Well it is because we lie. We all day we want to make progress. However we lie in 2 ways
We want to make spiritual progress but it can only happen when we are willing to totally relinquish everything material.
Secondly, we don’t want to work for it. I don’t mean meditation or becoming a scholar. Yes meditation in the right way with the guidance of a Guru is needed. But the hardest work is – to not be upset when adverse circumstances occur or when someone insults you and to say it does not matter
Do these basic things, find a real Guru and the matter is over. Not immediately. But still will take several births. But at that point it becomes a certainty
God bless
Bhavin