The Effective Potency of a Focused and Persistent Aspiration

0:01 Instant fulfillment is the desire that most people have for any of their wishes, prayers, or aspirations. Particularly in the West, people have been conditioned to believe that they can receive a response instantly. They expect delivery within the hour. Everything comes to them faster and faster, and they come to expect results to be instantaneous. In reality, however, the most essential things in life do not appear at the speed of an Internet download using a high speed link. Of course, many people still understand the need for patient and persistent effort.

0:45 Those engaged in serious sports, science, mathematics, or other fields that push the boundaries of one's capabilities in one area or another soon find that they need to work at their field regularly, consistently, persistently, and with an unflagging energy. They begin to realize that setbacks and obstacles may stand in the way, which can only be overcome through time and effort. Aspiration, in order to come to fruition, needs to be a powerful flame that not only blazes up and then dies out, but which burns consistently and steadily over the long term, impressing the entire being with its influence and overtime bringing about the change sought by the aspiration.

1:39 The mother observes quote. Aspiration is like an arrow, like this gesture. So you aspire, want very earnestly to understand, no, enter into the truth, Yes. And then with that aspiration, you do this gesture, your aspiration rises, rises, rises, rises straight up, very strong. And then it strikes against a kind of, how to put it lid, which is there hard like iron and extremely thick, and it does not pass through. And then you say, see, what's the use of aspiring? It brings nothing at all.

2:27 I meet with something hard and cannot pass. But you know about the drop of water which falls on the rock? It ends up by making a chasm. It cuts the rock from top to bottom. Your aspiration is a drop of water which instead of falling, rises. So by dint of rising it beats, beats, beats, and one day it makes a hole by dint of rising. And it when it makes the hole, suddenly it springs out from this lid and enters an immensity of light. And you say, ah, now I understand it's like that. So one must be very persistent, very stubborn, and have an aspiration which rises straight upwards, that is, which does not go roaming around here and there seeking all kinds of things. Only this to understand, understand, understand, to learn, to know, to be.

3:37 When one reaches the very top, there is nothing more to understand, nothing more to learn. One is. And it's when 1 is that one understands and knows. End Quote Reference Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Powers within Chapter 9, Aspiration and Prayer, pages 89 to 90.