Question: What happens if we aren't regular in our meditation?
Sri Chinmoy: If you aren't regular in your meditation, the ignorant forces will pull you back. One day you won't meditate because you are exhausted. The next day you will say you didn't lose anything by not meditating the previous day. The third day you will say that meditation is not at all necessary for God-realisation. And by the fourth day you will have totally forgotten about the existence of your soul.
Sri Chinmoy, Sleep: death's little sister, Agni Press, 1974