The Spiritual Path

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Dear Members of the Bhakti Group,

It was Heraclitus, I think, who said:

 

Fools, each lives in his own world.

The wise, they have a world in common.

 

The wise -- our ancient seers and recent-day saints like Ramakrishna

Paramahamsa and Ramana Maharishi, experienced Reality in an "as IS"

state, without being corruptedby the ego-influenced intellect. They

found that Reality/Truth is One without modifications through all time

and space.

 

The rest of us, whom Heraclitus calls Fools because we have not yet

received this wisdom which is beyond the intellect, continue to struggle

with our individual concepts of reality and our attempts to attain to

that state of One-ness. It should come as no surprise then that as a

consequence there are a myriad worlds of Reality, each clashing with the

others to assert supremacy for the doctrines with which each created an

individual world of "Reality-according-to-me".

 

The way out of this mess may begin with the end of questions relating to

the conduct of others or statements by others and recognizing that it is

only the mind in its pristine pure state, emptied of all its prior

judgmental-knowledge, that can receive divine perception. With the dawn

of that wisdom, all questions will cease because there is nothing to

question, nothing to find fault with.

 

This is what perhaps Gandhiji meant by his famous Experiment with Truth.

Everytime, he challenged himself, struggled with himself and found

satisfactory progress in his chosen Path.

 

May be, we too should stop wandering in the wild and commence the

journey within, hoping to reach the ultimate goal with His Grace in the

janmas to come. There is no need for hurry to receive all the answers

from others at once and leap to the goal. Gitachryan has assured us that

like all karmic results, our sincere and dedicated efforts on the

spiritual path shall be carried forward to our next birth and we will

commence where we last ended.

 

Adyen Dasan

MK Krishnaswamy

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