Question: Welcome, Sri Chinmoy. It is so wonderful to see you again. I feel blessed. I think we all feel blessed. I would ask that you help me and my brothers and sisters here and guide us by telling us what discipline or practice we may undertake to bring ourselves closer to God, closer to the Light.

Sri Chinmoy: In order to bring ourselves closer to God, we have to realise that everything else and everybody else on earth will fail us eventually. Every-body with no exception, everything with no exception will fail us, but not God’s Compassion, not God’s Love. Again, by virtue of our prayers and meditations if we can feel the living Presence of God in each and every human being, then we shall definitely have a free access to God in each and every human being. Each and every human being at that time will please us, will fulfil us.

Once we feel the living Presence of God inside each human being, inside each object, material or ethereal, we are bound to feel that we are nearing God’s Feet. We are coming close, closer, closest to God. But first we have to feel that there is nobody on earth, nothing on earth, that will be able to please us or fulfil us. Everybody will ultimately fail us. Again, when we feel the living Presence of God inside each and every human being, we will see that we are coming closer to God.

First we have to feel that there is nothing on earth and nobody on earth that will be able to satisfy us in our own way. Then we have to realise that only when we please God in His own Way will everybody be able to please us. We have to start with the feeling that there is nobody, nobody who either can or will come forward to please us in our own way. Then we have to be wise. We have to feel that we do not need anybody to please us in our own way as long as we please our Lord Supreme, our Inner Pilot, in His own Way. Once we can please Him in His own Way, we are bound to see and feel that everybody is pleasing us, because God Himself is acting in and through them. But we have first to please Him in each and every one. That we can do only on the strength of our conscious and constant self-giving to God’s Will.