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Understanding Human Nature · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  At some point in life, virtually, every individual has
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  an experience, which is extremely disappointing and
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  painful due to a perceived betrayal or undue negative
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  reaction from another person. A great part of human
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  interaction is driven by reactions of jealousy.
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  Envy lust greed, fear anger, or potentially a cowardly reaction
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  that shifts responsibility and blame onto an innocent
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  individual to escape the consequences.
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  Those who are more sensitive feel, deeply, hurt or wounded by
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  these interactions. They tend to try to judge
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  appropriate actions of others based on their own internal
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  standards. And when they find a different
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  response, they fail to understand how or why this can
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  occur. This situation causes emotional
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  distress for the individual who suffers it.
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  As long as they are taking, personally, what is, in essence,
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  a common characteristic or trait of human nature subject to the
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  ego personality. When one looks at the situation
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  from a wider perspective, it is possible to understand the
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  general nature of the reactions when experiences in social
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  interactions and thus to limit. The emotional distress, it is
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  the nature of the mental vital, physical forces that make up the
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  human life. As presently constituted, that
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  must be understood in order to eventually be subject to change.
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  SRI, aurobindo points out that an individual's grow inwardly
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  through the influence and action of the psychic being they
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  naturally begin to modify their response to one of appreciation.
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  Gratitude. Food and understanding.
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  This is a sign that even these deeply embedded, habits of
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  nature, can be modified and overcome through the process of
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  the evolution of consciousness. SRI aurobindo observes, quote.
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  You're surprised at X's Behavior shows that you do not yet.
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  Know what kind of thing is the average human nature.
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  Did you never hear the answer of Vidya Sagar when he was told
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  that a certain man was abusing him?
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  Why does he abused me? I never did him a good turn.
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  Who piccata The unregenerate vital is not grateful for a
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  benefit. It resents being under an
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  obligation. So long as the benefit
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  continues, it is effusive and says sweet things.
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  As soon as it expects nothing more, it turns around and bites,
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  the hand, that fed it Sometimes it does that even before when it
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  thinks it can do it without the benefactor knowing the origin of
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  the slander fault-finding or abuse.
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  In all these dealings of yours. There is nothing unusual.
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  Nothing as you think peculiar to you most have this kind of
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  experience, few Escape it all together.
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  Of course, people with a develop psychic element are by Nature
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  grateful and do not behave in this way.
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  And quote, reference SRI aurobindo in the mother living
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  within the yoga approach to psychological health and growth,
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  disturbances of the vital sensitiveness Pages. 65 to 68