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Let us continue with selected writings by the Venerated Sri Aurobindo in His book, “Letters of Sri Aurobindo,” which explains how we can gain spiritual upliftment while working if we focus on the consciousness and Godward will behind our work. SECTION ONE SYNTHETIC METHOD AND INTEGRAL YOGA Place of Works in Integral Yoga “[…] Anyhow, your doubts whether works can lead to realization or rather your flat and sweeping denial of the possibility contradicts the experience of those who have achieved this supposed impossibility. You say that work lowers the consciousness, brings you out of the inner into the outer —yes, if you consent to externalize yourself in it instead of doing works from within; but that is what one has to learn not to do. Thought and feeling also can externalize one in the same way, but it is a question of linking thought, feeling and act firmly to the inner consciousness by living there and making the rest an instrument. […]” Works and Meditation (1) “The including of the outer consciousness in the transformation is of supreme importance in this Yoga— meditation cannot do it. Meditation can deal only with the inner being. So works of primary importance —only it must be done with the right attitude and in the right consciousness, then it is as fruitful as any meditation can be.” Works and Meditation (2) “Work by itself is only a preparation, so is meditation by itself, but work done in the increasing Yogic consciousness is a means of realization as much as meditation is. […]To set up an open competition or a closed one between work and meditation is a trick of the dividing mind and belongs to the old Yoga. Please remember that I have been declaring all along an integral Yoga in which Knowledge, Bhakti, Works—light of consciousness, Ananda and love, will and power in works — meditation, adoration, service of the Divine have all their place. Meditation is not greater than Yoga of works nor works greater than Yoga by knowledge —both are equal. […]”
