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Physical | Lightness, flexibility and health in body | Sensory awareness and joy during exercising or routine tasks | Resilience in the body to deal with challenging conditions | Loving and caring to body | Precise awareness of body’s health / functioning | Seeing in the mind, the body with fullest capacities and health | Clarified ideology for body’s wellness, health and development | Conscious ‘prana’ in every pore of body, that is aligned and proportional |
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Lower Vital | Calmness and relaxedness in nerves | Sensory joy, nourishment and pleasure | Enjoying sensory intensity | Caring for one’s comforts and needs | Sensory acuity and fine sensory distinction | Aesthetic taste and sense of beauty | Senses are guided by a pure, clear and discerning mind | Equally poised with all external sensations of pain, pleasure and indifference |
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Central Vital | Steady energy to do something | Fun and enjoyment in the process of achieving something | Invincible strength to face, succeed and conquer any situation | Empowering others and sharing power & decision making | Drive to achieve as per clear objectives and standards | Drive to achieve by transcending limits– risk taking and seeking new alternatives | Drive to achieve guided by ideals and values | Invincible inner stillness under any circumstance |
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Higher Vital | Stable and calm emotions in relationships | Enjoying all nuances of emotions in relationships | Strength to bear emotional intensity | Compassionate and caring to all | Bringing in impartiality and objectivity in emotional experience | Creating space for newness and emotional differences in relationships | Seeing fundamental pattern beneath all emotional experiences | Connecting to the Sacred that abides within oneself and in all beings |
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Physical Mind | Words convey consistent messages | Words are sensory based and pleasant | Words are motivating and propels action | Words are warm, caring, soothing and gentle | Words used are precise, data-based and capture accurate information | Words create and open up new possibilities | Words are reflective and introspective in nature | Words are long-living and carry a conscious force |
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Vital Mind | Images recreated imprints new possibilities into action | Images are sensorial and vividly rich | Images are compelling and energising | Images evoke desired emotions within | Images are clear and comprehensible in all its details | New and creative images replace the older ones in the thinking process | Seeing the fundamental theme or pattern of all images | Direct seeing of the deeper nature of everything by inner vision |
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Pure Mind | Concepts reconstructed ingrains desired principles into action | Concept is simple and easily livable | The concept has inherent power and will force | Concepts emerge through co-creation and collective intelligence | Application frameworks and details of concepts are clearly drawn out | New concepts, world-views & meaning making patterns replace old ones | Synthesizing all concepts into a comprehensive & cohesive whole | Mind is calm, purified & silent receiving whole-ideas as intuitions |
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Understanding the Delight Matrix:
- Our inner state influences and effects our outer behaviors and actions
- Our inner state is a function of the condition of the parts of our being – physical, vital, mental and spiritual.
- These parts of being are further subdivided in the Telos Model (based on the Integral vision and yoga of Sri Aurobindo) as – Physical, Lower Vital, Central Vital, Higher Vital, Physical Mind, Vital Mind, Pure Mind and Spiritual (Deeper and Higher Self).
- Each part of being has an objective and a subjective side. The objective side is the substance of the part of being. The subjective side is the degree of purification and development of the part of being – the quintessence of which is the presence of delight.
- The below tabular column shows the substance and delight of each part of being:
Part of Being | Substance | Delight |
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Physical | Body, habits | Health, Stability |
Lower Vital | Senses | Comfort, Sensory enjoyment |
Central Vital | Power | Strength |
Higher Vital | Emotion | Care, Giving |
Physical Mind | Word, Data | Precision, Usefulness |
Vital Mind | Image | Newness, Fluidity |
Pure Mind | Concept | Clarity, Synthesis |
Spiritual | Mystery to be explored | Silence, Peace, Presence |
- In the delight matrix the substance is represented in the row. The delight is represented in the column. The Delight Matrix maps the interface of the delight of each part of being with the substance of each part of being. It however prefers to leave the spiritual substance as a mystery to be explored by direct experience. Thus the Delight Matrix is a Ratna-mala, a string of delights present in all parts of our being. It essentially is a 7 x 7 matrix called the ‘Honey Comb’ of 49 delight qualities arising from the interface of substance with the delight of physical, vital and mental parts of being. Additionally when the spiritual nature enters each substance its finer quality is indicated. Each cell of this delight matrix is at its best when its corresponding delight is perfected and its corresponding substance is malleable enough to receive, hold and manifest the gifts of all delights.
- When each cell of the delight matrix is at its best – then integral change is naturally occurring in a sustained way.
- The Delight Matrix is based on the Telos model of consciousness.
See this related page: Telos Model