Question: How can we know if success or failure is the Will of the Supreme?

Sri Chinmoy: The Supreme will not keep in His Mind success or failure. He will keep only the experience in His Mind. When you do something and there is no success, then you will be very sad and disturbed. But you should feel from within that no matter which result you get, you will be equally happy. You have to feel that it is not the success or failure that you want; it is only the experience that you need in order to grow. Then the result will be in accordance with the divine Will. Otherwise you will only cry for success and if you get failure you will feel miserable. So when you do something, if you are inspired from within, then you will be satisfied with either success or failure. Whatever experience the divine force wants to give you, you will take it as an experience.