As far as I understand and as far as I have seen in stories and examples, the inner life is unaffected by the outer life. Socially it may be. If I am a dacoit, a burglar, a criminal, a murderer or a debauchee, it may affect my social life. It may affect my social interactions, social circle, but certainly it does not affect my spiritual being, if I am trying to tread that path. The Bhagavad Gita has said no matter in which family you are born, no matter in which country you are born, no matter which religion you pursue and which moral path you pursue, if you are treading the spiritual path your external life means nothing. You are going to experience that spiritual self.
There are stories about dacoits, murderers, debauchees, prostitutes, about all kinds of people in every clime and country where those hopeless people have realized the highest being. So the inner personality is unaffected by the external personality.
In order to live in a society, to create, patronize or help a good social system towards peace, harmony, accord or non-disturbance, it is always good that the spiritual personality and the external personality have some sort of parallel. They must have some sort of balance. Otherwise your external personality will create a very bad society. There will be no harmony. There will be no peace. There will be discord, tension, fight, murder, rape all the time going on. What can you do? It is better to have a balance between the external and internal personality although it is not at all compulsory.
14 October 1987, Ganga Darshan, Munger, India