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→What are the Essential Components of the Right Inner Attitude?
The Yogic attitude consists in calm, detachment, equality, universality—added to this the psychic element, bhakti, love, devotion to the Divine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/equality-the-chief-support#p17</ref>
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The only true attitude for a Yogi is to be plastic and ready to obey the Divine command whatever it may be...." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/14-march-1951#p1</ref>
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... the true attitude, is a perfect equality which enables us to accept success and failure, fortune and misfortune, happiness and sorrow with the same tranquil joy…
[Based on Aphorism<34>- O Misfortune, blessed be thou; for through thee I have seen the face of my Lover.] <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-34#p6</ref> <center>~</center>
The right attitude is to see that as a separate being, as an ego, one has no importance whatever and the insistence on one's own desires, pride, position etc. is an ignorance, but one matters only as a spirit, as a portion of the Divine, not more than others, but as all souls matter to the Soul of all. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/ego-and-its-forms#p15</ref>