living centrally in the inner being and its progress, taking outward things and action only as a means for the inner progress.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
10. Experiences and Realisations
Fragment ID: 1753
All these [giving up indulgence in food, tea, etc.] are external things that have their use, but what I mean [by “the complete attitude of the sadhak”] is something more inward. I mean not to be interested in outward things for their own sake, following after them with desire, but at all times to be intent on one’s soul, living centrally in the inner being and its progress, taking outward things and action only as a means for the inner progress.