Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume III - Part 3
The calmness you feel is that of the inner being which remains the same whatever the surface experience. But the use to be made 
of these things is to liberate oneself from the desires and mental or vital sanskaras of the past so that one may be free to reach that greater Truth consciousness in which there is no need of an Adesh, for all one’s action there is the direct conscious movement of the self-knowing Truth and the Mother herself is the doer.