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Impatience and the Practice of Yoga · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Impatience is endemic to modern-day Society.
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  We expect everything immediately if it does not come we exhibit,
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  frustration, annoyance anger, and a disturbed energy, which
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  impacts the body. The Life Energy, the nervous
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  envelope and the mental state impatience, therefore, create an
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  energetic state. That is diametrically opposed to
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  that required for yogic development.
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  Impatience is rooted in the ego personality?
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  And it's desires. The action of the desire soul in
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  the vital is one of the main impediment to progress in yoga
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  and a focus on immediate results.
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  With the rise of impatience. That accompanies, this Focus
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  actually retards, the yogic process, Swami Vivekananda in
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  his lectures on Raja yoga, describes the chitta or mind
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  stuff. And it's disturbances the
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  practices of Raja yoga work to bring the Mind stuff to a state
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  of Tranquility whereby, it can reflect the higher Divine
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  reality without distortion. He also points out the intimate
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  connection between the breath and the status of the nervous
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  sheath and the mind stuff and he recommends the practice of
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  pranayama as a means to achieve the needed state of Tranquility.
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  These practices May provide an aid to gaining control over the
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  force of impatience, but the true underlying necessity, is
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  for the secret to begin, to observe the reactions within the
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  being to the circumstances of life and reorient.
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  The way he responds, this involves a complete change in
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  levels of expectation concerns for the Fulfillment of vital
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  desires. The attempt to achieve results
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  in the outer world in the the form of ambition, power wealth,
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  or status of any sort, each of these things act upon the
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  psychology to develop impatience in its various forms.
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  None of these realizations or the steps to actually put them
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  into practice occurs overnight. It is a process over the course
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  of time as the secret gained success of understanding of the
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  subtlety of his mind, his emotions, his vital nervous,
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  reactions and even his bodily needs and tendencies SRI.
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  Aurobindo writes, quote impatience is always a mistake,
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  it does not help, but hinders a quiet.
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  Happy faith. And confidence is the best
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  foundation. Ation for sadhna for the rest.
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  A constant opening wide of oneself to receive with an
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  aspiration, which may be intense, but must always be calm
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  and steady. Full yogic realization, does not
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  come all at once it comes after a long preparation of the attar,
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  which may take a long time. The power needed in yoga, is the
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  power to go through effort difficulty or trouble without
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  getting fatigued, depressed, discouraged or impatient, and
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  without breaking off the effort or giving up one's aim, where
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  resolution whatever method is used persistence and
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  perseverance are essential for whatever method is used the
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  complexity of the natural resistance will be there to
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  come. At it and quote reference SRI
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  aurobindo in the mother growing within the psychology of inner
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  development. Chapter 3 growth of
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  Consciousness, basic requisites Pages, 57 to 58.