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Spiritual Awakening
way on the spiritual journey. However while moving left or right we find ourselves blocked with no light in sight. Dependence on the Master is the only course of action we have and the Master is ever ready to lead us on the path.
8. You must have by now feeling not comfortable hearing this as the situations in real sadhana are not all that simple and we are faced with messy situations often in our sadhana. Though I said the movement is linear or vertical many a time the path is a spiral one. We find ourselves skipping steps and certain times repeating the steps and relearn the lessons. Certain times we seem to be on two steps as we all observed in the case of Viveka and Vairagya and devotion and surrender. We fall back many a time in the path to reassure ourselves that we are on the right track. Sometimes we seem to move two steps forward to fall back by a step of three to relearn the lessons of spiritual life.
9. It is important to remember that all human souls are on the same journey to remember who we really are. When Master says all are moving in the path we find it rather odd since we have evaluated others by our yardsticks and call them as either believers or heretics either good or bad. Master says “The idea may look foreign to you at first sight, but if you pause a little to consider the problem (the Destination) you will surely come to the conclusion that you are sailing towards your own Home, wherefrom you
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