In The Human Cycle Sri Aurobindo writes the following:

The true and full spiritual aim in society will regard man not as a mind, a life and a body, but as a soul incarnated for a divine fulfillment upon earth, not only in heavens beyond, which after it need not have left if it had no divine business here in the world of physical, vital and mental nature. It will therefore regard the life, mind and body neither as ends in themselves, sufficient for their own satisfaction, nor as mortal members full of disease which have only to be dropped off for the rescued spirit to flee away into its own pure regions, but as first instruments of the soul, the yet imperfect instruments of an unseized diviner purpose. It will believe in their destiny and help them to believe in themselves, but for that very reason in their highest and not only in their lowest or lower possibilities. Their destiny will be in its view, to spiritualise themselves so as to grow into visible members of the spirit, lucid means of its manifestation, themselves spiritual, illumined, more and more conscious and perfect. For, accepting the truth of man's soul as a thing entirely divine in its essence, it will accept also the possibility of his whole being becoming divine in spite of Nature's first patent contradictions of this possibility, her darkened denials of this ultimate certitude, and even with these as a necessary earthly starting-point... (pp. 212-13)

If our endeavour is to take the spiritual aim to society, society that is not yet open to it, then the problems can arise, many problems can arise. It can even be construed as a kind of proselytization. In fact even more serious problems can arise. But one thing is certain: it cannot be, should not be by diluting the spiritual contents; it is not by adjusting or simplifying it, in order to accommodate the prevailing conditions of the society, by fiddling with it so that what it can understand and accept is fitted into it. Otherwise it would be an imposition of the spiritual on the worldly or mundane. This does not work, particularly in a society which respects individual’s freedom and freedom of expression. Which means, if at all spirituality is to be taken to the worldly and the mundane, then there has to be something in the worldly and the mundane,—including the rational or academic, religious or even mystical or occult—to see the necessity of the spiritual; it should see it to have its own fulfilment assured, it should be for its own compelling reasons; it should be something arising from its own free and happy and spontaneous need, should be its desideratum. As a matter of fact, spirituality is not like a commercial product to be promoted by the massive business propaganda machinery. There has to be a call for it. And the wonderful thing is, one who receives it he also gets the needed help in his quest. This is proven through the centuries of spiritual history, and the safe thing is to awaken to it if there is the basic urge for it.

RY Deshpande