Question: Is it possible that there may be a time lapse?
Sri Chinmoy: Sometimes there is a time lapse, sometimes there is not. You may have an inner experience today, and by tomorrow your life may be changed. It depends on the strength of the inner experience, or on the amount of aspiration you have.
Sri Chinmoy, Transformation-Night, Immortality-Dawn, Bhakti Press, Ottawa, 1975