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The Aspiration Must Be Kept Alive and Constant · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Changing human nature is a process of time and effort and
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  is therefore subject to periods of waxing and waning of effort.
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  Human beings tend to relax and enjoy their lives.
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  When all things are going well. Thus, it is primarily in times
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  of difficulty and stress. When we remember to focus on the
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  need to inspire and concentrate, there are also periods of
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  dullness with nothing actively engaging, the attention periods
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  of boredom periods of ennui, periods of lassitude.
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  Perhaps even to a greater extent than during periods of
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  enjoyment. The focus is absent during these
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  dull times. The challenge then is to engage
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  the being to concentrate. The attention to tend the flame
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  of aspiration through times of difficulty, but also through
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  times of positive, external enjoyment and Times of emptiness
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  or boredom. In fact, if this concentration
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  can be engaged, if the seeking for the Divine, if the tending,
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  the fire of aspiration becomes Central to Life of the
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  individual. It can ensure that the times of
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  boredom are minimized as life then becomes entry, aurobindo
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  those words and adventure of consciousness.
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  Even periods of dullness become times of observation review and
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  can lead to new insights into the challenges facing those who
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  desire to make a true change in nature. we tend to develop
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  feelings of guilt or despair or a sense of our own unfitness
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  when these challenges come to us, These things, however are
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  not truly a cause for any moral Judgment of Fitness or
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  righteousness, but rather an opportunity to explore the
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  complex interaction of the different elements of the nature
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  and the various forms of resistance that need to be
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  understood and overcome. Some Seekers develop practices
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  to see them through the times of difficulty, or lack of
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  enthusiasm. This may involve devotional
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  practices Collective study satsang kirtan or devotional
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  efforts dedicated work or a regular practice of meditation
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  that help. Keep the nature directed, These
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  techniques can be useful. As long as they are not
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  substituted for the inner work and do not become, simply
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  mechanical in nature. Some find that a simple
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  formulation of consecration, or dedication of oneself to the
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  higher goal or purpose, renewed, daily can Aid this effort, One
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  way or the other, a living flame of aspiration needs to be kept
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  burning in the center of the beam.
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  The mother observes quote. The next thing you have to do is
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  to tend this aspiration to keep it always alert and awake and
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  living instead of telling yourself once in a while.
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  Oh yes. I am thinking of finding the
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  Divine just when there is something unpleasant when you
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  were a little disgusted because you feel tired, Indeed there are
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  very many flimsy reasons all of a sudden, you remember that
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  there is such a thing as yoga. Something like the Divine to
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  know who can get you out of this flatness of life.
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  And for that, what is required is concentration concentration
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  upon the Divine with a view to an integral, an absolute
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  consecration to its will and purpose.
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  This is the second step that is to say you begin wanting to find
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  a know, the Divine and live. It You must feel at the same
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  time that the thing is so precious.
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  So important that your entire life is not sufficient for
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  acquiring it. Then the first movement is a
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  self giving you tell yourself, I do not want any longer to belong
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  to myself for the sake of my little personal satisfaction.
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  I wish to belong to this marvelous thing, which one must
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  find must know, No, must live and for which I inspired and
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  quote. Reference SRI aurobindo in the
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  mother growing within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 3 growth of Consciousness, basic requisites
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  Pages 35 to 36,