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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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