Checklist for your spiritual success

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Here some detailed questions that you might want to truly and

honestly answer to yourself:

 

did you follow ALL the instruction previously received from your guru

by the point and immediately or are you looking for a different guru

each time a teaching appears to be too strict or too hard on your

ego ?

 

if your spiritual practice is based on reading rather than on the

personal teaching of a guru, did you follow ALL the instructions

received through a book or are you searching for a new book each time

you fail to accept any and all teachings contained in a particular

book ?

 

independent of any spiritual tradition you might have selected -

there are a few points in common for ALL of any truly successful

spiritual tradition. You may need to follow them ALL before ever

expecting ANY spiritual success at all independent of the amount of

your positive spiritual practice and techniques that you follow each

day. These points to be followed are as follows:

 

Yama and Niyama should be started and continuously practiced to learn

from the very beginning of your spiritual activity and this learning

should be very intense and sincere on a daily basis - even if for a

while you appear to fail again and again in certain parts of it. To

follow the spiritual rules of life, is a very initial and basic

commitment before you should even start to expect any basic steps of

success on your spiritual path. Work on these points for the rest of

your present incarnation and beyond. Are you truly starting with the

basis of spiritual construction or are you trying to skip them and

start with more pleasant topics ?

 

Yama and Niyama - the spiritual laws as a basis of any true spiritual

oriented life must be complied in highly advanced state of

perfection. You need to improve on these points and you need to have

a control on how much still needs to be done and how much you have

achieved already. Lets just take the example of ahimsa for your

reference and ask yourself a few questions every once in a while to

see how you improve. Here your questions: Did you truly reduce the

amount of violence in your behavior and life ? State all the points

of achievement. ever since you started to learn to practice ahimsa,

did you considerably reduce the use of police, lawyers, courts, any

punishments of any kind in any and all situations, at home, at

school , in recreation, in business ?? Did you change your vocabulary

to adapt to ahimsa in your words ? If yes how ? Have you become a

true vegetarian in the meantime or are you still killing animals or

pay others to do so to please your senses ? Are you aware that even

fish have emotions and do suffer when being killed or are you

considering seafood as vegetarians and find a workaround just to

avoid any changes that might be necessary? Have you reduced the

amount of verbal and mental violence in all parts of your life ? Have

you truly started to apply ahimsa in your mind, words, emotions or

fantasy ? Being a vegetarian never has created a saint on its own -

there is much more to ahimsa than just stop killing! Violence of any

kind never can be truly legal in regard to spiritual laws and YOUR

karma. To have a detailed overview of your present performance you

may want to state details that you repeatedly and successfully

changed in your life by writing them down in your spiritual workbook.

State how you behaved before and after starting your spiritual path.

 

did you truly apply ALL parts of Yama and Niyama to ALL parts of your

life - business, family, recreation - in action, words, mind,

emotions, fantasy - just absolutely all, or do you still make

exceptions in certain situations ? If you still attempt to make

exceptions to apply Yama and Niyama, does the number of exceptions

decrease continuously ?

 

do you truly want to understand and apply all teachings received or

are you rejecting a part of it because you consider them too hard on

your ego ?

 

to be continued...