Pujya Ramsukhdasji Maharaj

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Obstacles to God Realization

 

Question: If God Realization is so easy, then what are the obstacles

that we are facing?

 

Answer: There are a number of obstacles -

 

1) There is attachment for enjoyment of pleasures and desire for

accumulation of things.

2) There isn't an intense hunger, longing and quest for God

3) We have become contented with our current state

4) We have believed God Realization to be like acquiring things in

this world. Because of this belief, we give great importance to doing

things. We do not give importance to our discrimination.

5) We do not meet any great soul that has a true knowledge of

realization

6) By knowing a few things and engaging in a few spiritual practices,

we become arrogant and conceited.

7) Having the inner tendencies such as - by doing only something can

be attained; I have not met a Guru; the times are such; the destiny

is such; I am not capable; I am not eligible; all such thoughts are

obstacles in God Realization.

 

Question: Many spiritual seekers cry with deep intensity and longing

for God, then too they do not have God Realization, why is it so?

 

Answer: Within them there are other desires such as happiness,

relaxation, recognition, respect etc., besides God. There is

importance and attraction of other things and individuals. In other

words, they will become established in God at that very moment, if

the longing for God is urgent. There must be desire for only God -

 

" Ek baani karuna nidhaan ki. So priya jaake gati ne aan ki. " (Manasa;

Aranya 10:4)

 

When engaged constantly in one's spiritual practice, then all other

desires are wiped out, and on having a very strong, dominant, single

desire for only God, God can be easily realized.

 

Questions: All changes are in the inner faculty; these changes are

not an obstacle in realizing God. On the other hand, in realizing

God, the enjoyment of pleasures has been described as being an

obstacle. Which of the two points is true?

 

Answer: By blending with the inner faculties, when those changes are

believed to be in the Self, in us, then those very changes become an

obstacle. If we do not consider our relationship with the inner

faculties, then those changes that are taking place in the inner

faculties do not become an obstacle.