Well said, but one more perspective. If there is a call, then one should go entirely by it. The password to go by the call is always ‘sincerity’, the basic, fundamental sincerity. Be sincere and you will be properly and correctly guided—and there’s no doubt regarding it. It is true in every walk of life, everywhere, in every circumstance. Our action has to be, in our nature, according to the mould of our character, towards answering it. If it is a genuine call for spiritual life, adhere to it with all that the spiritual discipline demands. If it is a call for a professional undertaking, for instance of a true historian, then stick to it in the strictest sense, fastened to it without being concerned with anything else, irrespective of the apparent consequences. The trouble arises in the case of a split personality. Assuming for a moment that there are two calls at the same time, if that is possible, then it would mean that one has not really understood one’s own central nature, discovered one’s own swabhāva, and one is driven only by the external forces of the world. Most of the time it is the vital, the unregenerate vital, that decides things in such situations. Life becomes a life of conflicts and troubles. That should also imply that there has to be a greater integration of demands in the case of a true or authentic call. A spiritual call does not dismiss the means and instruments that could be at its disposal; on the contrary these could be gainfully utilised--particularly so in the Aurobindonian Yoga. Each one of them can be put into its use, as for example, writing poetry, or music, can be a means in its pursuit. Thus poetry not for the sake of poetry but for the sake of growth of consciousness is a greater fulfilment of them both. If this is missed then one is not on the spiritual path. ~ RYD