Question: How is your running affecting the consciousness of the earth?

Sri Chinmoy: From the divine point of view, it shows my spiritual children that I am not a so-called Indian philosopher who lives in the moon world and has nothing to do with reality. It reminds them that I not only preach and teach but also act. My running has increased and will continue to increase the eagerness of my good disciples. When I run regularly and soulfully each day, I make progress as an individual. And when I make progress, automatically Mother Earth and my spiritual children make progress, because we are part and parcel of the same reality. Again, if Mother Earth makes progress in any field, we also derive considerable benefit from her progress. So, in that way my progress is the progress of the consciousness of Mother Earth.