Translations:Otuz Birinci Söz/233/en

It is said, for example, that Almighty God is closer to him than his jugular vein.(*)

He is closer to  everything than anything else. He is free of and beyond corporeality and space. However, all the saints are able to converse with Him in their hearts, so why was the Saint, Muhammad (PBUH), successful in holding an inward conversation with God that any saint may do in his heart, only after and as a result  of a long journey like the Ascension?