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Time and Patient Persistence · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The shift from the standpoint of the desire.
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  Soul of the ego is not something that can occur completely and
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  all at once. There are too many persistent
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  threads of the instincts and habits of the Mind life body
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  complex to expect. So radically change to happen
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  magically there may be and generally our experiences which
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  come to the secret that confirm the fact of another status of
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  Consciousness where in resides peace, light, Harmony knowledge
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  and a force that is palpable Working on the mind, working on
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  the vital working on the body. These experiences are like
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  signposts along the way and when they withdraw, the time comes
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  for putting the subtle fruits of that experience to work in the
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  day-to-day activity of the being Rejecting the vibratory force of
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  Desire. When it tries to enter and take
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  over the vital being is one such action that tends to take time
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  the main point for the Seeker is to avoid being either impatient
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  or frustrated when the inevitable moments of failure,
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  come and the being is possessed by the action of Desire.
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  There's an apocryphal story of Thomas.
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  Edison, the American inventor who was once asked why he kept
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  repeating the very same experiments time.
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  And again, in the face of hundreds of failures to achieve
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  his intended result, His response essentially was that he
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  had now compiled hundreds of ways not to do it.
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  Eventually he would find the one way that would work and he did.
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  Similarly, when the individual takes up, the yogic sadhna, they
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  will be many instances where the observational stance of the
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  witness Consciousness is lost in the rush of the vital energy
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  where the physical action. And even if the witness
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  Consciousness remains, there will be times when the uprush of
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  Desire overwhelms. The being this may happen time
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  after time, but if there is a The persistent patient will
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  without despair caused by temasek response to failure and
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  without the aggressive reactions of frustrated rajas.
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  Eventually the result eventuates.
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  SRI aurobindo observes quote everything, which it hankers
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  after is desirable to the vital, but the desire has to be
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  rejected. I won't desire is quite the
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  right thing to say, even if I don't desire and not yet be said
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  by the vital still, there is something in the being that can
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  even say. I don't desire and refused to
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  recognize the vital desire as part of the true being It is
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  that Consciousness which the peace and power bring that has
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  to be recognized as the true eye and made permanent in front.
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  It is difficult to get rid of desires all together, all at
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  once. If the right ones, have the
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  upper hand that already makes the ultimate Victory.
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  Sure. Therefore, don't allow that to
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  trouble you a progressive. Change is the way these things
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  work out. And if the progress has begun,
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  then there can be a fundamental sense of certitude about the
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  outcome of the sadhna and a quiet view upon what has to be
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  done because it is sure to be done.
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  In quote, reference SRI, aurobindo and the mother live
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  living within the yoga approach to psychological health and
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  growth, disturbances of the vital transforming the vital
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