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=Why is it Important?=
There is a state in which one realises that the effect of things, circumstances, all the movements and actions of life on the consciousness depends almost exclusively upon one's attitude to these things. There is a moment when one becomes sufficiently conscious to realise that things in themselves are truly neither good nor bad: they are this only in relation to us; their effect on us depends absolutely upon the attitude we have towards them. The same thing, identically the same, if we take it as a gift of God, as a divine grace, as the result of the full Harmony, helps us to become more conscious, stronger, more true, while if we take it—exactly the very same circumstance—as a blow from fate, as a bad force wanting to affect us, this constricts us, weighs us down and takes away from us all consciousness and strength and harmony. And the circumstance in itself is exactly the same—of this, I should like you all to have the experience, for when you have it, you become master of yourself. Not only master of yourself but, in what concerns you, master of the circumstances of your life. And this depends exclusively upon the attitude you take… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/5-may-1954#p22</ref>
It is obvious that the same event or the same contact causes pleasure in one and pain in another, depending on the inner attitude taken by each one.
[Based on Aphorism<137>- There is no iron or ineffugable law that a given contact shall create pain or pleasure; it is the way the soul meets the rush or pressure of Brahman upon the members from outside them that determines either reaction.] <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-137#p2</ref>
As per the Gita, the marks, the signs of the man whose soul is turned towards the inner wisdom include... there is a nobler and freer attitude towards the outward world, an attitude of perfect detachment and equality, a firm removal of the natural being's attraction to the objects of the senses and a radical freedom from the claims of that constant clamorous ego-sense, ego-idea, ego-motive which tyrannises over the normal man… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/19/the-field-and-its-knower#p7</ref>
In our smallest action we can serve the Divine if we have the right attitude.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/aims-and-principles#p299</ref>
=How is Inner Attitude Developed?=