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Is It Realistic to Expect Instant Transformation of Human Nature? · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We live in a time where we expect everything to happen,
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  instantly, we want to take a pill and Achieve instant
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  Enlightenment. Life is speeding up with
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  enhancements to Communications travel and devices that make us
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  react faster everyday. Life itself seems to have
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  speeded up and days disappear quickly.
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  It is no wonder then that we seem to be Be more impatient.
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  And even when it comes to spiritual practice, we expect
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  immediate results. We must reckon with the fact
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  that it is taken many Millennia of evolution to develop the
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  current state of humanity. Our instincts habits reactive
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  impulses Etc, If we choose to transform these long-standing
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  predilections, rather than, simply find a way to abandon
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  life, and The Human Condition, we must appreciate that.
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  We are not going to be able to change all these unconscious,
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  subconscious semi-conscious, or reactive responses, right away
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  to accomplish this. Even in one lifetime would be
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  considered, miraculous. What is then required as a
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  patient and persistent effort? Without discouragement without
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  flagging of energy, to move, forward toward the long-term
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  transformation, and with concentration, focus and energy,
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  address these issues as they arise within us.
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  And at the same time, appreciate the need for time and therefore,
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  endless amounts of it's there are those who promise you
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  immediate results take this pill and be enlightened follow this
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  path and Achieve realization practice this technique and your
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  life will be revolutionized. Real change.
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  However, does not work this way. SRI, aurobindo notes, quote.
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  It is certain that an Ardent aspiration for the Divine helps
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  one to progress, but patience is also needed for.
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  It is a very big change that has to be made and although there
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  can be moments of great rapidity, it is never all the
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  time. Like that old things try to
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  stick as Much as possible. The new that come have to
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  develop and the Consciousness takes time to assimilate them
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  and make them normal to the nature.
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  The sadhna is a difficult one in time, should not be grudged.
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  It is only in the last stages that are very great and constant
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  repetitive progress can be confidently, expected.
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  Determination is needed and affirm patient's not to be
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  discouraged by this or that failure.
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  It is a change in the habit of the physical nature.
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  And that needs a long patient work of detail and quote
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  reference SRI aurobindo in the mother growing within the
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  psychology of inner development. Chapter 3 growth of
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  Consciousness basic requisites Pages 56 to 57