Question: When was that incarnation?

Sri Chinmoy: It was my immediate previous incarnation. I don’t wish to tell who I was, because it only creates problems, but I was a spiritual Master, a yogi. Some of my disciples have seen some of my previous incarnations during their meditation with me.

In this incarnation at the age of thirteen I became fully aware of who I was. It was like revising an old book. But it took me twenty years to totally revise the book. I studied that book; I did well. But when it is a matter of manifestation, it took me twenty years to bring to the fore everything that I had realised and achieved by the infinite Grace of the Supreme. Then I got a command from within. The Supreme, my Inner Pilot, wanted me to come to the West and be of service to Him in the aspiring West. It was His express command that I come. If He asks me tomorrow to go to India or some other country, I will gladly do it.