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The Effective Potency of a Focused and Persistent Aspiration · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Instant fulfillment is the desire that most people have for
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  any of their wishes, prayers, or aspirations.
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  Particularly in the West, people have been conditioned to believe
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  that they can receive a response instantly.
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  They expect delivery within the hour.
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  Everything comes to them faster and faster, and they come to
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  expect results to be instantaneous.
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  In reality, however, the most essential things in life do not
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  appear at the speed of an Internet download using a high
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  speed link. Of course, many people still
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  understand the need for patient and persistent effort.
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  Those engaged in serious sports, science, mathematics, or other
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  fields that push the boundaries of one's capabilities in one
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  area or another soon find that they need to work at their field
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  regularly, consistently, persistently, and with an
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  unflagging energy. They begin to realize that
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  setbacks and obstacles may stand in the way, which can only be
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  overcome through time and effort.
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  Aspiration, in order to come to fruition, needs to be a powerful
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  flame that not only blazes up and then dies out, but which
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  burns consistently and steadily over the long term, impressing
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  the entire being with its influence and overtime bringing
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  about the change sought by the aspiration.
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  The mother observes quote. Aspiration is like an arrow,
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  like this gesture. So you aspire, want very
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  earnestly to understand, no, enter into the truth, Yes.
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  And then with that aspiration, you do this gesture, your
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  aspiration rises, rises, rises, rises straight up, very strong.
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  And then it strikes against a kind of, how to put it lid,
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  which is there hard like iron and extremely thick, and it does
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  not pass through. And then you say, see, what's
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  the use of aspiring? It brings nothing at all.
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  I meet with something hard and cannot pass.
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  But you know about the drop of water which falls on the rock?
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  It ends up by making a chasm. It cuts the rock from top to
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  bottom. Your aspiration is a drop of
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  water which instead of falling, rises.
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  So by dint of rising it beats, beats, beats, and one day it
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  makes a hole by dint of rising. And it when it makes the hole,
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  suddenly it springs out from this lid and enters an immensity
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  of light. And you say, ah, now I
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  understand it's like that. So one must be very persistent,
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  very stubborn, and have an aspiration which rises straight
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  upwards, that is, which does not go roaming around here and there
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  seeking all kinds of things. Only this to understand,
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  understand, understand, to learn, to know, to be.
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  When one reaches the very top, there is nothing more to
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  understand, nothing more to learn.
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  One is. And it's when 1 is that one
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  understands and knows. End Quote Reference Sri
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  Aurobindo and the Mother Powers within Chapter 9, Aspiration and
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  Prayer, pages 89 to 90.