The first movement is not toward a fixed technique but toward an inner orientation: a sincere, steady aspiration for spiritual transformation and union with the Divine. This aspiration is not a passing emotion; it is a quiet, persistent will to grow into a higher consciousness and to allow life itself to become the field of yoga. Such an inner decision naturally leads to a turning inward, a habit of self-observation and introspection that begins to reveal the deeper psychic being and its quiet guidance. In this way, the whole of existence—thoughts, feelings, work, relationships—gradually becomes related to this central aim.

From this basis, three complementary movements take shape: surrender, aspiration, and rejection. Surrender means offering actions, thoughts, and experiences to the Divine, allowing the ego’s claim to slowly loosen its hold. Aspiration is the constant inner call and opening to a higher consciousness and presence, a repeated turning toward the Divine for guidance and transformation. Rejection is the firm refusal to identify with movements that contradict the deeper aspiration—egoism, desire, falsehood, inertia, and other lower impulses of mind, life-force, and body. These three together form a living discipline rather than a rigid method.

Practical supports arise naturally from this orientation. Periods of silence, concentration, or meditation help to quiet the surface mind and foster a “witness consciousness” that can observe inner movements without being swept away by them. Study of the writings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, undertaken not merely as intellectual exercise but as a means of inner orientation, clarifies the path and sheds light on one’s own experiences. Devotion, reflection, and selfless work can all serve as avenues—bhakti, jñāna, and karma—so long as they are unified by the central intention of self-giving to the Divine.

As this practice matures, daily life is more and more consecrated: work, relationships, and creative activities are offered as occasions for spiritual growth and as expressions of an inner consecration. The cultivation of equality—a calm poise amid success and failure, pleasure and pain—supports this widening consecration and allows a higher consciousness to act more freely. Throughout, there is a growing reliance on the Divine Presence and Force, with the understanding that the transformation sought is progressive, often long in its unfolding, and not achieved by personal effort alone but by a sustained collaboration with the descending higher consciousness.