Do you mean that one can continue all the old activities in one’s profession for instance, and at the same time get enlightenment ? 

Question : Do you mean that one can continue all the old activities in one’s profession, for instance, and at the same time get enlightenment ?
Ramana Maharshi :  Why not ? But in that case one will not think that it is the old personality which is doing the work, because one’s consciousness will gradually become transferred until it is centered in that which is beyond the little self.