Sri Karmayogi says, “the highest efficiency is the efficiency that arises from our psychological detachment”.

Mind is not capable of full detachment, while the vital – feelings – is incapable of detachment of any description.

So the common fault we do is – we detach ourselves by thinking. This gives more attachment to habits and experiences and the righteous of the same. Observation of ourselves – a detached observation as a second person is what needed and not thinking. This observation gives knowledge that leads to mastery whereas thinking leads to attachment through knowing.

For example: – let us compare what we do for detachment in work – we think on how to detach our expectations – whereas work will be done in the same fashion.

Sri Karmayogi gives a method now, to compare this with what he means by observation:

• Consider yourself as a second person and observe yourself in a work and how you are doing this mechanically.
• Collect the habits learned and the channels through which they are learned. During observation keep yourself detached.
• Do not frown on yourself or approve of discerned habits. See for yourself how you have acquired your present efficiency, mannerisms, tone of speech, gait, ways of meeting people and problems.
• One will be pleasantly surprised that he is almost nothing but habits. There is nothing wrong in learning habits or functioning through them. But these habits close after a time and become dead channels of behaviour and progress.
  
  When we can understand the difference between thinking and observation – This we try to lose the hold of the habit on oneself. Loss of a habit means so much freshness in that area. Freshness means new manifestation, creativity or progress to next higher level. We are coming our conscious occupation of our personality. Not to be occupied in our personality is detachment.
  
  To shift this detachment to the outer activities, the inner one should have outgrown the outer by understanding detachment through self-observation.
  
  But simplest thing is following Mothers principles as they values of the spirit. Spirit is incapable of attachment. So, the Spirit emerging in the Mind by detaching from our prejudices, methods, preferences habits and comforts and exhibited in working makes for the highest efficiency and whole some progress.
  
  Forms of detachment are:
• Silent will. Here Sri Karmayogi means this as -not having expectations, preferences, expressing thoughts and emotions, initiative based on habits, impulsive actions.
• The attitude – “That I want only that you want from me Mother”.