposes. This is nirliptatD, the state of
absolute freedom within the lila.
CWSA 13: 33-35 Sri Aurobindo

Conversion of the sexual impulse
Conversion [of the sexual movement] is one thing and accep-
tance of the present forms in ordinary human nature is another.
The reason given for indulging the sex-action is not at all impera-
tive. It is only a minority that is called to the strict Yogic life and

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