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===Ignorance, Tamas and Fears===
''Q. Please tell me why I don't succeed immediately in my effort.''
''A.'' Because the outer ignorance is very stubborn and will yield only to a persistent effort. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/11-june-1935-1#p6 </ref>
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''Q. Is “physical tamas” same as laziness? ''
''A'' Not quite. Of course, laziness is a kind of tamas, but in laziness there is an ill-will, a refusal to make an effort—while tamas is inertia: one wants to do something, but one can't. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/28-april-1951#p8 </ref>
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''Q. You said that because we are here and have everything, it seems very natural to us. Why doesn't effort also come naturally?''
''A.'' It is because the physical nature in ordinary men is, as Sri Aurobindo writes, rather tamasic. Naturally it does not make any effort. But the vital makes an effort. Only, it makes the effort usually for its own satisfaction. Yet it is quite capable of making an effort because that is in its nature. In fact, I can't say that you don't make any effort, you make a lot of effort for many things, when it pleases you or when you have understood that it is necessary for one reason or another. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/15-december-1954#p18 </ref>
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