Question: How can we keep our outer education from being an obstacle to our inner education?
Sri Chinmoy: We can keep our outer education from being an obstacle to our inner education by allowing the inner education to come to the fore and illumine the outer education.The outer education is world-information; the inner education is self-realisation. It is only self-realisation that can illumine and transform world-information and take world-information into another world, which is known as the experience-world.
Sri Chinmoy, Soulful questions and fruitful answers, Agni Press, 1976