Sri Aurobindo and the Mother did speak of those who have the call for the yoga and those who did not or not yet. It is because different people are in different stages of evolution and hence one standard formula does not fit all. The Mother expresses this truth as follows:
‘There was all the humanity which is no longer altogether animal, which has benefited by mental development and created a kind of harmony in its life—a harmony vital and artistic, literary—in which the large majority are content to live. They have caught a kind of harmony, and within it they live life as it exists in a civilised surrounding, that is to say, somewhat cultured, with refined tastes and refined habits. And all this life has a certain beauty where they are at ease, and unless something catastrophic happens to them, they live happy and contented, satisfied with life. These people can be drawn (because they have a taste, they are intellectually developed), they can be attracted by the new forces, the new things, the future life; for example, they can become disciples of Sri Aurobindo mentally, intellectually. But they do not feel at all the need to change materially; and if they were compelled to do so, it would be first of all premature, unjust, and would simply create a great disorder and disturb their life altogether uselessly. This was very clear.
Then there were some—rare individuals—who were ready to make the necessary effort to prepare for the transformation and to draw the new forces, to try to adapt Matter, to seek means of expression, etc. These are ready for the yoga of Sri Aurobindo. They are very few in number. There are even those who have the sense of sacrifice and are ready for a hard, painful life, if that would lead or help towards this future transformation. But they should not, they should not in any way try to influence the others and make them share in their own effort; it would be altogether unfair—not only unfair, but extremely maladroit, for it would change the universal rhythm and movement, or at least the terrestrial movement, and instead of helping, it would create conflicts and end in a chaos.’ [CWM 11]
So while they did not stop anyone who of their own felt the call, rather helped and encouraged each according to their readiness, aspiration and the preparation, they did not pull people indiscriminately to the yoga. Of course in Her aspect as the Universal Mother all could equally come to Her and receive Her help in various ways. But undertaking the adventure of consciousness is for those who feel the call in themselves for this great and wonderful and tremendous undertaking.
