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Acting from the 'Right Spirit' · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The mother provides another example of the need for insight
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  and flexibility to address changing circumstances.
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  Most people want to have a fixed routine provided for them.
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  Do this and you will achieve that.
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  This process, while comforting to the mental consciousness that
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  normally functions within fixed and narrow limits, is unable to
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  address the fluidity and complexity of the world within
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  which we actually live. Rather than focus on one
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  particular method or technique, the Mother simply asks the
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  seeker to align himself with the situation, take his standpoint
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  from any inward link to the psychic being, and then respond
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  naturally and spontaneously to whatever presents itself to be
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  done in bases of yoga. Through your obendo states
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  quote, aspire, concentrate in the right spirit and whatever
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  the difficulties you are sure to attain the aim you have put
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  before you End Quote. A disciple asks what is the
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  right spirit? The Mother notes quote.
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  It depends on the case. The right spirit is the will to
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  perfect oneself or the will to be calm, or it depends, you see,
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  on the circumstances. It means that in each
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  circumstance there is a spirit which is the suitable spirit,
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  the one you ought to have, the attitude you must inwardly take.
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  It depends on the case. For example, you see, as soon as
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  one feels a wave of physical disequilibrium, of ill health
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  coming, well, to concentrate in the right spirit is to
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  concentrate in an inner calm, a trust in the Divine grace and a
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  will to remain in physical equilibrium and good health.
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  This is the right spirit. In another case, one may feel a
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  wave of anger or a fit of temper coming from outside.
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  Then one should withdraw into an inner calm, a detachment from
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  superficial things, with a will to express only what comes from
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  above, and always be submissive to the Divine will.
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  This is the right spirit, and in each case it is something like
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  that. Naturally it always comes back
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  to the same thing, that one must remember the Divine and put
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  oneself at His surface and will what He wills.
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  But in one case you may want the calm, in the other you may want
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  the force, in another still you may want health.
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  And yet another something which resists the pressure from
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  outside. When one is perplexed, when one
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  has to make a choice, when 1 doesn't know what the right
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  thing to do is. You see, one has to choose among
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  two or three or four possible decisions and doesn't know which
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  one is the right one. Then one must put himself as far
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  as possible in contact with his psychic being and the divine
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  presence in him, present the problem to this psychic
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  consciousness and ask for the true light, the true decision,
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  the one most in accordance with the Divine will, and try to
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  listen and receive the inspiration.
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  In each case you see, it is the right attitude.
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  End Quote Reference Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Looking
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  from Within, Chapter 1, Looking at Life and Circumstances, pages
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  9:00 to 10:00.