Establishing a sincere demand in the nervous and physical being

Q: Is it not very difficult to establish a sincere demand in the nervous and the physical being?

Generally the physical is not insincere. In fact, it is sincere, but very obscure, conservative, slow to change, it is inert and dull.

In the nervous being the return to Ignorance comes because of the memory of the past, or because of the physical being throwing up its impurities, or the vital being throwing its impurities upon it. Therefore, in dealing with the nervous impurities you have to see from where they come. If the vital being is sincere then the return in the nervous being comes from the physical being.

– Sri Aurobindo