Why Gurus seem secretive?
There is a popular short story in Malayalam.
Four blind men try to feel "how an elephant is?"
Their description:
First one holding the tail describes what he 'touched'
Second one touches the leg and says "elephant is like a pillar of 1 feet diameter
Third one described it holding the trunk "a very thick but tapering flexible hanging branch"
Fourth one it's underbelly "a curved ceiling, heavy "
None of them reached the actual"elephant " ๐คฃ
Spiritual practices are like the elephant (beyond reach of a Single practitioner, experiencing it like one blind fellow ๐คฃ . ) Even the "combined" description of all the 4 blind is not going to 'reach' the accuracy ๐.
There have been"rishis" who spent their whole life, in perfecting JUST_1_yogaAasana, like VajraAasana๐.
Wise Gurus, seldom indulge into pegging the mind of their students into their own limited experience of doing a practice ๐
( I have learnt this concept, the Hard_way....๐.
The most sophisticated type of KapalBhaathi yielded unexpected response from a spectrum of birds, when I touched 3000 repetitions per session, steadily incrementing the number over 11 months, starting with 25 times๐. I discovered that birds could sense the "frequency " of energy waves emitted during the practice ๐. My stunted 'idea' of 'sound' tore open its shell of limited understanding ๐. I also realised that, the same practice 'holds' many more mysteries, unthinkable for me to reach/unravel, during this lifetime ๐คฃ.)
Discretely yours,
psn(9 Jan, 2026)
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