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The Yoga of Nature, Spiritual Sadhana and the Transformation of Action Into a Conscious Expression of the Divine Will · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  All life, our entire existence, whether we are actively involved
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  in a conscious spiritual discipline or living a normal
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  life in the world, following the demands of our needs, desires,
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  relationships and ambitions, et cetera, is a field of growth,
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  experience and development. We respond to opportunities,
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  pressures and difficulties, and as we do so, some part of our
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  being gathers that experience and grows through the process.
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  This may be seen as a yoga of nature which slowly builds up
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  the various capacities and powers of each aspect of the
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  being and creates A maturation process that over time and
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  possibly over many lifetimes, brings about a higher level of
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  awareness and consciousness in the responses and the actions of
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  the individual. For the spiritual seeker, the
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  same process remains at work, with the added factor of the
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  seeker being able to both observe and facilitate the
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  process to speed up the long time frame and thereby bring
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  about growth of consciousness much more effectively and
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  swiftly than the process of nature.
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  This is the field of experience the trioro bindo refers to.
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  It is the process by which nature, or the conscious
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  evolutionary focus of yoga, challenges the external being,
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  the body, life and mind to develop, grow and transform.
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  An entirely different process begins to take place as the
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  seeker is able to shift the standpoint to the Divine
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  standpoint. At some point the individual
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  becomes first a conscious instrument manifesting the
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  divine intention to a greater or lesser degree, and then later,
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  when the ego sheath has been fully dissolved, he becomes
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  simply an expression of the divine action in the world.
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  Shriorbindo notes quote Work can be of two kinds, the work that
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  is a field of experience used for the sadhna, for a
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  progressive harmonization and transformation of the being in
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  its activities, and work that is a realized expression of the
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  Divine. But the time for the latter can
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  be only when the realization has been fully brought down into the
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  earth consciousness. Till then all work must be a
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  field of endeavour and a school of experience.
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  We must find the Self, the Divine.
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  Then only can we know what is the work, the Self or the Divine
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  demands from us. Until then, our life and action
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  can only be a help or means towards finding the Divine, and
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  it ought not to have any other purpose.
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  As we grow in the inner consciousness, or as the
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  spiritual truth of the Divine grows in us, our life and action
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  must indeed more and more flow from that.
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  Be one with that. But to decide beforehand, by our
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  limited mental conception, what they must be is to hamper the
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  growth of the spiritual truth within.
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  End Quote reference. Srioro Bindu and the Mother
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  Looking from Within, Chapter 3. Action and Work, pages 62 to 63.