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→What are the Essential Components of the Right Inner Attitude?
''Q. What is the meaning of "you must take the right attitude"?''
''A.'' The right attitude is the attitude of trust, the attitude of obedience, the attitude of consecration. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/2-february-1955#p1,p2</ref>
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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>
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...the final attitude is that enjoined on Arjuna in a later chapter, "All has been already done by Me in my divine will and foresight; become only the occasion, O Arjuna, ''nimitta-mātraṁ bhava savyasācin''. 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>
=Why is it Important to have the Right Attitude?=