The Goal Unknowable

Question: In the prayer you gave this morning at the race, you said the goal of my soul’s journey is unknowable. Will it ever be knowable?

The prayer that was offered:

My outer running
Is my body’s journey.
The destination is known. My inner running
Is my soul’s journey.
The goal is unknowable.

Sri Chinmoy: I said, “My inner running is my soul’s journey.” God is transcending Himself all the time. This moment if I say I have known God, perhaps I have done it. But the next moment I see He transcends Himself. Then I have to go again and run to see His Self-Transcendence. This never ends. I may have realised God, but I know God’s Mystery is unfathomable. That is why we say, “Let Thy Will be done. If You want me to be satisfied with a drop, I will be satisfied. If You want me to be satisfied with the vast ocean, I will be satisfied.” That is surrender.

The soul’s journey is unknowable, not unknown. The body’s journey is known: as soon as I start, I know I will run one mile or ten miles or 100 miles or 200 miles. That is fixed. But in the soul’s journey, nothing is fixed. The soul flies. It deals with Eternity and Infinity. What do we know about Eternity and Infinity? Only we know how to spell the words, and there are many who cannot even spell them correctly. Because the soul is dealing all the time with Eternity, Infinity and self-transcendence, we cannot know the goal. It is unfathomable, unknowable, absolutely unknown. From my own experience it is like this.

There are people who may have different opinions – that if you know God, then you know everything. It is true that on the strength of your oneness, if the soul wants to show you an aspect of God, you can see it. But from my own experience, I know that the goal of the journey itself is unknowable. Do I Really Love God?