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=What is Inner Attitude?=
The truth of ourselves lies within and not on the surface. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/delight-of-existence-the-solution#p9</ref>
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>
This attitude must lead finally to an absolute union of the personal with the Divine Will and, with the growth of knowledge, bring about a faultless response of the instrument to the divine Power and Knowledge. A perfect, an absolute equality of self-surrender, the mentality a passive channel of the divine Light and Power, the active being a mightily effective instrument for its work in the world, will be the poise of this supreme union of the Transcendent, the universal and the individual. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/19/equality-and-knowledge#p11</ref>
==Right Attitude in the Mental==
A sort of witness attitude, in which the inner consciousness looks at all that happens as a spectator or observer, observing things but taking no active interest or pleasure in them. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/inner-detachment-and-the-witness-attitude#p16</ref>
The witness attitude is meant for self-knowledge and, in our Yoga, as a convenient station (detached and uninvolved, therefore not subject to Prakriti) from which one can act on the wrong movements by refusal of assent and by substituting for them the action of the true consciousness from within or above.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/inner-detachment-and-the-witness-attitude#p37,p38</ref>
==Right Attitude in the Vital==
To be perfectly sincere it is indispensable not to have any preference, any desire, any attraction, any dislike, any sympathy or antipathy, any attachment, any repulsion. One must have a total, integral vision of things, in which everything is in its place and one has the same attitude towards all things: the attitude of true vision. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/19-december-1956#p21</ref>
It is often the experience that when one gives up the insistence of desire for a thing, then the thing itself comes. The right attitude is to wait on the Divine Will and seek that only—desire always creates perturbation and even its fulfilment does not satisfy. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/desire#p20</ref>
==Right Attitude in the Physical==
It is ''solely a state of consciousness''. When one has the consciousness (that is to say, as the consciousness grows more and more true—not something that is arrested, but a consciousness that is ascending), when you are within that, everything is all right; as soon as you fall back into the old consciousness, either unprogressive or progressing slowly and imperceptibly, then the disorder returns. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/11/10-december-1969#p2</ref>
One may be engaged in the most active action, for example, in playing basketball, which needs a great deal of movement, and yet not lose the attitude of inner meditation and concentration upon the Divine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/17-february-1951#p41</ref>
=Why is it Important?=