People change only when touched in simple ways. People tend to go away from their higher soul if touched in complicated ways. If we understand the world only from our senses we move away from the soul. It is when we detach ourselves from our senses and see the same object that we understand the homeward path.
Along the path the change is not noticed. As a person walks further down the path the person begins to remember ‘its’ path (the soul’s path) and the changes. At this point in time the person says ‘ I will stick to and follow the path as this path led me out of pain, darkness, worry and the lack of faith…this path led me to hope, peace and stability’.
At every point in time the person runs the risk of which path it (the soul) chooses. The truth is dynamic not static.
Some become evolved yogis and then stagnate at that stage of evolution but are still very happy as empowerment is great. Some others achieve oneness with the higher soul (become soul-realized).
Ultimately, each person has to walk towards its (the soul’s) final destination and become one with the divine spark (God-realized). The number of incarnations we take to achieve this depends on how each soul chooses to ‘walk the path’…