While doing sadhana you must quieten your mind and keep awake the Purusha consciousness behind all your activities.
Sri AurobindoAll thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
Sri AurobindoOne can see light above the head; that indicates a consciousness outside the body. But that itself is not the Truth-Consciousness or Vijnana. But much light descending from there illumines this consciousness.
Sri AurobindoWhat comes from outside, one mistakes it as coming from inside. So many thoughts etc. move about outside in the universal - these manifest inside you. All these you must push away as foreign to you and the inside must be made peaceful, calm and quiet; then it will start descending from above.
Sri Aurobindo