Question: So the average is about three thousand years?

Sri Chinmoy: Human beings can get realisation in two to three thousand years. Again, some are tired soldiers; they want to take rest after one incarnation, and then they don't make progress for a long time. For many years they make no progress at all. Like bad students, they come back to the same class again and again.

From:Sri Chinmoy,Secrets of the inner world, Agni Press, 1980
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