Page 73 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 4

SPIRITUAL CAMOUFLAGE
Our spirituality is questioned and we are asked to improve our spiritual orientation and all the unnecessary advices. This is essentially training people on the Pavlovian principle of conditioning. However the dogs seem to have a better trainer in that a good dog trainer always rewards the dog for doing what is expected but there are many good people trying to fulfill the idealistic criterion, who are not reaping the benefits that others who do not follow any of these criteria seem to enjoy benefits. Under these circumstances we tend to feel we are spiritually defective, instead of thinking whether our ideology is correct or not. Those people who participate in the same ideology, and succeed, are the ones‘ whose egos have a hurting edge and those who fail are the ones‘ who are the receiving end.
If we are being rewarded materially for being on the right spiritual path, then, by default, everyone who has less materially than us become inferior to us in spirituality. Once we accept the ideology of reward and punishment in spiritual life, this kind of ego cannot be avoided. If we accept this philosophy
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