SPIRITUAL ESSENTIALS:

[Guest guest]

prof laxmi narain (prof_narain)

 

Source and courtesy: Sri Ramana Kendram, Hyderabad

This article was published in Sri Ramana Jyothi,

monthly magazine of the Kendram.

 

SPIRITUAL ESSENTIALS: The first phase of the spiritual path is to

subject yourself to a scrupulous and ongoing character assessment…When

obstacles crop up on the spiritual path, a good practitioner does not

lose faith but has the discernment to recognize difficulties for what

they are – just obstacles, and nothing more. It is in the nature of

things that when you recognize an obstacle as such, it ceases to be an

obstacle. Taking an obstacle seriously, it gets empowered and

solidified and becomes a real blockage. – Sogyal Rinpoche