The Formation of Human Nature and the Character of the Individual and the Basis of the Resistance to Change

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Yogic practice focused on
transformation of human nature

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must necessarily address issues
differently than one that has

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Liberation as its sole goal.
This brings in the need for an

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understanding of the human
instrument.

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The various elements of the be
the development of those

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elements through time.
And the manner, in which past

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ages form, a basis for the
current stage with both, its

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He's and its limitations.
SRI aurobindo provides a

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detailed background to the
residual issues, that arise due

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to the nature and
characteristics of these past

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stages of development and the
influence of the three gunas on

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these respective elements.
SRI aurobindo writes quote human

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nature and the character of the
individual are a formation that

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has arisen in and out of the
incontinence of the material

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world and can never get entirely
free from the pressure of that.

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Incontinence, as Consciousness
grows in the being born into

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this material world, it takes
the form of an ignorance slowly

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admitting or striving with
difficulty after knowledge.

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And human nature is made of that
ignorance.

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And the character of the
individual is made from the

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elements of the ignorance.
It is largely mechanistic like

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everything else in material
nature and there is almost

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invariably a resistance and more
often than not a strong and

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stubborn resistance to any
change, demanded from it.

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The character is made up of
habits and it clings to them is

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disposed to think them, the very
law of its being and it is a

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hard job to get it to change at
all except under a strong

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pressure of circumstances,
especially in the physical

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parts, the body, the physical
mind, the physical life

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movements, there is this
resistance, the temasek element

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in nature is powerful there.
What the Gita describes has AA

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prakasha absence of light and
operability, a tendency to

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inertia inactivity,
unwillingness to make an effort.

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And as a result, even when the
effort is made, a constant

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Readiness to doubt to despond
and despair to give up renounce,

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the aim and the Endeavor
collapse.

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Fortunately, there is also in
human nature, a septic element,

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which turns towards light, and
average Asik, or kinetic

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element, which desires and needs
to act and can be made to

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desire.
Not only change, but constant

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progress, but these two owing to
the limitations of human

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ignorance and the obstructions
of the fundamental and

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conscience.
Suffer from pettiness and

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Division and can resist as well
as assist the spiritual

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Endeavor, and quote.
Reference SRI aurobindo in the

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mother growing within the
psychology of inner development.

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Chapter 6 growth of
Consciousness difficulties and

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pitfalls pages 109 to 110