"Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained. They don't know what or why they are seeking, nor why they never realize complete happiness and lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art of progress."
- Paramahansa Yoganana

My views on above lines -:

I do not have much experience with life and may be my perceptions are not correct, but I feels that there are three stages in this process of self evaluation, a normal individual, whose motive is just to survive is purely bounded by the conditions described above, this phase of human life can be described as struggle for the existence of the body, then with a little intelligence he may started thinking beyond this, and may found that life is useless without having big goals, and without striving for these goals, and this phase of human life can be defined as the struggle for the existence of mind, and finally If you started thinking a lot you may start realizing that ultimate happiness lies in satisfaction, here satisfaction does not mean that you left putting efforts, rather you were able to find the things which you likes, where you can spend whole of your life without being tired, Now you do things not for survival or for existence, rather you do it for fun, because it makes you happy, with a careful balance of efforts and fun, you start enjoying the life. I defines this phase of human life as the struggle for the existence of soul.