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The Process of Changing Human Nature · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  When we take up the question of how to go about changing human
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  nature, we are confronted with the difficulty of that attempt,
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  instincts, habits, train responses, nature, and nurture,
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  all conspire to maintain the status quo.
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  When we attempt to make any change, we run up against the
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  opposition of this status quo within ourselves.
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  And the fact that the vital being can influence the mind to
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  justify, whatever it wants to do, even if those things are
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  diametrically opposed to The evolutionary attempt, Albert
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  Einstein noted at one point that one cannot solve a problem with
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  the same Consciousness that created that problem.
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  Thus, it is necessary to transcend, the framework of the
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  Mind, life body complex, and it's a bitch or patterns in
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  order to effectuate real and Lasting change.
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  Yet the process of transcendence is held back by the very nature
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  that we would like to modify and transform.
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  This situation makes the change process one that requires
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  patience perseverance and the shift of standpoint as long as
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  we remain fixed in the normal human standpoint rooted in the
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  body. Life mind, we cannot expect any
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  substantive change to occur spiritual experiences to the
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  extent, they show us the reality of another level or form of
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  Consciousness are helpful to the economy.
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  Extent, they support our faith and widen our understanding at
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  some point. However, the Consciousness needs
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  to shift to a new basis in the soul, the psychic being which
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  can observe the functioning of the human instrument and guided
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  into new directions without attachment or involvement.
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  The shift allows the individual to begin to exercise control
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  over the outer nature and it's a bitch will actions reactions
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  patterns and processes. SRI, aurobindo observes, quote
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  to change. The nature, is not easy and
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  always takes time, but if there is no inner experience, no,
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  gradual emergence of the other pure Consciousness that is
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  concealed by all these things. You now see it would be almost
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  impossible, even for the strongest.
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  Will you say that first, you must get rid of all these
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  things, then have the inner experiences, but how is Is that
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  to be done these things anger jealousy?
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  Desire are the very stuff of the ordinary human vital
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  Consciousness. They could not be changed.
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  If they were not a deeper Consciousness within, which is
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  of quite another character. There is within you a psychic
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  being which is divine directly, a part of the mother, pure of
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  all these defects It is covered and concealed by the ordinary
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  Consciousness and nature, but when it is unveiled and able to
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  come forward and govern the being, then it changes the
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  ordinary Consciousness throws. All these on Divine things out
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  and changes the outer nature altogether.
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  That is why we want the sadhaks to concentrate to open this
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  concealed consciousness. It Is by concentration of
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  whatever kind and the experience is it brings that one opens and
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  becomes aware within and the new Consciousness and nature begin
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  to grow and come out. Of course, we want them also to
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  use their will and reject the desires and wrong movements of
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  the vital for by doing that the emergency of the true
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  Consciousness becomes possible, but rejection alone cannot
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  succeed, It Is by rejection, and by Inner experience and growth
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  that it is done in quote, reference SRI, aurobindo and the
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  mother growing Within The psychology of inner development,
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  chapter 7, growth of Consciousness.
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  Inner experiences Pages, 138 to 139