Spiritual related tests
Set a thief to catch a thief!
Popular adage….
Counter espionage is the technical sophistication of the concept in this adage!
When it comes to any kind of "spiritual related" efficiency, proficiency, expertise, experience, accuracy, correctness …. who is to decide?
Copypaste technology has become too widespread and diverse, giving rise to too many mutually-conflicting prescriptions, sermons, advises, interpretations etc…
Who is right?...
Is this fellow right? Is he talking out of experience?
Okay, test this fellow…..quoting that-fellow's claims about certain practices… 🤣…
Anyway I have no tools to test it myself 😓…. Nor am of...that kind of dis-position, to take the trouble of slogging it out, and testing that practice 😢… I am positioned in a comfort zone 😜… testing this fellow , using that fellow's stuff, I have zero stake😜
I encountered too often such 'tests'....
At times I don't even know, I am being 'tested' when I am asked to opine about somebody else's sermon…( I was asked by a very senior RBI officer somewhere during 1998 or 2000, around " why is Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, more appealing to masses than Jaggi Vasudev?"... And I described both the Guru's...to my best🙏...though, I had zero experience with the former's teachings etc… my indepth experience by then, in spirit'uality itself...had bestowed me sufficient insight to make dependable guesses 🙏)
Either the perception itself needs to be deep enough, accompanied by wisdom ( not cleverness, cunningness etc😜)...
Or,....invest in trusting the other…. keeping eyes & ears wide open, to learn enroute, from that guide!
But sheer idle curiosity, and tickling the genuine guide for fun, has a cost to pay, not in terms of money or its equivalent, but in terms of own spirit and it's future 🙏
Testily yours,
psn (24th Oct 2021)
