When the great journey of life just begins, in most cases it is better to have some experience of life before thinking of joining the Ashram permanently.
Once the need for this greater life awakens then the means and everything else is given to us. We find the right books, we meet the right people, we start entering a world of experiences.
We as souls have come from a supernal Light into this world of darkness to colonize and transmute Matter's Night. That is why despite everything we keep nurturing within us the dream of a perfect world. From the Light we come, and to the Light we go.
Of course, the integral yoga does not depend upon observing or not observing these events, yet the Divine Mother uses every little door as an opening through which the Divine can enter a sadhak's consciousness and work within it.