Getting rid of Inertia, Ego and Desire

Q: Why don’t the inertia, ego and desire decrease in spite of our sustained effort to change them?

It needs time, persistent will and effort and increasing equality and quietude to do it. It is probably the refusal of the vital to give up its desires that gives the inertia so much strength to impede the sadhana. I have said it is evidently the vital resistance to change that is holding up your sadhana, bringing the inertia and preventing the action of the higher consciousness.

– Sri Aurobindo