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Question: How can we run inwardly?

Sri Chinmoy: You can run inwardly if outwardly you can be brave enough to feel that there must not be anything between you and the Supreme, there cannot be anyone between you and the Supreme. Let us say that the Supreme is ahead of you and between you and Him there are obstructions. You will not yield to any obstruction. If there is something between you and your goal, you have to jump over it or go around it or pierce through it. You won't surrender to the wall that is between you and the Beloved Supreme. When you have that kind of courage, when you can convince yourself that you exist only for the Supreme, both in the inner world and in the outer world, then you will really run inwardly.

In the inner world you are always aware that without the Supreme you cannot exist even for a fleeting second. But in the outer world you can easily exist without thinking of the Supreme for two or three days. You have family problems; you have so many responsibilities. If the Supreme does not enter into your mind for two or three days, you will still eat the same food, still go to the office, still do everything. But in the inner world you can’t do that. There you can’t live without the Supreme even for a second. Here you can very peacefully stay for quite a long time. But when you have the awareness or the feeling that you can’t exist without the Supreme in the outer life either, then your progress in the inner life becomes more powerful.

When you are outwardly strong, soulfully strong, then inwardly your speed increases. Again, when you become very strong inwardly, then outwardly you make progress. So, since you are asking me how you can run very fast inwardly, I will say that outwardly be very brave. Feel that you exist only for the Supreme, not for anything or anybody else in God’s creation. Your Source is the Supreme. In that way automatically your speed increases. Be brave, braver, bravest. Then your speed will become fast, faster, fastest in the inner world. It is outer soulful courage that expedites the inner progress.