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The Focus Needed for Success in the Practice of the Integral Yoga · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Every path of yoga has its own methodologies and expected
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  results, just as every discipline or focus in the
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  external activities have their own methodologies and expected
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  results. An individual can train for
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  sports, for proficiency in a particular science, or even for
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  learning skills and social interactions.
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  Most people undertake these actions with a specific desire
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  or ambition, a goal they want to achieve, a form of success they
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  want to have in their lives. If one follows the yogic path of
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  knowledge, 1 carries out the methods unique to that path for
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  a period of time and thereby gains knowledge.
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  Similarly, for the Paths of Devotion works or Hata or Raja
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  Yoga, an individual can follow the designated method and make
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  progress over time as he masters that methodology.
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  The eventual goal of all yogic pursuits is the achievement of
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  oneness and thus the elimination of the focus on the ego and its
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  fulfilment of desires. The Integral Yoga is somewhat
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  unique in that it does not prescribe a particular
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  methodology. Rather, it asks the aspirant to
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  focus the being on the Divine truth and then to utilize
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  whatever methodology is needed where works best at any point in
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  time to maintain that focus and eliminate contrary movements,
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  obstacles, impediments, desires, or any fulfillment of the ego.
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  The closer the seeker comes to this ability to focus on the
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  Divine and eliminate distractions, the more he can
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  receive of the active Divine force and thereby have the
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  Divine carrying out the transformative changes as the
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  veil of the ego personality thins and falls away, Sri
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  Aurobindo observes quote in the practice of yoga.
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  What you aim at can only come by the opening of the Being to the
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  Mother's force and the persistent rejection of all
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  egoism and demand and desire, all motives except the
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  aspiration for the Divine Truth. If this is rightly done, the
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  Divine power and Light will begin to work and bring in the
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  peace and equanimity, the inner strength, the purified devotion
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  and the increasing consciousness and self knowledge which are the
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  necessary foundation for the city of the Yoga.
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  End Quote Reference Sri Aurobindo Faces of Yoga, Chapter
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  2 Faith, Aspiration, Surrender page 33.