I
found this quote: “The
spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be
organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one
path. Listen to your own truth.”
What
I liked was, the mention of “highly-personal”....!!
That
finds a co-relation with 'Listen to your own truth'...
This
sentence (listen to your own truth), evades an easy grasp...
The
word 'listen', might remind us that we are a bit 'hard of hearing'
... not exactly the auditory function at physiological levels, but
the attention span which reduces the congnitive function of the
processor within!
If
listening happens to get refined or fine-tuned to be able to “listen”
to communication beyond sensory levels, the next part becomes
relevant... which is 'own truth'!
This
'own-truth' is indicatively referred to as, the 'karma' ( a very
general term, with diverse specific contextual references, each of
which are valid, when it comes to 'own-truth'... )... and then
when this Karma is dissolved, only the universal truth remains ( no
more problems with 'own truth'!)...
'Karma'
presents several 'acceptance-related' problems!... Whether it is to
be believed upon... at all?
In
simple terms, if we can believe that we 'exist' (we almost agree...
though not mature enough to 'accept' ...!!!), this 'belief' brings
into its fold, quite a number of those 'variables' or variations of
karma! If it sounds a little ridiculous, about the 'need to
believe'... we can look at two things... One, the base of the
entire edifice of 'objectivism' is on the acceptance of the axiom,
'existence exists'... Two, while in our dream, we believe that dream
to be 'real'... and only upon 'waking' out of that dream, do we
realise that it wasn't real... ( ironically, the visions of those
dreams may have lot of relations to what happens around our -real
life--)... Now, if we stretch that 'dream-logic', we don't know if
'this-real' is yet another dream! So, the need to 'believe'!
There
are ways and means of resolving the 'doubts' related to belief,
reality, dream, vision, hallucination, etc... but that involves a
'journey'...
A
visit to a psychiatrist, would tell us, our visits are a bit
personal... and the treatment is individualistic, though the
symptoms might be a little common! The purpose of visit, is to
'become normal' ! With spiritual seekers, the purpose is a bit more
intense! They want to become 'extra-ordinarily-normal'! (Like that
“extra-Chutney” and 'extra-saambar' that we request for when we
order for a plate of Idly or Dosa, ... as long as these extra are
not charged-for!)...
Why
is there a need to look at 'spiritual seeking' as a personal journey?
The attitude towards this journey might perhaps get a better
clarity, and in turn accelerate the journey better (qualitatively and
quantitatively... quality is the power-pack,, and quantity is the
pace...)
That
energy, which sustains our life, is the 'spirit' ( a name to 'that
something' which becomes so dilute in its 'presence' that.. our
Doctor-Sir writes out a death-certificate calling our physical body
as 'clinically-dead')... This energy keeps focusing all the time...
through something, and at something.. just as all other known
'forms of energy'!... All we are doing is to firstly,
'get-into-touch' with our very source of our own
'known-form-of-existence'... it is usually the physical and tangible
form where we can start our journey from!... Even at body level,
that 'subtle energy' manifests in different ways (mathematically, we
can express it as 'permutation and combination of so many available
outlets'...! Somebody is good at 'deep thinking'... somebody is
good at physical strength/performance.... yet another is just
dexterous, and maneuvers the skills in a way that we call as art!...
)... So the reach to the source becomes highly 'individual' ..
quite obviously.... just as we chase the source of a light, only by
looking at its path, and traveling in the opposite direction along
its path!
A
guide, helper or a teacher, is a bit more familiar with a 'pattern'
of these individualistic complexities, having experienced this
ever-shifting paths of this energy even within oneself, and the
several times that it did over several 'manifestation-occasions' (be
it this very life-span or several others)!
The
tools and techniques, obviously become better when they are
'customized' on the way!
My
opinion, my guess-work, my assumptions!
Personally
yours,
psn
(2nd Sept., 2013)
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