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Thursday 21 August, 2008
By  hakotiankar kotiankar   13:38 | 16/Dec/2007 |  1 Comment(s)
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PATH OF SPIRITUALITY

 

Seek the path of spirituality by selecting any one of the existing paths available in the world. To select the best suited for each one of us we must learn about all the paths and select the one that we feel comfortable with, compare each with the other this way our faith will strengthen or enables us to improve our own path. This is not same as comparing ourselves with others in the material plane. This is comparing in the intellectual plane by doing a very good study.

The ancients found that we will not try to improve, if we felt that, all this manifested reality what we experience through the sense organs was the only perfect thing and there is nothing more to do! One of the reason most of the sayings were kept secrete just because they can be concluded, as nothing need to be done by the person to remain joyful forever.

The reason we feel that so many religions are allowed to co exist is to enable us to improve our own buy comparing with each other. The different paths that can lead you to the ultimate reality are (path to spirituality by: Devotion, Self sacrifice, Labour, self-study, Love and compassion to name a few) the truth is that all acts and everything can lead to the same ultimate reality. 

We would like to mention here, that not all information, knowledge, and wisdom gained in this world could remove our ignorance. This ignorance we have earned, living so many lives in the past and those that we will live in the future. This information, knowledge, and wisdom may be from books, teachers, contemplation, reasoning & logic, intuition, or grace. Because until we experience the information, knowledge, and wisdom individually by expansion of our mind and intellectual capacity to the limits of the universe and recognize the pure clear light transparent as pure water through which we can observe the smallest speck clearly with naked eyes, we cannot understand it.

All the above-mentioned ways of acquiring wisdom can only open the “eye of thought” by practicing regularly with deep intensity on the goal! All fear possible to be imagined by us will be put to rest! Gaining all the courage that is so vital to encourage us to tread the path ever so thoroughly.

Progress in the spiritual path is safe only if we allow the body mind and soul decide the speed with which it wants to reach the summit of enlightenment. Keep this always in mind, it can take just a few seconds like a flash of light, or the twinkle of the star or as long as it requires depending on our intensity of desire, adherence to the path, sincerity, punctuality, purification of our body mind and soul, perfection we gained in our practice, and the maturity we developed.

The third eye is the eye of thought it can visualize, feel, taste, smell, and hear using the subtle senses of feelings all at once in contrast to the mind and gross senses. This is possible because the nearness of thought with feelings, the thoughts describe everything with words and meaning to generate feelings!

The opening of this eye is just like the blooming of the flower; it does not wither in any season as long as we maintain ourselves on the path. This eye has opened after the turmoil of thoughts, due to purification and perfection in so many lives, and allows the ego I-ness to dissolve, as soon as we have experienced the self, all differentiation and limits are removed.

The feeling is similar to the healthy body enjoying satisfaction of the desire, it can also be compared to the bliss of sleeping child in its mother’s arms, and it can be only experienced. This eye can see only by attaining clarity. Clarity can be achieved only through self-study and practice of everything that is understood. Guidance of the enlightened masters and their works can help only to a certain level. Observing our thoughts, speech, and actions we can recognize this. Not only by us but everyone we interact with. A child like simplicity, absorbed in simple small details without complication, letting go of things, and complete satisfaction with what we are absorbed

Ambition is one of the main reasons that can make us distracted from the higher goal of life, and when we realize this, our progress will continue unhindered. This also means that all the things in life are what teach us to differentiate the temporary and the real permanent success in life.

It is very easy to claim that “we are not ambitious, but can we say that our lord (soul) agrees with us?” Only firmly adhering to the path with unwavering foothold under all the conditions would recognize the pure. In the beginning it can be corrected easily but if this is ignored and allowed to develop, we will have to suffer all the consequences. (This is what is called NISHKAMA KARMA or work with out desire or consequences towards the result)

Desire is another reason we do not progress this includes the desire of spiritual success also. It is possible to root this out of our mind by developing a strong will power stronger than the desire itself, another way is to experience the desire completely to our satisfaction.

   Note one utmost important point of fact “THIS EXPERIENCE CAN BE LOST AS EASILY AS ACHIEVING IT, BY BEING ATTACHED TO THE PLEASURES OF THE MANIFESTED WORLD WITHOUT ANY WARNING OR IF WE STRAY FROM THE PATH!

THE ONLY WAY THUS TO STAY IN BLISS IS TO BE AN OBSERVER WATCHING ALL THE INDIVIDUAL CONSCIOUSNESS EXPERIENCE THEMSELVES! AND EXPERIENCE THE JOY OF THEIR EXPERIENCE SINCE WE ARE NOT DIFFERENT FROM THEM.       

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