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The Formation of Human Nature and the Character of the Individual and the Basis of the Resistance to Change · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Yogic practice focused on transformation of human nature
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  must necessarily address issues differently than one that has
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  Liberation as its sole goal. This brings in the need for an
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  understanding of the human instrument.
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  The various elements of the be the development of those
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  elements through time. And the manner, in which past
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  ages form, a basis for the current stage with both, its
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  He's and its limitations. SRI aurobindo provides a
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  detailed background to the residual issues, that arise due
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  to the nature and characteristics of these past
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  stages of development and the influence of the three gunas on
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  these respective elements. SRI aurobindo writes quote human
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  nature and the character of the individual are a formation that
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  has arisen in and out of the incontinence of the material
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  world and can never get entirely free from the pressure of that.
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  Incontinence, as Consciousness grows in the being born into
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  this material world, it takes the form of an ignorance slowly
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  admitting or striving with difficulty after knowledge.
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  And human nature is made of that ignorance.
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  And the character of the individual is made from the
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  elements of the ignorance. It is largely mechanistic like
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  everything else in material nature and there is almost
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  invariably a resistance and more often than not a strong and
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  stubborn resistance to any change, demanded from it.
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  The character is made up of habits and it clings to them is
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  disposed to think them, the very law of its being and it is a
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  hard job to get it to change at all except under a strong
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  pressure of circumstances, especially in the physical
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  parts, the body, the physical mind, the physical life
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  movements, there is this resistance, the temasek element
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  in nature is powerful there. What the Gita describes has AA
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  prakasha absence of light and operability, a tendency to
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  inertia inactivity, unwillingness to make an effort.
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  And as a result, even when the effort is made, a constant
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  Readiness to doubt to despond and despair to give up renounce,
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  the aim and the Endeavor collapse.
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  Fortunately, there is also in human nature, a septic element,
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  which turns towards light, and average Asik, or kinetic
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  element, which desires and needs to act and can be made to
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  desire. Not only change, but constant
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  progress, but these two owing to the limitations of human
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  ignorance and the obstructions of the fundamental and
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  conscience. Suffer from pettiness and
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  Division and can resist as well as assist the spiritual
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  Endeavor, and quote. Reference SRI aurobindo in the
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  mother growing within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 6 growth of Consciousness difficulties and
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  pitfalls pages 109 to 110