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Vital Impatience and a Hurried Effort Are Obstacles to the Transformation of the Human Instrument · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The vital ego is impatient. It wants to keep pressing on,
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  regardless of the impact on the body or the mind or even its own
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  native energy. It wants to get somewhere and
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  begrudges the journey and the time and the waypoints along the
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  path. It believes that haste will
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  achieve the goal sooner, while in fact it usually sets the
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  achievement further away due to the inevitable breakdowns and
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  the very energy that is circulating, which does not
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  permit the divine force to act in its own way and its own time
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  to carry out the complex, detailed and enormous task of
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  transformation of human nature. The human ego believes that it
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  can understand and judge the process and the steps along the
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  way, and thereby undertake to manage how things will proceed.
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  Yet it does not have even the remotest sense of everything
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  that needs to be changed, or the order in which the change needs
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  to occur to move things steadily onward without breakdowns or
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  diversions, or the specific areas of human nature that any
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  aspirant is called upon to work out at any point in time as a
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  representative of the larger pool of the human species.
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  Sriorobindo notes quote, There are always pauses of preparation
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  and assimilation between two movements.
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  You must not regard these with fretfulness or impatience, as if
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  they were untoward geps in the sadhna.
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  Besides, the force rises uplifting part of the nature on
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  a higher level, and then comes down to a lower layer to braise
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  it. This motion of ascent and
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  descent is often extremely trying, because the mind,
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  partial to an ascent in a straight line and the vital
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  eager for rapid fulfillment, cannot understand or follow the
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  intricate movement, and are apartment to be distressed by it
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  or resent it. But the transformation of the
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  whole nature is not an easy thing to accomplish, and the
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  force that does it knows better than our mental ignorance or our
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  vital impatience. End Quote.
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  Reference Sri Aurobindo, Faces of Yoga, Chapter 3 in
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  difficulty, page 49.