As many people, as many unique paths. If one is marked out for the yoga one will do it anywhere, whereas one not marked out for the yoga cannot do it anywhere.
I know that from the external point of view we are below many of the present achievements in this world, but our aim is not a perfection in accordance with the human standards.
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.
A short documentary on Golconde, a dormitory at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India, which was designed by architects Antonin Raymond and George Nakashima, and built in 1937-1942.
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.